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

EVALUATION - Looking back at your preliminary task, What do you feel you have learned in the progresssion from it to the full product?

If you look back at our preliminary work you can see that we have developed a lot. Our general skills with the programs and editing improved because of our experience with our prelim which has made us create a very good thriller opening.

Here is our Prelim

And here is our final Thriller opening

As you can see there is a massive difference between the two clips.
The music we used in the prelim doesn't sound relevant to the clip and it also just begins suddenly which doesn't sound good while in our Thriller opening we have it gradually come in but still fast, we change tempo of soundtrack so it matches the events happening in the clip. You can see a massive improvement in our skills using Soundtrack Pro.

The opening in our thriller opening fades in so that it looks more professional while in our prelim the movie just starts making it look very rough. This also happens at the end of the prelim, the movie just finishes while in our thriller opening we fade it out making it look more effective and more clean.

How the prelim just starts off without a fade effect

The fade out of our Thriller opening at the end

In our prelim you see there's no titles making it look very dull. 

In our Thriller opening we made sure that we can use the titles in the best way possible, we chose the text size, font and colour that we thought would make the opening the best possible.

Mise en scene is a very important section when not only filming but also planning. 

In our prelim there is no mise en scene in our prelim, this is because we didn't plan very much when doing it. In our Thriller opening you can see that we paid much attention to the mise en scene. In the scene when I spot Jem across the road i was wearing a headset and also had a newspaper and also a bottle of water. We also used the bottle to enthuses how important the shot was when I realised who Jem was by dropping it in slow motion. Also i knock out Jem in the car park with a little pole, this is again part of the mise en scene. When we see Jem trying to escape he some kind of lock which he escapes from, he then knocks we out with a different pole.

We put a lot of thought in our mise en scene to make the opening as much tense as possible. Also the mise en scene helps us identify what type of characters they are.

We also improved in our team work skills as the project went on. We communicated with each other much better explaining our thoughts and ideas to improve the opening as much as possible.

We put a lot of thought in how to make the audience interact with our opening, making them feel the emotions the characters are going through, anger, love and hatred.

Here are another persons feedback for our Thriller opening

 

EVALUATION - What kind of media institution might describe your media product and why? How will you attract/address your audience?

Here is a successful movie made by another student. Although it is not a opening like ours it shows how popular a video made by students can be.
So far the video has 280,074 views with 2,922 likes and 313 dislikes. 
This shows that you don't need much money or famous people to have a good movie. 


We have put our video on Vimeo which is a well-known for its independent productions.
Our video has also been uploaded on to Facebook and Youtube so we can see people's reactions and how well it does on these well-known sites. The internet is a fantastic way to distribute a small production because it will allow many more people to view it very easily. It is a easy way of trying to get your film out there but there is also a lot of competition.

We was involved with Candi studios which is a small independent studio when making our thriller opening. Because we was with a small independent studio we had a low budget which meant we had bigger chances of not fulfilling some ideas, although it is a small independent studio they have very good equipment which is really useful.

Our movie will be shown in a local cinema as it is not a massive production. After being shown in the cinema there will be 200 DVD's realsed.

EVALUATION - Audience feedback and comment

After viewing me and my groups thriller opening we got many comments back.

We had many positive feedback from our thriller opening.

The slow motion used at the begining is very good
Th tilt shot used at 1:19 is very impressive, also shows the setting in a fantastic way
The voice over used matched the actions  in the opening, an example of this is when the narration says "then he penny dropped" the bottle in the characters hand drops at the same time.
We got many positive feedback for the accent used in the opening.
The titles looks very professional because of the size and font used.


Even tho we got many positive feedback we did have some negative feedback. We got told that there was too much going on for an opening, the opening looks more like a short movie because they are not sure what will happen next.

Our original target audience was young men (around 18-25) but the feedback we got suggested that the audience is more for older men (around 30-40).

Although our sub genre was action we did get told it felt like a gangster movie due to the accent used for the character, but the footage in the opening did make it feel like an thriller-action movie.

Here is some of the feedback i recorded

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

Here is a montage of images i have put together to show what i think my target audience will be carrying with them.

David, 22, a young attractive sales assistant who loves to look good, shops in Topman and Moss.

Average day for David:

Wake up, get ready and go gym

After gym get ready for work

After work hang out with friends

Go home and do a little workout

Watch tv and go sleep

EVALUATION - In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Here are a few shots from our opening scene, comparing them with other movie openings.

Here is a birds-eye view shot of equipment from the movie Stepfather, underneath is our birds-eye view shot of our own equipment.

Our birds-eye view shot.

Here is a split screen effect from a youtube movie, we also have used the same effect showing that there is not only one thing you should be paying attention to.

Here is our split-screen shot.





This is a shot from the movie snatch. This is the opening scene, when characters are shown there is a still image with their name on the screen. This is to show the audience that these are important moments in the movie.

This is our shot, we freeze the screen when there is an important shot, this is to show that these actions are very important.

EVALUATION - How does your media product represent particular social groups?

This is a shot from the movie Stepfather

This is a shot from our movie

Here you can see that we have a similar shot from Stepfather, both shots are tracking shots showing equipment. These show that the character is obsessive compulsive.  Also shows that the character is pleased with his work. As you can see we do not have the same tools as they do in Stepfather this is due to our plot. In Stepfather the man's equipment is for his appearance while our shot is fixing tools.

Evaluation Question 6 - audience feedback

FINAL MOVIE

Soundtrack editing movie

My experience

After finally finishing our project i looked back thinking about the experience i have had. I am very pleased with our final result but during the filming and editing process we did have our problems. We all had our opinions, some we agreed with and some we didn't.

During filming i had fun enjoying acting but also giving my opinion on what shots to take and how to make the shot more effective, we had a few arguments during this process but this is because all of us had different visions on how to film. In the editing process we had many arguments about choosing what shot to use and when.  We also had talks about what effects we should use during editing. I didn't have much contribution in the soundtrack as i had many arguments with my fellow colleague Abdul. I also added my thoughts on the titles on how we can make it look more effective.


I believe that the whole experience was fantastic even though we had a few arguments, but i believe without arguments a group cannot get through to produce a master piece like we did.

Lying With The Enemy - Exclusive Final Edit - Corrected

Font analysis

We put a lot of thought when creating our titles. We wanted our titles to look serious but also casual.

we created our titles using the programme LiveType.

 This is the font we used, we all decided it will suit our opening as it looks serious but still casual jus like we wanted it to look like.

Here is how the title appears on our opening. 

We decided to put the titles over the opening instead of on a blank screen, this is because we believe this looks more effective and also more professional. It also means we can make the screen busy making the audience that the movie has also action in it even tho it is a thriller.

Editing process

Here are the screen shots we took while editing.

We decided to start off with a split screen because it will match with the narration which we will put in about London having a good side but also a bad side, this also interacts with our two different characters and how the husband changes his persona from good to bad when he finds his wife dead.

This is our final product of our opening split screen, we will also add in the narration and the text. 

We have some key shots that are paused and are in black and white, this is to show the audience that these are important shots.  In the first key shot you can see that the husband character is in control attacking his wife's killer while he is tied up.

In the second key shot we see that the roles have changed. This time its the husband who is being hit by his wife's killer. These two shots also show that there is a element of surprise and that anything could happen. 

Changes made from Rough Cut

We were very pleased with our rough cut, however we knew that it was not perfect and it needed some things added such as a sound track and titles, we also decided to add narration to make the audience understand the opening more and we just thought it added to the quality of the film. We did not change much from the rough cut besides adding a certificate at the beginning.                          

Inspiration - "Scary Shots"

During the earlier stages of planning our teacher Mary showed us various examples of thrillers, here are some examples of some typically thriller shots that inspired our work, these shots were used as stimuli for our final film.

























Above is a screen shot from the film "jackie Brown" it stars Samuel L. Jackson and Robert De'Niro  - specifically it was directed by Quentin Tarantino, a film director that definitely has inspired me as a film maker. Next to the screenshot of the "Jackie Brown" film is a screenshot from our AS Media submission "Lying With The Enemy" here you can see that we have interpreted the "below" camera angle from the film and put it in ours.

Here is a screen shot from 2005 motion picture release "Bomb The System" directed by Adam Bhala Lough. Here a split screen is used to show two things that are happening at the same time and are in correlation with each other, for our production, in the editing process I decided to interpret it and use this idea for the London-based establishment shots. This fits in with the "London has two sides" theme of our narration.

Above is a screen shot from Guy Ritchie's 2000 film "Snatch" in this film the editor uses a screen shot to introduce a character, which is an important addition to the film. For our edit we used a screen shot to highlight a key moment in the film and focus on a specific part of our narration.

Editing process

British Board Of Film Classification certificate

We wanted to make the beginning pf the movie as authentic as possible so we decided to add a British Board Of Film Classification certificate. We decidid that the minimum age you would have to be to watch the movie will be 15, this is because their is a murder scene and the story is too strong for a under 15 year old to watch. 

Planning of Location

When deciding on where to film, we thought about what scenes we had, and we knew that we had a scene where the husband had an average day at work and he notices the murderer from across the street. So we decided to film in Canary Wharf, because it is a high end business place where a respectable person would work. Canary Wharf is a place with very high security and they do not like people filing their as it is a security risk and high terrorist alert. Therefore we got permission to film before hand, we spoke to the police officer, officer CW 251 and he gave us the go ahead to film all around Canary Wharf after he checked if we were genuinely A Level media students on his walkie talkie talking to someone on the other end. After this we found a sign saying canary wharf on it and decided to film there so when the it is watched the audience know where it is set. 

Costumes

When planning our thriller film we had to put a lot of thought into our costumes, as our movie is set over a number of days. It meant that we wasn't always going to be wearing the same thing, because what person wears the same thing 5days in a row? Therefore we decided upon different casual outfits to wear on different scenes, we went for the more casual look but while wearing alot of black to connote that he was a criminal and that he was a sinister person.  

The Canary Wharf scene

  This scene was our most well prepared and thought out part of our costume design, we put alot of effort into making this work and believe we succeeded.   

The Murderer

The Husband

We chose these two outfits to show that the murderer was a bad person, so by dressing him in all black it would show he has bad intentions and is up to no good. Also the husband was dressed in a suit to show it was a average day at work for him and that he was a respectful upstanding citizen that did not deserve the bad fortune of having his wife murdered. This is a character that our target audience could relate to, as we would want to do the same as him in his position.

photos taken during filming

photos taking during filming

This is the photo which we took of Asilhan and Rebecca to show that they are a couple in the movie, this photo is placed in their home.

This photo is of Rebecca in the bed scene.

Jerome explaining his thoughts to how to improve the shot.

Asilhan and Jerome talking to each other about how the blood (diluted ketchup) should be used.

Jerome applying the diluted ketchup to the scene.

A shot of Jerome focusing on the photo of Asilhan and Rebecca.

Warehouse scene of Jem tied up and Abdul explaining his view.