Who would be the audience for your media product?

lily, 19,  loves to party hard without any fear. she is very intellectual and quick thinking which keeps her on top of every situtiation she has had to deal with. She is very open minded and doesn't take things to serious, as she has been working part time as a receptionist at a school for a year now where kids are always joking around. Sometimes she wishes that she could do more with her life and be able to become a actress or a singer, as she did this for her GSCE's a few years ago, but wasn't able to fulfil these because she had been looking after her sick mother and took off time for her to really push them subjects. Lily loves doing her hair and make up and only purchases the best products that are expensive for example MAC. She even does a few jobs helping out her sister who owns a nail shop in essex. Over all she is a kind, fun, smart and loving individual who loves her friends, family and boyfriend, she also loves her thriller-romance films.

In her bag she carries:

Question 8) Prelim film to final film

These shots are the progression from our prelim shots onwards to our final film. We could see as a group that comparing our prelim film to our final film that there is a big improvement with use of sound, lighting and credits. 

This shot is too dark however our final film has more lighting. 

The mise and scene in this shot is not right, as too our final film we organised as to were we wanted our props to be.

in this shot the credits are not right, you don't have to show 'Staring', in our final film we just used the names of the cast individually.  

The font and layout is very basic and doesn't really go with the story of the prelim film, however in our final film we managed fit in the credits into the right places and use correct fonts in order for theme of our film to also show through the credits. 

Through out the time, from learning since the start of our course, we have progressed a lot being able to know what techniques to use, what not to do with the camera and also what we can do with the camera to get the best results that we need to get a clear and steady shot.

Question 7 : The different technologies we used on the process of constructing our project

Our script for this video. (That wasn't used because it was too long to add to the clip)

* We was also given a tutorial on how to use the cameras and the other equipment, after that we then had some practice rounds in order to improve our camera skills, we used a still camera to begin with used jelly babies to make a animatic movie using different shot types. We then went on to making various films using real people. Before we could start filming for out final film we had to first pitch our ideas of the film that was going to make  everyone in the class in order to persuade them that the film we was making was good enough to proceed, and they had to make a decision whether our film was worth making or needed more convincing ideas that it would be good.

Question 4&5: What kind of media institution night distribute your media product and why? How will you attract/adress your audience?

My film is a distibution of a independent, low budget, small student production.

When researching and analysing the different types of distribution i was able to see different examples of independent productions and main stream blockbusters. And have come to conclusions on how different the distribution is compared to each other.

Independent film production is basically a set filmed outside of a main film studio, and are made in low budgets as they are not helped because less than half of a film's financing should come from a major studio.

Main stream film production - A major film studio is a movie production and distribution company that releases a substantial number of films annually and consistently commands a significant share of box-office revenues in a given market

And from knowing this, it is clear to know that a main blockbuster movie would be able to advertise their trailers on all types of big productions for example TV and RADIO. However with a low budget you couldn't be able to advertise it on tv or radio' because of the low budget money given.
So with a low budget you would have to advertise and get it across to your target audiences through the internet, which could be anything from youtube to facebook.
Some more examples of ways independent films could advertise and attract their audiences:

• Posters
• Blogs
• Making a special facebook just for the film
• Facebook enabled
• pop ups (on your schools website)
• Msn
• Google
• Film festivals

social networking aswell:

• twitter
• facebook

video sharing sites

• vimeo
• youtube

Blogs

• Blogger
• Tumblr

All of these examples are internet based and most of them are free to use and promote. 

Youtube - i would say that this is one of the best ways to get promotion to be able to advertise it to particular target audiences from young to old as it is a tremendously popular site . Its also very good because you can read reviews from the audiences as they can rate, comment and subscribe.

Here is a example of a low budget film opening made by AS students.

This was uploaded on to the web through youtube and is great, for different people to vue.

And it could be promoted through different people to pass on. From this i can see that its a thriller and will be targeted to people who like and enjoy watching thrillers. 

Vimeo

http://vimeo.com/1333375

Vimeo is quite different to youtube as you can search in the browser for what superficial type of video you want to view, and placed where different audiences can find it easier

http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/films/p00f86m6

bbc is also a world wide known site where lots of promotion can be made as well. Where lots of people can search and find interesting stuff, which i say could be any independent film.

With all of these ways of uploading different videos on to video sharing sites, it can be easy way to view what people are posting and creating each day. It can also bring fans closer as you don't have to wait ages for things to be uploaded and published. People can also maybe even subscribe to channels that the creator posts the videos on for quick viewing eg youtube. As well as that these video's can also be enabled on to other sites for example blogs, social networks and much more which is one of the best things for a independent film to target audiences and allow promotion

For our film, we decided to use one of these examples for different audiences to use which was our blog, it is a good thing for out target audience as we only wanted people from our college too be able to view it and give us different opinions on our film. We could of done a lot more advertising for it for example putting it on youtube, uploading it on disk or even putting it on another blog or networking site but i was happy with us just making sure we had it somewhere so it could be seen. One thing that defiantly worked for me though to get people to view it was telling my friends about it through networking sites, telling them to come and see it after class or at lunch times. 

Similarities between characters in our thriller and another thriller.

Both this characters have similarities due to the fact they both use mask in order to disguise their identities. Leaving the audience to question who they really our. However the character from halloween doesn't give too much clues away, age and race, whereas in our thriller film its quite obvious. 

character from the film 'Halloween'

Character from our film the'Basement'

These two victims are both similar as they both are females, the costumes are similar with the bloody white top and the scared worried facial expressions. 

Our victim from the 'Basement' 

Victim from 'Halloween' 

Evaluation of 'Se7en' and our opening sequence

'Se7en' Screen shot of title sequence

Screen shots of our thriller 'Basement'

The screen shots of our thriller are similar to the opening title sequence of 'Se7en' because they both use dark lighting, a lot of dark shadows are used to distort images so that the audience are not sure of what they are seeing.

The extreme close ups allows the audience to try build a picture of the surroundings which is similar to 'Se7en' because they have ECU's of hands and objects in a room however due to the close up you have to build an idea of what the room looks like.

'Se7en' Screen shot of title sequence

Screen shots of our thriller 'Basement'

The screen shots of our thriller are similar to the opening title sequence of 'Se7en' because they both use dark lighting, a lot of dark shadows are used to distort images so that the audience are not sure of what they are seeing.

The extreme close ups allows the audience to try build a picture of the surroundings which is similar to 'Se7en' because they have ECU's of hands and objects in a room however due to the close up you have to build an idea of what the room looks like.

Q6 Audience Feed Back

As a group we are happy with the feed back we got, the feed back was mostly positive, for example; Someone noted that they liked the soundtrack and that we had a good use of lighting. Seen as all the feedback given was mostly positive it is clear that we got our target audience. We achieved our initial plan in making our thriller suspenseful. However there were some criticism's such as our thriller was too dark in certain places, but that was the whole point in order to create mystery to our title sequence. If we were to improve it we would add a bit more lighting in order to get more positive feedback.

jelly baby film

Suspense is a feeling of uncertainty and anxiety about the outcome of certain actions, most often referring to an audience's perceptions in a dramatic work. Suspense is not exclusive to fiction, though. Suspense may operate in any situation where there is a lead up to a big event or dramatic moment, with tension being a primary emotion felt as part of the situation. In the kind of suspense described by film director Alfred Hitchcock, an audience experiences suspense when they expect something bad to happen and have (or believe they have) a superior perspective on events in the drama's hierarchy of knowledge, yet they are powerless to intervene to prevent it from happening. In broader definitions of suspense, this emotion arises when someone is aware of his lack of knowledge about the development of a meaningful event; thus, suspense is a combination of anticipation and uncertainty dealing with the obscurity of the future. In terms of narrative expressions, it may be contrasted with mystery or curiosity and surprise. Suspense could however be some small event in a person's life, such as a child anticipating an answer to a request they've made, e.g., "May I get the kitty?". Therefore, suspense comes in many different sizes, big and small.

Screen Shot From Inception

I love the way the camera is just focused on one thing, which leaves you wondering what might happen next or what might happen to the object.

What i think about thrillers?

In my opinion i think that they are ok depending on sub-gender but for me any thriller scares me, and i haven't really took a large interest in it since i started this course which has been about thriller films. I have also come to appreciate all the hard work that comes into making it, and all the techniques that have to be used to give it a certain appeal for people who want to be thrilled and driven off their seats.

For me my favourite thriller is inception, as its not scary but makes me always wonder what's going to happen next.

Improve on anything in our clip?

If i could improve anything in the clip, it would probably be to have more time on it, so i could add:

• More credits (text)
• Make it more neater
• Include more clips
• More space to add extra parts of fancy editing 
• Time to add on more sound

But apart from that im happy with the whole editing :)

My Experience

Throughout my time creating our film clip there was a lot of hard work and time that needed to be put into our efforts, but i feel like i accomplished this very well and was able to make time to make this as good as it could be whether i had time or not. Also making sure i kept in contact with my groups specially Malika for example as we have worked together in classes before so i could always make plans with her, so we could do some extra filming or just discuss any problems we were having.

Sometimes i would think to myself: 

1. Would be get all the equipment that we needed? 
2. Would we as a group have time? since we all have different lesson times. 
3. Could we rely on each other? 
4. Or would we even finish editing?

But everything was able to be done easily as i made sure i put a lot of effort into creating this film clip. and it defiantly payed off. And was glad that everyone participated into creating the film, by either filming it directing it or even featuring in it.

Expressions Of The Week

From this ^^^ early this week with lots of work needed to be done

To this ^^^ Finally completing all the work for our film clip 

Film Finally Finished

It was a very stressful hour and a half as we had to know finally finish everything off for our film clip. I thought i had saved everything correctly onto our hard drive but some how something had gone wrong with saving it or i hadn't saved it properly. However shortly after looking for it we found it but it was saved as a mov. and the sound wasn't saved separately onto the file with it. After we i had to get some help from the teacher, which helped as we was able to then just paste the sound and video clip onto final cut pro and edit some more from there. 

I was able to add more credits for the clip and make sure everything was as neat as possible. 

What is suspense?

• Suspense is the feeeling  of uncertainty and anxiety which may lead to a dramatic event or moment causing emotional tension.   

Suspense In Thrillers films

Thrillers are about giving the audience some excitement keepeing you at the "edge of your seat" as the plot reaches a climax.  They make you feel expectation, anxiety uncertainty, tension and suspense.  The suspense plot usually has characters who come into conflict with each other or outside forces.  Playing with peoples minds  psychological thrillers, and romantic thrillers, passion, love triangles and murder.   They have to overcome these forces in the film.  This is what makes the film exciting and watchable. 

Alfred Hitchcock was the master of suspense films.

 For example, 

 Rear Winsdow, North by Northwest, Psycho

 Alien  Sci-fi thriller, 

What lies Beneath .Supernatural  suspense.

He loves me, he loves me not.  Romantic thriller

Momento. psychological thriller.

Enemy of the State Political thriller.

What Makes A Thriller?

WHAT MAKES A THRILLER?

We've had several inquiries about just what it is that comprises a thriller. The interested reader, the aspiring writer and the college student may all want to know what the "thriller formula" is. While I don't think there is a formula that makes a thriller, there are many characteristics common to most thrillers and I will attempt to put some of them down.

It is difficult to state a clear definition of a thriller because thrillers cross over many genres of writing. However, the single greatest characteristic of a thriller is the obvious one. It "thrills" as one reads it. The plots are scary, the characters are at great risk and the novels are constructed in a manner that makes the reader really want to turn the page. Thomas Harris's SILENCE OF THE LAMBS,  Ken Follett's THE EYE OF THE NEEDLE and Peter Benchley's JAWS are all classic thrillers.
I can state that there is no formula for a thriller other than the same good storytelling features found in all good novels, i.e., a story that starts with a serious problem, a protagonist (our hero) who tries to solve the problem only to find that it gets worse and worse and worse. The plot rises to a dramatic confrontation with the antagonist (bad guy), usually on the bad guy’s territory, and ends with a short denouement (wrapup).
Thrillers can be divided into countless categories; i.e., action thrillers, psychological thrillers, military thrillers, spy thrillers, sci-fi thrillers, romantic thrillers, etc.
It's easier to recognize a thriller than to describe it. But there are some general characteristics that most but not all thrillers have. These usually include a plot that concerns itself with life-and-death issues. Sometimes thrillers involve murder mysteries. Nearly all thrillers put the protagonist and other sympathetic characters in serious danger. And most thrillers have seriously malevolent antagonists.
Thrillers usually have a great deal of action, cinematic landscapes or cityscapes or interior "mindscapes." Thrillers are very dramatic even when they focus on someone's mind as in a psychological thriller (like Hitchcock's PSYCHO).
One of the most basic divisions in thrillers are those with a classic murder mystery ("Whodunits"), and those that I think of as "Howdunits" where the reader knows who the bad guy is from the beginning and is mostly concerned with "will-they-catch-him-before-he-kills-more-people" plot characteristics. The SILENCE OF THE LAMBS is a murder mystery and we don’t learn who the bad guy is until the very end. However, in both JAWS and THE EYE OF THE NEEDLE, we know who the bad guy (animal or human) is from the beginning. Both approaches can work to great effect.
As regards the murder mystery style (whodunits), it should be noted that not all or even most mysteries are thrillers. Many murder mysteries are more like puzzles, catchy, clever, intriguing, devilish, funny, learned, eye-opening, and so on. But to be considered a thriller, a murder mystery must have those characteristics that thrill. If a murder mystery sweeps you up into a thrilling, action-filled ride with great danger and scary scenes, then it is called a mystery thriller. One of the most enduring writers in the mystery thriller realm is Dick Francis, and many of his novels are good examples of mysteries that thrill.
Although few thriller authors seek to write with the deep social commentary of a Hemingway or Fitzgerald or Faulkner or any number of "literary" writers, they focus instead on creating immensely entertaining stories. And, for better or worse, the reading audience of Harris, Benchley, Follet, or other writers like Stephen King or Patricia Cornwell or James Patterson far exceed those of more literary writers.
Never mind whether that is good or bad. The lesson for writers is this: if you want your story to be read, consider structuring it like a good thriller. Furthermore, it is unlikely that many writers out there have the talent to attempt another notch in the Hemingway-Fitzgerald-Faulkner belt. It is much more likely that some of you writers have the talent to make a mark in the realm of the popular thriller writers. You can apologize to your literary friends by inviting them to your summer house on Martha’s Vineyard, the one you bought with your royalties.
Incidentally, after you’ve identified the components of the typical thriller, see how many of them Shakespeare employed in his tragedies. How different would those plays be without the grand plots, the subterfuge, the devious betrayals, the larger-than-life characters and of course, the murderous violence. We all know that Shakespeare's writing is so beautiful that his plays will probably survive as long as the English language. But consider that the "thriller" components of his writing don't hurt! 
Some thriller writers end up creating novels that are serious art. Raymond Chandler's Phillip Marlow novels, James M. Cain's THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE, John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee novels and Ross Macdonald’s Lew Archer novels all make serious social commentary and have existentialist undertones that have caused them to be the subject of many doctoral dissertations. So intrigued was the writer/philosopher and Nobel Prize-winner Albert Camus with Cain’s POSTMAN, that he wrote THE STRANGER based on Cain’s novel. In my book, POSTMAN is a thriller while THE STRANGER is an intriguing, artful, literary novel. THE POSTMAN was written in 1934, has been made into a couple of acclaimed movies and perhaps more than any other novel ushered in noir fiction.
Look at the bestseller lists. At any given time, half the novels listed are usually thrillers. Sometimes, almost all of them are thrillers.
In conclusion, hard as they are to define, thrillers are easy to recognize. If you can’t put it down, if it has you biting your nails and staying up late at night, double-checking that the windows are locked and worrying and fretting about whether the characters are going to survive, chances are it is a thriller.

Camera Angle Shot

Interesting shot, that is good to use for filming specially in suspenseful moments

close up of building 

Episode 1: Do Over. (thriller clip adding suspense)

Another video that i came across, which used a lot of the same skills and was a bit more technical and the quality is better