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?

Audience feedback

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.

Filming Schedule Day 1 and 2

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.

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.

Our initial ideas and Storyboard

Codes and Conventions

Character influences

Our character influence for the stalker has come from Slender. The slender theme is similar to ours with the girl noticing notes on trees, and with slender appearing behind them. Our character influence was the girl from gone, as she is abducted by a complete stranger, this inspired us and with the scenery we have chosen, it relates to the film gone. Our thriller is also about about a girl being stalked, as shes is being stalked it could lead to an obduction, we were inspired by the film gone to incorporate this.

Analysis of Snatch opening sequence

Analysis of Snatch.
Snatch is a Gangster thriller.

In the opening sequence of snatch its starts off with two characters, with it starting with these two it shows that they are most likely to be the people in most of the film, these characters are called 'Turkish' and 'Tommy', Turkish and Tommy are seated and Turkish is talking about what he does and that he doesn't know a thing about diamonds this lets the audience have a guess at to what the film is about. After Turkish and Tommy have been introduced, it moves on to a different place called 'Antwerp' this is labelled in the scene as well. With the opening sequence changing place shows that one of the places are to do with the rest of the film. The scene is in a diamond bank, this relates to what Turkish was saying before.

When the other characters enter the bank and then rob it for the diamonds and one mighty diamond stone it then goes on to introduce the rest of the people that are going to be in the film. When its showing each different character, shows scenery that you can represent to that character and get an understanding to where and what the character does. For example Franky four fingers, is in a game of poker this shows that he is a gambler and his name tells you that his lost a finger, this might mean he lost his finger in a gambling debt. Another example would be Mickey from the short shot that you get to see from his lifestyle it looks as if his in a caravan, the audience would see the way he looks and represent him with a gypsy.

 

Questionaire

Questionnaire

1.     How old are you?

15-17     18-20     21+

2.     Are you male or Female?

Male             Female

3.     What 5 words do you first think of when you think of a thriller?

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4.     What films do you relate as a thriller?

5.     What type of thriller would you prefer to watch?

Horror                gangster                gothic              comedy

 

6.     What kind of music would you expect to be in a thriller?

7.     What setting would you expect to be in a thriller?

 

 

8.      Who do you expect a victim to be in the thriller?

 

 

9.      Who woud you expect to be the typical hero in a thriller?

 

 

10.    What kind of villan would you associate with a thriller?

11.  What age would you expect a thriller to be?

       U        12A        12        15        18


12.  What gender would you expect the viticm to be?

Men   Women    Boys    Girls

13. How old would you expect the victim to be?
Write down the age you think
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BBFC Rating for our opening sequence and thriller

The BBFC is how we have decided what rating our thriller will be about. From these screen shots we have decided that our opening sequence will make our thriller a 15. We have decided it will be a 15 as there will be a strong threat and a menace and a bit of gore. The opening sequence to the thriller would be rated as a 12A because there is no strong language, no sexual scenes and shown violence. As there is  physical and psychological threat is permitted in our opening sequence to the thriller is 12 or 12A, as long as disturbing sequences are not too frequent or sustained.

We have discussed as a group that we are going to rate the opening title sequence a 12A but how ever the rest of the film would push the rating up to a 15, this is because there will be signs of strong violence and strong language.