Evaluation Presentation

Intrude Final Cut ( after feedback )

Intrude from St Marylebone Media Studies on Vimeo.

We were really happy with our first draft however there were a few things we wanted to change and it made it clear we were right about them after showing an audience and receiving their feedback. This is our trailer after our feedback had been given. The feedback was mostly very positive! they understood the trailer and the genre of our film and reacted in the way that we wanted them to, scared, interested and intrigued...

We had to make a technical change of making our company production logo effect smaller to fit the screen and also to keep the text on the screen for longer as some people said they couldn't read it in time.

We also took away the scream and the heavy breathing in the end scene to see what it would look like if we cut all the sound effects and just left the it with the sound of the floor boards creaking. We thought this was more scary and interesting as the audience wouldn't know if our character woke up or if the stalker got away. However we also had to keep in mind that the scream did scare people and the effect of a trailer is to do so.


FEEDBACK
We created questionnaires to show the year 12s so we could ask them specific questions and get honest feedback.

Website

This is my website with my first draft of my trailer embeded with it. I wanted to use a different and darker image than my poster to make it more dramatic. I blured my image in with the black background of the website and also slightly blured the facebook, twitter and blogger buttons to try and keep with the convention colouring of a a thriller/horror genre.

Theatrical Poster

This is my offical Poster, the same as my advanced but added with the billing box which gives the impression that it is coming out soon and proberly has a full trailer realsed aswell. I wanted to keep the poster minimlistic to make the audience raise questions to make them more tempted to watch the trailer and then go and see the film. 

Poster ( Advanced Teaser Poster )

Alongside my offical final poster, I also did a advanced teaser poster. Lots of films also do this, ( Harry Potter, X men, Halloween, Saw ).  I thought this looked good as it leavs a lot of questions, for example who is 'They're' and the fact that the picture is copyed black and white and coloured over each other and slightly off balance gives off a kind of CCTV effect or a blurry image.

These posters as well have strong images not reveling to much of the story or any context about the film

Music

In our powerpoint we did discuss the music we picked for our tralier, however when our synopsis changed we wanted more suspense and trailler type music. I found a great artist who had lots of tracks which sounded very professtion.

Poster Pictures

I am still deciding which picture to use for my poster. I am putting my billing-board, title and other poster information on all of them to see which one would be most successful.

These are other images I liked however not sure the lighting would work with the poster but still going to  experiment as i liked the blood tear.

As our story line is to do with Ella ( liv ) being watched I thought it would be good to have an eye as the main focus in the poster would be successful. However i think i would have to play around with the lighting before adding text to my image.

Location Shots

This was a successful filming session and all the shots planned were completed. After this filming session we booked to work in the Mews for two periods where we would log our work and edit. I did most of the filming which took place in this location so Chiara said she would start editing. I came to the mews after she had already arrived and we begun to look at it and work together on what Chiara had already edited. 

This is one of the walk ways where charlie will be following Ella until we see her enter her house and charlie waiting outside

This is the front door where we see Ella going into and also coming out to see who has been sending her the videos of herself

We used this black gate outside the house to film so quick shots of charlie behind ella as it added a really good effect, especially as it was dark you could not see him behind the gates. I thought an alley would be a good place to film as it is a convention of horror and thriller films that a character does become isolated in a specific area after trying to run and escape. 

Filming pictures

This was us filming the night shots of Charlie following Ella into her house. All the shots that we planned to film where successful and we even got some extra shots for our fast montage of single shots for the end of our trailer.

Cache/Hidden and new synopsis

To make our trailer slightly more scary/mysterious we took inspiration from the french move Cache - when a married couple is terrorized by a series of surveillance videotapes left on their front porch. We are going to add this to our concept by our character receiving DVDS of her doing daily things, for example filming outside her house coming in and out, filming from her garden looking into her house and even her sleeping.

This effected our synopsis:

A young Liv (Ella Mitchell) walks home from college yet she doesnt know someone mysterious is following her home. Oblivious to anyone around her, she approaches her road onto her front porch and opens the door. The next day she receives an anonymous DVD posted to her saying "Play me" so she does. She is overcome with confusion when she realizes the film is a long shot of outside her house. After finding out its none of her friends playing tricks on her, she receives more DVDs this time getting more and more intamate. She starts to panic and becomes tormented by the DVD's and searches whatever she can to try and find out who is obsessed with her. Will she find out before its too late....?