Saturday, 5 April 2014
After Eight (finished)
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Thursday, 3 April 2014
Wednesday, 2 April 2014
Monday, 10 February 2014
Question 7
Looking back at preliminary task what do you feel you have learned in the progression from it to the product?
Question 6
What have you learned about the technologies from the process of constructing your product? If your having trouble viewing the popplet please click on the link below:
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Question 5
How did you attract/address your audience?
music trailer
We attracted our audience by holding their attention, we done this using a variety of different techniques, one of them being the music we used. The music has different pitches and when it gets to high pitch the audience think something terrible is going to happen, then they relax again when the music slows down. This is keeping the suspense and the tension going within the audience and this is what is attracting them to the final product.
In this particular scene the tempo of the music was high so the audience would start think about what his doing and trying to figure out his character
Also in our final product it looks like a perfect family life until the end when you actually see the characters are cannibals, this shocks the audience and as they see this, they begin to think about what they could be plotting next.
This was the scene where the plot was revealed.
Furthermore we made a rough cut when we was half way through editing the footage, this was shown to a variety of people so we could collect audience research, this would then make the audience want to continue watching the opening scene of the final product.
music trailer
We attracted our audience by holding their attention, we done this using a variety of different techniques, one of them being the music we used. The music has different pitches and when it gets to high pitch the audience think something terrible is going to happen, then they relax again when the music slows down. This is keeping the suspense and the tension going within the audience and this is what is attracting them to the final product.
Also in our final product it looks like a perfect family life until the end when you actually see the characters are cannibals, this shocks the audience and as they see this, they begin to think about what they could be plotting next.
Furthermore we made a rough cut when we was half way through editing the footage, this was shown to a variety of people so we could collect audience research, this would then make the audience want to continue watching the opening scene of the final product.
Sunday, 9 February 2014
Saturday, 8 February 2014
Question 1
In what way does your media product use, challenge or develop forms or conventions of real media products?
Our media product uses forms of a real media product, for example we use a macguffin which is the bag, a mac guffin is used to trigger the plot and the bag does that by getting the audience to think that the character has something to hide. An example of a real macguffin is in North by North West in 1959, the macguffin is government secrets.
We also used a red herring in our product, a red herring is used to mislead the audience and make them think something that is not actually happening, then later in the storyline it is revealed and the audience is in shock because they never expected what is going on to happen. In our product the red herring is me the actress, the audience think I'm innocent during the plot then at the end it turns out I'm actually in on the plot. An example of a real red herring is in a film called Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock, one of the main characters is built up to be a innocent kind man and when it's coming towards the end of the film he is revealed to be a psycho serial killer.
Furthermore in our product we used music to build tension within the audience, as the male character is going into the shed the music gets higher and it creates suspense and the audience think that something bad is going to happen. Another example of this is in psycho when he is killing the women in the shower high pitch music is being played, even though you don't see the women actually being murdered, you just see a knife, then the women's face the music leads you to think that she is being murdered.
Our product is similar to a film called Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), the film is a musical about a barber who becomes friendly with a baker, together they make a team, Todd brings people in to his barbers and kills them whilst giving them a "close shave" then sends their body to the baker who then puts the meat into her famous pies. This film inspired our final product, we was interested in the idea of cannibalism and though we could incorporate it into our short sequence. \
Our media product uses forms of a real media product, for example we use a macguffin which is the bag, a mac guffin is used to trigger the plot and the bag does that by getting the audience to think that the character has something to hide. An example of a real macguffin is in North by North West in 1959, the macguffin is government secrets.
We also used a red herring in our product, a red herring is used to mislead the audience and make them think something that is not actually happening, then later in the storyline it is revealed and the audience is in shock because they never expected what is going on to happen. In our product the red herring is me the actress, the audience think I'm innocent during the plot then at the end it turns out I'm actually in on the plot. An example of a real red herring is in a film called Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock, one of the main characters is built up to be a innocent kind man and when it's coming towards the end of the film he is revealed to be a psycho serial killer.
Furthermore in our product we used music to build tension within the audience, as the male character is going into the shed the music gets higher and it creates suspense and the audience think that something bad is going to happen. Another example of this is in psycho when he is killing the women in the shower high pitch music is being played, even though you don't see the women actually being murdered, you just see a knife, then the women's face the music leads you to think that she is being murdered.
Our product is similar to a film called Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), the film is a musical about a barber who becomes friendly with a baker, together they make a team, Todd brings people in to his barbers and kills them whilst giving them a "close shave" then sends their body to the baker who then puts the meat into her famous pies. This film inspired our final product, we was interested in the idea of cannibalism and though we could incorporate it into our short sequence. \
Tuesday, 4 February 2014
Finding Music
Student Ident (Embedded)
Our production company ident
This is our production logo for our company happy days.
With the rainy weather we can represent the rainy country of Britain -which is where our company is based/from. It is not on a huge scale because we are a small independent company.
Also, it is ironic as we do not usually asscociate this weather with happiness. This can represent how people find joy through our thriller films.
With the rainy weather we can represent the rainy country of Britain -which is where our company is based/from. It is not on a huge scale because we are a small independent company.
Also, it is ironic as we do not usually asscociate this weather with happiness. This can represent how people find joy through our thriller films.
Shot list
Shotlist
- shot 1: long shot
- shot 2:close up
- shot 3:long shot
- shot 4:medium shot
- shot 5:medium shot
- shot 6:meduim shot
- shot 7:close up
- shot 8:meduim/close up
- shot 9:medium/close up (zoom)
- shot 10: close up/extreme close up (zoom)
- shot 11:close up/extreme close up (zoom)
Sunday, 2 February 2014
Audience Research
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Monday, 27 January 2014
Title Sequence
∞ Happy Days Production presents
∞ A film by Laura Bankole
∞ Starring…….
∞ Stacey Talbert
∞ Michael Rhodes
∞ *title of thriller*
∞ Also starring
∞ Sarah Cole
∞ Lottie Street
∞ Alex West
∞ Editing – Laura Bankole
∞ Music – Michelle Nduku
∞ Casting – Stacey Talbot
∞ Writer – Lauren Quashie
∞ Producer – Michelle Nduku
∞ A film by Laura Bankole
∞ *fade out*
Monday, 20 January 2014
Monday, 13 January 2014
Shooting Schedule
Shooting Schedule
1st
day of shooting.
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Weather:
grey sky and cold.
Date:
10/12/2013
Time:
14:30-15:30
Cast:Stacey Talbot and Michael
Rhodes.
Crew: Lauren Quashie, Laura Bankole and Michelle Nduku
Props:
Chopping board, kitchen setting, axe, fake blood, fake finger, knife, vegetables,
kettle, plates, tea towel, bag, coat, shed, black and white shirt, and
cooker.
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2nd
day of shooting.
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Weather:
grey sky and cold.
Date:
17/12/2013
Time:
14:30-15:30
Cast: Stacey Talbot and Michael Rhodes
Crew: Laura Bankole and Michelle Nduku
Props:
Chopping board, kitchen setting, axe, fake blood, fake finger, knife, vegetables,
kettle, plates, tea towel, bag, coat, shed, black and white shirt, and cooker.
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Monday, 6 January 2014
The Thriller Recipe
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Past Student Thrillers
Past Student Thrillers.
the next one is called night walker:
Again this is the same somebody following someone and the poor innocent girl gets taken therefore i give this clip and 2
The last video clip is called lovers spark:
In my opinion this film is good and different and not to cleche therefor i give it a 4
Today we was evaluating past students thrillers to get some tips on what to do and what not to do.
We had to ask ourself five questions in order to come back with a good conclusion the quesdtions were as follows:
- Does it look like the opening of a film thriller film?
- Can you see any genre converntion?
- Have they made good use of mise-en-scene?
- Is it technically secure?
- Is it sound apropriate?
We rated all these elements out of 1-4, 4 being excellent, 3 being good, 2 being basic and 1 being minimal.
Here are some examples of the videos we looked at:
I would give this a 4 it was really good however its the same cleche because most thriller films have someone following them and it get boring after a while
the next one is called night walker:
Again this is the same somebody following someone and the poor innocent girl gets taken therefore i give this clip and 2
The last video clip is called lovers spark:
In my opinion this film is good and different and not to cleche therefor i give it a 4
Alfred Hitchcock
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Biography
Full Name: Alfred Joseph Hitchcock
Born: August 13, 1899, Leytonstone, England
Died: April 28, 1980 from Liver Failure and Heart Problems
Alfred was a film director. He had done many films that were thrillers ,an example of some films was psycho, birds and North by north west.
His nickname was the master of suspense, he got a job as a title designer and he done this for two years.
Below is a interview about the director:
Sunday, 5 January 2014
Collateral
Collateral
Collateral is a crime thriller made in 2004 staring Tom Cruise and Jamie Fox.The film was directed by Michael Mann and written by Stuart Beattie.
The film was Manns first film using highdef cameras, there are many scenes in the film that the digital camera is evident, in particular scenes like the Los Angles skyline or landscape it visible in the background.
The film was co-produced by DreamWorks and Paramount Pictures, Collateral sat on DreamWorks development for three years.
The film opened on the 6th of August 2004, in 3,118 theatres in the United States and Canada and grossed $24.7 million in its opening weekend and came number one at the box office.
It remained in theatres for 14 weeks and eventually grossed $101,005,703 in the US and Canada.
Trailer:
Collateral is a crime thriller made in 2004 staring Tom Cruise and Jamie Fox.The film was directed by Michael Mann and written by Stuart Beattie.
The film was Manns first film using highdef cameras, there are many scenes in the film that the digital camera is evident, in particular scenes like the Los Angles skyline or landscape it visible in the background.
The film was co-produced by DreamWorks and Paramount Pictures, Collateral sat on DreamWorks development for three years.
The film opened on the 6th of August 2004, in 3,118 theatres in the United States and Canada and grossed $24.7 million in its opening weekend and came number one at the box office.
It remained in theatres for 14 weeks and eventually grossed $101,005,703 in the US and Canada.
Trailer:
Continuity, speed and style of editing
Speed
In a film each scene may last a matter of seconds or it could continue for a few minutes but the length of each sequence establishes the pace of the film moving the action along, if the audience is to feel anxiety and suspense the editing will be quick, for example the scenes/shots would be changing frequently.
If a relaxed mood is desired, the scenes last longer and change less frequently.
However there is a film called 'Russian Ark' which was all shot in one take and no editing was done.
A trailer for a film needs to pack in detail from throughout the film therefore the editing will be very fast.
Style
The style of editing is how shots are linked together, the movement from one shot to the next is called a transition.
Straight Cut
A straight cut is the most common visible form of transition, one shot moves instantly to the next without capturing the audiences attention. Straight cut help retain reality, and it is known as invisible editing.
Dissolves
A dissolve is one shot fading off screen while another shot is fading in, the audience will be able to see both shots on the screen at the mid-point of the dissolve. This is useful because it links two shots together.
Fades
A fade is a gradual darkening or lightening of an image until it becomes black or white, one shot will fade until only a black or white screen can be scene, it is used to indicate the end of a particular section of time within the narrative, it can show the passing of time.
Wipe
A wipe is when one image is pushed of screen by another, the images can be pushed left or right, it is used to signal a movement between different locations that are experiencing the same time.
Jump Cut
A jump cut is where the audience's attention is brought into focus on something very suddenly, this occurs by breaking the continuity editing, it is known as discontinuity, it appears as if a section of the sequence has been removed.
Graphic match
A graphic match is when two consecutive shots are matched in terms of the way they look this is called a graphic match.
Montage theory
This changes the feelings when you see the image the character is seeing you feel the characters emotion and state.
Continuity
The Rules
In a film each scene may last a matter of seconds or it could continue for a few minutes but the length of each sequence establishes the pace of the film moving the action along, if the audience is to feel anxiety and suspense the editing will be quick, for example the scenes/shots would be changing frequently.
If a relaxed mood is desired, the scenes last longer and change less frequently.
However there is a film called 'Russian Ark' which was all shot in one take and no editing was done.
A trailer for a film needs to pack in detail from throughout the film therefore the editing will be very fast.
Style
The style of editing is how shots are linked together, the movement from one shot to the next is called a transition.
Straight Cut
A straight cut is the most common visible form of transition, one shot moves instantly to the next without capturing the audiences attention. Straight cut help retain reality, and it is known as invisible editing.
Dissolves
A dissolve is one shot fading off screen while another shot is fading in, the audience will be able to see both shots on the screen at the mid-point of the dissolve. This is useful because it links two shots together.
Fades
A fade is a gradual darkening or lightening of an image until it becomes black or white, one shot will fade until only a black or white screen can be scene, it is used to indicate the end of a particular section of time within the narrative, it can show the passing of time.
Wipe
A wipe is when one image is pushed of screen by another, the images can be pushed left or right, it is used to signal a movement between different locations that are experiencing the same time.
Jump Cut
A jump cut is where the audience's attention is brought into focus on something very suddenly, this occurs by breaking the continuity editing, it is known as discontinuity, it appears as if a section of the sequence has been removed.
Graphic match
A graphic match is when two consecutive shots are matched in terms of the way they look this is called a graphic match.
Montage theory
This changes the feelings when you see the image the character is seeing you feel the characters emotion and state.
Continuity
The Rules
- establishing shot
- shot/reverse shot
- 180 degree
- 30 degree
- cross cutting
- match on action
- eye line match
- re-establishing shot
definition: a system used to maintain continous and clear narrative action by following a set of rules.
180 degree rule
This is a principle which underpins all TV and film production.
Its important not to cross the line of vision between two characters otherwise the viewer may not be able to make sense of the scene.
The same rule applies to a moving subject keep to one side of the direction of motion.
30 degree rule
The angle between any two consecutive shots should be less than 30 degree rule in order to maintain spatial relationships between people and objects in any given sequence of shots.
Its important not to cross the line of vision between two characters otherwise the viewer may not be able to make sense of the scene.
The same rule applies to a moving subject keep to one side of the direction of motion.
30 degree rule
The angle between any two consecutive shots should be less than 30 degree rule in order to maintain spatial relationships between people and objects in any given sequence of shots.
Macro Features-Sound
Sound is used an awful lot in a film and this is so create feeling and emotion, it reveals unspoken thoughts of a character and the environment around them.
Films use dialogue to let us listen to the conversation between characters and understand them and what their feeling through the way they express their emotion.
Films use a range of different sound elements such as:
diegetic sound: any sound that has an onscreen source
non- diegetic sound: a sound that does not have an on screen source and the characters can not hear it
sound bridge: a sound that carries from one scene to another.
parallel sound: a sound that fits the scene
contrapuntal sound: a sound that doesn't match the scene.
Films use dialogue to let us listen to the conversation between characters and understand them and what their feeling through the way they express their emotion.
Films use a range of different sound elements such as:
diegetic sound: any sound that has an onscreen source
non- diegetic sound: a sound that does not have an on screen source and the characters can not hear it
sound bridge: a sound that carries from one scene to another.
parallel sound: a sound that fits the scene
contrapuntal sound: a sound that doesn't match the scene.
Micro Features- Cinematography
The camera can show us the different environments and the emotions the characters feel from their point of view which quickly shows us the reactions from other characters ensuring we see the narrative clues we need to see in order to put the story together.
The camera uses different types of shots and movements to show this to us for example;
1. A close up- a close up is used so we only focus on one thing in the frame.
2.An extreme close up -used so the audience can focus on all the small details and can give the audience a sense of discomfort.
3.Long shot- used so the audience can see the whole environment and the characters body drawing the attention to the characters body language costume and props in the scene.
4.Point of view-when we see exactly what the character can see putting the audience in a subjective position.
5.Mid shot- used so we can `focus on the dialogue between two characters.
6.Birds eye view- seeing the action from below making the audience feel God like and making them feel like the characters is part of a wider scheme of events.
7.Low angle shot- the camera is placed below the character and is looking up making them look powerful
8. high angle shot- the camera looking down on a character making them look weak and vulnerable.
9.over the shoulder shot- looking from behind the person at a subject
10.stedi-cam a camera mounted on a harness making the shot smooth
11. pan- a movement that scans the room
The camera uses different types of shots and movements to show this to us for example;
1. A close up- a close up is used so we only focus on one thing in the frame.
2.An extreme close up -used so the audience can focus on all the small details and can give the audience a sense of discomfort.
3.Long shot- used so the audience can see the whole environment and the characters body drawing the attention to the characters body language costume and props in the scene.
4.Point of view-when we see exactly what the character can see putting the audience in a subjective position.
5.Mid shot- used so we can `focus on the dialogue between two characters.
6.Birds eye view- seeing the action from below making the audience feel God like and making them feel like the characters is part of a wider scheme of events.
7.Low angle shot- the camera is placed below the character and is looking up making them look powerful
8. high angle shot- the camera looking down on a character making them look weak and vulnerable.
9.over the shoulder shot- looking from behind the person at a subject
10.stedi-cam a camera mounted on a harness making the shot smooth
11. pan- a movement that scans the room
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