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.

Q2 How does your media product represent particular social groups?

i have decided to compare these two still shots because they are similar to eacheother. 'Se7en' is the only film that uses close ups to the extent of every detail. The two revolting shots i have decided to compare have an effect on people which will cause them to gasp at every still image.

In se7en they have chosen to get a picture and film it as a part of their movie, similarly we have decided to do the same.

The differences between the two still shots is the camera shots in which it is recorded, our shot is more of an ariel shot, so that we are able to see almost all of the picture. Our still image is the second one, and the first shot is a bit different in terms camera shots, Se7en's one is more of a shot from the side which makes it different.

This tells us that the person is quite deranged and has quite a few problems with themselves, the fact that the character is cutting and sticking pictures of dead bodies suggests to us that the characters might like deadly things and is a weird person.

This is another shot that i have decided to compare again, from the film 'Se7en'.

The still shots are very effective because they contain the cross dissolve which makes the film much more interesting in a sense that it creates effect on the subject.

The differences between the two shots are that, the first one which is our group is of the character turning the pages, the cross dissolve adds the effect because it makes it look more realistic and much spookier. The same as 'Se7en' but the character is writing.

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

Q 3&4. What kid of media intitution might distribute your media product and why? How will your attract/address your audience?

Similar to ours, this is a low-budget thriller opening filmed which has been released on the interent via youtube where thousands of user browse almost every single day. This is a perfect example of how distrubution of videos (baring in mind the film had no cost to make it) can become so popular to the nation which could easily gain audiences from world wide.
the fact that we put our work up on youtube, allows us to be able to also put it on other networking sites like Facebook,Vimeo,Myspace and Twitter, this way we can get as much hits for the video, get popular and we just might be able to get picked up if our video is good enough. Our friends and Family too will help us with the distrubution and promotion. This video recieved 1,253, i think that we could infact hit that target or even higher, because of the simple fact that our generation is moving so fast with all the technologies that are being made and the people supporting.

Q5. Who would be the audience for your media product?

Martin, Aged 21

works as a builder in the weekdays and absolutely loves his job. In his spare time he likes to go out and collect things such as cans, insects, and things people would normally call rubbish. He describe himself as humble but very different from normal people and so he doesnt really stand out. He shops in places like camden market. He lives in essex and prefferes to be alone at most times.

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.

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

Fonts

There are really two types of fonts that are used.

• Serif fonts


• Sans serif fonts
  

Serif fonts- these fonts are generally what you would use if you wanted to be formal in a letter for instants. They seem more traditional to me and much more serious.

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 & 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.

Location shots

This is the location of where we shot our opening for the thriller. We used a classroom but then in the making of our thriller we made it look like we were at another place so it didnt look like an ordinary class room. We also added lighting and spotlights to add effect to it all.

Intro to Cameras & Health and Safety tutorial

in this lesson we had gotten an introduction to the cameras for the first time, this would help us with how to handle camera's in care, how to switch them on and off, how to change focus and how to put the camera on the tripod.

To me it is very important to know how to handle camera, because i know in any situation anything is likely to happen. 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 a story board which would then turn into us doing a 'Bag swap' sequence.

Man arrested after teenager shot in Newport

This would help with a new idea of a thriller because it relates to scary creepy issues that may help to create suspense. This current affair is to do with a 50 year old man attempting to murder after he shot a teenager boy in newport. In a thriller i think you should be able to add something like this because it has a story that would relate to what has happened.

Analysis of 9 shots from Art of the Title Sequence

I think that the style of the title has a funky loo to it which would relate to a wide audience in terms of marketing what it is selling. The colors are very bright and sands out to me, if i was on a street and i saw this, i would instantly look to go and see what it is all about.

On it, it has the title of the sequence which is called 'Archer' and the people that helped take part.

Most of the shots that are included is Medium shots and Close up shots which helps us look at what the sequence could be about.

The Match Cut Excercise

As a part of our practical we had to be able to produce a short clip including a match cut, in that sense we had gotten knowledge of what a match cut was and how we would be able to put it in our final product of our 'Horror' sequence.

By doing this short clip we also had to abide by the 180 Degrees rule as aposed to making eveything look accurate. We also added in a shot reverse shot as a part of our sequence which made the finishing edit look realistic in a sense of acuaracy.

In my opinion i think that our finish clip was successful in a sense that, what we had planned on paper was what we actually done. for instance in the beginning when i opened the door, we had to cut a bit of the bit when the door opens so it equals to the door opening from the front, infact if we had not edited the clip the way we had done so, it would not have been in proportion. In that sense it all went good for us.
Another thing that went good for us was the over the shoulder shot when Annabelle was talking to me. i think that fitted in very well for us because it made it look much more realler when she passed me the papers.

I think that we all met the requirments of what the teachers wanted to do, because by watching the sequence, we wernt able to see anything wrong with the editing.

Match Cut Prelim

Skills Audit for sound track

In class we had a practice of how to make our ow soundtrack to add to our movie instead of using copyrighted tracks, this all gives us a taste of how the whole editing field feels like .

first of all we looked at the bottom left side of the screen and looked for all the sounds, all of these sounds are separate in order to put together a large sequence which will continue as a track to add. to do this we then dragged what sound we wanted on to the timeline, by doing so we could shorten f make the sound longer, adding different types to it which created a nice flow

Photo 'Words' Activity

This picture goes under the heading of claustrophobia. Claustrophobia is a fear of being closed in confined places.

The fact that we are tightly closed together with our faces looking worried suggests that we are claustrophobic.

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

There are many Sub-Genres in the thriller scene.

Techno thriller

Spy thriller

Pyschological thriller

Medical thriller

Horror thriller

Disaster thriller

Religiouse thriller

Drama thriller

Action thriller

Crime thriller

My favourite one out of the list would have to be the action thriller, this is because it provides much more action than the other's hence the the name, and also the fact that it has more action enables us to get more in to the film.