Rough Poster

Before we created our final poster we all produced our own using photoshop, before merging them together for our final piece. 

Video Diary

During the filming of our short film we were asked to create a video diary. Due to the number of people within our group that were also acting, producing a video diary for every scene we shot wasn't easy, so we chose the more difficult scenes to use within our video diary.

Audience Screening Feedback

We organised to go to Wombwell high school, into a media class to screen our film, in order to get some feedback from the audience age group we are hoping to aim our film at, we created a questionnaire for them to fill out, and we also asked some students to give us feedback on film.

Here is a film of the students watching the film, and some of their reactions.

Filmed by: Robyn and Amy

Questions by: Robyn and Amy

Edited by: Bethany Vaines

Poster Designs #2

when we collected the pictures we got from the photo shoot, i had a good look at them, and thought about how they could come across to the audience, i thought that the picture of myself (alice) and robyn (fiona) was good, because it emphasises the name of being misguided, because i have my hand placed on her sholder, and she looks innocent. Also i thought that the one with myself (alice), robyn (fiona) and jonathan (chris) looked good as it includes the main characters of the story, and the one with robyn (fiona) with all the hands surrounding her was different and unique, these three pictures i started editing on the editing software picasa 3, just to get a feel of what our poster could potentially look like.

Final Poster Design #1

Photo Edits

After looking through the photos we'd taken, I decided to make some edits of them that could potentially then be used in our poster. Here's what I came up with:

Radio Trailer Script Ideas

•    *Music Fade in*
• *Car Starts up*
• Fiona: "An invite to Alice's Party, I cant believe it"
•  *Fade Out*
• Voiceover: A Green apple production, from the makers of 'Ebony'
•  *Fade Out*
• Alice: "Here Fiona, I've saved you some"
• Cut to
• Chris: "Go on its a laugh, you wont regret it"
• *Fade Out*
• Voiceover: we all want to be part of the popular crew
• *Fade Out*
• Fiona: "No, no thankyou"
•  *Fade Out*
• Voiceover: But is it always worth it?
• *Fade Out*
• Audio: Mix of laughter and snippets of words
• *Fade Out*
• Voiceover: Misguided. Teen drama of the year.
•  *Fade Out*
• Fiona: "dont be a spoild sport"
•  *Fade Out*
• Voiceover: In all good cinemas, 1st of May.
•  *Music Fade Out*

Radio Trailer Idea

• Sound of car turning on
• "An invite to Alice's party, I can't believe it" fade out
• VO: A film by Green Apple productions, from the makers of 'Ebony'
• Knocking on door, "Hiya, come in" 
• VO: We all want to be part of the popular crew
• "Here, Fiona, I've saved you some"
• "Well, if you're sure"
• "Yeah, it'll be fun"
• VO: But how far would you go to fit in?
• "It's a laugh, you won't regret it"
• "Come on!"
• VO: Misguided: The Daily Mail's teen drama of the year
• Mix of laughs and voices
• "Don't be a spoil sport"
• VO: In cinemas from the 1st of May

Second Photoshoot for Poster

During this photoshoot we took the time to take the pictures we'd previously taken and also thought of new poses and shots we could do. We were happy with our outcomes so we will now work from the images we have to create a film poster.

Audience Reviews

Once we had completed our film, we took our film into Wombwell High School where it was shown to a class of 16year old students. Once the students had watched the film, we gave them all a questionnaire, answering key questions about our film. Below are the pie and tally chart I created in conclusion to the answers on the questionnaire.

Photoshoot for Poster

After all thinking about ideas for a film poster, we all got together and went to the photography studio in college to try and take some appropriate pictures for our poster. Here are some of them:







Although we got some good shots in terms of poses, most of the shots we did get were blurry so we decided to delete the blurry pictures, keep the good ones and reshoot another day using another camera in the hope of achieving better quality photos.

Existing Radio Trailers

The above radio trailer is for the original superman movie which was released in 1978, the trailer is longer than the type we ourselves would be creating, but the ideas for what we need within our radio trailer are the same no matter what the length is.

Existing Radio Trailers

Frogs (First 55 seconds): Background frog croaking, fact about frogs and a menacing proposal, overriding croaking to 'take over', presentation of film and statement to summarise film, sound snippets from film, alliteration and metaphors used to narrate story dramatically and rhythmically, repetition of sentence styles, starring, repetition of name and film info, end on a dramatic sentence and croaking.

to be completed

Existing radio trailers

i thought that the radio trailer of the movie 'mean girls' was relevant because that film and our film show different representations of stereotypical 'popular kids' at school. The trailer has related music in the background of the whole trailer, it also involves voiceover in parts of the trailer, which give the listeners extra information about the film, and it has important quotes from the actual film and on the end it mentions when the film will be released; this is what features we should use in our radio trailer.

the film 'precious' has an emotive and upsetting storyline, just like ours; this is why i thought it was relevant to our film. This radio trailer includes important quotes from the film, without giving too much away from it. It has dramatic and heartfelt music which says a lot about the main character- during the trailer it also has responses from the director and the audience; i think this is a good feature and works really effectively. (this is something we should think about putting into our radio trailer, because it would work very well with the storyline being really harsh)

photoshop poster designs.

when i went to develop the poster with the eyes on photoshop i played around with some features and found that this poster looked a little bit like a 'wanted' poster, i thought this was effective because of the fact the girl was a victim from the start, the rape was planned against her by alice, chris and kieran.

when producing this poster i thought that it would look good if the main characters were on the front of the poster, the geek in the middle looking innocent, and the two suspects of rape at either side of her, looking in her direction, this is only a draft so the images are print screens our video.  i thought the poster looked better with a blur effect on top of it. 

Final Film Feedback: Questionnaire

Myself and Amy will be attending our local high school to receive feedback from some students about our final film. We decided it would be a good idea to ask the Year 11 students for their feedback as they will be between the ages of 15 - 16 and will therefore be the bottom end of our target audience. From their feedback, we will be able to determine whether our film appeals to this age range successfully or not.

Here is the questionairre I have compiled:

We will be able to use this questionnaire to gather feedback from all other ages within our target audience, too. From our audiences' feedback we will be able to determine whether our film displays its genre well, is easy to understand and believable to view, whether it's a fluent motion picture that blends images and sound well and whether we delivered our message successfully to our audience, meaning that we will then be able to evaluate our film on various relevant levels.

Poster Idea

Radio Trailer Research

Radio trailers for films are extremely hard to find on the internet, but are however used a lot in advertisement for films. Radio trailers are usually around 30 seconds long but can last for around a minute too and sound very different due to the genre of the film. They often try and pack in lots of information about the film such as the name of the film, release date or if it is in cinemas already, a bit about the plot (without giving too much away) and the main actors in the film.

UNFINISHED

Final Film Distributor

We have decided that studio canal (formerly optimum releasing) would be an appropriate distributor for our film. The UK and Ireland company established in 2004 has become one of the leading distributors in the U.K and has recently being ranked in the top ten from growing its market share year on year from its very successful new releases to its classic library titles.

Attack The Block, the teen horror/comedy/thriller/sci-fi brought huge success to studio canal creating £1,133,859 at the box office in its opening weekend from its fairly low budget . The BAFTA nominated film is set in South London it features a teen gang defending themselves and there 'block' from an alien invasion. The film challenges issues such as representation as

well as friendships/relationships giving the audience something to relate to, which is very similar to our film. Certain thriller/drama elements are used throughout such as elements of shock, a twist in the storyline, dramatic music and mysterious characters. The fact that this huge profit making film is similar to ours makes us think that using this distribution company is the right one for our film. Studio canal have released a very large amount of drama films such as 'The Last Exorcism' creating a massive 20,366,613 in its opening weekend as well as a more low budget films which have created great success as well, this is another positive reason for it to be our film distributor as the film that we have created is a teen/drama.

Overall I think this distribution company would be appropriate for our film as it has shown to be successful when creating a low budget film to be a hit! Also the fact that studio canal also distributes high budget films intended to create massive hype results in the distribution company being very well known, which would mean our film being more popular.

floor plans

these are the floor plans of all the locations we used in making our film. we only used 1 camera, but the different camera's represent the places they we put when we filmed, and the directions they were filming in.