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Voiceover

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Evaluation

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

I think that our media product had a healthy mixture of following and challenging conventions of the media genre. For example, when designing our titles, we decided to use an effect on LiveType called: ‘fridged.’ This effect made the titles shake from side to side. We thought that this was common in this genre. It almost gave the effect of a crazy person and created an uneasy tense atmosphere. Again, the titles were blue and we thought that this challenged the genre. Instead of having a conventional red or white colour, we decided that blue could represent fear and cold. Again, the beginning shot has a blue tint that adds to the idea of feeling numb and dulled, this is juxtaposition to the fast, rock music we added over it. Again, this is another convention we didn’t follow, instead of the creepy, slow music usually used in thriller openings, we decided to use a fast soundtrack to keep the audience on edge. Although it didn’t completely follow conventions of the genre, I think that all the factors worked well together to create a tense atmosphere.

•What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

I think that new line cinema would distribute our film seeing as the also distributed the film se7en. New line cinema also merged with Warner Brothers who would help promote our film. This would help our thriller to get more publicity and is more likely to be successful seeing as Warner Brothers is a large, well known company worldwide.

•Who would be the audience for your media product?

The audience for our media product are teenagers. We chose this target for a number of reasons. A recent study showed that most thriller audiences are aged 12-18. Taking in to account this information, we decided to aim our film at teenagers. Once we had decided this we decided that a good location would be a school. With teenagers as the main characters and a classroom as our main setting, we felt that this made the film more relatable, resulting in it being scarier as it was more realistic.

•How did you attract/address your audience?

As I said before, setting our story in a school played a large role in attracting our audience. If our aim of the film was to scare children, setting it in a school with children made the story far more realistic. When researching films, we found that the scariest films generally were more realistic. For example, Ils, (Them) is about a French couple that live in the countryside that get terrorised by a group of French orphans. If a Japanese person were to watch it, I expect it would be far less scary then to a French couple living in the countryside. To the French people, it would be more realistic creating a more tense and fearful atmosphere. This is the effect we tried to create for teenagers.

•What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

I think that I have learned a lot about the process of constructing this product. I think that the area my knowledge has most improved on is creating titles. Before this project I had no idea how to construct a title or where to do it. For me it was an exiting experience to gain this skill. Jamie and me worked together to produce the titles on LiveType. It was interesting to use a program that allowed you to be so free with what you chose to do. I also think that my use of technology that I had already used helped me to strengthen my skills.

Update

Sorry it's been ages

Editing

So we've been editing our horror opening. I think that George has been doing most of it because its on his laptop. However, when we come together on Tuesdays, we do our production work, we all get our input and work together to compromise.

A few Tuesdays ago, Ms. Flavell gave us David Wheeler's advice and constructive criticism on our opening. The first point he made was that we should have had shot of the hallway being full then dissolve out into the shots of the empty, eerie hallways. This is helpful because it emphasizes the atmosphere of the empty hallway. So we filmed the same hallways as we had before, but during changeover. We then edited in these shots with a fade in and fade out effect.

The next thing he asked us to do, was to sync the music with the sequence. He said that the music changed at the wrong point in the film. We changed this last Tuesday so that music changes at the pivotal point in the opening.

Kitty

Re-re-Filming

Heya.

Well finally I think we've done enough filming to come up with a good final piece. We came into school at eleven o clock and once we'd all woken up we started filming. The first scene was a shot of Taylan, hood up, looking dark and intimidating, outside school. Then we strapped the camera to the bike for a smooth, creature like effect and got a few point of view shots of the evil... not quite sure what it is snaking around the school and shrinking up the stairs. But a difficulty we kept facing was space on the camera. Throughout the day we had to take three trips to the media suit to download the footage and delete it off the camera. So after doing this for the second time we filmed our last shot in a classroom. We used a range of shots and I think once we edit them together we will create a scary, heart-racing thriller opening. I think that there were not set roles that we kept to. I think that each participant in the group did a bit of filming, editing and directing. I think that maybe in the future, something that could be improved is assigning set roles for everyone. I think that this would make it fairer as some people end up doing more work than others. I think that the whole experience has been frustrating, annoying and time-consuming. But I think that once we are faced with the end result, we will feel content, confident and collected. Well... I hope so anyway. I think I have learned that team work and relationships is very important when making a film sequence. Without strong relationships we have nothing to build our films on. Overall I think we had a poor group dynamic, but after this experience I think it has grown and we had learned we can work well together.

Kitty

Re-filming

Well finally after a week of fighting, we have decided to start again. We decided on a mix between the original and the second one we started. Today we have come in to re-film (yes in the Christmas holidays) dedication? I think so! So far its going quite well. I woke up my group and we got here on time... almost. And we've started filming. I'll blog later to ket you know how it went

Kitty