Iconic Moment

We have chosen this moment in our film opening as the overall most iconic and one that the audience will remember the most. 

Evaluation Plan:

For my evaluation I have made a small plan of rough notes  on what I plan to say for each question:

Evaluation

Questions:

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge films and conventions of real media products?

2. How does your product represent particular social groups?

3. What kind of media institutions might distribute your media product and why?

4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

5. How did you attract/ dress your audience?

6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of construction the product?

7. Looking back at your preliminary task what do you feel you have learnt in the progression of it to the full product?

Mark Scheme:

Level 4 16–20 marks 

• Excellent skill in the use of appropriate digital technology or ICT in the evaluation. 

• Excellent understanding of issues around audience, institution, technology, representation, forms and conventions in relation to production. 

• Excellent ability to refer to the choices made and outcomes.

• Excellent understanding of their development from preliminary to full task. 

• Excellent ability to communicate.

A Comparison

A comparison of how my groups film making skills have developed throughout the year:

Finished Film Opening

Titles inspiration

For our opening titles we took inspiration from many places. We wanted to keep the titles simple and minimalistic as not to draw the attention away from the action, this style has appeared in many films and TV shows over time in different styles for example:

Taxi Driver (1976)

Mulholland Drive (2001)

Drive (2011)

All of these films have the title sequence come over the action which allows the plot to progress quickly without being overshadowed. The first two minutes of the film are so important that we did not want to waste time on not progressing the plot or introducing characters to the audience. We wanted to jump straight into the action without cutting the shots with titles as we think it will work well with our opening and save time. Furthermore our opening sequence requires you to focus on the action and if you were distracted by the titles, then you would miss important things that are pivotal to the story.

No Sound

We have decided to have no non-diegetic music in our film opening. The decision stems from the fact that we wanted the tension to be raw without any sound distracting the audience from the action, for example in the film "Back To The Future" (1985) a lot is revealed through the opening sequence of the character Doc Brown, even though it is not obvious that you are learning about the character it makes you want to watch the rest of the film. The diegetic ticking of all the clocks is all you need to be hooked into the film and intrigue you as the camera pans through the room.

We want our film to have a similar effect but in a different sense as we want it to be thrilling and intense and we wanted it all to be natural to add to to the eeriness and make it more relatable to the audience and resonate with them more, which is what we aiming for.