Question 4

Audience

This is the answer to evaluation question 4 on the Glogster website

Question 3

This is the answer to question 3 in a Powerpoint presentation shared in Slideshare

Question 2

Question2


This is evaluation question 2. I used the popplet presentation website

Question 1

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

What are the conventions of the thriller genre?

The conventions of a thriller include: low key lighting, fast and slow paced editing, music and sounds that increase tension, camera angle changes and quick cuts

Low key lighting creates a dark mood, a dark scene for a thriller in order to attract the audiences' attention.

Fast and slow paced editing reflects on the suspense of the audience. The faster the editing the more tension is built up, when editing seems slowest it means there is no danger yet. 

Quick cuts show difference between camera angles. this is also similar to fast and slow paced editing. The editors and film makers do this deliberately 

What conventions of the thriller genre did I use in your thriller coursework

In our final film, we used many different types of thriller conventions. The main conventions we used were, fast and slow paced editing, music of tension. These are common techniques used in many different thriller films. for example The Da Vinci code.
We tried our best to get the most important/main techniques used in thriller films in order to make the final film look more like a thriller as possible.

What films are similar to my thriller

Interrogation scene from our final thriller. 

there were a few thriller films of the films that we based our thriller on but the main film was the Final Destination series. This is because the main character had visions throughout the film, and was looking for answers and questioning people.

Audience Research + Focus group (for rough cut)

Audience Research + Focus group

For our rough cut, we asked our class mates for feedback. The responded honest gestures and constructive criticism in order to improve our final film. 

We agree with our classmates as there comments were true. There are a few things that need to be sorted out in our film.

The main problems of the film:

• The film length
• The main plot
• Scenes when characters were walking
• The weather 
• Speech

Film length

For our final piece, we needed our film to be under 3 minutes. Our rough cut was around 4-5 minutes so we needed to make it shorter. We are going to reduce the size of the film by editing the shots by cutting scenes as well as getting rid of unnecessary clips.
They said the film was way too long.

The main plot

Our class mates thought it was very difficult for them to actually get the gist of what is going on. We will re do some scenes and them into film including the psychiatrist scene, one of the main scenes to the film, as it explains a lot of the plot.

They said that they found finding the plot of the film too difficult.

Characters' speech + sound

we need the speech of the characters to be clear and understandable for the audience in order for them to find out what is happening in the film. We need to make sure that the sound is just right as this will help our audience hear the voices of the characters. 

They said that the characters were not speaking loud enough

Weather

As we were filming in february, the weather wasn't too good. The wind interrupted many scenes in the park. We are going to redo a lot of the scenes where and when it is not raining and there is not too much wind.
They said the wind was effecting the sound.

Studio ident analysis

Studio ident analysis

As part of my film project i am going to make an ident. An ident is a film studios way of telling people who they are. Below is a video that shows a number of different studio idents.

These include:

• 20th Century Fox
• Walt Disney pictures
• MGM
• Paramount
• Universal studios
• Warner Brothers

There are many more popular studio logos and idents such as, Dreamworks, Columbian pictures, Dolby, Miramax, Lionsgate, Regency, Touchstone pictrues etc...

Choosing our font

Choosing fonts

In order to make my film look professional we wanted to choose a font that was more interesting and did not look like it came off of a word document or power point.

To find an interesting font i went on a website call "Da Font". 

Da font had a wide range of fonts and it wasn't easy finding good fonts for our fourth thriller. We wanted good titles so we thought of good fonts that looked like it would've been in a thriller film. 

The three fonts we ended up using for our thriller were:

• Zebra
• Last day of Earth 
• Neuropol

Last day of Earth (final cut fonts)

This was our film making logo/title

Neuropol (from Da font)

We used the Neuropol font for the credits that went through the beginning of film at the bottom right

Zebra (from Da font)

We used this font at the end of the film, it was the main title for our thriller.