Evaluation Question 8

Evaluation Question 7

Evaluation Question 6: Audience feedback

Evaluation Question 5

Evaluation Question 4

Evaluation Question 2

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

The opening thriller is about a young girl who gets stalked by her evil twin sister, the group chose to choose a young girl as a victim because in many horror/thriller movies, mainly the protagonist is a female. This is very common with many movies such as 'The Unborn'

Evaluation Question 1

Final Thriller - Indifferent

After all the hard work and different dilemmas, genius ideas .... this is what we have produce, enjoy .... INDIFFERENT 

Our rough cut

The video above is our rough cut of our thriller film. it isnt a finished version its just a rough putine of what we expect to see and the possible outcomes. things we still need to add/ iclude is things like music and non digetic sounds for example on the opening scene where the girl is walking up to the house we hope to have some non digetic music of music she is listening from her phone when she gets into the house and takes the music out of her ears the non digetic of her listengin to music should stop and this is where the ariy tention begins. 

We havent fdinished all the effects and transitions we hope to add because on parts like the dead gorl appearing we hope to have her flickering mre and then this will create some entitiny of superstition or supernaturalfeatures. 

We need to add a few m,ore macth cuts to make our video more effective and we need to refilm certain shots from different point of views for example the shot when the girl looks into the room where the supernatuarl sceneces happen we need to get her point of view so that we can see it for a different layout and create a more realistic theme/atmosphere 

We our happy with the outcomoe of thes scene where the things happen by them self because the special effects our happening without seeing the way we done it or any props we used, this scene is a key scene as it sets the mood for the video and grabs the audience.

Prelim - Final Cut

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Prelim Photos

Short Jelly Babies Production.

Our media class had to make a short movie with jelly babies. Our short film is set in the college. The storyline of this short movie is that the orange jelly baby dumps the purple jelly baby for a yellow one. Throughout the short movie, the purple jelly baby cries to get the orange one back but the orange jelly baby rejects. Ater the purple jelly baby tells the yellow one to take good care of her, then the yellow jelly baby gets squashed. gets sqaushed. After the squashing, the yellow and purple jelly baby scream and cry as the orange jelly baby lies there squashed with blood on it.

Final Jelly Baby Production

Final Jelly Baby Production , Directed by Michael Coulson, Produced by Simon Tran.
Starring Mica Baker, Denzel Simmons and Michael Rose.

Introduction to Camera Skills

JVC Final Cut Pro Camera: This blog will be about this camera on how to use it.



We should be very careful with the camera lenses as it can get fingerprints on it which would make it look dirty and it could get damaged easily.

Battery: Insert the battery in the battery slot which is located in the back of the camera. If you want to take out the battery, push the eject button which can be found on top of the battery slot.

Memory Card:  Insert the memory card into the memory slot to save your clips so you can send it to the computer. The memory card slot can be found at the left hand side of the camera, bottom of the mini screen.

Camera Tripod: Slot the camera on top of the tripod until you hear a click, when you hear the click, that's when the camera is locked in. If you want to release the camera from the tripod, push the eject button then slide it out. Tripod would be useful for panning and still filming.

Art Of The Title...

I will continue to work on this post sooner or later.

Font Analysis

In many films, the title sequences have different font styles. Many of these font styles can show what the film is about for example:

Rocky:
The font style of this is Franklin Gothic Heavy. The font of this is bold and very big, this suggests that the movie is masculine or it could represetn the main character in the movie, Rocky Balboa who is a boxer.

Fast and Furious:
 The font style in this poster looks metallic, this suggests that the movie is about cars or something because cars are metallic. The way the font is layed out on the car can help people know what the film is about too.

Another storyline for the final cut...

Here is another storyline that I've thought of:

Inside a bathroom, we see a normal boy sitting on the toilet, after he flushes, the camera switches to the bathtub where we see a dead body lying there with blood. Then the boy goes to wash his hands, but puts his looks down onto the sink, the camera goes close up on the door lock, showing that the door wasn't locked. After the boy washes his hands, the camera slowly goes down facing the bathroom floor, seeing blood everywhere, splattered on the floor with some flesh.

The next setting is the garden, we see the boy sitting on the swings, reading a book, then he goes inside the shed to fetch some fish food to feed the fish, after that, we see tools with blood on them. There will be mysterious music added to this short movie.

The final part, when the boy goes to bed, the opposite bed next to him, we see another dead body.

This might not be in the final cut, but it is just an idea. If we do stick to it, we will change it a bit.

Thriller Audiences

503 films were released in 2009.

Action, comedy and animation are so popular because they target audience who are very young. They appeal to younger audience unlike the thriller movies, they are more family like movies.

Thrillers aren't that popular because many people might be getting bored of it, maybe because they see something similar like these in other films.

Female are more into romance films and period dramas, these type of films are soft and heartbreaking while Male are more into Sci Fi, action and Crime because they are more masculine.

Thriller films are targeted at an older audience.

'Watching' Documentary

"Films need to seduce their audience into long term commitment" was said by Thomas Sutcliffe.

What he is trying to say here is that you can have an action packed interesting dramatic start to a movie which grabs the audience interest straight away or you can have a slow boring start.

 I personally like openings of movies with a lot of action as it gets me interested straight away. However I still do kind of enjoy movies with slow beginnings because many films who have slow and boring openings normally have a good ending.

According to Jean Jacques Beinix, he says that the risk of instant arousal is that when the film starts with an action packed or dramatic start to get the audience satisfied, after that the audience would be expecting something more dramatic after the opening but the director of the film might not have any ideas for it. Jean Jacques Beinix says that films should start slowly then show the actions later on as this would keep the audience engaged with the film.

Explain why "a good beginning must make the audience feel that it doesn't know nearly enough yet, and at the same time make sure that it doesn't know too little"

You've got to make a judgement on how much information you give away in the opening of the movie. Too much information might give a glimpse of the audience of what's going to happen next and therefore this might bore the audience. If there's too little information, the audience might get confused of what's going to happen next.

What does critic Stanley Kauffman describe as the classic opening?

He says that the film starts with an establishing shot on New York City,  then it goes close up on a building, after that it goes close up on a window of a building, then it goes inside the window it goes close up to the room, then inside the room we see the person in that room. Classic openings establish normality, it shows a normal day life, then the rest of the movie it shows abnormality. 

Why is Kyle Cooper's title sequence to the film Seven so effective?

 

It's going to get you interested straight away, it foreshadows of what is going to happen in the film. The opening title sequence shows the obsessive psychotic nature of the film's main character, with the effects such as scribbly writing fonts which looks psychotic.

What is meant by "a favourite trick of Film Noir"? What is the trick?

The film starts with the end of a movie, then it goes back in time. We see the build up of what's going to happen.

How does the opening to the film 'The Shining' create suspense?

In the opening of The Shining, the car is going to a very bad place, to a lonely isolated mountainous area, the music adds suspense. The camera is like a predator following the car which is the prey.