Evaluation - Question 1: Extended

A FILM TITLE THAT INSPIRED US TO MAKE OUR THRILLER OPENING:


The Stepfather:

Evaluation - Question 3: Who would be the audience for your media production?

(My cousin Ali Ismail,25)

Currently works at Royal Mail Post Office in Angel Islington

Like to watch all types of film genres ranging from comedy, action, thriller, pyschological, horror.

Goes to cinema on a regular basis, every sunday, in a group ranging from 6-10 people with family and friends. Depending if a good film is out.

Evaluation - Question 8: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learned in the progression from it to the full product?

 

 

 Camerawork:

• I feel that for our prelim the camera was not focused enough and the camera was shaking because it was not on the tripod.
• The actors head was not always in the shot.
• The way the camera was positioned was wrong between shots.

 

Mise en scene:

• We had no props or specific costumes because we recorded our preliminary in one of the college classrooms.  
• Whereas in our final film we had props and costumes because we had time to plan.

 

Location:

• Our location was in the college so it was boring and dull. 
• Whereas in our final film we chose where we were going to film, and which room we would film in to match our audience's ages. 

Editing:

•  Our editing in our prelim was too slow paced and the camera changed angles at each shot after the edit.

 Titles:

• In our prelim, we had boring titles because we made them in Final Cut Pro. 

• Whereas in our final film we made our titles in Livetype Pro. Where we could make it animate.

   

Evaluation - Question 4&5: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? how will you attract/address your audience

Vimeo:

Youtube:

Blogger:

Facebook:

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

 This is a scene of our movie where the male character is looking into the mirror.

 In the same way in "The Stepfather", the male character is also looking into the mirror.  We used intertextuality by using the same type of shot in our thriller. This shot makes it seem as though the character is doing ordinary every day things such as washing his face or shaving (in the stepfather's case).
Also by adding music over this scene it boosts the tension that the audience has.

This is a scene from our movie where the character is laying dead.

In the same way in "The Stepfather", the character is also dead. But in "The Stepfather", the scenes move from the bathroom into the kitchen where you see the dead boy. But in ours it is all set in one room where there is a couple and the dead person is laying in the bed.

Evaluation - Question 7: What have you learned about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Together we created an animatic movie, including images, screen grabs, videos and voice-over to explain all the different types of technologies we used and came across right from the start up until the making of our thriller.

Evaluation - Question 6: Audience feedback and comment

Recorded audiences feed back of our thriller. Here we chose an audience that is actually targeted by our thriller as they are in their late teens, and our thriller targets audiences that are in their teens (because of the main characters being quite young), and above, because of the whole thriller aspect which is mainly enjoyed by adults.

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

 As you can see there are similarities between some of the shots used in "Dexter" to the shots used in our thriller opening "One Way 61363". For example the over the shoulder scene while the character is looking in the mirror, the putting on the shoes scene, the sink scene. 

 While there are some similarities, there are also some differences between our shots. We do not have a close up of the character's face, a match cut of the character locking/unlocking the door. Also while our character is walking inside of the room, in "Dexter" the character is walking outside.

Evaluation - Question 6: Audience feedback and comment

 Using a site called  www.wordle.net we each typed up feedback given to us. Wordle mixes up the words and makes it like this.

Bloopers

 

 As you can see there were times when the actors did not know if it was time to actually act or not and so we wasted a lot of the camera's battery on this.

 

 Some shots were really hard to do because we kept laughing, but in the end we got there :) .

                                                           And more laughing..

At times because the actors were not sure if they were within camera focus, they were not in the right position for instance the girl on the bed was originally meant to have her leg falling out, but because she thought the camera only focused on the male actor she didn't have this and also the male actor started laughing, because he too thought she was in the shot.

Final edit - One Way 61363

Editing

This is a screen recording of us producing our sound. We combined two sounds to make it sound more dramatic and have a bigger impact on the audience, however the top sound was not long enough so we had to add the same one and over lap it in order for it to last throughout the whole thriller.  

How we came up with our Thriller title

When thinking of what our title should be we knew it had to be short and catchy otherwise it would be too hard to remember. At first we thought about having it as just the number of the ticket one of our main props, however after doing a bit of re search we realised that there aren’t really any films which use numbers for titles, and for good reasons. Because of that we finally came up with ‘One Way 61363’ which reflects the ticket the main actor was holding, and the fact that its one way suggests that he does not plan on coming back here, to her. The number 61363 symbolises the number of the ticket which we found online and printed out.

Also by using numbers in our title it rule out the possibility of attracting only a certain type of audience, because numbers appeal to everyone, and thrillers too appeal to both female and male audiences, because they have crime which is more toward a male audience, but they also have suspense which leans more towards a female audience.

Editing

These are some pictures from our editing process. Most of the pictures were taken when we were still cutting our opening shorter on Final Cut Pro, because it was 3 minutes instead of 2.

Titles

During the making of our titles we had to come up with any names we were to use in it,  the main reason being because it gave it a more professional look, instead of just having our names there. Due to that reason we made up names to put under certain headings such as who the film was by, which ended up being a film by Jeff Cole, or music by Anthony C. Chase. We also came up with fake names for the actors in our thriller, as shown bellow:

Creation of titles

Changes to be made from feedback

• The rough cut was very useful in showing us exactly what things we still had to work on and even change a bit. For instance, the titles themselves on the rough cut were only there to represent a rough idea of where they would be placed in our final edit, however we still had to produce the titles and place them with the correct animation.

• Also we still have to finish creating our sounds and add them to our thriller, because in our rough cut there were no sounds apart from the diegetic sound, which we plan on removing anyway.

• The last change we need to do in light of the feedback from our rough cut was concerning the timing. The time limit for our thriller opening is 2 minutes, however at the moment our one goes over that limit by 50 seconds, which means we have to cut out a whole scene or cut down a few of the scenes.

Editing process

Second day of filming..

Our second day of filming went by much quicker than the first one, because we tried to film as much as possible in our first day that way if we looked over and didn’t like anything and felt the needed to re do it we would have had enough time to do so on the second day of filming. However, at the time we thought everything was fine the way it was and so finished off the final few shots and rapped it up for the day.

However, once we were back in college we realised that a lot of the material we had we had to re shoot again because of technical problems such as the lighting changing from scene to scene, or because we decided to add on a bit of mise on scene such as the picture frame, which meant we had to re shot that whole scene. As a result of which, during one of our Tuesdays 3 hour media lessons instead of going in to college, we went back to our set and re shot the scenes that we needed to do. Because we had previously planned out exactly what we needed to fix or change, it didn’t take us that long and we were able to get back to college on time for our afternoon lessons. Nonetheless if we had spotted the problem before on our second day of filming, we would have never had the need to go back and re film some shots. Still this all gave us a lot more footage to work with and made the editing process a bit easier as we had a lot to choose from.  

Rough Cut

This is just a rough cut of our thriller, but we still have quite a lot to do before the final dead line.  The good thing about our rough cut is that it tells us what stage we're at and allows us to see that there are many aspects of our thriller opening that we need to improve and add on, such as; the soundtrack, title sequences (length of titles) and the overall length of our film, since it goes over the 2 minute limit.