First question for our evaluation

When we published our evaluation we realised the answer to the first question was missing. This is what we said:

we only used narration at the end of the film when, lyle was playing tommy thatcher who was describe the roles of the characters in his gang. its in the scene where me and andrew are walking down an alleyway, it gave some good background infromation on the gang.

we didnt use any flash forward of flash backs instead we had the story from my view, getting ready, and Will and Andrew's view of walking to meet me. This helped to build up a clear picture of the events unfolding.
Our film is typical of its genre, the opening is similar to that of "Football Factory" or "Rise of The Footsoldier" where we are all gathering to go to football and cause trouble.

We decided that to make the film opening seem more realistic, we should dress the way football hooligans do, and use similar language, hence the reason we occasionally swear, of course this had to be moderated to a degree. The mise en scene is clear, we are all wearing jeans, generally looking fairly casual

Evaluation of Holloway Road

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final cut evaluation

I think our opening two minutes for our created film was very successful. Despite all the problems we uncounted we sorted it out together with maximum effort and contribution, although we had these slight problem we didn’t allow the project to get out of hand and we decided to set deadlines for the stages of filming to be done within certain days. Our group also had many positives, we managed the assignment very well and we didn’t allow our self to be struggling for time

To avoid confusion we were all allocated an element of the project, my job was to play a part in the film and to create fonts for credits, and I also helped Andrew choose the music. Andrew also appeared in the footage and was in charge on deciding on our music and sounds. Conor was in charge of filming and creating the anamatic all though we did all contribute to it. Lyle was the main part in the film and helped with everyone else, we all chipped in with the editing as we believed it was the most important element to contribute to.

One of the topics that were brought up when people watched our clip was our interesting and unique variety of camera angles and shots. We believe we opened our film with a different shot, and a good use of sound bridge. In my opinion I believe this was one of our best shots so it was good to start strongly. The class believed one of the best parts was the shot when we approached the camera in slow motion it showed the characteristics and emotion of the gang.

It’s hard to pick a distinctive part of filming that wasn’t a success, there were only small elements that were wrong, for example faults in editing. This only occurred a couple of times in the film, noticeably the transaction between the mirror and the opening door shot, there was a small jump shot but it’s not that evident.

I really enjoyed Perry’s group piece as it was the only comedy created within the two tutor groups. But the humor was balanced it wasn’t just joke upon more jokes, it had a comical storyline but it was obvious that there was a distinct storyline and the film was actually going to have a storyline. It would have been surreal if there was just humor with no genuine story.

feedback on final cut

When we showed our final cut our group had reason to be confident that there would be little feedback as our shots where so fast and tight and every small and vital element was very carefully taken into consideration. But as with every film not everything was perfect.

The class first talked to us about the positive parts of the film they mentioned that we had included a slick match on action, also that pre prepared items worked well and effectively for example the way Lyle rushed to hide all the cautiously placed Tottenham items to show how he feared the gang finding out his true identity. Miss Allison mentioned how we started with a strong opening scene and that it was very interesting shot to have used. We were told that our fridge shot was carefully planned and some of our shots where unique.

However all film productions will gain some negative criticism. We were advised to have a sound-ridge for the opening shot so you could hear Lyle’s ringtone before there was any pictures on the scene. We were told our mirror scene had little impact so we deleted the zoom so it would snap onto his arm to purposely highlight his Tattoo

Receiving constructive feedback from peers give you more knowledge to edit and better our production so it will appeal to our targeted audience. After the feedback we listened to the notes and added what we thought was necessary to enhance our production.

week 2: second stage of filming and editing

The second stage of filming was set in a different location from the earlier shots we had. We decided we wanted to film in an area that was similar to Holloway Road with mostly buildings and very little grassed area, so it looked like a London cul-de-sac. We also had to assure the area had an alleyway with a corner in order to film the shot of the gang walking to the football match. We didn’t want the location to look as if it was an upper class area, we wanted it to create an atmosphere of a dilapidated street as this is what we imagined a group of hooligans to have come from.

We had one distinct problem that gave us a limited amount of time due to various commitments we had only a couple of hours to film all of the shots. We also had been extremely irresponsible and forgot to check if the camera had been charged before we left to film, this resulted in us re-charging the camera and losing even more time, although we were limited for time we did still manage to get some interesting shots and more importantly we had all the 2 minutes of footage.

When we arrived at our location of filming we decided that we would show a couple of shots of the journey made by myself and Andrew to cut in between Lyle getting ready to create a certain element of rushing. It also shows the audience the location they lived in to indicate from the very beginning that they were not very wealthy. We wanted the journey to give us the opportunity of some interesting shots for example the one of our feet rustling amongst the leaves on the path

We filmed the last shot numerous amounts of time as this shot was possibly the most significant shot of all, as it contains the voice over and it was also the only shot that showed how intimidating and feared the firm are. To suggest this we used a low angled shot to create a sense of domination and power. We decided to show this in slow motion so you could really distinguish the characters threatening movements and stern facial expressions.

The second week of filming was a vital stage in our production as it would determine how strong our final 2 minutes of the film would turn out, all of us where very excited to see how our film would look when all the shots where put together, in my opinion we have a great idea that will look great when all the small elements like sounds, music and slick transitions between each shots are perfected.