audience feedback

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GOOD POINTS:

·         Creates a good atmosphere

·         Stays intense

·         Both characters were shady and are kept anonymous. Keeps audience on their seat and wants them to know

·         Black and white creates an interesting effect

IMPROVEMENTS:

·         Music too intense

·         Cuts are too jumpy in certain places

·         Sound effect when the match was thrown in the house was too dramatic for what happened

·         Conversation at the end needed to be more audible 

second draft of production

This is a better edited version than the previous one. At 00:16 the transition between shots of the car is better because before the car was more front on on the second shot.We added the shot of the handbrake to establish the car is stopping, before the car stopped abruptly but now the shots make more sense. At 1:03 the shot has been changed because previously the cut had Matt being to face on than he was in the previous one. we did the same at 1:37 because the between cuts he moved position. Also at this point we edited the music because it builds up to much at an inappropriate time, we did not want the music to be contrapuntal. We changed the order of shots when his throat is slit instead of staying with the tracking shot we quickly cut to the under table shot to up the pace of the scene and show off more blood. We used a shot of blood dripping off the table to take us out of the scene this leaves the audience in no doubt he is dead, also I think its a good shot. I used myself as a foley artist to make the noise of the hob, I think its works well, no one in the class knew it was me. We added the shot of the matches to show the audience the hitmans professionalism, we did in slow motion to show the importance and build suspense. The final conversation was added just to set the hitman up as the protagonist because the audience wants to know what he's going to do next and who was on the phone. We changed the title because the typewriter font didn't really work throughout as it drew the audiences attention away from what is going on in the shot.

still image analysis

still image analysis




the theme of our movie was rom com. in this screen shot you can see some elements that show that it is a rom com, this is shown through the setting of the film which is a high school. the warm colours of the shot shows tha tthe film will be happy and up beat which shows also that it will be a rom com.

another aspect of the shot which helps to show the theme is the actions that the two characters are doing. on the left there is a guitar playing boy and on the right there is a hard working girl. these to types of student are the usually characters used in most rom coms that are set in schools. this also can show us what age rating the film is going to be, our film is going to be a 12A because the setting the characters and the events that happen in the film would best relate to teenagers.



this image also shows that it is following the conventions of a rom com by showing eye contact between the two characters which shows that this film will be a romantic film. the lighting of this shot also shows that it wil be a comedic film because everything is very bright and colourful and the to characters are both smiling and seem to be laughing with brings in elements of comedy.

hitlist (final)

general order of credits

General Order Of Credits

• (NAME OF THE STUDIO)

Name of the studio that is distributing the film and may or may not have produced it (Walt Disney Pictures, Columbia, Lions Gate, Universal, Marvel Studios, Dimension, Miramax etc.).

• (NAME OF THE PRODUCTION COMPANY)

Name of the production company that actually made the film or name of the investment groups or companies that financed a substantial part of the film (usually credited as "in association with" or "A (studio name) production.").

• (PRODUCER NAME) PRODUCTION or/and (director only) A FILM BY (DIRECTOR NAME)

Director's first credit, often "a film by XY or "a XY film".

• STARRING

Principal actors, (Sometimes the stars' and director's credits will be reversed, depending on the star's deal with the studio; sometimes, as in the Rodgers and Hammerstein films, or as in all three film versions of Show Boat, or, as in many of Disney's films, the title of the film will be shown before the names of its actors; sometimes, as in many of Cannon's films, the name(s) of the principal actor(s) will be shown before the name(s) of the producer(s), i.e. "The Cannon Group presents X in a Golan-Globus production of a Y film").

• (FILM'S TITLE)

Name of the film.

• FEATURING

Featured actors.

• CASTING or CASTING BY

Casting director.

• MUSIC or MUSIC COMPOSED BY or ORIGINAL SCORE BY

Composer of music.

• PRODUCTION DESIGN or PRODUCTION DESIGNER

Production designer.

As a variation some of the below may be noted:

• SET DESIGN
• COSTUMES or COSTUMES BY or GOWNS (older movies)
• HAIRDRESSER
• MAKE-UP ARTIST
• SOUND RECORDING (older movies)
• VISUAL EFFECTS DIRECTOR or VISUAL EFFECTS BY

• EDITOR or EDITED BY

Editor.

• DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Director of photography.

• PRODUCER or PRODUCED BY, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Producers, co-producers, executive producers, 'also produced by' (credited for various reasons according to contracts and personal scrutiny of the principal producer). Often, though, the name of the producer will be the next-to-last opening credit, just before the director's name is shown.

• BASED ON THE BOOK (PLAY, GRAPHIC NOVEL etc.) BY or FROM A PLAY/BOOK BY (older movies)

If based on a book or other literary work.

• BASED ON THE CHARACTERS BY or BASED ON THE CHARACTERS CREATED BY

If based on characters from a book or other media.

• STORY or STORY BY

Person who wrote the story on which the script is based, gets "story by" credit, and the first screenplay credit, unless the script made substantial changes to the story.

• WRITER(S) or WRITTEN BY

Screenplay writers. The Writers Guild of America allows only three writing credits on a feature film, although teams of two are credited as one, separated on the credits by an ampersand ("X & Y"). If each works independently on the script (the most common system), they are separated by an "and". If more than two persons worked on the screenplay, the credits may read something like "screenplay by X & Y and Z and W" X and Y worked as a team, but Z and W worked separately.

• DIRECTOR or DIRECTED BY

Director. The Directors Guild of America permits a film to list only one director, even when it is known that two or more worked on it. Except in very rare cases (a death in mid-production) there is only one directing credit.

infuences

Influences

In preparation for our filming we watched various movies and took inspiration from these. The first movie we watched was Casino Royale. From this we took the black and white effect for the movie opening, the reasoning behind this was that we liked the gritty realism that the black and white created. It removes all flash and sparkles from the scene and makes you focus on the gritty nature of the shots.

The second film we took inspiration from was ‘Tinker Tailor Solider Spy’. From this we looked to extract realism. No Hollywood chase scenes just real life again the gritty nature was somethhing we wanted to replicate.

The final film was ‘Drive’ which is where we got our violence level from. We saw you could make a stylised movie with a high violence level at it be successful. 

structure of movie opening credits

(NAME OF THE STUDIO) Name of the studio that is distributing the film and may or may not have produced it (Walt Disney Pictures, Columbia, Lions Gate, Universal, Marvel Studios, Dimension, Miramax etc.). (NAME OF THE PRODUCTION COMPANY) Name of the production company that actually made the film or name of the investment groups or companies that financed a substantial part of the film (usually credited as "in association with" or "A (studio name) production."). (PRODUCER NAME) PRODUCTION or/and (director only) A FILM BY (DIRECTOR NAME) Director's first credit, often "a film by XY or "a XY film". STARRING Principal actors, (Sometimes the stars' and director's credits will be reversed, depending on the star's deal with the studio; sometimes, as in the Rodgers and Hammerstein films, or as in all three film versions of Show Boat, or, as in many of Disney's films, the title of the film will be shown before the names of its actors; sometimes, as in many of Cannon's films, the name(s) of the principal actor(s) will be shown before the name(s) of the producer(s), i.e. "The Cannon Group presents X in a Golan-Globus production of a Y film"). (FILM'S TITLE) Name of the film. FEATURING Featured actors. CASTING or CASTING BY Casting director. MUSIC or MUSIC COMPOSED BY or ORIGINAL SCORE BY Composer of music. PRODUCTION DESIGN or PRODUCTION DESIGNER Production designer. As a variation some of the below may be noted: SET DESIGN COSTUMES or COSTUMES BY or GOWNS (older movies) HAIRDRESSER MAKE-UP ARTIST SOUND RECORDING (older movies) VISUAL EFFECTS DIRECTOR or VISUAL EFFECTS BY EDITOR or EDITED BY Editor. DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Director of photography. PRODUCER or PRODUCED BY, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Producers, co-producers, executive producers, 'also produced by' (credited for various reasons according to contracts and personal scrutiny of the principal producer). Often, though, the name of the producer will be the next-to-last opening credit, just before the director's name is shown. BASED ON THE BOOK (PLAY, GRAPHIC NOVEL etc.) BY or FROM A PLAY/BOOK BY (older movies) If based on a book or other literary work. BASED ON THE CHARACTERS BY or BASED ON THE CHARACTERS CREATED BY If based on characters from a book or other media. STORY or STORY BY Person who wrote the story on which the script is based, gets "story by" credit, and the first screenplay credit, unless the script made substantial changes to the story. WRITER(S) or WRITTEN BY Screenplay writers. The Writers Guild of America allows only three writing credits on a feature film, although teams of two are credited as one, separated on the credits by an ampersand ("X & Y"). If each works independently on the script (the most common system), they are separated by an "and". If more than two persons worked on the screenplay, the credits may read something like "screenplay by X & Y and Z and W" X and Y worked as a team, but Z and W worked separately. DIRECTOR or DIRECTED BY Director. The Directors Guild of America permits a film to list only one director, even when it is known that two or more worked on it. Except in very rare cases (a death in mid-production) there is only one directing credit.