4. Evaluation

My group consisted of Myself, Nomad and Gamze. In the beginning stages of our coursework we had to come together as a group to decide what genre our film was going to be and how we were going to present it for a specific target audience. We decided to do a film on the genre of thriller. After deciding the genre of our film our group then had to make decisions on what each person in the group was going to do. It was decided that Nomad should create the story boards simply because he was the best in the group for drawing. Gamze had the work of creating a call sheet so that if something happened in our group (e.g one of the group members were absent) we would be able to contact them. I had the work of creating a script for the film sequence. .

After deciding what each member of our group was doing, we then created the script and story boards and then began filming. We decided to film in school as this was an easier option and would have caused less complications. While filming our sequence we came across a few problems to do with the other students from the lower years and also teachers walking around the school while we were trying to film our scenes. The beginning scene was filmed in the media room were it was dark, this created the atmosphere of the police officers room. Another problem that we had while filming was the characters, this was because we had to borrow another member of another group in media to play the role of the policeman, this made it difficult because our group had to wait until he was free before we could film. All of these problems prolonged our filming.

After finishing the filming we came together to upload the filming on the apple macs. Nomad was the one who done the editing. During editing the filming on the macs there were a lot of problems as sometimes "Final Cut Pro" wouldn't open straight away and there were days when it would take the whole lesson just for the programme to open. Once all the filming had been edited, there were complications with apple macs and our hard-drive, as a result we lost all our editing. We then had to upload the footage again from the beginning and Nomad had to begin the editing from the beginning again.

As a whole our group worked together as a group and finally finished the editing although it came with a lot of problems a long the way but we have managed to complete the work as best as we could.




Our group filming had a balance between positive and negatives, simply because of the difficulties we faced throughout our filming. The opening sequence for our film and the opening sequence for "V for Vendetta" had a lot of contrasts. One of them was the way in which sound was used, there were a lot of non-digetic sound used in the opening sequence for "V for Vendetta" for example, when the fire accompanied the flame title of the letter "V". In our opening sequence apart from the digetic music accompanying the sequence, the rest of the sound was digetic (e.g when the two characters are having conversation in the police officers room). One particular thing our group wanted to do was put in non-digetic sound for the flashbacks, however this didn't happen simply because there was complications during the editing process. In the opening sequence "The Strangers" there were similarities with our opening sequence, for example in the opening scene of "The Strangers", the audience is given information about the film by the text that is shown, makes them aware that the film is inspired by true events. A contrast for both my film sequence and "The Strangers" is that in my film it opens with a black background with white text informing the audience about what has happened, however my film doesn't have a voice -over to accompany the text. Some of the target audience for this film suggested that it would be a good idea to have a non-digetic voice-over while the text is showing instead of the audience reading it out for themselves.


Our Group could have achieved more by improving the way in which the scenes were shot and also the sound effects. However in terms of representation our group achieved what we intended to by making the production realistic. Our film represents a working class social group simply because the characters come from a working class background, the audience can relate to this due to the characters appearance and dialect

I Believe my film could be distributed in an independent cinema, in my opinion this film wouldn't be distributed in a multiplex cinema because "Hide And Seek" is a low budget production. Some of the original ideas had to be changed due to the time we had to film and edit. From the feedback I have received from the target audience, one person said that the audio quality could have been improved.

The Target audience for this film would be people who enjoy watching thrillers and horrors and also come from a working class background, this is because they would be able to relate more to the film. The target audience had a positive response, nevertheless it would have been a good idea if other audiences who enjoyed watching different genres, watched the film and gave feedback, this would be helpful as our group would get a range of different peoples ideas so that we could make more improvements to the film.

I addressed the target audience by making the production realistic so that the specific audience could relate. Some of the target audience thought that more visual effects could have been done to improve the quality, while others as a whole thought that the sequence had a good interesting opening. To improve the film, the digetic sound could have had a better quality. While filming we could have attached a microphone to the camera so that it could pick up more sound from the characters dialogue as they spoke.

Through the technologies I have learnt a range of things, both on Final Cut Pro and also e-blogger. During this project I have learnt how to edit a film by cutting clips and also adding effects. Another thing I have learnt is that filming takes a lot of time in general and I have to save my work straight away and make it clear as to were specific folders are kept so that the work doesn't get lost or deleted.

Looking back at the preliminary task I have learnt a lot of techniques such as different shots and camera angles. The preliminary task helped me in my main task by giving me knowledge on how to shoot particular shots and where to position the camera so that I get a correct camera angle for a particular scene.






Shot Pictures of Our Filming






This is the opening of the sequence, it tells the audience what has happened in the tragic event of the main character by using words. We used the fading technique so that it would seem more realistic.









Establishing shot setting the scene of the "Police Officers Questioning Room". The props used in this scene was a table, lamp and a tape recorder, this made the audience realise where the characters where in that particular scene. An over the shoulder shot is taken so that the audience cannot see the appearance of the face of the main character, this makes the audience stay in suspense as they cannot see what she looks like at that present moment. A cutaway is used to show flashbacks on the night of the incident.







A close up of the chasers face, this shot was done so that the audience could see the aggressiveness and anger of the chaser.



A close up of running feet showing the victim (Maddy) running away from the chaser.








A long shot, this gives the sense that the audience are seeing what is happening from the chasers point of view.









Medium shot showing "Maddy's" reaction, however in this shot the audience cannot see the chaser, this creates suspense as to who the chaser is.





Title of the sequence. The bold red style of writing suggests that the film is likely to be a thriller.