EVAUATION QUESTION 6- Audience feedback and comment

Evaluation; Question 4&5- What kind of Media institutions might distribute your media product and why? how will you attract/ address your audience

To distribute our Thiller we would use; 

 

youtube

facebook

twitter

festivals 

Social groups 

to adress a wider audience (mainly teenagers) we would use ; social networking sites, blogs all aspects of the internet

for older audiences we would use newspaper ads and bus posters and even leaflets. 

Evalution; Question 2- Does your media product represent particular social groups?

With our main character compared to 'The Step Father we were subverting the conventional male role by using a female as our murderess. 

Below is another female murderess who follows the same aspects as our main character in terms of mise en scene. 

All three of the characters above share share a similar costume and presentation in that they look smart, well educated, middle class and are well educated.

We have created a character that fits into the genre of a 'middle class, well educated murder' 

Evaluation; Question1- In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Every movie fall under 1 or more genres; these can be distiguished by the opening. And a whole story can be told through camera shots and even sound... these are some of the conventions of a thriller. For our thriller we had to recondnise these conventions and apply them to our opening to have an effective thiller genre opening.

The Forms and conventions of a Thriller:

• Suspsence
• Music ; Which is used to set tone, Create tension and also identify characters (motif)
• Edit
• Establishing shots for both :place and character
• Mise en Scene
• Genre/ subgenre is established
• Elements of narrative - Alteration of reality
• Titles/ Conventions; Discreate, inserted and stylized
• Sound effects
• Lighting

 Comparing 9 shots from my own title sequence and the title sequence for 'Lucky Number Slevin' I will discuss the ways in which my opening develops or challenges the forms and conventions of real media.

Our Thriller uses an opening shot which creates tension through camera close up. 'Lucky number Slevin' uses a focus on the phone to create tension. Our use of extreme close up in this opening shot makes the audience feel uneasy.

Our title was behind a plain black background, unlike ' Lucky number slevin' in which the title is placed over the narrative. There are esentially different ways to using titles, we used

                                    










Three types of titles ; Discrete, stylized and inserted. We used discrete titles because we thought they where the most effective in making the continuity of our opening because if it filmed in different locations. 'Lucky number Slevin' uses inserted titles i think it was effective in keeping the narrative clear without losing the concentration of the audience.





Our Film along side 'Lucky number Slevin' uses the alteration to reality; in our film a woman is still treating a dead man as though he was still alive. This is not something we would see in everyday life. In the same way 'Lucky number Slevin' has a man who is shot whilst getting into a car, this is also something that would not happen everyday. We have a slow buildup to this in our opening where as 'Lucky number Slevin' have their alteration almost in the beginning of the opening.

                                                          

The establishing shot of our first character connotes a normal setting, in some circumstances this character would be the victim, This  connotation is then corrected when the alteration to reality takes place. 'Lucky number Slevin' uses the same establishing shots and in this case their character is actually a victim.  The lighting in both the films is very similar in the way that the light focuses on the characters.

                     








The establishing shots for both movie not only establish the setting but they build suspense. There are not characters in these shots but as a audience we can sense this might be the setting of something bad. We anticipate and wait for something to be revealed, in many thrillers this is used to keep the audience calm, but surprise them with alteration to reality.

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

Question 1, Evaluation

Evaluation;Question 6 - Audience feedback and comment

We selected keywords from our comments and entered them on;  http://www.wordle.net/

to create the image above

As a group we recieved both negavtive and positive feedback from our class mates during our lesson. After watching eachother's thrillers we all noted down feedback for each group. A lot of the sounds; diegetic and non-diegetic where identified to have been both effective and uneffective. We also recieved personal comments about our acting which i was every pleased with. I appreciate the truth of our classmates because this way we are able to note down elements which we could improve if we could. By looking at other thrillers we also got a chance to ask other groups about how they achived their final product, this gave me an idea of the ways we could improve our final film. Other than the feedback we gained from our peers, we also had our own feedback about our opening in relation to what our peers said. Good use of feedback helps us as individuals in the future advice on how to produce great openings.

I think if we also got feedback from different age groups, i would determine if we made the right decisions when selecting our target audience. This feedback could expand our audience but it could also limit our audience.

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!! :)

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.

Soundtrack

Whilst editing we listened to a numberof soundtracks...The video above shows the 1st song we listened to... it was very effective and went along with our movie very well. In making our own sound tracks we used this song as inspiration.

In all our final soundtrack is not the same as this song but it portrays the same effects on the audinces..making them feel uneasy and not able to feel comfortable although the sound may sound very peaceful.

Filming and planning days

11th February 2011- PLANNING

15th February 2011- PLANNING

18th February 2011- PLANNING

22nd February 2011- HALF-TERM

25th February 2011- HALF-TERM

4th March 2011- FILMING!

THRILLER FILM AND BLOG DEADLINE: Friday 25th March 3pm
ROUGH CUT DEADLINE:  14th March 

Make up for character of delilah

The video above shows the sort of makeup we used to make our main character of Delilah to look very natural and femanine at the same time. We didnt want her to look 'tooo' made uo we wanted a very nutural look because her character's life at home is very different from her life at work. At work she 'fits in' with the rest with a different attitude than and home.



I did my own makeup because i am used to doing my makeup every suttle...
I used these products....


Mascara,Lipgloss,eyeliner liquid and pencil and foundation.