Monday 6 May 2013
Wednesday 1 May 2013
Heeral Patel – Evaluation: Question 7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?
We have developed our skills
from our preliminary on how to film and use editing; there were few shots that
we had to retake as we didn’t use many transitions or different types of camera
angle. In our preliminary task there were few shots we didn’t pay attention for
example: we didn’t see the surrounding around our character, some of the shots
were out of focus which ruined some of our shots.
During this process we
learnt to improve not to use long shot because they end up losing audience’s
attention. How to flow from one shot to another: using match on action gives a
sense of continuity for this reason we decided to use this technique in our
opening sequence. When Maya gets out of
bed and she is straight in the bathroom I think this was very effective and
done well as this fits in well with the thriller theme of sudden changes
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| shadow image |
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| similar photo |
This shot of the left is very effective because we have let the
natural light from the window to create a shadow, also that I am dressed in
black n the wall on the left and right side of me where black so the lighting
from the background was a sign of hope if it was a thriller. This creates a
silhouette mysterious figure behind the camera.
The shot on the right shows that we had a very good lining on the
floor where I was walking pass , having shot this accurate highlights the
action happening in the scene which the audience can take in account.
From this I have learnt that the image in the camera screen should always be in
line/ straight for it to look accurate and professional done.The shot of Maya reading the paper is well composed as the newspaper is in the centre where it get the highest attention and Maya is in the ¼ of the scene.
Another shot that I thought was done accurately using composition
skills: was when Maya is in bed and the alarm is in front on the side
table to focus on the alarm clock we used the function the camera to blur
Maya’s face.
Heeral Patel - Evaluation Question6 :what have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
http://prezi.com/zjryhlwrugba/untitled-prezi/?kw=view-zjryhlwrugba&rc=ref-39533929
Heeral Patel – Evaluation: Question5: how did you attract/ address your audience?
By
using suitable props and shots we were able to make communication with the
audience and get them to engage with our theme. As the 15+ is a for young adult
who may not be familiar with the concepts of a thriller therefore we used less
complicated visions such as the language itself or some disturbing scene.
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| 15+classification |
As we were making a film of 15+ we had to
check the classification for this we used the website: http://www.bbfc.co.uk/what-classification/15 where we got the information on what
and how much to include in our opening which is appropriate for that age group
, therefore there was no use of sex scene, swearing or discriminatory language .
The use of sound which was
made on imac, it was done using piano and had drums and guitar playing within it,
this created a mysterious environment. This soundtrack was played toward the
opening s we had no dialogues this make the atmosphere creepy and built up
tension of what will come next.
We didn’t challenge the
camera shots or editing as we didn’t want to make any scenes of ours
complicated, our setting that we have used for AS media is a house which makes
it all realistic, the use of dark scenes such as the bed scene, this shot to be
done in school would be very difficult as we have to be careful managing the
lighting. To represent our theme we had good use of mice en scene such as pill
box, white colour, doctor’s note , these things would appeal to the audience .
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| The white paper |
Due
to the questionnaire that we had done for our audience research gave us imminent
into the popular thriller themes which are used within the thrillers that are preferred.
By using an white British blonde girl in
our product which the audience could easily identify as being the main character
but yet feel sympathy towards her due to her abnormal disorder. By having no
such script in our opening made our character seem helpless and this is how we were
able to address the audience and grab their attention by making them feel a
part of it. The piano in the soundtrack had a echoing effect which created an peculiar
atmosphere, this made it recognizable by the audience as they would know the approaching
threat in the film.
Heeral Patel – Evaluation: Question4: Who would be the audience for your media product?
For our audience research we asked questions to a
certain age group of 15 to 60 years olds who would prefer a thriller films,
doing a questionnaire or any other method we can find out what the audience
best prefer to watch when choosing thriller films. By doing audience research
we are able to gather information which can help us add convention that the
audiences are most willing to see and they can relate with.
Using Microsoft excel we made our data bar chart which represented the results we gained from our questionnaires.
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| The majority of we asked didn't know the difference between thriller and horror. |
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| The majority of people we asked were from aged 16-18 giving us a clear view on what this age group would prefer |
16 to 18 was the highest percentage of young
pupil that enjoyed thriller therefore we decided to go with an age group of
15+.
Heeral Patel – Evaluation: Question3 What kind of media intuition might distribute your media product and why?
Production Company
A production company is
responsible for fundraising; it deals with scheduling, scripting and signing
artists.
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Columbia picture would
be a reasonable media institution company that would distribute our product;
this picture is owned by a mainstream company ‘Sony’ which is appropriate as we
have produced a mainstream opening.
Heeral Patel – evaluation: question 2 how does your media product represent particular social groups?
Young blonde girls are often stereotyped as making little use of
their intelligence. Similarly in our opening we have a middle class girl who is
emotional unstable, weak girl who gets disturbed by the bizarre situations
occurring with her.
This idea is linked back to the film ‘the hand that rocks a
cradle’. Where the woman is emotional broken down after finding out her husband’s
affairs therefore loses her child due to stress.
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| The 1992 thriller film' the hand that rocks the cradles staring Peyton Flanders |
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| Maya Dolman Bowles |
From our questionnaire
we asked many of our volunteer what class they belonged to?Most were
lower/middle class so for that reason we choose a character who’s an
ordinary British girl who seems closed and vulnerable.
- Peyton Flanders takes on a job of a nanny in order to destroy a woman’s happiness by stealing her family.
- She takes on this role as she can’t bare the trauma of miscarriage and her husband’s affair.
- Audience's make stereotypical views on blonde female social groups are as being less intelligent.
- Her appearance is very much similar to our character as they are both young attractive women who are mental disturbed yet unnoticeable.
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