Evaluation

Evaluation - Question 5 - Who would be the audience for your media product?

Our media product is directed to young teenagers to young adults as this is the age group that is most likely to be interested in thriller movies. "Tom - 18, 'friday nights are the best, me and all my friends go cinemas and watch the latest thriller out and then go for a drink. in a film thriller genre's are the best'. Also young adults mainly like thrillers as they are more mature and have an understanding mind. From a long working day, most of them like to spend their free time with their close friends watching a film. "clair, aged 24, 'From a long working day a thriller is the one!". in conclusion, our film persuades all audiences interested in thriller genre's but, the age group that i targeted is more frequent with it.

As our film starts off tensing the audience by not showing any faces but locations it gives an idea of common sense which mainly teenagers and on wards would get. Young adults mostly like films that keeps them questioning themselves and keeps them in anxiety.

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Evaluation - Task 3 and 4 - What type of media institution might distribute your media product and why? How will you attract/address your audience?

Our film was produced under low budget and will be distributed by a low budgeted method. I will release my film on video hosting sites such as Youtube, vimeo etc. This method is a method which almost guarantee's success in attracting audience as video hosting sites such as Youtube has Millions of visitors a day. We will also have our movie screened at 'Screen on the green' and will get feedback from our peers.

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Evaluation - Task 2 - How does your media product represent particular groups


The opening title that we have created has no characters shown on screen, which cannot really represented as any social groups however the locations used show that it is a poor area where working classed people live.

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Evaluation - Task 1 - In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products

When we were going through stages of planning our film, we came across a film which influenced our group’s ideas and technical skills. Arlington Road is the film which has influenced our ideas of creating an opening sequence. The film Arlington Road is created with short clips merged, creating a tense opening sequence. The mise-en-scene has dark lighting which adds tension to the scene. In our opening title sequence a sans serif font was used throughout to make the film look more contemporary.

Film - 'The Thing'

Our Opening Sequence to 'Rejected'

Our opening sequence is structured in a discrete format. Our title sequence is similar to the title sequence of the film ‘The Thing’ as both title sequences have a range of shots merged together which has been merged together using transition effects.

Evaluation - Task 6 - What have you learned about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

(Voice over by Tien & Bektas)

Evalutaion - Task 8 - Audience Feedback and Comments

Words Montage

These are the words used to describe our thriller opening sequence by our peers

Video Response

Changes in light of feedback from roughcut

As a group we decided to make wholesale changes from our eventual rough cut. This is because we we're not happy on the direction the project was going and how it turned out. We missed out vital shots which would of taken the project to another level and we couldn't re shoot the shots needed because of continuation problems. So we decided to shoot a whole new opening. Our initial inspiration for the project was the 'Se7en' thriller opening. However we turned our attention towards 'Arlington Road' and began to take inspiration from that.

After thoroughly researching the school archive of works from previous students we realised nothing similar had been done before and our final cut project would be unique and original amongst other student's projects.

'Rejected' - Rough cut

Soundtrack Composition

Animatic Storyboard - 'Rejected'

The Pitch - 'Rejected'

Card Game

For our card game task we were given a deck of cards as a prop to create a short practice film. Different camera shots and angels were used to make the film more interesting. This was then edited using Final cut pro where we trimmed clips and combined clips to make up the film. Soundtrack pro was also used to edit the film by adding sound effects which made the film more interesting and more on edge.

Camera shots, sound and editing:

• Medium close up (MCU)
• Close up (CU)
• Long shot (LS)
• Wide shot (WS)
• Shot reverse shot
• Over the shoulder shot
• Sound effects
• Match cut

Match Cut Exercise

For the match cut exercise we had to film a short clip and use camera work and editing skills to show a match cut and shot reverse shot. The finishes were done on Final Cut Pro where we trimmed imported clips to create a finished short clip containing a match cut and a few shot reverse shots.

Camera Shots/Movements Used:

• over the shoulder shot
• Medium shots
• Panning
• Long shots

Preliminary Task - Match Cut Exercise

Card Game (Livetype & Sound Practice)

Mood

The mood shown in this shot is confused which has been created by someone holding a book the wrong side up.

Skills Audit - Editing

Final Cut Pro - Bait tutorial

• Learned how to drag clips with double headed arrows
• learned how to use razor blade tool
• make in & out points in the viewer window
• drag clips onto the time line
• insert clips into a sequence
• layer clips

Suspense in 'What Lies Beneath'

In 'What Lies Beneath' a variety of camera work and sound is used to create suspense throughout scenes.

The scene where Claire dashes for the door in search of escape from Norman, the camera is from a low angle as Norman's point of view which is telling viewers that he is'nt dead.