Bloopers

Directors Commentary

Beyond Closed Eyes - Trailer

Questionnaire

In order to gain feedback on how our target audience found our film, we decided to give out a questionnaire to 10 teenage students. These are the questions we asked:

Questionnaire for ‘Beyond Closed Eyes’

Answer the following questions on a scale of 1-10:

1. How effective was our cast selection?
2. How did you find the editing and continuity?
3. How well suited was the music and other sound effects to the sequence?
4. How appropriate were the location used?
5. How appropriate were the titles used?
6. How much did you enjoy watching the film opening?

Tick the appropriate answer:

7) Our film opening was:

• Dull
• Average
• Interesting

8) Would you watch the rest of the film?

• Definitely not
• Probably not
• Maybe
• Probably
• Definitely

Answer:

9) Do you think we could improve it? If so, how?

• Yes
• No

10) What was your favourite aspect of the film opening?

Results:

Here are the average results we received for the first 6 questions:

1) 8

2) 9

3) 8

4) 9

5) 7

6) 9

- Our most disappointing outcome was for question 5 about the titles used. When I asked the ones that gave lower results why they gave them, they replied that they didn't notice the titles which suggests that we should have made them more bold. I believe it is important to credit everyone who helped the production of our film opening.

- For question number 7, all of our target audience replied with the answer 'interesting' which we were pleased with.

- For question number 8, 4 people said 'definitely', 4 people said 'probably' and 2 people said 'maybe'. The 2 that said maybe were boys which suggest that our film opening is more for a female audience.

- The only ideas that our target audience gave to improve it was to have more action at the beginning to draw the audience in more

- For most people, their favourite aspect of the film opening was the dream as it added some mystery to the film opening straight away and opened up many potential story lines.

Poster

This is another poster that we created for our film, for this poster we didn't use the Juno poster as a style model as we wanted this poster to be different. This poster uses pictures of the actors and actresses so that the audience can relate to them. Again we used the colour red for the tagline as we wanted there to be an element of romance, which hints the storyline. As with the other poster, we decided to use the blue background again as it gives a dream like feel.

Poster Design

For the advertising of our film we wanted to create a poster or billboard. We decided that we needed a theme for our film, for example for the film Juno the theme is stripes, from Juno's top. We decided to use the film poster for 'Juno' as a style model as it has the same theme and also both of our films have similar characters.  

We decided that clouds would be an appropriate theme for our film as it connotes 'daydreaming', we thought that this would be good considering as our film is about dreams. We also decided to use clouds as the light blue colour of the sky matches our title. 

As some other films do, we decided to create a tagline, to give the audience a feel of what the film is like but not to give too much of an insight into what was going to happen. We also wanted this to make our target audience watch the film. We decided that red would be a good colour as it constrasts well with the background and is quite eyecatching. Red also symbolises romance and this hits the storyline to our audience.

We decided that we should put the names of our actors on the poster as this is a key way in which distributrors promote their films because if the characters are well known the audience will be more likely to watch the film. But, we did also think that because our film is an independent film it is more likely that we would not have any famous actors in our film and therefore the people who would see the poster may not be attracted by this.

Equipment Used

During the filming of our film opening, we used the following equipment:

We used Georgia's Nikon D5100 to film our opening sequence, it is a high quality camera which was easy to use and fitted the tripod well.

To keep our shots steady we used a tripod hired from our school, it was very good for our desired camera shots and angles and worked well with the Nikon D5100.

We used Georgia's Apple MacBook to edit our film and to do some research for our film opening. This was very helpful as we could do the editing either at school or at home. We used the programme iMovie on the MacBook to edit our film, although we are familiar and have experience with Final Cut Pro, we thought that iMovie would be the most sensible editing software to use as the film opening task isn't too complex and iMovie has all the features needed to create a successful film opening which fits the brief.