Our Final Opening

Teaser Trailer For Our Thriller Opening

After researching different horror trailers we thought it would be a good idea to market our own opening. By doing so we used iMovie and selected interesting short clips from our original opening and put them together to make a short teaser trailer. 

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

Evaluation 6 - What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

During the process of making our opening to a thriller we used a wide range of technology.

Blogger:

We used Blogger as it was a good site for us to use as a blog. The whole reason for this is because it allowed us to post pictures and videos as well as wire ups of what we have been doing during the time of filming. By using blogger from the start it has allowed us to see how much has changed from the ideas that we first put together. We were able to use blogger at school and at home, we could also use it on iPhones and Android phones because there is an app that allows us to post from where ever we want.

Social Network Sites:

We used sites such as twitter and Instagram to allow the people that follow them accounts to see pictures and videos of what our video is looking like and then at the end to watch the full clip. The two sites were away for us to promote our thriller as it is free advertisement, this also gets people interested in watching our film. Accounts Twitter: CRAYonProductions Instagram: CRAYonmediaproductions

YouTube and Vine:

We used these two apps and websites because they are easy websites to upload videos on to. This helped us because Vine is 6 second videos and we could see if people liked bits of our film before we actually put it in to the final cut. We used YouTube to upload takes that we didn’t need in our film, as we thought this was a good way to get clips to the target audience.

Microsoft Publisher and PowerPoint:

We used Microsoft Publisher and PowerPoint a lot while making our movie, as they are easy to use and while we had to make a poster we thought Publisher was the easiest ne to use. We also used these two because it was a good way for us to get our film out to the target audience.

Apple iPhone and Sony Camera:

We used Apple iPhone to film part of our film as we thought it would be good idea to use different types of cameras to see what quality camera would suit our thriller better. In the end we used the Sony handheld camera as the quality of the camera made the thriller look better.

Pinnacle:

We used pinnacle to edit and put the clips that we wanted to use together to create a rough copies. Once feedback group watched the video we added more stuff and changed some stuff for the final cut of our video, this was easy on pinnacle as we created our own folder to put our clips in.

Evaluation 5 - How did you attract/address your audience?

Evaluation 4 - Who would be the audience for your media product?

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

Evaluation 2 - How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Here are two different characters that have inspired our group to involve different aspects of themselves in our Thriller.

Evaluation 1 - In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media productions?

Final Poster

Our final poster, Captivates our audience with the blood red writing for our title 'sweet dreams', we used capitalisation to make the stalker character look a lot smaller than the space around him which creates the isolation of the setting, so the writing is the primary thing the audiences eye will see and the stalker deep in the forest after. The slogan we used 'hes closer than you think' gives the audience the suspense and thrill of the genre with the dark faded colours. The certificate 15 we chose to present on our poster to appeal to our exact target audience of 15 and above, teenagers either male or female.

Audience feedback

Demographics And Psychographics

Social Networking and Target Audience

 We decided to create a Twitter, You Tube, Vine and Instagram account for crayon productions. This was to simply address our primary target audience; 15-30years old. We didn't however create a Facebook, because the average person on Facebook now days are very young 11-13 year old group, or middle-age people using Facebook to talk to their families. creating a facebook would have been a waste of advertising for our film and bad word of mouth, because we would be advertising to the wrong audience.

Twitter brings the perfect target audience for our thriller, whether it be horror/thriller lovers or the older audience wanting a thrill and a good classic jumpy suspense packed movie and a good  night out. We promoted our movie by using hash-tags such as #SWEETDREAMS in capitals to catch peoples attention, we would also post pictures of our location setting and our YouTube videos of doing makeup on the days we filmed to excite our audience and give them a teaser of whats to come.https://twitter.com/CRAYonproduct

You Tube videos were posted on our YouTube page and our Instagram and twitter has screenshots of our YouTube account so the person can be transferred straight to that link. YouTube videos we simply the props and costumes and bloopers we made while filming our thriller.


 The application Vine has all the people in our group talking about the thriller and different people around school commenting on out movie in short funny videos. we also had a critics view on the movie who knows a lot about the film industry commenting on our opening of the thriller.

Instagram is a great way to share photos and videos using hash-tags and editing photos of our characters giving our audience a taster of whats to come.

Final Storyboard

 This is the final storyboard that we done for our thriller, it involves the setting of each shot, the characters that were involved and the different scenes throughout the thriller.

Initial story board.

 



This is the original story board which we created for our thriller when first thinking of ideas.

Filming Schedule Day 1 and 2

Marking Others Work

Marking "Remember me?"

First of all, at the very start of the thriller there is a sentence that states "What you had thought you had left behind is now catching up with you". The sentences English is bad and makes the audience have to read it over again in order to understand what it means. The font is quite childish and has no real connection to what would be used in the opening of a thriller, it seems unprofessional. When the text fades, we go to a shot of a house, the camera is shaking during this shot which doesn't look good. This could've been avoided by using a tripod in order to keep the camera still. "starring Sarah Walker" then appears when a different character is in the shot. This has a negative effect as the audience doesn't know which character Sarah is playing, this makes it harder for the audience to build a connection with that character. The costume of Chris James is way too casual for a villain, it doesn't match the character. When the villain is walking, there is a shot from above him looking down, this is quite uncommon and is unique. When the Phone receives a text, the writing is blurry and unclear. This makes it awkward for the audience to see what it is that has been sent. The flashback to 2003 is quite good. They have edited the colour to make the tape seem old, also the fact they have wrote "2003" at the bottom of every flash back intrigues the audience and makes them wonder what it is that happened that year. When the girl walks down the stairs, there is a blue light on the wooden railing, however when the camera angle changes, the lighting changes to normal light. When the girl then walks through into the next room, the villain is in a very visible position, however she doesn't notice him. This is quite unrealistic. After that, the camera moves from the bottom to the top of the villains body, then goes back down. When the camera reaches his face, a new clip is taken, however either the character or camera is not in the exact same position causing the camera to look like it jolts slightly. This looks unprofessional. I also thought that the music used in the thriller did not match what was happening in it. For example, when the shot changed from the girl reading a newspaper to the villain standing with a hammer, the music did not change in the slightest. This meant that there was no suspense or tension built. Finally, they used a lot of different camera angles, this is a good thing but most were quite close shots. This meant that it was hard for the audience to get a feel of the setting they were using. 

Music

Costumes

The costume designs that we had for our actors didn't change from our original pitch.

For the Stalker we had Jake dress in all black to show that he is a antagonist in the thriller, his costume consisted of a black Parka, Black skinny jeans and black blazers.

For the girl which is playing the victim was to dress as it was a normal day and she was out with her mates. She was dressed in Black ripped jeans, a grey jumper, with a red ribbon in her hair, wearing white converse. When She wakes up she is wearing all grey with a grey Yankees t-shirt, grey bottoms and grey socks still with the red bow in her hair.

For the little girl in the woods we used an old school uniform that was ripped up to show she had been dragged and the shirt has ripped with blood stains on it to show that the stalker had beaten her, this consisted of a white shirt with red all over it, a black skirt, black tights and black school shoes.

Little Girl Make Up

When doing the make up for the little girl we started by using talc on powder all over her face to create a pale effect to represent how she is lifeless and decayed. To create the dark bruises around her eyes we started by building up blue eye shadow on the top of her eyelid which made her eyes look bold. By then using a brown and black eye Shadow we covered the whole of her eye lid and smudged it down to her check bone which gave a dirty tired effect to represent how she hasn't slept. We finished by using the brown to create dirt effects over her face however only put the eye Shadow on her head so it wouldn't defeat the object of her being possessed.

Day 3

Day 3
Thorndon County Park
11:00 am

We needed to go back to the forest for the extra shots we had missed the first time we shot in the forest. Today we needed to shoot a shot of the stalker in the distance and gradually coming closer and closer and a shot of the stalker finally approaching the little girl and swinging a stick at the girl which would explain how she wakes up from her dream with a massive bruise on her neck. The stalker had to be carrying something heavy enough and big enough to knock down and leave a bruise on the girl, so for this part of filming we used a stick that was found on the day, as we had not really planned that part of the clip yet. It was only till we got back to school that we realised that the shots we took on Toms iphone 5s were all portrait and were useless, this is because Sir had asked us if we had filmed portrait or landscape.

Day 2
11:20AM
Tom's house - Doddinghurst.
Tom, Charlotte, Jake, Claudia

We arrived at Tom's house, unfortunately the weather was very bright and sunny, and for this part of our opening scene we needed it to be quite dark and a dim day because it was supposed to be 3:00am in the morning in our thriller. The natural light got in the way a bit from the window in the bathroom and bedroom so therefore we had to make it as dark as we possible could and use the light on the camera to enhance the characters facial features and movements. The hardest shot to film that day was the mirror angle shot and how the we had to film the character (Lily) washing her face and her bruise on her neck at an angle that we as filmer's couldn't be seen in the shot of the mirror. The continuity of the filming was very hard to perfect as we had to try to have Lily's hair in the exact same place as the last perfect shot or we would forget for her to lean down and suddenly her positioning would be completely different, therefore once we tried to accomplish many different shots and angles throughout this day of filming. After coming back to school and editing what we had we decided that most of the shots that were filmed are good but we need to get more good shots as we had some difficulty with the lighting in Tom's bathroom.

 

questionnaires

 we asked people of a mixture of ages and a mix of females and males some questions we were considering as a group, in conclusion the majority of people we survived said that they expect suspense, death and tension in a thriller. they also said on an average that jaws and taken were there favourite thrillers to watch. a popular genre of a thriller was gangster and horror overall. the survey revealed that the typical music in a thriller/horror should have some kind of suspense element to it. The setting most expected by the audience was an abandoned house or some kind of isolated setting this would tie into the typical old dark house narrative. the victim chosen was a women, and the hero expected would be a final girl or a typical strong smart male hero.

Dairy of a day filming

Day 1
Filming in North Thorndon country park
time: 3:45
Claudia, Jake, Tom, Sophie, and Charlotte

We started the day by going to charlottes house with her sister to do make-up and sort out any props we needed. We had already scouted for the perfect location for filming the first forest scene. When we arrived, it was raining slightly however this wasnt a disadvantage as when we edit the scenes, it will give a good affect. We started filming the first shot from various different angles, this allowed us to have a variety to choose from so we could get the best shot. Although it was freezing cold and now pouring with rain our charcters still percivered with the repetative shots we had to do. the hardest shot we found to do was the 360 pan of the forest to esablish the location straight away to our audience, the tripod we used was very stiff to turn and was a struggle not to judder the camera, after trying a few times with this shot, we decided to use a shot on tom iphone at the start of our film to put with the titles, of a portrait angle of the woods as we were driving along,out the window. We also found it hard to producea high angle shot, Tom tried to climb some trees to get a higher shot of claudia laying on the floor in her dream however because of the weather conditions it was unsafe and slippery for him to do so. The footage we ended up with for this day was deffinetly good to use for the final cut of the film as we filmed form lots of different angles for a good dream seqence. however as we ran out of time, because the park was closing and we were all very cold and wet, we had to skip a bit of the dream sequence for another rainy day at the same time so the lighting would be at a good continutity.

 

Title Sequence

What Is A Thriller

A thriller is a genre impacted by tension and suspense through the Mise En Scene, cinematography, editing and sound the director used to thrill the audience. A thriller is usually related to real life so the audience can relate to the situation, the audience enjoy the excitement of a thriller through high tempo dramatic chases, fast music, sound stings and jump cuts, this usually revolves around an unanswered question called an enigma. Different types of a thrillers attract different types of audiences for example gangster, horror, crime, comedy and action. Suspense, tention and excitement  are the main elements of a thriller in any type of genre. the atmosphere is usually creepy and eerie with and isolated setting with a sense of no escape, especially in a horror thriller.

Risk Assessment

In our Risk Assessment we will be looking for objects, people, our even dog walkers that will be in the way of our video. In Thorndon Country park we will have to be aware of the dog walkers that are strolling about during filming time, this shouldn't be too much of a problem as we hope to be filming at dusk, so it adds more effect tho the thriller. In Warley we will have to be careful about Sticks and things that are laying on the floor so we don't fall over, and hurt ourselves. Things that we are going to have to look at for is up rooted trees and trees that have been blown over in that storm we had a couple of weeks back. When we are filming at Tom's we will have to make sure that the rooms we shot in are clear of any dangerous objects, and that the way that we walk is clear. Again when we are filming at Tom's we will need to make sure that the bathroom floor is not wet so we do not slip over when filming. When we are shooting our video we will double check the areas are not dangerous, and will move all objects that can do damage to the individuals in the group. When we are looking for risks in the wooded areas we are using we will be looking for things like sharp stones, cheasnut shells, and sticks that are sticking out the ground.