Evaluation

The two to four minute section of our film that we have produced and made is from the ending of the film, or the climax, as we see our character Hayden running through the market and town to get to the train station in order to stop the ‘love of his life’ leaving. This would be where I incorporated the music and soundtrack.We wanted to capture the urgency of which would give the sequence pace and excitement, an effect that that we saw in many film that influenced us

The influences for this our sequence was very important and was used hugely for the running scene. We looked at filming such as Bridget Jones Diary (2001- Sharon Maguire), Notting Hill (1999- Roger Michell) and 27 Dresses (2008- Anne Fletcher). The running scenes from filming such as these consisted of many different locations but made to flow using camera angles, shots and sound that would fit to one another as he runs.

The mise-en-scene such as props and costumes was originally influenced from the Notebook, with the idea that Rosa (who did not appear in it in the end) and Hayden would be wearing an outfit inspired from the 1950’s idea that we saw in 500 Days Of Summer (Marc Webb- 2009), showing that, even though surrounded by modern day and technology (for example the train) they had their own world and opinions that brought them together. The props too were influenced from the Notebook, for example we were going to have her holding an old fashioned suitcase, just to give the feel of a different time. As we could not film the train station scene, due to lack of commitment from actors of whom we asked, we could not film this and show what we thought was a very good idea. One prop that was very prominent through the running scene was the bunch of flowers that we caught Hayden grabbing using a close up as he ran. By getting this shot we felt it would add a bit of humour.

Another aspect of mise-en-scene was how we portrayed the sound. On Garage Band I designed and made a soundtrack of which we wanted to have playing as Hayden performed the running scene that would be the main part of the sequence. The inspiration for the soundtrack was chosen from the idea of uplifting music seen in many romantic films. I started off looking at memorable clips and scenes, then analysing the type of mood and tempo and how they’d fit over the different angle shots ect. This helped me decide to start the lower beat of my soundtrack where I chose to put it. Adding this soundtrack was to make the audience feel the passion and excitement that we wanted them to feel, using an upbeat and positive tone, but with a deep bass playing softly under it all to make the audience question Hayden’s success. The beat starts just after Rebecca has convinced Hayden to go after her, making the audience realise the agency. I feel that to have improved the sound over all I could have made the soundtrack fit better, as there is a part where Rebecca talk’s over the beat, which could make the audience distracted from what she is saying, or vice versa.

The location of the market was chosen partly because of the vibe that we new we would get from it and new it would look and sound good in our sequence. I, having the role to do the sound, incorporated that vibe into the sound, capturing our teacher bantering and bringing in customers to buy his flowers, and a friend doing the same, but with fruit. I also added in noises of footsteps, overlapping the footage of Rebecca and Hayden walking, and the noise of talking and laughter in the background. This was all to make it feel vibrant and realistic.

The main aspect of which I found difficult and that perhaps didn’t work out the most was the voice-overs. Originally I, with Hayden, filmed the both of us re-recorded our lines and then attempted overlapping/dubbing the recordings over the footage of our conversation, however this not all of them fitted and so I didn’t work at. I then, on Final Cut Express, did a proper voice over again with Hayden and myself, where most of our recordings dubbed better. Although they fitted the lip movement a lot more in sink, some off them still didn’t look perfect and I feel that if we had attempt a few of the lines again we would have got it spot on.

The target audience for our film would be mainly women as we are aware that it mainly women who watch films such as the ones that had influenced us. The age would probably be between eleven upwards, as it would have a slight bit of classy humour and romance. We had to make sure, however we did not want to make it appear to be a romcom (romantic comedy), however I feel the seriously conversation between Hayden and Rebecca made it seem that bit more serious.