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.