Maggie Powerpoint

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Evaluation

Powerpoint evaluation

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Audience Feedback

After watching our opening sequence, ten people filled in a brief questionnaire about the clip to give some feedback. The results that came back are as follows:

-9/10 people were able to identify the sequence as either a thriller, psychological thriller, or horror.

-10/10 people managed to identify at least one of the main characters, if not both.

- 9/10 people would enjoy watching the rest of the film.

- 10/10 people felt the music was appropriate to the thriller/horror genre.

-8/10 people could clearly follow the events in the sequence (the remaining two answering "Kind of".)

- 10/10 people felt there was a good variation in shots.

- 7/10 people gave the sequence 4 or more stars out of 5.

- 8/10 people felt there were enigmas raised in the sequence.

Storyboard

The storyboard gives the basic idea of the opening sequence and the type of shot we would use for each scene. However, the final piece we created was slightly different to the storyboard. For example, we placed opening titles in between the shots instead of at the end.

Ideas Board

These were the ideas we wrote down before we began filming; we just wrote them all down with some visual aids and colour to make it look more attractive. There are pictures of where we'd film, who we'd film and what kind of names we considered for the film.

Final Piece

This is the YouTube version of our final piece; unfortunately it shows up blurred in this format.

We've tried to create a decent variation of shots, while keeping the plotline easy to follow and still fitting into the thriller genre, the mise en scene is meant to be very basic, especially in the house, to accent the way that the main things happening in the film, go on in the minds of the main characters. Also, lighting is kept dim, there is front lighting at the beginning to represent the freedom Maggie sees in the outside world, and the cryptic oppression she feels when in the house.

I think the music works well with it because it's very simple, it has few layers of sound and no lyrics to distract the thought of the viewer, this allows them to be more attentive to the details they see and not hear; however looking back I may have changed the costumes of Maggie- her clothes were meant to represent her colourful character but seeing them from another person's perspective made me wonder if the clothes I chose really made that message clear enough.

The final script is as follows;

There are some things you should know about Maggie.

We've been together two years next week.

Her mind works differntly to other people's.

And another thing is, she has a lot of secrets.

Maggie's been leaving the house every other day for a while now, to take pictures.

Of the same place- she won't tell me why.

But today, she's going to tell me.

Editing- photos

Cutting sound.

Editing the order of clips.

This shot is of part of our editing; at this point we were looking into opening titles and how we wanted them to look.