Thursday 28 March 2013
Evaluation Question 7
Q7) Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
Final Cut Pro Presentation is NOT completed.
Final Cut Pro Presentation is NOT completed.
EVALUATION Q5: How did you attract/address your audience?
Q5: How did you attract/address your audience?
Use of young actors reflects on the target audience age (16 - 25) being mainly young adult audiences, our location is local as we are a UK and Ireland based film, to a quite common and typical layout of a block of flat within a central London area. Thrillers normally contain violent and aggressive scenes which is a immense industry to our targeted audience. The title Intruder is simple yet effective, reflecting exactly what the storyline consists of, while being an easy film name to remember; that could be quite popular while relating to the storyline of the thriller opening.
The storyline continence is quite typical for its genre of film, the there plot based on a vulnerable young woman, home alone and a mysterious male antagonist as the villain. Our production company, MOMENTUM, is well known UK and Ireland based production company.
Successful cinema screening have taken place for the thriller, while opening Facebook pages, twitter pages and other social networking sites.
EVALUATION Q6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
Q6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
For our filming we used a range of technologies to make a professional film opening. Technologies included equipment such as; Blogger, Google, IMDb and candistudios equipment including; camera, lights, memory cards
Final Cut Pro - is a editing software package which we used to edit our thriller opening scene together and to place titles of director, actors and production crew
Soundtrack Pro - Is a professional sound editing software, in which you edit clear sounds to be placed on top of the clips of the thriller opening
MPEG Stream Clip - Is a converting software to convert videos to mp4 to be placed on to Blogger.
All software programmes used were used on Apple mac computers.
Hard Drive - Saved all our filming clips and pre production/ post production research and prelim.
SD Cards - used to record and hold our clips which we then converted to the hard drive.
JVC Video Camera - HD camera, to create a professional look on our final product
Still Camera - helped with research and took still pictures of behind the scenes of the filming of our thriller.
Flip Camera - used mainly for the blog to receive constructive feedback and positive feedback on our thriller for improvements.
Lights/Lighting - To create light and shadows in our film to at a professional level.
EVALUATION Q7: Looking back at your prelimary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
Q7: Looking back at your prelimary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
Pre-Production
For our prelim we discussed as a group the main hollywood blockbuster films, including Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream, Disturbia and many others we decided to use Scream as our research thriller film for our prelim to be based on. We laid out a storyboard of how our prelim shot would be taken; as we based our prelim on Scream we used the idea of two young teenagers in a school and the villain Ghostface as our thriller antagonist.
The use of making the prelim helped our group to practise filming a remake/original idea of a thriller scene, 180 degree rule was discussed as the correct why to film a film, making a more realistic scene and flows through to the next scene of the film. Our props was the environment that we used - being the college - and technical equipment was provided by candistudios located within the college grounds.
Production
We had a set time to film within a three hour lesson, creating us to rush a bit on the filming of the prelim in the college, compared to the final product of our thriller opening were we filmed during lesson times at a peers house and during half term holidays. Filming for the final product was a tiring experience, were we had to re-record shots to make sure the 180 degree rule was use and the perfect lighting and shot angle. I did not participate with the filming of the film, but I opinionated my thought of how different shots would be taken to create the best clips for editing and a variety of choses. We set a timetable of the day that we would record at Rebecca's house (sunday and monday nine till five) and organised the pick up of equipment from the college studios, were we collected everything we needed.
Post Production
In a pervious lesson we learnt the use of editing on Final Cut Pro along with editing individually our own thriller opening of Arlington Road, which would now come into action with of final product; the pervious lesson helped us to put new skills to the test and helped edit a clean opening for our thriller. We then learnt how to add sounds and titles to our opening to create the full effect of a professional opening. However the difficulty of putting the sound from Soundtrack Pro onto the final product as the sounds from soundtrack were not quite as similar to the movement on the final thriller.
Analysis
Prelim lighting was not a successful as the final product as we used professional light stands the create the atmosphere of light, unlike the prelim that used the hallway lighting. Our prelim mise-en-scene was successful with the storyline of a typical thriller - an empty school, two friends alone, young, vulnerable and a mysterious antagonist which is the same typical mise-en-scene use of our final product. Our camerawork improved from the prelim to the final product; there was a lot more use of different angle shots and camera movements (pans, zooms etc) unlike the prelim that used simple tracking movements and similar angle shots. On Final Cut Pro we used lots of different editing techniques (fades, cuts to next clip) whereas the prelim we used sharp editing and little use of title editing. Overall i think we successful used sound, and a creative use of the conception of thriller opening for our final product, and we more successful then our practise prelim.
Wednesday 27 March 2013
EVALUATION Q4: Who would be the audience for your media product?
Target audiences for thrillers typically are oung adults and adults,due to the amount of violence and complex storylines of the thrillers films. The violence of the film can cause a problem to younger viewers of a certain age range. Due to the violence and crime genre of thrillers films are targeted more at the male gender, with a target audience off 51% male and 49% female but depending on the subgenre of the thriller film.
Sub-Genres being a subcategory within a particular genre. Thriller Sub-Genres can be Conspiracy Thrillers such as The Bourne Ultamatium, North by Northwest is a type of genre consisting of some sort of hero/heroine who are stereotypically journalist or armarture investigators who find themselves trapped in a powerful organisation. Crime Thriller such as Inside man, Seven is a genre between crime and thriller with a more suspenseful account showing successful and failed crime in a film. Diasater Thriller are films like 2012, The Day After Tomorrow contain a natural disaster accuring worldwide.
Itruders audience is a mystery thriller (sub genre) and a Thriller film, it cotains a crime element to the film. Due to our film being in a genre catagorie for young adults and above, to market our film the age catagorie I've made social networking pages for hits and comment on the film and feedback, including a officail twitter page for the thriller film.
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