Friday, 30 March 2012

Evaluation question 7- looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the product?


Evaluation question 6- what have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Evaluation question 5- How did you attract/address your audience?

Our thriller holds our audience's attention in many ways, throughout our opening of our film we have a very tense atmosphere which increases the tension and suspense to our thriller which will capture the audiences attention throughout the rest of the film. The audience would want to watch our thriller as it aspires to a younger audience and uses younger characters throughout the film which will hopefully make them want to watch our thriller. After our 2 minute opening of our thriller the audience would want to carry on watching our film as it ends on a sort of a cliffhanger as it was wondering what happened to the people who were captured by the killer. This makes the audience want to carry on watching the film as the beginning of the thriller introduces all of the characters and the killer and what he is capable of.

Evaluation question 4- who would be the audience for your media product?

After looking at my results from survey monkey I can see that the audience for my Film would be for the late teens and young people of the world who would like a thriller or a horror film. For people to young or too old this film will not appeal to them. These types of people would like to watch my film as it comes across as a scary thriller which will catch their attention with a good story. 

This is a wordle of what people thought of our thriller.

Evaluation question 3- What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why

Tuesday, 13 March 2012

Preparing for evaluation

Today we started our evaluation by going out and interviewing people who have watched our thriller to give critical feedback. For the evaluation i will be using survey monkey, prezi.com, powerpoint and filming people to answer the questions.

Friday, 2 March 2012

Analysis of past students work



Positives
There was a cliffhanger at the end of the film as you didn't know what happened to the boy in the closet.

Negatives
In the shot of the bedroom, the lighting was very poor and there was a silhouette of everything in there.
They was acting out a mugging in the middle of the day, when it was light.
Continuity error- when the person was coming down the stairs he came down them twice.
The editing was basic and the fonts they used were very simple and basic.

From analysing this video i have realised that i need to concentrate on the small parts of my film including continuity editing and lighting to make sure that the film looks interesting and it does not look fake. Also when editing i should try and make it look as interesting as possible  and not use any dull fonts for the opening titles. Also we should film our film in the dark to make it look more shocking and intense.

Filming

We tried to re-film one of our last scenes but after much discussion we have decided to cut that scene out which turned out better and scarier.

Tuesday, 28 February 2012

Filming and editing

This is were most of our filming took place at canning town. This was a good location as it was a very dark and had lights and smoke machine so we was able to add effect.

Saturday, 25 February 2012

Timeline of our filming

Date
Scene
Location
Cast and Crew
Costumes and Props
Notes
Wednesday
Flash Backs
Central Park
Charlie Spiers, Jake Knowles and Perry Cook
Casual Clothing.
Meeting at the school for 11
Thursday
Flash Backs
Marston Avenue
Jack Cameron, Charlie Spiers, Jake Knowles and Perry Cook
Casual Clothing.
Meeting at school for 11
Friday
Didn’t film
Didn’t film
Didn’t film
Didn’t film
Didn’t film
Saturday
Murders Liar
Canning Town
Charlie Spiers, Jake Knowles and Perry Cook
Mask, Lamp, Knife, Pictures, Smoke Machine and Jumper
Check list for props and meet for half 12






This is a table of when we did our filming and what props we used to film it. 

Wednesday, 22 February 2012

Naming the film

Ofter many discussions we have decided that the name of our film is going to be called 'Watch Your Back'

Editing is nearly complete.

After the half term break we have cracked on with the editing. Perry has prodominently done this and we have nearly finished. Although we feel that we need to improve the last part of the film by re-fliming the dead people at the end.

Saturday, 11 February 2012

Props

The props which we are using for our film are a knife, mask, lamp and pictures of different locations. For the pictures we took pictures of different locations around our area and just printed them on a computer. The lamp was at the location of which we was filming so we didn't need to buy anything. The mask we decided to buy of eBay.

Friday, 10 February 2012

Title of the film

after much consideration we have decided that the name of our thriller will be called 'Watch your back'

Filming in Canning Town

Today me, Charlie and Perry went to Canning town to record the main part of our film were we are at the killers hideout. We used a Bar which perry's father owned. This was a very good setting as it was very dark and made the film look very good.

Preparation for filming

We went out to take pictures of people of which the psycho killer has killed to prepare for the wall in our thriller. These are some of the pictures;