15/3/2012 - Final Evaluation of With Child

This our final evaluation of our With Child production however throughout the video there are a few seconds that show only a black screen with no image. This wasn't intended and was caused by exporting such a large file from Final Cut Pro X to YouTube. The screens are usually only where there would be an image, however nearer the end where we begin to talk about using Microsoft Word as a technology throughout our production whilst working on our magazine review there should be a video of us changing the font and showing the techniques that we used to create our ancillary task. These black screen only occur 2, 3 times throughout the video.

23/2/2012 - Magazine Review (Final Draft)

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We have made some amendments to the Magazine review, fixing a few sentence structures and adding a paragraph about the producer's future.

8/2/2012 - Magazine Review Evaluation

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8/2/2012 - With Child Poster Evaluation

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29/1/2011 - Magazine Review (Draft 3)

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We have added an interview and compressed the writing in to a small space (1 page) so the review is brief and won't give to much away. This also gives a more realistic view as a short film would not be featured across 4 pages.

9/1/2012 - Magazine Review Feedback

Feedback on Magazine Review

1. Include an interview
2. Some sentences wern't structured well
3. Picture taglines are too vague
4. Pictures are effective and show the most important scenes of the short film
5. Sounds like an essay format
6. Star ratings are cleverly used showing the conventions of a film
7. Magazine looks professional
8. Remove what the characters dress like
9. The audience disliked the fact that the behind the scenes section included us talking about the lack of time
10. The names were confusing because a few times we included the actor's name in brackets whilst other times we incuded the character's name in brackets

21/11/2011 - Magazine Review Draft 2

Here is the second draft of our magazine, we have made corrections from the feedback recieved; correcting mistakes and improving sentence structure.

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7/11/2011 - Magazine Review Draft 1

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Here is the first draft of the magazine review, we have followed the layout from Empire magazine and Sight & Sound along with the language used to interact with the audience. Feel free to give us feedback so we are able to improve on the task.

10/10/2011 - Magazine Review Analysis (Empire)

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7/10/2011 - Magazine Review Analysis (Sight & Sound)

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5/10/2011 - Codes and Conventions of a Magazine

Here we have created a table of codes and conventions that a magazine review page should include; comparing two magazines, that has helped us understand what we should include in our magazine review page.

2/10/2011 - With Child Poster (Final Draft)

We simply changed the tagline as suggested from our suggestions. This could be a possible final draft.

28/9/2011 - With Child Poster (Draft 2)

Here is our second draft film poster, that we created using ideas from other researched film posters. We would like some feedback so we are able to craete the final draft. We were perhaps looking at trying to create the offender in a hood with a black or white plain background to give the idea of a rape in the film.

26/9/2011 - Poster Analysis

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see the other poster anaylsis of Twilight: New Moon here

16/9/2011 - Audience Research (feedback needed)

For our short film we have been looking at film research and the audience they have aimed there film at throughout. We will choose a similar audience to both films as we believe the story lines can relate to our production. We found that James Bond: Casino Royal was given a 12a certificate whilst Irreversible was an 18 due to explicit content. However we feel that our film is quite mature compared to James Bond and gives a sense of realism similar to Irreversible. The content we are planning to film is far less explicit and therefore an age range of 15 would be acceptable to certificate our film and would be a good idea to aim for an audience close to this age.

Whilst filming and creating our short film, we will try to aim the production towards the age range of 18 – 30 that would be interested in realistic content like this. Our group feel the short film itself will be too mature and serious for a younger age and those of an older audience may take some offence. The short film is a risky project to do when releasing it to the public as we want to avoid any conflict and therefore we feel that setting the age range between 18 – 30 is another point that makes this range acceptable when creating our product.

Another reason why we would like to aim our film at a young adult audience is because we believe that most dramas with a serious outline are most appealing to those who it could relate to. Many young adults would find this film interesting due the storyline involving relationship troubles.

Whilst making our poster we will aim to create a spooky and darkened atmosphere to get the attention of a young audience who are most fascinated with dramas and crime. However we are obviously unable to include explicit images that may be sensitive to those who are quite harmed with this sort of material; therefore we will have to convey the idea of the film through images of the woman being hurt or affected by the assault.

Whilst studying film posters, we feel that something similar to the Unborn and Irreversible would be effective showing the woman on her own, revealing her vulnerability as well as her looking in the mirror as she is disgusted with herself and her effected life. This should allow people to instantly know what the poster is about after a quick glance. Our group reckon this would get the majority of attention from women as they have some relation to children as well of being aware and cautious of the dangers involving rape.

During the process of advertising our short film we will create a magazine article that will be aimed at a young adult audience. We will use language that isn’t too formal to get the message of our short film across whilst sharing the storyline effectively that a young audience will be interested in. This will include the highlights of the film such as the assault and how the woman is disgusted with herself as she is expecting a child with an unknown father. Women will be quite drawn to this from relating to both situations and therefore this would be effective topics to share so we are able to communicate and get this audience to watch our short film.

14/9/2011 - Poster Analysis

We have been analysing posters that are related to our film through the genre and the atmosphere created. This will influence the poster we make for With Child; showing what the film is about through symbolistic objects and the darkness created.

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27/6/2011 - Poster

This image was taken by Mark and edited by Chris in photoshop. Any feedback on this would be helpful to edit it further for full effect, thank you!

27/5/2011 - Audience

Today, as a group we came up with a few target audiences that we would focus our film around as well as the style of our magazine etc.

We will be focusing young adults between the ages 15-35 as a lot of the characters would be portrayed quite young.
The emotional side of the story with the couple and the feelings from the woman would greatly reach out to a female audience who would get emotionally attached with the film and feel what we are trying to create.
The film will be quite dark and those who enjoy crime, psychological thrillers would be interested in the plot.
Our magazines and marketing would therefore target this audience.

Because there is a rape scene in our short film we have considered making the certificate 18 however it isn't that graphic therefore we will avoid limiting our audience. We believe a 15 age certificate is therefore appropriate.

We decided to have a young audience that would be interested in crime and thrillers however we didn't want to aim our film at an audience under the age of 15 because we feel it may be to dark and aggressive.