Evaluation

Question 1:

When watching our opening title sequence you can automatically tell that the genre is thriller, you can tell this by the scratchy effects and also the long noted music, as well as the quick cuts in the sequence.
Also we kept the murderer in the dark, to add to the creepy effect and to also keep you on the edge of your seat.

We haven’t showed much in the sequence and haven’t given much away about, to who the killer is, we done this because we want the audience to be drawn into the movie and for them to want to watch the rest of it to find out who the killer is and to see what happens on the way to finding out who it is.


Question 2:

I think that the opening title sequence that we called ‘Probability’ would be aimed at ages 16 and above as there is a few scenes that would be inappropriate for young children.

I think that the gender for the opening title sequence is for both male and female as there is nothing init to segregate it in to genders.

The characters that could be linked to our murder could be the murder from the series messiah as the murder is very obsessive and leaves a signature object behind like the murder from our title sequence leaves a playing card as his signature piece.

Question 3:

The title sequence was produced on a very low budget, and only targets small audiences like friends, family and teachers. It is very unlikely that it would get far and make it to the big screens.

There for we would have to promote it in other ways, we came up with some ideas on how we could promote it, these are:

· The internet, to use distributors such as i.film to promote the viewing of small budget internet films. But these can be quite expensive.
· Posting it on websites such as my space and hope that people begin to watch it and to hope that it gets noticed by some one who may be able to produce it.

Question 4:

Our target audience, and my personal audience would be aged 16 to 25 year olds as the style of our film, I would think would be appealing more to the younger generation.
The film would be for audiences that like suspense and creepy music and the usual thriller style.

Question 5:

To attract the target audience, the main criteria was made up from:

Mise on scene, music, camera and casting.

There are in order of importance.
Mise on scene, because with out all the props we wouldn’t have much of a good title sequence.
The music which also adds suspense and tention to the whole sequence, with out the music the feel to it wouldn’t be eerie.
The camera angles are also important as these also build up suspense and the eeriness.

The casting, from the begging was just going to be me and Lucy as we both get on well with each other and we would get the work done.

Question 6:

From filming the title sequence, I have learnt a lot about the technologies as either of us have used a camera before.
When we where planning the title sequence out, we wanted to keep it basic, but effective at the same time, so we used really basic equipment like, tri-pods and lighting and dark rooms.

I learnt that for a thriller to work the most important things are the sound and the lighting, these where the things we focused on the most , because with rubbish lighting and sound the title sequence can go wrong and not turn out very good.

Question 7:

From the very first task we had done which was the continuity piece, till now I feel that I have learnt a lot of things to get where I am now. From co-operating with each other to working independent, also on how to edit which played a big part in our title sequences.

With out good editing the whole thing could be very jumpy and not very clear for audience to understand. Also the camera angles to me played a big part that I have learnt about. The different ways in which you can make people feel, just by the movement of the camera and the angles.

Both the editing and the camera movements put together are the most important thing when making a movie.

I feel that I have learnt a lot about, both of these techniques and how to master them both, especially the editing process on i.movie, since I have never used this before and it was my first attempt.