Reaper - Final edit

Reaper - Final Film Review

Reaper - Final Poster

Evaluation Question 4

Evaluation Question 3

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Evaluation Question 2

Evaluation Question 1

Reaper - Final ending

The pictures on the right and below I have edited a glitchy effect to make the newspaper shots more interesting and have more of an impact on the audience. 

To do this, I used:

- The newspaper free generator

- Word document

- Adobe Photoshop

- Adobe after effects

- Adobe Premiere  

After creating the newspaper, we then transferred it to word to create a JPEG file. I then took this JPEG and uploaded it to photoshop in order to crop and adjust the images. 

After this, I then used after effects to add the glitch effect in which I then moved the images back to the editing software and added the transitions between the different pictures.

Making the newspaper - Reaper ending

This is a newspaper generator that is a free online website where you can create your own newspaper. It is very easy software to use and on this, you can personalise the entire article with the titles, subheadings, dates and the story.


On the right is the final product the website as generated with the information we added.










One the left is a screenshot of another newspaper generator we could use in which all boxes must be filled out for it to work.





On the right is a picture of the newspaper it created which looks very professional as seems as though it could be real.



Overall, out of both newspapers that have been generated, we decided that we preferred the second products purely due to its professionalism and how realistic it looks. whereas, the first product seems to look unrealistic, making it obvious that it isn't a real article. Therefore, we will use this website to create the newspaper we will embed at the end of our film. We must also include pictures of the two children who have been killed as this is what a real newspaper would have.



On the right are the two pictures of Zola and Seb that we have decided to use.

UPDATE - Reaper ending

After showing the news report to our teacher and peers, we received some useful feedback.
Our teacher believed that due to the news report being a still image, it makes this part of the film look unrealistic and less professional.

A solution to this is that we create a newspaper instead of a news report which would have to be a rolling shot. By using a newspaper instead, it will make the film looking more realistic.
Another solution would be to create a voice over of a radio news report which would not need to use any additional actors.
The last solution would be to cast additional actors and create a live film report of our own.

After we had discussed this with peers and our teachers we found out that everyone thought the first solution would be the best due to the fact that if it would look the most natural and professional.

Reaper - creating the ending

 In our previous edits of the short film, we had not included an ending which sums up the story so that the audience are not left on a cliff hanger. This is because if the ending was left on a cliff hanger, it can come across to the audience as being more like a trailer instead of a short film. Also, we wanted to imply a narrative theory which is Todorov's equilibrium.





We discussed many ideas for the ending, in which our main idea was to include a newspaper article stating that the two children have been killed. Therefore, it will prevent the audience from feeling confused as to what happened to the children.



The pictures on the left and right will be used as Zola and Seb's mugshots for the newspaper.





The picture on the left is the website where you are able to personalise your own news report for free. To create this, I have had to use a software called Adobe Photoshop CS6 (shown below). This is an editing software in which allows us to merge the background, news reporter and photographs together.





After creating this news report, we will show it to others and gain feedback to satisfy our target audience.

Film review - Second draft feedback

Film review - Second draft

Reaper - Third edit feedback

Reaper - Third edit

Film review - First draft feedback

Film review - First draft

Film review research

Not many magazines I have found purely contain lots of different film reviews. The ones that I came across during my film review research were:
- Empire
- Total Films
- Sight & Sound

Empire

• Blue or black title - draws attention to the reader
• A short plot - informative so people can quickly read what the film is about
• List of cast, directors, running time, certification - allows audience to quickly become aware on all of this information without having to look for the information in the text.
• Large picture - eye-catching to the audience
• Verdict - stating the writers opinion
• Blue font
• Informal
• Aimed at any audience - especially younger generations
• Clear star rating

Sight & Sound

• Not many colours used
• Large amounts of text
• Small pictures
• Formal 
• Aimed at older generations and students who enjoy reading analysis reviews

Total Films

• Red colour theme 
• Aimed at younger generations and middle aged people
• Slightly smaller pictures than Empire 
• Clear star rating
• Slightly informal
• Bold empire logo - recognition 

From comparing my research on different review magazines, I found that the review most suited for my short film would be Empire. I think this because my film targets an audience of a younger generation and the empire magazine is quite informal and targets young people also. Therefore, it is likely that my short film would gain more recognition if placed in 'Empire', rather than in ' Sight & Sound' or 'Total Films'. Even though 'Total Films' is also slightly informal, I preferred Empire due to its layout and how empire stands out more with having larger pictures and titles.

Poster questionnaire responses

After uploading this questionnaire onto Facebook, I received 18 responses within a few days. I felt as though this was enough responses as it enabled me to be able to gather which poster was most liked. From the graph above, I am easily able to identify the poster which gained the majority of votes with 55.6% of the 18 responses. This poster will be the one that will be used to promote the short film. I chose to upload the questionnaire to Facebook so that the responses gained are from different age ranges to improve on targeting a wider audience.

Poster questionnaire

Feedback for second edit

Reaper - Second edit

Poster 3

Poster 2

Poster 1