Our Final Title Choices

After creating our sequence and adding in different effects and music the last job that we had left to do was the placement of the titles we chose to

• Put these titles on a black background and have a white font colour
• The titles would play over parts of the sequence eg : we would show him counting the cups and saying 1 then we would place a title as he counts 2,3,4 and then cut back to the action
• This was in order to make our piece quicker and to make it more entertaining as the kitchen scene is quite repetitive.

• We kept all our titles quite plain and neat to reflect the charcters state of mind with OCD, however the font had a slight weirdness about it to reflect the horror genre. The titles spell themselves out so they come up letter by letter in a precise way:

 

• Our main title was the most important title as it tells the audience what the film is called and therefore we really wanted to make this stand out and be really effective. We decided to make it quite simple however to really emhasise what the whole film was about; the obsession with 4; we made A in FIXATION to FIX4TION. Our colour scheme again was kept simple and we only used the colour red to make the 4 stand out and we used an effect on it to make it move.

 

• Our Production company was again kept simple, we used a sound effect of birds in the background and green tree productions slowly faded upwards. This title was extremely important as it showed the audience who produced this film and gave our film recognition. Also if people liked our film they would perhaps become more aware of out production company and this would gain us interest

 

• Our Distibutor focuses mainly on distributing horror films therefore the font and styple of the text and colours had to reflect that. We again used simple but effective colours and quite an eerie font to suggest horror to the audience. We had a sound effect over the top and this title faded up then down.

• Overall we learn't that the placement of titles is crucial because you do not want to distract the viewer from the action but you still want them to be really visable. This is why are's work really well because we don't make our audience watch action while titles are showing instead we show them separately but still show them crucial parts of the sequence.

Script

We only really needed to plan the script for the radio recording we play over the house scene. This is because the girl in the shed and the man in the house never actually exchange any dialogue. This wont make shooting the sequence any easier as we have to tell the story in other ways.

This is a picture of our original script. This is the only planning we have done for the script we have focused more on the shooting schedule and storyboard.

All it shows is some of the dialogue needed for the news on the radio. It does not include any screams and noises made by the girl in the shed. To be fair we are planning on letting the actress in the shed make up the noises and screams she makes as this will make it look more realistic as apposed to false.

We are also thinking about having the man repeat 1,2,3,4 whenever he does an action for example opening a cupboard, as this will enthesise that he has OCD, however we are not entirely sure of this as we don't want it to get too repetitive and bore the audience.

We are yet to shoot our final media product but i know we should have planned our script then we have so far. hopefully it won't have any repucutions on the quality of the product.

The Title

Once we decided on the genre of Horror for our film we started to plan the name of our Title. We had all done our own individual research of titles so we knew what type of technique we would use. We decided to go for an abstract name that did link in with our film in some ways. Once we knew the tactic we started thinking about what type of names we could use, this is what we came up with: 

Our OCD character is obssesed with the number 4 so we decided to play around with that, some of our ideas were:

• Fourth coming
• Four of a  kind
• 4
• Thorthcoming
• 1, 2, 3, 4
• number 4
• 4bidden
• 4bid
• forbidden

 We decided that using the number four in our title was too obvious and tacky, so we played around with the obssesive character of our villain, here s what we came up with:

• obsessed
• fixated
• fixation
• fixate
• captured
• fix4tion
• obssesive
• stalker

Finally we decided our title would be Fix4tion, this is because it links well with our OCD character as it focuses on the number four and it also includes the theme of the film which is a man being fixated with girls.

Our screening

These are pictures we took of our screening of our final media product, FIXATION. We used only one room and layed our table and chairs for people to sit in.

We held the screening on Friday 26th March, we had 61 turn up from year 11, 12 and 13. It was the first time many people saw our final project and we got positive reactions from everyone who came. To advertise our screening we posted a group on facebook and invited everybody to join, we also used word of mouth around our school. Finally we decided that the addition of popcorn and sweets would attract them in.

The purpose off this was to get feedback from our target audience. we printed off questionaires 55 in total and asked everybody to fill them in with their opinions, questionaires is a good way to gather results as it is confidential they didn't have to put their names so people weren't afraid of saying how they felt.

Questionnaire

Age

Gender : Male Female

What is the film’s title?

What genre do you think the film is?

Is the film a British, or American made film?

British American

What type of Cinema would you expect it to be shown in? (tick one box)

• Multiplex (Cineworld, Vue, Odeon etc…)
• Independent Cinema (Phoenix theatre)

Who do you think this film is targeted at?

Male
Female

What age group do you think the film is aimed at?

Are the characters easily identified? Who are the main characters? What role do they play?

Describe what happens in the sequence

What do you think the film is about? (themes)

Do you think the opening sequence works? Does it introduce the film successfully, the characters, the genre, the narrative?

What, in your opinion, works well in the sequence?

What could be improved?

Would you want to watch the rest of the film based on what you have seen so far?
Can you rate the opening sequence out of 10.

This is a copy of the questionaire we handed out, as you can see we asked questions about how they thought the sequence was and we also asked for feedback on how we could improve.This feedback is always helpful as nothing is ever perfect and there is always room for improvement.
 


This is an example of a questionaire completed by a student during the feedback session.

• By looking through all our questionaires we soon realised that our opening sequence had gone down really well with rating ranging from 7 to 10 out 10.
•  Everyone understood key themes and could identify them easily.
•  The genre and characters came across well and we had lots of good feedback on that.
• We had repetitive improvements which was to make the kitchen scene shorter and see more of the shed scene. However the reason we did this was so we could convey the OCD really clearly
• People indentified that it was predominately a male film
• They picked up that it would be for young adults mainly
• Finally, the feedback we recieved was very positive with minor improvement, the titles and graphics were really liked so as a group we were very happy with the outcome

The only problem with this screening is that the people who watched it our a couple of years younger then our target audience. This is because we are still students and we don't have access to 50 plus 22 year olds so we decided that the feedback from 16 to 18yr olds is still better then nothing.

Schedual: Re Shoot

Shooting Schedual: Re shoot

Shot Log: Re Shoot

Shot List: Re Shoot

Production Company Logo Research

Examples of Film Production Logos

The production company logos are very simple.

Both 'Celcius Films' and 'Lime Films' have their name as the picture. We intend to use a similar idea. We want to keep the production logo as simple as possible, because simplicity works well.

Our genre is horror / thriller, so we need to take this into account when deciding on our production company logo. Most production companies tend to focus on one main genre of film. We want our production to specialise in horror. We looked at horror based film production companies:

Horror based film production companies

Ammendments To Casting

Since our test shoot, we have decided to make an ammendment to the cast, as James' performance on camera was not up to scratch, we have drafted in someone from the school Drama Department.

Alex, the new lead role, has partaken in Drama lessons at school since the young age of 10.He also has over 10 years of drama experience in extra curricula clubs both inside and outside school.

He is currently sitting his AS Drama Exam, and hopes to continue this specialist subject for at least another year and get a full A-Level in the subject. His current predicted grade is an A, which shows he has supreme acting abilities.

I have personally briefed alex on the task, and he seems perfectly comfortable with the role he will be playing. I have also shown him our groups rough edit and OCD symptons video, that we gained inspiration from.

He has agreed to the shooting time and we consider him a reliable and valued member of the team.