Audience Feedback

During my audience feedback stage, I came up with a few questions to ask audience members who are of the age of our target audience. So, I asked people from college that I knew would give me honest answers to help us with creating our short film. I thought that putting the audience feedback in a video would make it more interesting to watch so the blog was not full of text which can be quite boring to read. I received some great feedback which has really helped the group shape and change some of our ideas. For instance, the question based on a costume for Jack the Ripper gave us the idea of using a long black coat as we were not too sure what he should wear. Furthermore, everyone seemed to like the title "The Ripper" as it is short and sweet and easy to remember. Also, it informs the audience about what the short film is going to be based on and the right, specific audience will want to watch it. The question about the conventions of the thriller genre and expectations is useful as we want to know what our audience wants to see as it is very important in creating a successful and thrilling short film.

Jack The Ripper found?

Doing some research for inspiration, I found an interesting post online.
A forensic scientist claims to have figured out who Jack was.
I'm not convinced, but it's a very interesting article.

Creating the storyboard!

Fake Wound Tutorial

We have researched many fake wound tutorials on Youtube such as the one we posted earlier in the blog. Callum and I thought it would be a great idea to create our own tutorial as it will show many techniques such as camera shots and editing. It took a while to decide where to film as there are a lack of places in college that are quiet so we had to film in various places such as the stairway and a classroom. It was great practice for when we film our short film because we now know what works and what doesn't such as the red ink where we will be using fake blood instead. There are many stages to go through  when creating a fake wound and in the tutorial we have taken you through it step by step to make it easy to follow and  informative.

Talking About Characters

Equipment

A list of all the equipment we will need for filming:

• 1 camcorder (for filming)
• 1 tripod (for keeping the camera stable while filming)
• 1 or 2 lights (with orange gels to represent street lights)
• 1 or 2 lapel microphones (for recording dialogue)

 

 Note: Do NOT use the camcorder for recording audio. While the camcorder can record audio, it's not very good audio quality, especially if we film on a windy day. For better audio quality, we should use the lapel mics.

Ripper Out! News Headline Today!

I saw this headline today of "Ripper Out" and I just thought it is a really effective headline as it really stands out and grabs the audience. The bold lettering could be used for our title sequence in the short film we are doing which is based on the story of Jack The Ripper. The black and white colours are binary opposites but work well together in creating a mysterious yet shocking text.