New Instituion Logo-FIXATION

 

 

After reviewing the groups different logos, we decided that we none of the titles fitted our film genre so we decided to make another one called Scorpion Productions, we felt that this fitted more than 'Angel Productions', 'Dolphin Productions', 'JB Productions' and 'global'.

First Draft And Feedback-FIXATION

Below is our first draft, please note the ending has been cut off.



After watching the first draft of our opening feedback we had many mixed reviews, all of which are documented below.


Below are some key words that people used when asked the question 'Think about the sound and the images are they approprate?Do they go together?'

The group was also asked 'Camera-Are the shots appropriate and relevent? Is there controlled use of the camera,attention to framing, variety of shot distance and angle? Close attention use of mise en scene? Below are some comment we recieved:

-"Good angle of camera shots however could have more variety"

-"Good variety of shots, the long distance shot was done really well"

-Good camera shots, you used a wide variety"

-"The pan shots were a bit shakey and unstable"

-"There was not a large variety of shots"

-"I like the shots walking into the house"

-"Good camera angles, great mise en scene"

-"The foot shot of the group feet before the woman appers is confusing"

- "Party shot is confusing, you could have shown the 'birthday party' on the board to make it more obvious"

- "The shots are good but you could have made it clearer that there was a party by filming the '17th birthday' part of the map"

Opening TimeLine- FIXATION

Titles:

56 – 1.00 Min – Natasha Bishop

1.01-1.04 Min – James Braddy

1.08-1.12 Min – A Film By

1.14-1.16 Min – Rebecca Stanway

1.19-1.21 Min – Written By

1.26-1.29 Min - Charlotte Gregory

1.33-1.36 Min -Lara Eardley

1.45-1.48 Min – Fixation

Sound:

0-1.13 –Dark Scary Supence music Instrumental

1.00-1.00 Min – Radio static

1.04-1.05 Min – Radio static

1.18-1.19 Min – Radio static

1.35-1.36 Min – Radio static

1.42-1.44 Min – Radio static

1.45-1.48 Min – Radio static

Footage:

0-24 Seconds - Fox Searchlight Pictures

24-28 Seconds – Scorpion Productions

28-43 Seconds – Map Stroke

43-52 Seconds- String Stick

53-1.42 – titles Panning with ghosting

1.00 – 1.00 Min – House Approach Snapshot

1.04-1.05 Min – 2^ndhouse approach snapshot

1.18-1.19 Min – 3^rd house Approach

1.35-1.36 Min – 4^th House Approach Shot

1.42-1.44 Min – 5^th house approach shot

1.47-1.56 Min – Party Scene strobe lighting with tweet overlay

1.56-1.59 Min - Knock on the door

Filming-FIXATION

Below are a series of images taken from our first day of shooting- we decided to take images to show how the grouped worked together.Taking different turns using the camara- directing the shots ect.


Lara doing a run of the drive- this helped us to known where the camara should focus.

Myslef on the camara.

Myself and Charlotte directing Lara.

Myself again directing Lara and filiming.

James and Charlotte directing Lara..

James on the camara filming 'the door knock'

Fun on Set!

Myself and Charlotte directing.

Group photo with our extra Louis.

Lara and Charlotte talking about the set.

Map Pictures-FIXATION

Below are various photos which we will be using on our map,after doing a lot of research, I found that many stalker films include local facilities and pictures of the victim, I therefor have incorporated them into our map. The map itself will look like organised chaos, we want it to look like the stalker cares for the individual but not for her personal space. I have also taken pictures from James' social network pages (with his permission) to show that the stalker not only watches him in public but on the internet.

Music Insparation-FIAXTION

While researching the music, I thought it may be possible to turn a love song into an eerie song, so I looked up artists of the 50's Bobby Darin and his song' Dream Lover came up multiple times. Due to the age it does not come under any copyright rules so we are able to use this. The song is quite fast so I used audacity to slow it down however this made the music sound dreary. However I believe this could work.


After researching some more I found that there were a lot of copyright-free Media Music that other students have produced as seen below:


After listening and putting it to some of our footage we felt that it may be too 'in your face thriller'. We want the audience to work out what is happening to to guess from the music, by having a less obvious background sound the audience will have to focus even more on the film to understand what is going on. Therefor after even more research I found the music below, I think this may work even better because although it sounds eery it is not so 'in your face'.


During our opening their is also a music and map scene, the group researched and found the below ideas.

The Lennon Sisters was one of the choices for the map scene, the words stand out more than Dream Lover, however like Dream Lover we concerned that slowing down the music would hinder
the effect. Another song the group found was 'Feel So Close' although it was originally by a signed artist we have found one that has been done by an unsigned DJ.
We also found 'Thinking about You' Which is also done by an unsigned DJ,both of which are below:
 

Third Poster Idea-FIXATION

After the feedback we were told  that the first poster's picture was to comical or not serious enough for the film, therefor we changed it by taking the image from poster 3 and moved it onto poster 1 as much of a replica as we could manage, we were also told that the poster was very bland because it had no colour, so as a result we added the colour red. However we are still undecided on whether our final poster will have colour. 
After we produced the above poster we showed another one of our media teachers,she also agreed with us the colour, she believed, as did we, that the colour was very stereotypical and that we should stick to the black and white posters. 
Overall she said that the genre was easy to get across and that the fonts were great and easy to read, the posters were better without colour overall.