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.

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.

Initial story board.

 



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

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.

 

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.

Pictures we took on scouting for our location

This is a photo we took when we was scouting for locations in Warley woods. We have used a person in the photo so we can see what it looks like to peoples eyes and views. We also had the person in it as this was an idea we had at first for the use of our poster.

Our initial ideas and Storyboard

Influence to our film

 

Beyonces new surprise album to the world included a video called haunted, this gave our group effective editing ideas that we could in cooperate in our film. The eye used in Beyonces video is terrifying to the audience as it hits the screen with a sound sting, we would like to use an eye image like this in our film and use the same camera edits and scream sound stings. We think this would be affective because of our genre choice of a thriller/ horror, the sound stings and fuzzy edits will scare our target audience because it is the opening of our film, we need to establish a horror sense of genre straight away so the audience know what kind of film they will be watching. The sounds in our opening of the film will also be very similar to Beyonces video as its a very eerie bleak soundtrack we would choose, the sound stings will include sharp quick screams and panorama establishing shots with a ghostly sound affect to make our audience feel the isolation of the confused and scared feeling the little girl feels in the forest.