Showing posts with label Eoin Holmes 6084. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eoin Holmes 6084. Show all posts
Sunday, 17 April 2016
Evaluation 5
How did you attract/address your audience?
Who was our target audience?
Our target audience was people aged from 15 onwards, however we mostly focused on peoples aged from 15 up to about 21. I talk more about how and why we chose to do this in my evaluation question 4 in more detail. To briefly sum up how we did it was by ensuring that the main protagonist of the film was aged around 17-19 making sure that the character would be more relatable and easier to put yourself in their shoes, making the film more realistic and therefore more enjoyable as an audience to watch.
How did we draw the audience into our film?
We made sure that our audience would be interested in the film by doing research into other thriller openings with an audience. From this research we concluded that we needed the main character to be introduced in the opening and to ensure that the main character is relatable. We did this by making the character a pretty normal teenager that was of similar age to our audience and to ourselves, the film creators.
What attracted your audience during the title sequence?
The main title shot that attracted our audience was the VN productions spinning record player. Every audience member that watched our opening agreed that they really liked that as an opening title and it had a really nice effect to it. The way we did this was by recording a spinning record player and adding the VN production cut out filter over it, creating a cool effect.
How did we take audience feedback?
We showed and asked many people including teachers, friends and family and asked for informal feedback which was not recorded. However I did record my family member giving me feedback on our opening sequence.
Thursday, 14 April 2016
Wednesday, 23 March 2016
Tuesday, 22 March 2016
Evaluation 1
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real products?
Our thriller opening incorporates several generic conventions of a classic thriller. For example, it has a constant piano score, creating suspense throughout, it also has a sudden drop in the music, scaring the audience. Our camera angle shots that we used were effective, making it clear to the audience that our thriller was based on a stalker. One shot that I found very effective was through the outside window, where the hand held camera can be seen, this matched well with the shot through the gap in the fence, once again making it clear to the audience that the thriller was based around the stalking of the protagonist.
In the editing process of our thriller opening, we used the static television effect in between shots in order to bring a more thrilling aspect to the opening. I felt that this was very effective and ensured that it was clear that our film was a thriller and not a social realism, which without the editing could have been. Due to our film opening being set during the morning, we could not use lighting as effectively as in a conventional thriller opening, however we did apply filters during editing in order to give it a darker, more spooky look, as seen in many other thrillers.
Camera angles, shots and movement
In our thriller we used very conventional camera shots, such as the shot which is through the fence and the shot through the kitchen window. These shots were very effective and made sure that the the thriller matched the genre which we were basing it around; Stalker-Thriller.
Mise-en-scene
The hand held camera that can be seen in the reflection of the mirror gives the film a voyeuristic feel and look about it. The hand held camera makes it clear that the film is a stalker-thriller. We also used the mobile phone as a prop as it is often seen in many other similar thrillers such as Taken or The Perfect Man.
Lighting
Due to our film being set during the morning, we had to keep all of the lighting natural and therefore in order to ensure that the film was clearly a thriller, we applied a filter to make the entire film have a darker, grainier look about it.
Editing
During the editing phase of our thriller opening, we incorporated the static effect of a television screen in-between each different shot. We did this purposely to ensure that the opening kept with the typical conventions of a thriller film. We also applied a filter to the film to give it a darker and more scary feel.
Characters and Plot
Our thriller opening followed the classical conventions of a thriller film. Our protagonist was a stereotypical character to be stalked, a teenage white girl aged around 16-19 years of age. Other films that also match this stereotype is Taken and Alone with her.
Our thriller opening incorporates several generic conventions of a classic thriller. For example, it has a constant piano score, creating suspense throughout, it also has a sudden drop in the music, scaring the audience. Our camera angle shots that we used were effective, making it clear to the audience that our thriller was based on a stalker. One shot that I found very effective was through the outside window, where the hand held camera can be seen, this matched well with the shot through the gap in the fence, once again making it clear to the audience that the thriller was based around the stalking of the protagonist.
In the editing process of our thriller opening, we used the static television effect in between shots in order to bring a more thrilling aspect to the opening. I felt that this was very effective and ensured that it was clear that our film was a thriller and not a social realism, which without the editing could have been. Due to our film opening being set during the morning, we could not use lighting as effectively as in a conventional thriller opening, however we did apply filters during editing in order to give it a darker, more spooky look, as seen in many other thrillers.
Camera angles, shots and movement
In our thriller we used very conventional camera shots, such as the shot which is through the fence and the shot through the kitchen window. These shots were very effective and made sure that the the thriller matched the genre which we were basing it around; Stalker-Thriller.
Mise-en-scene
The hand held camera that can be seen in the reflection of the mirror gives the film a voyeuristic feel and look about it. The hand held camera makes it clear that the film is a stalker-thriller. We also used the mobile phone as a prop as it is often seen in many other similar thrillers such as Taken or The Perfect Man.
Lighting
Due to our film being set during the morning, we had to keep all of the lighting natural and therefore in order to ensure that the film was clearly a thriller, we applied a filter to make the entire film have a darker, grainier look about it.
Editing
During the editing phase of our thriller opening, we incorporated the static effect of a television screen in-between each different shot. We did this purposely to ensure that the opening kept with the typical conventions of a thriller film. We also applied a filter to the film to give it a darker and more scary feel.
Characters and Plot
Our thriller opening followed the classical conventions of a thriller film. Our protagonist was a stereotypical character to be stalked, a teenage white girl aged around 16-19 years of age. Other films that also match this stereotype is Taken and Alone with her.
Monday, 21 March 2016
Friday, 4 March 2016
Friday, 26 February 2016
Mini pitch plus Q&A
As a group we came to a decision about the idea of what we are going to do for our Thriller. the ideas we gave in our mini pitch were a rough idea about what is going to be in our opening sequence. From the feedback we received about the ideas we had in mind of our Thriller were very helpful as we were able to see what was good or bad and if something needed changed a little. The feedback was good for our group as a whole because we were able to go in more depth to our audience and explain why we are having no dialogue in our opening for example to give them a better picture of our ideas which enables us to get good thorough feedback. As a whole the concept of our thriller was good and from the feedback it was mostly positive.
Tuesday, 23 February 2016
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