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.