Question 7- Looking back at your prliminary task, what do you feel you have learned in the progression from it to the full product?

This is our match cut preliminary, and it is clear that our skills here were not as advanced as they were in the final movie.

This is our movie and it is clear that we have improved with our range of camera angles and shots. We have also learnt how to add credits and sound.

Q1 In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge, forms and conventions of a real media products

The images on the left hand corner are from our film and se7en we edited them together in photoshop to create a nine shot title sequence Our film Demented is inspired by Se7en, it featured a lot of close ups and abstract images. There was a character but his identity was not revealed in the opening and that is what we tried to imitate, Our film had the opening title inbetween the images rather than during the images unlike Se7en.

We both used similar camera shots and tried to shoot our clips from different angles, we had a lot of extreme close ups and tried to also give a garish-horror kind of view.

Editing in Se7en is quite quick and sharp however ours is slow paced and doesnt have any sharp cuts, we didnt have exactly the same shots as se7en but we achieved the idea of the extreme close ups and was really effective.

For example the first two pictures you can see the image of se7en with the book and our image with the book and the unknown characters hand with an extreme close up on it, showing we produced a clear annotation of the image we were trying to create.

We tried to create something ambiguous that had a sense of not knowing what was happening in the opening of the film just like se7en creating a mood of suspense

Q2 How does your media product represnt particular socail groups?

The image above is from our thriller Demented and the one beneath it from Se7en, as you can see the image is quite disturbing because you can see the unknown character crossing out a young girls face representing that the characters social group falls under disturbed and troubled people.

These two shots are very similar their both have extreme close ups my group tried to immitate these aspects of camerawork to create that spooky effect, trying to capture the same effect se7en did in the film.

I believe that we achieved this successfully, as you can see the still image is the same as our still image expect for theres being with a black background faded out and ect, but we conveyed the idea perfectly to suit our film.

The two shots are suggesting that these two characters are innocent victims of a serial killer who is deranged because of the crossing out of the child's face showing that the unknown character has childhood issues that takes it out on innocent young children.

Giving away fear and uncertainty which creates a sense of the character being mad person and a phycopath.

Q3&4 What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

This is a piece from an as media student who posted her film on youtube who got total views of 1,771, comments3:34, favorites:7, ratings:21 and an average rating of:4.67.

This shows that the medis institutions have increased incredibly over the past ten years which shows that it has gained a great amount of viewers, showing that this is the best way of devloping and gaining a wider audiences, aspiring people to have the opportunity to share their work with people around the world which can be really good for networking.

This was a low budget film that was limited with equipment, this shows that any movie that is filmed properly can be distributed through the internet because it is a worldwide website that is attracting a wide spread audience.

There has been an increase of internet access in homes making easier for students like me to be recongnised and that want to distribute their film to a global auidence, the internet is a free place for advertisment making your self known and buliding up your popularity within the internet services, and widing your connections from the interent to gain publicity to make a breakthrough for your film.

Youtube is accessed by millions of people around the world which makes youtube the number1 internet service for distribution and making yourself get recognition amongst thousands of viewers.

Facebook is also a good internet site for distributing a film, tou can tag anybody which will appear on there page and their friends will be able to watch it by doing this you get a wider auidence and many people will be interested in your movie, Twitter one of the new internets services that have blossomed recently will be good also because your reaching out to alot of followers that will want to know about and see your film.

Q5 Who would Be The Audience For Your Media Product

Christina Morgan is 21 in her last year of universty and works part time as a make-up artist.

She is very creative and likes to make her own clothes and is currently working on her own clothing line, she loves fashion, heels and designer bags, everywhere shes goes she always has to have her iphone, ipod and purse with her she never forgets them remmbering to always put them in her handbag, she loves music and has a deep passion for all types of music and listens to different genres.

Christina loves to shop at selfridges and is into high fashion, Christina comes across as being a typical materialistic girly girl but thats just one side to her.

But she is also Athletic and likes her sports she is into, dancing, swimming, tennis,car racing and football is her favorite, she surports Arsenal and is a very big fan.

Christina loves horror and action thrillers and also likes alot of freaky werid horrfiying movies that make her jump and excites her, she is always renting out Dvds when she doesnt have the time to travel to the cinema because the cinema is quite far from her campus, and when she is not at uni she is working on her clothing line or at her part time job as a make-uo artist.

Christina is very sociable and likes to interact with people and get to know new connects that will help her later on in life with her clothing line.

Q6 what have you learned about technologies

Fonts

Here are a few samples of fonts we were looking at for our film, the ones that appeal to me the most are Times New Roman because you can see it reprsents seriousness maturity attracting people from an older age group e.g. 17and over, Comic Sans Ms speaks for it self comic really childlike comic writing attracting a much younger age group for comic films or also can be for cheesey comedy films.
Impact also looks serious and something that i would like as a font in my film and Georigia nice and feminine but also serious at the same time very formal.
The other fonts are quite informal and dont attractive me like the others do.

How is suspense created in the film you watched in class?

Collateral is about a cab driver finding himself the hostage of an engaging contract killer as he makes his rounds from hit to hit during one night in the city of LA he must find a way to save himself and one last victim.


Collateral is an action based crime Thriller, the opening clip is set in an airport where a close up is taken of Tom Crusie's face represntaing that he is the main character.
Tom Cruise walks through the airpot at a slow pace in a grey suit, tinited shades and a brief case indicating he is of high importance and showing he is chilled and cool.
However the other man has fast pace footsteps showong the auidence that he is in a rush and wants to get to hid destination as quick as possiable, showing binary oppositions with non-digetic sound of a fast pace drum beat creating suspense and anxiety as it indicates to the auidence that something is going to haoppen.
When they finially meet eachother there is a match cut on the bag swap again creating suspense making the audience get really into the film wondering whats in the bag was it performed by perpose or was it a set up this now draws the audience into the film.
There is a over the shoulder shot of Tom Crusie allowing the audience to see from his perspective making it a very suspensful momenet because the auidence have not been introuced to the characters and are left wondering what is going to happen.

Events that inspire a Thriller film

Mother Charged With Toddlers Murder- A mother was charged of murdering two innocent toddlers and their bodies where found in a boot of a car







This is a good example for an event for a thriller as the film can show how she prepared and planned for the killing of the her children, which will convey suspense and the audience will get ecxited about the fact not knowing what is really going to happing to the children. when they find out eventually that she is going to kill them it will be tense and horrifying for the auidence to watch, aslo having sympathy for the two little kids making the fil quite intense.
The film can be about her crazy uncontrolled life that cant handle her own kids most probably a psycopath trying to kill her children because she cannot handle them she thinks that her childern are making her go mad but she is just delusional.
The film can have cross cuts between what she is doing and what the toddlers are doing, this can create a sense of how they are connected and give out clues that something extremley wrong will happen to the toddlers making the film really intense to watch, attracting the audience.

This will get the auidence on their toes eager to see if the delusional crazy mother is actually going to kill her two innocent children who are very pure and innocent playing with eachother and their toys also making the audience very sympathetic and the film quite scary and emotional for them.

How is Suspense Created In The Film United93

The film United93 is based on terrorist attacks that occured in America on september the 11th, 2001. Terrorists hijacked serveral planes, two of them hitting the World Trade Centre and one of them hitting the pentagon. One of the planes, United Flight Airlines93, did not succed to reached its target which was the white house, as the passengers on board managed to takeover the hijackers using force and crash into a feild in Shanksville Pennysylvaina.

The film achieves to create suspense really well in the film. However some other thrillers tend to take longer time to get the message of suspense across to the veiwers until the middle near end of the film not making it really effective.

Furthermore in United93 suspense is shown throughout the film getting the whole audience so intrigued and foucsed on whats going on also make the viewers anticipate on what is going to happen, making it very tense and unease for some viewers which makes it a good film.

Many features of the film contribute to this, for example when a air traffic control worker tries to contact the first plane to be hijacked, American 77 but dont scucced also with the hijackers of United93 looking quite mishevious and suspicious as they board the flight.

This lets the auidence no that something is not right and that something bad is going to happen on the plane, you can tell because the guy is really fidgety and sweats allot, making the audience pay closer attention to what is happening in the film at this point they ar focused on what they are watching.

There is also a good amount of non-diegetic sound, most prominate in the scene where the hijackers take over the plane, the music that is played over the scene changes the audiences emotion, as well as letting them no that the climax of the film is comming soon.

One important way the film is seen to create continuous suspense in a subliminal way is by the continuity use of sound. During the whole film there is alot of base sounds and drones which represent the upcoming disaster and terror that is awaiting them, and also the anxiety of the viewers. For example when the passengers are preparing to try and takeover the hijackers the tempo and the volume of the base and drones now increase which creates fear for the audience.

Evaluation: Question 8, group feedback and Wordle

This is a word cloud, in class everyone viewed our film and gave us written feedback, using a Wordle (word cloud) we managed to evaluate which words were used most frequently and what a sample of our target audience thought. the most frequent words used while evaluating our film was such words as Film, thriller, shots, editing, well, good and music judging by these key words we established that the audience liked the thriller and found a numerous amount of things good about it. This gave us a good idea of what people thought without having long sentences, the short words were really direct and straight to the point.

Q3&4 Evaluation

youtube will be the best media institution to distribute any kind of media product and the amount of hits will attractive the audience, because they will automatically think that it is a good film because of the amount of hits that it has also the good feedback that it gets.

by doing this the internet could be used to further distribute and market the movie if they potentially reached a global audience.

The movie looks very professional

Q8. Audience Feedback and Comment

we used a still camera throughout the film producing different types of shots and sticking to the 180 rule

Skills Audit: Livetype & soundtrack & PITCH

We had to make a short sequence immitating the briefcase swap in collateral. to edit all of this we had to use Final cut pro.

Live type allows you to add Text, objects, effect to add to anything film that you make, to give it that proffesional look.

Soundtrack allows you to make sountracks whether it be, footsteps, clapping, screaming, by this you can also add insound effects to add tension to it.

The Match Cut Exercise

As part of our match cut practical exercise we had to produce a short clip including a match cut and a shot reverse shot, by doing this we gained knowledge of how to create a match cut and understand how to produce it accurately.

when doing this clip we had to stick to the 180 degrees rule, so everything looked in proportion, i personally think that are group achieved this really well because of the amount of detail that was shown in the clip, also when yolande was filmed going through the door and and shutting the door behind her was very smooth and had no faults.

Also when there was a over the shoulder shot of me giving yolande the paper work it became more realistic, which made are final clip very successful.

We went over the clips over and over again and made sure it looked correct, are whole entire group were dedicated and wanted to make sure that we made all the requirements and i do think are whole group achieved that aspect of the match cut and shot reverse shot in are short clip

Match Cut Prelim

Skills audit soundtrack

In lesson we learnt how to use soundtrack pro, i clicked on soundtrack pro which lead me into the process of editing music using different genres.

I went on to click on untilled were i dragged music from the music dash board to create a upbeat fast tempo soundtrack using drum and base electric guitar sounds to put on the canvas window. I was able to experiment different elements and explore the wide range of genres, it provides a lot of detailed compostions which allowed me to pick from a wide range of themes.

photo analysis

This picture symbolizes a person being contempt

Contempt is an intense feeling or attitude of regarding someone or something as inferior, base, or worthless—it is similar to scorn. It is also used when people are being sarcastic. Contempt is also defined as the state of being despised or dishonored; disgrace, and an open disrespect or willful disobedience of the authority of a court of law or legislative body.

CONTENETMENT

Skills audit editing

I went to final cut pro-Bait tutorial,then opened a clip from browser and put in and out points then went on to drag the clips on the timeline.

I learned how to use a razor tool, also learned how build a sequence on the timeline.