Our Evaluation

Evaluation from our class

When our opening sequence was shown to the class, they had to write an evaluation for all the opening sequences. This was marked on our, Camera work, selecting mise-en-scene, editing, post production, titles, use of diegetic and non-diegetic sound and producing a sequence that is readable. Also we had a few extra questions to talk about for example, how sucessful is the opening sequence in engaging the audience, is the genre reconisable, outline one outstanding feature and outline one feature to improve. The highest mark we could get is a 4 and the lowest is a 1. When ours was shown we expected a reaction to the meat eating thing and we did around half the class looked away or said 'ewwww'. The majority of the class gave us 4's for our work and the lowest we got was a 3. So we were happy with our results. Everyone said it was engaging but some found the over voice confusing. Everyone recognsized the genre as a horror/thriller. Everyone said the one feature that stood out was the human body (meat) being eaten because it was gore and repulsive. We took out the fake eye close up because many people said it wasn't good. We also changed the titles so they matched the production name 'Departed Rose' and our film name 'Daughter of sin'. We used live type to get this effect of the words being written in a italic handwriting font.

Daughter of Sin

Daughter of Sin finished shooting

Once we finished shooting we had a look over what we had done and because Louise played the part of the girl on the phone and the killer you can tell the killer is a girl. So we changed the narrative to the girl on the phone is talking to her friend who is the killer about her missing boyfriend. As the conversation is taking place the killer in moving some meat about and when the message is played as an over voice it creates a narrative of the killer has killed the friend's boyfriend. one way we engaged the audience was with the gore clip at the end, the killer eats some of the meat (the boyfriend), we wanted to make the audience go (ewwww) and this is hopefully what we would achieve. We wanted to get the same reaction from our film that Saw 2 got when we showed it as our research, which was everyone covering there eyes and looking away.

Storyboard for our new film

Our new Main task

We kept to the name Daughter of Sin, so we had some idea on what to do. Our narrative we tried to keep similar in some ways (horror/thriller film).

Narrative: The plot of the story is a girl is on the phone to (flirting) to the killer of the film. He is in a secret place and has torture devices all over the place. That was our only idea for the narrative.

Camera Work: We will have tracking shots of the killer's secret hide out, close up of the torture devices also close ups of the killer's hands (blood covered), Close up of the girl on the phone.

Mise-en-scene: We kept in the same place the garage and kept to the spooky and creepy atmosphere. This would help to engage the audience.

Sound: We weren't sure whether to have music in the back ground or just diegetic sound, we had an idea to have the phone call as a voice over and have all the shots of the killer and the secret place.

Problems with the main task

After are results day we planned to re-shot most of our production, due to shaky camera work and not walking out of shot so we couldn't edit. Also one of our actress' had her hair cut so we had to redo all of her shots but her mum wouldn't let her out do re shot so we either had to change the idea, find someone else or do it with only one actress. We decided to ask our teacher for advise, he said it would be best to start another one but we only had a week to shot, edit and show it to the class. Our new idea was still in the same mise-en-scene but different narrative and characters. This time it involved only one person in shot, someone over the phone and the narrative involves another person that is in the plot.