Evaluation for thriller productions

For my Media Coursework I had to create an opening sequence for a thriller film. The sequence had to be about 2 minutes long. Before I started filming I had to create a blog which showed research and the process of creating the sequence. My thriller film is about a pair of twin sisters and one of them gets a boyfriend but the boyfriend didn’t know that his girlfriend had a twin sister and finds out at dinner. He went to a cafe thinking he was out with his girlfriend but instead he was with his girlfriend’s twin sister. As they were leaving the cafe his girlfriend saw him and her sister together. Revenge is the plan.

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

While creating my thriller I had to make sure that the ideas reflected real thrillers. To help me with this I researched about Thriller Conventions. All together there are twelve conventions. The thriller conventions show the some elements which allow a thriller to be a thriller. My thriller is aimed between certificates age 15 to 18. The characters that have been filmed in the sequence are between the age group.

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our media filming represents mainly 1 social group, teenagers. The sequence shows the trouble in relationships that teenagers have nowadays and how much trouble it can cause between family and friends.

3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

There are lots of different institutions which have developed throughout the years. The media institutions that may distribute my product would be cinema’s, blue ray and DVD’s because the cinema it would be worldwide bigger picture and sound on DVD and blue ray the same would apply. With it in the cinema the more people that go and watch it the more ratings it will get. Viral marketing is another mean of distributing because people pass on the message about the film through Internet, e-mail or word and mouth.

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

The audience for the media product would be mostly teenagers because of the genre of the film. the genre of the sequence is a love thriller, so i think teenagers would be alot more interested to see it rather than adults.

5. How did you attract/address your audience?

To attract my audience I had to use a range of different sounds, transitions and video effects to create my thriller. I was able to keep the audience interested and get them thinking of what is going to happen next. The choice of music was good because of the type of scenes that was film because it starts off with nice gentle music then the music changes because the mood in the sequence changes. This makes the audiences tension build.

6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

During this project i have learnt how to use an imac computer. How to cut and paste bits from a sequence. how to import videos from the camera and while importing make sure you import the clips as short a possible so it is easier to edit. I have also learnt how to use the tripod at different angles. Overall i enjoyed using the imac computers.

7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the product?

From the preliminary exercise it helped me understand different camera views that would work and how the system works. Learning how to cut and paste scenes, estimate jumps between different shots and replacing them with different transactions.

Finished Thriller

Today the music was added onto our thriller. We had some problems because at the moment our thriller was about three minutes long and its only supposed to be 2 minutes long. So Houda completed the editing down to just over 2 minutes.

Houda and Alma found two sets of music from a different website called freeplaymusic.com. This website had many different uncopywrited music. The seqence isn't scary from the begging there are some happy scenes, so us having scary music all the way through would make the sequence contrapuntal it would be weird. Then they found a second song to put near the end of the sequence to help show the anger of the twin sister. They joined the two different sounds making a sound bridge.

Moby Gratis music

Monday 23rd April.
The Moby Gratis music which Houda downloaded still hasn't arrived. It said it would take about 5 working days but it has been over 2 weeks and still haven't recieved nothing.

Finished Filming

On Tuesday 28th April, Houda Vernege-Fanus and Ardit Paskij added the scene we recorded on Monday 27th April at Alma's house. Which meant that the thriller film was nearly finished although the Moby Gratis music still hasn't arrived. This is all due in on the 1st May.

More Editing

Monday 27th April, Houda continued to edit the thriller. She was putting in transactions between each scene to make the thriller look more proffessional but she was a bit concerned that the thriller would over run.

While Houda was editing, me (Eustacia Gaston-Monerville), Alma Futu and Ardit (the actors and also group members) went to Alma's house to film the missing scene for our thriller.

Editing

Thursday 23rd April me(Eustacia Gaston-Monerville) one of the group members Houda Vernege-Fanus started editing what we had so far. It was quite simple because we had practise with the prelimenary exercise. We had different variety of shots. There was also some parts we had to cut down because it was too long.

More Filming

On the 21st me and my group did more filming. We went to romford liberty and then to Alma Futu's house to film the last parts.

We filming at Alma's house one of the group members wanted to look over the filming we had done, but when they had finished they didn't stop it at the right part so one of the bits that got filmed got recorded over. We had to re-film that part another day.