Evaluation 1; In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

We used, developed and challenged the different thriller conventions in different ways. We did that in which to try and make our thriller interesting.

This is a screenshot of a piece of our video. We based this part on another Thriller called 'Harry Brown'. The image above is a screenshot of the clip we were inspired by. This is the subway scene where Harry has tied up a person from the gang that killed his friend to warn the others in the gang what he is capable of. Both of these characters are victims, meaning that they are protaganists of the story.

The Setting of our tied up scenes was set in a dark room, this dark room was a drama room, which provided lights to place spotlight our character and give more of a secluded effect. We also placed many pictures of our character behind her, to give the desired effect of obsession.    

We used music to create tension at the beginning as it was a slow spacious chime sound, making you wonder what is going to happen as it is as if it is a bomb/timer waiting to go off. I think that this could be parallel to the film or contrapuntal, depending on how you look at it and what clip it may be.

We attempted creating some graphic matches, as that was our plan at the beginning as the anamatic of our storyboard shows. However we did not use as many, I feel that the main graphic match that we have is not as good as it possibly could have been as of the transition and the positioning of the character.

when Filming and Editing;

• Getting the camera to move smoothly can be difficult when filming. My Partner Georgia and I have came across this problem a few times. However we are able to get rid of this during the editing stage.
• When trying to make a graphic match, it can be very difficult as you need to get the camera in the same position as the other shot and the object(s) in the same place.
• When filming Georgia and I thought about everything that was going to be in the frame. (mis-en-scene) We made sure that everything fitted with the atmosphere that we wanted to portray.
• when editing we used many types of effects/shots and transitions. We created jump cuts, fades and dissolves. We also created sound effects such as sound bridges and the sound fading.  
• In our thriller we used a sound bridge, to carry the sound from the door opening shot to the main character turning round whilst tied up.
• The following pictures are screenshots of the editing stage, the first image is a shot of our sound bridge. 

Last pieces of filming;

The next bit of Filming we carried out was a party scene, where we filmed the phone of a friend of the main character. This was difficult to film, as we tried to capture what was on the screen of the phone. However the light of the room that we filmed in was reflected on the screen. 

Finally we filmed our last bit of the thriller. We originally did not plan this however looking through our film we thought that the main actress needed something to be looking at. Therefore we filmed a door opening in a dark room.

More filming;

The past two days we have filmed some more of our thriller. Firstly we went to hainault to film our actress walking through the forrest. This was rather difficult to organise as we had to find somewhere that our actress could get changed. This part was also difficult to film and edit as we had to film her crossing the road. This was difficult because we had to make sure she wasn't standing and waiting for too long and that the cars matched in each clip when editing. As it was not possible for her to cross both roads smoothly we created some jump cuts.

Two days later we filmed the actor burning a picture of the actress. This was rather difficult as we only had a few chances to get it right because we only printed off three pictures. The first two times took a while for the picture to set alight as we began to burn it in the corners. After these two tries we felt that we should try burning from the middle of the picture with a lighter and not a match so there is more likely to be a larger flame.  

More Filming;

On monday we carried out some more filming, this was the section of our film when our actress is getting ready for a party. We filmed it at her house so it was more natural for the actress, as she knows where things are and she is used to getting ready there in the comfort of her own home.  

Filming!

Georgia and I carried out our first piece of filming the other day, as we were in school we thought we would use the drama room and its facilities to film a certain scene. In the drama room we were able to use the right lighting to give the edgy effect we wanted. 

We also filmed during the weekend, our beginning part that will be joint with the titles. 

A few days later we went to the chase by central park to film our actor and actress together as a 'couple'. This part of our film is the past before she has been tied up. This wasn't too difficult to film. We ranged with different shots like a panning shot.