Looking back at preliminary task what do you feel you have learned in the progression from it to the product?
Monday, 10 February 2014
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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