Final Edit

This is our Final Edit of our film Final Seduction

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 Five.

Who would be the audience for your media product?

While creating our thriller sequence, we decided that our main target audience would be the 'tech savy'. Which means that our target audience will be between the ages of 16-25. Below are some photos of what the tech savy's store inside their bags. We did this so we had a clear idea of what our audience was interested in.

TECH SAVY.

INTERESTED IN;

most likely to be in some sort of education, weekend job, interested in socializing with friends, enjoys summer, likes shopping, cinema, new technology, social networking websites, facebook, tumblr, myspace, bebo, twitter, music preferably house music as people this age like to go out clubbing, getting drunk, dressing to impress, driving, fast food, likes their independence, fashion photography, very busy, BLACKBERRY'S as from my experience nearly ever teenager has one except me, high street shopping, they usally use public transport, lazy, spends at least one hour a day on the internet.

Erry, 19, London.

Erry likes to read the metro, shops in tesco's and likes to read novels.

Nigel, 17, London.

After taking a quick snap of his bag, I now know that he likes to drink coke. He also has a little camera in his bag. Which means that he is highly interested in filming. If I was to appeal to Nigel, I would advertise my film alongside coke cola. Maybe before the film starts, we could have a clip before which says sponsored by coke cola.

Jadine, 17, Hackney.

There is alot in this bag. She likes beauty as she has alot of beauty products, like fake tan, hair spray, perfume, make up brushes. She also has a college pass which means she is also interested in her education. She also likes the smell of lynxs and Nina Ricci.

Question Three and Four.

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

Youtube is famously known for individuals to upload personal videos. But some videos become so popular, that they are may gain a global audience. Therefore, young students have posted their own videos on to youtube to hopefully gain a high reponse. As many of students have done this I feel that if I was to upload my thriller sequence. Hopefully it will become popular. For example, the video below has 61,101 views from 2006 which is a very high response.

If I was to upload my thriller sequence to youtube, I would try to appeal to my audience. By adding an interesting title, and also adding a layout which will help it from looking dull as it is on a white background. Also I would create a facebook page advertising the thriller opening. This will help to appeal to a teenage audience and the 'tech savy' are most likely to be using facebook and youtube.

Question Two.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Prostitute.

Escort

The photos above show two different types of a call girl. A prostitute and an escort. Within our thriller sequence the call girl played a very important part as she is the main character. Therefore we needed to choose which type of call girl we prefered. As we needed to sort out the mise en scene, and get the sterotype perfect. So we decided to choose an escort, as it was way more classy and sophiscated than a prostitute. We then looked at different openings from all types of thrillers films. Then we came across The Last Seduction which influenced our film alot.

The mise en scene that has been chosen for the escort, is a short brown bob, little amount of make-up is smartly dressed. This is similar to our thriller as our escort is smartly dressed and hardly has any make-up on. But our escort is wearing a blonde wig whereas in the last sedution her hair is brown.

Question One.

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

Numerous opening sequences influences our thriller opening. These titles are from popular films which have appealed and been successful within their chosen audiences. Within this blog I will show you how they inspired us, within the use of youtube and screen shots from our thriller sequence.

Above is youtube footage of the

opening sequence to The Conversation, I believe that this resembles our opening titles, as our first scene consists of an establishing shot. Over looking the docks, which is located in East London. Also to accompany this establishing shot, we have added text which is also positioned in the right corner.

Also another film that influenced our thriller was, The Last Seduction. It inspired us in many ways including the title and the plot. After watching the opening to this film we suddenly realised that the plot was very original, as most people who think of thriller instantly imagine stalkers. But we thought outside of the box and chose to film an escort.


Although previously we anaylised the titles of 'Superman and Batman , Public enemies'. While creating our plot, we suddenly realised that this research was simply not needed. As it didnt relate to our thriller opening.

Question Eight.

We asked our peers in our class, to write down what they thought they liked and disliked about our thriller sequence. They then wrote their opinions on to a word document. We then took all of the key words and inputed them in to worldle.net. The main words that were used was; seduction, titles, mysterious.

Skills Audit: Filming ( Plus 'on shoot' photos)

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.

How we improved our rough cut?

After hours of filming, we finally created our rough cut. Which was shown to our teachers. The feedback that we received from our teachers was very helpful as we now know what we need to do to improve our thriller sequence.

Firstly, we were told to re film this clip. The reason why, was because it seemed like the man was waiting for her to knock. So we improved this by telling the man to walk to the door while filming, to show that he was waiting for her arrival, but not in the sense of a stalker by standing by the door until see came.

Secondly, we needed to re film this clip.

As the door dosen't slam in this clip, it made the clips look uneven as they didn't slot nicely together. Therefore we simply just filmed the door slamming and a panning shot to accompany it afterwards.

Finally we had to re shoot the shot of the girl walking away from the house. As there was too much space above her head, which meant the filming looked quite amatuer and wasn't filmed at a high quality angle.

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.

Location Shots

Dunlace Road, Hackney, London.

As a group, we all choose to film at Dunlace Road, Hackney. As not only is it the house that the girl arrives at in the thriller clip. A girl from our group lives here, which meant that we didnt need permisson to film here. Plus, we were able to adjust this location to our timetable. Also, the people who live on Dunlace Road repected the fact that we were filming, so they didnt intrude or interupt while we was filming.

City Airport, Docklands, London.

We also chose the film across from the city airport as the water and airport across of the river set a lovely establishing shot. Also while we filmed the weather was perfect, as the sun was shining down on us. But it was very windy. Also the Canary Whalf and the surrounding buildings were visible in the background of our shots. Which helped to set a buisness filling within the shots.

Planning Preliminary Match Cut Exercise.

The outcome of out match cut exercise was very successful as our shots were well focused, we used establishing shots as well as close ups. I personally feel that this approach made it more interesting as the variety of shots helped to set the scene and help viewers understand the situation.

Storyboard.