Evaluation Questions

Question 1: How does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Inspiration: We also took inspiration from Alfred Hitchcock and his film “Marnie” and also the 1995 thriller “Se7en”. In the opening of both films the audience don’t see the faces of the two separate characters in each sequence and therefore aren’t able to identify them, asking questions of who are they? What are they doing? Why are they doing it? etc this then builds up tension because of this enigma.

Genre: The first indication that our film is a thriller is that of an over the shoulder shot where we see the stalker taking a picture and staring at the girl in the café, this sets up the first enigma as to why he is staring at the girl and also the fact that we cannot see who the character stalker her is. Other thrillers that have used this shot include “Silence of the Lambs” and also “Resevoir Dogs”

Continuety: Many box office films have staff who specialise in continuety and check through everything in the scene rigerously before everything is perfect as one blip could ruin not only this scene but the movie itself. continuety is an important thing upon creating a film to convince the viewer that they are viewing a contineous shot. Inorder to do this you have to considor many different factors such as the apprearence of the characters, the background and also the lighting for example have remain the same throughout each shot.

Intercutting: In our opening we have used a technique called intercutting which is common in the film industry and especially in thrillers, we got the idea for intercutting from the film “Se7en” which also uses it in it’s opening.

Font: The font title we have used in the film is incidentally called “pipeing” which is similar to that of our film title “Pipeline” we feel that this gives the film more of an identity. The choice of a solid black background also makes the white font standout more as it’s two contrasting colours, the colour has connotations of death and mystery which is also associated with fear and the unknown.

Production Logo: All flms have the production companys that they use at the start of the opening to the film this is a very convetional structure when making a movie, the most famous examples are that of “Universal”, “Warner Brothers” and “Dreamworks”. We decided too call ours MJWL Productions using the first letter of each of our names and combigning them together.

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

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

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Question 4: Who would be the audience for your media product?

 Question 5: How did you attract/address your audience?

We have done this in many ways, we exampled this though Mise en scene. In our Mise en scene we thought about the clothes we wore, we wore clothes that would appeal to a young adult audience and I think that this helped establish the modern setting also appealing to the young adult audience. Also the setting in the town hall was useful as the town hall is quite a modern looking place and make it look like a fresh new up to date film making it more likely to be watched.

Though the Cinematography we used shots that were fast and choppy these helped keep a fast pace for a young and fast audience. We also used lots of suspense building shots. We also had a lot of quick editing making it look very snappy and adding to the suspense.

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

Question 7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product

 

 

Dolly Zoom

In todays lesson we had learnt about the art of Dolly zooming or the trombone shot as it's also known, this shot is used to show a characters emotions of either shock or fear for example, i feel this shot would work perfectly in our film. The Dolly zoom is commonly used by world famous thriller director Alfred Hitchcock in the majority of his films. below I have given you an example of this shot

Storyboard

This is the final storyboard our group has drawn up, we will used this to create our film opening and to 
guide us through our filming, storyboards make filming so much easier as they give a level of 
structure when performing as the storyboard includes camera movements shots and transitions so we 
know what to do. Upon creating the storyboard we had experimented with many different ideas to 
come up with the best possible story line we could

Animatic Shots

These are pictures that will feature in our animatic taken as screen shots from our storyboard. I will then edit them on Final Cut and then they will be added to the animatic our group made (see above)

Title Sequence Feedback

Here I have interviewed a young Gareth Cobham on what he thinks about our title sequence, on this video he talks about what he finds successful about the sequence and also on what improvements could be made. 

Dummy filming

We acknowledged many problems upon creating the dummy scenes and now have an idea of what problems we will face when filming the real thing, the first thing we had noticed upon using the cameras was the traffic and also pedestrians coming through the street which deterred us from using the high street as a location for the film as our theme is post apocalyptic therefore no other people should be around us.

We also noticed that we mainly used long shots when filming bar the one of the puddle, when doing the real thing it would better to include some other types of shots such as close ups as after a while it becomes to repetitive using the same angle over and over again, i feel as though we could of done maybe an over the shoulder shot when Max and I meet for the first time. This could be quite effective.

As well as noticing faults when filming we also found some new shots that we never though of using in the first place, the main one being of a puddle in the street where I walk over it looking for survivors and then we see Max's reflection in the water with just his feet in the shot, we found this to be really eery and effective making the audience feel uneasy.

These two factors showed us how vital dummy filming is upon making a film highlighting both the faults and also positives that come out of it

Font for logo

I have found a font for us to use on our  logo from dafont.

http://www.dafont.com/cartographer.font

Our logo will be half a german flag and half of a british flag with film around it. We think that this wrting will make our logo more thriller like.