Evaluation Question 3

“Balham Butcher” is a low budget British short film based on the psychological horror genre. It is most likely to start off being screened at a film festival such as the “Sundance Film Festival” which was established in 1981. The aim of the Sundance institute is to advance and promote film makers without any profit for themselves. Our work being screened at one of their film festivals would start to get our filmed introduced to a wider audience. 

http://www.sundance.org/

Another festival I found whilst researching was “The British Horror Film Festival” which would be excellent for our movie to be screened at because it will be shown to our exact target audience and is more likely to be successful due to this. This festival showcases British and world-wide independent horror films in unusual venues with the aim of getting the film makers work more well known to a specific audience

British Horror Film Festival

Our production company “Scribble Cat Productions” would seek to employ a good distributor for our short film such as “20^th Century Fox” who are distributing a psychological thriller this year called “Black Swan”. They have also distributed well known horror movies like "The Omen" 

http://www.fox.co.uk/

In the case of it being successful it could move on to being screened at mainstream cinemas such as Odeon, Cineworld and Vue most probably on their smaller screens.
As an independent short film it could also be shown at independent local cinemas to comply with its image, such as Curzon in Soho. This cinema offers a range of different movies therefore it could attract horror fans or people who usually wouldn’t watch a horror movie opening it up to a broader audience. 

Feedback on rough cuts of our opening scene

Things to improve on :
Our class told us that is was difficult to see our titles and what they said, so they gave us the suggestion that we chsanged the colour of the titles to something like white so we could see them better.

Positive feedback :
The class said that they liked our shots and that they thought that we used a variety of different shots which gave it a good effect.
They also said that we had goodframing like in such shots at the beginning with the clock.
Our lighting was also commented on, they said that they liked the use of light and how it is quite dark and dim.
We were told our sound was good and they liked how the steps faded out when we walked downstairs.

Sound in TV Drama

We were analysing the sound in different TV dramas and the effect they had.

Spooks
In the opening scene we see a woman being convicted and when she is convicted the camera zooms in on her face. When the camera zooms in there is a sound like air rushing past and this gives us the feel like we are actually moving towards her and invading her personal space to see her reaction to being sentenced.
When the woman is convicted the incidental music that has been playing gets sadder to show how sad and upset she must feel about being sentenced.
In the next seen we see two men talking and there is nearl no pauses between the two characters dialogue, this demonstrates the anger and the urgency, it seems to us that something needs to be done quickly.
Also one of the men slams his hand down on the table making a loud thud. this noise shows us the strength and therefore that the character is somewhat violent.

Bleak House
The music playing in the background gave us a sense of sadness in this scene but it was not always there, it came in and out at regular intervals and it usually came back in when something important was being sad.
When the man had said what he finally wanted to say the music changed, the pitch changed slightly giving a more happier feel showing us that was some sense of relief.

Eastenders
In this eastenders clip there was no incidental music. The silence throughout the whole clip created tension and enhanced the feeling of emptiness. I think the reason there was no music through out the clip was to make us focus on stacey sadness. The long pause after stacey kicked her mum out of the kitchen symbolized she was thinking and i ncreased the tension as the camera panned around to show sean.
We also can hear Stacey heavy breathing and the shakey nessof it enhancing the fear she feels and the realisticness of the sounds help us connect with the characters on a personal level.

Spooks
In this clip there was a flashback of what the man could remember from his past an  the music we heard at this point was quite sad and quiet to show how the man felt about this memory and how it had affected him

British Film Review

I decided to review Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Askaban

The plot of this movie carries on from the first 2 movies prior to this. This is Harry's third year at Hogwarts school and a new teacher called R J Lupin becomes the new Defence against the Dark arts teacher. Ron Harry and Hermione meet convicted murderer Sirius Black and learn how to handle a Hippogriff (Half horse/half eagle creature). We see the trio master the art of Divination and Harry faces having to withstand the soul-sucking dementors and the the truth is revealed about Harry's connection to Sirius and his family.

There are a wide range of camera shots in this movie and in my opinion the most predominant and stunning shots were the establishing shots. These shots allowed us to see the surroundings of such places like Hogwarts helping to create a magical feel of a place we would all loved to go. It is also shows us the main setting of most the movie and the place that means the most to Harry. Another main use of the establishing shot was showing the train go through the british countryside which is quite remote and the establishing shot shows us that the place is quite remote by having it quite far away so we can see lots of landscape but there are no houses or people, enhancing how secret the wizarding world is.

There is a shot in the beginning of the movie where a family member is mocking Harry's parents, this obviously infuriates Harry and he yells at her to be quiet, As he yells and his body tenses up the camera zooms in from a long shot to a mid shot so we can focus more on his frustration.

There is a mixture of high and low angle shots, the low angle shots are mostly used at points where harry has fallen over or is on the floor due to circumstances where he is in peril. So the low angle shots show the viewers that he is vulnerable at that  moment in time.

We hear a mixture of diegetic and non-diegetic sounds.
Non- Diegetic sounds.

• There is a lot of music played throughout the movie to enhance emotions

Diegetic sounds

• Rain
• Thunder
• Screams
• Footsteps
• The clock bell riniging
• The birds chirping

The lighting is dramatically different at night the it is during the day, there is a scene when Harry is exploring the castle late at night and he is using the light from his wand to see into the darkness and we as viewers can only see things in light surrounding the wand which doesn't reach far, there fore we cant see his surroundings or what is behind or in front of him which gives a slight eery feel with the added silence.

The lighting in the castle during the day is slightly dimmer than the normal daylight outside and this gives the effect of the castle being lit by candle light and fires, adding to the magical feel of this movie. 

The props in the film are all fairly unusual and things that we wouldn't come across in modern everyday "muggle" life. In certain scenes there are such props like big golden goblets, silver dinner platter, candles, wands and big ancient looking chests. All things that show the difference between wizard life and Normal human life. 

There are two main sets of costumes. The school uniform which consist of jumpers, robes and cloaks and there own clothes which are neutral in colour and would be possibly something we at that age would have worn making us able to relate to them