Thriller Opening: Evaluation - Question 6 - Whay have you learnt abo...

Thriller Opening: Evaluation - Question 6 - Whay have you learnt abo...

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

Thriller Opening: Evaluation - Question 6 - Whay have you learnt abo...

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

In  this presentation we describe what type of media instuatuions would be likely to disturb our flim

Evaluation Question One : In what ways does your media product use , develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (i.e of film openings)

1 : This is the title of our film "dont look back" , we thought of underline reprsentation to themes in our title so we were careful with our colour schemes. We used red to outline the letters to connate danger and white inside to connate innocnce. Black was used as the background as it reprsents our main theme death

2. This is one of the locations of where the opening was patly filmes its just outside my house but we used it because the house on my road look quite old so it would give a creepier effect to it

3. This prop is used for the little girl in our flim , we were inspried from the mask in the ring . This was orginally used in the opening but we took it out to add more mystery to who was in the wardbode scene.

4. A long shot is used in this bit to show the womens surrondings and where she's is going

5. For the style of our story we decided to give clues in the story in a newspaper format. We made the text glowing to emphasis certain sentences that gave hints to the storyline.

6. This shot helps tell what our story might be about , 'dead girl found in the forest" shows that it has something to do with a girls death

7. The camera rooms into to the font saying "young girl" in black writing . The colour reminds us of the death theme.

8. Shes the first character introduced in the film , shes young so she can idenfy with the target audience of the film.

9.Spcial effects on affect afters were used on to create the titles. This gave it a more professional quality to the titles

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

Final Piece

Rough cut

GarageBand

Myself and my parnter decided to make our own music , however I was unable to attend garageband due to other work commitments so Tamana made the music herself. We were inspried by the orpahnages music and decided to base our music on the sound of the music they have used as its creepy and builds suspense. In order to create the music a software called garageband was needed to be used. A variety of insturments were avavliable but it took her a while for her to  find the one pasfic piano tune she wanted , she wanted to use this one as horror films usually have pianos in them and add a sinister feel to things . Tamana did not just use the piano in the tune she decided she wanted to use a drum beat in there also so she added it in half way to build tension for the scene. As the music comes near to the end a deep sound of a drum plays to show something is about to happen , this will play when my character is walking in the room. At the end of the music the drum and string stop playing and only the piano is left as my character is about to open the door and see the little girl. When the little girl jumps out a loud noise is played and then the music stops.

Production logos

Me and my partner decided we wanted to call our production logo : Crystal Clear Prodctions. We have an idea of how we what it to appear on the scene , we would like the colour of the writing to be white and the background black. It will shatter after being seen for a few seconds. We done this to create an oxymoron as the production company is named crystal clear prouctions and the logo shatters we thought that this would be interseting that the name contrdicts whats happening.

After effect

To make out production logo we used a softwear on the Macs which is called After effects. This softwear helps you to create openings for films with out filming anything.

Practice Test Lesson

Our first lesson using the softwear was Friday the 12th November where we were taught my the technition teacher how to use the softwear so that we are familiour with it and can use it our selves when making our proper production logo.

It's a very dificult softwear to use and the instructions which were given by the teacher kinda confused me and my partner which ended up with our practise logo not turning out like everyone else's.We got help in the end and was taught face to face how it worked but then again it didn't come out like everyone else's and we got a bit stuck on what most of the functions were. We were told to then go experiment with the softwear but ended up runining our practise logo.

However we were told that we could come to study support after school every tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday to get help from the teacher's and create the final production logo.

Our idea for our production logo is for the words to be in clear white with a backgroudn light shining through it and then for the words to shatter in glass peices towards the screen and then for the screen to go black.

Garageband

Behind the scene

This picture is a shot of  Tamanna getting ready to shoot the scene taken in my room. I took this picture of Tamanna testing if the lighting of the camera wasnt too dark to flim in the house

Story board

Setting and Props

Settings : 

For our setting the main place was my house however we also shot down my road and a park in Crystal Palace but due to some footage of the park scene missing we had to film the park scene in a different location in Croydon.

    

This picture is outside my house where match on match action shot is taken from side ,

 front view of the main character (me) while rushing to open the door

This is my hall way , where the first shot inside  will be shown.
The bang from upstairs is shown from this scene

This is my bedroom where the wardbode scene will take place 

This is the stairs where the camera tales a birdeyes view and
overshoulder shot following the main character to the room ,
 just as she's about to find the little girl 

The exposure of the little girl takes place in  this setting (the wardbode) 

This is the second park we shoot at 

Props : 

We used props for both our main characters the little girl and the woman . We made the woman wear a suit to show she's a mature successful women compared to the immature teen that she was when her little sister was in the accident (this plot is learnt further on in the film). The little girl wears a mask to give a creepier affect to the film this prop was inspried by the mask the girl wears in the orpahnage 

This is the main prop used in our flim : the little girls mask 

Inspiration

A few films have inspired how we conducted our film openings , but the two main ones that stood out for us were the ring and The Orphanage and The Ring. This is because we can identify with both of the films as children and paranormal activity are both domintant themes in their's as in ours. The music in these trailers create suspense and tension in the scene which is the effect me and my parnter would want on viewers


This is an example from the ring







This is an example from the orphanage

Possible music

Treatment

Treatment

Film Proposal

Our proposal

Horror Thrillers

The Silence of the Lamb

Target profile

Target Audience Profile

Certificate of film : We decided to certificate this film as a 15 as their is some gory scenes and a little strong language used , however neither are extreme enough to rate as an 18. We felt to make it a realistic thriller/horror film we wouldn't be able to be certificate it as a 12 without people thinking that the certificate was inappropriate for the film.

Who will it appeal to ? : Well from the research I carried out all the teenagers said they enjoyed thrillers , so teenagers would be one of the main types of people we would appeal to. The thriller/horror genre is more of a unisex genre so its nor mainly aimed at boys or girls , its aimed at both which is good for us as we can target a wider audience. The pictures of the following to are typical people that this filmed is aimed at.

Michelle aged 19 , lives on campus at her university
enjoys watching thrillers and watching about avergally
about twice a week. When I asked her how and where she watches these films she said waits for them to come out and rents them from blockboster and watches them with friends 

Gary aged 16, goes to college and has a part-time job

Gender: As I mentioned before the film is a unisex one and we will attempt to appeal to both male and female. We will do this by making the main character a women which girls may be able to identify with and the gory and bloody scenes will be likely to attract the males.

Age: When it comes to age our target is 15-25 years this is because we feel this is the most likely age to watch this film. Its not to say that older people cant but we just believed that 15-25 year old would be more likely to pay to see this film.

Race :The film will mainly be aimed to the English and the western culture because it will have qualities of a British horror film but we will try to get our film shown also in America to get the rating more high. Some films which our film will relate to will be "The Ring", "The Orphanage" and "The sixth sense" as they feature mainly children as a victim or the murderers. We have made sure that our film doesn't offend any races so we have featured a few races in our film such as Black, Asian and White characters.

Class and interests 

We are aiming to target our film to middle-class to high class viewers as they are more likely than working-class people to be able to afford to watch the film in cinemas and buy it when it gets released 

Character profile

Character Profile : In my group of two that consists of Tamanna and I , I play the both of the main roles which are The woman (the victim) and the little girl (villian) . In the opening scene the victim is unaware shes being haunted by her sister but has a feeling some sort of paranormal activiy is occuring. The victim aged roughly about early 20's can idnetify with other characters such as Naomi Watts who plays a young journalist in the ring. Also the little girl can identify with little girl in the orphanage who also wears a mask.

Case Study - Director

Choice of director Park-Chan Wook  I choose to write about this director as he was mentioned in my questionnaire and also I am a fan of some of his work and think the twists he does in his thrillers are very unique and original compared to films.  He is a film director, producer and former film critic. . He is most known for the following films: “Joint security area”, “Thirst” and the Lady Vengeance trilogy which consists of “Sympathy for Mr.Vengeance”, “Sympathy of Lady Vengeance” and “Oldboy”. What people also like about him is also his brutal subject matter. Directors/film makers that have been influential to him are Alfred Hitchcock and Roman Polanski etc.His style of filming is liked as its controversional , most of his themes are based on revenge e.g. lady venegence and oldboy  scenes of captivity and revelations in the middle and the end. Although I will not be doing the type of Thrillers he usually does , he's an inspriation to me as a director

Analysis

Dexter’s Opening Sequence 

Camera angles – They use close ups of Dexter to create a sense of power in his character which makes viewers feel more intimidated by him. Several close-ups are used when showing his skin or things that look like flesh/blood. This reminds the viewer of what the show is about- murder. 

Sound - The music has a sinister tone that makes viewers uneasy. Sometimes you can hear the actions that are being done e.g. when he kills the fly you can hear it which reminds us of the premise of the show which is murder. 

Lighting- The lighting gets brighter when Dexter reaches outside, making it look like he is transitioning into normal life. The darker lighting used when he’s inside makes his life indoors appear more hidden, suggesting he leads a double life. As the lights so bright outside it makes the scene look fake, whereas the scenes shot indoors appear more real.  

Editing- Within the sequence, they show an object then close up on it afterwards (e.g. they showed Dexter cut himself shaving then in the next shot they closed up on the blood). This again reminds us of the shows premise being about murder. The pace of the editing often changes, some scenes are shot very quickly whilst others are longer, making the audience feel on edge.

Psycho

Psycho

This opening title is a very intense one that creates alot of tension and suspense to the film. Its no seeing of characters , music and colour scheme all represent the horror genre

In the opening titles of psycho no charcaters are shown , all that we see is a black background and grey lines dashing back and forth accompained by what sounds like sharp piano music. The fact no characters are used creates a mystery as we prapare for the unknown , which scares people the most not knowing what's happening.

The music featured in psycho is very intense , causing viewers to be on edge as it never seems to propelry settle down . Its sounds as if someones being chased from something creating an anixous and scared feeling to the audience before they have even seen the film. The music immidiately indicats to viewers that this is a horror theme , the use of the high piano creates the intensity of the opening credits

The colour scheme used is black , white and grey . These dennote just normal colours but connate underling representations in the film. The black connates death and danger , this are the two most dominant themes of the film and the opening squence gives clues on that by the black used in the scene. White can connate innocence , in this film people are potrayed as innocent as there trying to find out the mystery and are oblivious to what is going on. The grey shows the mysetrcial theme to the film which is supported by not showing the characters in the opening

Vertigo

Vertigo

Vertigo has a very unusual opening seqeunce as it focuses on an unknown women in the begnning then later the camera zooms into her eyes and see's what she can see.

It engages viewers as it creates suspense and mystery as we dont know who the women and why we are focusing on her. This immediately questions the reader and makes them more interested in whats going on making them want to watch the rest on the film

The colours in this film are simliar to the ones in pscyho but its more bright in this one. White , black and red is used . The white connates innocence , the black connates death and danger and red connates lust , seductition and blood.

The opening only consists of one character and her emotions in one scene. Her eyes roll suggesting she is scared of something that only she has seen but as viewers we have not . In alfred hitchcocks opening he dosent give away much of whats going to happening , for example psychos opening titles had no characters and this opening only has close up's of one women that we don't know. This is done to create myserty in the scene

Questionnaires

General Questionnaire

1. Age
2. Gender
3. What sorts of movie genres do you like?
4. Why?
5. Do you go to the cinema to watch films or rent or online or on TV?
6. Whats your favorite film?
7. Why?
8. Who do you mostly watch films with?

Answers

1. 16
2. Female
3. Horror films
4. Because it's rely interesting than romance
5. I often go to the cinema and also watch online
6. My favorite film is 300
7. Because it's like a thriller but has deep meaning to it
8. I usually watch films with my family

1. 16
2. Male
3. Action films
4. Because it gets you excited when you watch them
5. I mostly watch films online but if it's a good film then i watch at the cinema
6. My favorite film is Scarface
7. Because it's a cool mafia type of film that symbolizes many meanings
8. I watch films mostly by my self or with my friends

1. 21
2. Female
3. Romance comedy
4. Because their funny and sweet and some times I like a good laugh and cry together
5. I mostly watch online but some times rent or go to the cinema if I have the money
6. 27 dresses
7. Because it's funny and makes me cry 
8. I watch films by my self because I hate it wen people ask me questions when I'm trying to watch a movie

1. 13
2. Male
3. Action
4. Because their interesting to watch
5. I mostly watch online or go cinema
6. The expendables
7. Because it's action packed
8. I watch films with my sisters or my friends

Specific Questionnaire

1. how old are you?
2. what gender are you?
3. do you enjoy thriller?
4.  if yes which do you prefer horror thrillers or action thrillers?
5. are you comfortable about women and children playing the murderers sometimes in these films (horrors)?
6.  when watching horrors do you take costume into large account when judging films?
7. is there a particular director that does thrillers that you like?
8. why do you like their films?

Answers

Yomi’s Interview

1)      19

2)      Female

3)      Yes

4)      Action

5)      Yes

6)      Yes

7)      Christopher Nolan

8)      Because their in depth

Denia’s interview

1)      24

2)      Female

3)      I used to when I was younger still do thought just not as    much

4)      Action

5)      Doesn’t bother me , the kid’s one is abit wrong

6)      Yes

7)      Not really

George’s interview

1)      15

2)      Male

3)      Yes

4)      Horror

5)      No, children I think is wrong they should be portrayed as   innocent figures which they are and  not murderers.

6)      Yes

7)      Quentin Taratino

8)      The uncertainty and confusion in his films

One to One interview   
Yemisi‘s interview (on video) a few comments may be different from what’s said in the
video due to her changing her mind sometimes off screen

1)      25
2)      Female
3)      Yeah
4)      Action
5)      Women’s fine children is abit weird
6)      Yeah makes a difference
7)      Park chan wook-wok
8)      Unthinkable plots and intense surprises