Evaluation notes

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

• Our main protagonist is female which challenges the convention of a thriller.
• Our music is eerie which follows the convention of a thriller.

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

• Our product doesn't represent any particular social groups
• Our main character is a female which is not stereotypical and she is meant to represent the police and is the main focus of the film and we follow her throughout to see how she solves the crime
  

3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

• Our film might be distributed by the same people who distributes identity as our films style is similar
  

4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

• Our audience would mainly be made up of crime thriller enthusiasts and anybody between the age of 15 and 30
  

5. How did you attract/address your audience?

• We attracted our audience by using a young female main actor and by using a cool ident, also it is quite old fashioned which is original
  

6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product?

• We have already learnt about uploading the video from the camera to the mac
  

7. Looking back to your preliminary task, what do you feel that you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

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Test footage

On Tuesdays lesson we took the camera out to the art block and did some practice footage. We wanted to practice our shots so we used the ones that are going to be in our thriller. Our first attempt when doing a tracking shot we used the dolly which didn't work very well due to the broken leg strap so the camera wasn't steady also the type of ground it was on made the shot wobbly and added noise. The second attempt we got Adam to go hand held and do a tracking shot of the fountain which we though looked better. The next shot we tried was the Closeup which slowly zoomed out. The object of focus was a drain and we took several retakes. In our thriller we are planning to have a over the shoulder tracking shot of the main character so we practiced this by having Aidan walking through the archway by the art block. We though this looked good because of the dark effect. We also filmed a wall of pictures so that we had idea of what we wanted in our film. We thought that our practice footage went well considering 1 group was not here so we had to change plans.

Credit Analysis of 'Six Feet Under' and 'Panic Room'

Six Feet Under is a popular television drama which is shown on HBO. The programme's main
theme is death and the opening credits do well to show this. At the beginning of the credits you can see a crow flying in the sky which symbolizes death you then see to dark hands which start off linked and then begin to break away this is a way of showing how people let go when they die. The next part of the credits shows a dead body in the hospital being taken to the light you then see some Lilly's which is another representative of death. At the end of the credits you see the crow again which links to the first scene and rounds up the credits. There isn't a lot of text in the openings credits but there is a lot of images and things related to death this is very effective and gives you a basic idea of what the show is about. There is a mixture of diagetic and non-diagetic text to make the credits more attractive. Some of the credits are written in standard white text but then crumble away which also emphasizes on the theme of the show. Some of the credits are unusual because they are embedded into the scene e.g when a name is written on the tag of a dead body to make it seem more realistic.




Panic Room is a thriller film directed by David Fincher.





At the beginning of the opening you see the standard Columbus Ident which then fades out to an overview of New York City . You then see Non dietetic Credits appear on the side of the city buildings. The credits are written in blocked white text to blend into the scenery behind, they are not very scary and doesn't link well to a thriller. The music is very tense and does well to fit then thriller genre.

Compare and contrast your...

Compare and contrast your protagonist & antagonist with characters from a blockbuster thriller + include images.

• In Sherlock Holmes the protagonist is also a detective, as in our film. However, in our film the protagonist is a woman which makes it different to most crime thrillers because the protagonist is is usually played by a man.

• The opening of our film has been inspired by the film 'Identity' because of the way the protagonist has been filmed, which is in his home. We found that this scene helped establish the film opening as we are getting to know the character as he\she will be in their own surroundings.
• Also like identity, at the beginning , we aren't going to show the antagonist because this will build tension as to who killed the victim.

• Comparing our film to Terminator, the protagonist it obviously quite a physically strong character who is able to fight easily. Whereas, in our thriller film the protagonist is a woman and less strong than the main character out of Terminator.

Mise-en-scene Thriller

One choice of mise-en-scene in our thriller is the costumes and props. The main character is a detective who is at the crime scene and will be the protagonist of the film this is common in most crime thriller because there is always a detective who spends most of the film trying to solve the murder and then solving it at the end. The detective in our film differs from most because it will be a female which means we are not stereotyping and this could bring in a better audience. She will be wearing a simple long trench coat which a lot of old fashioned detectives wore to help link with the theme and make the crime scene seem more authentic here is an example of a modern film that uses a female as the main character from Silence of the Lambs.















We will also use a chalk outline in our crime scene. This links to help show what sort of time our film is based on because its very old fashioned. One thriller film in which a chalk outline is used is a film called This Man Must Die. This was used to show where a young boy was killed and the position his body was left in after his death, this helps create mystery as the police or detectives have to figure out how the boy was murdered. This has become very popular in crime thrillers and is recognized by most people This is the poster of This Man Must Die:

In this video we have included camera shots such as: match on action, long shot, tracking shot, close up.

It involves two main characters, who are two teenagers in trouble at college, for cheating in an exam. Then they get sent to the senior tutor; Ann Jennison.

We have included effects such as fade out and cross stretch to make the video more interesting.

Shot types

This establishing shot is setting the scene and showing the main boat for the movie, it takes up the whole screen showing that it is extremely important. Also it shows where most of the film will be set.



This close up shot shows the expression on one of the main characters faces and links it to the theme of comedy because he has a destroyed face and a chicken behind him.





The part where it shows the tiger flows with the reaction of the guy who is scared as he is jumping up against the wall, it then cuts the tiger again who is still in the same place but from a different view.



This long show shows the location the character is in and also introduces a new character to the scene.




This over the shoulder shot shows the conversation of two characters and you can see both view points. The effect of this is that you know who is talking and you can see their reactions.





In both shots it shows both of them in the frame and you can see that they're both involved in the conversation.