Friday, 7 May 2010
Script For Thriller Opening
(Setting is on normal road in the middle of a simple town. Everything is calm and normal life continues)
1st shot: Close-up of mans shoes.
(man walks focused, quickly.)
2nd shot: We cut back to the anonymous woman in the kitchen.
(medium shot, woman cooking)
3rd Shot: Close-up of mans shoes.
(man walks focused, quickly)
4th Shot: Back to the woman cooking
5th Shot: Long Shot of the man walking down the street holding a box, and walks towards a house where the box is placed on the floor.
(man seems tense and wary of the surroundings)
6th Shot: Returns to the woman in the kitchen, where she hears a knock and leaves the room.
7th Shot: Back to man, he is leaving the house in a rush looking back to the door
8th Shot: Man walking down the road off in the distance
9th shot: Women opens the door, collects the box with suspicion of no one there, then walks to the end of the drive
10th Shot: Close-up of the woman looking down the road to see if anyone is there
11th Shot: Long shot of woman walks back into the house holding the box
(we end with a scream over the end title)
Wednesday, 5 May 2010
Looking back at your preliminary task (the continuity editing task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?
Our knowledge of ways to edit and also our camera skills have improved imensley. We have learnt how to use the program 'Final cut pro' To a standard that can makes our video look proffesional and clear to the audience. We have learnt how to make sucsessfull transistions between shots that make the film flow. Our skills on the program 'Garage Band' Have improved imensly. We were able to use this program to create a sucsessfull score of music throughout the film opening. We were also able to add an artificial scream with our knowledge of garage band. Our knowledge of films and there openings has improved imensly and we now understand films as media students not as simple people in the audience.
Tuesday, 4 May 2010
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
We have learnt how to use editing equipment, the editing equipment being, final cut pro by using this we have been able to develop our preliminary task an our thriller opening in which we are hoping to achieve a good grade that we deserve. Garage band was used to create the music which is used in our thriller opening which we wrote ourselves. Also we used live text edit to create a title sequence that catches the audiences attention.
Tuesday, 27 April 2010
How did you attract you audience?
The age of our audience are male teenagers and young men. To attract this audience we had a female victim and a male unkown character. It is key in thrillers to attract men that the victim is female. Are thriller is not scary but leaves a sense of ambiguety with the viewer. A key scene in which the audience is left thinking is when we have the scream at the end because people do not know what has happened. Also with the man's shoes we don't know who he is or what he is going to do. We then used a close up/ high angle shots to show just his shoes in the scene so the audience dont see his face and make them think about who he is. This make the audience edgy about what is happening and thinking about what is going to happen in the film.Our title is very different to most thrillers as you have some sort of idea what is going to happen. This may not intrest people as much but at the same time the story is very different.The male character is a mysterious man that doesnt speak and intrests people because there is a sense of ambiguity about him. The women attracts men that want to watch the fim and also gives a sense of peril to the film.
Friday, 23 April 2010
Who would be the audience for your media product?
The audience would mainly be made up of men of various ages, from aged 16-30. We think that men are more likely to watch thrillers than women. However women do watch thrillers and would also be from the ages 16-30. Younger people are unlikely to watch them due the age rating, and elderly people are less likely because they are less interested in thrillers.
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
It would not be a film produced by a major hollywood distributor, it would be most probably the european distrubutor 'Pathe'. It is more likely also to be a tv film or an art house film because it is not a major film production so would be for limited viewers. It does offer the oppertunity of a franchise or fan groups using web 2.0,there could be catchphrases and key scenes that would always be remembered.
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
The age of the girl is around 20 and she is represented as quite oblivious to the package. She owns her own house and is clearly the owner of the house. She has a very large house so is clearly from some sort of rich family. The man is around the same age and is quite well dressed and is clearly a self made man. Men have the power but not to begin with the woman has the money and the house but after he has the power.
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
There is a clear uncertainty to the storyline and the view has no idea on what is going on or why things are happening. This is clear in the scene when the woman is in the kitchen doing general cooking. Unlike many thrillers it is in a very subtle area and it is not in a big city area lke many thrillers. Our film is clearly a thriller but there could be a sub-genre of crime but it is unknown to the audience. An example of a thriller that can be related to our thriller is 'Children of men' it has the same sort of shots and also has a level of uncertainty.
Tuesday, 23 March 2010
How Characters Are Introduced.
We are introduced to the man with an extreme close-up of his feet, the audience do not know who the man is and haven't even seen his face. This leaves the audience questioning who this man is. We then see the man reading a piece of paper telling him to deliver the package. This gives the impression that he is not the man he seems to be.
How The Opening Suggests The Genre.
We suggest that the film is a thriller by using a sense of mystery throughout. People don't know what is happening or what is going to. Like a typical thriller opening we don't know what the names of the characters.
Font For Title.
We used 'Bank Gothic' as it was forward and straight to the point and was clear to the point.
Story And The Opening.
The main plot of our opening is a mysterious object being delivered by an unknown man. The recipient of this package is oblivious of the man delivering the package. The man does not know what he is delivering, and we see this in the opening as he holds a piece of paper telling him where to deliver. The package is important to the recipient.
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