Question 2

The reason why I have chosen the two still from the character from the movie "Stepfather" is because this is the film that inspired us, mainly due to the great use of props and shots which allowed the first impression on the audience to be very bold. The mirror shots connote identity or who they really are, or not sure who they are which would puzzle the audience instantly getting them interested. The reason why I chose Stepfather is because it's great at presenting that sense of normality and then suddenly shocking the audience in something the wouldn't expect. Though our thriller may not have showed any sense of disturbances in what the character is really doing or somethings wrong, we save the tension to build up for longer as I thought after watching the first few scenes of Stepfather that I would make the suspense endure on the audience to get a larger shock.

Question 1 - Challenging conventions.

Some differences that our thriller uses from the introduction to DEXTER is that our title comes in slightly later, however we present our character much faster and the full image of the face and that allows to build suspense and allows the audience to help build a character on what kind of person he is.

In the 2nd shot of DEXTER, his looking in the mirror, similarly we have done that on our first, DEXTER 3rd shot compared to our 2nd shot is a bathroom scene which allows a sense of normality to these characters as they do ordinary things thought this still builds tension.

By Dexter's 4th shot, We have our title which then follows onto our title being showed again on a disc on the 5th shot. And Dexter's title is showed once at the beginning that's all, we kept reminding our audience of the name of the film giving a great stress and importance on the name "I.C.U"

Most of these shots, allows to build tension whilst conveying a sense of normality and all these shots give a sense of personality of what kind of person these people are. Dexter is seen to be a very clean and organised and healthy person, as where our character is seen to be scruffy, stressed  and this is presented by the mise en scene (such as smoking) and drinking tea and so on gives a sense of an adult life.

These are some of the ways on how our film develops and challenges forms and convention of real media productions.

Qestion 4/5 - Distribution

 

The most useful way of distributing out film was through the Internet, the Internet allowed us to share our video on Youtube and Facebook one of which is the largest socialising network right now allowing our film to be viewed by the masses, this also allows the thriller film to gain new audiences as Facebook has a large amount of young and middle ages people which can broadening the target audience and resulting in more views. When posting on Youtube we are exposing our film to other thriller lovers, as one thriller film will be recommended on the list beside the clip they are watching since it is similar this is another way we can gain more hits.

As the image above shows this was a previous students work, this has 19,715 views the reason why they have so many views is because they could have been promoting this through various social networks, and each time someone watches it, it adds a count on the Youtube hits.

How I plan to distribute my thriller film is the 200 DVD releases and the use of Youtube using Vimeo as well because it's a low budget film. When promoting my film I would have the film presented on something or somewhere, where my target audience would be. Mine would be an average male of the age of 20. I would have the thriller film in gym brochures info packs, on what extra activities they can do, or car magazines and mainly magazines which have women, as that will get the male target audiences attention this could be done by applying a picture on the "Sun" or so on.

Question 3 - Target audience

The type of audience that my thriller film would attract is the male sector, including female friends, from personal experience thriller films are watched by many couples as well, this is a very good audience to target my film at.
The type of male I would be targeting at, is the age of 20 with money to go out and spend with a part time or full time job going uni or well managed with money and still wants to go out and have a finer taste in life. The males that would be going to see this film will be quite stylish and up to date, obviously due to their date. The male audience will be very concious about physical appearance so gym is a must!

Evaluation - Question 7

Question 8 Progression to full product

The imagine above was a long shot, however the problem with this was that the angle that we shot it wasn't completely straight  and the the angle of the shot didn't allow us to follow another smooth shot which helped establish the next shot. With this prelim it allowed us to practice with various styles of shots, after realising, using constant fades and then bringing it back into the scene into the exact same spot to carry on was a difficult process and didn't come out as smooth as we wanted it to be.

So in final film we decided to work on our previous mistakes, we used a tripod and made the shot as steady and focused as possible, unlike the prelim which was very blurry. The way we constructed this shot was so it could follow onto a variety of shots from over the shoulder, close up or point of view. This gave us a range of shots to use, and gave us the choice as editors to pick which clip would allow us to present as much suspense within our film. We advanced our editing skills, and instead of using many fades to make it difficult to set up the next shot, we had extremely fast and sharp match-cuts to make it high paces and give a sense of rhythm which the prelim didn't not have.

 Also another problem with our prelim, was the lighting it was very poorly lit and the shots where very unstable as it was shaking disrupting the flow of the film as well as the professionalism of it. However since it was our first proper try we had and we have time to improve over time.

 In our thriller opening, we then took our previous problems such as lighting problems and the shots not being steady, to it being very well light, by allowing natural light to enter the scene, use a tripod and use a smooth pan to allow a sense of professionalism and less disruption of the flow of the film. This is what we improved on from out prelim which was our main problem and we improved greatly.

Evaluation - Feedback from Audience, Question 6

Evaluation - Audience feebaack and comment