Final Film - Tempore Exitus

Evaluation 4

Me and Alfie used a lot of technology to create our A2 short film 'Tempore Exitus'. Due to our genre (Sci fi) we had to be quite dependent on technology as we needed to create a lot of special effects and try and push the surreal element of Sci fi with things such as editing and the correct camera angles to make the effects look effective and most of all realistic. From the very start of creating the short film me and Alfie knew we wanted to concentrate on special effects and we knew we had to find the right technology before we started planning so in the planning stages we researched using Youtube. We used the popular video sharing site for researching into short films much like ours to get inspiration, also try and establish a complicated plotline which is interesting four our audience and also to try and work out how they did certain effects. Once we did this research on short films we knew what type of effects we wanted so we needed some help creating these, so again we researched into special effects such as super speed and time travel effects on Youtube to work out how to make our own special effects from scratch and this helped us a lot in making these as we now had our own unique effects with inspiration from other short films.


After this stage we planned the location shoots using google maps and with street view on there we established a great location spot we could use without even being there to decide and went out to film with one of our most vital pieces of technology in our short film which is of course the camera. We used my own personal camera which is a Nikon D3200 DSLR. We chose this camera because we did not have to rent it out from school and it has 1080p HD recording on the camera so it was perfect for our film. We also used a tripod with it to stabilize a lot of our footage which helped us achieve a smooth and sleek look to our film in the parts we needed the camera to be steady. We also used the tripod for some crane shots in which we raised the tripod in the air and recorded it midair to give the crane effect. In AS we both never really expanded on our creativity with the camera and in A2 we wanted to create some unique and interesting camera angles with this camera.

After shooting our footage it was then a matter of putting all of our clips together and putting them in a linear sequence. We did this by putting all of our clips into Adobe Premier Pro. Premier pro is an easy to use editing software which i used in AS so i feel like i was a lot more confident in using this in A2 as i gained a lot of experience with it in AS. We used this for adding filters also as we wanted a dark tone to each scene. I learnt how to add filters in AS but never really experimented with it but in A2 i feel like i had a lot more time to play around with filters and create the desired effect i wanted the short film to have.

After putting all of our clips in a linear sequence we found all clips which needed the special effects added into them. We simply took the clips from the raw footage we took and then in After effects we manipulated them such as: Charlotte being hit by the car or Katie's glowing hands. We then added them back into the linear sequence on Adobe premier pro by replacing that scene with the brand new edited scene as these two programs allowed us to go from one to the other with ease. In AS i never really did this as i focused on premiere pro a lot more and sometimes just threw edited clips into it and never re-edited them after as i did not know how to go back and forth from the two. I also used Adobe after effects to create our title sequence and titles as i found a way in the summer to animate text and create strange effects. Last year i simply used Livetype to create a basic text animation for our titles and title sequence.

I also used Garageband IOS on my ipad to create our soundtrack or the title sequence. In AS i just got copyright free music from Incompetech. However in A2 i wanted to step it up as i wanted to have a go at making my own from scratch soundtrack. Ideally i wanted to create all of the music in our short film but this was too much of a task for the amount we had to produce our film and edit it all within the deadline. So after compromising with time me and Alfie decided to simply create the title sequence soundtrack. As seen above there is the IOS version of Garageband in which i created separate instrumental tracks to form a tune for the title sequence. It took me several hours of experimenting with different instruments and tunes for each track but eventually me and Alfie decided on the final track to use for our titles. Another way i created something new was Photoshop in which i created the Ancillary products. In AS we didnt create ancillary products such as posters and magazines but Photoshop helped me create four posters for our film and magazine review pages with ease. I had no Photoshop knowledge in AS but after time in doing photography i have learnt the basic of Photoshop and a few handy tricks again using YouTube. 

Evaluation 3

This is my questionnaire for our audience feedback to tell me what our audience thought about mine and Alfie's short film and my ancillary products (Poster and magazine review page). I planned this questionnaire a fair amount in advance and i wanted to get a range of people ranging from 15 to 20. So in this survey i asked people both on social media and in person to collate a good range of answers. One key thing i wanted in these results was a comparison between two factors, 'Boys and Girls' and 'Ages 15 - 20 and Ages 21 - 25' as this is our main target audience age range. So to make this even on both sides i decided i would ask 16 people to answer the questionnaire, four boys 15 - 20 and 4 boys 21 - 25 and the same with the girls. Below is the questionnaire asked to all 16 people. 

Did you enjoy the film?	Yes	No	Partly
Did you follow the film easily?	Yes	No	Partly
Were you shocked by the plot twist?	Yes	No	Partly
Were the special effects effective?	Yes	No	Partly
Did the sound fit well in the film?	Yes	No	Partly
What did you think of the length of the film?	Yes	No	Partly
Did you like our title sequence?	Yes	No	Partly
Did you like the ending of the film?	Yes	No	Partly
Do you like our official poster?	Yes	No	Partly
Do you think it represents the film well?	Yes	No	Partly
Do you think it looks industry standard?	Yes	No	Partly
Do you like our Magazine review page?	Yes	No	Partly
Do you think it represents the film well?	Yes	No	Partly
Do you think it looks industry standard?	Yes	No	Partly
Do all of our products fit together well?	Yes	No	Partly

So from this i wanted to create a visually pleasing, creative and easy way to see the overall results. So after consideration i chose to use Infogram which lets me create info graphics on the results. Below are interactive infographics on all questions. (Please press the small buttons to see all target audience groups as it is fully interactive). After the first three i felt it was no longer important to ask the different ages so it simply went to boys and girls.

Evlaution part 1
Create your own infographics

Evlaution part 2
Create your own infographics

part 3
Create your own infographics

The Rest
Create your own infographics

poster
Create bar charts

magazine
Create bar charts

Evaluation 2

Me and Alfie created synergy between our three products (Poster, Magazine, Final Short Film) using a range of codes and conventions from other films for inspiration and also by trying to create a totally unique atmosphere and tone in all of our products. We firstly created the short film and as we polished it up in post production we added many filters testing to see which one is best for the overall look and feel of the short film as this was extremely important to us as we wanted a unique way of showing our film.

Firstly one key element to all of our products is that they must have the same dark tone to each photograph or footage of  our film. Every shot in our short film is colourised darker than the original shots we took on location. We used a range of filters to achieve the right feel for each individual scene instead of just sticking one filter over the entire film. We used filters on Premiere Pro such as 'Cinematic one' and 'Cinematic two' which both have a darker cinematic feel to them. We also used the 'Dreams' filter for the reverse time effects to give a dreamy and calm tone to the scenes. We carried this across from our short film to our ancillary products. We applied the same logic we did with the filters as we colourised both the poster and the magazine review page darker. In the magazine review page we wanted to keep Katie's character lighter as we want her to seem the hero (The lighter tones suggest she has a bright persona and is a good person) but then we darkened both Charlotte and Malachi using a vignette on the sides to show they are less important in the plot and it centers around Katie but also that because they are still there in the main poster they have significance in the story. We also did this in the poster as we have the colours going more towards the purple side of the spectrum but i have darkened the original portraits as again i wanted to keep to the 'Dark' theme that the short film. The poster was completely centered around the colours of purple and white to keep it simple and also very much a link with our Sci Fi style title sequence which is inspired by Sci Fi tv shows and films which is all purple and black. Purple and pink are the key colours in our film and as shown in our magazine and poster the main title is all purple and has a lighting effect applied over it so it isn't a blank base colour and makes it a lot more aesthetically pleasing.

We also created synergy between all three products by using familiar locations in our film as the locations for a our magazine review page and poster. The magazine review page's location is the location where most of the film is spent and that is the field that our main characters run across and where Charlotte's character meets her untimely death twice even though it isnt too visible with three of our characters spread across the page. The posters location is a bit less realistic and is the vortex we created for our title sequence. We wanted the background to be this to really give off an immediate sci fi feel to the poster and attract Sci fi fans to it with a glimpse. We also used it because it represents our film very well as it has the conventions of a wacky time travel sci fi within just rhe background and the three characters represent the key love triangle and drama which goes on in the short film. 

Another key thing which links all of our products is the main font that we use in almost each promotional or media based product for Tempore Exitus. The font is called Star Avenue and is heavily inspired by the famous Sci fi film 'Star Wars' font. The font is used in our title sequence for the main title giving the short film an iconic title with the additional lightning across the 'X' creating a symbol and icon for Tempore Exitus which makes the short film across different products recognizable as mine and Alfies'.

Evaluation 1

Final Film Review page

We chose this magazine review page because it introduces all three characters and it represents the characters perfectly. (much like the official poster did). Also it feels like this hints at the love triangle but doesn't give it away too soon so the audience will still have the surprise when they watch the short film.

Magazine review page 3