Filming schedule

LOCATION	DATE	TIME	PROPS NEEDED	HOW IT WENT
Beaconsfield	21st October	10.00 – 5.00	Van, ketchup, rope, balaclava / scarf, Pj’s	I felt we were quite disorganised, we were missing key storyboards in which to develop our film and the time became an issue due to work constraints.
Beaconsfield	27th October	10.00 -2.00	Van, ketchup, rope, balaclava / scarf, Pj’s	The following week worked much better, we had planned out exactly what we wanted to film and filmed within the sequences needed. I enjoyed working with the team.
Berkhamsted / Nettledon	6th November	2.05 – 4.00	Van, Protagonist and Antagonist clothing	This final shoot was done after school which I felt worked well, we filmed the opening sequence. As this shot is of two different location we needed to film it well and I felt we did. Netteledon also provided the scenic establishing shots which were so necessary for the conventions of action thriller genre.

Critical Analysis

If I were to do my A2 Coursework again, there would be many things that I would have done differently:

TIME MANAGEMENT: Even though this was slightly out of our control as to how much time we had to complete the piece, I believe that if I did this again I would have organised and planned the use of my time better. This may have not been helped by our main lesson being the last on a friday afternoon, and myself having work late on a friday night and a Sunday, perhaps having a job hampered my ability to contribute to weekend meetings.

GROUP SIZE: Even though I have thoroughly enjoyed who I have worked with this year, I feel that things may have been more efficient if we were in a smaller group, and perhaps we would have been able to do things better, not to mention less arguments.

OFF SHOTS: Having learnt from last year, we still did not take enough shots. If I were to do this again I would film twice as many shots as we did this year, because if I have learnt anything, it is that you can not have enough shots in the editing stage.

SOFTWARE: I would choose software that I was more familiar with so that less time was used on learning how to use the software, and more time on actually using it

LOCATION: Location was mainly an issue because of where we all lived, but if I were to do it again I would have spent more time researching locations that are closer to everyone so that people spend less time travelling and can have more time to film, let alone the cost of petrol or transport to get to these locations.

StoryBoard

Open publication - Free publishing - More a2

we created the story board to give a full sequence of events that occur in our film so that we had a hard copy of our imagination.

Research of Short Film 2

Once again this is a short film which only lasts 5 mintues and so can be compared to ours. The link between "Connected" and Vengeance is the narrative of betrayal. In both storylines everyone could be alive at the end of it. However, it is greed that has killed people.

Similarly it has again no speech in the story. From this we got that dialogue was most certainly not necessary in a short film, as long as you get your sequence of events correct.

Again however, where "Connected" differs from Vengeance is that it has a linear 3 part narrative, with the equilibrium being the two men walking, the disequilibrium being the fight for oxygen, and the new equilibrium being that everyone is dead.

Research of Short Film

Strangers is a short film that is similar to ours because it also has a length of only 5 minutes. in addition the film itself actually contains no speech at all, exactly the same as ours. We found from watching Strangers that as long as enough establishing takes place then speach is not necessary, it actually makes the audience think more themselves because they have to explain the film to themselves.

Strangers is also a very simple film with not too many complicated factors, if our group wanted to go and re-enact that film we would be able to do so very easily, with a camcorder and some friends. it also uses both diegetic and non diegetic sounding, like vengeance.

Unlike Vengeance however Strangers Follows strictly to Todorov's three part narrative. There is the equilibrium when both the men are sat down recognising each other, the disequilibrium when the group of Nazis sit down, and the new Equilibrium when the men have escaped from the train and are celebrating.

I enjoyed the film strangers very much, and it gave us as a group some great pointers as to how to make a short film, but in regards of actually inspiring us, the film is based on racism, and that is a very touchy subject, that we decided as a group was best to stay away from.

History of Thriller Genre

The history of the thriller genre can be traced back to audiences quickly tiring of the technical marvels of the new-fangled medium, forcing directors to find more inventive ways to thrill their viewers. Borrowing a trick from the hugely popular serial literature of the time, producers began to churn out weekly installments of long-running franchises, each ending with a cliff hanger that sees the hero in mortal danger. The most famous of these was the 1914 series ‘Perils of Pauline’, notorious (and much parodied) for featuring a villainous cad who bound our heroine to rail tracks as a locomotive approached.

The serial format continued into the sound era, but the talkies also allowed the thriller to develop into along more sophisticated lines. The 1930s was the period of the gentleman detective, where a witty one-liner was more likely to get you out of a sticky moment than a deftly landed punch. Films like ‘The Thin Man’ or ‘Bulldog Drummond’ featured suave, debonair heroes, invariably sporting fine suits and pencil-thin moustaches, who were caught up in exotic mysteries and tended to face down all manner of mortal danger with courtly sangfroid.

The best of these was Alfred Hitchcock’s 1935 ‘The 39 Steps’. Based on the novel by John Buchan (who is widely credited for inventing the literary thriller), this starred a dashing Robert Donat as an upper-class colonial type unwittingly targeted by a sinister spy-ring and made to flee to the Highlands. Abounding with double-crosses, set-piece chase sequences, and innuendo-laced dialogue between Donat and his leading lady, the film set the template for exotic action-adventure thrillers, which the Bond movies would emulate so spectacularly.

Unfurling at a breakneck pace and never giving you time to reflect on its many unlikely developments, the film also enshrines one of the principles of good thrillers: an exciting, fast-moving plot is usually more important than matters of plausibility or psychological depth. Look at Paul Greengrass’ 2004 ‘The Bourne Supremacy’, a fine example of the modern Hollywood thriller. Matt Damon’s character remains a cipher throughout; but the emphasis is on the superbly executed action scenes, the car chases, the acrobatic fight sequences and the set-piece pursuits in foreign locations. If it’s a rounded character study you want, then look elsewhere. Which is why the best thriller filmmakers tend to be master storytellers who eschew showy displays of acting; Hitchcock, John Frankenheimer and Michael Mann being prominent examples.

Not that the thriller must necessarily depend for its excitement on extravagant action scenes. In the late 1940s, the genre toughened up and dressed down, with a string of gloriously bleak urban crime stories that French critics would later label film noirs. In movies like ‘The Big Sleep’, ‘Out of the Past’ and ‘Double Indemnity', fedora-wearing, trench-coated figures would stalk city streets at night, solving mysteries that were as impenetrable as their shadowy surroundings. The plots were dense and convoluted, and the mood was cynical and hard-bitten, perfectly attuned to the weary post-war mood.

The film noir sensibility resurfaces intermittently, most notably in ‘70s gritty crime thrillers like ‘The French Connection’, ‘Chinatown’ and ‘The Long Goodbye’, and survives in the work of independent-minded directors like the Coen brothers (whose latest movie ‘No Country for Old Men’ is that rare hybrid: a thriller Western).

But it’s in its glossy, high-concept form that the thriller dominates today. The genre today is the vehicle for filmmakers’ fascination with explosive action sequences, cool new technology and dazzlingly twisty plotting (especially after the popularity of bewilderingly layered espionage TV shows like '24'). The epitome of these tendencies is probably the latest ‘Mission Impossible’ installment and the fact that this bloated, insanely expensive Tom Cruise movie didn’t live up to expectations may suggest the thriller must get back to basics if it’s to prosper.

Filming

In total we have done about 8 hours of filming across 3 days. The first of these was in the half term when we had the most time to film. Our location was in Beaconsfield where i live, because the nearby streets had the road front houses that we needed for our kidnapping scene, and the long corridors in my house meant we could make more affective use of the interior scenes of the film. After this primary day of filming we knew that we still had much to film and this became apparent in the first stage of editing. Many shots were missing, and as a result it made us re-think our film as a whole, and so when we filmed the second time many of the basic principles of the film had changed. It was important to us to do something different this year, as many of the films last year took similar storylines.

Difficulties


With re-takes and jobs, it was very difficult to manage to get everyone together for filming purposes. in addition to this, we had to film on 3 separate occasions and with the winter light being inconsistent it meant that a lot of shots which we were previously happy with had to be continuity re-shot every time we re-filmed to have continuity in the film. In addition to this the staple subject of the film had changed after our first day of filming and so some time was wasted editing the original content, but as a group we decided that it wasn’t good enough. In addition to this, Beaconsfield (where we filmed) is quite far not only from school but from Oliver and Emma’s houses (around an hours drive) so a lot of commitment was required for the numerous filming days.

Clothing

Clothing is a vital part to the mise-en-scene of our film. It is paramount to the audience having the most personal identity with the film, with the wrong clothing a film just does not make sence and will make the viewer watching agitated.

FATHER: The 'Casual look' that we have given the father puts him in the comfort zone that is his own home. This signifies to the audience that he is in relative comfort. This provides a red herring for the audience, which is likely to interpret this character as an innocent, who is brutally attacked. The disequilibrium comes later, when the audience realise that this normal acting man has become a murderer.

THIEF: Trying to hide as much as he can, long jeans to be allusive and a hood up signifies that we cannot see what this man is doing or who he is. This immediatly encourages the audience to decode his actions as being those of a villain.

DAUGHTER: Wearing matching pyjamas to show her innocence in the situation, perhaps even ignorance to what is going on. Not only this but it is what distinguishes her from being the man's husband to being the mans daughter as it connotes a level of young age.

Lighting

House Scene:

To increase the level of personal identification as high as we could we had to have the lighting just right. For this to be the case it had to be quite light as we were in a friendly suburb with the film being at its equilibrium. This is a typical convention of an action thriller and allows there to be a contrast in lighting which is evident to the viewer.

Kidnap scene:

The light for this scene was far lower as we filmed it at dusk, this is because the surroundings are far less inviting and it gives the viewer action coding because they know something is going to happen. In addition to this, it keeps the identity of the driver secret untill the end of the film, and therfore does not interupt the enigma coding of the non-linear narrative.

Field Scene:

Once more this is a dark event taking place and so the lighting is clear but quite low. this again has action coding because people know something (the body getting dumped) is about to happen. adding to this is the fact that vengeance does actually not have a new equilibrium so the film is finished on low lighting to portray the fact that the hero has not actually got anything in the end, wheras if there was a new equilibrium the film would finish with high lighting.

Musical Inspiration - Bourne Identity

Though we found it difficult to make a decent sound track to match our film in the kidnapping scene because we only had garage band at our disposal as the sylabus says that only non commercial music can be used without permission, we found when conducting our research that the famous car chase scene in the bourne identity is actually an unfamilliar track but works perfectly with the chase in the film. Although are chase is slightly different in the way that they are chasing a man instead of a man in a car, we have made perfect music for the scene that we needed.

Inspiration - Law Abiding Citizen

Once more the decision to have the scene where the man upon answering the door is knocked out came from our inspiration of the film Law Abiding Citizen. The sudden shock of such a fast paced attack from an everyday event was appealing to us. This is because it follows Katz's theory of personal identity; it makes the audience scared because opening the door is probably something they do every day and so to see something so shocking happen from an everyday event enthralls the audience.

A problem that we faced upon making this scene which has hampered its overall effect is the sound effects that we could use. There were none on Garageband that were appropriate and when we attempted to replicate the noise from Law Abiding Citizen it sounded awful and we could not embed the sound from YouTube, because that scene is so violent that they do not actually have it online.

Inspiration - Halloween

The decision to use the broken frame in the production was influenced by the 1982 film Haloween, which uses a broken frame at the start of the film, where the villain is shown looking through the window in a point of view shot at his victim.

Halloween uses Katz's theory of of personal identity to bring the audience to have as much attention on the film as possible. because they can recognise the surroundings the feel a personal connection with the film and therfore allow themselvs to get more into it. We wanted to use the same vouyerism in our film, where the audience is forced to watch something that they should actually be able to see, and this is where the inpiration for the broken frame murder scene came from.

Vengeance

News Bullitin Script

The script for our news backing story has taken much more time than we would have liked. With me and Martin spending probably the best part of 3 hours recording and re-writing and re-reading to have it worded the best that it can sound, however not only this, but to make sure it times perfectly with the film, because the speech has to come over the right part of the right scenes. In addition to this we added the sound track from the BBC news broadcasting to make it as realistic as possible.

Below is our final draft and what appears in the film.

Beep beep……

A 14-year old girl has been murdered as part of a robbery last night in buckinhamshire. This is one of a string of recent break in’s in the area, but this is the first to result in a murder.

Police say that they have added extra convoys and now have patrol vehicles survey the area regularly. Mr simons, the father of the recently deceased, and who came into close contact with the thief and murderer, before being incapasitated has made a statement to express his anger and disappointment with the neighbourhood watch. He also makes reference to the inmates that have been recently released from nearby Farnham common prison, he said: “ it is clear that with the recently released inmates there is a rising correlation of burglaries”

Beep beep….

Police are now investigating a reported kidnapping in Buckinghamshire on Monday.,the man who was being monitered as a part of rising crime rates in the area has suddenly gone missing and police are saying they fear the worst. The man who was said to be well connected could have been subject to an honour killing with the gang in the area , police are pleading for any information.; they are searching the area, but have yet to find the body.

Site Recce

With us having to delay the start of our filming it gave us a better scope as which site to use. It was very easy for me to Recce my house...because I live there. And also easy for me to recommend to the group the scene for the kidnapping because it was very near where I used to go to school, and very close to my house.

We decided on my house as the location for the robbery. Because as well as long corridors which are what we wanted, the driveway provided many different angles and shots that we could capture in the build up to the robbery. It was also easier to use my house as a base because the site for the kidnapping was 2 minutes down the road as-well.

As a group and on first arrival of the scene we took some still photo's to analyse whether this was best for our kidnapping scene to take place.

Synopsis

Vengeance is a film that uses non-linear narrative to let the audience feel as involved as possible in the decoding process of the film.. The film storyline goes as follows; a man’s house is robbed by a thief who has recently been released from prison. In the process of the robbery the thief knocks out the man, before going upstairs and killing his daughter. The man, in so much fury with the lack of police help, finds, kidnaps and kills the man in revenge for his daughter’s death. This is an action thriller for all the family as rated as a 12A. However what makes this film so different is the scene repetition and switching of the scene order which really keeps the audience guessing until the climax of the film.

Evaluation Question 4

In what ways does your media production use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Steve Neal once said ‘Genres are instances of repetition and difference’ and on going by this quote it is easy to see how our film has filled the action-thriller section of the genre categories.

Using Propp's theory of character types the audience can see the repetition through the labelling of characters in the film. Emma quite clearly is the victim, whilst Martin is the villain. This repetition of roles allows the audience to recognise the film from the stereotypical conventions that they may have seen before. One of the techniques used in the film to establish Martin as a villain was the use of broken frames. The use of broken frames within the production, to impact the audience was most notable/significant in the transition between equilibrium and disequilibrium using Todorov’s three part narrative. The broken window frame, revealing the antagonist's progress down the path and up the side of the house, signifies his evil intentions. The connotations of this broken frame are that the character shown through the blinds is a fractured individual, and the disequilibrium is suggested, using music and camera angles to emphasise his wicked nature. The voyeurism, where the audience are forced to see the killing of Emma by Martin, anchors him as the villain according to Propp. Similarly Emma is anchored in her role as a victim through the use of binary opposition. The change in colour from black and white to colour in the film shows the opposing roles, from Martin as the villain to Emma as the victim in the situation.

In addition to this; binary opposition is used on site in the final scene at the field. This is through the fact that in an empty field the last thing you expect to see would be a red van, and so this contrast anchors the protagonist’s feelings of being isolated, as the field itself is so isolated. Furthermore, at the house Katz’s idea of personal identity means that the audience can identify themselves with the location and so the film has more impact and realism. There is also the connotation of the red van signifying the blood that has been shed.

Our decision to have the scene where the man upon answering the door is knocked out came from our inspiration of the film Law Abiding Citizen. The sudden shock of a such a fast paced attack from an everyday event was appealing to us. This is because it follows Katz's theory of personal identity; it makes the audience scared because opening the door is probably something they do every day and so to see something so shocking happen from an everyday event enthralls the audience. In terms of the Uses and Gratifications theory, my group hoped that our target audience would revel in the sense of unease - this is something that could happen to them and so it becomes a thrill for the audience to imagine itself in the place of the actors.

Our use of conventional props meant that our mise-en-scene of the film followed the conventions of an action-thrilling film. The use of the knife in the killing of Emma is one that many are familiar with, similarly the fact that the van used in the film is red connotes danger as red is the colour of blood, and much blood is drawn in this film though not actually shown.

Once more our use of music was one of repetition to follow the traditional action thriller conventions as our music was upbeat and fast paced. This meant that the action thrilled scene of the kidknap was recognisable to the audience and they were aware that this was supposed to be full of action.

All of this is the ‘repetition’ that Steve Neal is talking about. However, where our film has a ‘Difference’ is in the non-linear narrative. In our film there is a repetition of the penultimate scene which is played first, and so the audience are primarily unaware of who actually the villain is and who actually the victim is. this is where our film uses the enigma code to create a puzzle for the viewer. But once the first scene has played the film follows Todorov’s 3 part narrative out so the story explains itself. this is because of the action coding of the film, because the audience hav enow seen that first scene they are aware that action is going to happen later on in the film. in addition to this our film actually has no new equillibrium because at the end of the film emma is still dead and so the hero is actually alone at the end of the film, this is something that does not happen much in commerical films.

Evaluation Question 3

What have you learnt from your audience feedback?

There were two main methods which we used to obtain our audience feedback, one through Facebook, and the other through questionnaires that we handed out to people. However what was key about both of these is that we provided pre and post production questionnaires to compare the feedback that we received and see if what we made was what people actually wanted.

In the original questionnaire process we had 6 main questions that we asked to gain the best feedback that we needed. We based these questions on a number of variables. These variables were designed at our specific audience; because we were asking the majority of our questions to people who were at our school our general age base was between 16-18 years of age, this therefore simplifies the situation for us, the most quantifying we had to do was the sex of the participants.

To begin with Facebook, we ran links through all of our statuses on Facebook asking people if they wouldn’t mind filling in a online questionnaire that we had made. This was easy for us to analyse because we could digitally see the results and did not have to quantify them ourselves, whereas the questionnaires that we handed out, we had to quantify ourselves which was time consuming, and not what we wanted when we had so much cutting to do.

Names	Comments	Out of 10
Amber Olley	Very good film with fast and exciting shots. The lighting was interesting as it gave a sense of reality.	8 / 10
Kate Sophoclides	I liked the film. The narrative was easy to follow yet I like the way there were flash backs to represent the time passed.	9 / 10
Jonathon Shell	The film was exciting and easy to understand.	9 / 10

Having said this, by handing out questionnaires before our production started it really did help. They showed that people had mainly watched both actions and thrillers. We had only one person who said that they hadn’t seen both, but the majority said that they had enjoyed action more than thrillers. However even having this feedback and deciding that we wanted to make an action films, there were large drawbacks, not only budget, seeing as we didn’t have one and most action films require lots of special affects which are expensive, but also the basic filming equipment, which during filming showed a good picture, but once uploaded to Google lost all of its quality. Not only this, if we decided that we did want to make a stunt ourselves, not only would we be hampered by a budget, but also health and safety would not allow through the risk assessment that we had to follow.

The information that we gathered was helpfull because it pointed us into the right direction to make something that people actually wanted to see, and not over complicate things like we almost did from the start. on originally embarking on doing this we had many elaborate ideas of making drug baron films and things that we would have been unable to pull off, however through analysing our research we were able to make something look the best we could possibly make it without OVER complicating things, as our film is still rather complicated for some people to follow.

Although the post production questionnaire could be seen as less helpful, it was more satisfying than helpful, because we could see what people thought of our film that we had spent hours and hours filming and cutting. This was mainly because it was just when we showed it to friends and family. However the Facebook side was far more analytical. We sent the same questionnaire around afterwards with an additional link to our film, and left space at the bottom of the questionnaire to see how people would rate and genre our film to see what they thought it was, and whether they enjoyed it. We could then compare this against the original data. However, a problem that we noticed by the end is that numerous people classified our film as a thriller, whereas it is meant to be an action film, with thrilling parts in it. So in this case it showed that some of the information we gathered in the original pre production questionnaires, may have actually lead us in the wrong direction

Evaluation Question 2

How did you use media technologies in the construction, research, planning and evaluation stages?

In the construction stages of our film the video footage was originally imported into iMovie, though this proved too low a quality to use for editing. With this considered, we then imported the footage into Final Cut Express which allowed us to add effects and edit audio accordingly. These effects would prove to be incredibly beneficial to the general aesthetic of the video.

We filmed using a Sony Digital High definition Video Camera, which allowed us to use higher quality footage in our film. However despite the fact that the quality on camera and editing was very good, many of the scenes once digitized and compressed on to YouTube became blurry and quite difficult to make out. This was down to the fast pace of the scene changes rather than the quality of the equipment that we were given.
In the research and planning stages large referencing sites such as YouTube where used to look at videos of previous films like “Law Abiding Citizen”. YouTube gave us access to almost every scene from the film and meant that we could analyse the parts that we needed to very easily. In addition to this we used Google maps in the planning of where our film was going to be shot. We plotted on a map where all of our houses were and decided which the best for everyone to go to was. Luckily every member of the group was able to drive and so although the drive may have been long we were able to all get to the same place.

In communication we had many technologies at our disposal. The school “Leaning Platformt” which everyone in the school has access to gives every person in the school a Gmail account. In using Gmail we could immediately share documents with each other in a very easy format. Additionally we could also copy in our teacher so he knew when and where we were filming, and this was used on many occasions to book out the equipment when we needed it, and was useful for our teacher to then be able to ask us for it back. What made Gmail especially helpful was the fact that we all had Blackberry Smartphone’s and so when sending an email everyone would receive it like a text and made the process far quicker, it was like having our own online blogs to instantly talk to each other.

Upon publicising the film, Facebook was a great tool. It was good because when I posted the film in my status i knew it was going specifically to an audience that would be interested to see this genre of film in a cinema, in addition to this when people commented on the video we could use this as primary research, and analyse the comments that people had made. Not only this but it was a free and effective way of showing our film to as many people as possible.

We also used Microsoft Word to type up a lot of our research and Microsoft Excel to quantify the data which we had collected from our research.

Evaluation Question 1

How effective is the combination of our main project with our ancillary tasks?

Aside from our production we also produced both a poster and a magazine article to complement it. In our lessons we have been studying the use of advertising in magazines, and so we all had much knowledge of the subject to put in our ancillary tasks.

For continuity purposes once more we looked at how “law abiding citizen” released its posters, and how that related to its film, to see if we could achieve the same with the content of our film.

LAW ABIDING CITIZEN POSTERS

Upon analysing the posters above we found a certain continuity with the advertising campaign for the film. We saw that the font that they used was not chunky which has a large impact on the posters, in addition the colour scheme for the font is consistent too with white and red being common, this in our view was to show the use of both the red as the antagonistic colour, and the white as the protagonists, and we felt this worked very well. Finally the writing in the most prominent poster is vertical, making people take a second look, or a longer first glance at the poster, which could in turn make them want to see it.

In our poster we have written our title vertically and also in red, however not simply to show the colour of a antagonist, but it matches the colour of the inside of the van door in the background. We thought that by doing this the people watching it would automatically make a synoptic link between the red and the van, and so make them track the scene sequence even closer. To anchor this we have contained half the faces of all the characters in the film, but they all lie in the same area with none having and dominance, and so not giving away any of the characters parts in the film.

Our idea of having the foot hanging from the van we feel connotes the death of a character, anchored through the limp nature of how the foot is stead. This is shown through the light being let in through the van, and yet still no movement, naturally if someone was in the back of the van and was still alive, one would presume that they would be moving. The opening of the door was originally a drawback because there was no interior light in the back of the van, but it ended up making the photo look a lot clearer once we had edited it in Photoshop.

We went through many drafts for the poster, originally having a completely different photo which was edited, but in comparing the original and the final product, we feel it compliments our film far more thoroughly through continuity of clothing and props than the original.

ORIGINAL POSTER

We had many difficulties in gaining the correct photo for the poster in order for it to successfully compliment the film. For a start if we wanted the photo to be on scene it meant we had to bring a stills camera with us two, and remember in between shooting to take photos of the scene, this became tiring and was starting to effect the way in which we made the film, in which case we decided that we didn’t want to have a still from an actual scene of the film, because it was such a short film we thought we would create something completely different, something the audience not see in the film, which is the inside of the van, so nothing from the film is given away.

In addition to the poster we also made a magazine article to show which category and where our film would be analysed to the public. To make sure we did this right, we visited the VUE website where many films are reviewed and analysed, the format was quite simple, it required a description of the plot, a star rating from numerous reviewers, and a still from the film. Luckily in our original stages we had taken many stills and so had a variety to choose from in choosing which photo to go into the review. The review however was a great way to explain the film to people who wanted to see it and to people who had seen it and may not have followed closely enough.

FILM REVIEW

In retrospect the ancillary tasks were difficult to produce effectively because of the time frame that they had to be made in. For the poster and review to work effectively and have the correct content we had to create them after finishing filming and editing our film. However this process takes over the far majority of the time that we had been given, and so i think we may have been able to make a higher quality film review if we had more time, but with drawbacks and editing unfortunately this was not the case.