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Evaluation Question 1

The general conventions of a film opening include

• Lasting 2 minutes 
• Introduce main characters
• Establishes the main scene
• Usually non diegetic sound
• Key event will occur

Conventions of a thriller film opening

• Fast editing/cuts
• Draw audience in 
• non diegetic music usually matches theme of the film opening 
• Tracking and Pan shots commonly used 

The general order of titles for an opening

• Ident
• Main Actor
•  Title (can be after the stars or at the end)
• Other actors
• Crew
• Director

Timeline in order for our film 'pushers' titles

The timeline for the opening of Titanic, shows how it generally follows the order for the titles

Conventions used in our thriller

EVALUATION - Q2

How does your media product represent particular social groups ?

I think that our thriller represented the social group of ; drug dealers.

Our social group relates back to when we studied age while doing the TV drama unit.

• Ian - High status - dressed in a suit with a briefcase ( business man ), Looks much older due to his dress sense, Ethnicity - White
• Orrie&Sophie - Lower class - dressed in provocative clothing, In a crack house, Looks much younger because of the clothes worn & the way Orrie acts stroppy when being pushed away,Ethnicity - Sophie - White - Orrie - Mixed race.
• Luke - lower class ( drug dealer ) casually dressed, Young (wearing a hat) , Ethnicity - White

The representation of Ian is complex and more negative because he looks Upper class as he's in a suit and wearing smart shoes, However he is on his way to do something mysterious which the viewer establishes is going to get some drugs.

The representation of Orrie & Sophie is Negative, The viewer is easily able to interpret what sort of girls they are being portrayed as due to the clothing worn and the way they act, Needy lower classed girls.

The representation of Luke is Negative, He is a drug dealer and in casual clothing an a hat.We are able to recognise what is character is as he is sorting out the drugs.

VLOG 

Lighting - Ian is filmed in brighter lighting which portrays everyday, normal life as people are dressed smartly when they go to work, Gradually the lighting gets a bit darker as we realise he is going to do some suspicious business

Luke , Sophie and Orrie filmed in a dark lighting to illustrate the darkness of the situation as its illegal.

Mise en scene - Ian filmed near jewellery stores , dressed in smart clothing , props such as briefcase and cigarettes normalises his character.

Orrie and Sophie dressed in revealing clothing's , filmed in a small dark crack house

Camera - orrie and Sophie filmed with higher angles to show they are less important where as Luke and Ian have many close ups and full shots as they are vital characters

Evaluation Question 7

This is Sophie and Orries response to question 7

EVALUATION - Q3

EVALUATION - Q4

Who would be the audience for your media product ?

In general, the majority of thriller films are always 15+ as most contain violence and a complex storyline. Therefore they are made for an older audience as they are more likely to understand it. There is no gender in equality as both genders like thriller films however id say it appeals more to boys as it contains violence. There are different subgenre's which narrows the thrillers down into different category which attracts different audiences.
our film is a crime thriller as it is to do with drugs and would potentially involve violence , this would attract a male audience more, where as a drama thriller could attract women more  as the topics are more mature which woman are seen more as then men in stereotypes.
we picked 16-25 for our thriller as it contains drug use and people above this age are more likely to understand the concept of this.

EVALUATION - Q5

How did you attract/address your audience ?

Interviewing a member of our target audience

Interview of an actor in our group

EVALUATION - Q6

what have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product ?

During the process of making our thriller movie, we used a range of different technologies to help improve the quality of our product.

EVALUATION - Q7

Constructing Titles

Titles

We changed the titles at the last minute in order to make it more aesthetically pleasing. We did this by choosing a new font called Base 02 and we decided to make it flicker in order to show the dodgyness of the situation.

 There was trouble because we the titles would run over the next scenes to it was quite time consuming to make all the titles shorter.We've changed the size so its more easy to read as the font is sort of unclear.

-We put the ident first which was candi media 

- Then we put the main star which was Ian

- After went the second important in the movie which was luke 

- And after that we had the two less important characters , Orrie Jimack and Sophie Larkin-Tannetta

- The producer was put next which was Max Walker

- Then we put editing by Emma Smith

- Music is by Ian Keserue

- Then lastly we have the director who is Tom Carroll

Final film feed back from audience member

Rough cut feed back from audience member

PLANNING-pitch feedback on rough copy

 This was our rough copy feedback from Dan.

Feedback from target audience member

PLANNING- title inspirations

Blow (2001)

We looked at this title sequence as part of inspiration for ours we found a drug thriller called blow (2001) and analysed the way the titles approached the screen which was through the effect of typing. The titles were discrete as they featured over images of marijuana and the effect of smoke continued also, this portrays the idea already that the film will be about drugs however does not completely give it away.

Pusher (1996)

The opening to this was quite typical as the titles were super imposed, the sequence in the background consisted of the characters slowly introduced fading in and out. This was effective as it added suspense and mystery and gave the impression of something bad.The font is bold giving the illusion of it being more masculine and adding depth.

Dan's feedback to our soundtrack

A short clip of Dan's feedback on the soundtrack for our thriller. 

Use of flour (cocaine) in our thriller

A brief talk about using cocaine in our thriller.

Pusher - Storyboard

Storyboard

Part 1

Part 2

PLANNING-TARGET AUDIENCE

From the start our group agreed on the target audience being 15-25, even after our pitch presentation and the feedback we received as a group we have all agreed we will keep the current age range as we believe it is suitable for our film. The fact that our thriller opening includes everyday props and items will attract an audience as they will be able to identify with the characters within our opening, by using this strategy will hopefully attract the target audience we want.

Production schedual

Before we started to film , our group made a production schedule to keep up on track with what needed to be done before hitting our deadline.Personally we think we stuck very well to our schedule , we got the drug house scene filmed all on the Thursday like planned. However although we got the scene of Ian walking done on Tuesday like planned , there were some complications as some of our footage came out blurry so instead of spending the Saturday focusing on the drug scene again , we were able to use that day to re film Ian's scene which was more convenient as we had extra scenes to use and were able to choose the best to put in.

Once all filming was finished we began editing on the days stated .We found the editing difficult as our scenes kept getting lost so it was time consuming to redo them but due to our free week for evaluating, we were able to use some of those days as editing took longer than planned and still be on track to get everything finished by the deadline.