Final video

Evaluation activity 7 - Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

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

Evaluation activity 5 - How did you attract/address your audience?

Evaluation Activity 4 - Who would be the audience for our media product?

Evaluation Activity 4

Evaluation activity 3 - What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Evaluation activity 2 - How does your media product represent particular social groups?

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

Planned location recess

Audience feedback

Initial ideas/Amendment of ideas

Re-shoots

Filming permission

Progress meeting

Thought map

Advice from teachers on our rough cut

- At the begining the shots need to be more snappy and make the veiwer feel more intense and mysterious.
-The ending was too abrubt.
-There needs to be a significant final shot of something that grabs the audiences attention.
abrubt ending

Our 3rd poster

This is the final poster that we made for our film, we think this is the most successful because it looks professional, it contains the actors names at the top, the main focal image makes it clear that it is a crime film, the production team and brand names are included in the same print at the bottom, and the actual film name is clearly seen. We also think that the lighting and tone of the image itself sets the mood of the film.

Rough cut

Twitter page

This is our Twitter page, we feel as though Twitter is a great way to have first hand communication with our consumers and therefore they will have a sense of loyalty to us. Here we will promote our upcoming projects.

Stephens Costume Summary.

Gavins Costume Summary.

Diary of a Day Shooting

Filming schedule

Our movie editor

We have played around with different types of movie editors and we thought that iMovie was the best. Simply because it seemed simple and easy to use when we played around on it, and it can be accessed via computer or tablet which makes it much easier for us to edit individually or in the group.

Jak's interview

Stephens interview

This is Stephens interview where we asked him questions about the practice day of filming and what changes he is going to make with the upcoming filming day.

Gavins interview

This is Gavins interview and we asked him questions about his acting and what he is going to change on the real day.

Production Company and Ethos

Jacks interview

This is Jacks interview again asking him about what he is going to do on filming day that he didnt do on the practice day.

Our social page

Why we chose not to use a script or have dialogue

Whilst we were preparing our thriller opening, we had to decide if we were firstly going to use a script and secondly use any background noises from recording.

This is an example of a thriller opening that has dialogue/a script involved, and in my opinion although the thriller itself was well made and has a good story, the speaking sounded very scripted and unrealistic.

 

This second video is an example of an A grade thriller opening that does not have a script or any speaking involved, this makes the thriller sound much better with just edited sound and music involved, this also allows the editer to add extra music into it to make the video intense, and not keep it simple to allow the dialogue to take place.

 
Overall I think it would be much better if we did not use a script in our thriller as it could sound very bad and unprofessional, also at our location there is a lot of background noises that are very loud and irritating even when we arent filming, for example a train goes by our location every few minutes and makes a lot of noise, and also dog walkers sometimes walk by and the dogs could bark and ruin the scene, so ideally, we would be much better off if we did not include any background noise or speaking as it would allow us to take advantage of any music or sound effects we want to use while not focusing on developing the dialougue.

Our 2nd Poster

Our 1st poster

This poster is our first practise poster that I created. This is just a quick teaser poster just to show what our thriller is about, and I used a picture of our location and edited it just to make it seem realsitic but also creepy.

The reason for naming our film Recollection

Why We Chose to Call Our Thriller Recollection

The four types of title sequence

The first of the four is a discrete title sequence. This sort of sequence gives the watcher a good idea of what the film is going to be about and what sort of things will be happening without revealing too much. A good example of this is the se7en title sequence which involves many distorted and disturbing images.

The second type of title sequence is a narrative opening where the credits come along with the start of the film. This is effective as it gets the watcher enticed in the film from an early stage. A good example of this is ‘the shining’. In this opening there is an erey feel due to the fact they are in a very quiet and almost abandoned place.

Another type of title sequence is a high budgeted title sequence. An example of this is the opening of ‘Casino Royal’. This is normal for a film like James bond which is very well known and therefore well-funded. With an opening like what ours will be this will not be possible as we do not have the funds to produce it.

The last type of title sequence is stylized editing. An example of this is stylized editing ‘Mesrine’ where editing is used to show split screens and create the feeling of someone being watched and followed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Our changes so far

Music ideas for our thriller

As a group, we spoke about the different types of effect that we wanted the veiwer to feel, therefore we listened to many different sounds that we thought were suitable for a crime thriller movie. We also had to realise that the music had to be copyright free.

At this point, we are not sure if we are going to use any of these soundtracks, but we have agreed that this is the type that we want to have in our thriller opening.

Pitch

why we chose to make a crime/thriller

Storyboard

This is an overveiw of our storyboard, Gavin speaks about the basic plot and camera angles that we will include.

Marking other students work

Below is an overveiw of the points that we covered in the video.




Here is the video that we assessed.

Calendar of tasks

As a group, we created a calendar of all the tasks we we need to complete in preparation for the filming to keep ourselves organised and make things clear. 

Risk assessment

Risk Assessment.

Maslows hierarchy of needs

Maslow stated that people are motivated to achieve certain needs. When one need is fulfilled a person seeks to fullfil the next one, and so on.

The earliest and most widespread version of Maslow's hierarchy of needs includes five motivational needs, often depicted as hierarchical levels within a pyramid.

This five stage model can be divided into basic (or deficiency) needs (e.g. physiological, safety, love, and esteem) and growth needs (self-actualization).

Physcographic profiling

Location

The Location for Our Thriller

Demographic target audience

Audience profile

Audience profile

Name: Lee Smith

Gender: Male

Age: 17

Born: UK

Education: Sixth form (A-level student)

Subjects: Business Studies, Economics, Philosophy

Interests: As a teenager, I enjoy social time with my friends; we tend to go to leisure places such as golf courses, football Astros and swimming. I also enjoy attending the cinema. I have several social media sites that I use to communicate with my friends and family and keep me up to date with things going on in the world.

Favorite movies: As a teenager I enjoy tense gripping thrillers to get me thinking, I enjoy being on the edge of my seat. So in this case some of my faviroute films are Taken, The Woman in Black and Skyfall. That being said I also really enjoy watching comedy movies that make me laugh and give me and my friends something to talk about. I tend to watch films either with my friends at home or we go to the cinema for something to do for social time.

Favorite music/artists: My favorite style of music is usually whatever is in the top 40 UK charts. If I had to be more specific, I would say that R&B is my favorite style but this doesn’t mean that I don’t like listening to other genres.

Favorite TV shows: My favorite TV series are again ones that grip me and make me want to watch the new episode each week, as frustrating as it may be; I love series that give out cliff hangers in order to make me think about what could happen the following week. I enjoy crime series the most because I feel they are tense and most are based on real life situations. Examples of my favorite TV shows would be Broadchurch and Breaking bad.

Focus group

This is our focus group, we selected teenagers two of which do not work and two that do, two that drive, and two that don't. We done this on purpose because we believe that people sometimes choose to not see a thriller film because of their way of getting to the cinema. We also wanted to see the different views between people that work and people that don't. This is a brief few questions that we asked because these were the only questions we felt that had to be done in primary research, any other questions we had could be researched.

Group discussion of ideas

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 This is Jack pitching ideas to us whilst the rest of the group contributed and wrote down other ideas they got from this task.

Questionaires

Here are two sample questionaires that we made for the research. One from a teenager and one from a working adult.

Assigning jobs

Just before we started the process of completing our blogs we thought that it was necessary to organise ourselves. So we all met and agreed on certain jobs for us to all get on with. 

Target Audience

BBFC

BBFC ratings

Here are the available age ratings that are commonly asociated with all types of movies. We analysed the type of film that we are going to make and thoughroly thought about what age rating we should give it, we thought about other similar thriller films and looked at the ratings that they were given and applied it to our thriller movie opening. We rated it a 15 because uf the graphics we would imagine it to include, alongside the props and language. Also teenagers of 15 upwards are the main group of people that attend the cinema on a regular basis, therefore we deemed sales to be high.

 

Zombieland title sequence

Inception title sequence

godzilla analysis

Media Godzilla

Cape Fear Analysis

The Woman in Black analysis

Year 13 talk/advice

Year 13 Media Talk Blog

Mood Board

Mood board

What is a thriller?

Pre-lim; Post production

Post production

During the post-production we cut the footage we had taken during production. Where we had recorded extra footage at the start and end of the action we had to cut each clip till the time where we wanted that action to start and end at. When we cut the end of the action we had edit the clip so that it would smoothly run into the next clip.  We did this in chronological order so that we knew how the clip before would end and how we could start off the next one. Using this we were able to cut the start of each of the following clips so that it flows with the ending of the previous one. As we did this we added each edited clip on to the video creator splice. Using this app we were able to add each clip on the end of the others, this way we could see how smooth our cuts were. When we weren’t satisfied we would go back to our edited clips and make changes according to what we had seen in splice. This allowed us to make any changes to things that we weren’t happy with and smooth out our edits and allow the interchanging transitions to flow. Once we were happy with our little clip we would add the next clip on the end and repeat the same process of viewing the transitions reediting the clip and then replacing it with the one we hadn’t edited. As we moved further through the footage we asked others opinions on our edited prelim and took a mental note on the areas we needed to smooth out. After a while it became a repetitive process of watching and reediting clip after clip in attempt to get a smooth final piece. Once we had completed our prelim footage, we went back to the people we had asked previously for their opinions on the final clip and again made any final changes that we needed to until we were happy with what we had.

In our opinion if we were to reshoot and edit we would have experimented with more shots and angles so that we had extra footage to mess around with and give us a smooth flowing prelim.

Pre-lim; Production

Production

For the filming of our prelim we had to consider a number of ways to film the scenes in order to make them look professional. We had to think of ways to get the camera to stay steady during the filming to make the prelim look realistic and to also get used to the way that we will have to film our actual thriller movie opening.

The production of our preliminary was completed fairly quick, once we had figured out the different types of ways that we would get different angle shots with them still looking professional, we got on with the task and was much quicker and easier than expected. However we did face some problems, for example we had a shot of a person opening a door showing only their hand, followed by the next shot of the same person walking through the door, when we watched the scene through, the door didn’t open at the same time and didn’t seem to flow, therefore we re-shot these scenes in order for it to look much more realistic.

For the filming we used over the shoulder shots, 180 degree rule, satellite view, wide shots and extreme close ups, therefore we had to think of ways to keep the camera steady in all of these shots in order for them to look as real as possible. For most of the shots we used a steady table and a number of books to get to the exact level of the persons shoulder. The camera was stuck to the books by the use of blu-tack in order for it to stay still and not shake by holding it by hand, leaving the camera to hold itself felt more reliable that holding it ourselves. There was an exception of using this process with one of the shots that we used, the satellite shot, where we filmed two of the characters from above their heads. We done this to show the character who dominated the scene by taking us most of the table space.

We believe that use of the camera with the making of the preliminary work has made us more confident and used to using the camera when it comes to making our actual thriller movie opening, we now know how to steadily use the camera to get clear, clean shots. However the only thing that I think we could use when filming the actual opening is a selfie stick. We think this because when we were filming the satellite view we had to re-shoot a few times due to shaking of the hand. A selfie stick will allow us to film from the ground but instead extending the length of the stick to the angle we need it to go to. I believe that this will prevent shaking as we aren’t being put into an awkward body stance whilst trying to film.   

 

Pre-lim; pre-production

Prelim.

Pre- Production

  To start off on our coursework, we were told to create a short prelim as a basic introduction for what it is like filming and editing a scene. It only had to be 30 seconds- 1 minute long so we had a chance to play around with different camera techniques and angles and how to edit the video. The task of the prelim was to film a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down opposite another character, where the two characters will start a couple of lines of dialogue. The task had to demonstrate match on action, which basically means we have to add continuity to the scene so that it flows nicely from one part to another. Shot/reverse shot, which is used when the two characters are talking to each other and when they say a line, the camera will go between them and show their faces while they are saying there individual lines. Also the 180 degree rule, which is if the camera is showing a conversation between two people, the camera has to stay within the 180 degree line on one side of the two people talking, so we don’t distort the footage and change the perception of the audience on the footage, we were told to use smartphones to record as they are much easier to use, and we wouldn’t need a better camera for a 1 minute video. To edit the video, we were told to use an app called Splice.

To start off, we watched the prelims from other year groups who are doing the same coursework as us, and got a brief look at what we had to do and ideas for it. When we first started planning we made a storyboard on each of the main parts of the prelim, so we decided to make it work based, like one person is going into another room to help the other person out with homework, which means we decided to have one person walking down a corridor, with the camera focusing on the persons legs, walking down the corridor. We decided to create the prelim so that the camera does not show the first persons face, until he is sitting down facing the other person, to create an effect which would intensify the situation, although it sounds stupid for a harmless prelim that is not meant to be a thriller, we just did this to try and see if it worked and whether or not we could perhaps use this idea in our final piece.

We figured out the different camera angles we would use while the two characters were talking like the shot reverse shot, a two shot, and a viewpoint shot from above, this meant that we could get a good idea on how we could record scenes in the future using all these camera angles. When we had figured out what we were going to do in the storyboard, we went out to try and find a good place to record. When we were walking around the school, we found a small room, in a quieter area of our school and decided to record here, so we started to plan around the room, like what we were going to use as props and how we are going to film, after we sorted that out, we started filming.

 

 

Introduction