Questionnaire

Questionnaire

1.   How does the Opening sequence make you feel?

2.   What do you think the story line is?

3.   What genres can you see? How has the media language established the genres?

4.   Who were the main characters? And how was their role portrayed?

5.   What media language creates tension?

6.   What shots were most effective in the sequence?

7. Does the pace of the movie feel right?

8. What would make the audience keep watching?

9. What atmosphere has been created by the music?

10. How do you think our sequence could be improved?

11. Does this sequence appeal to you?

Feedback we were Given

1.

• scared
• scared but quite calm
• makes me want to watch more
• freaked out and scared
• scared / frightened
• sorry for the girl

2.

• torture/kidnap
• girl being beat up/tortured
• about a kidnapper/stalker
• someone has being kidnapped and tortured
• something about a girl being tortured by villain
• stalker / kidnapping / murder

3.

• Horror / scary music and weapons potray this
• Horror / Thriller / slow clips. scary music
• Horror/ slow potion, blood / distorted shots
• Horror / thriller
• horror / the extreme close ups n the blood
• horror / blood knifes  / maybe drama based on real life event such as hostages

4.

• Victim shown scared and vulnerable
• the girl who had been kidnapped / pictures of her
• a girl tied up scared
• victim - girl under table & villian
• the girl and the kidnapper
• the attacker and the victim

5.

• the  music and mise en scene
• slow motion
• sound/music and editing
• the dark lighting and creepy music
• slow motion shots
• music and close ups (on eyes)

6.

• the slow motion and distorted close ups
• close ups on eyes, door, and hands
• the girls face showing worry and fear
• the extreme close ups
• shots of victm crying and her tied up
• the pictures of the girl

7.

• yes
• yes
• yes
• yes it makes it intense
• yes
• yes the slow feel creates tension

8.

• to see what happens the girl
• the enigma of what is going to happen to her
• to see whether she gets killed and why she has been kidnapped
• nothing, i wanted to see what happened
• to find out what was going to happen to the girl
• the tension

9.

• scary tense
• a scary tense one
• scary fear creepy
• calm and scary
• tense
• a tense and frightening atmosphere

10.

• not sure
• it couldnt
• carrying it on
• use some fast pace shots
• maybe darker lighting in places
• nothing

11.

• yes
• yes
• yes even though i dont like scary films
• yes
• yes
• it is interesting but horror films do not really appeal to me

 

Overall, we received positive feedback from our questionnaire. With having done this questionnaire, this showed us that the opening sequence we produced was up to our standards as well as the audiences. The genre of the sequence was shown clearly and the audience recognised the horror genre immediately which is great. The story line given in our clip was not confusing so this shows that our opening sequence was easily understood and it grasped our audiences attention.  

Prelim task video

Before filming our actual opening sequence for our movie each group had to do a preliminary task in order to help get a greater understanding of how the cameras and editing suites work. It helped the group in making sure that we knew how to use the cameras and how to efficiently edit shots that have been filmed.

Our sequence was based on a small deal between two people (Zulaikha and Ruby) and consisted of very little dialogue. The sequence was based on a person walking into a room, sitting down at a table (Zulaikha), and having a conversation with a character sitting across the table (Ruby). The main aim of the task was to enable us to use different angle shots and understand the rules of filming; such as the 180 degrees rule. The filming was done by Fatima.

During the filming shoot we did several takes of each scene from different angles in order to get a better sequence. We took a range of different shots from angles for each scene and this helped us when editing our sequence. When putting together the sequence it allowed us to have a much more naturally flowing and realistic sequence. It helped us to avoid any jumps in time and scene because we had enough shots from different angles and were able to split these at the correct moment. We were able to use the 180 degree rule correctly and filmed all the contents from the right side. The use of different sized shots and framing was also done very well.

The editing was a time-consuming task as we had to make sure that the sequence flows efficiently. Sometimes we did have to edit scenes several times before they fitted perfectly into the sequence. We also have not used any credits, apart from the last one, any transitions or sound effects. This was because the main aim for this task was to work on filming. However when we will be doing our opening sequence we will do this and this is something we would like to improve on.

In our story board for the preliminary task, we used the rule of thirds to set out each scene. However, when actually filming, the scenes were not always shot according to the rule of thirds. This is something that we hope to take into account when filming our opening sequence.

Overall, as a group we feel that we have made a great achievement and have done an excellent job with our filming and editing. The sequence had a natural flow and was very effective. The use of angles and the 180 degrees rule was done successfully. In the end we are all happy with what we have done and feel that we accomplished good results.