Evaluation ~ Consience

Survey For Our Evaluation!

We set up a survey so we could get feedback for the evaluation of our opening. Here is the link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DG7NVMC

We made this so that we can get an effective and helpful responses to our opening. If we made a paper based copy most people would not fill it out, as well as the fact that it would prolong the process of the working out the results. The questions that we have included in the survey we we came up with in a group and these are what we believe will give us the most relevant feedback that we need. We will then analyse the results once a good amount of people have watched our opening and stated their opinion of it, these responses will also help us answer the evaluation questions.

Credit To Katy Ward, Reworded By Me.

On Set Vlogs!

 These are the video blogs we made while on set and throughout the editing process. In them we talk through the problems we faced and how we overcame them, along with how some shots were made and other behind the scenes footage.
The video is so long because it was filmed every set and editing day.

Final Cut Of Our War Film Opening - Conscience

Full Credits

Crew
Director -  George Turner
Editor - George Turner
Cinematographer - Mariella Devoil
Producer - Mariella Devoil
Assistant Director - Mariella Devoil
Production Manager - Katy Ward
Art Director - Katy Ward

Hair & Makeup - Mariella Devoil & Melissa Askew
Costume - Katy Ward
Props - Mariella Devoil
Soundtrack & Sound Effects - George Turner
Researcher - Katy Ward
Location Scout - Katy Ward
Location Help - Donald & Sheila Turner
Catering - Sheila Turner

Runners / Assistants -
Louise Thomas
Katherine Packer
Shawnean Milton

Special Thanks - Simon Ford & Kate Brown & The Post Man

Cast 
Old Man - Frazer Camp
Young Soldier - George Turner
Stunt Man - Ed Cummings

Changes To The Storyline & Title

Through talks with our teacher examining the rough cuts of our opening we found that our original storyline didn't really hold. The old and young man didn't look similar enough for them to conceivably be the same person. This changed the whole of our original  premise. However we discussed what was feasible considering the opening is 95% done and came up with the idea that the young soldier is the old man's best friend who died in the war. This would explain the PTSD and the flashbacks he was having, and would explain away how different the characters looked. Because of this we wouldn't keep the names we were playing around with as they all centred around the idea that the two characters were the same person (e.g. a war on two fronts). We came up with a couple of names to fit the bill including - Memory, Trapped Memory, Trama, Black & White, Corrupted Conscience, Broken Connections, Corrupted Connection, Broken Conscience. But eventually through lots of group discussions settled on 'Conscience'. We like this title as it incorporates the guilt, and flashbacks and eludes and creates suspicion in regards to the rest of the film.

Forth Rough Cut Of Our Opening & Improvements To Be Made

• Text change to white not green
• 'Producer and Cinematographer - Mariella Devoil'
• Change titel
• Make up production companies -> Copyright issues
• Smaller/ Subteler names
• Consistant placement of names in the bottom left hand corner
• more of a match on action on Frazer on the water scene
• Include the bucket shot?
• 'Set team' take this out  - too ammeter
• Names don't need to be true
• Include surnames
• Aspect Ratio change?

Third Rough Cut Of Our Opening & Improvements To Be Made

• Shot of Frazer looking out the window is still too long
• Sound compression is off, sound effects too loud, backing track too quiet
• At the beginning the gun sound effects should start quiet, and one loud explosion should trigger him waking up

Second Rough Cut Of Our Opening & Improvements To Be Made

• Production companies at the beginning
• Better pacing at the beginning
• No shot variety- of Frazer waking up
• More intercutting - so the audience know right away that it is PTSD 
• No Soundtrack
• POV shot of washing the hands
• Motivation of movement
• Need actual titles
• Hold the flashback and forward shots for an extra second each - the audience is too confused - the cutting is too quick
• Frazers reaction to the flashback in the mirror 
• Inc a shot of the house not exploded
• Inc a sound that makes Frazer want to look out of the window
• Frazer looks out of the window for 3 seconds too long - more consistency in lengths of shots
• The pacing lacks any consistency 
• More high / low / canted / distance - more shot variation
• Maybe needs something at the very beginning  
• Needs more engagement of the charecter 

Second Actor Profile

Name: George Turner
Age: 17
Occupation: A level Drama/ Media Student
Previous Experience: School Productions/ Multiple Short Films

Firstly, in the beginning we decided to pick Ed Cummings to be the younger actor, however his free periods and time did not match up to when we wanted to film. If we were to continue with him as our actor it would have prolonged our filming time dramatically. Therefore, we decided we would have George as the younger persona due to him having to be there as he is part of our group anyway resulting in no timing problems. However, as George was our camera man and was also becoming our actor, I took turns with him with the camera, once he was needed on screen. Overall this was the best possible way we could of dealt with the actor problem and we are happy with our outcome of the shots and filming experience.

Credit To Katy Ward, Reworded By Me.