LO4: Strengths and Weaknesses

They also identified the strengths and weakness of TIME TRAVEL KILLS which are detailed below:

Strengths:

-the film fits into the genre of satire and sci-fi

-the film is slightly thrilling and horrific which appeals to the target audience

-the film uses steady camera shots at a high definition, and are all in focus

-the camera work and editing successfully engages an audience


Weaknesses:

-the film is slightly long and boring at some points

-some of the acting is slightly weak, and breaks the illusion

-some of the special effects appear very cheap and overly 'tongue-in-cheek"

-some of the shops have a very low resolution

-the sound at times is too loud and ear piercing and causes discomfort to the audience

-the film at time has very poor lighting due to the lighting being provided by a light bulb.

Suggestions for improvement:

-the scene for the office worker travelling through time should use special effects provided by high quality software such as Adobe Aftereffects which can be used to create very professional sci-fi effects.

-if the film was up for a re-shoot, professional lighting would be used in order for the films lighting to be more controlled

-the sound would be re mixed through sound editing software like Adobe Audition

-professional actors would be sourced for the character "Time Travel Man" in the case of a re-shoot

LO4: Focus Group Feedback

Here is the shot of the focus group watching my product, the group consisted of other people from my CDM class, since they are the target audience, this group consisted of Frazer Mclean, Joshua Grey, Jacob Wylde, and Matthew Frost.

They were the people who helped me come to the conclusion of my film's rating. 

LO3: Setting Up Equipment:

The following two pictures show me setting up a 4K Camera, on top of a tripod with a turning head to create steady camera movements.

LO4: Proposal for the certification of TIME TRAVEL KILLS

Time Travel Kills definitely aimed at a higher audience, typically males aged 15 to 25 years of age, and the film contains references to drugs, and one scene which contains very strong peril since it is suggested that a character is murdered to death with a baseball bat, which is a very gory concept. Therefore I would propose that the film's rating would be a 12  due to these references and dark ideas which are created in the audio visual product.

BBFC states that a 12 could contain an infrequent drug use, and although the character isn't taking a drug known to our reality, it could be interpreted as a metaphor for perhaps a hallucinogenic drug, since the time travel pill is taken orally in the same way most hallucinogenic drugs are taken. The "drug" however is not glamorised, and would actually more likely put the audience of wanting to take any sort of pill.

BBFC again states that a 12 can contain an amount of psychological and horrific threat, just as long as the entire film doesn't focus on a horrific tone, which I think is a fair descrition of my short film.

BBFC also states that the violence can only be gory when justified, however the violence in my short film is never gory at all, and instead leaves the gory details to the imaginiation.

LO2: How meaning is created in the visuals

The narrative of this project is as follows, a bored office worker decides to take a time travel pill, it briefly takes him to a reality where he gets murdered, and then he is taken away from that reality back to his own, where he realises he has travelled back in time. What he doesn't realise that he has now made a glitch in all his different realities, meaning that when he gets murdered in one reality, he suddenly all his other realities vanish too.

This is a fairly complicated narrative therefore it is important that the footage I captured clearly communicates the narrative. I am going analyse some of the shots I took when filming this project.

This shot tells the audience from the begginging of the narrative, that the office worker is bored of the dull life he leads, which is proven further when the office worker recklessly takes a pill which messes with his existential well being. 

This shot makes more sense once the narrative has finished, yet at the beggening of the narrative, the audience takes it as a nothing, just simply a fault of the computer, however at the end of the narrative, the audience realises that the glitch actually represents a glitch in time, and although the computer may be slightly damaged from the time travel intereference, the real damage has taken place in the office workers reality.

This shot shows that the office worker is beggining to develop strange obsessions with the normalist of things like a flame. The flame slows down in this scene, suggesting to the audience that there has been a shift in time. 

This is the shot that shows when the office worker makes his fateful decision to take the pill, the salesman's character is actually positioned slightly higher than the office worker, suggestion to the audience that he is fully in control of the situation, and aware of the chaos he is about to cause the office worker. The symbolism of the candle being on the office workers side could also be a foreshadow of the turmoil which is about to coming, which could be considered hellish, since the candle could be linked to hell fire like imagery. 

LO3: A final film showing high levels of technical and creative comptency

The final short film:

PREVIOUS VERSIONS:

00001_3 from George Allan on Vimeo.


00001_4 from George Allan on Vimeo.


TIME TRAVEL KILLS from George Allan on Vimeo.

Original glitching video:


glitchy titchy from George Allan on Vimeo.

LO3: Linking audio to visuals and applying audio effects

Once of the main parts of my short film that required audio effects was the scene where the power cuts. When filming the origonal footage, the footage just changed to dark with no sound signifying a power cut at all. However I was able to source a sound that mimics a power cut from the website Freesound.org, called Power Down, which can be found here:

https://freesound.org/people/peepholecircus/sounds/169994/

Using Adobe Premiere, I simply added the sound underneath the footage in a position which linked up with the visuals perfectly, the screen shot of the position can be seen below:

Another piece of sound I need to include, was the sound of the computer glichting along side the visual of the computer glitching, in order for it to seem more realistic, as if it is a real glitch and not just a video playing on the laptop which I animated. 

Due to an error with the recording camera, there was one piece of footage where you couldn not hear the office worker typeing. Therefore I had to source the sound of someone typing on freesound, and then link it along side the visuals of the office worker typing. The problem is, in the final edit, you will notice the change in sound to the other scenes where the office worker is typing.