Whole Evaluation- Never Alone

Question 1

The 9 shots used in the film Touch Of Evil are revelant to our 9 shots in our film. The close up shots of partcular props such as shot 1 on row 1 of the above has an indication a bomb, clarifying something thrilling will happen later on. We used this type of stratedgy too, when we use a close up shot of the mobile phone, and the call doesn’t go through. Creating suspense.

The title of the film has been set up on top of the footage whereas in our film we decided to have the title on a black background as we thought this would be much more effective on creating suspense.

The shots above are used well, such as the establishing shot the 1^st one on the 2^nd row, we also used this shot to indicate the audience where setting was, allowing them to be less confused.

The clothing the characters are dressed in Touch of Evil show the business adults, however in our film, we decided the characters should dress in new modern fashion, and this would enable to attract a young audience. The props used in Touch of Evil also indicate the type of class the characters may come from, the brief case, car showing they most likely to be middle or upper class, especially since at that point in time. We have used a car as well however; we use props such as make-up, bags to indicate their youthfulness.



Question 2

Our group decided to base the characters on the main character in Marathon Man (1976) Thomas Levy “Babe”, Dustin Hoffman. As the image shows he is a passive character, to

which the audience feel sypathetic throught out the film.

We show this through the way the characters actions are, as they are any girls minding their own business, when something bad happens. The shots we used to allow the audience to be sympathetic towards the characters is by using Close-up shots as they would give a view of the emotions the characters have. We also used an ariel shot to shot the originality of these characters.


Question 3 + 4

This video, which I found on you tube a popular video-networking site, has been seen by a lot of viewers. As I watched the film I found it was very thrilling and the way it had been composed was particularly well.
The non-diegetic sound as very helpful creating suspense and horror, the way the titles are laid out matches the type of thriller film, what was also very effective. The video doesn’t include too much footage yet it has a similar effect to the student films I have watched. Less is more. I wasn't unable to upload the video as blogger was not allowing to do so the link is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh8CmtGDfuI

As our film has a low budget, the better and most effective way to enable our footage to be aware and popular is to post the video on as much social networking sites as possible, such as

These social networking sites will enable us to have as much as publicity without having the need to pay only by a subscription that will take no longer than 20 min for each. We will also be able to see if people like the video, some people may contribute to comments helping us to have an overview of what people think of our film. Many low budget productions companies also look on the net for inspiration on what to base their up-coming film, they may have a look at our film, and if we’re lucky they may contact us.

We could also ask the cinema Rio situated in Dalston Kingsland - http://www.riocinema.ndirect.co.uk/general/information.htm the contact is situated below for the Private Hire. - The cinema is an independent cinema in London if we could have a special screening. where they could charge people coming to the viewing. If we were granted the opportunity in doing this, we could advertise the screening by putting posters in our college, family members could give leaflets, add an event on Facebook , Twitter etc. Awareing friends of this occasion asking them for the support.

Another way into which our film could get recognized is by attending film festivals in the UK and USA.

Such as:

This would be a great way to exhibit the film.

Question 5


The type of audience I think our film would attract is:

Jennifer, 18 years old studying, is currently studying. Understands the plots of stories in many films, Her hobbies would be going to the cinema with friends. Likes the adrenalin of being thrilled, is into fashion. Her ideal saturday would be to go shopping in the morning -Topshop-, then she'll meet with friends to go cinema, go home and out to party during the evening.

As our film is more of a modern film. It is based in London therefore much of the Londoners watching the film would recognize the streets we have based our film on. The misc en scene also shows the type of audience we want to attract the “Paul’s Boutique” and clothing the characters show how fashionable the movie is. However, on the last scene of the title sequence, as the character is walking down the stairs, an arm reaches out to grab her. The clothing used shows a masculine figure, the leather to show aggression, and the colour of being black indicates danger.


Question 6

Question 7

Looking back at my preliminary tasks, i can see we have improved dramaitically; especially the editing.

When setting our storyboard we limited our barriers, as to where we we should set the location and what camera shots we should use. the camera shots we used in the match cut, were establishing, close up and ariel shots that worked well with the footage.

While filming we didn't take as much notice on focusing the footage. When looking back at the filming of the match-cut we realised some of the footage was blurry that really messed the footage. We only used an a classroom for the set making the footage dull. looking back we could have used ariel shots of the building etc. Making the footage much more interesting.

When filming Never Alone, we took in mind the problems we had encountered when filming, making sure we pressed 'User 1' to assure the footage was as clear as crystal. We wanted to make the audience aware of where the location was by using establishing; estates in London.

The editing of our match-cut excercise, was good, but some scenes didn't look as if the footage was continued on. We worked well when editing the film, we divided the group into 3, so each person had a big role in editing. we changed every lesson assuring the aims were done, compared to our preliminary excercise we used titles and sound matching the theme of the film.



Question 8

This word cloud is some of the things said by other members who watched our piece.

Our group wanted to have as much feedback as possible. We recorded some feedback asking what was good about the film, what was bad and what could have been improved. These questions were essential as they enabled us to have a view on what people thought on our piece.

From the feedback from the audience, I can see our film was a success as the comments are positive, however the constructive critism given we would work on this, so our film is compleately good.

Overall, i think the work we have done is great, we worked efficiantly in a froup helping each other whenever the was a problem. As we came up with the setting and plot of the film on our own. we also tried to use less help from teachers as we wanted to prove we could do very well on our own. As we looked at other work from other students we could see they came up with originality in their work like our group did.