EVAUATION QUESTION 6- Audience feedback and comment

EVALUATION QUESTION 2:Does your media product represent particular social groups? REPRESENTATION

My media product portrays what we think is a normal hard working women getting into her home after a long day at work, she is dressed in a shirt and skirt, looking all smart and sophisticated.

She can be compared to a similar character from Fatal Attraction


• As they are both killers


• Split personalities


• Psychotic

EVAUATION QUESTION 8: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learned in the progression from it to the full product?

I learnt to work and co-operate with my group members:

Learnt to use the JVC 11 Video camera effectively by doing to practice tasks which were our prelims

Our sound track was inspired by something on Youtube then Greg attempted to make a similar sound track

First of all working in a group was something that has improved as we managed to share and take in and input ideas, if we didn't agree on something then we would try to come up with somethings else and agree on it together. We made sure that all of our group member had a say in everything.

Our camera skills have improved, form not knowing how to use a camera. Our skills on getting shots like the close up and extreme close ups into action has really improved. Learning how to use the apple mac computers was hard, and using the mac software's that help edit our films was extremely difficult. But we managed to over come that problem and got used to it.

Blogging was a major issue, although it was a easy way of getting your work done and posting it,  regularly post things on the wall was hard, but again we managed to get it done. The research blogs helped use get ideas and plan for our own film 

Our planning skills improved so much for our prelims to be honest we didn't give to much thought to it as we did with our final film. We took so long to plan for our final thriller. 

When we did the first preliminary we had a lot of problems. with our shots as we didn't know how to use the camera adequately then. However our final film was so much better on so many levels. but we did encounter some darkness but this was for effect. The preliminary had no titles as we didn't have enough time to do so,with our final thriller we had all the titles up and showing. 

EVALUATION QUESTION 7:What have you learnt about the technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Looking back at our preliminary films up until now producing our final thriller opening scene, I can honestly say that I have learnt an immense amount because I didn’t know how to do anything at all. But after doing the prelim tasks it has given me the confidence to use all the technologies very well. I learnt how to use the camera and equipment.

The prelims helped us prepare for the thriller opening, as we had to do everything from the planning, directing, camera shots movements and everything.

To film you have to have a very detailed plan to ensure that you know what sort of shots you want and everything like that  

I have learnt how to use final cut pro like a pro J

EVALUATION QUESTION 3:Who would be the audience for your media product?

These technological gadgets belong to Dave he is sixteen and likes to go cinema with is friends and enjoys playing with games on his psp.

EVALUATION QUESTIONS 4&5: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? How will you attract/address your audience?

Our thriller film is a small budget, independent film, so for our distribution money is limited. However now there are a lot of ways to promote the movie without spending a lot to attract our target audience. The internet is the most vital resource for a small independent film production. This is mainly because small productions have low budget and the internet can help with distribution and marketing as well as attracting an audience it is free and available to everyone.

So far our film is up on the internet, on Blogger, this is a way for people to watch. There are also other major internet social sites which can be used to promote our movie such as YouTube and Facebook as they are more than frequently used by our main target audience.

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

There are a number of conventions of a thriller film that makes it recognisable as a genre. In the opening scene the audience can or should be able to distinguish the thriller genre. The opening scene will ask the audience a lot of questions and keep them “on the edge of their seat”, the scene has to create suspicion and this is done by.

These types of conventions:

• Sound
• Editing 
• Lighting Narrative  
• Iconography
• Setting  
• Mise-en-scene

In the attempt of making a thriller opening we have tried to input and challenge some of the conventions named above.

Both of these shots are establishing shots of the main characters, it also shows the location and setting as in our film the audience can tell that she is walking through private flats.

 Close up of the place showing the contents of the place for instants the inside of the house we show the kitchen with it utensils.

 

This shot shows the dead victims

I believe we have developed and challenged some of the conventions. One thing I cant stop banging on about is our voice overs because it sound so real and professional and such genius to use in a thriller i loved it some much and I believe by doing this we have definitely developed and challenged the conventions

EVALUATION QUESTION 2:Does your media product represent particular social groups? REPRESENTATION

EVALUATION QUESTION 6:Audience feedback and comment

This was done by using wordle

on http://www.wordle.net/

 I found that many people liked the voice over that we did because it was something different and nobody else did it or included an effect like this which i think made our opening unique.

Quiet a few people said that our lighting could have been a bit better or be improved because some shots were a bit dark, but we were aiming for this kind of dark dull look.

People liked our choice of shots and the way we edited some of them. In the end our actor Greg got a few comments as well as they said he really looked dead so that was very good (so having talking powder on your face did pay of after all GREG)

Overall I am really proud of our work because we worked on this so hard within a short amount of time obviously we had more time we would make it much more better to enhance our audience into the film.

behind the scenes

This was our first title however, as a group we weren't very too happy with it and sought the advice of our teacher who also agreed that the title wasn't effective enough. 

Final Edit - Delilah

Enjoy!! :)

byeeee blogging i shall miss u :(

Before we get our film uploaded, i will just like to take a moment to talk about all the struggles of our hard work  for the past two months.

I must say that i enjoyed my time working with my team member- Kudiwa, Gregg, And Albana.There was indeed a lot of ups and down, but I guess that is the beauty of film making.

EDITING

Kudiwa prepared our credits on live type to put into our film, we then imported them, placed them in correctly, and changed the speed accordingly

Non digetic sound

For our opening we wanted to include voicemails for the husband. We thought this would be a good way to set the scene of the story and give the audience an understanding that this man had not been in contact with anyone for a while.

In order to do this we needed to somehow record record messages off of a phone, Kudiwa and I thought the easiest way to do this would be to use a video camera to record one end of the line on loudspeaker, whilst I got various people in other rooms to leave messages depicting various scenarios the husband had missed.

DEADLINEEEEE!!

Its our deadline today!!

We have to put in our credits today and any other editing. we have to submit our work in today by 3pm . 

Credits list

·                Distributer -Stephanie Attoh 

·                Production company- The Angel

·                Director - Annabelle Andrews

·                Producers - Albana Aruqaj, Theodor Ashwell

·                Actor - George Lan, Harriet Lukes, Stacey Kay, Gregory Fishers,  Eda Yuzudick, Stavroulla Econmou, Kyle Graham, Saydul Ahmed.

·                Director of Photography - Edit Petkova

·                Sound by - Greg Smart

·                Editors -Kudiwa stacey Makarawu

·                Casting by - Leanne Peter

·                Production design - Habiba Ahmed

·                Director 

Recording voices for Opening sequence

For our film, we decided to record the actors voices in order for our audience to perceive the voices as part of a telephone answering machine. We have done this by recording with a camera and placing the audio as a voiceover in the opening title.  This is so that we are able to show to our audience that somebody (the person revealed at the end of the opening sequence) is missing but still creates an element of mystery as we do not know why or how they came to be missing. This is done so that  enough knowledge is enabled to be gained by the audience, but not too much so that the audience is still intrigued by the opening title.

Pictures from Filming

These pictures where taken during the filming process.

SKILLS: editing includingscreengrabs

more to be uploaded