Evaluation Question 2

Evaluation Question 1

Screening/ Film feedback

We showed our film to an audience of 16 to 18 years of age.

We asked them these questions:

-Did you understand the plot?
They all said they understood it.

- What did you like about it?
They said that they liked the 'different camera angles' we used and the fact that ' the main character isn't shown just in one angle' and they like that there is 'fluidity in the shots'.

- Is there anything you didnt like about the film?

Everyone said they liked the film.

-Was the music effective and how?
The music was effective as it 'added tension' and 'suspense' from the start of the music.

- Is there anything you would change or add to the film?
One of the viewers said that the 'diegetic sound was not frequent enough', other than that everything else is good.

Hitlist - Final Project

The birds

The birds is a thriller film made in 1963.

Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock

Written by: Daphne Du Maurier and Evan Hunter

Stars:

Rod Taylor 

Tippi Hedren

Suzanne Pleshette 

The Birds is a 1963 suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, loosely based on the 1952 story 'The Birds' b Daphne Du Maurier. It depicts Bodega bay, California, which is, suddenly and for unexplained reasons, the subject of a series of widespread and violent bird attacks over the course of a few days.

In the movie The Birds we are shown how the birds attack people so therefore they are the antagonists in the film. Melanie, Annie and Mitch are the protagonist who try to warn the people and try to protect them from the bird attack.

In the end Melanie gets attacked which makes the audience feel sorry for her but yet she isn't dead, she is just injured which leaves the audience wondering what ill happen next. At the end of the film we don't know if the birds have stopped attacking or if they will continue to do that until no one is left which leaves the audience wanting to watch more so they could find out what happens.

The birds follows the Todorov theory as it starts of with a state of equilibrium as they all  are living a normal life. This then gets disrupted when Melanie takes the love birds to Mitchs house. They realise the change when they first see the attack of the birds and then they try to fix that by warning everyone and trying to protect everyone. At the end they get a new equilibrium by leaving the village and going to the city hoping it would be better and they would help to stop the attacks. 

Designing the Title Sequence

Naomi and I have done the editing and the designing of the title sequences. We put the titles in the right order and then we added some sound which was useful for some scenes. For this we used Adobe Premiere Pro software which we was able to add the titles and change the front however we want it it and where we wanted it to be seen.

First draft

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Second day of filming

We did another scene of the film and on this part we needed the help of our friend Barbara as we had characters from our group missing. Most of the scene was improvised as the real plan wasn't going so well but we did good with the improvisation. Naomi did most of the work as I was acting and the rest of the team didn't show up to record.