Thriller Feedback Evaluation

Our feedback shows that our product is successful with our audience as they said:
There is a wide variety of shots used in our product, which are all held steady.
The footage shown and mise-en-scene is appropriate to the genre.
The titles and effects used are also good as well.

We have met the conventions of:
Using dark themes and colours throughout our footage, by using colour catcher during editing to make everything darker.
We have used a dark atmospheric music to build up suspense, by using garage band to create the soundtrack.
We used the crime thriller convention of the film involving a murder, which is pretty obvious from the blood on the girls hands and face.


We have challenged the conventions of:
Starting the film by focusing on the protagonist, in our film we began by focusing on the antagonist, we believe that this would draw the audience in a lot more and make it more original.
Having the film set in a large city, in our film it is set in a more rural setting, however this is also good as it makes the film seem much more darker as there is only a limited number of characters which would make it much easier for the audience ot relate to them.

We don't think there would be much we would do differently next time as we feel that our product is very successful, maybe only find some more sounds to make the soundtrack more atmospheric.

Deadline lesson for thriller film

Today we completely finished our thriller film. The soundtrack fits perfectly with the clip and we are very pleased with our end result. We realise that we haven't completely stuck to the story boards as we have edited the shots and shot timings a little, but the only reason we have done this is becasue we thought that it made our thriller better.

Pictures for Evaluation

Rough Cut Feedback - 12/03/2010

Today we showed our group our thriller opening and we got given some feedback:

• The make-up looked fresh and real.
• The editing effects were good and worked well.
• When the trail was obvious, it looked effective, but for most of it the blood wasn't very clear.
• The credits were too quick and they should be slowed down a little.
• The shot with blood on the tree looked good and we should make it longer.
• The flashes were very effective but they were a little too quick as you couldn't quite make out what they were.
• There was a little too much of the blood trail.
• The camera work was good as it was steady and there were a lot of angles used.
• The blood looked realistic and not like ketchup.
  

Rough Cut

Youtube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOKMe6HOEVs

How we used Final Cut to edit our footage

We used the colour corrector on final cut to change the colour of our footage. Here are some examples of how our footage changed.


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Targets for our group

1. Swap roles between editing and garage band so that we can gain experience at both.
2. Experiment with color corrector to get the right darkness for our film.
3. Let Holly listen to our soundtrack.

Friday 5th

Today we are going to continue editing our clip but we also needed to capture some more extreme close ups to add more of a range of shots to the piece. We think if we add these shots then it will make it more spooky and thrilling and it will also shock the audience more.

Thursday 4th

Today we edited our clip using final cut. We edited out the parts we didnt need and erased it. we then selected an order for our clips that we are not sure will stay the same now due to wanting to film mroe extreme close ups. We edited the colour of our clip by using the colour correcter on final cut. This worked better in some parts than other but overall it worked well.




We also worked on our soundtrack on garage band. We chose certain sounds to play throughout the clip, these include synths, booms and ambience sounds such as thunder rolls, which all help to build up intensity. We are happy with what we created and we are going to test the music with the footage to see how it matches up and how much we will need to edit it to make it fit.

Evaluation Questions

The following questions must be answered in your evaluation PowerPoint:
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?
5. How did you attract/address your audience?
6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product?
7. Looking back to your preliminary task, what do you feel that you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Lesson 2nd March

After watching our footage, we realised that because we had new ideas during our filming lesson, our footage now doesn't match up with our story boards. We think that despite this problem, our final footage will come out better because we have more of a variety of shots throughout.