Media Evaluation - 'Conscience'

Final Cut!

That's right even with all our problems we managed to get it in on time!!

The Media Vlog - WITH MARKERS

Throughout the making of this film we encountered a lot of problems. This is why I made a vlog capturing these problem  and how we overcame them. However I understand that this blog is very long as it does capture everything so I have made markers for each day and will be making markers for problems within my evaluation.

THE MARKERS FOR ALL THE PROBLEMS:

- 0:32 Fixing light - 1:23 Cleaning wheelchair- 1:51 Getting people and Reflector - 2:06 Van In the way of the house- 2:40 Cleaning - 3:15 Makeup- 3:30 Wheelchair dolly- 4:10 Improvised lighting - 5:08 Wrap and Solo filmmaking - 6:04 Editing - 7:30 Not enough crew- 7:50 End off school- 8:37 Soaked actor - 9:00 Bathroom walking - 9:22 Reflection time!- 11:01 Wrong angle - 11:26 Colour correction change - 12:50 Fence problems - 13:40 Fence explained - 14:45 After effects - 16:14 Field locked - 16:38 Stolen costume - 17:18 Makeup- 19:35 Can't film outside shots - 21:00 Don't use shinny spray - 22:27 Re-creating set - 23:01 Set team acting/can't open window - 23:40 Lighting - 24:39 Shots to fill gaps/window- 25:01 Window - 26:20 DELAY and ill - 27:18 After effects glow- 28:21 Still ill and gun arrest- 29:15 Re-Edit- 30:12 Gun confiscation - 31:15 Getting gun- 31:37 Gun still- 32:50 Editing and hard drive crash - 34:13 Story change - 35:39 Missed Mock Exam- 36:00 Credits - 37:37 Blog

Semi-Final Cut

The reason this is our Semi-Final cut is because we feel that the new opening shot is out of time with the rest. To change this I will have shorten both so that is doesn't mess up the pacing of the shots. Excluding the first shots pacing we are happy with the final product because even with all the changes we feel they were necessary and improved our opening dramatically.

Changes To The Storyline & Title

Through talks with our teacher examining the rough cuts of our opening we found that our original storyline didn't really hold. The old and young man didn't look similar enough for them to conceivably be the same person. This changed the whole of our original  premise. However we discussed what was feasible considering the opening is 95% done and came up with the idea that the young soldier is the old man's best friend who died in the war. This would explain the PTSD and the flashbacks he was having, and would explain away how different the characters looked. Because of this we wouldn't keep the names we were playing around with as they all centred around the idea that the two characters were the same person (e.g. a War on Two Fronts). We came up with a couple of names to fit the bill including for example guilt and corrupt memory but eventually through lots of group discussions settled on 'Conscience'. We like this title as it incorporates the guilt, and flashbacks and eludes and creates suspicion in regards to the rest of the film. 

Credit to Mariella.

Survey: Audiences Response

Survey: Audiences Response

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DG7NVMC

This is a survey we made once we finish our film opening, so that we can get an effective and easy to handle response as if we to make a paper based copy most people would not fill it out as well as it would prolong the process of the working out the results. The questions that we have included in the survey are what are group best think will give us the most relevant feedback that we need. We will then analyse the results once a good amount of people have watched our opening and stated their opinion of it. These responses will allow us to see if we have met our targets initially set for our group.

Credit to Katy Ward.

Full Cast Roles

Full Cast Roles

Crew
Director -  George Turner
Editor - George Turner
Cinematographer - Mariella Devoil
Producer - Mariella Devoil
Assistant Director - Mariella Devoil
Production Manager - Katy Ward
Art Director - Katy Ward
Hair & Makeup - Mariella Devoil & Mellisa Askew
Costume - Katy Ward
Props - George Turner & Tamara 
Researcher - Katy Ward
Location Scout - Katy Ward
Location Help - Donald & Sheila Turner
Catering - Sheila Turner

Runners / Assistants -
Louise Tomas
Katherine Packer
Shawnean Milton

Special Thanks - Simon Ford & Kate Brown & The Postman

Cast 
Old Man - Frazer Camp
Young Soldier - George Turner
Stunt Man - Ed Cummings

All above credit To Mariella Devoil

Obviously we can't credit these people in the opening sequence like we did in our drafts because it makes the film look unprofessional due to the mentions in it. This mean't that I as the editor only used some peoples names in order to have more than the four-five main people involved. These people were not given roles but instead were put there as their part played in the making of the film was important. For example I used Melisa because the makeup was essential.