Unit 4 Technical Evaluation

Technical and Aesthetic qualities

In our short film I believe in our film it uses varieties of editing techniques. This is illustrated throughout our film where it uses linear editing as the story goes in chronological order. The story begins with the conversation scene where everyone including Freddy talk about his parent's death. At 0:24 Colt makes the scene awkward by interrupt the conversation by playing loud music of metal. In this scene Freddy get barged by the masked man. I enjoyed watching this scene as I felt it went with the flow as it uses continuity editing.
The next scene is the alleyway way where colt ends up dying. I felt this scene was significant as it would shock the audience. After this scene Freddy wakes up and call.


Freddy again have a nightmare of his friends dying and he finds out who the masked man was in the end which was Freddy. In the scene of the nightmare I like the fact that we used used blurry effect to make it seem like Freddy is seeing it form his perspective. We used this effect to make the scene feel surreal. I like the way that the film withhold information from the audience as it will keep them engaged and make them question who the masked man is.

However I did not like the abruptly stopped that was used during the opening sequence. I feel it could have been a happy music the reason is because it would have made the audience think that it is a jolly film when it is not. This sound effect was used during the time of 1:09 where the music randomly changes.

Realisation of proposal

Our final film meets to our original idea when we pitched our short film idea. During the pitch video it shows that I am talking to the viewers who participated watching us pitch. In our film we clearly establish the genre we are going for is a horror genre. In our pitch I quoted to the viewers that ‘the genre we chose for our short film is going to be horror’. ‘The reason why we are going for this genre is because there is a lot of blood and death.’
We illustrate this type of genre in our film during the time of 6:05 where Freddy becomes possessed and turns into the masked man by grinning into the mirror.

However I was disappointed with the fact that during our pitch we said to the viewers that we would have six characters but we ended up having 5 characters, due to unavailability. We were given advice from the audience that we should cut down the amount of characters that were involved in our film, even though we explained to the audience that we were ambitious of introducing all 6 characters and showing their deaths within ten minutes. To avoid this problem happening again we will make sure that we have substitute actors to provide us with help when needed. Also in our pitch we said our opening sequence will looks like a party and in our film it does not look like a party. Next time we will do it in a location where it looks like a party and decorate the place.

Fitness for purpose audience

 

Our audience we chose for was for the ages of 15-35. The reason why we chose this is because a lot of people watch horror around these ages. From our audience feedback video we learnt that the majority of people liked the way the ‘masked man had appeared out of nowhere’ during the nightmare scene. The gender we went for was male audience; the reason why we did this is because most male audience would feel appealed watching the death scenes and also lots of blood.

In our audience feedback video you can see that a lot of the male audience, there was also a person called Faris Rahman said that he liked the way the masked man stabbed the Matthew (actor in our film).  For interest the audience would feel interested in the dream scenes. The reason why we thought this would be interesting this would be best idea is because the audience will actually find out it that the deaths were for real. In the audience feedback we heard from a girl called Jannah who said that she like ‘the filter that was around the edge in the dream scene because it gave us different visual to look at’. The location we targeted for was the British because that is where our film was based at. Ethnicity it would be all as we use all ethnicity.

However I feel that we could have brought in a female character within our film so that we could have expanded wider range of audience to watched it. This grab more of the audience attention. I feel that the girl character role would be to try and have a fight with the masked man therefore it would made the film more serious.

Fitness for Purpose Client

Our idea meets to the brief that we were provided. In the brief it gives some rules that we should stick to, here are some of the rules: ‘No copyright video and/or audio may be used, your submission must have duration between 5 and 10 minutes. From the Screen Festival website they said that we had not use real alcohol. We stuck to these rules for our idea; we made sure that we clearly had no copyright music and video on our film. During the pitch, we had shown to the viewer the audio we would be using for our idea; we proved to them that we were not using copyright music. Our only problem was that we did not stick to using all the music that we had said we were going to use. We had to look for new music as some were as effective and it did not establish any creepy vibe. We also stuck to the rules of making our film between 5 to 10 minutes as our film finished between those times. We did not use alcohol as most of our actors were under age and that a few of them were fasting.

I feel that we did not play much around the editing, I feel that we could have added different type of editing such as motivated cut, flashback. This should have been done when Freddy finds out that he is the masked man. A flashback effect should have been used to add more tension around the surrounding of Freddy, the fact that Freddy find out the he is the killer is the most significant to put in the effect.