Monday 22 March 2010

Who would be your audience for your media product?


Our target audience is males and females aged 15+, The younger adult audience are generally the people who are likely to enjoy watching thrillers of this sort (due to the ages of the actors involved, they can relate to them to a greater extent). Examples of 15 rated thrillers are: crime (The Fugutive), psychological (Paranormal activity) and Action (The Bourne Series).


The BBFC

The BBFC is the British Board of Film Classification, it is an independent, non-governmental body. It has classified cinema films since it was set up in 1912, and videos since the passing of the Video Recordings Act in 1984. Statutory powers on film remain with the local councils, which may overrule some of Board's decisions, passing films they reject, banning films they have passed, and even waiving cuts, instituting new ones, or altering categories for films exhibited under their own licensing jurisdiction.

In 1984 Parliament passed the Video Recordings Act. This act stated that video recordings offered for sale or hire commercially in the UK must be classified by an authority designated by the Secretary of State. The President and Vice Presidents of the BBFC were so designated, and charged with applying the new test of 'suitability for viewing in the home'. At this point the Board's title was changed to British Board of Film Classification to reflect the fact that classification plays a far larger part in the Board's work than censorship.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?




Our thriller was aiming to represent women as vulnerable whilst men being strong, domineering characters: frightening to the female. In our film, the female character, due to circumstances becomes isolated, therefore helpless to the dangers within the forest without her ‘male protector’. Alfred Hitchcock's: Psycho mirrors this female vulnerability theme very effectively as a classic example of a conventional thriller. The male character (the stalker), in our opening, is wearing very dark clothing, so along with the high contrast, the stalker is an all round dark character, in his personality and appearance. Although his clothing is dark, he is still in the usual modern clothing of today, rather than the long black coat and hat in which we previously intended for him. I feel this was to give the thriller a more modern, up-to-date angle, rather than the generic 'old fashioned' thriller in the woods. We decided for the stalker to behave as stalkers usually do: watching a certain person from afar. He watches her through the branches of a tree so it seems as if he is trying not to be noticed. We also decided for the stalker to make no actual physical contact with the victim, therefore not revealing too much about what is to come, only that he is an obvious threat to the female character. The threatening feeling we recieve from him is from both the music and the dark clothing, not particularly from his actions.

Thursday 18 March 2010

Feedback From T1 - 26

Rebecca Hewings And Annabelle Monks have come to an agreement that we really liked your thiller opening and feel that you have listened to the feedback you were given by the other groups and have changed your thriller in a good way.

The music really suited the atmopshere of your thriller narrative and worked really well together. We thought the way your credits appeared and disappeared suited the genre perfectly also.

Overall we thought this was very very good and is a very good example of a thriller opening.

Well Done. :)

Final Version

Wednesday 17 March 2010

Evaluation

Overall we feel we have created a reasonably good thriller opening considering the lack of time we had to make it (due to circumstances). However, because of this we have had to make compromises with some of the features we were hoping to include e.g. the flasing images and flickering. Another part we feel could have been better was the dietetic soundtrack as it is very broken up, making it amateur sounding and lacking in continuity. Through we were very pleased with how the titles look (the font and how they fade in and out). We have met all our aims in the plan of the time making for the film.

Monday 15 March 2010

Thursday 11 March 2010

Class Feedback


Bear in mind we had one lesson to upload all our footage from filming and put it in order, and do a small amount of editing so some parts may not sound/look as good as they could be. But then this is only the rough cut version.

We did an exercise where by the whole class looked at each others work and wrote down good and bad points about our work. Below are some of the comments we receieved.
Sound:

-When Alice is walking on her own the sound of heavy breathing was really effective and was a good way to create creepy atmosphere.

-Good natural sounds of the forest-sound would be good, can hear the sound of voices at very start.

Editing:
-Some shots could be shorter

-Tiles will go well in multiple shots
lower some of the levels of sound to make the background clearer

Mise en Sene:

-Realistic (likes bob marley)

-Location is effective as it is a thriller

Camerawork:
-Different style of camerawork, worked well, gave a sense of atmosphere.

-Hand held worked well, made viewers feel more like you were the characters.

-Angle of Alice running was very effective.

-Good shot of guy in background.



OVERALL:
We think that the film will look a lot better when there is a diagetic soundtrack and credits will make it look more professional.

Monday 8 March 2010

Filming Delay

We were scheduled to film on the weekend of the 27th of Feb. This was postponed due to bad weather making it unable to film in such weather. We then have the chance to move are filming date to the following Wednesday where we all had a day off due to teacher training. The plan was to meet at the l0cation at around midday, but due to complications I was not able to make it.
Once we got to college on Thursday, we presented our problem to the course leader Tanya who gave us the weekend to complete filming for the filming deadline on Monday the 8th.

Filming

On the 6th of march we arrived at our location , at around 9 am. Our filming session went fairly smooth, however we did have 1 or 2 complications. The main problem we had was trying to get the dog to bark. We tried everything, but unfortunately the dog wasn't having any of it. Although, the rest of our footage was perfect, everything we had in our shot by shot list, we managed to film. And most of this footage, was of very good quality. As a group we are very happy with how our filming session went, everyone was on time, and everyone knew what role they where having to play. Everyone contributed towards our footage, and we all made a 100% effort towards it.

During this weeks lessons, we intend to upload our footage, and begin to start the editing process. We have already started to produce the music for the final piece.