Evaluation Q8) Looking backat your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learned in the progression from it to the full product.

Looking back to when we first made our prelim, you can see that we have come on great lengths. Our overall general filming has become better.

In the prelim it was one of the first times we ever had to make a short film. As you can see it was not all filmed that great. The camera shots where a bit out of place and didn't really have that good affect.

As you can see their was not much mise en scene in the prelim, we didn't take into account any sort of setting or what props we used. we just used a pencil which didn't made much sense and lowered the quality of the film. However in the final movie we concentrated a lot on mise en scene as you can see in the canary wharf scene where we concentrated on costume and props like the water.

In the prelim we also had pointless camera shots that didn't add anything to the film, like at the end when the jelly babies are walking away, the shot was not executed very well, and now we are much better at performing good quality camera shots such as the tilt in canary wharf.  We also feel we learned how to do a lot better match cuts, which we demonstrated when the bottle dropped.

Moreover we also learned how to do a lot better sound, as you can hear in the prelim the sound was not made very well, it just sounded like random sounds put together on soundtrack pro. However in the final movie we put a lot more time and effort and we switched to another program called fruit loops which we found easier to use and we made a lot better sound on that program that worked very well with our final film, or example at the very beginning of the film the beat is very exhilarating and gets you hooked and interested from the start.

Evaluation Q6) Audience feedback and comment

 The people we interviewed were not all the target audience we would be aiming our film at, however these are the people who watched it in the cinema. The people we interviewed are all between 16-18 for the exception of one. Even though they enjoyed the film I do not believe it would actually attract people of this age group, I feel it is for a much mature audience of around the age of 30. But from interviewing these people i feel that the film was a success as they all seemed to enjoy it. 

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

EVALUATION Q 4&5)- What kind of media institution might distrivute your media product and why? How will you attract/address your audience?

Our film is a low budget movie, that would be released mainly over the Internet. onto sites such as facebook and vimeo so people can watch and tell their Friends about our film.

 

This is a piece of work done by other students from another college, they had the same instructions as us and also made a thriller opening. It has been put onto YouTube and has 103,400 views and still counting. By putting it onto YouTube it has been able to be shared and enjoyed by people around the world, this shows that the Internet can be a powerful tool with the right guidance and usage. Their piece of work was probably also placed on their blogs and sites like vimeo first and we will try to follow the same pattern as them. 

Our film has been placed on vimeo and facebook and has been watched by 200 people at a small local cinema, it will also be made and released onto 200DVDs. But by placing it on the Internet it could get a lot more views and possible get out to a global audience. 

EVALUATION Q3) Who would be the audience for your media product?

The target audience for our film is mainly middle aged white British males between the ages of 22-50. As our film is in the genre of thriller/gangster, I believe that it will attract an older audience as it is for a more mature person as their would be a lot of swearing and violence in the film and wouldn't be for the faint hearted. Moreover as it is set in London it will be more targeted for people from London. I believe it will also be more of a film for the working man class, not so much middle class as it is not a the most intellectual film around, however some may still enjoy it and watch it.

I have comprised a fictional person, and have put together a montage of pictures of things that would relate to his life. 

This is Gary Hooper, he is your average working class man of the east end. he works as a black taxi driver. doesn't like his job, but it pays the bills. He supports West Ham and goes to watch them every home game and the odd away. He enjoys a drink with his mates down the pub every Saturday night. Also likes to go to the cinema with his wife occasionally.

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

Many of our shots were influenced by shots we had scene from other media sources, many from films but also from advertisements and music videos

Above is our opening establishment shots we used. we used a random moving shot of a man so the audience could get a good perspective of the location our film was set in. the location being London, we thought by having a moving shot of the street it would engage the audience to the norm of the street and how things move by quickly in London by switching to another shot of something else. It also shows the business of an urban environment. the shot also moves from a wide and distance focus on to the individual. As you can see, similar shots were used in the advertisement for Chrysler.

This shot above is from the bathroom scene, we used this shot because we saw a similar one from the movie stepfather. In the stepfather it showed that the person was not mentally sane because he had all of his tools lined up perfectly. We used this in ours as well but with different tools, this was intertextuality to also show that our character was not mentally sane either. We wished we could have used better tools as these ones look very workman like, however it is all we had and we improvised and personally believed it worked.

The image above is our scene when our main character gets punched, their is a very similar scene in the film kick ass where he gets captured, like in our film, and then punched and beat up violently. We used elements of this in our shot, as you can see it is the same camera angle and motion of punching. However in ours we have added a title because ours is an opening.

EVALUATION Q2) how does your media product represent particular social groups?

These images capture our social group of the film. you can see the similarities between the three. First of all they all have very similar denotations. such as, black hair, white, with facial hair. However the character in our film is a bit younger than the other two, but still is the same sort of character with a similar personality and demeanor. We made our character to be like Jason Statham and danny dier so he is easily recognisable as a hard man gangster who doesent mess around. we done this so that the audience can easily recognise our character and he wouldent need a whole story background with him for the audience to understand him. This was our social group that we made easily recognisable.

Evaluation Question 6 - audience feedback

FINAL MOVIE

Soundtrack editing movie

Lying With The Enemy - Exclusive Final Edit - Corrected

Kick Ass punch scene

The other day i watched Kick Ass, and there is a scene in kick ass where the main guy is tied to the chair like i was in ours, and he gets punched in a very similar way, i thought i could make a good comparison between the two, and the kick ass one does not look that much better than outs which made me happy that ours was of a good quality standard.

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.