Audience Feedback;

This word cloud piece from wordle, shows a few things that people said about our thriller.



Evaluation 7; Looking back at your preliminary task what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the product?

When looking back at our preliminary task then watching our finished thriller beginning, I can see that we have made major improvements. I feel that we have made improvements in all areas of the products.

Sound;

In our preliminary task we had a lot of unwanted sound/noises. For example one of the people in the crowd we used was saying something about what he was doing in this piece, and we did not want any other sound than footsteps, however at this point of the course we did not know all the things that we were able to do on the final cut express program. However in our thriller we knew more about final cut express and its abilities so we were able to get rid of any unwanted sound. Also our thriller seems more professional as it contains a soundtrack.

Continuity;

We have had problems with continuity in both the prelim. task and our thriller. However our preliminary tasks continuity error could have been sorted if we had thought more into it and possibly chose a different clip that we had shot, so it ran more smoothly. However in our thriller it is only a small error where we had to attempt to make the clip we had shorter as it was rather boring when the full lengthed version. But as of her head being in a slightly different position to the end of where it was last cut we were unable to do anything about it.
The following images are the shots which show our continuity errors;

In our preliminary task, although we have used different shots the actress is in different positions.

In Our thriller we used the same shot but when editing her head was in different positions to what we were hoping for.

Shots;

We used many different types of shots in our thriller compared to our preliminary task. Although we used a small range of different shots in our preliminary task we used a larger range of interesting shots in our thriller, such as placing the camera on the floor and allowing our actress to walk over it, or having the actress looking into the camera as if it was her mirror. I think using shots like these makes the thriller seem more interesting as it is creative and gives the audience something a bit more to imagine other than just watching usual midshots, which is what our preliminary task mainly had.

Transitions;

In our preliminary task we had no transitions which shows automatically what we learnt during the time of making our thriller. We included in our film, fades and dissolves which were the main video transitions, we also created a sound bridge linking one clip to another.

Effects;

We used effects on the beginning of our thriller opening to make the imagary seem older than the rest of the film, which is another thing that we had learned as no effects were used in the preliminary exercise. We did this by changing the brightness and contrast of each clip.

Titles and Ident;

In the preliminary task we had no titles and no production company ident. These were used in our thriller opening making it look more professional. We overlayed the titles over the footage which also made it seem as if it was professional.

The following is the two finished products;

Evaluation 6; What have you learnt about the technologies from the processes

When doing this media project I was introduced to many new and different technologies and equipment that I was not used to. 

The technologies I used were;

Still Camera; 

In order to take pictures of our storyboards, to be able to create an animatic.

Video Camera;

To film our thriller beginning and be able to transfer onto the computers and process on Final Cut Express.

Imac Computers; 

Provided us with the services needed to make our film turn out how it did.

Tripod;

helped with the stability of the camera whist filming and the smooth movements of the camera, such as a pan shot.

Mobile Phone; This has been used to take pictures when a still camera has not been near, which can then blutooth the image to the imac computer.

I also used different Computer programs. Such as; Blogger,YouTube, Garageband, Final Cut Express, Livetype, Survey Monkey, One True Media, Wordle Etc. 

  

Blogger has been used to record my progress through the makings of our project and research into the project as you can see. We Used Youtube to show our filmed pieces to whoever wants to view them around the world, such as our film, premliminary exercise and Voxpop. Garageband was used to create a soundtrack for our ident however as there was problems with the computer we were unable to use it. We used Final Cut Express to create our film, including transitions and effects. LiveType was used in order to create our production company ident and title of our film. We used Survey Monkey to make a survey and post on facebook, to recieve information in order to help our research. One True media has been used to show a series of images during my evaluation. Finally wordle has been used to show a series of words in a different format than usual, i have used this druing my evaluation.

Evaluation 5; How did you attract/address your audience?

We attracted our audience in many different ways to watch the rest of our film.  Firstly we used the results from our surveys and Vox pops to create a thriller beginning that fitted the critea shown popular. This helped attract our audience and give them what they are more likely wanting to want to watch.

We also attracted our audience by leaving mystery, and suspence, in many places of our thriller beginning. Such as; who tied her up? where is she tied up? and who is about to come through the door? This leave the audience want to watch more as it is filled with mystery and they want to find out the answers.

We also addressed our audience by using young actors, as our target audience is young adults we thought that the audience may feel that they can relate to the characters/ actors.

Evaluation 4; who would be the audience for you media product?

Previously My partner and I made surveys using survey monkey. After creating these surveys we posted them on facebook to gather information. One of the questions on our surveys was; what age group do you fit into. This is the following results;

As the results show the majority of people are at a young age, between teenage and early twenties. However we also asked what type of thriller they liked. The results are the following;

And as these results show the most liked thriller genre is a psycological thriller, therefore this is why we chose to create a psycological thriller. 

Therefore our aimed audience is young adults who like to watch psycological thrillers. 

Also as earlier shown on my blog we carried out some interviews as a vox pop as part of our audience research, the overall opinions were as follows; 

The audience would watch our film as we have produced it to fit with their age group and the research carried out to find the best results.  

Evaluation 3; What kind of media Institution might distribute your media project and why?

There are many different media institutions which may distribute our film. Below is a montage of different institutions that could do this;

Photo and video editing at www.OneTrueMedia.com

Our film could be seen in different ways. Such as; cinema, dvd/television, and internet. But before people watch it, it needs to be advertised. It can be advertised on things like; Buses, billboards, bus stops, television, before another film at a cinema, banners on internet sites, and interviews of the characters on a chat show.

 

The following image is a poster that we made advertising our film.

Evaluation 2; How Does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our thriller represents a few different sectors of social groups.

Firstly it represents both genders in there sexuality as a couple. It also shows young people, in a slight aspect,such as how they dress casually and for parties. I think that our thriller shows no stereotypes towards the characters, such as a 'stalker/scary hoodie'. We do not have any reference to ethnicity in our beginning of a thriller. Therefore there is no ethnic minority or form of ethnic abuse shown.  

I think that our thriller represents middle class people, as they just seem like normal people that have gone for a walk around the park with their partner.
I feel that our Thriller is suitable for teenagers, above the age of 15 and adults.

Finished Piece!

This is our finished Thriller.