EVALUATION QUESTION 7

Resources 
www.slideshare.com
premliminary task- in blog.
www.youtube.com
Round The Bend via youtube.

EVALUATION QUESTION 6

"I have had so much fun experimenting with all of the new technology that I have encountered during the process of creating my media product. Technology such as final cut, garageband, and presentation sites such as voki’s and prezi have all been a new experience giving me an insight into new technologies that I never knew existed beforehand. I felt rather confident using most of these new program however I did ask for advice from my teacher and fellow peers for some of the software."

"I felt that our editing software, final cut was the most difficult technology that I used because I was unaware of the buttons and did not know what they did. Moreover, after some experimenting and playing around with the keys I began to become more familiar with the technology. I felt more confident the more I used it and efficiently used tools such as cutting, modifying, importing and using transitions. Some problems that occurred was that I was unsure how to quieten and slow down audio, I was also abit confused with how to create the titles.  Overall, after much use I felt a lot more confident and was able to use the software."

"A lot of effort went into creating our media product. Trying to juggle filming and editing  around my other studies and work commitments were really difficult however the effective use of the shooting schedule abled me to stay on track at all times. I spent a lot of time trying to get used to the final cut software and also spend large amounts of time on sites such as Prezi as this was also new to me. I put a lot of time into producing my final media product and I feel that I have done well to produce what I have created."

"In order to alter my final product I would have timed it completely differently. Me and my partner realised at the editing stage that we had filmed far to much to fit into the short opening and ended cutting a lot of the shots. In order to prevent this I would try to time and visualise the shots more accurately to stop this occurring again in the future. I would also try to improve my camera skill, as a person who does not have any experience in filming whatsoever trying being a part of the filming cast was a challenge to myself. I felt that for a large percentage of the shots I did very well, however in some shots I felt I didn’t do so well. This and editing I believe are things I would definitely  I would improve on. I believe that time was largely a limitation because it took some time trying to get used to the editing software to use therefore it didn’t give us large amounts of time to use it as effectively as we wanted to. I feel that if we had longer and less study/work commitments we could have really improved our final editing. Although I do believe that we have done well to produce what we have."

I felt really proud of this shot because the use of the van pulling up beside Lily captures their attention as they can interpret what’s about to happen. I felt that this wide shot allowed us to capture everything that we wanted it to, for example to show the emptiness and darkness building tension. 

Resources 
Final Cut
www.prezi.com
www.voki.com

EVALUATION QUESTION 5

EVALUATION QUESTION 5


Resources
www.youtube.com
Round The Bend via youtube.
www.twitter.com
www.facebook.com
http://www.bbfc.co.uk/what-classification/guidelines

EVALUATION QUESTION 4

Evaluation Question 4 from kiransaghir95



Resources
Primary audience research/questionnaires
http://www.mpaa.org/
http://www.bbfc.co.uk/what-classification/guidelines
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uses_and_gratifications_theory

EVALUATION QUESTION 3

Resources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Line_Cinema
http://www.summit-ent.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summit_Entertainment
www.youtube.com
Round The Bend via youtube.

EVALUATION QUESTION 2

"The Binary opposition that we applied to our film opening is good v bad. With this in mind we wanted to highlight the positive characters from the negative. The young girl called Lily who gets kidnapped was the positive character along with her father showing a strong connection between both characters. This will help position the audience to feel the close connection between Spencer and Lily so when she is kidnapped they will feel sympathetic towards Spencer. Joseph the name of the villain in the opening is represented as a negative character due to the choice of clothing that he wears. Although it is not clear within the final video because of the low-key lighting, Joseph wears a suit and a balaclava. This is the stereotypical outfit that a ‘thief’ would wear often when committing a robbery of hiding their identify connotes to the audience that he is in fact the villain."

"Lily was represented as a positive character through her colourful clothing connoting to the audience that she is happy and lively child. Her child like figures including her height and age express to the audience that she is vulnerable and unable to fend for herself highlighting which will cause the audience to feel anger towards the kidnapper as she cannot protect herself.  Spencer was represented as a stereotypical father. With his casual bland clothing it showed that he was a ‘boring’ father that children offer refer to their father as. It is clear that Spencer is single father as he makes Lily dinner and there is no appearance of a mother type figure which allows the audience to notice this factor making them feel sympathetic towards them."

Victim Analysis Villian Analysis




Resources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_opposition
Round The Bend via youtube.
www.google.com/images

EVALUATION QUESTION 1

Evaluation Question 1 from kiransaghir95

Audio Notes:

Slide 2

In order to carry out my genre research effectively I ensured that I looked into the different sub-genre’s of a thriller.  Noticeably, like many other genre’s, a hybrid can attract a different target audience. For example, political thriller may attracts people who are interested in this subject, whereas a supernatural and conspiracy thrillers may attract a target audiences enjoy these conventions. When completing my thriller Genre research it was clear to me that the importance of building tension was vital as it will keep the audience intrigued throughout. This can be done by including many twists within the plot, an example of what the most recent batman films demonstrated well. In thriller films  there was a sustainable amounts of common codes and conventions which the audience expect see. These include: high contrast lighting, quick cuts, expressive colours and obstructive editing. All of these I believe that I have implemented into our film opening. 

Slide 3

Moreover, when researching into the different types of film theorist it was obvious to me that these three were the most common types of theories that were relevant to thriller films in specific. The binary opposition created by L. Strauss can be applied to any film, an example of thriller film is Spiderman where the oppositions are Good vs. Bad. However these can range from human vs. earth and human vs. technology. In our film we implemented the good vs bad binary opposition as Lily represted the good, and Joesph the bad. Todorov’s equilibrium basic structural purpose can be changed in order to bring twists and turns to keep the audience amused throughout. We decided that we would start our film in the ‘disruption’ stage as we wanted the audience attention to be captures right away. Field’s 3 act plot theory, another structural based theory, highlights the typical Hollywood style movie whereas the stages go through the set up, confrontation and resolution. We have created the opening minutes of a thriller film therefore this would be the part of the set up which is used to capture the audience attention which I think we have done effectively. 

Slide 4

Me and my partner decided to focus on the sub genre of crime-thriller as the tragic news of the abduction of April Jones has surfaced across the news. This gave us the inspiration and idea to use this plot as the base of our thriller film.  As you can see on this slide the conventions are more related to this specific sub-genre, for example the props such as guns and knife are criminalised weapons although they may be relevant in further Genre’s such as horror, or political thrillers. The editing, lighting and shots were similar to the overall typical genre’s so we clearly understand the significance of these shots. 

Slide 5
When deciding what films would be the most suitable films openings to analyse I made sure that they all had the similar plot of ‘abductions’. This was because I wanted to see how they shaped the opening and how the hinted at the plot in the opening sequence. I found by editing these films I was able to compare and contrast what was relevant in all three openings and what really stood out also. I found the title scene for se7en very interesting as it was very different from anything I have seen previously. The analysis of this opening titles highlighted the various codes and conventions that was already included. The opening of Taken was different also, I learn mainly from this the importance of the use of lighting and colour representation. For example the use of the high key flashback lighting and then the sudden cut to low key lighting. The Entitlement was different from the others, the opening was set in four different locations during the first two minutes showing the simplistic time changes and how they could be portrayed.

Slide 6
By conducting all of our research it was clear that we had a lot that we could implement into our film opening. We used a range of codes and conventions including colour representation, quick cuts, the uses of high contrast lighting and low lighting etc. All of these things which may catch the audience’s attention. We also used a range of camera shots especially the ones that were typical to the genre including close ups, long shots and over the shoulder shot which are often used to build tension and show expressive behaviour. During the editing process we made sure that the cuts were quick as this was stressed throughout researching and the obstructive editing seemed difficult but I believe that this was done efficiently by the different shots that we used. 

Slide 7

This slide shows some of how our research has been implemented into our film opening.

For example, the high contrast lighting that is used, the strong colour representation that is used and the use of time change.

Slide 8

Although we did not do anything entirely to challenge the Genre as this was a heavily researched based, whilst editing we came across the chance to use blackouts for some of our title credits which we did not think about beforehand. Me and my partner decided that we would use this method over irrelevant clips as it help to retain the dark, mysterious tone we wished to set. I believe that we this did this efficiently as it allowed the audience to focus on this but not drawing them away from the audio in the background which was important.

Slide 9

These are the 9 main key parts that I believe are the most significant in the opening. 




Resources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thriller_(genre)
http://www.slideshare.net/bobsled/conventions-of-thriller-films-3300791
http://mediadarren.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/conventions-of-crime-thriller-genre.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Film_theorists
Taken Opening 
Entitlement opening 
Seven Opening
Round The Bend via youtube.