Evaluation

We have created a making of based documentry to evaluate our film:

Audiance feedback

Here is some of the feedback we recieved from our audience:

No Country For Old Men (Coen Brothers, 2007)

The beginning of this film we see a black screen with the productions titles in white, then the title of the film is seen. There is no music whilst the titles are on screen which gives the film a sense of isolation. When the titles disappear we hear Tommy Lee Jones' voice over a black background which then changes to a desert landscape in the sunrise. The character is talking about his life in the area and he mentions he is the sheriff. This immediately tells the audience that Tommy Lee Jones will be an important character because of his authority and that he is the first character to be introduced. Whilst he speaks there are several shots in the background which are of different places in the area, which gives us a sense of the environment. Also, everytime there is a straight cut to a different shot the scene gets lighter as if the character is talking towards the present day. Each shot is of a very lonely area where there is nobody to be seen and in every shot you can see the wind moving across the fields as if something is disturbing the area. But when we see the first panning shot we notice that there is no wind and we meet two other characters, one a policeman and the other dressed in black with a oxygen tank. As the audience we sense that something is not quite right because the man is dressed in black which connotes mystery and danger. Also Tommy Lee Jones is talking about murders that happened in the area which suggests the man dressed in black may be a murderer. Also when he gets into the police car the lightening is very dark where he is sitting which emphasises the man's mysteriousness. At the end of that scene we hear Tommy Lee Jones saying 'I'm a part of this world.' Which again suggests Tommy Lee Jones is a main character in the film and he gets caught up in the plot.

The Coen Brothers

These are the two brothers which consists of Joel Coen and Ethan Coen. The directors write, produce and direct their films. They are known for their thriller films such as; Miller's Crossing, Blood Simple, The Man Who Wasn't There, No Country for Old Men and Burn After Reading. There most known for the film No Country for Old Men which won 3 British Academy of Film Awards, 2 Golden Globes and four Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director (Joel and Ethan Coen), Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor Javier Bardem. Visually, the Coens favour moving camera shots, especially tracking shots and crane shots. Occasionally in their tracking shots they "rush" the camera forward. The Coen brothers dubbed the rush forward the "Raimi cam" in tribute to their longtime friend and director Sam Raimi. The Coen brothers storyboard their films completely before filming. The Coen brothers use camera angles that sometimes hide rather than reveal information. Examples include in Fargo when Jean Lundegaard hides in the shower.

film upload

Here is the first upload of tour film after editing:

Titles

We have also designed the production titles for our film. We that our production company name would be "Abraham producitons" and that our Studio name would be "Jailbreaker Studios". We used "Live type" which is another peice of software for the Mac.
For the Abraham Productions title we wanted somthing which would look fairly 19th century american and also include a Lincoln reference. We found a font on Livetype called Mesquite std that looked exactly like the image we intended. We also decided that we could have a tophat ontop of the A in Abraham, we found a good picture on google images which we then editied in Abdobe photoshop, we inverted the colours so that instead of being black on a white background it was white on a black background, this made it visible on the black background which we would use for our titles.


Original image


edited image

Sountrack

We have now filmed our production, although before we began editing we did some work on the soundtrack which is one of the most important elements used to set the atmosphere in most films. To create are sountrack we are using garage band on the Mac. Firstly we had a browse through many of the avaidable sounds at our disposal. We decided since we wanted the atmosphere to be tense and fairly mysterious we would use quite a few dark sounds with orchestral elements. -a selection of the different sounds we thought would sound good in our thriller We also played around with the functions on garage band to understand how to make a better and more realistic soundtrack. -Using the "musical typing" function to create the different elements of the soundtrack. Overall garage band is a usefull and easy to learn how to use piece of software, It was good for what we had. although if i did have access to a large range of real instruments that create a dark atmosphere such as an orchestra i would definatly use them instead.