Tuesday 23 March 2010

Feedback from S1-22 on final cut

we thought your film was effective. the over the shoulder shot was really effective because both of you were in the shot. we thought your camera shots were steady and edited well, although there aren't many variations in shot types. We thought that the soundtrack fitted well to add suspense but we thought there should have been music at the very beginning to set the scene.

Friday 19 March 2010

Thursday 18 March 2010

Analysis of feedback.

From the feedback given I can gather that we need to improve our garage band music throughout the piece for it to fit the genre better. Also the credits need to be edited to fit in during the film and not just at the end as they seem rushed and are quite plain. The picture quality of the television in the piece can't be changed as that is the best we could get with the quality of camera we were given to use. Obviously if it was a proffesional film then the quality would be much better.

Friday 12 March 2010

Feedback - agree/disagree

From the feedback, we are generally positive from the comments given. However, it is apparent that we need to improve the garage band soundtrack and perhaps change our ident tune.

feedback s1-21

We found your film very good (Y) congrats. It was very realistic as it was a homely natural location turned into horror and this makes it better because it could happen to us. at first i thought the music should start sooner bt then it all fitted into place. The use of the P.O.V. shot added to the tention as we could see what the victim couldn't although the music could have built up a lot more to heighten the action. *licks bum* The soundtrack how it began when the action did was good, as the drama was unespected.

feedback from s1-22

We thought that, narrative was good and we like your variety of shots; the over the shoulder shot of the t.v was good, and the P.O.V shot was also good.
You could improve the lighting quality, by having relevant dialogue, for example when the two characters were tied up the dialogue was to colloquial and calm.

special effects were good with the television and the flashing lights. But we could not see the TV well, and the overall quality of the filming was quite poor.
You need to add more suspenseful music, because we actually laughed when we watched it because of Alex walking into the wall. With these changes made, the film could be more specific in terms of genre.

rough cut S1-23

The music for the ident should be changed, as it does not go with the thriller criteria and clashes with the rest of the clip. The camera shots were good, as there were a lot of variation such as the over the shoulder of the two victims and the point of view shot of the antagonist.

The credits right at the end seemed quite poor and rushed, and maybe you should consider spacing them out over the course of the opening. and the sound seemed a little to cheery while the credits were on.

S1-24

The first thing we noticed, was the music during the ident; this was off putting. Also, the speed of the ident during the film was too quick.

The camera angles were good during the film, we especially liked the hand held one when the antagonist was hiding in the house after the black out.

The mise-en scene was very appropriate to the criteria, the black attire was a prime example for the antagonist; this gives an impression of mysterious identity.

After they had been tied up, we feel there should've been a fade between the antagonist beating him up

Feedback from S1 19

we enjoyed the use of the hand held shots which made the film seem chaotic and also enjoyed the use of seeing the film from someone else's perspective as this built both suspense ad tension. In addition to this, the music fitted really well with the film and added to the tension. It was very clear which characters were the protagonists and which were the antagonist and your film conformed with conventions as we saw the protagonists in peril. The setting was a good feature to the film as it obviously made it more realistic.
Although we enjoyed the torture scene, unfortunately we felt that it went on too long and became tedious. To improve this you could have included a more varied range of shot types.

Tuesday 9 March 2010

Rough Cut

We have uploaded our rough cut to youtube

Monday 1 March 2010

Evaluation Questions

These are the questions that need to be answered when we have finished our products and need to evaluate.

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
4. Who would be the audience for your media product?
5. How did you attract/address your audience?
6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product?
7. Looking back to your preliminary task, what do you feel that you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
  1. What kind of narrative do you expect to see in the thriller?
    one which is easy to follow, and makes sense about danger and stuff

  2. How do you expect the music to work with the editing?
    i expect the sound to overlap all the cutting, to help link all shots to each other

  3. How do you expect the editing to work with the thriller theme?
    i expect he editing to play a part in the thriller; for it to help confuse or disorientate the audience

  4. How would you expect the protagonist to be portrayed?
    i would expect the protagonist to play the part which victors over the enemies, and help the thriller be exciting

  5. How do you think atmosphere would be created?
    via the filming, and sound. these all need to make sense for the film.

  6. How do you expect mise-en-scene to relate to the thriller theme?
    i would like to see the mise-en-scene give a really strong feel to the theme.
  1. What kind of narrative do you expect to see in the thriller?
    Frightening and dark

  2. How do you expect the music to work with the editing?
    Slow tempo at the beginning with it building up as the action becomes more intense

  3. How do you expect the editing to work with the thriller theme?
    Jump cuts and a variety of angles to make the audience more interested

  4. How would you expect the protagonist to be portrayed?
    To be seen immediately as the good guy, be able to tell the difference between the protagonist and antagonist

  5. How do you think atmosphere would be created?
    Dark setting maybe in an isolated location where there's no help for the Protagonist

  6. How do you expect mise-en-scene to relate to the thriller theme?
    Fake blood would be a good effect to use also out of the ordinary things to make the film more interesting

Questionaire answers.

  1. What kind of narrative do you expect to see in the thriller?
    I would expect to see arguing and fighting.


  2. How do you expect the music to work with the editing?
    faster pace to create tension in the scenes.


  3. How do you expect the editing to work with the thriller theme?
    fast cut editing to make the scene more intense.


  4. How would you expect the protagonist to be portrayed?
    friendly, maybe a family person.


  5. How do you think atmosphere would be created?
    the atmosphere would be created with fast beat music, fast cut editing and atmospheric lighting.


  6. How do you expect mise-en-scene to relate to the thriller theme?
    the thriller theme would be related to the mise en scene with different camera angles moving around the action and lighting to create shadows to build tension also props to make it more realistic.


Questionnaire - What our target audience expect from a thriller

  1. What kind of narrative do you expect to see in the thriller?


  2. How do you expect the music to work with the editing?


  3. How do you expect the editing to work with the thriller theme?


  4. How would you expect the protagonist to be portrayed?


  5. How do you think atmosphere would be created?


  6. How do you expect mise-en-scene to relate to the thriller theme?


Target Audience

Our target audience for our thriller will be ranging from 15+, and shall be aimed at males yet some females. This is mainly due to the fact that males tend to watch thrillers a lot more than females and that the age range is appropriate as many teenagers' interests are gory scenes and psychological effects on victims.



The 15 rating is used for films being shown in cinemas as a guideline to the age restriction. The 15 rating has many different guidelines; we are highlighting just a few of them that are relevant to our thriller, for example; imitable behaviour which is behaviour that can be copied, so in our thriller the behaviour that could be copied would be to do with beating up the characters and using weapons, this also links into another guideline that is violence which, in a 15, shouldn't show the victims as being in horrific pain for a long period of time, for example SAW which is an 18.