Commentary

Last week we recorded our commentry evaluation of our film "graveyard shift". Each of us contributed evenly to the evaluation of our finished product. We recorded it all on soundtrack and exported the final copy of our directors cut to quicktime.
We feel that we evaluated our product well and have commented on all the factors that we thought we could improve on.

Test Screening

This afternoon we showed our rough cut of our film to 5 members of our class, who form part of our target audience. We gave each of them a questionnaire with 7 questions, they were;

Did you think this film was fit for the genre (horror comedy)?

Did you enjoy the plot of the film?

Would you recommend this film to a friend?

Would you buy this film when it comes out on DVD?

Do you feel the film was easy to follow?

Did you find the characters realistic?

Does the opening make you want to watch the rest of the film?

Our feedback was all positive with each of the test screeners answering yes to our questions. This suggests that our film so far has the potential to fit the genre we have chosen and successfully appeal to our target audience.

feedback

Guys
Your work looks great at the moment - nice detail in blog
Any stuff you can think of re: genre is really going to help you with evaluation
Try this
http://www.horrorfilmhistory.com/
Look at history/ codes and conventions and how films are sold to audiences

Shot selection

We have chosen several shots based on our knowledge of zombie comedy movies. We have used a combination of close ups, and high and low angled shots.
Our opening shot is a extreme close up of our main characters eyes. This shot comes immediately after a black screen with heavy breathing. The immediate reaction, with some motion blur, tells the audience that this character is not in a normal state of mind. We also use a handheld camera close up of our character walking down the stairs to further emphasize this thought. Also their is a large use of close ups in horror/ zombie comedy. We have further mirrored this shot when introduced to the zombie face to face for the first time. This is similar to a shot in "Shaun of the Dead" when Shaun is first confronted face to face with a zombie.
We have also used several high and low angled shots, to add another element to our film that coheres with the zombie movie conventions.

Rough Cut Progress

We have just finished our rough cut of our final project. Overall we are very pleased with our first cut, however we have found that for our film to make complete sense that we must film 3 more shots to show the characters movement from the office to the toilets. We have also decided that on our opening shots we may apply some motion blur to emphasize the characters intoxication.

editing

Make a rough cut of your project to present to the class next Monday 2nd March

First edit schedule

We are aiming to complete our rough cut by 26th february. We will then be able to analyze our project at this point and decide where there is strengths and weaknesses.