THRILLER TITLE SEQUENCE FINAL EDIT

Evaluation

8) Audience feedback and comment

Our thriller was seen by all as media students in our college. We received written and verbal feedback from our audience. Here is a questionnaire that was filled out by one of our audience members and a word cloud of how our film was described.





AS Media Studies
Foundation Portfolio
Film Title Sequence
AUDIENCE FEEDBACK sheet

Please respond quite fully to these questions – it is important to everyone’s evaluation grades.

1) Choose one aspect of film language that has been used especially well in this movie an say why
In this film they have used a very good location, both train station and office. Also the props used made the office look realistic, for example the computer as it has written on it Metropolitan police and its logo. Also the colours used for example the red lipstick is very bold and stands out, it give the audience of person the character is.

2) Choose one aspect of film language that could be improved in this movie and explain how.

The dialogue can be improved as I could understand what the police officer was saying on the phone.


3) Can you recognise any stereotypes in this movie?


The police uniform and office was very typical, also the way the women was dressed was stereotypical, as if all bad girls dress and act like that.

4) Can you think of any intertextual references with any other movies when you watch this movie? Explain.
This film reminds me of a book I read called Confessions of a Working girl. The reason why it reminds me of the book is because of the way the women is dressed and the way she look suspicious like she is up to something.

5) Who do you think would be the audience for this movie?

I think the audience is teenage girls aged between 14 and 18 as the twist to the story will interest them.

6) Write down 5 words which would describe this film
Suspicious
Bold
Sticking
Sexual
Flirtatious




7) What sort of institution do you think would release this movie

A low budget niche audience.

Evaluation

7) Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learned in task progression from it to the full product?

My skills have progressed a lot since the preliminary task. I have learnt how to focus the camera to get a clearer shot. I also learnt how to match cut scenes better and do continuous editing. I also learnt how to make a full soundtrack and how to add titles to the clip which I didn’t know how to do.

The films can be compared under the blogs called prelim and final edit.

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6) What have you learned about technologies from process of construction this product?

We used a video drive to store all our work on . We used a card reader to get our work from the camera on to the computer . We used a camera to film our thriller . we used SD memory card to film on. We used http://www.blogger.com/ to upload our work and record our development on internet.We used the programs LiveType , Final cut pro and Soundtrack Pro to edit our film and make titles and soundtrack for it.

The hardware such as the memory card made uploading quicker more efficient as we did not have to log and capture which is a painstakingly long process which I found in other projects prior to my a-level course in media. The camera improved the visuals and made my film clear and in focus.The apple mac computers where difficult to use at first (the mouse having no right click and the software being different to Microsoft) but as the weeks progressed using the became easier.

Evaluation

5) who would be the audience for your media product?

this is some of the things that would be in my audiences hanbag?

Lisa 18 , is a student in London .She loves going to the cinema, clubbing and shopping with friends. She works part-time in Top Shop. She listens to pop and R&B music and downloads her music from the legal music downloading site; iTunes. She regularly watches trailers for films on Youtube.

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3 & 4)

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? How will you attract your audience?




This is an image of videos posted on facebook

I would distribute our thriller opening on a website such as http://www.youtube.com/ which is a popular website for sharing videos I may also upload it on social networking website such as facebook and myspace to a bigger audience. I will also invite people to a small screening og my film on these sites.

The target audience for our thriller is young adults aged 16- 25, that like watching thrillers and going out with friends . I will get my audience through sending messages on facebook and myspace and spreading the word round to my friends to watch the video. I would also use other video upload sites that are similar to youtube.com. Other audiences for my film include the people coming to view it at the screen on the green cinema. I will gain my feedback thorough questionnaires and comments received on my videos on social networking and video websites.

I could also hand out flyers to people with the links to watch the film or an invitaion to come see the film at the screening

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IQoaL00N8g

This is a film posted by other media students on youtube.com it has 1,300 views and has comments on it from its audience.

These are videos put on facebook and myspace.com.

evaluation

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

While we was planning our film we used a website www.artofthetitle.com to help gather ideas for our opening scene the openings I have chosen to compare my film to are ‘Saturday night fever’ and ‘marathon man’.

The opening of ‘Saturday Night fever’, which is not a thriller film gave us an idea for our titles.

Link: http://www.artofthetitle.com/2009/02/13/saturday-night-fever/


In the opening of ‘Marathon Man’ which is a thriller we see a man running whilst cross cutting to a man putting something in a locker. In our film opening we see a young woman walking to a train station and then it cross cuts to a detective walking to her office. Our opening constantly cross cuts from one to the other. This is called parallel editing. The thriller 'Marathon Man' gave us lots of ideas of what type of shots and music to use for our film.

links: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074860/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK26KtN99R4

Editing

I edited our shots using Final cut Pro on the Apple Mac computers to edit out glitches, mistakes we made and to make our film continuous. Each of our shots where cut down to 7 seconds so we did not loose the interest of our audience. I also added a fade at the beginning and the end of our film. Once the editing was finished I edited in titles that where made on Live Type. Throughout our film there is parallel edit.

Sound

In our film we had no diegetic sounds. All none diegetic sounds where created using Apple Mac computers. I kept the soundtrack rather simple by mostly having piano instrumentals to make it sound thrilling and suspenseful. The software Soundtrack pro has a large variety and variation of different sounds and sound effects. It was rather hard to choose which sounds we wanted for our soundtrack as there was such a large variety.

Camera work

We used lots of different camera shots and angles in our opening sequence. We used close-ups of the face to show facial expressions. Tracking shots to follow characters whilst walking. Medium shots and long shots to show characters and their surroundings. We also used high angle shots to convey a sense of vulnerability within the audience. We focus on two charecters by using tracking shots , close ups and many other shots. We also have shots of certain props, shoes,etc.

Mise en scene

We picked London fields train station as our location to film and a teachers office. We picked the train station as it is a bit run down and urban to create suspence for our film. The office was a good location as it looked like a detectives office because it had lots of props files , computer, pens etc. Other props that where used in our film where cigarettes, a ring, a nail, a glass of water and painkillers. The detective was dressed very smart (shirt , tie , etc ) and the young woman was very dressed up (heels, Red lipstick ,etc)

2) How does your media product represent particular social groups?

The thriller opening we made represents a young social group aged 16- 25 . Our film is targeted at an audience of that age as they are stereotyped as staying out late at night partying, smoking, drinking and dressed inappropriately.










I have chosen the character Evie Zamora from the film thirteen to compare to the main character in my film, because she is a typical teenager dressing inappropriately and coming home early hours of the morning from partying. In this film, teenagers are stereotyped to miss behaving smoking and taking drugs. The main character in our film is also a young woman coming back from a party early morning she is seen smoking at a train station.

Skills Audit- Creation of titles

By using livetype it enabed us to create tiltles suitable for are target audience. By cumming up with the title Last Call as a group we tried to find the effect that we could add to film to make it thrilling.
I looked at many other films and saw how their titles matched the film. And what typed of affects they used.

EVALUATION

6) What have you learnt about the technologies from the process of constructing?

We used Final cut witch allows you to add texts, effects and objects, this program gives the titles a professional look. It also makes the film more eye catching depending on the sort of fonts, effects and fades you use. We used final cut pro which allows to to cut, add clips and insert transitions, you place it on to the timeline and when its done it becomes your edited film. Another program we used was Soundtrack pro, which allows you to layover additional sounds, add sound effects and create your own sounds .

We used a video drive to save our clips and pictures, the memory card was used to save all our clips, we used the Mac computers to do make our film, the camcorder was used to film also Usb drives were used to save our material. I have learnt a lot using these programs and i have a deeper understanding of how to play about with the different functions.

prelim

Q2) How does your media product present particular social groups?

My media product is aimed at both male and female groups, the age group is 16-21 and young adults may also be interested and the ethnicity is aimed at a range of races.

My group didn't stereotype the audience that we wanted aim our product at, but the key thing we had in our mind was to keep our product based around young people because we thought that young people would adapt more and be more interested in the topic and the genre.

Location of the thriller 'Last Call'

For our thriller we chose the location London Fields train station as it is a quite train station where hardly anyone goes. So we thought nobody will bother us when filming although some still did. We also thought it was a good idea because we was able to get good still images and variety camera shots of the city.
We also wanted to film in the Hackney library because we needed a office kind of look for the scene we wanted to add for the police officer but was unable as it is a public area and had to get permission before had. Even though we was allowed but only to film in a certain area where no one could be filmed. in the end we thought this was bad idea as we needed a a computer and a table for the mise en scene which will help the audience get the feel of the surroundings. A few days after we then got permission to film in our teachers office which we found was alot better because he had all the facillities we needed for example piles of paper folders ,a computer and a desk. We then able to think of new ideas for the scene we had already thought of in the begginning and came up with a better one.

Q8) Audience feedback and comment

We recieved feedback from people in our media class and other people studying media. This is our wordle of the feedback, it shows the different types of words that were used to describe our film. The comments were generally positive.

Q5) Who would be the main target audience for your media product?
Kimberley, 17, a student at Britt-music school enjoys singing, acting, dancing because she wants to be a famous singer one day. Her favourite singers are Beyonce, mariah carey, Mary J Blige, Duffy, Amy Winehouse and Mr Hudson. She has other interests such as going out with mates,cinema shopping, make up and spa's. She's bubbly, determined and very ambitious and loves her family to bits. In her spare time she usually goes to the cinema with her girls and the genre she really likes is thriller and horror alongside action and comedy.

Q3&4) What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? How will you attract/address your audience?

I watched a opening thriller on youtube, it managed to get 2066 views even though it was a low budget film made by students. This shows that even if your film isn't on big screens it can still be successful. Our thriller is a low budget film aswell so the only places it could be distributed is on the internet Via Youtube and Vimeo, it can also be uploaded onto blogger were other student can give feedback on the film and if these students have youtube accounts theres a greater chance of getting more views, comments and ratings. By uploading our thriller we can gain global audience because youtube shows videos from all over, although there is an alternative to keep it within your own country but by doing that you may not get as much viewers to, if you were going to show it worldwide. There are also other networking sites such as facebook, twitter, myspace and bebo were you can promote your material by making groups, blogs and sending links.

The tagert audience for my thriller is aimed at 16 -21, both female and male. This is aimed to young british people who enjoy watching drama thrillers about relationships and heartache. These young peoples hobbies are drinking, smoking, partying and studying.

Evaluation

Q1) In what ways does media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

The editing that was used was very steady, the length of our shots were quite short as we wanted to show the development of tension that was happening in each shot. Also we used one transition which was a fade from the girl (camilla) to the police officer, this showed how relaxed camilla was and how anxious i was. The program we used to edit was Final Cut Pro, each of our shots were the maximum of 5 seconds, the shot is slow paced because thats when we see camilla face staring right at the camera. Most of our shots were dragged too, so had to cut a lot of it down because we didnt want to loose the audience interest also we didnt want it to be boring.

We made sure that the soundtrack was mellow and serine at the beginning of the film so that to the audience it would look like nothing bad has happened, as the sound went on it got harder, deeper and the sound increased to the end because we wanted to give it a dangerous sort of sound because at that point camilla'a face is shown and she has a stern look. The program we used was soundtrack pro, We didn’t have any dialogue because we wanted our soundtrack to show the anticipation in our film, we used sound effects to emphasize certain things, for instance footstep effects are used to show that camilla is wearing heels and the penny effect is used to show that the ring has slipped off camilla's hand.

We used a range of camera shots to show different key moments, for example theres a close of me (Police Officer) were im looking very stressed out and anxious this is a key moment because to the audience they can see that i'm very determined to find this girl, it being shot in a close up makes it more effective. We used a birds eye view shot to show the edvidence that are on the table and theres medium shots used aswell.

We shot our film at london fields trainstation and a office at college. I (Police woman) was dressed in a white shirt, a gold black red stripy tie and black trousers. I wanted to make sure i looked serious with how i was dressed. The other charcter (Camilla) was dressed in heels, leggins, a vest top and a cardigan the colour of her clothing was all black, we wanted to give off a deathly sense.The props we used was a cigarette, telephone, ring and small plastic wallets.

The credits were made on LiveType. In our film we included title labels like directed by, written by, music composed by, starring and edited by these are credits that would be used in a real film.
We didn't particulary get any influences for our titles, we just went with what would suit the film.

We wanted our opening scene to be build up suspense while it went on, in the first couple of seconds of the opening scene it doesnt look suspenseful straight away until we hear the density of the soundtranck and the anxiety of the police woman. I think we did a good job building up the tension in our film, everything went well as planned.

Our film can be compared to the soundtrack of 'Sherlock Holmes' because there is upbeat orchestral music, even though our soundtrack isnt really orchestral it has an increase of sound.

SKILLS AUDIT: Creation of titles

SKILLS AUDIT: Creation of titles

We all helped in Putting the tiltles together. The program we used was LiveType it wasnt very difficult using it. We wanted to make our titles look suspenseful so in order to that we had to choose effects that would give the titles that edge.

We browsed through different types of effects, we then found one and it was called 'Scream' . We all thought that the effect gave it a thrilling and suspenseful look, so we used it. We kept our font simple (Arial), we made the size of our titles medium and the colour was white. For the title of our film we the colour was red, bold and it was in capitals.

We wanted to make our titles consistant until the title of the film, this was because we wanted the audience to be stunned once they saw the deep red, big title.

SKILLS AUDIT: Creation of soundtrack

SKILLS AUDIT: Creation of soundtrack

We decided that we were going to make the beginning of the soundtrack sound angel like and serine so that as the plot unfolded the music would get deeper, harder and the sound would increase, to give off a thriller and mysterious atmosphere to the audience.

We used the program Soundtrack Pro to create our instrumental, we played a lot of ambient sound and once we chose our sound we placed it on the timeline. We took a while to create our soundtrack because we all didnt think it had that suspenseful feel, so we decided to add sound effects to certain parts so it could be more thrilling, once we did this our soundtrack started coming together. The sound effects that we used were footsteps, telephone ring, penny drop and a thud. These effects made our film more dramatic.

SKILLS AUDIT: Editing

SKILLS AUDIT: Editing

We used a program called Final Cut Pro to edit our thriller film. Our film was slightly difficult to edit because we couldnt come to terms of what we should have kept and what we should have cut out however using the program was easy.

The editing process took a number of days to finish but the sequence was getting better as we proceeded, we cut a lot of our scenes becuase they all seemed to drag and we wanted to keep it our film short and snappy, i found editing enjoyable as we went on because my group started to agree on things more.

Final Cut Pro has two windows, this was helpful because we could spot out things that weren't working as we watched it and we could simply edit it out. I think we could have been more advanced in our editing if we had more time.

intro to camera & health and saftey tutorial

Intro to Cameras & Health and Saftety Tutorial

In our media lesson, we had a camera tutorial session. This included how to use basic functions of the camcorder and how to protect it.

We watched a PowerPoint presentation on the interactive board, this was very helpful because it showed us how to zoom in, how to put the camera in focus, how to insert memory cards and how top turn it off and on. Each group had a chance to use the camera by playing around with the features, After We were shown how to set up a tripod and how to put a camera on to it. We were shown that as we slid in the camera we had to turn a knob that would make the camera lock and once we made sure it was secured we could use it. To protect the camera if we were filming outside, we would have to use a big umbrella to cover it so it doesnt get damaged.

This tutorial gave me a deeper understanding of how to use a camcorder. We also got a chance to reinvent our own version of Collateral in our groups.

SKILLS AUDIT: Filming

SKILLS AUDIT: Filming

We decided to meet up on the 14th of March, the first location we shot at was the 'London Fields Railway'. We spent a reasonable amount of time there because we wanted to make sure we covered most of the shots needed for the scene, the type of shots used were establishing shots of the train station including our actor, close ups, medium shots and longs shots. These were not all used in our clip but we shot a variety of shots to see which one would fit well once the we edited. Our mise en scene included the train station, the steps, the cigarette, the ring and the nail, those three last items that are mentioned are significant in our clip.

Our second meeting was on the 18th of March at college, we decided to film the police officer scene and in order to do that we had to ask our media teacher Tony, if we could use his office he agreed to it and we started filming. We wanted the Mise en scene to look like a police department, so we brought down the blinds from the window, scattered papers around, increased the number of pens and pencils and we put the Metropolitan police sign on the computer screen. I was the actor playing the police investigator so i dressed very formal E.g. shirt, tie, black trousers, this was so the audience would understand the purpose of who my charcter was.

Q7) Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learned in the progression from it to the full product?

Looking back the preliminary task, i have developed my skills i knew before also i've picked up some new skills on the way, i am more comforatble with shooting dfiferent angles and shots, also i've learnt so much about editing techniques such as cropping scenec, adding scenes, transisitions and how to use continuity. The preliminary exercise was a good way of getting me started with learning how to film an opening scene, seeing that i've never had experience in filming an opeining. I have also learnt how to use Live type very well even though that wasnt in our Preliminary exercise and i understand how to make soundtracks.

Below i have uploaded the preliminary film.

Evaluation

Question 1- In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and convention of real media shots?

Throughout the film we used a variety of camera shots e.g. close ups and long shots each shot being no longer then 6 seconds as in many films camera shots are normally for a short period of time to create of feeling ofsuspense and usually to tell the audience what’s going to happen next as the viewers watching the film will become bored as minimal action is taking place. We used many different angled shots as we wanted the viewers to see the character from different points of view. Many of the shots being high angled as we wanted to see the character as well the surroundings. This is similar to the film 'Sherlock Holmes' in the begginning in the film we see a close up zoom out into a long to show the surrounding of where the character was. In the film 'Sherlock Holmes' i expected to see tiltes running along the screen as the film was playing similarly to our film 'Last Call'.
The soundtrack i created was melodious as i wanted to create a feeling of tranquility as if nothing was going to happen in the first scene. We a jump cut between the two character as one is walking down the hall way and the other is entering the train station the tempo then begins to pick up pace as we can now tell something is going to happen. The use of the mise en scene (office, body language of police officer) is important as it creates a feel as if this is a real murder scene is taking place. This is comparable to the begginning of the film as the two charcters are trying to capture a criminal. The use of their clothing added to the century they where in.

We chose the location of the train station in London Fields as we wanted somewhere empty to film so nobody could bother us but also because we could get a good establishing shot of the city.


Question 2- How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our movie clip represents the social group of age.
Straight a way in the opening scence we see a long shot of a young girl dressed in high heels, a short black dress giving a image of a typical teenager as she is cumming back from a night out in the early hours of the morning as she walks near the train station to light a cigarette.




The image of the girls from the film 'Amerian Teen' is different from our movie clip as the teenage from our movie clip 'Last Call' was percieved as a working girl. However the girls have a similar way of dressing but are shown differently as they are cheerleaders. The are many simarlarites for example facial and body language. The character in both images both look very bold and confident and give the look of sophiastication.



Question 3&4- What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and Why? How will you attract/ address your audience?




This student used the internet to launch her movie to a wider audience as they know many people of different ages use the internet for many different purposes e.g watching films , playing games and listening to music . Launching a movie clip on the interenet enables you to get views and opinions from people all aroung the world, which may even be seen by a potenial sponsor .

Youtube might distibute my media product as youtube is a collosal networking site where people around the world can upload their own personal video clips that they made themselves or by other people. As my clip is a low budget student video it can only be distributed on Youtube and vimeo so i wouldn't have to spend money to put it on a screen for people to view my movie as youtube is free. I can also send links on other networking sites for example Twitter and Bebo where i can recieve
more opinions from a global audience.

I would attract my audience by making pop up ads on the net and by creating a game like the movie 'Shaun of the Dead'.
I would then design my own personal website similarly to the film 'Star Trek' using a theme to attract my particular target audience of the ages 16-19.


Question 5 - Who would be the audience for your media product?

Name: Shanice

Age:20

Hobbies: Loves shopping in H&M and River Island and also creating animations

An aspirer working in an graphic design studio who loves going to the cinema to watch horror movies which inspires her to create characters by the use of their facial expression and body language in the film to use in her animations. During her free time she loves to go shopping with her friends in River Island and New Look She hopes to make a thriller movie one day using the characters she made up. which she wishes will be seen by a potiential sponsor who will give her the opputunity to create more films that will go global and will be attracted by a larger audience. She is very ambitious and loves to live life to the fullest.

Question 6- What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?


LiveType











By using Livetype i was able to make titles with the use of added effects of what type of movie i was trying to persue . Also i learnt how to put the tiltes in order of what scene i wanting them in .Whether its on a plain backgroung or running along the scene, on the timeline. As a group we tried to pick a font and effect that we thought would go well with our thriller and that would attract the audience of the ages 16-19. By looking at the credits of many other films e.g District 13 . I noticed alot of their tiltes are running across the scene as the movie is playing except from the main title of the film which i tried to persue in my thriller.









For editing my thriller i used Final Cut Pro which helped me to inport and export certain parts of the scene i didn't want. Also i was able to add may effects from example a fade which is shown near the end of the clip. At the start i was i finding it hard to use final cut pro as i didnt know how and where to add the added effects i wanted in my thriller but i continued to use it- it became easier.












Soundtrack Pro enabled me to make a composition by using a variety of instruments and sound fx. By using the sounds it helped my movie clip become more of a thriller as i was able to add different modulations onto a graph to make it sound suspensful. By adding different melodys at the same time made the clip interesting as the sounds overlapped making you want to listen more for the instruments that were being played. By putting the sounds on to the graph at different times helped the audience to know when the scene changed and also if something suspensful was going to happen.



Question 7- Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learned in the progression from it to the full product?


Looking back at the prelim not only have i developed my exisitng skills but gained new ones since ive been filming. I learnt when filming to have very little space above the head which i had alot of in this prelim clip. By using final cut pro i am now able to cut out part of the scene that i don't want to use anymore. In this clip most of the filming was out of focus, now compared to our new thriller ' Last Call' i made sure before filming the camera is in focus,, and that i've checked the spirit level. Now having experience with the camera i am now capable of filming a variety of camera shots and different angled shots for example mid shots , extreme close ups high angled shots .Whereas in this prelim clip we can only see a minimal of long shots and close ups.


Question 8- Audience feedback and comment?

After the film we recieved positive comments back from other student and teachers. We aslo asked them what they thought was good and bad about our thriller movie and what we can improve on in the future.

I was unable to create a word cloud so here is a few comments that was been said

Interesting

Thrilling

Good use of sound

Suspensful

Eye Catching

Final edit of live type and sound filming practice

Final edit of live type and sound filming practice

We were given a task to create a bag swaping scene, using ideas from what we saw in collateral. The location my group decided to use was around the corner from college, seeing as we didnt have much time. (40 Minutes)

We had to make our scene suspenseful, so we came up with the sort of camera shots we wanted to use, such as esablishing shots, close ups, long shots, over the shoulder shots and P.O.V shots.
It was our first time using the camera, so it was a bit hard shooting certain shots and recording however we pulled it together and used as much camera shots as we could.

We decided that we were going to shoot two of us entering from different directions, for instance i came from a building , looking busy aswel as being on a phone, whilst paris entered the scene by walking up these steps, as we walked we drew closer and this showed suspense, we then swapped the bag without making it obvious it was swapped.

Skills Audit: Livetype and Sound

Skills Audit: Livetype and Sound

Outline

Our objective was to film a short sequence of a briefcase swap, that we originally saw in collateral. Instead of using a briefcase my group decided to use a bag, after we shot our scene we used final cut pro to edit bits out, then we exported our clip to Livetype and Soundtrack pro.

Livetype

This is used to make your clip look effective,
for instance you can add effects for transitions,
font, colours and titles. Also this gives it a professional look
and an intriguing opening.











Soundtrack Pro

This allows you to add sounds to specific moments,
for instance you can add panting, something dropping,
footsteps and a car engine, these are all natraul sounds
that can be created using this software. Also instrumental
sounds are used to set a scene or create a suspenseful atmosphere.

Match Cut Prelim Exercisse

In our media lesson our group filmed a opening sequence to a film lasting two minutes. We made the film up and wrote it down on a storyboard. For the film we used tracking shots , establishing shots, close ups and mid shots. We then edited it using final cut pro. We done lots of match cuts and used live pro to make titles for our sequence. We also used soundtrack pro to make suspenseful background music for our opening.

Introduction to cameras and Health and safety tutorial

In our media lesson we was shown how to use the video cameras. We learnt how to fix the camera onto a tripod and how to take it off. We also leart how to lock the camera onto the tridod to protect the camera from getting damaged. We then learnt how to focus the cameras and zoom in and out and all other nessacary fuctions we needed to know for the camera.

LOCATIONS

This is London fields train station were we shot out opening scene, we chose this location because we didn't to film at a place that was very busy in the day time and this train station happened to be the one which was the most quietest of the ones we already knew, we didn't have to ask for permission but we just had to be aware of the camera and surroundings.

We also shot the other part of our scene in college, it was our teachers office. this was helpful because it made our scene come together, it was near enough to looking as a police department.

STORYBOARD

This is the storyboard for our film, we have drawn every single detail that we want to be in our film such as, camera shots, props and mise en scene.

StoryBoard

This is our storyboard for the thriller 'Last Call' these drawings show step by step the planning and process of how were going to film each scene and in what order.

List of thriller sub-genres

THRILLER SUB-GENRES

Action thriller - Consists around physical action, which usually involves a hero.
Conspiracy Thriller - Involves the conspiracy of lies and rumors, also secretive actions which are not told until the protagonist unfolds them.
Crime thriller - Has criminals who either succeed or fail in their criminal offenses, for example murders and robberies.
Disaster thriller - Often involves disasters to do with the world, like earthquakes and floods.
Drama thriller - its usually a serious story.
Science-fiction thriller - involves unworldly elements such as aliens and creatures
Horror thriller - Is when the main character of a film is being attacked by an enemy which either dead or alive.

Thriller sub-genres

Action thriller- Often has a lot of violence, an antagonist, guns and explosions.

Crime thriller- Focuses on a criminals and involves murders, robberies, chases and shootouts

Science-fiction thriller- Has Aliens and other out worldly things

Horror thriller- Involves unrealistic creatures and the main characters in danger

Religious thriller- Involves Religious objects, institutions and questions

Spy thriller- often has government agents , violent actions and terrorists

Drama thriller- has elements of a thriller film and has a twist e.g. The Illusionist, The Interpreter and The Prestige.

Intro to cameras & Health and Safety Tutorial

Intro to cameras & Health and safety tutorial

In this lesson we was basically taught how to use the functions on a camera and what there purposes are. We were then taught went wanting to film from far, focusing on a particular point not to zoom in to far otherwise the picture will be become out of focus. After learning about how to work and use the camera. We then learnt how to put the camera on the tripod and how to take it off, and the dangerous of not locking the camera on to the tripod.

Match Cut Prelim Exercise

In this lesson my group had to film a short sequence lasting up to two minutes of somthing that we made up and written down on a storyboard before hand. We had to use a various amount of shots e.g close ups mid shots , an establishing shot and a tracking shot as camilla walked down the hall we then cut the scence to see her by the door from my perpective as she enters. After we flimed our shots for the scenes we then use the programme final cut pro to edit, where we wanted to cut the scence that we filmed after a certain amount of time. We then used live cut pro to add titles to our finished sequence e.g directed by and sound by. Finally we then had to use the programme soundtrack pro to add effect to the sequence to make it thrilling.

Premliminary match cut film

Premliminary match cut film

In lesson we were given a synopsis which was "a character opens a door walks into a room, sits down opposite another character and they share a few lines of dialogue", with this we had to create a short scene including,

• An example of shot reverse shot
• At least one match cut
  
• An understanding of the 180 degree rule

This was more easier in filming because we used some techniques that we used from our bag swaping scene, also we were more familiar with the camera.

Bait Tutorial

Our media lesson was based on using final cut pro and the Bait tutorial. We had to learnn how to edit, cut and put soundtracks on clips. On final cut pro there were clips of a short sequence called "Bait", using these clips we edited and cut scenes to how many seconds we wanted also we had to choose important moments of the scene. We were told to use jump cuts and razor cuts this made our sequence more effective. I had to watch if i was satisfyed with my sequence and after i did that i added a backing track in the begginning of my clip.

The art of the title sequence

Analysis of Sherlock Holmes

The title sequence i chose was Sherlock Holmes. The style of the titles are in old Victorian writing. The titles show the name of the actors and actresses who are in the film aswell as the producers,directors, co-producers, production designers, editor and etc. The images in the sequence turns from drawings to actual images, the types of shots used are close and medium shots of the characters in the film. The way how they images turn from drawings to images appealed to me, i think that was very effective because it almost looked as camera shots.

The structure of thriller openings

Thriller Openings (The shining)

The thriller opening i chose to talk about was The Shining. The opening scene shows a landscape of mountains and the sea, the camera is moving at fast pace also there is suspenseful music playing under. The music more suspenseful as we see i car from a birds eye view shot, seeing the car driving through the mountains leave the audience feeling very anxious. The muisc gets very ghosty as we see a close up of the yellow car, there are long shots of the landscape and the titles running throughout the sequence.

Defination of suspense and thriller

Suspense and Thriller

What is Suspensce ?

Suspense is something that keeps you on the edge of your seat, it makes you think of what's going to happen next and it causes massive tension.
Suspense leaves you with not knowning what will happen, it is opposite to knowledge and it makes you feel anxious and unsure about what's going to happen in the dramatic moment.

What is a Thriller ?

A Thriller is made up of a protagonist and a antagonist. A protaginistic is a hero and a antagonist is a villian, the sub genre's within a thriller are action, conspiracy, drama, political and crime. Thrillers are shown with very fast pace movement along with a lot of action, it makes the audience feel uncertain becuase they don't know what to expect.

Detailed analysis of the thriller Fight Club

Detailed analysis of then thriller Fight Club

Norton plays the unmaned (Protagonist) , he forms a fight club with soap salesman Tyler Durden played by Brad Pitt. The nameless narator Edward Norton is a travelling automoblie company employee who suffers from insomnia. His doctor refuses to give him medication and advies him to visit a support group to witness more severe suffering. After a flight home from a business trip. The narrator finds his apartment destroyed by an explosion. He calls Tyler Durden ( Brad Pitt) a salesman whom he befriended on the flight, and they meet at a bar. The pan around Brad Pitt helps the audience to see the surroundings of where he is, the heavy rock music playing in the backgroung is effective as it sets the mood of the atmosphere as you see contestants fighting. The fast pace editing is also effective as it shows many different scenes as people prepare to compete against the fighters in the fight club.