conspiracy theory trailers

When looking at the two conspiracy theory thriller trailers I feel that the complexity of the story is potent throughout. I feel that this would be a set back of our thriller as we would be more focused on the story line than we would on the content and technical elements. I feel that this is something we need to consider and personally, I do not feel it would be a good idea to do this sub genre of thriller.

evaluation questions

•  the evaluation the following questions must be answered:
•  In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
•  How does your media product represent particular social groups?
• What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? Who would be the audience for your media product?
•  How did you attract/address your audience?
• What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product
•  Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Brainstorming

First off our group decided which thrillers we are personally interested in. we decided from looking at previous groups that a religious thriller looks good when done well. Conspiracy theory is original although it could be difficult and a horror thriller would be good as we are aware of the codes/ conventions as well as stereotypes we should keep away from. After that we listed things relevant and stories we could create. As well as sound and possible angles.

After researching further into each thriller we plan to brainstorm for each thriller sub genre to look further into what we could create. Here (on the right) is a picture of the story lines and possible names. Moreover we have looked at how the stories could link in order to broaden our story ideas.







above are our idea for the genre of our film and a possible shot list of what we would like to use.
we have now updated it and will be including:
1)Dolly zoom-to show fear or shock.
2)Panning shots-To make our charcter to seem as if shes being followed/watched.
3)Reverse shot-signify a flash back,build up suspence.
4)crab shot-use a super wide angle lens(fisheye) on the door to create a peep hole effect.

initial research to what the audience want

From this questionnaire we can see the age of the people that we are targeting towards, the gender, the ethnicity, how regularly they watch these thrillers. These questions all build up to the final question that takes us to what they want to see. The people filling out the questionnaire are who we are targeting our thriller to therefore we think that we need to be making a teenage film- therefore 15 rating. From our results we gathered we can see that they ideally would like to see a horror thriller. This is an interesting piece of evidence for us as it helps us to see what our target audience want however we need to take into consideration originality and what works best for us. Therefore these results are something that have swayed us into taking a horror thriller into consideration as this wasn't an option at the start. 

basic editing task 2

This cut is much more successful than our first, within this cut we can see a lot more of our shot list. Within the clip we can see a change from the technically of the shots, creating a much more professional look to the clip.

analysis and reflections of our first cut

During the filming of our clip we encountered many problems that have resulted in a number of ramifications during the process of editing. For example, during many of our extreme close-up shots we have attempted to incorporate the eyes, nose and mouth all within the confines of the frame, causing a very distorted and untidy shot. We have since learnt that when using an extreme close-up, it is important to focus specifically on one area of the face: this can be either the eyes and nose, or the nose and mouth - as depicted below.

An extreme close up of the eyes and nose.

An extreme close up including the nose and mouth.

It also occurred to us that this principle remains important in the context of a thriller, by not fully disclosing the identity of the person it builds suspense. Whilst we did not successfully capture the extreme close-up, they were also scarce throughout our clip - after analysing our first cut through the resources on the iMac we noticed that segments involving dialogue were often rather boring due to the use of a single two-shot (establishing shot) recording the entirety of a conversation. We agreed that in order to keep an audience engaged in the clip using close-ups/extreme close-ups to capture facial expressions would improve our feature considerably. Furthermore, a succession of shot reverse shots where considered as a viable solution to the problem as this would allow the audience to observe the emotions of the characters and understand the situation. During the latter stages of our clip two girls are shown running - one chasing the other. We noticed that after analysing this scene our clip manifested lax camera work, at some point throughout the clip at least one of the girls did not feature in the full frame of the camera. It was also noticable that our use of match on action was very poor, as match on action refers to the process of time elapsing through a succession of different shots, usualy around three or four to show smoothly how our character got from one place to the next almost tricking the viewer to feel as if they watched each step with there own eyes.

basic editing attempt 1

For the task we where set we had to go out and film a short film following our plan that was no longer than 90 seconds but over a minute.
Personally i found the filming to be harder than i had thought; to keep using the 180 degree rule while also including all the shots that where on are list was challenging but in the end of our first shoot we though we had done it.

we then aplied them into adobe premier.  we realised that our reverse shot angle was filmed badly and some head where cut of but we carried on editing to have a test run.

The edit its self was good but there was things to improve on so we dicided to reshoot.
we filmed all our new clips and made sure they looked more proffessional and would run smoothly in the edit.  we will be editing these tomorrow in my free period and doing the final touches next lesson.
We forgot to include many shots and will need to keep the following in mind to our next edit.