Abduction

Evaluation 7

Evaluation 6 - Conclusion

The above mind map shows the key progressions that I have made during this project, it shows a brief outline of the main things that I feel I have improved my knowledge and understanding on. The texts highlighted in green show the things that I feel I have progressed most in, and now feel comfortable that I can use to a high level on my own without help, the text highlighted in red are the things that I think I can further improve on in order to improve and develop the quality of my work. 

The presentation below shows the full range of equipment and technologies that I used throughout the project, highlighting the strengths and weaknesses that I was challenged with, also it shows the overall progressions I have made in full detail.

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First cut - Abduction

Editing updates

We have decided to add these two shots at the end of our product in order to create an extra sense of danger and to show the audience that there is more to come and that maybe this antagonist will appear again throughout the rest of the thriller. this will hopefully leave the audience wondering who this person is and why they are terrorising the main character in the video. 

Editing updates

In this particular shot of the hammer at the top of the stairs, we decided to place a 'swoosh' sound effect over the top of the footages this signified to the audience that something isn't right, we intend to repeatedly use this effect every time there is an element of danger in order to support this meaning which we want the audience to understand. We also continued to use the dark effect/filter over the top of the footage in oder to create the negative tone and mood. 

Shooting schedule

The above screenshot shows my shooting schedule for my product. The days that are shaded in red indicate the days that I am in work and the days that are shaded green show the days that I am planning on filming my product. However this schedule may change due to wether restrictions or unforeseen circumstances which make effect my availability.

Risk assessment

Detailed planning

Final shooting script

First draft shooting script

Drawn storyboard

Pitch Feedback Summary

After presenting the pitch to the class, we were given feedback. We presented two different ideas, idea 1 and idea 2. We received a lot more feedback for the first idea however it wasn't constructive feedback but more questions about a number aspects of the idea. It seemed that the audience were unclear on certain aspects, they felt that we didn't fully explain how we would aim to reveal very little in the opening sequence. Also they felt that the target audience wasn't made fully clear, for example, we used words such as 'younger' and 'older' and this didn't clarify what age range we would aim our product at because people associate different ages with the terms younger and older. It also seemed that we were unclear on how the characters will be represented. 

For idea 2, there was much less feedback and this showed us that the audience understood the whole idea a lot more than the first. There were only two questions asked, the first asked 'what perspective would you use in the opening sequence?'. We did not clearly include this in our pitch but we have now decided to use a first person perspective as we feel this would help to create tension, however we will also shoot from the perspective of the antagonist.

The second question was 'how do you introduce the narrative?'. This applied to both ideas and the audience felt that the antagonist and protagonist were not explained in enough detail. Another point that the audience picked up on was how we aimed to represent both genders, or if it will be just males that we are aiming to represent.

The audience felt that when explaining the sub genres and hybrid genres that we were planning to use, we could have used existing examples to help them understand understand more clearly. Also they felt that we needed to consider the locations we were going use and realise that there may be difficulties when filming in certain places, for example dark lighting.

Pitch Presentation