Overall Evaluation

Teaser Trailer

I think our teaser trailer works very well as it conveys that the girl is trapped, scared and upset. By filming the girl against a door, we portray this feeling of her being trapped as she is not going through the door but is instead up against it. This works well as it shows the audience that she is like a hostage, which is what the main film is about it. Although we all felt that the use of the door handle behind the girl, looses the effect of a closed atmosphere. The room was a good place to film, as it was very dark which gave us the effect we wanted. This worked well with our genre of a thriller as it gave a eerie effect which created a tense atmosphere for the audience. Jade was positioned to be kneeling as this gave the effect that she fears something/someone, which works well with our genre of a thriller.

I feel that the actress should have wore a different costume, as the dress gave an effect we didn't really want. We wanted her clothes to show normality, but this was balanced out by the use of her nail varnish she was wearing, which worked well with the showing of normality.

The script that our actress was asked to read, worked well at the end as it ended in mid-sentence giving a small cliff hanger until the title 'Stalked' appeared on the screen. Although I feel that we could have made the script have more sentences that would create suspense and nervousness as it would create the effect we were after.

Our camera angle worked well with the interview type of teaser trailer. We chose to only use camera angle as this fitted the genre, but I think this worked well as it made the room feel smaller as we were not using many angles to show exactly how big the room was, which gave a good effect of the girl being trapped.

The lighting in the room was very dark, which I feel gave off a great effect to make the atmosphere feel eerie and tense. This fits the conventions of a thriller and works well with the magazine cover picture, as this too is very dark.

Magazine Front Cover

The main image on our front cover of a film magazine works well I think as it shows exactly how the girl is feeling, which is fear, sadness and vulnerability. By making Jade kneeling and looking up, we show how someone has power over her, which works well with the storyline of our film.

As the photo has been edited to make it quite dark, I feel this allows the surrounding headlines to stand out to the audience. By editing it this way we also convey the type of genre the film is and will attract the audience we are aiming for.

By using the same font for 'Stalked' and 'Empire' we show that our film is the main film and the magazine is revolving around that film. This works well as the use of the same font for all three of our products allows the audience to recognise and become familiar with the film.

Film Poster

I think the image on our poster works well, as it portrays that the girl is hidden and the close up of her face shows her vulnerability. By making the whole image black and white, except her eye, which we made bright blue, it shows her innocence and makes her seem younger.

I do not think the large gap in the middle of the poster works so well. I believe that the title 'Stalked' should have come down slightly which would have got rid of the large space.

I like the use of '02.02.12' as it is very blunt and precise which I think gives a great effect of a tense atmosphere, and fits the thriller conventions in movie posters.

By placing 'Stalked' in capitals, I feel it grabs the audience's attention and works well with the use of the film release date.

Evaluation of Production

Filming

Filming at first came to be difficult for us as we had a few problems:

• Film ideas
• Filming time
• Location of filming

We went through numerous amount of ideas for our filming, with only a few actually going onto paper. At first our ideas were much too like a trailer even though we was using not to use the clips in the actual film. We finally decided upon an 'interview' where the girl would be in character and would speak directly into the camera, expressing what happened to her. Once we had all of this planned, we came across another problem. Emily was off for a week, which stopped our filming, because at the time she was planning to be the girl. But when she got back, we decided upon using our friend. Finding time to film Jade was a problem as she was in lessons when we wanted to film. We resorted to filming in our free periods and after school. We wished to film in a dark room with only a small spotlight, and so we thought the dance and drama studio would be the suitable. When we arrived, the studio was empty but due to the hall being busy a class had to use the studio. But fortuantly we was allowed to use a photography dark room. Luckily we managed to do our filming in one go, which saved us a lot of time.

Editing

We was happy with our editing, as it only took us two double lessons to complete. This is because we had managed to film Jade talking in one long shot. We only had to add in the Production clips and the Institution clips. We also had to add in the title page and the 'Coming 2012'. We added music as we felt it would add to the suspense and tension, and also covered up some noises in the background. We had a few problems with the images, as there was a blip in one of the clips. We overcome this by putting the production name over the top of the clip.

Audience Feedback

To get feedback from our desired audience, we have put our film on YouTube and on our Facebook pages.

Teaser Trailer

This is our final draft of our teaser trailer. We decided to make Jade kneel and look up towards the camera. This conveyed that someone was looking down at her. We wanted the trailer to be like an interview, which ensured that non of the content would appear in the film. Jade said how old she was, her name, where she lived, and what she think has happened to her. We used eerie music behind her talking to create a tense atmoshpere. We used gun shots at the end as the 'Stalked' and 'Coming Soon' appeared to continue with the tense atmosphere.

Audience Feedback

We placed our teaser trailer on Facebook and YouTube. Unfortuantly we recieved no comments on YouTube, however we did recieve these comments from friends on Facebook.
Most of the comments are quite positive, with some people giving us improvements to make. These improvements range from making the music quieter as at points it is hard to hear what the girl says, and that the girl seems a little too calm for the situation she is in. One friend also said we should have used more angles, but because we wanted an interview type trailer we decided this would not be appropriate. How ever some friends liked the way we zoomed in on her face for close ups.
Many people agreed that the situation and music was a good choice for our teaser trailer, and that the bang shot at the ended added to the tense atmosphere.

Production Logo

Film trailers and teaser trailers have a convention of putting the production logo on the last screen. They do this to show who produced the film.
Our production name was 'Tom Ross' productions so we decided to use the 'T' and 'R' together to make a logo. We used red and yellow as the colours stood out easily among the black background.

Stalked Poster

This is the original image we took of Jade to use for our film poster. We chose to use only half of Jade's face as it portrays that the girl is hidden from something and is afraid. The plain background next to her face will be used for the text such as the film title, date it is coming out and the text used for director's names etc.









We decided to put the poster in black and white because it enhanced the atmosphere within the poster and created a tense feeling. We photo shopped the picture, and made Jade's eye bright blue, to bring attention the girl's face and to show some sort of normality in the girl. We chose not to cut around her head to make her tidy as it gave the effect of normality again.











This is our final poster. We added the title 'Stalked' along with the release date of '02.02.12'. We used TBC as this is often a convention of film posters, when the age certificate has not been decided. We used the slogan 'watch your back' as it reinforced the idea of being stalked. We put it in capital letters to make it stand out and attract the audience. At the bottom of the poster we typed in the director's, actor's names along with other name's of people who are involved in the production.

Final Front Cover

This is our final front cover. We changed the film poster image to another group's film picture, which also links to the '10 reasons to see La Femme'. We placed a yellow line around the image so that it did not blend in with 'Stalked' of the blackness of the background. We made it yellow so that it links to the banner and so the audience know that that it is the picture for the free poster. We changed the font colour of 'La Femme' to red so that it stood out, and the font was change to the font the original group use.

'Unknown' was change to a lime green to make it stand out, and give the effect that the film is about aliens and gives an eerie feeling.

We feel that 'La Femme' is too close to the line underneath and we would improve the front cover by making the space larger.

First Final Cover

This was our final front cover. We have uploaded the main picture to advertise the film and to show that 'Stalked' is the main article in our magazine.

We changed a few things on this draft such as taking the small bubbles out as they did not fit the convention of a front cover of a film magazine. We also moved the title to the opposite side so we could fit everything on. I think it looks better on the left side as the girl is looking towards the left. We took the box away from the 'Exclusive Interview' article as this was not a convention of a film magazine front cover. We also change the font to white as this made is stand out further. We removed the background colour from the 'ever had the feeling' as this was again not a convention, and we then changed the font to blue to make it stand, over the balck and her skin. We changed the alingment of the 'Top 2011 films' so that they are up against the edge of the magazine and so that it tended to fit around the picture. We added '10 reasons to see La Femme' so that we could advertise what else was in the magazine. 'La Femme' is another group's film, which meant that we could also advertise their film. We also added a bar code.

This cover also shows our font choice, of Dirty Finger, we have made Empire and Stalked in the same font as this is a convention of film magazines. It again shows how 'Stalked' is the main film article on the magazine.

We did not like the picture above the banner about the free poster, as it is not a poster you would not want on your wall. So we would like to change it. We also feel that 'Unknown' does not stand out enough and so we plan to chnage the font colour.