Music Video and Genre for our song

We have decided our groups genre is going to be 'Rap/RnB' as we are very fond of the idea of using Eminem and Rihanna's duet "Love the way you lie" as it fits our storyline perfectly.
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Final Film!

After months of editing and filming and a lot of hard work, we have finally finished our 2 minute film.




FEEDBACK

We managed to attract an audience after assmebly to come and asses our two minute films and give us positive feedback on what they thought.

The comments were as followed;

"Good opening music. Loved the typewriter and there was great timing running over the bridge. The whole film was attention grabbing with dramatic music"

"The metropolitan police bit made it seem more creepy and realistic."

"I enjoyed the haunting music playing throughout the film. I liked how the music box dancer transformed into the ballet dancer at the end."

"Use of the typewriter makes it seem like it is a real case."

We are pleased that our audience enjoyed our film.



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Final day of filming

Today we managed to film a potential ending to our film. Although this was a late decision to add in the "24 hours later" clip, we thought to make the film more interesting, we would have a scene of the ballerina waking up in the morning ready for a long day ahead of her. As she wakes up to her alarm clock, we zoom in on the alarm clock with the ballerina pressing the snooze button and then cut to another shot of the girl waking up and getting out of bed. She then mutters as she wakes up, complaining of the day ahead of her, unconscious of what is about to happen.

We included a close up shot, medium shot and extreme close up in our film, and also managed to film an over the head shot but this doesn't seem to fit into the other clips once edited.

We went back to school after filming at lunch and managed to edit the clip quite fast. We added the 'Dream' effect to make the next day seem eerie and fresh, and to give the audience the impact that she has just woken up to a fresh day, unaware of what a terrifying day she has ahead of her, making the audience feel slightly guilty as they have previously seen what she has to go through.


I think this clip we have added at the end ruins the audience's own imagination of what happens in the rest of the film, so after much deliberation, my group and I have decided to leave the film as it was without the scene of the "24 hours before" and leave it at the jaw dropping ending when the two characters come face to face with one another.



This is what our film would have looked like.

Evaluation

Evaluation for The Music Box

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Final ending to our film

After months of having our film looking like a trailer, we have finally managed to produce a 2 minute film opening. It has been so difficult trying to end our film, but not completely end it, but thankfully we have found a way.

After the car park scene, we have the Music Box credits introducing our film as the music box ballerina spins with an overlapped image of the ballerina spinning to add to our editing techniques. Then after that, the black screen appears with "24 hours earlier" to make the film seem as if it is starting and to justify why the girl was on the run from Billy, and also to suggest that the film started with the ending and is now going to go back 24 hours ago and explain the storyline in further detail. The sound of this clip is an alarm bell ringing that starts in the middle of the 24 hours earlier clip to suggest the morning.

We also found a CCTV look a like to add to our grainy clip of the stalker inside his "den". We decided to add this to our film, as we have always been in two minds whether to keep the scene, as it was so grainy as our night vision on our camera did not come out as well as planned. This new edit looks a whole lot better as it suggests to the audience that the poor pixels in the film are from a CCTV camera.

Changing the beginning

"MURDER IS LIKE MUSIC TO MY EARS"

These are the 'famous' words we have inserted into our film to confuse and disorientate the viewers. When I saw it actually built in to our film, it really gave it that professional looking effect. After much debating, we all agreed that it looked far to much like a trailer, especially by having "The Music Box" appear at the end. Then thinking about, no film that we had looked at in class, or ever seen, has black images with text on unless its a trailer. Although we didn't want to throw all their hard word away, we felt we all needed to go and fix it as it just didn't look right and we thought by going against the exam specification, we were putting ourselves at great risk of losing marks.

The montage of all the fast clips we deleted, lasted around 23 seconds as so we had to create something new and exciting to take its place, but being based on credits as we now had long enough to introduce some, with it still fitting in time with our music. We then inserted 4 black screens and introduced our credits as follows:

1) " A S.E.E.N Production" - S.E.E.N coming from our four initials is a unique film company we have made up in order to make our film look professional, yet still unique to our group at the same time.

2) We originally had "A Fox film" so we then changed it to "A Jackal Film" and almost mocking the 21st century fox productions as a Jackal is another similar animal. We changed it again mostly for individuality to our film and to avoid copyrighting issues.

All these clips individually lasted around 7-8 seconds and so fitted in time with the music perfectly when the black and white type writer is seen.

As we now had changed the ending, we wanted to still give off a eerie effect and so when the ballerina is shown panicking in the car park right at the end, and Billy just appearing behind her. It somehow gives the viewers a shiver down their spine as it is left to the viewers own imagination to what he does with her.

Deleting the blood scene

Even from the start of our filming days, our group has always been confused whether to keep the "blood scene" as it implied to the viewers that the murder was a killer, who was no doubtebly out to kill the ballerina some time soon!
After months and months of debating whether or not to keep the scene, we have decided to leave it out of the film as after showing it to friends and family, they were always unsure as to why the blood was there, and where it came from. We decided to delete it is as it seemed unnecessary and didn't even show of great camera skills as all it was was an extreme close up.

One thing we did particularly like was the blurriness of the shot at the end which was perfect to fade into a shot of the ballerina afterwards. So, instead of getting rid of the whole clip, we shortened it down to 0.3 seconds and added it to the montage of clips at the beginning of our film opening.