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 - 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 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: Question 4&5- How will you attract audience

If we were to market this film as a gigantic cinematic release, one of the key ways of marketing would be through physical means. these could be posters as shown above. i have contrasted the mass marketing of 007 james bond posters with our own counterpart with our main protagonist.

We would also consider using billboards as part of our huge marketing campaign. they would be placed in city centres and places like airports just like they are used here for the james bond film.

We would also consider using press as part of our campaign. we would incorporate strategies already used successfully by big blockbusters like front page covers of magazines and newspapers.

Finally we will consider a nationwide release by showcasing our product in large cinemas like odeon and vue and other large cinema complexed once we have our premier in leicester square just like the bond film did above so kit could it generate significant interest before we expand