Final Video Submission

This Is My Blog For My Final Video Submission.

CCR 1

 This is my blog for my CCR 1

Here is the link to the presentation incase the embed is faulty:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ky0kT_Z95Mi_j_1GbJgcRF-IP1ZOtEMBCQsZILE2VLI/edit?usp=sharing

CCR 2

 This is my blog for my CCR 2

Here is the link to my poster incase the screenshot is blurry or faulty:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Ib4_jgmz5xMju4SLk0Eb_m6xHjwgfZkKKyLeOdS7JKM/edit?usp=drive_link

CCR 3

 This is my blog for my CCR 3

Here is the link incase the something is faulty:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xRlyCO6ZIxqTRNC5slbH0rDGm7OzkLmK/view?usp=sharing

CCR 4

 This is my blog for my CCR 4

Here is the link to my poster incase it is faulty:

https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1wKAQB4sczfRCn5YP6HrItrfNVULGd0-F8Siug5nRGQM/edit?usp=sharing

Screen Test: Audience Feedback

 Me and my group created and distributed a questionnaire which aims to gather audience feedback, here is the blog.

   The purpose of a screen test is to gain audience feedback about our work and see if their are any improvements that can be made. We decided to use Google Forms to create a survey to share withour audience because, it is very easy and simple to both make and distribute our questionnaire to the potential audiences. Here are our questions:

1. What do you like about our film opening?

2. What improvement could be made?

3. Are these characters portrayed in a realistic manner considering their age bracket?

4. Considering this is an opening to a longer film, would you watch the rest of the movie?

5. Which of these potential title options would fit the movie best?

   We chose these questions because we believe it would cover most of what we could and need to know in order to make substantial improvements and changes which would allow our film opening to better cater towards our intended demographic. We showed the clip to (3) members of our target audience to ensure that the feedback we receive is appropriate. Finding people for the screen test was easy, because our intended demographic isn't niche and is part of our existing friend group outside of our media class. Here is the draft that we showed audiences for the screen test: 

Here are the results from the audience feedback:

- From the feedback I think we learnt that we did most things right, or atleast toleratble enough for people within our demographic to be able to accept it as a piece of media. The editing and effects within the opening was able to radiate a sense of grittiness and chaos, which might've helped the audience feel more immersed and interested, meaning this part of our film is good and we probably won't change much about it. We also managed to portray the characters pretty accurately based on their age bracket, according to the audinece of course, which also is good since we won't have to reshoot much or force and change how we act, I think acting according to the age bracket of teens is easy since we ourselves are teens, we won't change much about our acting except maybe refining it abit more.

- There are a few things that me and my group are gonna change. Originally me and my group wanted to call our film "Decent Boys", after much discussion though we decided that it was weird and wanted to change it, the audience research seemed to agree since no one chose that title, instead we might call it "Bildungsroman" as per the preference of our potential audience. The draft my group used unfortunately did not include audio yet, we are definitely going to change this.

- I believe that this screen test and audience feedback questionnaire was very useful because it helped me and my group decide on things that we were debating and unsure of. This included things like the title, which we spent most of our project lessons trying to decide through discussion and the use of AI, so it's just good to have something we could choose that the audience likes, or at least have a base on what the audience may like. It also helped us clarify whether or not our acting is good enough, based on how accurately we acted depending on our age bracket.

Self Reflection:

This audience feedback did give is some sort of comfort since it was great to know that people within our intended age bracket of the opening had positive views on it, though if I'm being honest they were probably harboring some more harsh and negative views on it.

Though not much was taken from this audience research it felt nice just knowing that we had some sort of work done and I think this task that was done by my group helped me grow my skills in terms of things like making questionnaires.

Typeface Development, Title and Credits

 This is a blog for our movies typface development, title and credits.

- Example that we like:

1. Fluroescent Adolescent

2. Teenage Dirtbag

3. Decent Men

4. Buldingsroman

- What credits/names will you include:

1. Actors: Sagara, Alex, Panji, Kenneth.

2. Director.

3. Production Company, Distributor Company.

-Typeface Exapmles:

   Originally we struggled to find what theme or style of text we want our title to be in, eventually though we settled with a style that resembles grafiti as we believed that it'd resonate best with our film genre and the story we are trying to bring up. Some of the fonts we chose looked handwritten in the form of grafiti, implying that the youngsters are responsible for writing the text which in this case is our movie title. Grafiti is also heavily associated with anti establishment, anti authority, and in general rebellion by the youth, this somewhat relates to the character and plot of our movie opening.

   Some of the chosen fonts display the text in grafiti form with excess ink dripping from the text itself, this enforces the fact that characters are improper, untidy, and in general displays their chaotic and immature nature.

   After much consideration, we ended up with 2 promising choices.

Option 1

   The first option sticks true with our preference with the grafitti aesthetic. We like it because it is not uniform in terms of the angle that each letters are presented in, it reflects the personalities of the characters as it is not formal and messy. The font also displays a degree of eccentrism, since it seems bold, bright, and thick, showing it in a way that makes it feel like it's in their face. The color used (black and white) also reflects the fact that our movie will also be displayed in black and white.

Option 2

   The second options somewhat diverts from our prefrence of the grafitti aesthetic, instead it looks akin to a thick highlighter font. We like it because it is less bold, less formal, and more uniform in contrast to the first option, we think that the fact its less bold and formal means that they aren't brash and open as a group, instead they're simply a underground, small time group of misfits who simply wish to do their own thing.

   We ended up choosing the second option because we believe that it is more toned down, as compared to the first one which I believe is a bit too much.

   After careful deliberation, we as a group decided to branch out and try to find other options for our film name since we believe that "Decent Boys" sounds a bit off. Our options included; Fluroscent Adolesence, Teenage Dirtbag, Bildungsroman (German for Coming of Age), The List, Marked For Death. Eventually we agree on the name "Marked For Death".

- This is our final decision on the typeface.

Self Reflection:

   Unfortunately we did not use any of the typeface I originally researched since they all felt either somewhat too much or just didn't fit our inteded theme and vibe of the movie, the website I used also had a large variety of typefaces but none of them fit what we wanted. For a while the typeface research went AWOL, but eventually our editor thankfully got a good one that I think fits our theme and looks somewhat similar to Se7en so many thanks to him.