Evaluation

My film doesn't exactly represent social groups, though i suppose the closest i can do is the Medieval type knights and the monk at the beginning, and the archaeologists at the end.The first character you see is the monk. He is shown to be a monk by the loose fitting brown robe, with a long hood coverring his face. Stereotypical monks all walk around in long brown robes, with hoods shadowing their faces so i think the image looks quite good. Along with the torch creating some very effective shadows on him gives the impression that he is quite old, perhaps not physically but time time period, as people don't tend to use flaming torches nowadays.

The next set of people you see are the knights. It is harder to see who these are, because it is quite dark, and whilst running the torches didn't give as much light as i had hoped - But they are wearing old style clothes, long white shirts, or plain brown tops - similar to what knights would have worn, obviously lacking any sort of armour as that stuff is expensive.

When it shoots to present day, you are introduced to 3 characters. They appear to simply be people digging, but they are meant to be archaeolgists. As the only time you really see archaeologists is on Time Team, i watched it for a bit to see what they wore. Generally, it was relatively casual clothes, so i told my cast to turn up in casual clothes. Many of the guys on Time Team also wore hats, so i gave two of the cast special "archaeology hats" to emphasise their rold as archaeologists. The third member does not have a hat, as he is in charge and doesn't wear one. Much like Tony Robinson rarely seems to wear one while presenting Time Team. While perhaps not as good as Time Team, i think my films has some strong links to that show and other shows due to some of the phrases and characters in it. One of the characters uses the -phrase "I think we should take this back to the lab" which is responded with "yeah, we can run some tests on it". These lines are very typical of most crime dramas shown on TV, especially ones such as CSI or Bones where they're trying to catch someone.


As it is meant to be a film (if i made the rest) the general idea would be for cinema's to show it, though obviously not my one as it was done with a budget of £20 and is only 2 minutes long, but if it was a proper film then cinema's may show it. Alternatively, independant cinemas or other industries such as channel 4's 4Film may show the films to give filmmakers a chance.


The audience for my product is very varied. While probably not suitable for anyone under 15, there is something in it for people of all ages over that. There are lots of gunfights and car chases for the teenagers to 30 year olds. There is also the historical element which is very popular among older people - which Time Team made very popular by filming and broadcasting their work on TV so people are now interested in archaeology. Although people going to watch it for the historical element are going to have to gwet over the hour and a half and seemingly unnecessary violence that would be in the film, as it is an incredibly action packed fast paced film when it gets into it, and the historical element is not quite so obvious.


I attracted my audience by initially pitching it by combining two popular thigns, that were complete opposites. "Time Team meets Die Hard" Time Team being the historical archaeology show, which would bore most teenagers, which Die Hard being the action packed intense films that would bore most older people. By bore, i mean not interest. These two combines could either produce the most amazing or most dissapointing film, and for this reason most of the poeple i told it to were very keen to see the final piece and help me make it.


Making this product has really helped my learn about different technologies including different cameras, editing programmes and generally making things work. First thing i learnt was that Kirk's camera is very annoying to use with the school's Mac's. They don't like each other, so i guess in future i'll just use the schools stuff. I also found out how useful Final Cut is for editing and finishing the product and how to overcome problems such as the image not being light enough by editing levels and ensuring the sound all sync's up with the video so it doesn't look stupid.

I have definately learnt about editing and continuity due to the continuity task we did originaly so cutting and editing all runs as smoothly as possible and ensuring audio and video sync up.