Fixation Feedback

After showing three people our opening sequence we gave them a survey with a set of questions based around our film to get an idea of how they felt about it and whether it was suitable for our target audience. Click the images to enlarge them!

As you can see this person enjoyed our opening sequence, and gave the answers that we wanted.

The next person we asked also gave the answers that we was looking for. They also said that they would like to go and see the film and said that if they was filming it themselves they would not change anything!

This person gave us a score of 50/60 which is excellent. They also said that they would not change anything about our opening sequence and says that our opening sequence has a good enigma code which is what we really tried to focus on when creating our opening sequence.





Here is a clip of people talking about there thoughts on our film opening. They talk about the editing, how it differs from our first draft and what mark they would give our opening.

Opening Timeline- Fixation

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

Feedback on our first draft.

This is our first draft of our opening sequence and the feedback, from our class mates.

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

People were also asked about the camera, attention to framing, variety of shot distance and angle? Close attention use ofmise en scene? Below are some comments we received on this question:

-"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 shaky 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 appears 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"

Now we have the feedback we are planning on re-editing our opening sequence to make it more suitable to the target market and as good as it can be.

Our Poster Feedback: Fixation

We asked people of all ages and gender a set of questions about our posters and there thoughts on them.
1) What is the genre of the film?
2) Who is the victim out of the two characters on the poster?
3) Can you tell what the film is about?
4) Is there anything that we can improve.

From this, everyone managed to guess that it was a Thriller based film, and that the boy on the poster was the victim which is what we wanted to show. The feedback that we also got was that there maybe needs to be some colour added to the poster to make it stand out more.

Posters 2nd Draft

This is the second draft of our posters after
researching what Thriller genre posters generally look like, and taking this into account more.

Music for Fixation.

Within our film we have a party scene. Without breaking copyright we need a song that is recent but is remixed by an unsigned DJ to set the house party scene. It was either this or finding a song from the 50's but this would not set the scene of a teenage house party or the modern vibe that our film has. By doing this we searched on YouTube for unsigned DJ's and people that had remixed songs, that we could use for our party scene.
This is what we found:
The two songs are Calvin Harris remix's that have a house party vibe. They have both been published by unsigned DJ's so do not break any copyright rules.                                                                                                                                                    

Risk Assesment

This is the risk assesment for shooting our film. This outlines any dangers that could happen to us during filming and important information that we should know if anything does happen, and how we will prevent these things from happening.

Poster Research

For our film we decided that we would make a poster as a form of advertising the film. To find out what would be best for a poster we did market research looking at other film posters. From this we found several things that helped us to create our poster.

Different styles of fonts for the Titles of our film: Fixation.

To pick the perfect title for our film I looked up different styles of fonts to try and find the perfect one. I also done market research to find out what font other Thriller genre films use for their titles.

Poster First Draft

This is our first draft of the film posters that we would use to advertise our film.

Synopsis Planning

Synopsis Planning

We will open with a shot of a ‘Stalker Wall’ covered in pictures stuck around a map, there will be red string stuck into the board with pins. We aim to have a shot of the stalker putting a pin into the board which we will film this close up to the wall on the angle so we see the pin get pushed into the board. We will then see the Stalkiee send a tweet about his party, then a sudden cut to the stalker’s laptop where the tweet comes up and she grabs her car keys. We are then back at the boy’s house, he’s putting on his birthday badge and we are looking through the window at the party in action he’s drinking; this shot is from the eyes of the stalker. We are then outside and people are leaving, we watch feet move past the camera as the stalkers feet come out of the shadows and head towards the house. The door opens, we then cut outside where we see the badge drop on the ground, the sound of car doors slamming and we watch the car drive away. Fade to black. We are now in an off-licence, our stalkiee is buying alcohol when he gets a text through on his phone, its about his party tonight.

The rest of the film will be about how the stalker is following him online and in person, how she plans her every move and is waiting for her moment to strike. Later on in the film we see the kidnapping in more detail and where he ends up. At the end of the film we would want the audience to feel sorry for the stalker as her obsession over our stalkiee is only through the tragic loss of her own son and her husband divorcing her. The audience will only find this out about ¾‘s of the way through the film.

Visual Image of how we want the map to look

In our opening sequence we are having a stalker map. This will be a way of introducing the storyline and Eileens character and we will incorporate the titles within this.

How our research fits into our film opening

Shooting Schedule

This is our shooting schedule, this tells us when we are shooting and where we are shooting, it also tells us what type of shot it is and what the shot is involving. This is too insure that the whole group knows what is going on at all times.

Scene number.	Internal/External.	Location.	Shot description.	Characters.	Props/equipment.
1	Internal	Eileen’s Room	Panning shot of map.	N/A	Tripod, Map, string, pins &pictures.
1	Internal	Eileen’s Room	Close up shot map, follow Eileen’s hand.	Eileen	Tripod, Map, string, pins &pictures.
1	Internal	Eileen’s Room	M/L shot- Of map, focus on Eileen.	Eileen	Tripod, Map, string, pins &pictures.
1	Internal	James’s Room	Close up of phone- James tweeting	James	Tripod & Phone
1	Internal	Eileen’s Room	Pan shot Eileen’s room, end @ laptop	Eileen	Tripod, Map, string, pins, pictures & laptop.
1	Internal	Eileen’s Room	Close up Laptop-James tweet up.	Eileen	Laptop.
1	External	Outside James’s house.	M/L shot James house. Medium shot through window shot, people round James.	James Party People	Tripod, lighting, cans, bottles, cups.
1	External	Outside James’s house.	Long shot, Eileen point of view- through bushes-feet leaving.	Party People	Lighting.
1	External	Outside James’s house.	Medium shot Eileen to James house. Back of Eileen.	Eileen	Lighting, tripod.
1	External	Outside James’s house.	O/S shot- Eileen knocking door.	Eileen	Lighting, tripod.
1	External	Outside James’s house.	Medium shot Eileen- side profile (head 2 waist) looking door.	Eileen	Lighting, tripod.
1	External	Outside James’s house.	Medium shot- door slight open. Eileen view.	N/A	Lighting, tripod.
1	External	Road	EL/S shot- Car Speeding away	N/A	Lighting, tripod & car.
1	External	Sky.	EL/S shot- backwards night 2 day. (Animation?)	N/A	Tripod.
1	External	Local Off-Licence	Medium shot- James in off-licence (picking drink)	N/A	Tripod, Beer/bottles.
1	External	Local Off-Licence	Close up shot-James- Phone with text.	James	Tripod & Phone.

Reccie shots

These are our reccie shots on location where we plan to film our film opening.

Fixation Pitch:Class Feedback

This is a presentation of our feedback that we recieved from the rest of the class when we pitched our film idea to the class. We decided to film this in the style of a news report to make it a more interesting way of presenting it.

Fixation Moodboard

This is our inspirational mood board, this shows what we got our inspiration from, and what sort of things we want our film to include. Such as twitter, the characters and the shed. We also found news reports of simular events, such as someone stalking another person via Twitter.