Prop List

Target Audience Questionnaire

Risk Assesment

Shot List

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

I have learnt many things since the preliminary task, we have looked at camera angles and control which allowed us to create better cuts between shots and to not make it look like it jumped.

As well as the camera control, we made sure that our shots flowed in how they were acted, in our preliminary task for example, we had a shot where someone was sitting down with a leg up, the shot after though shows their other leg up. To make sure we didn't repeat this mistake, we made sure the actors stayed in the same position as they were before to avoid any mess ups.

For our preliminary task, we only received audience feedback from our class, with our end result though, we asked people not in our lesson to look at our sequence and give us honest feedback, to see some of the audience feedback, look at Question 2 (How did you attract your audience?)

The importance of planning we found was very high, in our first attempt at filming our final sequence, we decided to go straight to the location and start filming, unfortunately, when we turned up, we found that the lighting was poor and we would only have 30 minutes filming time. As well as the limited time we also had no storyboard meaning we weren't sure on what the actors were doing. For our actual sequence, we decided to do our storyboard before-hand, this allowed us to know what we were doing. As well as knowing what the actors were doing, it was easier for us to film because it was out of the way of the public, looking back at the preliminary task, we filmed in a public place and fond that we had many distractions. 

As far as using technology goes, from creating our final sequence, we have learnt how to apply many new ideas to Final Cut Pro, for example we added transitions, music and text. For the preliminary task, we weren't sure how to do this, so our film looked very dead and boring. In our final sequence though, we added text for the names, music to add life and suspense, and transition to link the shots smoothly. 

In our preliminary task, we had no understanding of thriller narrative/genre theory, this meant we could not base our narrative around anything to do with thrillers. In our final sequence though, we had a very good understanding of thriller narrative/genre theory, therefore allowing us to base our narrative on typical thriller conventions such as being at night and the use of crime (kidnapping). 

Evaluation - Technologies

In the creation of our opening sequence, we used programs such as:

• Final Cut Pro
• Logic Pro 9
• Soundtrack Pro
• Motion

We used Final Cut Pro to create the moving image part of our film, we learnt various new techniques on how to set up a scratch-disk, upload videos and add effects. We also were shown how to add text on top of the moving image. 

We used Logic Pro 9 to create the slow piano part about two thirds of the way into in film, I used a MIDI keyboard to play the notes in myself instead of using loops.

We used Soundtrack Pro to allocate sounds such as the scream and for SFX such as turning the TV off, this program was good because it provided many helpful loops and effects.

We used Motion to create our main title text ('One Last Call'), we done it on Motion instead of Final Cut Pro because it give a wider choice of fonts and movements.

Motion

Logic Pro 9

Soundtrack Pro

Final Cut Pro

Evaluation - What would be the audience for your media product?

Our niche audience would be people aged between 12-30, this is because our sequence has no gore but can be seen as physiological, this allows the thriller to be a 12. This film would be for lower/middle class people, this is because of the location of the film, as it is set in an urban area, it can relate to people that have housing in built-up areas. Also because of the location of the sequence, it shows that it is a low security area, many people that are lower class can relate to this as they are probable to live in a low security area. Our film is not gender specific, research showed that thriller movies are unisex and both men and women enjoy them. I think that our film does not depend on where someone is living, it is more to do with the fact of their social class.

For people to like our film, they would have to have an interest in horror or action movies, this is because of the kidnapping scene which could be related to action, and the physiological suspense build-ups that horrors often bring. Research shows that people that enjoy heavy rock music will prefer films with a genre of horror or thriller, this is because some horror/thriller films have heavy rock music as the soundtrack.