Video evaluation

In my opinion we achieved our purpose with the short film. we set out to make an entertaining drama which in the opinion of everyone we have seen has agreed. we gave negative messages as the police couldn't catch the killer however this wasn't are intensions. we included both boys and girls within are film. when we wrote the script the ethnicity of the characters was irrelevant, but in the video we did have actors of different ethnic origins. the music track added an extra sense of dramatic tension in our film; with the music over the credits sounding like it could be from a real detective drama. the locations we used in the film weren't appropriate, but conceding we weren't allowed to film outside of school and didn't have access to real police interview room the setting turned out fine. the language we used was suitable for our target audience- it was complex language, but not complex enough to alienate our target age group of teenagers going on adults with the exception of the stereotypical 70's cop show.

Credits at the end, the film didn't look realistic for the genre. that said, the film did look good and despite adding comical effects at the start, we managed to make a mature, polished and entraining drama film.

At first, we had difficulty with the voiceover, as my original voiceover had some pronunciation mistakes in it. we decided that we'd both do the voice over. and after much editing and tweaking of the sound levels, the voiceover levels turned out fine. the music bed turned out fine straight away, it wasn't loud enough to distract you from the film, but it was loud enough to create suspense. my second voiceover from the film originally had the start cut off, which resulted in it being re-recorded.

The camera work was problematic during the first few weeks of recording, as we didn't have a cameraman, which resulted in the police interview scenes looking like they were clearly filmed in the performance classrooms. we eventually got a cameraman and the scenes were re-filmed to high standard. between the clips, the only transition we used was a fade in effect to show the the between characters in the interview room, and for the titles we used the basic font, but with red lettering to link with the film title 'A Grangfield Blood'.

to keep the audience interested, we stayed with the same story-line throughout, but made it more suspenseful at the film progressed. we didn't use an external microphone, as there was no spoken dialogue in the film, as voiceover was used throughout.

Our film didn't subscribe to the theory that every film had an equilbrium,