Costume

As our film opening consists of many teenage characters we made sure that each character wore different but 'trendy' clothes , so it shows diversity and how teenagers find there own style. we gave a short brief to the other characters which was just casual, so they were able to wear near to anything they want. Lucy's costume is a contrast of dark and light colours (light blue jeans and a navy jacket) this is a constant theme in our film opening so we wanted to make it an ongoing theme. Again the roof scene we wanted Lucy to wear dark colours so it contrasted with the cold moody day. This was a good way to show a contrast visually. The was a big contrast between the roof scene and the party scene. The party scene Lucy wore quite staple pieces, however on the roof scene she is wearing no makeup and dark clothes.

Evaluation Question 1

                     
Our opening sequence consists of a constant contrast between dark and light colours. We have chosen bright pink font in contrast to dark black screens, followed by a high pitch ringing noise to make the audience feels uncomfortable. Also we have chosen to only used one line of dialogue and the rest is replaced by music. This is very similar to Nicolas Windling Refn film 'Drive'. Using the absence of dialogue is very risky but also very clever. It can either leave the audience very intrigued and wanting to find out more or very disinterested, so there is a fine line between the two.

Overall Plot

As shown in the opening itself, the film begins with the scene of a party. The text saying "Don't worry tonight will be fine" refers to the party happening on the Friday night. The protagonist is revealed to be a heavily introverted character, struggling with the expectations of teenage life hence the purpose of the text to reassure her. 

At the party itself, the protagonist witnesses or overhears a suspicious argument between numerous people. Upon realising that the protagonist has overhead their conversation, two other characters violently threaten her, leading into the bathroom scene. 

It is revealed later in the film that she was threatened again at the party forcing her to leave, evidently distressed. Helin's character seen waiting outside the flats could then have received a text saying something along the lines of "if you see a girl running out of the party. She knows!". 

I think if we were to create a full film it would be based upon the idea of her almost being hunted down and forced into keeping quiet. In doing so, the plot would be in keeping with the teen drama/thriller genre as key aspects of youth would be explored alongside the more thrilling, psychological aspect of the plot. 

Feedback Forms

If we were going to continue making our 'film' ( see next post ) we are happy that people found the opening sequence ambiguous this means that people are interested as what is to come. For the improvements about not looking directly in the camera, We were supposed to do this. If she was not looking at the camera then i personally think you do not get a insight into her situation and Lucy character would not feel as if she was the protagonist. This also is enabling a connection between the audience and the character.

Feedback Forms

Again very good feedback for us, this person understood the opening sequence as a whole. We are glad that they mentioned that the lighting was very good as it took a lot of time to film the party sequence. It had Me filming, Lucy in front of Me and then Alev behind me holding the disco lights above my head. Doing all this in a cramped environment and walking backwards was quite difficult. We also did not want to to place a filter over the clip and we would rather just use artificial lights instead. As we found that this looked a lot more realistic rather than a filter.

These were very similar to the lights that we had used.

Feedback

Response to 3: I agree that if we had access to higher quality cameras the sound and video quality would have been a whole lot better otherwise we were anticipating a cliff hanger so we are glad we achieved this.

Response to 4: Again if still editing we would be happy to enlarge the text of 'Friday' , but whilst editing we thought that the bright pink text stood out around dull greyish colours, we were compleatly unaware that people would find it difficult to read. Also the contrast of colours in our opening sequence were important to us and many people commented on the bright lights.

Feedback

Response to 1: if still editing we would of took on board the "5 hours later" idea as we figured that it would definitely help with confusion as we did get a lot of feedback that people were confused and didn't know whether the party came first or after the scene with Lucy on the roof.

Response to 2: Im glad that we got positive feedback on the lights and we did work quite hard to correlate the very quick black screen with a new shot , however the problem with the ringing noise is that many people did not like it, but that was the whole idea! we got loads of feedback saying that the noise made them feel uncomfortable and that it was quite creepy. Even though this was supposed to be constructive critisism , we are glad that people felt uncomfortable with the noise.