finished thriller high quality

Evaluation question 1

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
The typical conventions of a thriller are for it to have areas of pure suspense making the viewer/audience feel intriqued to watch on. I feel that our Thriller meets that particular convention. The victim is told to meet at the park and the non-copyright music (blackroom)  we found for our opening caused suspense as it was a strong peace that would make any viewer worry about whats happening next. Another main convention for a Thriller is using a range of different shot types, close-ups, point of views, jump cuts etc. Our Thriller uses point of views, jump cuts and long shots of the victim during the sequence this shows a variety of perspectives and used together give the sequence a distinct feel.

This shot from the thriller Fargo shows how our Thriller can be seen to have met the criteria of the particular thriller conventions as it has the same weather used. Filming in the snow gives the Thriller that worrying feeling as its a cold atmosphere etc. 

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evaluation question 5 (filmed)

evaluation question 6

what have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

the technologies we have used are blogger, final cut express, youtube, camera, Moby gratis etc.

we used these technologies for various reasons. youtube was used to upload our films to the internet to give the wider audience a chance to watch our piece also allowing us to easily upload to our blogs. using our mobile phones were also helpful during the filming process, as it allowed to quickly take photos of locations or events to our blog where ever we were.google allowed us to find a number of resources and information that helped and inspired us when it came to thinking of ideas for our thriller. also more social forms of technology were used like Facebook along with survey monkey. this allowed us to make a survey and spread it to gain audience research. From these technologies we have learned that they are a very important factor to filming and making a film. we have learned how to use cameras properly and have learned to use websites such as blogger and survey monkey with confidence.

evaluation question 7

preliminary task




finished thriller




i believe that we have learnt and improved on a lot of things from when we filmed our preliminary task.
when filming the preliminary task we were not as organised, this can be seen through out the preliminary  there are continuity errors and the editing is not that good. however when filming out thriller we now knew problems we would face with organisation and because of this we were able to plan ahead, and filming went smoother than it did when filming our preliminary.

the thriller gave us the opportunity to try out allot of different camera angels compared to the preliminary . we also gain'd more experience in editing , our shots were allot smoother and there was continuity through out, we also added transition and effects.

ident for thriller

Prezzie

Today in media we were told how to use a website called, Prezzie. we can use this to make our evaluation look good and to show that we can use a wide range of media.

finished thriller

Today in media me and my partner finished our thriller opening. it had taken us a while with some major set-backs but we managed to get the thriller finished and recorded by sir. me and my partner are pleased with our product and we have spoke about ways in which to improve it, but we will talk about that during the evaluation.

our finished thriller (low quality)

This is our finished Thriller opener, we had many set-backs during the filming and editing processes, but we overcame these and got the Thriller finished.

Thriller opening

today in media me and my accomplice watched our thriller opening back again and again. we decided to add another piece of non-copyright music. we were unable to this due to the website being blocked. we will continue looking for more suitable music.

Devil- 2010

The thriller i have recently watched and  have enjoyed watching is called Devil which was released in 2010.This films builds suspense as you are wondering who is the killer and it makes you want to watch on to see if they find out who is the killer and who is next to die. this film cause suspense through the music and the mise en scene of the film is effective.

livetype

We used livetype today for the very first time. it was an application that was very straight to use as the set-up of it was very basic. In turn we managed to make our idents and credits with this application.

thriller opening progression

Today in media we added our ident from livetype, and our credits for the thriller. we have a few more things to do to complete the thriller opening. its all going according to plan.

editing of thriller opening

We are in the process of editing and it is going well we have to add a lot more to make it pleasable but its coming along brilliantly.

change in thriller plan

we had to change our overall plan for our thriller, due to adverse weather, snow.

Audience Research for thriller opening.

location of our Thriller- Images

Thriller animatic

Today we finished off our thriller animatic. we have posted it on youtube and this will now enable use to film our thriller opening.

Children of Men

Normal setting, nothing out of the ordinary, slow. out of nowhere an explosion occurs.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCTgUq6hzUk

Survey Monkey

In todays lesson I answered questions for our survey. We gained sufficient feedback from many different people in the class.

Panic Room analysis

We also analyzed the opening sequence to 'panic room'. I realised that throughout it the names of actors were in a almost architectural type of format. They seemed to look like high rise buildings of new york. The opening sequence was of the high rise buildings of new york. The shot then moves to the protagonist of the thriller. The music throughout the sequence has a clock affect to it.

Seven opening sequence analysis

In lesson we watched the opening sequence of Seven. We analyzed the speed of the edits. How it creates suspense to the audience to wonder what the film will be about.

audience research

today we filmed our audience research asking different people their views of thrillers:
What do you look for in a thriller?
What is your favorite thriller?
What is your favorite genre?
What was the most recent thriller you watched?
And did you enjoy it?

treatment for our thriller

this is our treatment sheet for our thriller production.

analysis of past students work

I have embedded a piece of coursework submitted by students in the past. This piece of coursework was submitted as a thriller. This is a rather good and effective piece of coursework as it uses many different camera angles. Also various different locations of filming. They create suspense when the girl gets a text and goes to meet up with the person who sent it, the meet up point is in a dis-used garage park. This creates suspense as us as the audience don't actually know what she is going to put herself into. The use the idea of a door slamming shut to cause fear within the character and created a spooky atmosphere. The name of the thriller is very affective as from that point you wonder what the rest of the thriller could consist of.

production meeting- call sheet dillema

we had previously arranged to film on wednesday 18th January we will have to re-schedule this to wednesday 25th January. This problem is due to the fact that some member of the production, are not available at this time.

Modern Thrillers- No country for old men

In this clip that miss showed us in class there are lots of edits showing the landscape and this helps generate a perspective. The cameraworkis key as it is smooth. The camera is moving as the characters in the shot are.

Modern Thrillers- A history of violence

The music in the opening of 'A history of violence' helps cause suspense. The general body language was that of a slow nature. There is a contrast of colours with the characters, there is a man wearing a black suit and a guy wearing a white shirt and jeans. The black suit can show that specific character as being very sinister and look as if he has an important job to do. The man in the casual clothes can be seen to be the accomplice of the man in the expensive suit. The costume, hair and make-up part of the mise en scene help give a good outline of the characters. Through the course of the sequence there are very little edits which helps create a feeling within the sequence. The weather in the sequence is of a hot nature and helps show exhaustion and lazyness.

production meeting-call sheet

Today in media we had a meeting and produced a call sheet for the filming needed to produce the thriller opening. This help provide people with a clear outline of where an when to meet in order to do our filming. This call sheet entails the procedure of the filming and the crew etc to give it a smooth run when we eventually start the filming.