My Evaluation. Prezi:

http://prezi.com/n4xgodfly1dk/tiffany-pickford-as-media-evaluation-for-main-task/

The original version of the song used in the film:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dflJL5Zb4ao

This is my film on youtube:

Storyboard changes:

Choice of name for the female protaganist:

We decided to call the female in the opening sequence, Lily this is because of the different connotations of the name.
Lily can symbolise purity, innocence and beauty but can also symbolise death.
We deiced to call her Lily due to the fact that it was a symbol of purity because she is innocent all the way through the opening scene and throughout the film. However, we decided to use the name because it symbolises death this is due to the fact that her boyfriend has died in the opening sequence.

The Choice Of Song:

We decided to base our song choice on The End Where I Begin - The Script because it related to the topic and main idea of our film. As the music we used in our opening sequence could not be copyright, we realised we could not use the actual version of the song. So we therefore got one of our friends to play an instrumental version on the piano, changing a few notes here and there so it wasn't the same.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b7p2Pr_Rhg

Flashback:

Having a flashback in our opening sequence meant we could include a section of montage editing. To make it apparent to the audience it was a flashback we decided we needed to add some kind of effect in order to make it clear and understandable. We therefore added an echo effect that made the shots echo creating a blur. This works well and our audience knew that it was a flashback meaning we had made it clear enough to understand.

The Name Of The Film:

We decided that the main idea in the film would be cyclical and keep happening to the same girl, suggesting she is the one perhaps causing or creating the incidents that happen.

As we decided it was a car crash and the male would die, this means the female would be left alone and would most probably end up mourning over the death of her boyfriend. Referring back to the cyclical idea means that she would be mourning more than once. We therefore decided to call the film, The Mourning After.

Audience Feedback Changes, Crash:

Our storyline has always been based around a car crash, we felt this was the main event that took place in our opening and perhaps the thing that was most engaging for the audience.

When researching different films and looking at clips and scenes for inspiration and ideas we came across Raise Your Voice, which is where our most prominant thoughts came from for the crash.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V87Q9GsoFw
This is the link to the section of Raise Your Voice that gave us the most influential ideas

Audience Feedback Changes, Voice Over:

We decided the hospital scene wasn't clear enough for the audience as to who died, be it the female or male. So we therefore decided to include a voice over of a nurse telling the protagonist of the unfortunate loss of her boyfriend, due to the car crash.

Audience Feedback Changes, Circle Theme:

Our initial film idea, was tied together by a theme. We wanted to run a theme through the opening sequence, we decided this would be circles as it reflected the idea of the continuity of the storyline and the fact that the same thing kept on happening.

When we presented our pitch, the initial feedback from our classmates was that they didn't fully understand the importance or significance of the circles. Once we explained further, they became more interested and thought the idea was perhaps better than first expected.

From hearing this, we decided we either needed to make it more apparent to the audience or remove the idea. We tried to make the idea more apparent but with our new footage it wasn't as easy as we first thought. We did however include the idea into a few of our shots like the carousel ones or the ones where you see a point of view from the female protagonist spinning around.

Audience Feedback Changes,Isolation:

When we presented our pitch to the class, we discussed the idea of singling out the female protagonist from a crowd making her appear more isolated and individual. When the class fed back to us, we realised they liked the idea of singling out the protagonist. So we decided to use this idea in our opening.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZfEEzKFEv8

We watched the opening scene of Collateral and we liked how the two males were singled out in a crowd, we therefore used this scene to develop our idea and make it more apparent.

Audience Feedback Changes,Drugs:

After seeing the rest of the pitches from the people in our class, we realised every group had decided to incorporate the idea of drugs in their opening sequence. From seeing this, we as a group therefore decided against the idea as we didn't want our film to be too similar to anyone else's or be compared to another groups.

Audience Feedback:

We showed a rough cut of our opening sequence to the class and handed out audience feedback sheets for them to fill in.
Therefore, we need to make the following changes which are listed above:-

New Storyline:

Our story begins with a couple walking down a road towards their car, we see them getting into the car, which is white, having colour connotations of innocence. Once inside the car, the couple are happy and are about to begin their journey home from their day out. As the couple are looking at each other, we see a car coming towards them from the opposite direction. The car gets closer and closer until we all can see are the headlights. The lights are becoming so big that that it fades to a white screen, together with the sound effects the audience know that there has been a crash. The white screen fades into a hospital scene, where we see the protagonist gaining consciousness, at the same time we see the female being pushed down a long corridor on a bed. She then closes her eyes and the scene fades to a blackout implying the idea that perhaps the female has simply fallen asleep or perhaps has fainted or even slipped into a coma. We then begin a section of montage editing, where we see the female have many flashbacks provoking her emotions to spiral. She sees the times when perhaps when she was more happy, spending quality time with her partner who sadly passed away.

Changes:

Unfortunately, due to various reasons, some of our roles, responsibilities, locations and filming schedules were required to change. 

Alterations have been made and all current arrangements are as follows:

Roles and Responsibilities:

Camera Work:  All three of us

Director: Maisie Hesketh

Props/Costumes: Brogan Adams

Location: Maisie Hesketh

Equipment: Tiffany Pickford

Organisation:  Tiffany Pickford

Time Management: Maisie Hesketh

Co-Ordination: All three of us

Actors: Brogan Adams (16 year old female)

            Jeff Leyland (17 year old male)

Locations:

Street Scene:

Birmingham Bull Ring

Carousel Scene:

Birmingham New Street (Christmas Market)

Car Crash Scene:

Deep Haze Country Park/Park Lane, Denford

Return to car Scene:

Derby Street/ Broad Street leading to Aldi Car Park, Leek

Isolation Scene:

Birmingam Bull Ring/ Birmingham New Street

Hospital Scene:

Westwood College

Dates and Times:

Birmingham Bull Ring: (Street and Isolation Scenes)

Wednesday 21^st December 2011 (most of the day)

Birmingham New Street: (Carousel Scene)

Wednesday 21st December 2011

Deep Haze Country Park, Denford: (Car Crash Scene)

Sunday 8th January 2012

Car Park: (Return to car Scene)

Tuesday 3rd January 2012

Bed: (Hospital Scene)

Tuesday 10th January 2012

Why the changes?

A few of the roles, responsibilities and actors were changed due to prior responsibilities and unavailability.

We were required to change the date for our 'Hospital Scene' as we changed the location to school and therefore had to wait until we had an appropriate lesson to get the equipment and be able to film it.

We were required to change the date for the 'Car Crash' scene due to weather conditions; it was icy and therefore would have been unsafe to crash.

We were required to change the location for the 'Car Crash' scene due to timing as the road would be too busy for when we re-scheduled our filming.