Here is some of the feed back we received at the premier of our film opening. Our audience consisted of a variety of people, both male and female and of all different ages. However many of our friends came along to support us and as we are an all girl school the majority of people were young teenage girls which suited us perfectly as this was our target audience. Everyone else however who came to watch also enjoyed our film opening very much which was a relief.

We had the flip cameras set up in the hall in order for people to leave comments on about our work and what they liked. Here is one of the responses we received.



Here are also some quotations left to us on the feedback sheets that we gave out.

1. Please give details about what you like about our film opening.

"It was really fun and lighthearted.  Very enjoyable."

"Very well acted, made it funnier"

"Really embodied the Chick Flick genre"

"Really cleverly thought out for example the whole idea of Special K"

"Editing was great"

"Very creative shots and camera movements"

"Made me want to watch the whole film"

"Loved the quirky bumble bee at the start, it immediately caught my attention which was maintained throughout"

"Was very funny, totally got the humour"

"The credit fonts suited the genre, loved how they faded in and out"

"Really good use of ellipsis, the lighting and costume all worked very well and the timing of the soundtrack was really effective"

"Loved the camera movement when staggering out of bed"

"It was really amusing, a good choice of music,funky and upbeat, suited the genre well"

2. What is your favourite part of our film opening and why?

"Loved the bus scene, made me laugh"

"When she poured orange juice into her cereal, this was funny"

"I really liked the Benny Hill like running after the bus"

"When Kate looks out of the window and sees her sister is lying there, also at this point when the music stopped the surprise was really funny"

"I liked how Kate looks rough and then after spiting out her tooth paste comes up looking all pretty"

"The bumble bee at the start was really good"

"Loved the reaction to the orange juice"

"Liked the use of fast forward to show time passing by"

"Liked the part when Kate left her sister on the floor, was funny"

"Kate throwing the clock out of the window and knocking out her sister, very entertaining"

"Liked the zooming in and out of the blind for the costume change, very clever"

"Loved the switch from wide shots to close up shots in the bus stop scene"

"The bus stop scene was TOO FUNNY, loved it"

"I liked the alarm clock getting thrown out of the window and how it sets the scene for the humour to come"

"The mad hair!"

"Loved the build up of unpredictability"

"The shots in the fridge, very creative"

"The orange juice bit, added humour which is hard to do"

"Loved the music choice and how the clips all fitted to it, was great"

Overall me and Charlotte are so pleased with the responses we got, everyone seemed to really enjoy our film opening which is a big relief after all our effort. We are really grateful for all the lovely comments, the feedback is really good to hear. I think that my favourite comment was "Made me want to watch the whole film" which has been our goal throughout the whole process as this is what a film opening is meant to do, this comment meant a lot to both me and Charlotte.

I came across this video and I love it. At first I thought it was going to be something silly, but then it got a lot better with the results and it's actually really clever. I think it sums up quite neatly the way that people try to express an identity online and how pictures people have up of themselves, for example on facebook or myspace, can be very decieving.

Video to one side, this is infact a very serious issue and there have been many cases where people have been decieved by pictures leading to devistating consiquences. One recent case involved Peter Chapman, a British convicted murderer who has featured heavily in the media in the United Kingdom. He has become known as the "Facebook killer." He was jailed for a minimum of 35 years in March 2010 and his crime has led to serious criticism of police monitoring and Facebook.

Chapman used a fake Facebook profile, using a display picture of a very goodlooking young male in order to befriend Ashleigh Hall, a 17-year-old college student from Darlington. In reality, he was a 33-year old man living in his car. She met him on the 25 October and according to the prosecution, "When she met him on 25 October last year, he kidnapped, raped and murdered her."

Like the mother says in this video.."You just don't know who's behind that photo"

Yesterday watched the film Paranormal Activity 2 a 2010 American supernatural horror film directed by Tod Williams and written by Michael R. Perry. The film is a parallel prequel to the 2007 film Paranormal Activity, beginning two months before and following up with the events depicted in the original film.


After experiencing what they think are a series of "break-ins", a family sets up security cameras around their home, only to realize that the events unfolding before them are more sinister than they seem.


The people behind PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2 clearly learned a lesson from the debacle of BLAIR WITCH 2: BOOK OF SHADOWS; they’ve hewed scrupulously close to the original film in style and tone. The result is probably the best true sequel that could have been made to PARANORMAL ACTIVITY, without avoiding the pitfalls that come with creating a close-but-not-too-close approximation of a singular success. Paranormal Activity 2 follows the "bigger and more" ethos of sequels, while sticking to the ground rules laid down by the first surprise hit of a film. Of course "bigger and more" is a relative term. Here we get a slightly bigger home to be confined in and more people: two parents, a teenage daughter, a maid, an infant and a dog. The latter two make good use of the rather spooky thing that babies and pets do when their attention is fixed on something invisible to others. More cameras too: instead of the one image of the bedroom we get to cycle through six static security cameras (brought in by the family when they return to find their furniture and belongings in disarray, seemingly following a burglary, although nothing was taken). These changes aren't enough to distort or taint the basic premise.


I have to say that this film really did scare me, I spent half my time hidden behind a pillow as the suspense and dramatic tension was just too much to handle. The thing that always makes a film scarier is when it looks like it is real life, the dialogue doesn't sound scripted and because the actors are not famous (have just been in the paranormal films) it just adds to the realism. The jumpiest bit of the film was when all the kitchen cupboard doors and draws suddenly flew open causing a massive unexpected sound of crashing and banging. Everyone in the room with me screamed and carried on screaming!


I think the fact that they used a baby really added to the disturbing nature of the film as the child just seemed too innocent to be surrounded by such awful events. I particularly didn't like the bit when the baby gets dragged out of the bed, I found that really disturbing, but it definitely added to the genre of horror.


It was good horror film which didn't take anything away from the first Paranormal Activity. Apart from being terrified i did actually really enjoy it.

People's idea on 'what is beautiful' really is distorted, and in my opinion it's because of the media, for example in magazines every single woman is perfect, immaculate skin, slim, have perfectly straight noses, and are perfectly made up. It puts a lot of pressure on everyone on how a person is suppose to look and it can effect people in many ways including causing anorexia as girls especially feel they should be thin like all the models they see in news papers, on posters, in magazines and on the Internet. Nothing is real any more nearly everything is edited. Here is a video I found on YouTube which shows the process in which models undergo before their photograph is put out for the public to see.



Here is another video which I know is also very popular on You Tube ...

Recently I've been revising for my media exam which is coming up very soon. I started looking at Pete's blog, an examiner to see if i can get any tips or important info, and found some really interesting stuff on representation of young people. This is some of what I found.

Here are some quotations people have said about young people

"Kids are out of control... They're roaming the streets. They're out late at night."

“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”

The language that the second one uses is much older, but it surprised everyone to find out just how old. The first was from Gordon Brown in 2008 and the second from Plato in the 4th century BC. So as we can see, complaining about the behaviour of young people is nothing new!

Here's a quite a disturbing video, from a Barnardo's campaign, all dialogue coming from what adults had written on national newspaper websites in response to stories about teenagers.

Love this advert at the moment, think it's a really good idea, it's something a little bit different where people can actually relate to what is being said..my favourite comment is when the guy says 'so many shoes..what are you a centipede?', it's definitely the kind of thing my dad would say to me. I know that it must have started up tons of debates in every household for people who has seen the advert. I think adverts like this are the best kind of advertisement as the little funny jokes stand out in people minds meaning that they'll remember what is being advertised, in this case IKEA. I hate adverts when what they are showing barely relates to what they are advertising, I think this idea of 'who's messier men or women' is a great idea that clearly shows us that it is advertising storage. Oh and also the fact that men are messier!

Today we presented our film opening to a very large audience male and female, with a range of different age groups. Everyone seemed to really enjoy watching ours which was definitely a relief. They laughed in all the right places and we had some lovely comments from friends, family and teachers who told us how much they enjoyed it. Hopefully some people left some nice comments on the flip camera and if so we will publish their responses at a later date.

Here is what me and Charlotte said when introducing our film opening..

My favourite advert at the moment is the underwater advert of Katie Price, not because it's her but just simply because I love the underwater shots with her long mermaid-like hair, the flowing pastel coloured material and sparkly bubbles. It would be amazing if we had the equipment to get underwater footage as it would definitely help to add that professional quality we have worked so hard to produce in our film opening.

Here is the feedback sheet we will give to the audience on Thursday when they come to the premier of our film opening

Evaluation Sheets - AS and A2

Here are the results that I have recieved from the questionnaire of which I carried out a while ago now done for our pre-production stage. I did my questionnaire via facebook messaging, interviewing, and giving out handouts. I focused on favourite film genres asking 50 people, half male and half female, the age group ranging between 10-65. I did this to get a more diverse response in order to help us decide which audience we are targeting.

Overall I found that around 20 people liked Comedies/Chickflicks particularly the younger females aged between 10 and 30. However there were 6 older people of the 20 who selected comedy as their favourite gengre too. This tells us that our main target audience is focused on young girls however is still open to a variety of different people. Chick flicks are a specific film genre, which generally does target young females. The main purposes of chick flicks are to entertain the young audience and inject them with ideologies. These films usually focus upon teenage girl’s lifestyles and experiences as our film opening shows, and they follow typical stereotypes such as chick flick movies like ‘Legally Blonde’, directed by Robert Luketic.


Some of people comedies/chickflicks from those who said it was their favourite genre:
The Hang Over, Toy Story 3, The kid, Mean girls, Life of Brian, Pinapple Express, Life stinks, Bridget Jones Diary, Sex and the City, Love and other Drugs.

So after adding in some final touches like adjusting the music so that it stops and starts in the right places, we have finally finished our film and will be putting it onto DVD on Monday's lesson ready for our presentation on Thursday. We watched through it a number of times in order to make sure that there was nothing else that needed changing and realised that we had forgotten to justify the way in which we had designed our credits.

We decided to have our credits appearing throughout the scenes however we felt that it was essential to have the important credits placed on a black background, some of which we already allocated for when filming, for example when the fridge closes. We placed the production name, the film title, the co producer, the editor, the producer and the director on black backgrounds. We also decided to have a slightly different colour scheme for the actors, me and Charlotte who star in our film. We decided to use black and white to make our names stand out however this was the only time we changed the font, all the other fonts are the same. We did this so that our film opening looks professional like a real high budget film would look. We have also made a concsious decision to remove the freezeframes on the clips as we felt that they disrupted the flow of our film and it just generally looked a lot more professional for the credits to appear while the acting takes place.

 

I liked how at this point it looks as though Kate is brushing the credit away.

Here is one of credits which appears throughout the opening along with credits such as costume, soundtrack, casting etc.

This is the last credit that we see, as in all films the director generally goes last. It is on a black back ground so that it is clear and easy to read. It again highlights the importance of it.