Evaluation 7

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

9 frame sequence-

Looking back at our preliminary task, I feel that I have improved hugely in knowing more about filming and editing and exploring different platforms. I learnt a lot more about using cameras and techniques and angles, as well as finding out what angles and shots fit in best with a specific setting and how to use that to edit on 'Final Cut Pro X'.


Preliminary task:






Pre-production:

Pre-production is where all the planning takes place before any filming is done. This includes deciding where the location is, the script and making a plot. Also getting together actors and equipment.
We had to plan our time wisely and make a plan for what we was exactly going to do so when it came to actually filming we knew what we was doing and we had excellent time management. As it was our first time using the camera and equipment and also the Mac software (Final Cut Pro X) it took us a bit longer to figure things out but it came to us fairly quickly so when it came to making our Thriller and editing we had a lot more confidence in what we was doing which was very helpful.
when it came to filming our thriller opening, and this lead to a successful process.

Production:

When filming our preliminary task, we started discovering different camera angles and shots, for example close-ups. As we discovered this in our preliminary task when it came to our thriller we incorporated these shots into our opening and it also made it easier to film as we had past experience so it wasn't anything new. 

We included continuity techniques in our thriller with establishing shots and match on action. Establishing shots establish the shot where action is taking place, so in our case it is in a house and match on action was used to keep a continuous movement from one shot to the next.

 close-up shot

  In this picture we used the rule of thirds


Post- production:

This part mainly just included all  of the editing of the footage we filmed. We created a storyboard which we used as a guideline and when it came to the editing process we knew how to use the software and this made the time we had to edit very productive.

overall, I think our Thriller was successful as we used many different types of camera angles and shots. Also through the process we gained skills in editing and a  greater knowledge in thriller conventions.

Evaluation 5

Evaluation 1

Evaluation 6

Evaluation 6 from melissapreston100

Final product

Evaluation 4

What would be the audience for your media product?

Audience research: who our target audience is

For our Thriller opening we decided as a group that we would target our film at people aged 15+.
both male and female. We chose this age rating because we did research on a variety of Thriller films and the majority of the age rating certificates are 15. Also as a group we discussed how we didn't want our audience to feel that it is aimed at just 15 year olds because of the age certificate being 15 but in fact we would want our film audience being between the ages 0f 15-25  because people between the ages of 15-25 are the prime ages for cinema goers.

in past research for our audience, we created a survey to find out what certain factors that would help us  create our thriller, the questions were:

We created these questions on a website called Survey Monkey and i then posted the link to the questionnaire on social networking sites like Facebook for my fiends and family to answer. After leaving the questionnaire up for a couple of weeks i gathered the results and this is what they were.

Question 1-

most people were aged 15-19.

Queston 2 -

most people preferred the sub-genre of psychological.

Question 3 -

most people said no to having dialogue in an opening.

Question 4 -

music and sound establishes an atmosphere the most in thrillers.

Question 5 -
there was a variety of answers for this question.

Question 6 -
the most important element to people who answered this question was camera work.

I took these answers on board and coorperated these into our thriller.

Evaluation 3

Evaluation 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

In our Thriller opening we only had one main character which was visible throughout the whole opening. The stalker however is not seen at all apart from a shadow and a hand.

The girl (myself) in our Thriller who is playing a teen/young lady was wearing normal every day to day clothes. We decided that by using a young lady who is around the age of 16/17 would help to intrigue the audience more as our target audience is aimed at 15 year olds and older. So by this the audience will be able to relate due to the age and in some cases the audience could think about if they were in the situation which is going on in the opening.
We used gender in a stereotypical way by using a female protagonist and male antagonist in which it follows the conventions of most thriller films.
The picture on the left shows the female protagonist and what she is wearing. The costume she is wearing which is a white top and jeans is a costume that an ordinary teen would wear.

Because the young lady is the only character that is introduced properly it suggests that she has a big part to play in the Thriller. 

The film 'Five Girls' is Thriller/Horror and the young lady in this, which you can see below is wearing casual every day to day clothes and this is similar to ours.

From past research, I found out what a typical teen/young lady likes to wear and do in their spare time and this is where we got the idea of what the young lady should wear.

 

The picture on the right is a shadow of the antagonist in which he is watching the young girl from a window. You don't see him (antagonist) you only see a quick shadow and a hand from where he is holding a camera to film the young lady.

Evaluaton 1

Research and Planning

PLANNING: Health and Safety

Health and Safety

3 point lighting

Animatic

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.

Mini Pitch

Mini pitch from melissapreston100

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/WXHP55F

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/WXHP55F

Podcast - Group discussion

https://soundcloud.com/melissa-preston-794115821/new-recording-2-media-2

Sound

When choosing the music for our thriller we needed to make sure we used uncopyright music that would fit with our opening and also the conventions of a thriller.
The screenshot below is the link we used in which we embedded the background music into our thriller.

When we were deciding on the sound to use we were stuck between three different one, these were:

But we chose the one which is at the top (first screenshot) because it created a more edgy feeling and worked the best.


The screenshot below is of the link we used for the ticking of the clock in our thriller.

Podcast 2

Initial Ideas