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.

Question 2-How does your media product represent particular social groups

These are still images, one of them is from our movie 'Demented' and the other still is from the movie which inspired us when we were making our film 'Se7en'. Our still image is our character with cellotape and about to cellotape something whilst the other image is only a picture of hands doing something. I chose these because they are opposites of each other.

We tried to make the mies en scene look the same by using lighting to darken the whole room and only add emphasis to the characters hands, this was also affective because that would add a nice shadow affect. Our product is not specific to one kind of social group, we think that people will like our film for their own individual reasons, although the most popular audience will be young people who would probably like to get a fright

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

These are the typical items you would find in the bag of one of our main target audiences. Martin is a young employe who works at H&M and is really outgoing and active. He loves to go out and take part in various sports. He is also up to date with all technologies and gadgets. He is 21 and is studying at university. The lucozade shows that he is energetic and the iphone and watch shows his knowledge of gadgets. He is a thrill enthusiast so he would be the perfect person to come and watch our film.

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

Question 3&4

This is a student film called 'Genesis' it has had 13,737 hits. This is a low budget videos like ours and it can only be released over the internet on videos sharing sites such as YouTube. Because it has bin released over the internet people all over the world can see and that is how you get a video distributed to a wide audience without paying money or getting people to sponsor you. You can watch student movies from anywhere you are whether it be from the comfort of your home on your computer, or on the bus on the way to work on your phone. This film is similar to ours in that it is a thriller which has a slight hint of horror and that is why i think our film will get alot of hits, i also think this because with the help of friends and family spreading the word through word of mouth and other the internet it can be a big film.

Q6 what have you learned about technologies

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.

Q8. Audience Feedback and Comment

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.

Art of the Title Sequence

I chose this thriller sequence title because I thought it was the most effective and relevant to our film. It has a lot of abstract pictures and in between it has the titles. Just like the opening of our thriller film most of the objects and pictures shown just seem random and it is hard to figure out what the film is going to be about until right at the end when the title is shown, The opening leaves a lot to the imagination and it makes you want to watch the rest of the film and figure out what all the images and pictures were about. The font is Gothic and weird like our film and it complements the theme of the film well.

Skills Audit-Editing

To help me create my own video i had to practice how to make a sequence in a video clip. I had to open final cut pro-bait clips and from there i had to select certain clips that i wanted and then I played it and then i pressed I which stands for input to play where i wanted the clip to play from then i pressed O which stands for output for where i wanted the clip to stop. I dragged these clips onto the timeline and then played it. I also learned how to use the razor tool which enabled me to cut out any other clips that i did not want in the final movie.

Introduction to Camera Health and Safety

This is obviously the most important part of equipment that we will be using during our film, during the lesson we got taught certain things such as focussing, zooming, recording and playing back footage.

























This is a tripod and this enables you to shoot from different angles and heights while keeping the camera perfectly still.

Whilst we were in the lesson we got an introduction on how to use the cameras safely and use all the different functions. One of the mot vital things was to keep the camera dry and protect the lens from intense sunlight because all these things would damage the video camera. we were also taught how to insert the memory cards into the correct place and how to take them out. We learnt how to put the camera on the tripod properly and how to take it off properly aswell. We practiced filming, changing the focus and switching the cameras off and on.

Match Cut Prelim

Skills Audit for Soundtrack

I opened sound track pro and then I clicked the search tab and then the first sound I used was the "Cowbell with big verb" sound effect and I was going to use this as my basis for all of my other sounds and sound effects. I then went to the violin tab and chose "Contemplative synth", i chose this to give the music an eerie sound. I put a scream at the end of it to finish the piece.

Location Shots

This is the location for the opening of our for our thriller film 'Demented'. On first view of these pictures do not seem like an ideal location for a horror thriller but using lighting and other mies en scene we got the balance right and out opening came out looking just right.

Poland issues EU arrest warrant for suspected Auschwitz sign thief

I believe that this will make a good legal thriller because it is already a controversial issue and it will have the audience hooked on the storyline instantly. The movie could show the build of the sign being stolen and what happened to it.

List of Thriller Sub genres

There are several different sub-genres:

Action Thrillers

Psychological Thrillers

Erotic Thrillers

Political Thrillers

Tech-no Thrillers

Legal Thrillers

My favourite type of thrillers are action thrillers because they provide the most action and they keep me in suspense the most. The story lines are often similar but they still provide the most entertainment.

Photo Analysis

This image is meant to depict the emotion of depression, The eyes are pointed downwards which helps to enhance this expression, his body language also displays depression because of his slouched back and his head which is slightly tilted and turned to the side.

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

In the film united 93 several different ways to build tension were used. In this film the director decided to use a real time account of the events on the United 93 and this in itself builds tension because throughout the film you never know when a turning point is going to come so it leaves you on edge. The use of camera work at the beginning also creates suspense, the shot reverse shots of the two terrorists at the beginning make you realize that they are going to do something but that shot makes you think that they are going to do it at the start of the movie and not towards the end. At the end of the film whilst the plane is crashing the camera switches from a pitch black screen to the scenery below then to the passengers fighting for control of the plane and this creates suspense because the audience does not no whether or not the plane will end up crashing or end up living.The scariest part of the film is the unpreparedness of the FAA and the military in dealing with the situation, which is also well-depicted here.

Definition

Suspense: Pleasurable excitement and anticipation regarding an outcome.