2. Again, hiding the identity by showing them from behind and far away
3. This is then followed by a restricted view of them as the fence cuts them up. Both of which raised questions about identity
4. Another common convention is shadow and darkness which we attempted here as 2 hidden characters walk past the church.
5. Unusual camera angels such as this very high angle from up a tree creates an air of mystery as it looks like the character is being watched
6. Close ups were a common theme in the thrillers I watched for research and so we used it here so the audience could clearly see the melting mask in a hope to scare them.
7. Another close up to show the menacing mask being placed on which creates questions, such as who is this man and why does he need this mask?
8. Gravestones are seen as a creepy object and so by placing it in the front of the shot it helps place characters and scare the audience
9. Finally, we choose these shots of the fire for the titles because the follow many conventions of thrillers. They’re dark and shadowy. Until after the 3rd title scene you don’t know about the fire and so it creates a bit of enigma. Lastly, fire is dangerous and so it creates a bit of suspense as it could mean something gets burned down.
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2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
We knew we had to link our characters to some sort of social group and in a way our audience could identify quickly so we spent a lesson thinking how we could do this.
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| Protagonist in his masculine suit |
We started with our main character, the male detective and choose him to represent gender and the stereotypical male as he is the protagonist who takes on a cult and the audience would expect a very masculine man.
The best way to get this across was the use of mise en scene. His clothes are plain and simple; his hair is short and doesn't appear to use and products on his body such a hair gel. This suggests he doesn't care about his image and how he looks which is stereotypical of a male.
Also the lack of dialogue and the hiding of the face denies him from expressing emotions which is another male characteristic
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| The female and male cultists |
We then decided we would also represent women in our film and as equals to other males in the cult. Again we used mise on scene to show this and used the masks to cover up their identity as much as we could so they appear the same as the male characters. Unfortunately we didn't think about clothes and so they can be identified. But the masks also hid any showing of female stereotypes.
Finally, we also wanted to represent age. Age was difficult to represent in a piece done by teenagers so in the end we decided we would try show the protagonist being older than the cultists as a way to easy show the protagonists from the antagonists. We did this by giving the protagonist the suit he wears at the beginning which gives him an air of authority and power which is often related to people who are older than ones self. Where as the cultists were just to wear whatever they wanted knowing it would be teenage clothes as they are teenage actors. This obviously shows them as teenagers who are stereotypically seen as yob and trouble makers which helped them to be identified as the antagonists.
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4. Who would be the audience for your media product?
I showed our film to a whole bunch of peopl including my parents, friends, neighbours and friends parents and asked them if they would see a full version of it. Most males said they would, with the majority of them being young age. For women however, less of them said they would see the film but again, those who did were fairly young. See tabel below.
From this we can see the audience for our film would be young and mostly males.
6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
Might want to turn your volume up.
1. We had some problem with our second shot with the doors and continuity which made us think about it in every shot afterwards.
2. Check your surroundings and check your footage otherwise you could get reflections or your camera man showing up in the final video.
3. Effects can really help your product and improve it. Also, i learnt you can get whatever effect you want, it just might take a bit of time to discover or find.
4. The shot in the picture lasted 12 seconds as he walked from the door in the background. I've learnt from this shot and cut up shots a lot more in our final piece (Such as the locker scene at the start)
5. The picture is from the shot after picture 4, where the protagonist’s gun disappears while typing in a code. Our group didn't realise this until we started editing and so when filming our final we checked before shooting for any mistakes and the footage after.
6. This picture is from the start of the next shot where the protagonists stands still for a second before moving in the shot. One second may not sound like a lot but i feel that it completely ruined the flow of the film.
7. Again, plan ahead and check your surroundings. In the back of this lift was a giant mirror which kept revealing our camera and camera man and made filming a nightmare.
8. We had lots of issues with framing in our Preliminary, a prime example shown in picture 8, and so in our final piece we to extra care with framing
Finally, we also wanted to represent age. Age was difficult to represent in a piece done by teenagers so in the end we decided we would try show the protagonist being older than the cultists as a way to easy show the protagonists from the antagonists. We did this by giving the protagonist the suit he wears at the beginning which gives him an air of authority and power which is often related to people who are older than ones self. Where as the cultists were just to wear whatever they wanted knowing it would be teenage clothes as they are teenage actors. This obviously shows them as teenagers who are stereotypically seen as yob and trouble makers which helped them to be identified as the antagonists.
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| Protaganists suit |
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| Antagonists teenage clothes |
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3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
No big company such as Paramount UK would take our film so we would have to get a smaller company to take it. Companies that would be interested would be the local and specialize in thriller genres. It would mean our film would get a few showings at local cinemas but this is a good start for small production like us.
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| Paramount Pictures logo |
One such group that might be interested is Arrow Films. They are a mediocre sized UK based distribution company who, from a look of their list of films, like the horror/thriller genre.
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| Arrow Films logo |
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4. Who would be the audience for your media product?
I showed our film to a whole bunch of peopl including my parents, friends, neighbours and friends parents and asked them if they would see a full version of it. Most males said they would, with the majority of them being young age. For women however, less of them said they would see the film but again, those who did were fairly young. See tabel below.
From this we can see the audience for our film would be young and mostly males.
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5. How did you attract/address your audience?
Any audience we had was mainly based on them seeing our previous work and word of mouth.
Because we're just a small group we don't have a budget for posters and tv commercials. However we did post our previous video on Facebook and Youtube and that got a lot of good response from our friends. They could of then spread the word about our thriller piece and hype it up a bit before it comes out.
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| Our prelim on Youtube |
Also, even though we couldn't get a trailer on t.v and in cinemas we could of still made on and sent it to friends and family to hype our movie up. We also could of released lil teasers of our film to the public on youtube and facebook.
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6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
Might want to turn your volume up.
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7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learned in the progression from it to the full product?
1. We had some problem with our second shot with the doors and continuity which made us think about it in every shot afterwards.
2. Check your surroundings and check your footage otherwise you could get reflections or your camera man showing up in the final video.
3. Effects can really help your product and improve it. Also, i learnt you can get whatever effect you want, it just might take a bit of time to discover or find.
4. The shot in the picture lasted 12 seconds as he walked from the door in the background. I've learnt from this shot and cut up shots a lot more in our final piece (Such as the locker scene at the start)
5. The picture is from the shot after picture 4, where the protagonist’s gun disappears while typing in a code. Our group didn't realise this until we started editing and so when filming our final we checked before shooting for any mistakes and the footage after.
6. This picture is from the start of the next shot where the protagonists stands still for a second before moving in the shot. One second may not sound like a lot but i feel that it completely ruined the flow of the film.
7. Again, plan ahead and check your surroundings. In the back of this lift was a giant mirror which kept revealing our camera and camera man and made filming a nightmare.
8. We had lots of issues with framing in our Preliminary, a prime example shown in picture 8, and so in our final piece we to extra care with framing
9. Finally, thinking carefully about which shots are needed. I felt the shot in picture 9 didn't add a whole lot to the film and just looked cheesy.
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