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Audience Evaluation Questionnaire Results
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Questionnaire Results of audience evaluation
Audience Evaluation Questionnaire Results
Answer the following questions on a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being the best and 5 being the best.
Brainstorming: Initial Ideas
Murderer
Elderly Man
Graveyard
Family
Split Personality
Photo of murder victim
Children
Daughter
Mask to show split personality
Items that suggest a memory
Synopsis & Treatment
Synopsis:
Eric, an elderly man sets himself the task of hunting down a killer that threatens his remaining family and friends. Reminiscing over his dead wife, Eric desperately searches for answers. Unstable after the death of his wife, Eric experiences some unexplainable images and dreams. This creates the setup for a thriller that travels into the psyche of an elderly man that is disillusioned by recent events.
Eric, an elderly man sets himself the task of hunting down a killer that threatens his remaining family and friends. Reminiscing over his dead wife, Eric desperately searches for answers. Unstable after the death of his wife, Eric experiences some unexplainable images and dreams. This creates the setup for a thriller that travels into the psyche of an elderly man that is disillusioned by recent events.
Treatment:
Beginning: Eric stands over a grave, he crushes a flower in anger over the grave, a close up of the flower is used whilst the flower is being crushed, a panning long shot will be used as he is walking wearily across the empty graveyard and the feeling that he is being followed shall be apparent to the audience. Then a long shot is used to demonstrate an anonymous man, of which the audience do not have any idea of who this figure is. Back at Eric’s home we witness Eric sat on his bed looking at photos of his wife, using a close up of the photo to demonstrate how happy they were together, this makes the audience aware that it was his wives grave. However this confuses the viewers as why would Eric angrily crushes a flower over her grave if they were so happy together? Straight away the audience are demonstrating the question answer model, who is the anonymous man? Why is Eric angry? An anonymous man appears in Eric’s mind, showing the audience the faceless man murdering someone. In Eric’s vision which can also be seen by the audience, the faceless man is brutally murdering Eric’s only daughter. An extreme close up of the murderers hand is used as he slowly takes a knife from a kitchen set. Whilst Eric’s daughter is asleep in bed, the faceless man approaches her deviously with the kitchen knife he has just stolen from her kitchen. Once the murder has taken place, the vision ends with the man calmly walking back down the stairs and his steady, blood stained hand places the knife back into the knife block.Eric receives a phone call at home, dropping the phone is disbelief (the audience are unaware at this point that someone close to him has been murdered) this creates any questions that the audience are asking because they are oblivious to who or why someone has been murdered.
Middle: More murders take place and Eric believes he knows that the faceless man is the killer. It is patterned that people murdered are linked to Eric, now his wife, daughter and best friend have all been killed. With the police pushing aside the investigations due to the lack of evidence, Eric takes it upon himself to track down the killer, non-diegetic mysterious music will be used throughout his investigation to build great suspense for the audience.
Ending: Eric is unable to find any evidence of where the killer is. Fearing for his safety, he installs CCTV in all areas in his house. When he watches the footage, he observes him self putting on the faceless mask. Then he experiences flashbacks of himself washing off blood, killing and burying people close to him and his dead wife. The police arrive and he in sentenced as mentally ill and is sectioned to a mental institution. The last shot is him in a white room sat in a corner, surrounded by pictures of his dead wife.
Production
Production Title: Delusion
Students: Daniel Smith, Yaz Shaw, Kimberly Smith, Loretta Woods
Date of production: 1st November 2010
Date of filming: 9th December 2010
Rough cut submitted: 17th December 2010
Final tape completed by: January 2010
Equipment required: Canon XM2 Camcorder, tripod, battery, tape main leads, jib and track.
Transport: Warrington bus service and car
Crew: Daniel Smith, Yaz Shaw, Kimberly Smith, Loretta Woods
Props: Knife, mask, black hoodie, fake blood, newspaper.
Tuesday, 25 January 2011
Diary
Our filming started at Yaz’s Granddad’s house, where we filmed the third and fourth pages of the storyboard. When filming we would shoot each everything about 3 times each, this would allow us to get the best footage for our film and would allow to add any other effects or footage when it came to editing later on.
Film Classification
Production Title: Delusion
Students: Daniel Smith, Yaz Shaw, Kimberly Smith, Loretta Woods
Date of production: 1st November 2010
Date of filming: 9th December 2010
Rough cut submitted: 17th December 2010
Final tape completed by: January 2010
Equipment required: Canon XM2 Camcorder, tripod, battery, tape main leads, jib and track.
Transport: Warrington bus service and car
Crew: Daniel Smith, Yaz Shaw, Kimberly Smith, Loretta Woods
Props: Knife, mask, black hoodie, fake blood, newspaper.
Screen shots of music site
These screenshots show the stages of getting our copyright free music online. We extracted the music and uploaded the ones that most suited our thriller opening.
Delusion Analysis
Delusion Analysis
Narrative Structure:
Beginning - We see an old man visiting a grave at a cemetery, the audience are unaware of who this person is at this stage. We are first introduced to him when he gets out of his car and walks to the grave, our first impressions of his are that he is quite harmless. After becoming angered, throwing the rose to the floor and walking away, we see a masked man standing over the grave that he was just at. We see the hooded man, however when Eric turns to see him, the mysterious man had gone. This suggests that either the man had suddenly hidden himself, or that the man does not exist and had disappeared.
The next scene is of the old man returning home in the evening. It shows him to enter his room and look at a photograph, which has now been made clear to the audience that the woman in the photograph is the person who he went to see at the graveyard earlier that day.
There is a key shot of Eric in the mirror, it shows one side of the mirror to show Eric looking downwards at the photo and the other mirror in the shot shows Eric with a faceless mask. This now reveals to the audience that the masked man from the graveyard is actually Eric, which also indicates that Eric has a split personality.
The end scene is of the killing of Eric’s daughter, it shows the masked man (Eric) to take a knife from her kitchen and go up to her bedroom. Our opening sequence ends as Eric swings the door open, this is to indicate that something bad is going to his daughter and further reveals that Eric is the one that killed his daughter.
Codes & Conventions of thrillers:
Our film consists of many codes and conventions of thriller films, such as concealment. As the killer’s identity is hidden from the audience as he wears a faceless mask and also wears a hood. The question and answer model I used, as the audience are presented with several questions, such as ‘Who is the hooded man?’, ‘Is the hooded man a real person?’ and ‘Why is he killing those people?’.
Our sequence also includes partial vision, as the killing of his daughter, which has happened in the past appears as a flashback. Transformed City is used as a seemingly safe house, is ‘transforms’ into a murder scene. And finally protraction is used, as the locations change from the cemetery to the house, and from that house to another.
Camerawork:
Our film includes a vast array of different and diverse camera angles, as of the tracking shots in the bedroom, the long shot at the cemetery, the close-ups of the knife. All these shots help towards building the tension, whilst giving the audience a clear view of the storyline.
Mise-en-scene:
The beginning of our opening sequence is quite sad, several significations of death are used as of the cemetery, the rose that signifies the love he has now lost and the photograph which shows who he has lost. Also the weather is a symbol of loss and sadness as it is all quite overcast.
Sound:
Non-diegetic and diegetic sounds are used throughout our thriller film. Non-diegetic is used as of the music that plays, gradually gaining tension to build suspence and entice the audience. Other non-diegatic sounds are included as of the sound effect of the knife being taken from the kitchen.
Diegetic sounds are heard as of the birds at the cemetery, also the sounds of Eric as he enters his home.
Editing:
The beginning of the film at the cemetery includes quite slow cuts, this represents the calmness of the graveyard and lack of threat there is. However as the opening sequence continues, the editing becomes much more faster to build the tension and interest of the audience.
Graphics:
The graphics used in our film are super-imposed, with a quite un-nerving typeface and are red. The red is a symbol of blood and danger, however is also a symbol of love, in this case maybe of the love in which Eric is destroying. The roles of the people are spread out throughout the footage and often placed in dark areas of the screen, this offers great contrast so the vibrant red can be seen more clearly.
The title of our film ‘Dillusion’ is at the end our sequence, it is centered and grows bigger. The typeface is the same as used for the other credits and uses the colours red on black, this again uses the contrast to show the name clearly.
Sunday, 23 January 2011
Questionnaire
Age: Male: Female:
Answer the following questions on a scale of 1 to 5. 1 being the worst and 5 being the best.
1) To what extent does the opening resemble a thriller?
2) How entertaining is the thriller?
3) In your opinion, how good is the quality of filming?
4) How good is the quality of sound?
5) How good is the quality of storyline?
6) How good is the quality of different shots?
7) How good is the quality of lightning?
8) How good is the quality of codes and conventions? State which ones...
9) How good is the quality of setting?
10) How good is the quality of continuity?
11) How effective are the graphics used?
12) How effective is the mise-en-scene?
13) What age group do you think this footage is aimed at?
12-14 15 18
Answer the following questions in sentences.
14) What's the best feature of the footage?
15) What's the worst feature of the footage? How can it be improved?
Answer the following questions on a scale of 1 to 5. 1 being the worst and 5 being the best.
1) To what extent does the opening resemble a thriller?
2) How entertaining is the thriller?
3) In your opinion, how good is the quality of filming?
4) How good is the quality of sound?
5) How good is the quality of storyline?
6) How good is the quality of different shots?
7) How good is the quality of lightning?
8) How good is the quality of codes and conventions? State which ones...
9) How good is the quality of setting?
10) How good is the quality of continuity?
11) How effective are the graphics used?
12) How effective is the mise-en-scene?
13) What age group do you think this footage is aimed at?
12-14 15 18
Answer the following questions in sentences.
14) What's the best feature of the footage?
15) What's the worst feature of the footage? How can it be improved?
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