Evaluation

When we decided to make our film there was only one major rule we wanted to stick to and that was to make sure it was a thriller because that was the main objective. So we developed our views on what a 'Thriller' really was, so we looked at people such as Martin Ruben, Martin Northrop and others and we found that in a lot of views that people had in common was that thrillers should "make the viewers think and not know what is going to happen yet (partial vision)" and that the film should be a "puzzle" throughout. So with our film ("what’s the plot") people have said that we may have challenged the thriller with our use of blood in the opening sequence, and that our film was a more physical thriller(i.e. murder) than a metal one (i.e. psychopath) and although in the opening there is blood, there is much more to the film as it would develop with the mental state of the main character (Jack Forde) having a strange way of showing love, also the film has an emotional ending.There is a clear semantic field for the way the characters live and there personalities; with them living in a run down estate, with not a lot of money and Jacks mum being an alcoholic/drug addict and this is because it is the best way a viewer can relate to what is happening in the film. Like many other films a women is the first victim this may be due to people believing they are more venerable and that it can add a bigger impact upon the development for the film.With our film it would have been created on a very much minimum budged and not having any big name movie stars so with the cast the over all purpose of the film and its lotion and surroundings it would be a UK distributed film and so therefore no European distribution would be used, we have researched films that are a very "British" and found that companies such as "UK screen", "UK film council" and "Film Four" would be good intuitions to distribute our film, Reasons for only showing the film in the UK would come down to culture as they are all different in every country, products like "the football factory" wouldn’t have been showing the U.S because the percentage that would want to view this is too little the same that UK screens would not sow a film based in baseball yet there are some exceptions but this could come down to big named stars and large amounts of money being given towards the film.

As for wich age chatagory we would choose was a hard decision as we wated some scary and graphical parts in our film but we wanted it to be appealing to your people and not just adults so after much discussion we decided that we could go for 15 becuase we though that it was best for both older and younger and even though the structure of the film isnt the easiist to understand its not the hardist either, for obvisous reasons "whats the plot" would be more appealing to the male sex due to blood ect, but we hope with the addition of some what good looking male characters the sex atendece could balance, as for the younger people we intended to appeal our film towards we had to think carefully about how we could achieve them to watch our film, and we decided that with a main character around the same age (16/17) would catch the eyes of teengers as they can relate to the main character( jack forde). Even though death is involved in our film apart from the death, there is deeper emotion as the growth of a friendship emergies between Jack Forde and our killer and by this even though the viewers will understand he is bad man its not his fault and that can then become touching and involves the audince much more as they do not know what the outcome could be and whether it will be good or bad.

Our enitial ideas on who would be our best audience for our film was a wide rancge and we strugled with deciding certian characteristics for our audience but when we got our feedback it opened our ideas to new paths of who we could target, comments incuded things such as-
"you used good camera angles creating susspence, good use of props creating a good tricks on the eys i.e blood, your film is scary but at that same time has a clear twist, leaving it a perfect thriller and follows nearly all the codes and conventions of thriller films" so after a collection of comments much like these ones we realised that as well as this film will give the viewer sense of shock and some what a scare also makes them ask questions and them not knowing what will happen next so with this we were lucking with knowing we had two clear sets of film lovers who would be interested in our film those who love the thrill of being shocked/scared and those who love a twisting story and an unknowing ending

Log in sheets

Task Eight Section 8: Production Material

MEDIAShot list

Scene 13 Take one: Lock opening

Scene 14 Take one: Shelf shot

Scene 15 Take one: Tools on floor

Scene 16 Take one: Suitcase being dragged

Scene 17 Take one: Opening of the suitcase

Scene 18 Take one: Hammer being taken out of the suitcase

Scene 19 Take one: Exit the garage

Scene 3 Take one: Look in the mirror

Scene 4 Take one: Turn tap on

Scene 5 Take one: Running tap water

Scene 6 Take one: Blood in sink shot

Scene 7 Take one: Tap turned off

Scene 8 Take one: Lights off

Scene 10 Take one: Walking with mop

Scene 11 Take one: Knife being picked up

Scene 12 Take one: Knife dropped in sink

Scene 1 Take one: Attic

Scene 2 Take one: Dressing gown being put on

Scene 9 Take one: Mop being picked up

Task Three Section 3: Brainstorm of content and classification of film

Movie Certificate

We Have Decided Our Movie to Be a 15Suitable for those aged 15 and over.Nobody younger than 15 may see an 15 film in a cinema. No-one younger than 15 may rent or buy an 15 rated VHS, DVD or game.The film features scenes of violence not suitable for anyone below the age of fifteen.Our choice to put this movie as a fifteen is due to some of the scenes, language and ideas that are present in our movie. We have some scenes of sex, Strong Violence with blood and general alcoholism throughout. We have also decided that we will call the film "Whats The Plot".

Task 9: Production Schedual

Production Schedule

Film title: What’s the plot?

Director: Jack O’HalloranSean FordeCraig Sheakey

Location: Jack’s house, Longford, Warrington

Props: HammerKnifeMop