Q.1) In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge formas and conventions of real media products?

This is a screen grab of the conventions of film openings.

This is a gif of how my thriller has followed
the conventions of film openings.

Conventions of a title sequence

My group used intertextuality with marathon man:

This is marathon man's title sequence that we followed in terms of
the font, movement of text and where it appears.

This is the title sequence for our thriller. We have introduced our
distribution company at the start and ended our film with the director.
The title ' last member' is towards the beginning as
this is an opening and NOT a trailer.

This is the particular stereotype of women in action thriller movies...

This is evidence of the way women are portrayed as
vulnerable and weak. The male protagonist in terminator
is a primative male that is strong and intelligent

Our film has challenged the media stereotype of the way in which women are portrayed in films.

Similar too....

'Uma Thurman' plays a strong female protagonist in Kill Bill.

Women in this a presented as independent and cunning.

This is commonly known as the male role.

Above are still images showing why our female characters were strong leads. Props we used such as 'Mac laptop, iPhone and Car presented our characters as independent business women.

Q.2) How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Q.3) What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

question 3 for advertising and marketing
by: Christa_Maqué

Question 1

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

QUESTION 1.

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

Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

QUESTION 2.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Question 3

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

QUESTION 3.

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

Question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

QUESTION 4.

Who would be your audience for your media product?

In this video, I am discussing my target audience and why we decided to choose that specific audience and age range. 

Question 5

How did you attract/address your audience?


Here is some clips from our target audience who have seen our thriller opening providing some feedback:
1. Sabrina Ali
2. Raheleh Mohammedi
3. Renee Bailey

How have you reached your audience in terms of social media?

An online release was done on a video sharing website called, Vimeo.

By using Vimeo, we can use embed codes in order to share and possibly use our thriller opening to go viral through the use of social networks such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.

Question 5.

Question 6

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


Here is a screen recording documenting the different kinds of technologies I have used in contribution to our final thriller opening.

QUESTION 6.

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

*please excuse the mistake I made at the beginning of the video. This is the answer to question 6*

Here is a Wordle that illustrates which technology we used most frequently. 

QUESTION 5.

How did you attract/address your audience?

Question 7

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

QUESTION 7.

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

Q.4) Who would be the target audience for your media product?

Inside the rucksack of my target audience. Can you guess who is belongs to?

Q.5) How did you attract/address your audience?

How have I reached my target audience?

Did the rough cut feedback improve your film inorder to
appeal to an intended target audience?

Q.6) What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Q.7) Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

This is a little journey back to where we filmed our preliminary task 

and what we have learnt from the process of this.

Editing- Rough cut

This is a screen grab of our screen when editing on final cut pro.

We learnt how to label our best takes colouring them good and bad
to help us edit our clips.

This is a screen grab of us converting our film to quicktime

Final thriller film

Editing - the rough cut

Editing – rough cut

When we completed our rough cut of the opening, we asked for feed back in order to improve the final cut. Once we received the feed back we realised that our rough cut was missing something. The piece really lacked dynamic shots including extreme close ups and aerial shots that would make the piece flow well. From then on we decided that we had to incorporate more shots and figured that it would be interesting to include a third character into the opening.

The third character will be shot in a darker environment to create a distinctive contrast between the original shots we have where it is shot in broad daylight. It allows the crime thriller aspect to shine through briefly to engage the audience’s attention.

The setting for the new third character

Rough cut feedback

Rough cut feedback

      Improvements:

• Include more shots
• Include more shots with a few more shot types
• Make some shots shorter

      Things that work well:

• Some of the shots are very nice
• Makes the audience ask questions
• The mise en scene works very well

Here is some of the feed back that the rough cut received and as a group we will be taking these helpful points into consideration when we come to edit the piece further. 

Final Stages Of Editing- Adding Titles

This is our title sequence:


This is our title sequence without a title.

Filming - day three

We used the greenroom to film. We used dark curtains and floor
with the spotlight on our subject.

Katie practicing over the shoulder shots of Annie

Our location and setting

Me setting up the tripod to practice panning

Mickey helped us with the camera as it was moving in and out of focus

Practice filming of Annie in character

Katie in character as the antagonist

Katie pulling the curtain

Rough Cut - Feedback

When creating the rough cut to our Thriller opening, we asked for teacher feedback in order to improve and evaluate our work in which we have done so far.

Things which need to be improved on:


- Add additional clips/ film on another day in order to strengthen our Thriller piece including close ups to make it more dynamic. 
- Shorten the scene where the antagonist is driving, delivering the mysterious package/ shorten some of the lengths of clips over 5 seconds.

- Get rid of the zoom of the package and find a clip of the same scene without the effect of zoom.

planning before filming of day 3

Rough Cut Feedback

Roughcut feedback on Prezi

Rough Cut

This is our rough cut without any titles or sound

Editing - rough cut

This shows the process of editing. The left window shows some shots in the timeline and the right window shows the clips that we need to watch.

 In todays lesson we learnt how to label our shots according to how successful we thought they were and whether we would use them or not.





We began to place the different shots in order. We played around and tried different shots in different orders to see which worked the best. This process was repeated several times until we felt it that the shots looked well together. 

pictures from our shoot

Here are some stills that round up our day three of filming

setting up

filming

filming process

filming the last shots