Evaluation Question 3

Evaluation Question 2

Evaluation Question 4

This is our response to Evaluation Question 4, 'How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?'

Evaluation Question 1

Our response to Evaluation Question 1, 'In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?'

Final Poster

This is the promotional poster for our film. 

                     

Website Deconstruction

Website

http://emily-kelly.wix.com/thedeepend

This is the link for our website for our trailer, 'The Deep End.' We wanted to keep the same pleasing aesthetic style we have been consistent with in our trailer for our website and our poster.

Difficulties encountered when editing

Poster genre research

Here are some posters from the Romance Genre which we used for inspiration when creating our poster.

Poster deconstruction

Choice of Font

We chose a basic font, Avenir, inspired by the trailer for the Romantic Drama 'Carol'. We wanted to keep it simple to compliment the aesthetics and avoid something to bold and extravagant.

Across all three of our ancillary products we used a variation of this font, from 'Avenir Medium' to "Avenir Light' and simply 'Avenir', occasionally placing it in bold for emphasis, and keeping it thin and simple for a more subtle effect. We made sure that we kept the font the same for continuity across our trailer, poster and website.

Editing Schedule

Once we had finished filming all of our footage, we used lesson time to all collaboratively edit our trailer together. This worked well as it meant we did not need to meet up to edit together and it meant everyone had an equal chance of contributing their ideas. It also worked well to edit in lessons as it was the best use of our time as it was the time we were all together. Therefore, as such, we did not really have an editing schedule.

Editing and Post-Production

We edited the footage on Adobe Premiere Pro which was different to Final Cut Pro but meant that I was able to learn a new program with different effects. The Adobe Creative Cloud Package also came with After Effects and Photoshop. After Effects helped us with colour correction and adding grain and noise to create a sort of Super Eight, vintage effect whereas Premiere Pro gave us a very accurate and easily navigable program to create our trailer with.

We added images over the top where festival logos and our own production logo were edited so that the black was transparent and they could be placed over our own footage. 

Here is an example of layering footage during the montage sequence. We altered the opacity so that you could see both shots together in one frame. 

The Deep End Final Trailer

This is our trailer, 'The Deep End' produced by Super8 Productions.

Bloopers- The Deep End

Here is a collection of some of the outtakes whilst filming our trailer.

Social Media Sites

Certificate Rating for our film

According to BBFC, as a group, we feel the most appropriate rating to give our trailer would be a 15.

The implication of domestic abuse in our trailer would make it unsuitable for children under the age of 15, as they may find it upsetting and parents may feel it is unsuitable for them. There is also an underlying tone of threat and violence, again, making it unsuitable for children under the age of 15. It would also be likely that bad language and sexual references would be included in our film, although these are not shown in the trailer. 

Audience Feedback

After we had finished the first draft of our trailer, we had a feedback session where fellow media students watched our trailer and filled out these forms. The top picture shows what our main improvements were and how many people agreed followed by some examples of our forms. In total, we received 19 feedback forms which helped us greatly.


In addition, once our trailer was completed, we posted a survey on our Facebook page to see what our audience thought of our trailer. This was the response to the last question.

By posting our trailer on our Facebook page, we were also able to get feedback through the comment feature.

Health and Safety during filming

In order for our trailer to be safe for everyone involved in the filming process, we need to consider the risks involved and what we can do to prevent them.

One hazard is that for our underwater scenes, we will be using a swimming pool and it will involve people having to go underwater in order to film. As this will require holding your breath for periods of time, this may alter people's breathing patterns and therefore could lead to people becoming quite breathless. However, we are reducing this risk by taking regular breaks when filming underwater scenes so people aren't holding their breath regularly in short periods.

Another hazard is that for some of the scenes, we are filming with a tripod. This means there is a risk of the actors tripping over the tripod whilst shooting. In order to prevent this, we will be warning and reminding the actors constantly to take extra care while walking near the tripod.

In our trailer, we are looking to have some shots which involves a bonfire. We need to avoid anyone getting burnt or smoke in their eyes so to do this, we will ensure no one gets too close to the fire.

For the woods scenes, there will be lots of sticks and tree trunks that could easily be tripped over so again, we will make sure everyone is careful when walking around so no one falls over. 

Iconic Directors in the Romance Genre

The Deep End Trailer First Draft

This is our first draft of the trailer, 'The Deep End.'

Audience Expectations about the Romance Genre

Filming Equipment

We used a Canon EO6 600D camera for all of our shots.

We used a GoPro camera for the underwater scenes.

When we wanted more controlled and still shots, we used a tripod.

Behind the scenes; Bonfire filming

These are some of the photos we took from behind the scenes whilst we were filming our bonfire scenes.

How we conform to theorist's ideas

Tzvetan Todorov's Theory of Narrative 

Todorov is a franco-bulgarian philosopher. He studied fairy tales to come up with the following theory:

1. Equilibruim-A state of normality 
2. Disruption-An event that disrupts the normality 
3. Recognition-The hero recognises the disruption 
4. Complications-The hero meets problems in trying to restore the the equilibruim 
5. New Equlibrium-The hero restores a new state of normality 

Our trailer conforms to this idea because at the beginning of the trailer, everything appears normal with a couple in love, the brother is then introduced and disrupts the normality, the younger brother sees the abuse the girl is experiencing by his older brother, he tries to help the girl and falls in love with her.