Q8- Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learned in the progression from it to the full product?

When starting our preliminary, the group were just getting to know each other, and were each practicing how to film the scenes and different kinds of shots. We were trying to get in a wide range of shots.

This shot shows the introduction to our preliminary

This was the first over the shoulder shot we used.

 Medium long shot

 Close up

 Emily's Over the shoulder shot

 My over the shoulder shot

 Close up of Emily

 Close up of me

 Medium two shot

 Medium long two shot

 Long two shot

These shots shown above our evidence of us playing with the camera and filming different kind of shots. These shots helped us learn more and we used similar shots in our final Thriller film. 

The beginning of our film. 

 Emily's Over the shoulder shot

 Medium shot

Point of view and long shot

 High angle point of view shot

 My low angle point of view shot

 Medium shot

 Close up

You can see here that a lot of these shots are similar to the ones we took in our preliminary exercise. 

Furthermore, we did make a few mistakes during the filming of both the preliminary and the final cut. These two pictures below show a high angle over the shoulder shot. The way it was filmed was not so much of a mistake. However, as the shots were both high angles and the the majority of the rest of the films were filmed at a normal angle. When putting the clips into the film, it looked un professional, as the screen jumped from a normal shot, to a high angle shot to a normal shot again. In order to make it flow more in the film, we had to add an effect.  

From this exercise, i have now learnt that when i'm filming from a high or low angle, i need to make sure that i get similar footage to that, so that it can fit better into the film. I have also learnt about timing in the film. By filming 5 seconds extra at the beginning and at the end, i am able to cut out shots i don't need and get an estimated time of where i should put my 'in' and 'ou't marks on Final Cut Pro. Also, that the head of the character on screen, must be touching the top of the frame. From looking at my preliminary and Final cut, you can see the comparisons in the shots, however, you can also see the progress i have made in filming. 

My experience filming these two films were good, as i had a lot of help from Emily on screen. We both helped each other by communicating on how to act to something specific that is going on in the scene. Also, We cooperated very well, we did not put each other off, when having to film the point of view shots, so that was a big help. I now know how to properly use soundtrack pro and livetype, i can now use them on my own without help, so my progress has really increased there, as before the course i had no idea what to do when on the software. My editing in Final cut has become a lot more better, as i now understand the importance of timing, shot ranges, skills and effects. Therefore, i believe the Preliminary was worth filming as it prepared the group for what was coming, it also gave us more time to work as a team and to help each other out. My overall experience of the filming and editing together was fun, as the group was great together, we knew when to laugh and when to do our work. Which is why we worked so well together. 

Q4&5- What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? How will you attract/ address your audience?

The type of production our Thriller film is was a low budget film. Our distribution techniques were very different compared to mainstream films and blockbuster films, due to the fact that ours was low budget. Conglomerates have the money to advertise and distribute their film. However, as ours was a student made low budget film, we had to tackle other ways in order to distribute our Thriller. We had our own shared cinema screening and a DVD release of 200 copies. As this is a low budget film, this kind of distribution was very successful.

With the help of the internet, advertising for our film became easier. We were able to put our films onto Vimeo. We were also able to look at the BBC Network site and look at films made. Vimeo is a similar site to Youtube, however Vimeo is for amateur low budget film makers, who want to advertise their work. By putting their work on VIMEO, professionals are able to look at this work and find potential people who would be good film makers or simply be good working in a conglomerate industry. This helps to create opportunities for young people and to get their product on the market.

This is a video by other students. It is their media coursework taken from Youtube.

This video can be compared to mine as the soundtrack in my video starts off with wind blowing and this film does the same. There is a bit of blood being used in this video, where the character is writing in blood. This is similar to my video, as our culprit is crossing off a name in blood, whereas, the culprit in this student made video is writing. So you can see the comparisons between the two, as there is a close up focus on what is going on there with the blood. Furthermore, there are some differences between our videos. There was a bit of dialogue in this video and the titles are on a black background, whereas, we done are titles on the actual film background. Also, we did not use dialogue in our film, as we wanted to make the audience work. Tension is both created in similar ways, as we both build up tension to create suspense.  Both the films are left on a cliff hanger, which is why I felt this was a good example to compare my film to.

In addition, we have both advertised ours in the same way. My group used Vimeo, A Cinema Screening, DVD releases and Facebook to advertise and distribute ours, for a wider audience. This group has put their video on youtube, in order to get a wider world audience. The views are also high, as it has over 10,000 views. For a student made low budget film, these figures are high. The films also receive ratings and comments, so the makers know the audience feed back and responses towards the film. 

I also used this film as an example in comparison to my film, as there is a similar plot. The whole following happened a lot in this film and my film. There was a struggle of the victim trying to break free however, failing and resulting in death. The Mise en scene is also very similar. The location of the following scenes are both taken in the forest. The build up was created in the same way. Similar kind of shots such as over the shoulder shots were used, in order of not being able to see the characters face, which results in the audience working more. 

Bringing you to my conclusion, To attract a wider audience and to distribute our film, we would use the internet in order to gain ratings and comments on our videos. Also, to get our product on the market and show that we can get a wider audience, just by using the help of the internet. 

Question 7. What have you learned about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

In order to answer question seven, the group got together and were each responsible for helping out with something in the film. Temi put together the Final cut production, Whilst, Lashmi and mehdi were responsible for writing the script and producing it for the voiceover. As a group, we then put the Final Cut production and the voiceover together, editing the voice in timing with the pictures and adding in fades. As a result we have this video shown below. 

Q3- Who would be the audience for your media product?

Above i have created a montage of Man Bags. These are the kind of bags i feel my male target audience would wear. You have a range of sports bags to mature professional like bags in order to fit the male audience of 15 to 35 year olds. The contents inside these bags would be things such as, Keys, wallet, an energy drink, Macbook, work folder. The types of music that the target audience would listen to is Hip hop, RnB, Grime, Rock, Indie, Alternative. 

A video of my target audience below

Below you can see i picture of Genre's, which are targeted are specific sex's.

You can see from this, that our film, which comes under suspense is directed at a female target audience. However, Male's are more into Thriller films where as woman are more into comedy's and romance. I interviewed a young man, who told me that he enjoys to watch Thrillers. As our thriller's culprit is actually a woman and not a man, Men will be attracted to watch this with their mates, as they would expect some scenes, which involve female sex scenes or fighting scenes, and we all know men enjoy this. Our film attracts both woman and men. However, the overall majority of the target audience is aimed at men.

Evaluation Q2- How does your media product represent partcular social groups?

 This is a comparison between our hooded pictures from our film and 'Kidulthood'. This can stereotype how the characters in the hoods are always the culprits. However, as a society we know this is not true. However, as this is a film, it will be played with and abused by the film makers, in order to make the film good and realistic. However, in our film a hood was used to disguise the culprit. Whereas, in 'Kidulthood' a hood was worn as a fashion statement, as the young teenagers of today often wear them. It is also common for adults to wear them when they are exercising or just simply dressing casual. 


 

These pictures show a jumper that we put on our psycho teacher as part of her clothing being worn in the class. We didn't want to make it obvious that it was a teacher as we wanted to make the audience work. If we put a jumper on the teacher and shot scenes of being in the class, then the audience would have to figure out whether the character was the teacher or a student.

These pictures show weapons that were shown in the films. The bat was the famous weapon that was used to kill in Kidulthood. Whereas, in our film, we just done shots on these classroom objects, as they are simply tools, but can also be used as lethal weapons.

Q1 Evaluation- In what ways does your media product use, devlelop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

I feel that 'Any Human Heart' was an inspirational film for me. In our film, we used similar shots of one person just walking. This title sequence has a very different contrast and in our film we also used different contrast, such as changing some of our film to black and white, to make it look more better and professional. You can see that the shots have shown a lot of location, which is similar to our film. Theres a lot of shots such as over the shoulder, long shots and close ups, which is what we also used in our film. Therefore, i think this film was inspirational as it is very similar to ours.  

 

These two shots establish the two main characters and the setting of location on where the film is based.

Walking shot 

These two shots show a focus on one particular thing. This happens a lot in Thriller movies, when the camera will focus on a really important prop.

ID Card And Hand Shot- Focused on One Thing

This is personally my favorite shot as it shows both the titles and shows that the two characters that are both looking for something in particular. 

 Facing the camera looking















Pictures from a film also used as inspiration. "Last House On The Left" 
 

I like this shot too, as both the main characters are on the floor in the forest. This shows the point where the characters are in their most vulrnerable states in the film.