Thursday 2 April 2009

Questionnaire

As we approach the completion of our editing and post-production we have now begun to think about the response and impact we wish to have on our prospective audience.

Essentially, our questionnaire's purpose is to investigate whether we have used the correct techniques and ideas in order to appeal to our target audience and fufil the conventions of the thriller genre. We have scuplted both open and closed questions in order to fufil this purpose.

Click here to view our full questionnaire.

A sample of questions is used below;

What do you think the target audience is for this film?
Up to 10 11-16 17-21 22-29 30-49 50


This is an example of the a closed question which is used to obtain a short and definate answer for analysis. This question is used simply to ascertain whether the interviewees believe the film fits the target audience (16-25).

Describe, briefly, the relationships between the character, in your opinion

This second question is much more open; and provides an opporunity to gather more open suggestions and opinions that would help us more with the subtle ideas and concepts surronding the relationships of our characters.

We will be gathering results for our questionnaire shortly and posting graphs and analysis too!

- Rory

Wednesday 1 April 2009

Sound Editing

We have now started developing our film's soundtrack. We were struggling to find an approprite melody to fit the mood of our opening sequence, as on the apple macs in school a lot of the tracks are inaccessible. So we have had to use a macbook with the garage band application on it, supplied by Laurence. All the tracks are available on this so we have had much more success in creating our soundtrack.

We have been experimenting with incorporating both diegetic/ambient sound from our original filming, and non-diegetic sound into our film as we feel it gives it a more authentic overall finish.
We want to create a soundtrack that builds tension and supense in our audience so we want it to be quite upbeat in order to create a sense of urgency. However, the problem we are having is that all of the fast upbeat tracks on the apple macs sound too 'happy' and don't give us the sinister atmosphere we want to create. So we are going to experiment by creating our soundtrack with percussive instruments added to the drum beat which we hope will make it sound 'busier' and more erratic which will create a more electric and tense atmosphere.

Kim