How we improved out rough edit of Final Seduction

One of the main things that needed to changed was the clip of the man walking towards the door, in the first edit of our thriller the man didnt walk to the door before he opended it he ws already standing there which didn't look realistic at all, so after we had editied our first rough edit we went out and refilmed the opening of the door.

Question Two

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

The main character of our thriller film represents the "working girl" also known as a prostitute, as we got our initial idea from the film The Last Seduction, our main character is very similar to Bridget Gregory the main character in The Last Seduction who is also a prostitute.

On the left hand side is a picture of Bridget Gregory and on the right hand side is a screengrab from our thiller Final seduction.







Altough are character is a postitute she isnt trashy, she dresses classy and does her job becausse she enjoys doinf and not because she needs money, there aere notcible differences from our character and a character like Vivian from pretty woman these mainly being the classyness of our character.

Final Edit

This is our Final Edit of our film Final Seduction

Question Five

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Whilst creating our opening thriller sequence we decided that are target audience was going to be 'Tech Savy', as myself and my group are also 'Tech Savy' we knew what things would appeal to that audience. Below are some images of what you would find in a 'Tech Savys' bag. This allows you to get a clearer understanding of the types of things they like.

Charlotte 17 and lives in Hackney, in Charlottes bag you can see her purse, phone and college ID card; as you can see her college ID card this lets you no that she is very keen on her education. Compared to other Tech Savy students Charlotte doesnt seem to have alot in her bag which may indicate that she was rushing in the morning. Charlottes phone indicates that spends alot of time comunicating with her frirnds which is very comman for girls her age.

Nicola age 17 and lives in Islington, as you can se Nicola has a number of things in her bag including a ipod, sweets, lipgloss and tablets. These are all things that you would expect to find in a 'Tech Savys' bag, the make up and mirror shows that Nicola spends alot of time on her apperience which is common with girls her age.

Jamie age 17 and lives in Beckton, from Jamies bag you can see it is very clear that she spends alot of her time on her apperance, the hair spry, brush and perfume indicate this. Jamie doesnt have any school supplies in her bag so this may indicate that she doesnt enjoy doing work.

Alex age 17 and lives in Canning Town, the first thing that grabs your attention in Alexs bag is the book. A keen student studying at college it is clear that Alex enjoys reading. The oyster card in the corner of her bag shoes that she travels around alot which may show the busy social life that she leads. Alexs phone is an iphone which is expensive and shows that she like expensive things.

Question One

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

In order to to create our opening scene we had to look at a number of opening scenes from different films. This is so that we could get ideas on how we would have our own opening scene.

Below is a clip form youtube showing the opening scene to the conversation

Here you can see that we have an over the shoulder shot of the docks with the titles on the bottom right hand side.

We got this idea of using the titles at the bottom of the screen from the film The Conversation as there is an establishing shot followed by the titles which you can see below. Which we have also done.

Most of our inspiration was taken from the film The Last Seduction. The film influenced us so much as we have a similar title and plot. As we watched the opening scene we instantly knew we had to do something like this as most people think of a thriller with stalkers and killings, so we thought we should think outside the box.

Question Seven.

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learned in the progression from the full product?

Looking back at our preliminary task, Our group have realised how we gained new skills and also how we developed our existing skills throughout this process. The preliminary task helped us alot as while filming we realised how this task will help us to film our thriller sequence. As none of us have had previous experience with filming. Therefore we took advantage of this task from doing this we now have a full understanding of how to film, edit and also create soundtracks.

Below we have a clip of our bloppers which contain different clips from each film. These bloppers show some mistakes that occured while we were filming. After looking at these mistakes we now know how we improved key elements like mise en scene, editing, filming. But not only did we improve our skills they also were downgraded.

Skills that were improved

Many of our skills were improved while filming, but I am going to explain in great detail which skills were majorly improved.

Mise en scene

I personally feel that the mise en scene that we created for the escort was of a high standard. As not only did we dress 'Charlotte' in s

mart clothes accompanied by a pair of high heals. We also bought a blonde wig. This shows that mise en scene was one of our main aspects throughout the sequence. Not only did we dress 'Charlotte' we also paided attention to 'Lauren' who handed over an important piece of paper, as we added a pair of high heals and a black blazer, which made her look sophiscated and from a high class background. We also added a shirt to the male 'Jevoney' which helped him to look smart aswell. We focused on mise en scene as in our premilinary task, it wasnt an important factor, therefore it didnt look as good as we wanted it to be. Although we gave 'Lauren' a watch, we should of added more props and clothing to make her character more obvious. Here are some photos to help my opinion look more clearer.

Mise en Scene of Charlotte - Thriller Sequence.

Mise en scene Of Preliminary Match Cut - Lauren

Match Cuts

Although our match were not bad in our preliminary task, our group felt that we should make them look better in our thriller sequence. Therefore we made sure that our match cuts were of a high standard. The audiences that watched our thriller sequence, mainly commented on our match cuts. By saying they were good and they enjoyed them.

Certain aspects of the preliminary task that we didn't improve.

While filming our thriller sequence, we experimented with various amounts of shots. Including close ups, establishing shots, wide shots ect. But while filming our thriller sequence, we came across a shot that was not filmed at a high standard. Therefore, unfortunately our shots weren't filmed at a high standard.

Question Six.

This video shows what types of technology we used while creating our thriller sequence. We came across many types of software and technical equipment that we never used before. Software like Live type, soundtrack pro and final cut pro.

Question Three & Four

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? How will you attract your audience?

To ensure that my film is seen by the right audience it needs to be advertised in the right way, by using social networking sights it enables the film to be seen by the tech savy audiences which is young people aged 16-25 but as we want the film to be seen by a wider audience we need to use other advertising strategies.

Youtube
Youtube is the best way to get any type of media footage seen all other the world, by uploading a video on to the famous site in enables others world wide to view clips that are uploaded onto the site. Students from all different enviroments have uploaded there student thiller films onto youtube and each of these have recieved a massive number of hits. If i were to upload my thiller opening to youtube i would make sure it had a title that appeals to alot of people and that is easy to find on the site, i hop that if my film was uploaded to the site it would get as many hits as some other student films that have been uploaded on there.

The film below was posted by a student

in September 2009 and has already received a massive 8,075 hits which exceeds daily.

Facebook

Facebook is the most popular social networking site, used globally by all different ages. The site is usualy used by people communicating with there friends but is a great way to advertise upcoming films, wether being a huge big buget film or a small budget and student film. By using facebook i could create a fan page inviting people to watch my film, facebook would allow my film to be seen by all different people from all different walks of life as people can pass it on to other people to watch. By using facebook i could make sure my film is seen by the tech savy audience as they are the ones who use the social networking site facebook the most.

Twitter

Like facebook twitter is a social netwoking site which allows you to post updates on your profile, not only can people follow what your doing you can also follow them back. Twitter is one of the only social networking site which celebrities use and allow you too see there profile. Twitter can be used in a very smart way to help getting syudent films known you can post links to blogs and different websites on your profile which allows people to go and have a look.

Question Eight

Audience feedback and comments on our thriller opening

There are alot of positive words showing on the wordle image. What suprised us was how big hooker appeared as this showed that alot of the audience picked up on the idea of our character stereotype.

After we watched everybody's film we got people to comment on what they thought on the film. Here you can see what people had to say on our film:

Storyboard.

This was our original storyboard, but throughout filming we decided to change our thriller sequence. As panning shots of tall buildings, with text positioned in the centre was simply not needed. After a huge amount of discussion we decided to place the titles on

a plain black screen. The simplicity of these titles where a lot more effective than numerous scenes of complicated camera work and huge amounts of text.

LiveType

LiveType is a software that is used for creating titles in films, before starting filming, editing and making soundtracks its important that you no how to use LiveType. In LiveType you are able to create all different types of titles using different fonts, styles and effects. LiveType allows you to put any type of background behind the titles wether its a blank screen, picture or even in front of the footage.

Soundtrack Pro

Before we start filming our thriller opening we must learn how to use soundtract pro, as this is where the soundtrack for our thiller opening will be made. Soundtrack pro has many accesorise that enable you to make a soundtrack to accompony the peice of film that requires a soundtrack i.e the opening or moments that create suspense. There are number of different styles of music that is in soundtrack pro that can fit anytype of film for example:

-Beats

-Voices

-Sound Effects

-Insturments

Soundtrack pro also allows you to improt your intire film into the programme so you are able to see were you want the music to play.

Health and Safety

Before using any equiptment, health and safety regulations must be gone through. Today we learnt how to use and look after the cameras properly whilst filming. If regulations are not foloowed properly it could lead to the footage not being the best quality or even the camera breaking.

some of these regualtions inclued:

-Taking the camera off the tripod before moving it

-Making sure there are two people attentive to the camera at all times to ensure full safety

-The camera is turned off correctly after using it

-The memory cards are taken out after using the camera

- Camera is turned off when not in use to save battery life

Pitch

To enable us to start filming our thriller sequence we had to sell our ideas to our teachers. Therefore we made a slideshow which consists of locations, treatment, production company, skills audit etc. Here are some screenshots to show our pitch.

Rough edit of Final Seduction

Bag Swap

In this exercise myself and my Group had to create a bag. using the brief we created are own scenario were two girls meet by a canal and exchange briefcases whilst a girl sitting near them witnesses it all. As it was are first attempt at filming, editing, and using soundtrack pro i think we have done really well.

Preliminary Match Cut exercise

In this preliminary match cut exercise my group and I were asked to create a match cut within a sequence of someone being late for a meeting, myself and Charlotte both played roles in this short video myself being the interviewer and Charlottoe the interviewee who is late for the meeting. As we all fully understood what a match cut is myself and the rest of the group found it very easy to get on with the task. As you can see from the finished video below there are a number of match cuts inbedded within the clip. I think we have improved on are skills editing majorly since filming the bag swap which was the first task.

current news affairs

The biggest news story that is in the media at the moment is the earthquake that struck Haiti on Tuesday the 12th of January 2010. AS Haiti is a poor Country trying too get everything back in order is proving quiet difficult. As there is a serious need for the country to recover the rest of the world are doing everything they can to try and help Haiti on there journey to recovery, relasing charity songs and holding events to try and raise money.

There have been a number of charity events to raise money for haiti including a charity gala hosted by Naomi Campbell and a charity Tennis even held by Roger Federer but by far the biggest campaine yet is charity singles that artists are bringing out in order to raise money.

In efforts to try and help raise money for Haiti a number of artsits including Jamie Foxx, Linel Richie, Barbra Streisand and Pink have all come together and covered Michael Jacksons, We Are The World raising millions for the sufforing underprivileged country.

Sub genres of thrillers

There are many types of sub genres for thrillers, all very different from each other but some more common than others. altough the sub genres are different form each other they all contain the elements of thrillers. Here are some of the sub genres that feature in thrillers.

Action Thriller
Conspiracy Thriller
Crime Thriller
Thriller - The Prestige
Erotic Thriller
Legal Thriller
Psychological
Spy Thriller
Religious Thriller
Disaster Thiller

The most common sub genres for a thriller i think are crime and action as suspence can be easily created and they all focuss on murders, crime and mystery which are all elements that make and interresting and exciting thiller.

Vantage point - political thiller

The Day after tomorrow -Disaster Thiller

Superman/Batman - Public Enemies

The opening sequence for Superman/Batman Public Enemies has an American theme, the clip features images of the statue of liberty, white house