evaluation number 4

Our target audience for our film is aimed at teenagers as well as adolescents. This is because according to my own research, thriller is one of the most favoured genre’s. Therefore, it will be easier for us to attract our audience. We used a young character to ensure our aim towards our target audience. Furthermore we used isolated settings. Since teenagers may ‘hang’ around in isolated settings, we wanted to reinforce where teenagers stay in everyday life. Furthermore our location was in tower hamlets, one of the poorest boroughs in the whole of the UK. We wanted to show teenagers and adolescents are ‘at risk’ in poverted areas

evaluation number 3

1) After long consideration I believe wt2 production would help promote our film. This company is independent and therefore work on low budget films. Furthermore they will be able to give us support to improve our film. Moreover, if our film turns out to be a big hit, then we can approach bigger film productions. However, since our budget is low, we may stick with wt2 productions. My decision was influenced by wt2 productions release of ‘shaun of the dead’ where it received major hits and excellent positive reviews.

evaluation number 2

1) We used a young character to ensure our aim towards our target audience. Furthermore we used isolated settings. Since teenagers may ‘hang’ around in isolated settings, we wanted to reinforce where teenagers stay in everyday life. Furthermore our location was in tower hamlets, one of the poorest boroughs in the whole of the UK. We wanted to show teenagers and adolescents are ‘at risk’ in poverted areas.

Evaluation number 1

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

One of the conventions that we used was developing suspense through many forms. For example, like effective thrillers, we used sound in order to build suspense; the sound used at the beginning makes the audience automatically think we are watching a thriller.
Furthermore I corporated the use of lighting, camera work and sound editing in the development of ideas in regards to my movie which is the same as to a standard movie as well as mise en scene, making my product conform to conventions of a real media product. I recorded the video with diagetic sound, and then editing it by including edited sound. This is a recognized use of convention. We also used generic conventions such as an isolated setting so it can be seen as a form of convention of a thriller movie.
Our art of the title is very effective since it tries to reel in the audience by not giving anything away immediately. This is shown in many art of the title sequences such as

EVALUATION

Question 1: Our media film theme is thriller. Having a thriller theme there is a certain way things have to be. For example, the background atmosphere cant be colorful as that wouldn't look tensing (it would look more funny or commercial like), another thing is the background music has to be tensing if not then it wouldn't put the audience in the suspense mood.. By doing this it helps the audience get into the pace of the film. Firstly the music, sound and music are a key as it creates suspense during the film which keeps the film interesting. It makes the viewer question themselves. We also used different camera-angles, we did this to create suspense and to make our film look more attractive.

Our title sequence that we chose to apply was done with a lot of thinking. We made it to suit our film by making the text RED. By making the text red, it creates anxiety. Also, the Font we used looked quite sinister and we made it BOLD, so it could stand out and catch the eye. As the title is a key in giving a hint if the film, we named it DEAD END, all in capitals, red and bold. As the title is shown at the beginning you could tell how the story will be or what is would be about.

Question 2: In our media film there is a representation of an asian social group, this is shown by the main character Tahera. You could tell this by looking at the mise-en scene. Firstly the clothes worn, she is wearing a headscarf, this represents islam. Secondly, the background people. During the filming of Tahera walking through the market and out of it, by observing the people around her you could tell that there is a mixture if races. Even though we shot the film in Bethnal Green for an asian community, there was not any bengalis at that moment in the market. Thirdly, by analysing Tahera's facial expressions the audience could tell she is very afraid even though there is lots of people around her. This also reflects to females being a lot less stronger then men, and a victim of society. All of these lead to how different ethnic minorities are viewed, and what opinion they give.

Question 3 & 4: In my opinion WT2 would be the institution that would distribute our final piece as it is a thriller and the locations are in england. WT2 films are more english with location shots in england. To promote the film i will upload it on youtube as others where done http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPXaysjZbkA to get a mainstream audience and with computers being a popular technology. Also as our film is a low budget film by promoting it through the media it would get more hits and become more familiar with audiences. By putting the film in a real life position of distribution, it would get a mainstream release. I can tell this by looking at the history of Shaun of the Dead and Star Trek as they both were mainstream releases.

The internet would be a good use of distribution and potentially reach a global audience. By uploading it on facebook and youtube i will attract and address my audience. Obviously the users on these sites will get the advertise of the publishing film and may look into it for more if interested. I could use popular out of home media like billboards to attract audiences which are more interested in that genre or theme.

Question 5: Our film is directed to teenagers around 15-17, but 20 year olds are even likely to go and see it in the cinemas on a day out with their mates. "Maria 18- I work in River Island and I love going out. Especially when me and my girls go cinemas and watch scary thriller movies." Many teens around 15-17 go cinemas when a new film comes out and just for the fun of it, either with their girlfriend or boyfriend or even with their mates. Other working class people aged around 20 and over go cinemas too. They are more mature and as they work all day might want to treat themselves or friends. "Tony 21- I work at an estate agent in Kings Cross, and me and my girlfriend always go cinema saturday night because that is when we both are free. We like watching scary films as it keeps us both anxious about what is happening." Overall, the film is directed to teenagers and others over that age too.

Question 6: During the making of this film we used many technologies. Firstly the main thing filming. We used a JVC video camera. Before handling this we had to have a tutorial on how it works and the hazards of it. This helped us create suspense as we took many shots of one thing and pasted it many times which made the part have more power. This is what made our film other then the edits we did on the computer to make the piece final. Also, after getting all the filming done we used many other technologies to fix up the main and final piece. Soundtrack Pro, Live Type, Final Cut Pro.

We used Soundtrack Pro to make our soundtrack for the film. This program is used on the computer. We had to fiddle around with the sound instruments to see what sounds right together and what sounds tensing and goes with the film at the time. We used Live Type for the title of our film. Again this is another program in the computer which we fiddled with to get a satisfied title which went in the flow of our title opening. Final Cut Pro was the main program we used which helped us edit and improve all our mistakes. It helped us hide stuff which didnt come out right, it helped us cut things out and paste other things on top and it helped us edit. Edit as in make bits slower to create suspense. There was many parts in the film where we slowed the movement when looking back to create tension. All of these technical programs and devices helped us make our film how we wanted it, it helped us improve on things.

Question 7: By looking at both the films, the main media piece and the match cut preliminary there were differences. Firstly the match cut preliminary was the first filming that was done after getting the cameras. We didnt really know how to use the cameras and was shy to be filmed. Whilst filming our final film we had experience with the cameras so we knew what we had to do, also our minds were more maturer and was not as shy. When filming the match cut prelim we had to film one scene many times over and over again this was due to not much commitement and distractions. But when filming the main film we didnt have to film over and over again and there was not any distractions even though it should of been more likely to get distracted in the outside world rather than in the classroom which is were we recorded the match cut prelim. So many of our skills progressed. For example the use of the camera and how we filmed and the sensibility of our minds.

Skills Audit: Creation of soundtrack (Plus Posting of Compositions)

When using the soundtrack program, it wasn't something you could learn easily. It took messing about with things on the program etc, in order for it to be more easier to use as it was the hardest program I think we've had to use. I did not use create the soundtrack however I was there most of the time when Shreub and Imranul was composing it. It took a lot of concentration, effort and time . First thong they did was created a melody, a melody which went with our clip. Our soundtrack was a vicious cycle meaning it didnt change at specific times within our clip. After a certain amount of time of our sountrack piece has finished it was just suddenly restart again flowing within the same pace. However when there were to unsuspiscious bits we made the beat thump a bit quicker and louder then before giving a harsh suspense feeling for the audience. After finishing our soundtrack we then had to drag it on to livetype, on to the timeline where we wanted our music to start from. It was not easy because we then had to listen to the soundtack whilst watching our clip, and any little problems where it didn't fit in or go right we then had to go back to the sountrack program and change it around.

Skills Audit: Creation of titles (plis screen grabs of decision)

When we were creating our title sequence we had to make up names for each part. We were told to do this in order to make our opening of our clip seem more realistic and professional. At the beginning of our clip we chose to have studio canal to be the first title set and the font was vey basic. Followed by WT2 Prdouction which was nicely fitted and contrasted with our clip. We used a bright but darkish red which was slightly fading in a way that it looked as though their was a shadow effect on the writing. This was put against a black background making it more clearer for the viewer to see and also we thought that by using our title against a black background would have more of an effect to the audience. It showed for 2-5seconds which was enough time for the audience to read it alongisde with our names after in order so they know who's involved within this clip. We made sure that didn't put the title shots straight after or overlapping an important shot, this way it makes the important shot stand out how it is suppose to. After this someone in our group them had to import the title sequence and import them onto final cut pro. They then dragged the title sequences onto the timeline where they thought the tiltle sequence would fit in and by looking at where it is in our clip, it couldn't have fitted in a better place.