Evaluation - What areas will you need to improve when working on your main project?

• We wish to better a more suitable setting for our film
• To possibly have more time shooting and have a range of each shots so we have many to choose from if some don't work out as planned. 
• More suitable props for realism
• To try out different camera techniques (tripods etc).
• And to find more appropriate music. 

Evaluation - What ideas/skills will you take from this into your main project?

• We are keeping the idea itself, the genre, the plot and the character ideas. 
• We also want to keep the way in which we portrayed match on action, the 180 degree rule and the reverse shot.
• We also wish to keep the roles we had with in the group, me being in a director role, Sarah being behind the camera and Graham acting as the main character. 

Evaluation - How did your target audience react to your finished piece?

"It was very good, the choice of shots were well thought of, I liked the use of the sound effects, the colour fade transitions and the way in which you showed the 180 degree rule".

Another viewer also mentioned they liked the choice of music used, however they felt it could of been a little less dramatic and the volume needed to decrease. 

Evaluation - Who are your audience and why?

In our research we found out that action/thrillers are mainly targeted at males, aged roughly between 18-25, but it can differ. So we just decided to make it an action/thriller for anyone, not a very specific age range. 

Evaluation - How did your research into film openings and genres help you?

My research definitely helped me with genre specific conventions. The conventions we used were; un-answered questions, mysterious characters, the built up tension, the use of music and mise-en-scene (private secret room etc). Looking up age ranges for the genre also helped as it allowed us to get a rough idea of what is suitable for our target audience. 

Evaluation - What was the most difficult part of the project?

The actual filming was the hardest part for me. It was difficult to find a suitable setting to film as we were restricted to the school site therefore we were limited to only classrooms and fields. Another issue we had with the filming was that our first piece was lost as we had technical problems with the cameras and computers which resulted into shooting the whole thing again.

Evaluation - What did you find easy when working on your preliminary task?

We found that editing our film was rather easy, we also found that the pre-planning and storyboarding was simple as we all roughly had the same ideas so discussing and agreeing on ideas was easy.