Our audience feedback,

 

The constructive criticism we received from our audience, enabled us to pull together focus upon the areas they thought we could improve to make our opening more effective. Therefore in our  last editing sessions we concentrated more time on areas, like sound, because we knew people had found parts mismatched and ineffective, and we wanted every area of our opening to be equal in standard and create the same continuous, eerie, thriller effect. It was really helpful to receive pointers from non-bias viewers because we'd seen our film so many times and had just become accustomed to it which made us unable to really highlight the certain areas that were good or in contrast were weak, and i think it really boosted our concentration to get positive feedback  as well as it made us so much more motivated and determined to meet all deadlines and create a high quality piece of media work. 

Week 7 - editing & music

Once we'd cut all the clips down to just the sections we wanted to use, we then ordered them into a chronological sequence, that then pulled together a 'rough' film opening, that made sense in terms of narrative and structure. In order to make our film more realistic (in parts), more dramatic, and appear seamlessly, we had to then alter certain elements. We began  to speed up and slow down the timing of certain clips, in particular the flashbacks were we wanted to create a tense and exaggerated effect. The shots we had of young girls acting frightened we had to fit together into a 'flashback' montage, but found the time frames to be far to long, so we cut the clips, partly because of timing and partly because it seemed a lot more climatic when they were at a greater pace. We also began to work on our music, we took turns on who was controlling the editing as if we ever all attempted to do it at once it was too crowded and hard to accurately do. Once we'd all decided upon the major decisions, the other group members would explore garage band for music that could either run parallel to our shots, to create a dark and eerie feel, or could juxtapose our action, highlighting its extremity and the corruption of these children's youth. 

Week 6 - Editing footage and discussing music

Group meeting 6

During this meeting we continued to edit. We started to alter the speed of the shoots, slowing or speeding up movement, we continued to cut shots, to create seamless footage,  and we also started to fragment some of our shots to create a disorientating montage of flash backed clips. After the bulk of our editing seemed to an acceptable standard we then started to discuss what music we would include in our opening sequence. As we had chosen to not include a vast array of dialogue we really needed to have powerfully pragmatic music to enhance the performance of our actors and our style of filming. 

Production Companies

We researched into production companies that have shot well respected thriller films - as this is the genre ours was based around. Something that became apparent after our research was that all these successful films were made by multi-networking companies that join to make huge productions, on extensive budgets - evidently not something achievable by us, but however we did then think about these concepts in relation to our credits. We knew we what we would now need to incorporate in our credits, which was also aided by our analysis of opening credits and the name included in these. From this we came up with the name "REEM"works, which is a play on the world renowned company, "DREAM WORKS", bringing a modern colloquial term into our piece to give us our own creative, but widely recognisable name to include. 


DONNIE DARKO - 

Production Companies

• Pandora Cinema
• Flower Films (II) 
• Adam Fields Productions
• Gaylord Films

HANNIBAL - 

Production Companies

• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) 
• Universal Pictures 
• Dino De Laurentiis Company 
• Scott Free Productions 

MEMENTO

Production Companies

• Newmarket Capital Group
• Team Todd
• I Remember Productions
• Summit Entertainment

THE BANK JOB

Production Companies

• Mosaic Media Group
• Relativity Media 
• Skyline (Baker St)
• Atlas Entertainment
• Omnilab Media

CASSANDRA'S DREAM

Production Companies

• Iberville Productions
• Virtual Studios
• Wild Bunch

MATCH POINT

Production Companies

• BBC Films 
• Thema Production 
• Jada Productions 
• Kudu Films 

HARD CANDY

Production Companies

• Vulcan Productions
• Launchpad Productions

INCEPTION

Production Companies

• Warner Bros. Pictures 
• Legendary Pictures 
• Syncopy

 PULP FICTION

Production Companies

• A Band Apart
• Jersey Films
• Miramax Films

Week 5- filming & editing

Group meeting - 5

During week five we visited 3 different locations in order to film our opening sequence, all of us participated in the filming and directing in order to balance out the work and the creative ability. After the filming was 'roughly' complete we had the chance in our fifth group meeting to uploaded the filming we had done during the week. We then began to think about editing the shoots, fitting them together in chronological order and cutting out the parts we didn't need to use. 

  
 

Shooting our project

Above are some  photographs of us filming some of our foundation task (at one of our shoot loactions) . We tried capturing each piece from as many different angles as possible, as we intended to  allow ourselves extensive versatility when it came to editing the clips together, to create a continous effect. We also wanted to develop a wide range of shots for our montage sequences aswell, to make them alot more dramatic and have a much larger impact on our audience. With heinsight we realised that our ‘Feed The Fish’ preliminary task, perhaps lacked a varied and creative range of different angled shots, for example : high, low,canted,point of veiw,reverse  and so on. So we wanted to learn from our previous mistake, and try to take a more challenging approach to our filming.

Week 4 - costume and props

Group meeting - 4

Today we continued planning our opening sequence, but this time focused on costume and props. We didn't want to just use any old t-shirt and jeans for the characters, but have costumes that would all symbolic and have strong stereotypical connotations. We chose to protagonist in a dressing gown, partly because her sketch was based around  a bath time scene, but also because we believed this attire made her seem more vulnerable, innocent and easily harm-able. For our 'pedophile' or antagonist, we opted for a luminous jacket, scruffy jeans, white top, and muddy boots, to create a dirty, rough looking character, but also by use of the jacket to show he was meant to be somebody this girl could 'trust', a professional, but clearly contradicted this expectation; the 'disguise' of this workman's jacket also to us screamed out bright colours, flashing danger in the girls face, additionally the associations people generally have with builders or work men would make the character immediately give off a the sort of impression we aimed for, rather than if we had placed them in a suit. We also decided that the other children where to wear school uniform, once more to highlight their age and innocence, and set them apart from our main character, in order to show and establish her importance within the opening sequence.