Evaluation questions part 2 George Evans

6.  Before being distributed, our film would have it's first screening at a film festival, Our film would likely be distributed independantly, or by a small company, an example of this is a film called 'Colin', about a zombie apocalypse, the film reputably cost only £45 to make, and recieved mixed reviews by critics, it was distributed by a small independant film company called 'nowhere fast productions, this is run however by the people who made the film though.

Our film would almost certainly not be distributed by a high profile company, for example, 28 days later - a film with a much larger budget was distributed by 20th century Fox uk, a company that deals with a wide range of different genres, Our film would be shown at a UK film festival such as Bang short film festival in Nottingham.

They show short independent films such as ours every year, the films are usually low budget, however the website claims that some directors who have shown their films at bang! have gone on to become successful.

Another, and probably more likely possibility is the mayhem film festival, which is more horror-oriented, which would be better suited to our film. the festival is also relatively local, being in Nottingham.

here is an example of a typical film being shown at the festival

8. whilst working on our first film, we had the basic outline of what we had to do, and we spend a great deal of time carefully storyboarding the project, however when we came to film it, we made a number of mistakes, mainly in the form of jump cuts and continuity errors, and at one point, breaking the 180 degree rule, the film was however a highly positive learning expierience, and it helped us a great deal when designing our actual film, there are noticeable similarities between our original film, and our final film, we chose to keep the parts that our peers responded to positively

The original film lacks music, and the sound quality is broken, in contrast to the new film, which contains a soundtrack carefully put together to create an eerie and tense atmosphere.
The camerawork on our new film is steadier and has smoother motion during pans, we had to shoot twice, as our first shoot was unsatisfactory, although this was disapointing, it did give us an opportunity to recieve some feedback from our peers and teachers that we put to use when correcting the film during our second shoot, for instance ommiting swearing, and a punch sequence which caused people to laugh.

                                         
     In this scene, our lead actress swears, however we felt this was more tasteful, so it made the final cut.
If we were to do the production again, we would likely spend more time planning the script, as the finished product is eventful, but required a great amount of filler in the middle in order to fill up a boring part of the storyboard which consisted mainly of running.

The final edit still contains a large segment of running, however we felt the fast paced music combined with multiple fast cuts from different angles and perspectives would keep the film interesting.

9.(George Evans)
My contribution to the process during the planning was completing the majority of the storyboard after reading the script written by Callam and George Peat, researching existing zombie horror films target demographic and the types of codes and conventions associated with our genre, I also researched the costumes worn by actors in these films.

                                - The original model for our zombie costumes, found on google images
During production I provided an actor and fake blood to be worn by the actors, I helped apply the fake blood, I along with Callam and George Peat took turns directing and filming.

During post production I have mainly been working on the soundtrack, being aided by Callam who is working on the editing.

                                       Our lead actress. she was cast due to her short hair, which
                                    we felt challenged the dominant ideology of how a woman
                                   should look, this was perfect for her character.

                                     A zombie attacks our lead actor,  note the look of surprise

                                      our lead actor is devoured by zombies, the fake blood looks
                                     quite realistic in this scene