FINAL FILM OPENING

Evaluation Question 1

Evaluation Question 3

Evaluation question 3 on Prezi

Evaluation Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Representation is when media portrays a certain social groups in society. A stereotype are a good way to show how people see a certain group.

This image shows how society see teenagers and give then a stereotype of loud and bad behaved.

In our thriller opening we have used both the characters as females. We presented the psycho negatively as we have made her into a mentally unstable character who is seeking revenge. In contrast the other character who is playing the role of an innocent girl is represented in a positive way wearing pink pajamas creating innocence. In a way this could represent women in real media as it is a female who is being targeted on and women are mainly the ones to be targeted as they are seen as more weak. However it is also a female who is targeting as well.

Evaluation Question 7

Evaluation Question 5

How did you attract/address your audience?

Evaluation Question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

EVALUATION: Question 7

Q7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Our story board

Our animatic

During the Pre-production of our preliminary film we had we little time to plan it, 4 hours to be exact. We were shown tutorials on match cut and 180 degree rule to help form our preliminary. What we did was bullet point ideas where it would be handy to use the key methods of 180 degree. We later then built this idea to a story board. And an animatic. Exercising these skills long side shot/reverse shot in trying to become more effective in using it in our final product. In keeping with the thriller genre our preliminary had to focus on this. The plot was there was a woman who hired a hit man to kill her husband as she has found him out cheating on her. 

This is us planning

Due to the time we had we were not able to plan everything thoroughly we had good lighting though due to us being privileged in using a film studio in college. In comparison to our final product we were able to plan to the core. We was well organised because we played it safe in using facilities that where available to us. Following the conventions we had plotted a story line and followed the narrative style.  We had booked a swimming pool to able to film because at first we was going to use Hannah's house pool but it had a leakage so we had to come up with an alternative. We then created a story board of the type of shots we wanted. Then we discussed what mise-en scene we are using. And type of lighting. In following with a thriller theme we wanted to keep low lighting. 

Production we started to film at Hannas house we had got the shots we wanted in keeping with various rules. Our mise-en-scene was ready we only had to use a pen knife as a prop and costume. We controlled lighting by editing on final cut. And post production was all about editing. 

However in comparison there is a huge difference in skills displayed on both the preliminary. Significantly the way we have shots. In our final product there is more types of shots used making it more effective. Our editing has improved. As we added music, tittle sequences. 

What i have learnt on the whole with both production is that in order to try come up with a good idea you need time and patience. You need time to prepare and organise things such as booking of facilities. Then in order to be able to create a film you need to plan and storyboard  to help follow a narrative and create lots of different types of shots. During filming you need to know more about health and safety in order to be able to film safely. Once you have finished you need to be able to editing using final cut pro.  The skills you need is to know how to place certain shots and cut out bits you dont need and sometimes you would need to know how to render. Then how to find sound and add it on. Most important throughout this processes is team work you have to keep communicating with each other. And being able to comprise other wise if you dont know how to deal with different opinons and co-operate everyones ideas your team breaks down and then you will not be able to produce a good piece.After all there is no I in team. 

EVALUATION: Question 5

Q5. How did you attract/address your audience?

How we attracted and addressed our audience. Various aspects appeal to our audience, Mise-En- Scene- Our costumes consists of one character wearing a white dress this is to show a culprit, we assume white as clinical and this empathises with the fact that our character is mentally unstable however white does mean purity and safety which this throws our audience of the scent because innocent the character is not and plus we keep them on suspense as we don’t know what to expect. Also we usually relate to other films and their psychos are dressed in white, there is a relation being made with those who a psycho with the colour white. Also our other character is in everyday pajams. This shows nothing is to go wrong as it’s just someone getting on with every day life. Also pajams kind of show safety and security like the home has which then foreshadows the events to come. We don’t have many props however we use one significant tool. A pen knife. We attract our audience to this because we assume danger with a knife but as the film opening goes on there is no actually use of it. This then leaves our audiences with questioned and still maintaining their interest. The storyline is effective because many females can empathise with this situation where a lover has moved on and has a different partner. It may leave some girls revengeful. The location is in a house and this wheel in our audience because houses are not big and even if there are there is no where to hide and this adds to the drama and creates tension. Sound is very settling, we don’t give much through the sound either which we leave our audience at ease but we want them to continue watching and then to shock them. We use bubble sounds to emphasis the pool scene and make it peaceful. And create a relaxed ambience so we are able to interrupt it and surprise our audience.  “The seeker” was originally suggested by Hannah she thought it would be a good idea because a its all about a female who is seeking revenge and this makes our audience think their in for a action packed adventure. Through our production company we are likely to attract our targeted audience because it’s a local one and teens tend to spread the word fast.

Going back to the rough cut feedback it helped improve our film in order to better appeal to our intended audience. The pool scene was said to be a great unique point to our story line as not much film openings revolve around pools. And this was a good experiment. The suggestion of it being a narrative style really helped because it gives more structure to our product without spoiling it for the audience. We have reached our audience through cinema screening and vimeo.  The general reaction was good our audience found it interesting we started it with a under pool scene and was mesmerised through this. How ever there was props at the background they commented on that made it less effective. All in all they liked our narrative. 

EVALUATION: Question 6

EVALUATION: Question 4

Q4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

 The audience target for our media product on a wider audience scale, for our genre will be young people of ages 15-24 both female and males. On specific scale for our sub genre will be females at the age of 15-22. And a specific audience for our film based on its USP is females aged 15-22. 


Below is an example of a typical audience that would watch out thriller opening. 

Name: Shauna O'neil
Age:17
Education: Primary, Secondary, College
Occuption: Part time sales assistent 
Likes: Parties, drinking, socialising, 
Dislikes: Kwikis
Shops at: H&M, River Island, Top shop
Favourite film gener: Horro

EVALUATION: Question 3

Q3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

EVALUATION: Question 2

Q2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our media product represents particular groups in certain ways. Firstly representation is trying showing the reality of people, places, objects, events, cultural identities and any other abstract concepts. What the media is trying to do is re- present the real world to us. They show some aspects of the real world not exactly all of what it is. Significantly this helps the audience to identify the characters and then is able to judge if they can trust them or not. For example we have in the TV drama eastenders a character called “kat” she is shown to be a promiscuous woman who had a tuff up bringing and never being able to stay faithful. Women mostly are shown in this light.

Our media product mostly represents women. We have one teenager who is shown as weak and vulnerable. She is being chased by another female. Most female teenagers do get in trouble or a typical target for people to easy manipulate hurt and control. The woman shown in our film opening is of a woman who is mentally unstable developed from a personality of jealously. It tends to be females that get jealous and obsessive over things and they have to be the main woman in someone life and certain of attention and get really protective if any one gets onto their territory. They tend to be negative aspects of females. For example all most soaps show women to be dangerous when crossed but at the same time as victims. They are incapable of looking after them selves and that they are dependent on men.  

Picture above is to show a stereotype of what females who are shown in thrills to be psychotic

 

This picture typically represents young females to be vulnerable. 

                                               

EVALUATION: Question 1

Q1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms of then conventions of real media products? 

Our media product uses forms and conventions of real media products. For instances conventions of film opening are to show actions that place and to hook the audience into watching, grabbing their interest. It also to help the audience in identifying what type of genre it is. In addition we are shown the protagonist and antagonist.

Most film openings are around 2 minutes long.

However there are some that last up to 5 minutes but these are usually huge blockbusters. They introduce Key characters and those with less importance for example the sidekicks. And it is introducing a pre-plot or the start of a narrative. Following is the key credits such as the production company, directors, and editors.   Then an event will unfold companied with non diegetic sound.

There are also the conventions of title sequence. This is a method that all films include at the beginning; its purpose is to represent key credit productions and casting members.   The order of credits goes as follows:     * Name of production company

*Director

*Producer

*Executive producer

*Top billing actors

*The movie Title

We have followed these conventions as our film opening is around 2mintus long. And our key characters are shown: Sibora and Hannah. We slowly follow to the narrative. Whilst showing our credits. This form was better suited to our film opening and made it more realistic.

Evaluation: Question 1

Q1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

At the start of the project we looked at the forms and conventions of film openings, conventions are used to establish a film. It also enables the audience to identify the distributor, cast, directors etc... through the idents, and the credits at the beginning.

We have seen and analysed many different openings ranging from classic to contemporary. We looked at the openings of both; 'The Step Father' and 'The Roommate'  the openings are new enough the same, as they are from the same creators. 

This is the conventional order of the titles that appear in both of the openings;

Production Company Ident
Production & Distribution company titles
Film title
Cast
Casting by
Costume Designer
Music Supervision
Music By
Editor
Production Designer
Director of Photography
Executive Producer
Produced By
Writer
Director

Here are some screengrabs from; 'The Roommate' as you can see the font they used is very simple and clear, this allows the audience read and identify the test easily, throughout the opening the credits will appear in different places instead of the same place over and over again. The arrangement of the text will be placed depending what is in the frame when it appears as they don't want the text to cover certain things on the frame. So thought is put in when placing the text and is not just placed in randomly. The font colour they used is an off-white colour, which stands out against a dark background, however at one point the text appears in the sky, which was also quite white, however they used a shadow effect on the text, this way the writing will be visible.

We chose to follow the same concept as the roommate as it is very simple and clear and looks very sophisticated overall. We did not do everything exactly the same as 'The Roommate' we used a different font and change the alignment of the title above the name.

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Evaluation: Question 2

Q2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our media products represesnts the following social groups; love triangle, psychoitc women, stalker etc... I feel our media product represents these particular groups really well as within  the opening the main character you see is Sibora who's role a phychotic women who is obsessed with Hannah (the girl underwater and in the photos). We made sure to dress Sibora up in a way which psycotic patients would be dressed in; which is a white hospital like gown.

The social group; 'Stalker' is also represented through our opening as you see close ups of photos of Hannah and her friends who's faces are scribbled out, highlighting Hannah as the main victim.

Evaluation: Question 3

Q3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Evaluation: Question 4

Q4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

The audience for the film genre; 'Thriller' would generally be targeted at both males and females at the ages 15 - 24

However our film is a Psychological Thriller therefor and they are normally aimed at 18+ as it may involve a lot of violence and some psychological issues which may be disturbing to a younger audience.

However for our film we are targeting mainly 15 - 20+ year old females.

Evaluation: Question 5

Q5. How did you attract/address your audience?

Evaluation: Question 5 by aa42225

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Evaluation: Question 6

Q6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Evaluation: Question 7

Q7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Film Opening - FINAL

Editing Process - Part 5

Today is the day of the deadline and we only have sound left to put onto our opening, we exported our video into Soundtrack Pro and went through the lists of different sounds and sound effects they had that we could use for our opening. It took us quite a while to find the right sound but in the end we did. We also decided to add in foley sound to emphasize the original sound in the clip to make it ore effective. However we couldn't find anything on foley, so we quickly went out to record our own and put it on the clip.

Editing Process - Part 4

Today we began inserting the actual title sequences, we followed the same order as;  The Roommate which is also similar to The Stepfather. We chose to use a simple font which would be clear enough for the audience to see and read. We made sure the font colour did not clash with the video, making sure the font was visible. We also began adding transitions to the titles and re-adjusting the the time the title will be up for.

Editing Process - Part 3

Today I started adding transitions in and looked at the different sounds on Soundtrack Pro that I could use for the opening.

Film Opening - Feedback

Film Opening - ROUGHCUT

Editing Process - Part 2

As a group we have decided to stick with the original idea and use the first set of footage we filmed. After going through the clips again we felt that there was a way round it and we could still use the clips, we just needed to edit it the right way so the faults are not visible. 

Evidence of research into tittle sequence

Here are a few examples of award winning tittle sequence.Most follow the conventions of tittle sequences.

In addition below are examples of fonts to use in the title sequence.

Editing Process - Part 1

Today we have started editing, we imported all the clips that we filmed from yesterday and this morning into Final Cut Pro. We also re-named all the clips so it would be much easier for us when looking for a specific shot.

Filming - Shoot 3: Michelle's House

This morning Hannah came over to my house to finish filming for the opening. I took photos of Hannah using a polaroid camera. In the photos Hannah plays two different roles, one as the normal twin and the other as the mentally ill twin.

We only filmed close-ups os both the photos on the wall and the polaroids.

(more photos coming soon)

Changes in filming

This group has decided to make a change in what we will be our final product. From our initial idea and what we produced was dissatisfying.   What went wrong was the facilites that we needed to use for example we wanted to use Hannah's pool but for unseen circumstances we were not able to use it. As a result we decided to see what pools were available to us. And the one we could use at short notice was the pool at Hannah's secondary school. Therefore we filmed there once we finished filming and looked back on what we done, we left it. It didn't work out. The problems were as follows; you could tell it was a public swimming pool and didn't fit our theme location, the water wasn't deep enough, whiles filming the shots i was taking pictures and the flashes disrupted the shots. Therefor this wasn't ging to work out. Consequently me and hannah decided we should start from scratch and come up with a different ending. We also thought it was a good idea to swop our characters because we thought we didn't suit the roles we was doing. However Michelle then wanted to do a discreet opening only staring hannah.

Planning - Location (Updated)

As we have changed the storyline of our opening, we have also included a new filming location. We chose to film some of our opening at St Anne's Church which is next to Hannah's house as I have stated before.

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Change of Plans

After going through the clips as a group we decided to re-record everything, as all the shots before were not good enough and the storyline was quite off. So we decided to change the story line a bit.

There has also been a change of roles as Hannah insisted to. And there will only be one character throughout the opening, which will be Hannah. Sibora will be helping me out this the lighting and editing.

The opening will still be set in my room, and Hannah's house, however this time we will be filming in the church yard too, which is next to Hannah's house. 

We have decided to change the story line a little, here is a brief synopsis;

Hannah is a twin, however she was separated from her twin sister at a young age as her family found out Hannah had a mental disorder and would be better for her and the family to abandon her. Hannah is now much older, and comes back to seek revenge. 

The opening will start with over the shoulder shots, as Hannah is walking through the church yard towards her 'house' 

Pre-editing - Going through clips

In todays session we was originally planning to edit however we don't have enough shots, so as a group we had a look through all the shots and decided what ones we will be using. We have also decided to change some parts of the opening such as the pool scene as it does not link to the set location as you could tell it was a public pool. So we will be returning to Hannah's house tomorrow night to re-do some shots, and film the opening sequence in my room.

Filming - Shoot 2: Swimming Pool

So today, we made our way to George Green's Secondary School, as we booked to use the pool at 2pm. We was unable to use Hannah's pool due to some problems,  lucky Hannah was able to get the pool for us or else i have no idea where we would've got one.

more videos coming soon