Final Thriller Opening Sequence- Untied Justice

Media Studies Peer Assessment - Foundation Portfolio Planning.

AS Media Studies Assessment- Opening Sequence

Assessment of Evaluation Q.s 1 & 2 (SJA Feb 10th)

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• Emma, when I glance through the work you have completed so far in your evaluation posts, I am really pleased.
• You have made some really good attempts to be creative and to make posts super visual
• Q.2 - You have made really good use of Prezi for this Emma - Well done. Good written description about what you were trying to do, and good to see pics of George compared to pics from professional products.

ebi:

• I think you need to come back to Q. 1 and develop this more. Good to see you using prezi for this, but all I could see was text - this post really calls for IMAGES - you should take images / screen grabs from 'like' movies that are very similar to your own idea... and then take screen grabs from your own film to compare / contrast how you and your group have set out to mimic the 'look' (certain camera shots / movement... mise en scene ... shot framing... plot line... title - placement and font choice...) I know your group was really influence by the opening for 'Kill Your Friends' - so take screen grabs from this and compare to the similar shots of the messed up room from your own opening - talk about what you were trying to replicate with this (developing viewer interest... sparking Q's in the viewer mind)

Overall effort: EX (Q. 2)...  IN (Q.1)

Assessment 06/02/12

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

My Preliminary Task:



My Opening Sequence:

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

1) In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions? on Prezi

Assessment 23/1/12 LFE

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• Emma you have atempted all of the posts we asked you for so this is a good start.
• You have made a detailed list of the media technologies you have used
• There are some good ideas beginning to form in your discussions

EBI

• Your presentations now need to start being more visual for example to show you using media technologies you could produce a Jing presentation.
• When you talk about representing your social groups, consider how you have actually represented them in more detail. Mrs Jarrett gave you some ideas to think about during today's lesson. Use these ideas to further your post.
• Remember to use capital 'I' when referring to yourself
• You speak about the idea that your opening sequence is different. How is it different and why? Think about linking it to the representation or audience ideas you might have.

Grade: IN (these are drafts adn you should now have some ideas about how they can be developed further to improve your mark)

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

If our film was to be screened I think it would be first screened in London because even though it isn't a big budget film, it it distributed by a popular company 'Momentum Pictures'. The certificate of our film would be a 12A because there are some scenes of violence and bad language but it isn't too scary or frightening for pre-teens. We put our titles in order of more important for actors and then from less important to more important leading up to the director and then the main title. Least important job titles would be:
- costume and make-up
- photography
- music
- lighting etc.

The more important job titles are:
- director
- producer
- executive producer
- written by etc.

Possible film distributor companies for our video production:

• Summit Entertainment 
• Artificial Eye
• 20th Century Fox
• Entertainment One
• Lionsgate
• Warner Bros. Pictures
• Columbia Pictures
• Paramount Pictures

5. How did you attract/address your audience?

Audience Feedback:

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

When we carried out our audience research before we started planning for our opening sequence we got some very successful feedback from the audience we asked to fill out our questionaire which helped us decide on the target audience we as a group were focusing on representing and relating to. We asked a range of people from teenagers to older people so we could get a range of ideas of what audiences would prefer when watching the film. This gif is a screengrab from my results of the questionaire. Discussing thr age, gender, titles and conventions of a thriller opening sequence. Looking at this information we could then go on and start creating our ideas linking with our target audience. 

                                             
Make animated gif


Short Character Profile
Name: Kelly Fidler

Age: 17
Attends College and studies hairdressing.

Her main hobbies are reading, watching films and hanging around with friends on the weekends. She likes to go out to parties and go for walks with her family. On the weekend if she is invited to the cinema she would accept depending on the type of genre the film is. Thrillers are her favourite genre of film but she also likes romantic comedies such as Bridget Jones, Love Actually etc. Her favourite thriller films are The Sixth Sense, Taken, Die Hard and Brick. Her and her closest friends all enjoy the same type of genre and would rather go to the cinema than stay at home with a DVD.

She likes to listen to quite rocky type music but also listens to hip hop when she hangs round with her friends.

She shops in mainly game or music stores such as HMV and GAME. She also likes to shop in clothes shops such as Primark and also shops in boy stores like Topman and Madhouse.

Kelly aspires to be a musician when she is older as she plays the drums and the piano. Music is her life and she attends a few music clubs in and after school and has taken part in music shows.

She dresses quite girly when she hangs around with her friends in school but outside of school with her other friends she acts quite boyish and doesn't care what people think of her. She enjoys going round her friends for pizza and films but doesn't do it often as she likes to go to the cinema. She dresses in a very stereotypical way, jeans and a t-shirt, maybe a handbag and always carries her mobile phone with her.

This character profile of Kelly links with our thriller opening sequence and the target audience we have chosen for it because this is the type of strereotypical teenager we are aiming towards to come and watch our thriller film.

2. How does your media represent particular social groups?

How does your media represent particular social groups? on Prezi

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

Technologies we have used
- fig rig
- tripod
- video camera
- audio fx
- imovie
- freesound/youtube/blogger/bubl/wordle/live type
- jing
- high and low filter
- sound fx
- itunes

Tools/ effects we have used
- fade in
- slow motion
- equalising
- extracting sound
- duplicating
- ghost trails
- fast/slow/reverse
- brightness and contrast
- transitions
- adjust colours

1) When editing our video production we used a specific effect such as the adjust colours tool to make the brightness darker so it fitted in well with out Thriller Genre and almost creates a scary feeling for the audience and makes them feel as if something bas has happened or is going to happen. Below is a screengrab of the adjust colours tool and the different options you can use to change the colour of your moving background.

2) The ghost trails effect was used when we tracked back from the telephone so it looks as if the person who created the mess in the room is still there and could somewhat represent how disoriantated the character may have felt by what they have done. Below is an example of a Ghost Trails effect used when someone is doing a jerky or interesting movement to really capture what they are doing. This could be used for any genre, not just to create a creepy thriller mood.



3) The slow motion effect was used when the phone was ringing and when we made the video camera track away from it so it gives the audience time to take it in and makes it more 'creepy feeling'. Below is an example of how we used the Slow Motion effect on our opening sequence.