Ending Evaluation

 Our Film

    Our film is a modern horror about a crazy, sadistic and angered young man who preys on random people from the public. The film's cinematography is a cross between standard and comic similar to sin city. The film targets a young people audience specifically those who live in England.

 The Plot 

   The first part of our opening sequence starts with a tunnel called Banksy Tunnel; our bored Ebenezer is looking for something to do which is why he delights in seeing Jennifer approaching his path alone. He starts stroking his chin to show he's planning what he's going to do to her. Then we go into Ebenezer's mind as it goes into a flashback of his childhood. This is when we realise the horrible unprovoked abuse he received during primary school, he was hit in the eye by one of the student's tie consequently his eye goes red and only sees things as if they're are red almost as if his eye has a red filter in front of it. Then we go back to what is currently going on and the following actions/reactions of Jennifer's sighting. Ebenezer greets Jennifer and then tells Jennifer he wants to kill her due his polite and calm approach towards her, Jennifer obviously doesn't take it seriously. Then he tries to describe, explain and justify his plans towards her. Once again Jennifer sees a negative view of this and assumes its Ebenezer's way of flirting with her as a part of his technique to get her number so he starts to be firm and makes his intentions clear and warns to run. Then a chase happens as Jennifer runs, out of panic she runs into a dead end by accident and despite being out in the open she's still trapped. Ebenezer catches up with her and starts to slowly approach her, out of fear Jennifer tries to throw a spray paint can at Ebenezer but misses. This makes Ebenezer smile and starts to enjoy his journey to his cruel pleasure while he does this he starts to take off her tie to use a weapon and prepares for his cruel intentions... the title 'Tie' shows and the video ends.

Comparison to usual horror opening sequences

Our sequence uses the conventions of past horror films...

    Our film has strong contrasts of the cinematography of the very first Dracula released in 1931, this film only has a strong contrast because it’s in black and white but it still was a feature that is very effective in our film. It made the film look more dark and sinister because the dark places looked more mysterious and the lighter parts look more effective because of the difference to the dark parts.

    The background music is one song with no lyrics and mellow; this is very common in films of all genres it ensures that the audience’s attention is persuaded in by setting certain moods in certain scenes but still doesn't take away the attention from the actual film. Although it’s a single song the tempo and instrumentals still change to raise suspense in the film making the audience more intrigued to see what is approaching. This is something that is widely used in action films even to adulthood which is what I earlier studied. Having only one track in the background that evolves throughout the sequence allows the video to have an emotional progress as the sequence's mood change is smoother; the increase of instruments matches the increase of tension in the sequence with a calm approach.

    The ant. Is shown as a consistently crazy person this demoralises him as it is unusual to be so mad at such a young age. For example the joker in dark knight is only classed as a great villain because he is crazy but apart from his make-up he does seem to be human. He shows no remorse but has a strong motivation to be the most troublesome 'some people just like to watch the world burn' is what a character says as he describes the joker in the film.

Our sequence also develops the conventions of past horror films...

     Usually horror films make it obvious that something bad is about to happen because we see an obvious sign that the antagonist is preparing to do something such as sharpen his tool or making some progress towards a horrible action. However we were less blatant with our approach we agreed that it would show more skill if we hit the audience with a shock so they could understand how the victim feels. This shock was provided by the encounter of such insanity with no proper introduction to the audience or Jennifer.

  Horror films tend to be unrealistic this often makes the scenes look quite comical because everything gets exaggerated because of this a lot of horrors can be seen as black comedies. For example 'Chuckie' a lot of teenagers my age found it scary when they were younger but now look back it and laugh through it. So he had to make choice of either having the antagonist so crazy that he was funny or a perfect mix of surrealism and if he did look too crazy how can we make it look less funny and more serious. The strong contrast in our film helped establish a comic cinematography which then made our film look like in-between a comic and real-life. This meant that even if our antagonist looked comical the comical look of the film disguised the comical humour because the audience were excepting to see something that belonged in comic book/film theme. So our film was the best in-between horrific comics and horrific films.

 Horror films use a lot of light and darkness they are vital features of film of the genre, many film makers going out there to control lighting such as hiring more scene lights which can be expensive and hours of hours can be spent on editing to do this. However we solved this problem as the tunnel we chose was well lit with bar lights that were about apart that kept our antagonist and our victim well lit. Also when our victim ran into a dead end it was in the morning and there was enough sun light for everything that happened in the scene to be clear.

Our sequence challenges the genre conventions...

   Most horror films don't use calm music during action a lot tend to have harder, quicker, more drums to make things more dramatic. However we choose not to do this just to be different, after watching the film as the soundtrack played throughout not having any big changes in the track it gave the video rhythm. This creates a sense of fore
boding because the rhythm signifies cycles which make the evilness seem inevitable and the victim powerless to what is their fate; to be a tool to thrill the antagonist by him killing the victim.

  Horror films usually make their antagonist significantly older their victims as the media usually makes aging seem so negative and keeping young the most important thing in a person’s life especially with females. However we challenge this convention of general media as our antagonist is practically the same age as our victim and the being young in this sequence is seen as bad thing. It can be discussed that our victim's lack of experience makes her more of a victim because she is more naive than an older person may be if a random person appeared from a tunnel approaching with evil motives.

 Social Groups represented

    Our film mainly represents teenagers, as both characters in the film are two teenagers. First the antagonist is a black young male who should be travelling on his way to college but is roaming around in quite an empty tunnel. The victim is a white young female going to school in the morning on her blackberry in a nearly deserted tunnel in the early hours of the morning on her blackberry and walking instead of keeping her mind on what she might learn in school. The young black males in the UK are stereotyped as potentially evil, getting up to no good, self entitled and personal/ancestral grudge holding people.  Our ant. Doesn’t show any violent actions but shows violent intentions towards an innocent person, his motive for his evil intentions are the stored up hurt of his abuse-taking junior years. As a payback almost to the world to keep the cycle of unprovoked abuse to continue to circulate. He is self-entitled because he gets angry this takes liberties; Jennifer misunderstands his greeting and tension arises in his voice, he was forgetting that she didn't necessarily have to stop to talk to him.

 What kind of media institution would distribute our film?

     As we don't have a big budget for the production of our film we won't really want to spend a ridiculous amount of money on distributing it either so we would aim to get the support of an independent film company distributor such as Pathé Pictures International. As they are responsible for distributing adulthood which has similar aspects to our film as the target audience are British teenagers similar to our film. Also adulthood has a lot of explicit violence and some gore in it, so would our film as the film progresses so they would have experience with releasing films such as ours. They would know what to do and what not to do and they would advise us on keeping within the boundaries of our target audience area of interest. They have more than 20 films of experience of releasing film just the UK and recently they released a film called 'Hush' which was a horror/thriller film which is similar to our film Film4 reviewed it as 'A potent and menacing little psychological thriller' which means there's more of a chance of a secure fan base as Pathe would of already distributed to an audience for 'Hush' and the same audience would be anticipating for another psychological thriller.

 How did we address/attract our audience?

 Our target audience are British teenagers from ages 15+ upwards. We have attracted this audience obviously and directly as the antagonist is a teenager and the first victim he attacks is another fellow teenager our plans for the plan was to have the antagonist attack more people but predominately teenagers and the exceptions of older people if he's position or his unknown identity has been comprised. This diverse range of age in the victims will raise tension as they watch the difference between a relaxed killer and a desperate/helpless killer as he will not only be killing people for enjoyment but for protection, making his actions unpredictable this consequently raise suspense because they audience will not be able to guess the outcome of his killing spree.    

We wanted to attract both genders of teenagers however our antagonist is a male so there's a fair chance more males would want to watch the film on the other hand females tend to like 'bad boys' and find them more sexually appealing so the gender reach might balance, as different aspects will meet different entertainment criteria. More black teenagers are likely to be interested in our film as our antagonist is a young black male who has charming but extremely twisted attributes about him, unfortunately as there a number of gangs that are predominately black males, as thrillers are generally violent our film will attract more black males affected by gang violence as they may be able to relate to the antagonists' reasons and mentality in certain situations. There are no clear/direct/intentional indications of sexual orientation in our film as the antagonist could be questioned to be homosexual as he does turn down Jennifer's offer to give him her number but this could easily defended that Ebenezer was too focused/blood hungry to be swayed off from his plans of killing her.Additionally it is clear that Jennifer is not homosexual as she offers her number to Ebenezer despite categorising him as pathetic she still offers her number showing that she wants to meet him again as she is attracted to him, then again she does call him pathetic and some part of the audience could perceive this as her being tired of of males and maybe considering females. As Ebenezer is a black teenager the social class of our target audience is the working class because they may have/had similar experiences to Ebenezer of Jennifer especially due to our graffiti tunnel setting. Also Jennifer is wearing a tracksuit sweater, jeans and trainers and is engrossed in her blackberry  on her way to college which is quite a working class approach to going to college her appearance is quite rebellious to some aspect. However Ebenezer is wearing a shirt and tie while he's staying in a tunnel, this dress sense is out of place to not only his setting but to the fact he's just dwelling in this tunnel with no productive/constructive motive. A middle class audience might relate to Ebenezer as he has the typical middle class attributes such self-respect and focus while some may argue middle class people aren't like this but often when they are positively being represented this attributes always lie in middle class characters. This chance of a mixed class target audience may cause teenagers mentalities to change of one another as the audience get a chance to personally understand Ebenezer. We have aimed for the audience to hate and not condone Ebenezer's actions as he preys on the innocent but to be able understand his actions and be in for a good watch that its unpredictable and reveal some unclear mysteries at the end.

 We used Facebook and twitter to advertise our video that we released on YouTube. This was a a smart idea as it made our views grow rapidly. This was a delighting experience as Martin, Paige and I felt happy, proud of ourselves and all the effort was truly worth it. As we have currently have 369 views at the moment I have concluded that we got a good feedback from viewers directly on YouTube and viewers from Facebook. We received a lot of compliments and teenagers were shocked by Ebezener's dialogue which is satisfying as that's what we wanted.
                                                                                 

                                                                                 Here are our Facebook/Twitter responses: 

What have I learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product?             

     Looking at our response I find it peculiar how teenagers actually found Ebenezer's dialogue more funny than they found it twisted, this means that we would have to sharpen Ebenezer's character to be more twisted as the film progresses so it doesn't come across as a horror comedy. Our final response did surprise me as people were interested more than I imagined they would be, some wanted it to made into a short/one hour and half film and some wanted it to be an ongoing monthly series that response pleased me the most. This shows people actually could be frequently interested in our film as the idea was different and appealing to the audience. 
What have i learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product? 
 I haven't worked with Macintosh systems for a quite a while before this project it was good to refresh my memory so navigating around the desktop wasn't a problem to me. The thing that I did learn was using Final cut pro, I haven't used the program before and I was happy to find it wasn't too hard to use and interestingly still had more features to learn  such as different plug-ins enabling different features that unfortunately we didn't get the chance to use due to time. Editing was extremely time consuming however I got lost in the enjoyable experience so much that I didn't feel the hours passing by until I was about to leave and I looked at the clock also Martin, Paige and I were perfectionists when editing that's probably why it was so time consuming. At times we had to ask third parties to give feedback/ constrictive criticism as we often would miss mistakes and errors because we were working on it for so long. Filming itself wasn't hard as we were using camcorders but I did learn things about capturing film for example the 180 rule which was vital for the over shoulder shots used in the dialogue scene of our film. I also leant about using surroundings to get more effective angle on shots. I learnt this because there were mistakes when I was filming the flashback scene at the secondary school as there were windows in the shot that were reflecting me holding the camcorder, so I had to use different angles and zooming to my advantage. Also I learnt how final cut pro can allow you to use sounds however you choose with almost limitless abilities. 


Looking back…..

     When looking back at my preliminary task that was with Sonia, things have changed as the project got more complex. Firstly time spent considering that the preliminary task happened in two days of lessons so under 10hours including filming, preparing and editing whereas over 50hours were spent of lesson time on Tie not including the extra after school hours that were spent on the video. So inevitably time managing had to become one of my attributes to ensure that all the time spent on Tie were evident in the quality in the film. The next thing was managing a team; when we was doing our preliminary task we had a few theory lessons before so everyone was happy to do the preliminary as it was more exciting than theory lessons now when you’re working with a team of people with mixed interests and focuses things can get a bit difficult. No names will be mentioned but we had a few lazy ‘slugs’ in our group so as the accidental leader of the group I had to make sure the majority of people were happy as a businessman would tell you happy workers are good workers although I weren't an employer or a businessman I thought the fundamentals still related to a team. So I had to make sure that I didn't get angry with anybody or get rude with anyone, I also had to make sure that everyone played their part and if someone consistently didn't play their part, their part could be handled by someone else so the project wouldn't suffer. Some people were held up in unavoidable situations so filming did get slowed down but then I used any spare time to either involve more ideas in the project or work on my blog. Working with people with different interests and skills was effective to use to achieve a good film for example Paige tended to explore a lot so she knew good settings to set our scenes, Martin loved producing beats/designing so he was making our titles and soundtracks as he was sitting right next to me, so every point of media could sync well together such as the soundtrack of the whole opening. This also helped regarding meeting deadlines as it was easier to reach deadlines through the filming problems because pieces were already finished to fitted together to make the final product instead of dealing with mixed media chronologically. Disregarding the shortcomings in the project I was extremely happy with my group as the majority of us got close with each other and pushed each other to achieve the greater goal. Working with my new team was great and hope I can work with the same people next year especially because I made great friends I was happy to discover I share similar directions as people in my team/media class. 

Audio Soundtrack

When we started editing we were pondering on what music should be used for some non-digetic sound and we picked Chase and Status featuring Plan B - End Credits. I had it in perfect sync with video and a slow down colour change to emphasis on the mood change that went perfect along with the music. By the way which was an accidental brilliant accident, it really made the video a masterpiece (well in other fellow media unit members' view). The video seemed to grow into the music, then we were told we would get marked down if we didn't have a license for our background music and first we disregarded this fact until we found out it took a lot of marks off so i closed my eyes(to bring myself to do it ).... and deleted the soundtrack. So Martin had to use audio skills to help us make a new soundtrack he used;

Sony Acid
He used this to sync the timing of teh soundtrack with the shots.

Fruity Loops 
Used to make the soundtrack.














After hard work we got it in good sync, to be honest we preffered using our own soundtrack in the end. As there couldn't be any other better sound for our film than the one that was actually made it for it right? :) 

Script-Writing

  Paige,Martin,Nagiba and I were sitting in class our teacher told us to think of a plot fro our 2minute opening for our film. So first we had to decide what genre we wanted to do for our film, i wanted to originally do a  school-setted drama but we had to do the majority's choice and everyone else wanted a horror film. The next lesson Martin was the only person prepared with an idea so we had to submit to his plot; about an evil revengeful character who is disfigured who kills innocent people to release the stored hurt from early abuse as a child.

  So Martin started script-writing using Celtx on the class mac while we sat behind him and were avenues of second opinions and ideas. So we came with a script the sequence of the opening was a followed;

1. Victim is walking on a low-polluted road on their way to work.
2. Antagonist notices from afar starts to stalk and ready to strike.
3. Antagonist walks up to victim and starts to conversate with her and telling her she's in danger.
4. Victim realises they're in trouble and tries to fend off antagonist.
5. He/ She starts running and then after a while throws their bag at antagonist.
6. Antagonist catches bag ad throws it back.
7. Victim is out of breath and gets caught.

Next we had to make a storyboard so we could start to brainstorm/consider what shots should be taken to be representing in scenes for feelings and moods.

Here is the script  made in using Celtx, we wanted the antagonist to sound as crazy as possible by making him calmly saying insane things like he sees no wrong in what he says.
My idea was to have the victim seem very calm too until she realised she was in complete danger.

 The script was quite small but had to be formatted so much terms and protocols for a 2minute film?! Well it has to be done i guess 

 Thank You martin! This is the character design for our antagonist drawn by Martin inspired by chilling and unsettling images/characters. The character's costume consits of a red tie, a white shirt, black trousers,shoes and trench-coat.

Here is the storyboard that we created also using celtx, we used simple images to resprent scenes. We used mainly used anything around us for the lesson as they didn't have to be geographaically correct as they were only supposed to be revelamnt towards an actual action in the film.

Script-Writing using Celtx

  We were shown a script of the opening sequence of Thelma and Louise and our teacher showed us a programme called Celtx that was used to type scripts, that automatically puts text in scripts format as it's what the professional script writers use.

MoodBoard

I was exploring the conventions of horror and decided to use some horror films as example and research intro the by look at directors , actors and techniques used in the film.

Vampires - A common misunderstood antagonist in horror films which recently have been made more  'human' by showing them to be inferior or the main character of a film.

Sexy Twisted Characters - Characters that are horrific and twisted that do horrid things but because they have a sexual appeal that are more appealing an accepted by an audience.

Chilling Images - Images that don't need to be moving or need context but are unsettling to the audience normally used to advertise a film on a billboard.

Inhumane Characters - Characters that are horrific because they are inspired by real objects whose dark features are exaggerated to make look more scary such as Freddy Kreuger or the girl in the video from the ring.

a Nightmare on Elm Street - One of the most infamous horror films in the industry people have heard of it whether or not they are horror fan.

Tragic - Most horror films are tragic as the main characters normally die.

15 and 18 certificates- For obvious reasons horror films are highly certificated because of their content.

Frightening - Not so scary, frightening are the main objects of film posters or the beginning few minutes of a horror film.

Hand-held Camcorder- The hand-held camcorder type of view is used to make horror films look more realistic, it makes the film seem they were real events  video by real people and not video engineered.

CCTV - The CCTV effect is normally use to make horror films look more realistic too as it makes the film seem as if its of real events because CCTV is used to monitor buildings so CCTV places/makes them at home horror characters at the scene automatically.

Deserted places - Places with a small population and in the middle of nowhere are the best places to kill a victim/group of victims and get away with it.

Michael Bay - A founder of a modern horror company (Platinum Dunes) that are responsible for remaking famous old horror films such as 'a nightmare one elm street'.  

Audience Research

We made a survey to get an idea of what the potential audience would want to see in their next film. Here it is: 

Survey

http://www.scribd.com/full/47464168?access_key=key-lr60nm8pac429l1l6xd

Paige did the honours of spreading the survey and getting 'form-fillers by advertsing it on facebook and literally asking friends/people to spend a few minuites filling the survey. Thank you :) 

We looked at the survey results and decided what should be taken note of and what should should be used to decide the features of our film. Most of the public said they would preferred  a horror film in an urban type of setting so we  thought of our target audience and believed that would be a powerful/persuasive location so we decided to use these results and aim to keep the film in an estate/alley/skate park location. 
In the responses most said don't like their horror films to be too gory we liked this result as Paige agreed with this result it would save us effort and time, also it allows us to be more creative when representing victims of our antagonist, Martin liked this as it would keep the plot and characters mysterious as he originally wanted. About 30% of the survey people didn't want the beginning of the ideal horror film to be too scary so we decided that 'Tie' wouldn't do anything to awfully and we agreed the audience will not know if the victim survived from his attack. 

Female Antagonist

The voting public also mentioned they preferred a female antagonist than a male one though we liked the ideas we had already thought of providing we had a male antagonist so we were not going to prioritise that result in our plans for sequence and change our plans. Most people said they didn't like to know who the killer was but a close vote said the audience wouldn't mind so we decided tat the audience would see the antagonist but never clearly showing his identity then when he is committing the crime his identity is hidden by his hood. The questions regarding the ending and the religious aspects as they didn't have to be noted of neither as they didn't have to a direct relevance to our film but it was good to ask just in case. 

Inspirations and similarities our antagonist with other antagonist/twisted protagonists of other films

The Joker from Batman
The joker is a twisted character who laughs and make amusement of causing mayhem that causes lives of the public. 'Throughout his comic book appearances, the Joker is portrayed as a master criminal whose characterization has varied. The original and currently dominant image is of a highly intelligent psychopath with a warped, sadistic sense of humor...' extracted from the wikipedia page of  the term 'Joker (comics)'.
Our antagonist does have an 'excuse' for his harsh/heartless actions but he still is similar to the joker as he's behavior shows he  has a sadistic humor because he likes to talk with his victims and inform them what he's about to do them. This not only is twisted but an extreme example of evil in a human being as his victims have to make the decision whether or not to believe him. When the decision is made both effects are too harsh on the victim as they can  either believe him and  try to defend themselves like our victim (Tasha) does and fail to save their lives and be oppressed by inferiority as he pleasures in slaughtering them. Or they choose not to believe him and are choked by shock,stupidity and vulnerability all at once. This makes the victim not only have a horrible experience physically but mentally too,making our antagonist a feared character by the audience as he creates the image of an unsettling nice approaching teenager.

Heath ledger, acting as the batman showed the joker to be a fear superior character who is the most threatening person in Gotham city however has no known identity, as well as he shows no sign of fear ironically. Where as he is the main enemy of the Batman (the symbol of fearful good) in Gotham, its incredible that he doesn't care about anything not even poverty as he burns piles of million of dollars and makes him a horrific character as he is a symbol that is more than only a main nemesis of Batman but a symbol of tragedy.

    Our antagonist chases his victim down a public tunnel doing the early workplaces approaching hours of the morning, the fact that the audience can see her clearly running from danger in a well lit tunnel represents how easily she should be seen by passing commuters. Knowing this our antagonist still shows no sign of respect of the passing commuters and the chance of one of them attempting to save his new found victim but continues to be engrossed in the demented joy of the destruction of his victim. Both our antagonist and Heath's joker show no sign of human values of qualities as they both make insanity and overwhelming inhumanity their character and make it 'fashionable' as if they do not seem to contain any morals. However both characters get offered desirable things that so people many class as a treasure refuse it so it could be concluded that they both have standards and self-satisfaction and aren't enslaved by the evil they contain.

Hit-man and the Spirit
Hitman and the spirit have distinctive similarities in their appearances the spirit has a hat,a mask and hair but that is the only difference between them. Despite their race they look similar because they both wear black coats, black trousers, shirts and red ties. The original costume design for our antagonist consists of the same clothes the only difference between our antagonist and the film characters are the coats design as Martin intended to have the coat to be torn at the bottom that seemed to be the scratches of a wild animal. However as discussed before there was changes made because the common boundaries needed to be broken.

Freddy Krueger
Freddy Krueger is a vengeful character and takes out his bad appearances of a bad childhood and uses it as an excuse to cause harm and horror on the innocent. He is largely exaggerated as his intemperance is disfigured form that of a normal human being and will be a referenced horror character for years to come.


Our antagonist is a vengeful character who acts by the same principle he reminisces on his harsh experiences as a child and allows his experiences to be the fuel for his 'hobbies'.  

Extremily Time-Consuming Editing!!!!

Started Editing:   17/1/11

Finished Editing: 10/3/11
 Background of Macintosh and I

 We have been editing for about 4 weeks going on five for our video, at first the Macintosh interface was a bit hard to get used to, additionally a new program such as final cut pro.
 I have used Macintosh systems before and do have a 2-3 years experience of using them in a previous school, however this was 2 years ago and i haven't really used them since, so getting used to them again didn't take too long but Final Cut Pro was briefly introduced to me by a friend a while back but i didn't really research into more unaware that i will be using for a media a level so it was as if it was completely new to me. 

Cutting down 1.5-2hours of Film to 2mins.....AHHH!!!!!! 
 So when we first started editing, we looked what we captured and how certain parts were going to be shown and where they were going to be placed. It was then we discovered that we have at least 1.5 hours of film altogether but I was pleased with this, as i came to the conclusion we had a lot of film to choose from and editing would take a long time but a lot of effort will pay off. As i was camera-man myself and i filmed so of the video personally, I was shocked by the errors that were made but wasn't too concerned because i  had less editing to do, as we had many bunches of film. However I was disappointed by some errors because some parts of film i really liked shooting and was looking forward to using/including them for the final piece but as they had errors i couldn't use them. For example when I took film equipment to my main building for learning a levels which was a secondary school. It was here I shot the flashback scene. With euthanized year sevens whose acting skills weren't Oscar-winning performances but were good regarding that they were  no more than under 12 such short notice. I filmed different parts of the scene in so many angles and the some of best angles i had to give up unfortunately because i could be seen in a reflection of a nearby window (shown in the shot). If it was a slight reflection i may have been able to work around it but as it was blatant that i was filming in the shot i had to dispose of them. If we had discovered that I did this as soon as we started filming I could asked the young actors to perform once again to be observed by the eye of the camera, but I discovered this a week after filming and i had required a lot of the young students time already so I had to deal with what I had, favorably I didn't have any parts missing from the actual storyline because other angles of unusable shots were available to make use of.

  Now when I had selected all film that i thought was necessary I had 4minutes of film of a rough draft, then i was reminded that the examiner set aim was only two minutes so I had to get rid of two minutes of film without losing what makes our opening sequence unique. I also had to regard that the plot had to be preserved so the 2minutes version had to be sharper, be better than the rough copy and still make the plot clear to the audience at first watch.  I see this is from a professional perspective, so if we fail to capture the audiences attention and inform them with a basic background of the main character or what the film is about/to expect. No matter what grade we receive for our project we have failed as film-makers, this realisation placed pressure on me to make sure that our film met professional standards and didn't use our 'limited' media equipment as an excuse for looking primitive. After a week of editing I had the inhabited the success of cutting down the film to 2minutes but.......IT STILL LOOKED PRIMITIVE, so I looked at what effect we originally wanted to go for and what films and scenes were our main inspirations. Then I started to look the effects of stronger contrasts and enhancing highlights that just make the film look more cinematic and interesting. I also kept in mind that while I was adding effects I wasn't overdoing the editing and letting it mix well with film and other effects featured in the film and not just showing off my ability on final cut pro. I was pleased with the final result of adding these effects to the film as the changes made the film look more professional and not like a camcorder production.

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