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1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

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

4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product?

5. How did you attract/address your audience?

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

Feedback to finished footage

• There was a flash up of a previous frame at the beginning of the film
• The music jumped at the start of the film which was a bit of a glitch
• The shots were too long
• Some fades were a bit too long
  
• The newspaper shot had a bit too much background sound
  

Teacher Feedback

Our teacher evaluated our footage over the weekend and has given us a small list of improvements to address before submitting our final piece. They include the following:

• To get rid of the jump cuts by doing an L shape audio edit
• To edit our text, thereby making it the same size and also overlapping it to add effect (note one of our titles was overlapped and we have been encouraged to do the same with all our written content). In addition, we were told to exclude the word starring as it gave too much of an old-stereotypical style which we felt want too appropriate for this type of piece.
  

T2-56 THRILLER ROUGHCUT

T2-56 THRILLER ROUGHCUT from SATMEDIASTUDIES on Vimeo.

ROUGHCUT PEER FEEDBACK

This is the rough cut peer feedback:

Strengths:

• We liked how it was in the dark abd well brought up
• Good parallel editing
• Titles: good, stand out, good font
• Long shots, creates suspense
• Great props
• Good shot location

Constructive Critisim:

• There was a few jump cuts
• Transitions not very smooth
• Cuts between shots

Overall we are proud with the strengths and the improvements as they outweigh each other, we will work on the critisim.

Newspaper

This is another newspaper we made to go in the opening.

After origionally making our concluding soundtrack only four bars long to act as a concluding moment to our thriller opening, we have decided to double the length of the track to accomodate some extra footage that we are considering adding. This extra footage entails some phase shots of our characters and of the set to add more uniqueness to our piece as opposed to just simply portraying our title and then cutting. The idea to end our piece this way has been taken from the final scenes from "The Lord Of The Rings, The return of the King' where Frodo and Sam are seen stranded on a rock; the shot then phases out into black before coming in again with eagles flying in through the background. Now obviously we wont be incorporating hobbits or large birds into our opening, however the idea to have shots of our charcters faces and thier concluding expressions phase in and out at the end will supply a lead to the rest of the film should it of been made, as well as again offering a slightly different ending to just orthodox conclusions.

Newspaper clipping

This shows a newspaper clipping that we created in photoshop that mirrors what we want in the film, it will be shown between two different clips to make the audience feel the suspense and thrill of the film

Progress Report

Today we are editing our film as well as constructing oth diagetic sounds for the actual sequences along with a small soundtrack snippet for the conclusion of our thriller opening. the actual editing entails cutting unnecessary footage, adjusting light on shots and also volume for dialogue etc. we are looking to make good progress with both our editing and music orchestrating to ensure we have a structured piece as the deadline for submission approaches.

in terms of the style of soundtrack we have gone for, the music is a mixture of dark and cinematic sounds with a late introduction of a heavy drum line to add emphasis the mood and suspense of a thriller. below are some screen-shots of us constructing it;

To be done

aspects that still need to incorporated into our thriller opening include:

• The newspaper cuttings.
  
• The soundtrack
• Putting the title into the film

Here is the criminal picture to be put into the newspaper

Progess

Post filming and it has ended up a success. we altered some shot selections as well as some of the dialogue which we felt more appropriate. We also went with another form of lighting to what we had originally decided on; this proved to be much more effective for the filming. We have now started the editing for the rough cut.

Script

sam-wearing hoody

tom-policeman

diegetic sounds dripping heard initially

sam sat on chair

split screen with tom putting on tie-don't see his face

Tom laughing

Sam muffled distorted voice - Hello? Hello?

sound of door opening and approaching footsteps

Tom - Calm yourself

Can you inform me of your whereabouts on the evening of the 19th at around 11.30

Sam - What? I ...erm... i'm not very distorted dialogue

Tom - OK lets try something different... walks around to behind Sam

Are you aware that Joseph Johnson is on the run?

Sam's eyes widen filled with horror and he starts screaming

Tom - are you aware of what he is capable of?

newspaper articles are thrown at Sam landing on the floor in front of him showing articles of Joseph Johnson aka Tom including crimes such as murder, rape, torture etc.

Problems with filming

The original two locations we were going to use; the underground bunker and behind the stage have both now been stopped from students being allowed to film there. We have now come to our third location, the changing rooms, which we will lower the lighting or turn them off completely and it should add the effects of suspense and unknowing. We have now booked the room for filming and so next lesson we will start filming for our final product.

Planning for filming

Costumes - as told in previous post including:

shirt, tie and badge

hoody

Lighting - as dark as possible but still able to make out characters, this will add to the suspense and keep the audience 'in the dark' about many key points such as the identity of the characters

Equipment required -

• movie camera
• tripod
• still camera-to take shots of us during the filming process
• shot list

Titles - created in photoshop to be edited into our film in final cut, the titles include the production logo, characters and management team; directing and producing

Sound - We think that it will be best to use both diegetic and non-diegetic sound. We are using a dialogue in the opening as well as music in the background, during times when the characters are speaking the music will fade out