What have you learn't about technologies from the process of constructing this project ? (Evaluation Question 6)

We used a wide variety of technologies to help construct our project some of the first bits of equipment we used were essentially in producing our film. The first piece of technology we used was the camera it was a vital that we learn't how to use the camera and practiced filming with the camera so we knew how it worked and which angles and positions you can get the best shots. We then practiced film with the tracking and with the tripod to capture the best shots possible for our film .

In post production we placed all our footage in programs such as Premiere where we were able to edit the footage into our final film. We then captured images from our blog and edited them in Photoshop which we then copied onto a memory stick and placed on our blogs in the digital storyboard and under the first evaluation question as evidence of each of the different aspects shown in evaluation question 1. Once we'd finished editing our film we moved the film onto sites such as Youtube and Facebook to get general feedback on the film.

General Feedback On Final Film From Group

We had alot of positive feedback on our final film from our piers. Many commented on how they liked where we'd set the film and how exceptional the film looked as a whole. We had very positive feedback on how the storyline unfolded and people commented on our use of suspense to build up the storyline. One of our piers even commented on the good use of special effects and SFX in the film. They commented on how enticing the film was and how it made them want to watch more. Overall our piers thought our film was very enjoyable and very well produced in fact we had some comment on how stylish some of the shots looked and some even considered buying the film.

This was very positive feedback especially when compared with our original film which had very mixed feedback much of negative. I think this was because we hadn't particularly put much effort into the film and we had completely the wrong setting. Many others also let it down small things you wouldn't normally see in gangster films such as gangsters eating melons and drinking orange juice. However I felt we put much more effort into our re shoot and it seems to have payed off as we have produced a much better film which fits more into the gangster genre and had many unexpected positive bits of feedback.

Analysis Of The Gangster Genre

The gangster genre is well known for action scenes, scenes of violence , corruption, drug use and gambling and sometimes scenes of a sexual nature. Well known gangster films include films like Oceans 11, James Bond, The Godfather, Goodfella's and Reservoir dogs. The opening scene of the majority of these films tend to be dimly lit, this is used to create a sense of mystery and suspense. All the well known gangster films contain scenes of violence and add sound effects like gunshots and explosions in the post production stage of filming this gives a sense of tension,suspense and atmosphere to the film. Many ganagster films use cross cutting to cut from one event to another to further increase the suspense of the film as your waiting to see whats going to happen next keeping leaving the audience on the edge of their seats. Gangster films usually use props like cars usually used in car chase scenes, pistols, machine guns, explosives almost anything that can be used as a weapon such as crowbar,axe etc.  I also found that with the title sequences on many of the films that all the heading's were in bold this is so their names stand out so we can clearly identify who's who and relate to the character character with greater ease. I also found with many of the more well known gangster films like reservoir dogs , oceans 11 and the godfather that main characters are dressed quite smartly showing that their more important and of a higher class.

Our New Production Company

We decided it would be better to change the production company to swift get away productions instead of pizza planet productions. This was because old name of the production company we felt didn't fit into the gangster genre whereas we feel that this new name is much more slick and professional and is better suited to this type genre.We made the title in bold and used the white and black so it stands out on against the background. After looking at how other gangster films have presented their logo I found that our logo had quite afew similarities in comparison as many of the logos are presented in bold with little use of colour a good example of this is reserviour dogs.  As you can see from the two logos below their are afew similarities in the logo for reserviour dogs and our logo. First the bold headings this is common in the gangster genre and used in films such as The Godfather and Reservoir Dogs this is so the name stands out on the page and catches the viewers attention. We placed the name of the production company in the top left hand corner of the page in a sans-serif the reason its in a sans-serif font is it shows it the film is more contemporary and the fact that there is much within the frame makes the name of the production company stand out against the page. The use of white and black on the page really compliments itself really well as you can see below other films like Reservoir Dogs have used a similar effect as the combination of black and white really makes the title stand out within the frame.