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Hopefully this should be my commentary!

Blog Finished

My directors commentary still won't work, I will keep trying and put it on a memory stick and try again at school. 

Evaluation Q6.

Looking back at my preliminary tasks, i have learnt that you must shoot everything because the first draft we did we found that we didn't have enough footage to put the film together. It helped a lot that we did other tasks before our final piece to get used to the software and the camera because at first I found it difficult to understand at first. I also found that the research we did - like the questionnaires - helped a lot because that's how we got quite a lot of our ideas. Like using more females in our action film and using more guns. Although we do feel more confident with the cameras and the software there are still some more things we could improve on, like the continuity. While filming we sometimes forgot where we were stood or other details like that, next time we should mark the ground so we know where to stand and the continuity isn't off. 

Directors Commentary

My clip of the directors commentary won't upload onto the blog, it keeps saying error but i will keep trying to upload it. 

Evaulation Q5.

I definitely think that while filming our final piece Kelly and I were both much more confident with the camera and the editing software. We experimented with different shots and angles like the close up on the feet while running and when the gun is coming from right next to the camera.
During our practises and other opening sequences we used a lot of fades but in our final peice we changed it and the chase scene cuts very quickly, this gives the idea of it being a fast chase scene and the change of time as well.
We shot all of our film twice because when we did it the first time the dialogue wasn't right and it looked unprofessional, by doing it twice we learnt even more about the software and different effects, like in the first try we didnt put the heartbeat or gun shot noise on, but in the final attempt it looks funnier and better.

Storyboard of Day One

Evaulation Q4.

While making the opening sequence of Day One we thought a lot about how we could attract and address the audience. Our primary audience is teenage males so we thought of things they would be interested in stereotypically, like guns. The two characters you see at the beginning of Day One are both women with guns, when we did our research with questionnaires a lot of people said they would like to see more main roles from women and more guns used, straight away we use the guns and see the characters. Day One is a spoof and we wanted to show that in the opening sequence, we did this by exaggerating the chase scene and the shooting. When Louise gets shot it is repeated and we put a heartbeat effect on. Using an upbeat, well known song (Johnny B Goode - Chuck Berry) helped up show that Day One isnt as serious as other action films, also films with a good soundtrack are often seen as more enjoyable and popular.

Evaluation Q3.

The audience for 'Day One' would be a mixture of men and women. The primary audience i decided would be men around the age of 14 to 30, however because we have used female actresses in this film it could appeal to women to go and see the film. We did consider the fact that there aren't any men in the opening of the film so the male audience may not be as large as other action, spy or spoof films like Mission Impossible or Johnny English but when we looked at other films on Box Office Mojo we saw that Lara Croft did very well, grossing $274,703,340, even though the main character is a female - going against the stereotype. Lara Croft also made video games  and toys, using synergy could make sure we made more money for the film, we could also bring it out as a video game or a soundtrack, using merchandise could give us a wider audience because it would make 'Day One' more popular.