Important Information About Evaluation Posts

This is a post just to inform everybody that all of these posts for all the evaluation questions are collaborated on together by Stefanie Barnes and Millicent Holmes.

Thriller Opening (Evaluation) - Question 7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the main task?

Thriller Opening (Evaluation) - Question 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

We both collaborated on this question, but this was done on Stefanie's account.

Thriller Opening (Evaluation) - Question 5: How did you attract/address your audience?

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We both collaborated on this question, but it is just made through Stefanie's account.

 

 

 



Thriller Opening (Evaluation) - Question 4: Who would be the audience for your media product?

 The audience for our media product is 12 year olds due to the certain aspects to the film. Any younger than the minimum age would be ones likely to view such things as real or may be more jumpy than those of this certain age, and we think those that will still watch this film and enjoy it would be possibly young adults (roughly 25) who would find things to be a little less thrilling than those of the younger age range.

We selected this target audience because they are an audience most people would aim their movies at and that it would be an easier audience to target. We looked into other thriller movies that had that similar age range which helped us to decide on how to make this more appealing to the targeted audience like “Woman in Black” which seems directed at that specific audience.

Thriller Opening (Evaluation) - Question 3: What kind of media institutions might distribute your media product and why?

Final Product

Thriller Opening (Evaluation) - Question 2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Thriller Opening (Evaluation) - Question 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Both member of the group (Millicent Holmes and Stefanie Barnes) collaborated on this post, it was created through Stefanie's account.

Another Update For Our Thriller Film

We have now finally got the rest of our footage for thriller film. Therefore we have now been able to edit all the footage and we will be finished very soon.

Titling Practise

Me and Stef decided to do some titling practise for our opening to our thriller film. I think it turned out quite well, a lot of work went into this effect. I think this effect will link very well with what our film is about. This is because our film includes a lot of uses of technology.

Thriller Opening (Planning): The Risk Assessment and Shooting Schedule

Below is the shooting schedule and the risk assessment we filled out before we started shooting for the thriller opening. They aren't too clear due to the camera we were using but you can still read it at least a little bit.

Audience Research: Interview

We asked someone that would watch thriller films to talk about what he likes about thriller films and more so that we could learn more about what the audience thinks.

Thriller Opening (Research): Research into Audience Views on Thriller Films

This is some footage that I had taken and Stef decided to mess around with it edit it, this was us gathering some information on what people like in thriller films and what sort of elements we should include in our own.

Thriller Film Research: Alfred Hitchcock (Director)

Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, more commonly known as Alfred Hitchcock (or the 'master of suspense') was born 13th August 1899 and sadly died 20th April 1980. Hitchcock broke new ground when it came to filming making, he created many techniques to create new age types of suspense and psychological thriller films.

After a very triumphant career in British cinema in silent and early talking films, he was recognized as England's best director, therefore he decided to go over to America and move into his new home in Hollywood, and finally became a United States citizen in 1935.

Through a career that spanned over half a century, Hitchcock shaped for himself an individual and memorable directorial style. He took a leap forward in the use of camera angles that made a move in a way that mimics a person's gaze, engaging the viewer in a form of voyeurism. Through his use of framing shots, he has morphed the way that directors today make films and not only thriller films but all films.

The way that Hitchcock worked has inspired many new generations of aspiring and famous directors and will do until the end of the film making industry.

   

Thriller Film Research: Steven Spielberg (Director)

Steven Spielberg

Spielberg was born on 18th December 1946, he is most famous for being a thriller film director, but he is also famous for being a screenwriter, producer and a business magnate.
Spielberg is the director for many very famous thriller films these include, Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Jurassic Park and Jaws. Spielberg is always being considered as one of the leading pioneers of the 'New Hollywood' era, as well as being viewed as one of the most popular and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema.
In a career spanning more than four decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and Thriller films are seen as archetypes of modern Hollywood blockbuster filmmaking.

To date, the unadjusted gross of all Spielberg-directed films exceeds $8.5 billion worldwide.

Spielberg is undoubtedly one of the most influential film personalities in the history of film, his first major directorial effort was The Sugarland Express (1974), with Goldie Hawn, a film that marked him as a rising star. It was his next effort, however, that made him an international superstar among directors: Jaws (1975). This classic shark attack tale started the tradition of the summer blockbuster or, at least, he was credited with starting the tradition.
 In 1978, Spielberg produced his first film, the forgettable I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978), and followed that effort with Used Cars (1980), a critically acclaimed, but mostly forgotten, Kurt Russell\\Jack Warden comedy about devious used-car dealers. Spielberg hit gold yet one more time with Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), with Harrison Ford taking the part of Indiana Jones.