Final Cut - 7 Minutes

Radio Trailer

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Final Poster Design

This is our final poster design, This was a collaborative effort between me and my group. We all chose this as our final poster design.

Evaluation Question 1

Evaluation Question 2

How effective is the combination of your main product and the ancillary texts? from ConnorOB

Evaluation Question 3

Evaluation Question 3 - What have you learned from your audience feedback? from ConnorOB

Evaluation Question 4

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Evaluation Question 2

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Evaluation Question 4

Evaluation Question 1 - Elliot Fitzpatrick

Evaluation Question 2 - Elliot Fitzpatrick

Evaluation Question 3 - Elliot Fitzpatrick

Evaluation Question 4 - Elliot Fitzpatrick

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Details of any Re-Shoots

Details of any Re-Shoots:

A lot of filming took place over a short period of time, we wanted to try and get a lot done on each day of filming, meaning we had more time to edit the film, and come back to Take care of any mistakes and reshoot that we needed to do. Although we tried to get as much done in a short time, we still tried our best to keep it to the highest quality. We expected our work to have more mistakes in than it actually had, and to our relief, there wasn't much throughout the film that that needed drastically changing. As filming days went on, we kept editing our film, keeping up with what we had filmed so we could get a clear image of where we were up to in the whole project. This way we could get a rough cut uploaded to quicker so we could get feedback on our film.

There was however a few scenes in our film that needed a bit of tweaking and shaping in order to sharpen up. Scenes such as these needed slightly changing as we weren't happy with the quality we produced.

 These scenes included:

- The Car Scene (The Character Tom gets run over)

- The Thought Sequence in the Park

The Car Scene:

The first time we filmed the Car Scene, we thought that the shots we filmed were that of a decent standard, and that we could get back to the computer and edit them straight away, which we did. But during the editing stage of this scene, we unanimously agreed that these shots were no where near the quality we wanted. The scene is meant to portray Tom (played by Connor) running out into the road and getting hit by a car (driven by Ben). As we obviously couldn't actually perform this task in real life, we had to film a number of clips that would be matched with different editing techniques that would make the scene seem as realistic as possible. The shots we filmed included Close ups of Connor's face, over the shoulder shots of Ben driving, and shots from the side of the road. We tried our best to fit these shots together while editing, but no matter what we tried, it didn't look 'right'. We all agreed on the fact that the entire scene didn't correctly portray what it was meant to, so we decided to start again. We all spoke about the scene over a dinner time, and brainstormed other ideas and shots we needed to include. Shots including a close up of ben, ben slamming the brakes on and trying to turn out of the way. We agreed that adding these shots matched With fast paced editing would create the better illusion that Connor is getting run over, as there are more shots to fill in time to make the car look like it is getting closer. After agreeing on what we needed, we went out the following Wednesday after college to film the scene again. As we knew everything we needed, it seemed to work a lot better, as we completed all the shots very quickly, and as you can see from our film, the final effect of the scene works much better.

The Park Scene:

This scene, filmed in the park outside of college, is part of the thought sequence and is all based inside the head of Connor. We knew that this scene would be hard to portray to the audience what was happening in this scene, but while focusing on getting every shot and every part of the scene right, we completely forgot silly little details throughout the scene, they seemed to slip past us and what we were doing. The 2 examples of this being, when the scene cuts to Elliot, he still has his college lanyard and badge on show. After watching the shots back, we all couldn't believe that such a small detail slipped past all 4 of us as it was a daft mistake that caused inconvenience. Another mistake was when the shots cut to me and Elliot, instead of saying 'Tom' which is his screen name, we said 'Connor'. Again on the day we didn't realise at all that we had said it, and watching back, we realised that we needed to go out and film again. As this was just little mistakes, the whole scene didn't need to be filmed again, we didn't sit and talk about what needed to be changed. We just went back out to film the next day and changed it. This was easily corrected, it just caused inconvenience and set us back an hour or two of filming, as we had to push everything else back to fit this in.

Filming Dairy: Day 2 - Shop Scene

Post Film Questionnaire Responses

Post Film Questionnaire

Poster Design - Elliot Fitzpatrick

Rough Cut - 7 Minutes

Radio Trailer Research

Radio Trailer Research

Research into Radio Trailers

Radio trailers should contain facts:

·       This makes it informative and provides knowledge to the audience. Also, by providing facts it will make the film sound more interesting which will entice the listeners into watching it. By including facts it also gives our film a professional and realistic basis.

Radio trailers should contain a voiceover:

·         A voiceover is a very important feature of a radio trailer as it guides the listener what is being portrayed and carried out in the trailer. It also allows more information to be given to the audience. The volume and tone that can be added to the radio trailer using a voiceover is also used to entertain the listener and set the mood for the film itself.

Radio trailers should contain music:

·         Music is used in radio trailers to set the atmosphere for the listener and to give a sense of what they should expect to see in the film as the music should match the genre. However, it is vital that the voiceover can still be heard clearly over the radio trailer.

Length and Sound Effects:

·         Radio Trailers should last around 30-40 seconds long. This is a long enough amount of time to be able to engage with the reader without boring them or giving them too much information. Sound effects should be used in radio trailers to keep the listener interested to create a certain atmosphere that relates to the genre of our film.

Research Into Viral Adverts

Reseach into Radio Trailers

Radio Trailer Research

To do list

Shots/Scenes that need to be redone:

-Titles
-Over the Shoulder shot to pick up drink(Shop Scene)
-Hospital Scene
-Park Scene - Conversation between Elliot, Matty and Connor
-College Scene - Conversation between Matty and Connor
-Car Accident
-Voiceover

Individual Poster Design

Thriller Poster Analysis

Research and Annotated Examples of Film Posters

Thriller Poster Analysis

Thriller Film Poster Analysis

Overall the poster design for thriller movies are very similar, The use very simplistic designs with little text and more of the background and actors faces, In conjunction to this they use contrasting colors such as black and red or white and blue. These colour’s help give the viewers the general tone of the film by just looking at the poster.




This is the first poster that we have looked at, the poster helps portray the genre of the film while also giving an insight about what the film is. With the focus on the doll we know that the film will be about a ventriloquist’s doll. Since the colour of the doll has a hint of red throughout it we can make the judgement that the film will involve scenes of violence, this judgement is reinforced by the text style that is used since it is common within the thriller and horror genre. The deep black colour in the image helps create mystery for the film as it pushes the viewers focus onto the doll and the hand that is covering the dolls mouth, the hand is shown with small rotten parts over the skin, this detail shows that the film is within the horror, thriller genre and will most likely have some form of death or undead characters.





This is the second poster that we have looked at and analysed. The poster shows half of the main actors face (Leonardo Dicaprio) which represents that the film will hold back some information on the origins of the character. This creates mystery around the whole movie and doesn’t give you a good insight on what the character is or what he does. The small island in the background resembles an offshore prison/holding facility. This gives the viewers the idea that the film will be based around the police force or detectives that are working to solve a case. The off shore island represents the idea of being isolated from society and in conjunction with the image of the man’s face we can make the assumption that the main character is fighting his own battles throughout the film. The quote ‘some places never let you go’ gives us the idea that they are stuck on the island and the main character is not allowed to leave.

In conclusion many thriller posters follow the same style of hiding the main plot line well but still giving the audience information about what the film will be based around. Using this information our poster design will follow the same design of showing small parts of the story without giving away excessive information on what will happen within the film.

Influences On Our Film

Influences of Our Film from BenHoughtonMedia

Individual Film Poster.

Individual Poster

Filming For Thought Influence (Based On Sherlock)

For the final scene, the main character in our short film, Tom finds out how he died. All the flashbacks from the film join together to give away the reason for his death at the end. This scene is set in a park. We always believed we needed to a scene to convey the main characters confusion near the end of the film. We used the idea from a recent Sherlock episode to try and create a sense of filming thought. To do this we are using the same sequence of shots by making it look like Tom is talking to multiple characters at once, leading to the confusion being too much for him. We used the sequence from Sherlock and incorporated it into our film. The video below helped us re-create this sequence and the plan shows how we will use the sequence to fit with the characters of our film.

Filming Diary 1

Thursday 19th January

Friday 20th January

Monday 23rd January

The scenes that were filmed during these days were:

Tom Watson walking past hospital, triggering a flashback.
Tom Watson, walking to the park for the final scene, getting social media messages, noticing the car and calling his friend.
Most of the final park scene.

Whilst filming, we came up with numerous transition shots and editing ideas to make our film look inventive and unique. We also re-filmed some shots as we found that previous footage could have been improved.

Props, Costumes Photos & Planning

This is a plan of the costumes and props we will be using in our film. We aim to stick to this plan to allow our film to have continuity throughout it.

January Shooting Schedule

List of Tricky Shots & Editing