Fixation Final & Bloopers!

We hope you enjoy it :)
       


Bloopers :)

Our first draft and feedback

This is Fixation's first draft. We were planning on improving our draft a lot, and then once we received feedback we was reassured that this is what we should do. We received critical and positive feedback, but we decided to take a whole new approach to our way of editing to improve our opening by a lot. Below is our feedback:)

Here are some key words that people used when asked the question 'Think about the sound and the images- are they appropriate? Do they go together?'

People were also asked about the camera, attention to framing, variety of shot distance and angle? Close attention use of mise en scene? Below are some comments we received on this question:

-"Good angle of camera shots however could have more variety"

-"Good variety of shots, the long distance shot was done really well"

-Good camera shots, you used a wide variety"

-"The pan shots were a bit shaky and unstable"

-"There was not a large variety of shots"

-"I like the shots walking into the house"

-"Good camera angles, great mise en scene"

-"The foot shot of the group feet before the woman appears is confusing"

- "Party shot is confusing, you could have shown the 'birthday party' on the board to make it more obvious"

- "The shots are good but you could have made it clearer that there was a party by filming the '17th birthday' part of the map"

  

 

Scorpion Productions

This is the institution logo i created. We reviewed all of our original logos we created separately to decide which one we wanted to use, but we no one created a logo which would suit the genre thriller. Therefore i decided to created a new institution logo on premier to include in our film which can advertise our opening as 'Scorpion Production'.

This was my original logo:

This is James' original logo:

 

This is Becky's logo:

 

This is Charlotte's logo:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Filming Shots

Music Research

While researching the music, we thought it may be possible to turn a love song into an eerie song, so we looked up artists of the 50's Bobby Darin and his song' Dream Lover came up multiple times. Due to the age it does not come under any copyright rules so we are able to use this. The song is quite fast so I used audacity to slow it down however this made the music sound dreary. However I believe this could work.


After researching some more I found that there were a lot of copyright-free Media Music that other students have produced as see below:


We then discovered that this sound would be a lot more appropriate for our film as it consists of tingling in the background, as we feel that this gives the idea of our aim that something mysterious happening.
Within our film we have a party scene. Without breaking copyright we need a song that is recent but is remixed by an unsigned DJ to set the house party scene. It was either this or finding a song from the 50's but this would not set the scene of a teenage house party or the modern vibe that our film has. By doing this we searched on YouTube for unsigned DJ's and people that had remixed songs, that we could use for our party scene.
This is what we found:
The two songs are Calvin Harris remixes that have a house party vibe. They have both been published by unsigned DJ's so do not break any copyright rules.       

 

Next we found another song.

We have finalised our decision and thought that the Calvin Harris- Thinking About You was the most suitable for our party scene.


We then found another song that would be suitable in our opening, as the lyrics have deep meaning.
They read 'Tonight you belong to me'
This could be played when Eileen is looking through the window at James, and the song is coming from her point of view about James. We will edit the song so that is sounds more creepy and mysterious. But we decided that this song was not good as the feedback we got did not determine the genre from this song, and people thought it was a happy song.