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.

Evaluation: Question 2 comparing similarities and differences in shots

One of the shots above is from our thriller (demented) and the other is from the film we were inspired by (seven) . in the thriller opening of seven there is someones hand writing whilst the effect on the shot over laps it and makes it blurry, we tried to capture this same effect as we thought it was very effective. although we tried to capture it exactly it didn't work considering seven used professional cameras and editors, their shots are quicker and the opening is faster paced than ours.

Evaluation: Question 5, Who would be the audience for your media product

Someone from our target audience would be... Aron! as you can see above.

Aron is 17 and is a stereotype of a moody teenage rebel... yhhhh!, he doesn't work doesn't clean, doesn't do chores, he actually doesn't do much other than eat and sleep, he's a skateboarder and loves pulling an Ollie or two in his spare time, hanging out with mates and late night parties are his sort of thing, he loves the colour black and gelling his hair till it looks plastic.. awesome!, he's cheap as ever and the money that he does get will be spent on "totally cool stuff" like booze and tobacco. skinny jeans and spikes on clothing is the kind of thing Aron here likes to wrap himself in, not my cup of tea but hey. on an ordinary day you might find this kinda stuff in Arons bag:

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

Q6 what have you learned about technologies

Evaluation: Question 3 & 4 institution and audiences

This video like ours is a low budget thriller which will only be released over the Internet on websites like Vimeo and YouTube, the video has probably been shown to classmates, family and friends and received the same sort of feedback ours has. through the medium of Internet the video has managed to reach a much wider audience allowing people all over the world to watch and give feedback through comments. where as 15 - 20 years ago you could about watch it on VHS or just a computer, our generation is used to new technology. In comparison we are an independent company and release our movie over the Internet looking for global feedback, it can be posted and promoted on such sites as Facebook, Myspace, YouTube, Vimeo and twitter, these are just some of the main social networking and video sites people use, this allows us to reach a wider audience gaining more feedback and trying to get world wide recognition. we can attract an audience by word of mouth either by friends suggesting it or by trailers (teasers) appealing to the age group it is aimed at.

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.

Types of fonts

When it comes to fonts there are two main types. serif fonts and sans serif fonts.

This would be an example of serif fonts, they are used for such things as letters and work their formal and are used for serious or important matters.

Sans serif fonts- theses fonts are a little laid back compared to Serif fonts, in contrast they are much more informal and you can use these type of fonts when writing to a friend or designing something playfull.

Skills audit: livetype and soundtrack

In the lesson we were told to film a bag swap, trying to imitate the one from collateral, at the end of it all we used final cut pro to edit it.

Live type allows you to create your own funky exciting writing, by changing the font adding objects or text and using effects you can give your film that professional looking finish.

sound track allows you to create a specific type of music you want for your film, wether it be tension building you music or an up beat happy tune soundtrack os perfect, you can also add sounds such as footsteps or breathing to make things seem all the more professional.

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

Intro to Camera & Health and Safety Tutorial

Equipment summary



This would be the most important piece of equipment as without it we wouldn't be able to film, in the lesson we got shown on how to do things such as:

• focus
• zoom
• playback footage
• record

A piece of equipment that lets you keep the camera perfectly steady for filming and lets you capture a range of shots that would be hard to capture with it being used hand held

Lesson summary

During this lesson we had received an introduction of the cameras for the first time, this would teach us with how to handle camera's using care for example keeping the camera dry at all times so if in rain use an umbrella also to close the lens when we have finished filming, and how to use them this would mean doing things like: switching them on and off, changing the focus and how to put the camera on the tripod.
handling the camera is very important to know, because it teaches me to be able to avoid a bad scenario happening, For instance if we did not know how to put the camera on the tripod then there is a big chance that the camera will fall and break on the floor which we would not want happening.
later that lesson we got told that we had to write our first story board for our first piece of filming footage the 'bag swap'.

Location shots

This is the location of where we shot our opening for the thriller. We used a classroom but we changed the scene and used props to not make it look like a classroom. We also added lighting and spotlights to add effect and help give it the weird look we aspired to achieve.

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.

News and current affairs events

London's Most Wanted: Convicted killers on the run

'This is the face of one of London's Most Wanted criminals who is suspected of having fled the UK to Amsterdam'

This would make an amazingly gripping thriller i used well, it could be similar to the popular episodes of 'prison break' which now doesn't air anymore but was a huge hit with many seasons. the film could be gripping from beginning to end perhaps starting with them running through the prison escaping as flash's of whats to come? and then going back to how the escape all began. they could be found out within the first hour and given a close chase by the guards! Along the way they have flashbacks or stories of how they all got there which could be moving and make this film epic, maybe they were all in their for a crime they did not commit to begin with? this would build tension well as the viewer would be intrigued and begin to show sympathy for these convicts as they want to see what happens next and who gets caught also who escapes!. finally those that have escaped could find a way to reach a new country (Amsterdam as show above) to start a new life safe from hiding.

Photo 'words' activity

Claustrophobia is being portrayed here, this is someone who is scared of closed confined spaces, this picture shows this persons anxiety and distress we can tell this by his facial expression and how his hand are placed, it seems as though he just wants to escape as he is trying to push the ceiling up. furthermore we can see him but yet there still is no escape for him thisis powerful because it shows him in a vunerable state.

Analysis of a thriller clip

We also watched the short clip of the action thriller Deja Vu, this clip was action packed with suspense and action. In the clip there was lots of upbeat, fast tempo music to create suspense, this film is about an agent who goes back in time to try and save a woman's life preventing her from getting murdered, from the clip we get a sense of him falling for her during the process. Just like most other thrillers the film starts with a very normal setting but with a tense atmosphere, happy children, people laughing, then we see a baby doll drop into the sea, This gives the viewer a sense of for-boding and anxiety it also sets the mood and begins to raise tension. At that point we see a man looking for a source of music and where it is coming from, he searches around franticly pacing through cars to find where the sound is coming from, he sees a car with the radio playing and the keys are plugged into the ignition, immediately there is a sense of tension and anxiety with the upbeat music, all of a sudden an explosion occurs, this is a great opening as it leaves the viewer wanting to know why that happened and what happens next making them watch on.

List of thriller sub-genres- which inspires you at the moment and why?

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Some say thriller and the first thing that comes to mind is a psycho with a knife killing everyone but in reality there is several different kinds of thrillers some of these are.

Techno thriller

Spy thriller

Pyschological thriller

Medical thriller

Horror thriller

Disaster thriller

Religiouse thriller

Drama thriller

Action thriller

Crime thriller

My favorite one in the list would be a crime thriller this is because it provides the sense of mystery which i love in a movie, and climax's are some of the best in crime thrillers, that also have the best twists in the story.

As media skills - audit editing

To help understand the concept of editing film in class we were told to open Final cut pro - Bait tutorial.
From there we opened up a file that gave us several clips in the browser, we used the I in and the O key to show outpoints in where we wanted it to be edited.
In order to make the sequence we dragged the clips onto the timeline so the clips could connect and begin to make sense.
I also learned to use the razor tool, the razor tool would enable us to cut out what we didn't want to add in the sequence.
As well as everything, i learnt to put in a cross fade effect on the video and add additional audio such as tension building music in the background (non-diagetic).

Match Cut Prelim