All these exercises we were set to do all helped with the progression of our real thriller opening, as we at the beginning never had enough shots, and for our real thriller we had so many that we couldn’t choose. Furthermore, as the lessons carried on we all understood the programming a lot more making it easier for us to edit and create effects on LiveType and Sound Track Pro. I enjoyed producing this thriller opening, and I hope you enjoy watching it.
Showing posts with label Evaluation - Karen Luong. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Evaluation - Karen Luong. Show all posts
Friday, 8 April 2011
Tuesday, 5 April 2011
Evaluation - Question 7 - Technologies.
Timeline of technology used during research and filming of our thriller opening:
- cameras
- learning how to use blogger and search engines (e.g. google)
- learning how to blog videos, pictures, links etc.
- more detail with cameras, digital camera, tripod, lighting, memory card and video drive
Monday, 4 April 2011
Evaluation- What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why: Question 4&5
Having looked onto youtube at other peoples media thrillers from different schools I have come across many successful ones, with amazingly outstanding number of hits. My film is a low budget student video which will be released on vimeo, embedded onto a blog, facebook, youtube, and be tweeted about on twitter, recieving hits from many people around the world.
Our thriller is an independent low budget production company, i.e: us. It will get cinematic screening and shared screenings amongst peers and maybe family. It'll get a DVD release of 200 copies.
Cinema we will view everyones thriller movies on the 5th of April, is below at 'the screen.'
Other cinemas at which our thriller can be presented in:
Marketing Campaigne
I have thought about a particular style of marketing for our thriller, aswell as using social networking sites, sharing it between the world of friends and family, hoping for it to go world wide using the internet distribution of websites, youtube and vimeo. I thought that as our thriller is directed more towards the male audience, not only do men watch TV adverts, read leaflets and magazines that all contribute to raise awarness to our thriller release. TV adverts would help raise awarness to our thriller, as we can place it between football matches which mostly will attract the attention of males that our physiological thriller is about to be released, helping the box office numbers to rise, after the first day of release, what we hope is for the most effective way of advertisement, word of mouth to also help raise popularity of the viewing of our thriller. premiere, film, empire, similarly TV adverts, adverts before highly rated youtube videos and adverts on the side of facebook all can boost ratings.
I have thought about a particular style of marketing for our thriller, aswell as using social networking sites, sharing it between the world of friends and family, hoping for it to go world wide using the internet distribution of websites, youtube and vimeo. I thought that as our thriller is directed more towards the male audience, not only do men watch TV adverts, read leaflets and magazines that all contribute to raise awarness to our thriller release. TV adverts would help raise awarness to our thriller, as we can place it between football matches which mostly will attract the attention of males that our physiological thriller is about to be released, helping the box office numbers to rise, after the first day of release, what we hope is for the most effective way of advertisement, word of mouth to also help raise popularity of the viewing of our thriller. premiere, film, empire, similarly TV adverts, adverts before highly rated youtube videos and adverts on the side of facebook all can boost ratings.
Evaluation- Who would be the audience for our media product: Question 3.
This is because we have male actors which is more interesting rather than the obvious a woman being "blackmailed". Using male actors will attract more male audiences, with the technology, this will draw in more of the younger generation and also because men begin the film. The typical target audience for our thriller is mostly males but with a wide range of ages, from 17 to 40.
Looking from a different point of view, I believe that women similar aged (17 - 40) would be interested in how good looking / sexy the men look, so this would also draw in the female audience. I did not want the women to follow the stereotype of being seen as weak and vulnerable so they had to play the role of someone filming them in their own house, and they get scared and call for help or something. I wanted an original clip that would interest all types of people from different age groups, with men going against their stereotype of being strong and not scared of anything, this would make the men even more interested to watch the film and be interested to see what happens further on in the film.
The type of audience we are trying to attract according to our thriller opening could be normal working/middle class men, that have a job, work 9:00am - 5:00pm, who likes taking their girlfriend to the movies once in a while, and are interested in physiological thrillers. As 'The Stepfather' is our inspiration it'll attract that type of audience, but our sceond half of the male in the living room using the laptop after picking up a package could attract everyone, so no one specific, as everyone uses technology and recieves letters everyday.
Looking from a different point of view, I believe that women similar aged (17 - 40) would be interested in how good looking / sexy the men look, so this would also draw in the female audience. I did not want the women to follow the stereotype of being seen as weak and vulnerable so they had to play the role of someone filming them in their own house, and they get scared and call for help or something. I wanted an original clip that would interest all types of people from different age groups, with men going against their stereotype of being strong and not scared of anything, this would make the men even more interested to watch the film and be interested to see what happens further on in the film.
The type of audience we are trying to attract according to our thriller opening could be normal working/middle class men, that have a job, work 9:00am - 5:00pm, who likes taking their girlfriend to the movies once in a while, and are interested in physiological thrillers. As 'The Stepfather' is our inspiration it'll attract that type of audience, but our sceond half of the male in the living room using the laptop after picking up a package could attract everyone, so no one specific, as everyone uses technology and recieves letters everyday.
I have created a typical audience member for our thriller movie, I have included pictures of this target audience and looked into depth of what type of person he is, this will give us a clear idea of who our thriller target audience is.
This is Huu Diep, he is 21 years old, studies at Queen Mary University, studying Finance, love spending time with his friends, going out to the cinema, but also very hard working and determined as a person who is working towards their future. He likes to shop at Topshop, Size?, JD Sports Fashion and River Island. Although he studies, he also works part time at JD Sports, he is very active, enjoys his weekends playing football as his hobby, also he likes to stay looking good for the ladies, always up to date with fashion and also smelling good, he has a collection of colognes. His favourite types of movies are thrillers, horrors and crime, his all time favourite film is The Stepfather.
In his bag:
- Lanyard (For Work)
- Blackberry & Case
- iTouch, Headphones (Dr,Dre Beats)
- Cologne (Chanel Bleu)
- Blackberry & Case
- iTouch, Headphones (Dr,Dre Beats)
- Cologne (Chanel Bleu)
- Body Spray
- Wallet; Oyster Card, Nando’s stamp card, Subways Card
- Car Keys (Drives a Civic Type R)
- House Keys
He makes sure he smell fresh all the time with his favourite cologne.
His Civic Type R that he loves speeding down the motorway with.
After looking at my typical target audience it is obvious he enjoy's his free time, spending it on things he likes, after watching our thriller he said: "I want to carry on watching that movie, it looks really interesting, im sure my girlfriend would like it too as she would be looking out for the good looking men in the film. *he laughs*." I also noticed his favourite film was " The Stepfather " this may be the reason why he enjoyed our opening, as we have many intertexuality shots.
Tuesday, 29 March 2011
Question 2 - How characters are represented
As you can see there is a lot of intertexuality between our main character and the main character from "The Stepfather" this is because we were really inspired. You can see the stairs, a very typical scene recreated in all thrillers, we got different angels, but it still created the same effect. Furthermore the character staring back at himself in the mirror, also a very typical move all thriller directors will use, as it creates a lot of suspense as us as humans will always have our mind playing tricks believe you may see something in the reflection. We have intertexualised the characters to show that both representations are similar.
We represent our character using props also, with beer bottles, dirty dishes and cigarettes which all connoted his character.
Evaluation - Question 1 Comparison to Other Real Media Products
In this title sequence shown above (DEXTER) there are many similarities to our opening to a thriller also. I have shown this down below in comparison.
As you can see the first still shot of the film DEXTER is in bold capital letters, we have also got a similar title in capital letters, centred and bold, contrasting with the background and standing out, letting the viewers know exactly what our title is and lets the opening carry one.
In the second shot it is a over the shoulder shot, of the man looking in the mirror, we have a shot where it is angled so that the camera is not viewed in the mirror, very similar to the opening of DEXTER. We also have a title in our sht as well as the real media production.
The 3rd shot is a very close close up of the male actor shaving, we do not have an exact matching shot, but we do have a close up of the toothpaste and the toothbrush, presenting to the audience that this man is going to brush his teeth, the delayed action of our male actor squeezing the toothpaste onto the toothbrush builds up a lot of tension within the scene.
The next shot is almost the same as our shot, we have our character spitting into the sink, and the still shot of the real media production has blood. Both shots are very similar, and both link to the previous shot, helping the audience link the actions of the character together.
The centre shot of the very close close-up of the egg, is amazing, we do not have a close up of anything, but the idea of food it is similar as we have a shot of our actor mixing the tea.
The next shot in the real media production there is a really close up of a knife going down on the orange. We yet again don't have a close-up shot but we do have a shot of cutlery and lots of plates left in the sink. The 7th shot is a close up of the actors hands, and we have a very similar shot of our actor taking the CD out of the packaging, this is very similar as it is suspenseful as we don't know what both characters are going to do with these props. Close ups are used int he next shot once again, in the real media production the prop is so close we can barely tell what the prop is, which makes it very suspenseful, also our close up explains our character, he is very stressed, smokes, wants to take his mind off things etc. The last still
shot is very similar to the real media production, rather than a portrait view of our character we have a side view of him lighting up his cigarette.
It is clear that we have used the inspiration of the real media production ‘Dexter’ to help with our shot types in our thriller opening. We have also used intertexuality from ‘The Stepfather’ also, for the opening of our thriller, intertexualising the idea of a male waking up and getting ready, we have some clear intertexuality shots from our thriller.
Furthermore, we have also been inspired by the opening of the real media production ‘Seven’, as the title sequence begins with its production company, after about 00:40 seconds, as the research we have produced before in class, showed us that normal real media thriller openings, titles do not roll in until 00:30-00:40 seconds. We followed the sequence of the titles, of what comes next, intertexualising the title sequence of ‘Seven’ to try and convince our viewers that our opening was professional.
It is clear that we have used the inspiration of the real media production ‘Dexter’ to help with our shot types in our thriller opening. We have also used intertexuality from ‘The Stepfather’ also, for the opening of our thriller, intertexualising the idea of a male waking up and getting ready, we have some clear intertexuality shots from our thriller.
Furthermore, we have also been inspired by the opening of the real media production ‘Seven’, as the title sequence begins with its production company, after about 00:40 seconds, as the research we have produced before in class, showed us that normal real media thriller openings, titles do not roll in until 00:30-00:40 seconds. We followed the sequence of the titles, of what comes next, intertexualising the title sequence of ‘Seven’ to try and convince our viewers that our opening was professional.
Evaluation - Audience Feedback and Comments - Question 6
I have promoted my thriller opening using facebook, youtube, vimeo and twitter. This has helped me gain audience feedback, negative and positive, so I know what I have done well, and what I need to improve on.
Here you can see that i have promoted my thriller opening on facebook, and have also requested for people to give me feedback on a different social networking site, 'Twitter'.
My best comment that i recieved was posted by 'Cee Nguyen Vi' "Good of use angels, background music fits well.. however the sounds are too loud (door squeak, typing on the keyboard)" This has helped me realise if i was to re-produce this thriller opening that i would improve my skills on soundtrack pro.
I used another device to upload my thriller opening onto, to recieve even more feedback from other viewers, it is good that i have used youtube as it is world wide, and anyone can have access to it.
From YouTube, I also recieved a really good comment, that can help me with futher evaluatuion of my thriller opening.
" it was great:) great job editing and cutting the clips. the only thing i would fix is the audio. there are points where i swear i hear a girl talking in the end of a clip from off screen. color correction/brightnesscontrast would add something to the video. otherwisse, great job ;) "
" it was great:) great job editing and cutting the clips. the only thing i would fix is the audio. there are points where i swear i hear a girl talking in the end of a clip from off screen. color correction/brightnesscontrast would add something to the video. otherwisse, great job ;) "
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