You Can see from the poster that the Bank Job is a film poster that our film the Accountant would like to be like. A poster where you don't really know what is going on and very conventional which would suit our film opening. There is only one character on the front, showing this film is about this guy with the Bank Job wrote in bold writeing. The title wants the audience to know what the film is about, which makes them curious to how they do it or what happens to him. The picture for the film attracts the audience in a number of ways and makes you want to watch the film.

Film poster

The Italian job poster doesnt best describe our film 'The Accountent' but i have used it because it is a crime caper and the poster does look quite plain but this is for a reason. You can clearly see that this film is a crime caper with an ensamble cast as it has a lot of characters on the poster, you can also see who are the leaders and who arn't as the two at the front are big and bold and stand out as for a few at the back who are a little hidden. The big title 'the Italian Job' tells the aduience that there is going to be a job taking place and its going to be a good one.

the power of three is very effective on the poster 'Get in, Get out, Get even' this shows that something exciting happens in the film and makes the viewer really want to go and watch the film.

shot sequence

This is a shot sequence i created. i have used
still shot images from our final cut film 'The
Accountant'. I used nine different shots all varied at different parts of our film. I used the main character (Frank), the shooter and the driver and also used our production logo and some of our titles. I used this so a viwer can get a good look at some of the shots we used and see if the titles go with the film. I used different camera shots, there is some close ups and some mid shots of the characters.

feedback on final cut

After showing our rough cut film to the group, we got some great feedback from them and we used that feedback for us to make our film better and improve it as much as possible in a short amount of time. We added in some extra shots, edited the voice over and added in the titles. All these extra shots and final bits of editing really made the film into seem like a real film.
The feedback was:
Positive:
- The shot of when drink pouring in the glass
- A stylish film, some great shots and very exciting
- Good sounds used
- Titles worked well with the film
Negative:
- The intro seemed a bit long
- The music over the titles was a bit fast

Overall as a group we were very pleased with our film and as were the others who had seen it. The feedback was good to hear and overall the group enjoyed our film as it was exciting and different.

Further Screen Shots

Film Poster

This film poster from Reservoir Dogs, would be similar to the poster of our film if it was advertised with a poster. It is saffisticated and not obvious of what the film is about and is very stylized. It is also quite unique and is unlike many film posters. From the poster it is clear that the film is targeting a saffistcated audience.

media continuety task

sound effects for film

This is the soundtrack we created, for the end of our sequence when the titles are showing. We wanted to created something quite stylized and simplistic, that was also fitting with our crime genre. We were heavily influenced by the soundtrack to 'The Long Good Friday'.

This is a screen shot of the sounds that we used in our film, as thoughts of our character, is is clear we adapted the pitch and volume so its blends in a better was, and builds up in intenserty.

Feedback on groups Rough Cut and Final Cut

Rough Cut Group Feedback:

After the group viewed our rough cut they gave us some useful and constructive feedback. Regions that we thought were fine, but actually needed attention to them. There were parts we did leave out in the rough cut like our titles which we had just not on final cut express. The things we need to adapt on were:

-Put some titles in.
-It would be good if it had a dimb soundtrack dureing the film.
-The film opening is too long.
-Some of the voiceovers of our actor speaking were too hard to hear.
-Would be more effective with more close ups.

Things that were told were good:

-Camera work was good, like good match ona ction shots.
-Production logo was very good.
-liked the gun shot, thought the sound and the reducton of the speed was excellant dureing that shot.
-Was easy to know what the genre of the film was and what the film was about.

The comments are very useful, they came in to a lot of hand for us so now we can work on our crime caper opening.
We do agree that it is too long but when the titles are in this will look very good and affective, so we may get rid of a few shots that are not needed, on the road when the car is moving along, those shots go on for too long and can be edited.
The titles we do understand that we need to put these in and this has already been done. We have actually got a few close ups just not as many as some of the audience wanted but we believe that too many close ups would ruin the film, in the opening sequence you want to establish a lot so you cannot establish massive amounts when a close up shot is made. Also the same with the voicerover it is better with the voice not being too clear, then it gives the audience a question, what does this man do?

Feedback on Final Cut:

Our final piece had all the bad comments from our rough cut edited, this makeing ther every little negative comments for our final cut which is good.

-A stylish opening sequence, stylish in which i mean a good variation of good camera shots and a good soundtrack when the titles come in.
-Liked all the voiceover/background sound.

The negative comment we did have:

-The soundtrack was too quick for your crime caper film.

Our views on our whole final cut was that we thought it was a really good opening sequence to a crime, it met all the conventions of a media film and we used various camer angles and lighting effects to suit the mood. Our film is very clear in the sequence unlike some films which only become clear during half way through.

Shot Sequence

The Accountent final cut

Music Research

Really like the music in this end sequence, Feeling it is stylistic and also fitting with the genre that it is. We would like a similar sound track to our end sequence. It really rounds out the climax to the film ending with suspence and tension we like to create a similar feeling at the start of our film.

feed back from group

When showing our rough cut, we received some positive and negative areas of our film opening. As it was a rough cut we did not manage to finish the film opening off, so we were missing the titles, the name of the film and a few extra shots we have not included. Some of the feedback we received was:
Negative feedback:
- The overall film opening was too long.
- When the actor was pouring a drink, that carried on for too long and his back was to the camera.
- Some didn't understand the voice over.
- The film opening didn't seem a film with no titles.
Positive feedback:
- That everyone loved the production logo. Thought it was well done.
- The editing of the camera shots was good.
- Sounds used well, E.G dogs barking and gun shot.

Overall as a group we were pleased with the feedback but however some feedback was not so useful. It was great to hear everyone's views on our film opening, to see what we needed to change and edit on quickly. As we got the feedback from the group only three days before the deadline, we had to really act quickly and make a few changes to our film. We managed to film some extra shots when the actor was pouring his drink, this now has made that scene more interesting and not seem so dull and long. We have cut some shots that were unnecessary. This has made the film a little shorter.
Overall the group were pleased with our rough cut as well as ourselves. Adding in the titles and extra shots will really finish this film opening off and make it into a great crime caper opening.

Feedback

Overall, we received useful and constructive feedback from the group, after viewing our rough cut. Areas that we knew we had to improve were noted by others and also aspects that we didn't notice needed changing but, now are aware of those areas. The things we needed to improve/ other suggestions were...

• Some sound needed to be pick up on, such as wind picked of by camera
• It was to long, to many shots of car being driven
• One shot of 'Frank' pouring drink when on for far to long, and became boring
• They didn't know what was going on and was lost with the plot

Areas that were liked by others.

• Was moody, as an effect of lighting
• Was understood that character was involved in organised crime
• Car sequence, character getting into car was sharply edited
• Interesting use of effects
• Liked production logo

These comments came in very useful and helped to develop our opening. We are planning to change the length of some shots, we agree some are too long, and some are unnecessary. We also will adjust the sound changing the volume at parts and silencing the wind. However some of the feedback wasn't as useful. Many openings of films open with a sequence that is slightly confusing or unclear, leading the audience into the narrative. We don't feel we need to make i any more clearer in terms of what is happening.   

ROUGH CUT