ROUGH CUT 4 (With titles)

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We have changed the colour correction on a lot of the shots, made the sequence walking down the stairs shorter. We have tried to add more shot variety in the false scare but aren't sure if this works. We also re-filmed the whole first sequence up until the couple see Santa on the t.v as we thought this needed a lot of work.

Feedback

We got a lot of feedback on this cut both verbally and writen.

 Some verbal feedback we got was from a male within the target audience say that the texting scene ruined the continuity and killed the effect of tension, he also said that the killing scene was quite gory and that he would have faster paced editing to "hit the sweat spot". 

Some written feedback we got from a previous rough cut from a female who is in the age range 15-24 which we took into account for this one. 

To sum it up:

• Need to imply sex in a better way
• Facial expressions and feeling aren't very scarred 
• Narrative quite unclear in garage scene 
• Santa on TV footage was good 
• She noted some of the good shots 

AUDIENCE FEEDBACK Titles

Here is some audience feedback from teenagers aged 14-15 on the titles we have used in our rough cut. Most of them have mixed opinions but each are backed up with reasons that we will consider.


We have chosen to use the font HAUNT and for general titles and WHO ASKS SATAN as the main titles. Having taken all audience feedback, both written and oral, into account, these were the two obvious choices and it was also the personal preference for the majority of our group. A rough cut will be uploaded soon with all the titles present.

AUDIENCE FEEDBACK Title Fonts for Movie Opening

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We have created a short sequence of clips of the fonts we narrowed down from previous research to prototype them in our opening. After receiving audience feedback we will analyse them and pick an overall "winner" for both general titles and the main movie title.

TiITLES The Ones We Will Use

1. LugNut Productions and Clinnick Media
2.  A Gingerbread Films production
3. In association with Twisted Films 
4. An Oliver Stricker film
5. Ailsa Sarah 
6. Co -starring Christian Stricker
7. With Aiden Rigby
8. Introducing Julie Bek
9. Casting by James Clinnick
10. Music composed by Nathan Guth  
11. Costumes designed by Christian Stricker
12. Editor Oliver Stricker 
13. Director of photography Michael Goi
14. Production designer Marek Dobrowolski
15. Screenplay by James Clinnick 
16. Executive producers James Wong Jason Blum
17. Directed by Oliver Stricker

TITLES Title analysis: Donkey Punch

TITLES
Number of people/company names in titles: 5 companies 17 people 
Start/end time of main titles: 0:30 - 1:11
Running time of main titles: 32 seconds
Start/end time of second title sequence: 3:13 - 5:00
Running time of second title sequence:  1 minute 47 seconds
Titles in order using exact text:

THE UK FILM COUNCIL and FILM4 -  split over 3 lines, centred 
In association with SCREEN YORKSHIRE and EM MEDIA presents - split over 5 lines, centred middle
a WARP X production - centred middle
DONKEY PUNCH - Large, centred
(INTERTITLE: Mallorca, Spain) - Narrative exposition - bottom centre
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Robert Boulder -  bottom mid-left
Sian Breckin - bottom , mid-right
Tom Burke - Top left
Nichola Burley - bottom/centre, mid/right
Julian Morris - bottom, right
Jay Taylor - top, mid 
Jaime Winstone - bottom left
CASTING DIRECTOR Des Hamilton- centred left, split over two lines
COMPOSER Francois-Eudes Chanfrault - bottom centred split over 2 lines
COSTUME DESIGNER Sarah Ryan - bottom let split over 2 lines
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EDITOR Kate Evans A.C.E - bottom left, split over 2 lines
PRODUCTION DESGINER Delaray Wagener - bottom right, split over 2 lines
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Nanu Segal - top left, split over 2 lines
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Peter Carlton Lizzie Francke -Bottom left, split over 3 lines
                                       Hugo Heppell Will Clarke - Bottom left, split over 3 lines



TITLES ANALYSIS 1: THE COMPANIES
5 companies were credited. Warp X is the main production company, a subsidiary of the indie company Warp, meaning they can't do high budget movies at all. Usually in the sub 1mil mark. Screen Yorkshire(Indie)  and FILM4(BBC owned subsidiary) and EM MEDIA are the financiers/ investors in the movie. There are no big 6 companies or other big companies involved as this is a low budget movie made by an Indie company.
TITLES ANALYSIS 2: ROLES
7 roles were mentioned in the title  and so were all the actors. Giving a total of 19 titles (including companies/ inter titles). This is a lot of titles for a movie without any a-list stars of any sorts or any known people for specific roles. The director isn't even mentioned once! Usually s/he gets mentioned twice but he mustn't be very popular to not be able to make the titles.

TITLES ANALYSIS 3: GENRE/NARRATIVE CONNOTATIONS
The companies and production workers have a larger font size than the roles or other words within the title. The text is serif and has no colour scheme. This makes it look modern and dramatic. There is a lot of narrative enigma as they are so commonly used for so many different genres. We can tell that it isn't going to be a happy movie and with the slow fade ins/ outs we get a feel that it is going to dramatic. This is juxtaposed however with the opening playing pop music and filming a group of female friends who are having a lot of fun drinking and partying.