Prelim and Final Film

Evaluation

Here is our evaluation of our film opening. It reflects everything we have learnt during the film making process from our progress made from our first prelim excercise to our final film opening.

Overview of Final Film

Overall, the film opening making process has been a long yet successful journey. Although we've had a few changes of ideas we are really happy with the idea we settled on. From looking at feedback, everyone really liked the fire effect we used and also commented on the fitting music and lighting. We feel we have greatly developed our editing and filming skills, from developing camera angles to creating the effect of flashbacks by using transitions and adjusting with the speed settings on iMovie. Our simple use of credits also did not overtake the story and detract attention from the shots and the voiceover of Marge turned out to be really effective and set the scene really well. The switch between past and present using the symbolism of young and old also set the scene well and allowed us to tell a story to the audience in just two minutes. Overall, we are really happy with our film opening.

Feedback

In todays lesson we looked through the feedback sheets given out at our media premiere. The results were really positive and common features that people liked and commented on was

-The effects of the fire
-The fitting music
-Use of credits
-Lighting
-Variety of camera shots/angles
-Change between tenses
-Flashbacks
-Young and old contrast
-The candle

Final Film

We are pleased to say we have finally finished our film! In todays lesson we are uploading it to DVD along with our prelim ready for the examiner, and also ready for the premiere on Thursday! It's been a long process leading up to the film but we're happy that it is finally finished and are excited for everybody to see it!

Voiceover Draft

Here is our fisrt final draft with the voiceover, there are some parts that we need to change such as which parts to place the voiceover, but this a rough edit of it.

New film name idea

In yesterdays lesson the class helped us think of new film name ideas, one name idea which everybody seemed to like was 'Familial Love'. We also made a change to the beginning of the film, Miss Foster suggested we base our film on a pretend novel so to make it look more effecive our film starts with 'based on the novel by Francesca Morris' so the audience are led to believe it is a true story/novel.