FINAL THRILLER OPENING

Evaluation Q5: How did you attract/address your audience?

Mise en scene & Location
In terms of mise en scene,  the film appeals  to the audience in various ways.  This is because there are  two different locations in the film opening, therefore having more than one location keeps the audience interested in  the film because they will be entreated to know what is going to happen next.

The various props seen within the photos above, appeals to the taste buds of the audience because most of the props in the film give out negative connotation. For example, the blood seen, connotes death and evil. However contrasting with all the negative connotations of some of the props, there are some positive connotations of some of the props, for example: The teddy bear, which connotes innocence, children and love. Both negative and positive connotations of the props in the film are seen throughout the film to foreshadow all the things to come later in the film.

Actor 
The actor in our film is a child. This is very appealing to our audience as it makes them interested on what the child will be doing throughout the film. The fact that she is seen to be innocent in the beginning of the film makes the audience see her in a positive way however as the film progresses the evil faces she makes and the colours associated with her makes the audience aware that this child, the main character is not innocent at all.

Storyline
The storyline of Amy is very attractive to the audience as it is about a child which automatically becomes appealing because this goes against the stereotypical view of children, so the audience will be shocked about the fact that the storyline went against this. The audience would be very interested in her mental illness as it is very rare for a girl of her age to suffer from a mental illness like this, so her story of how she got it will be interesting to the audience.

Genre
The Genre which is a Psychological thriller with Horror elements is attractive because thrillers are one of the best selling films compared to Suspense. Therefore this will attract our audience because usually thriller films have a good outcome in terms of how many people enjoyed watching the film.

Sound
The sounds in the film was very attractive to the audience because it was a ghostly voice of a child singing and speaking. This was effective because it reflected the voices of the mental illness (skitzophenia) which makes the audience feel quite frightened about what is going to happen. This help to bring in the horror element within the film.

Film Name
The film was called "Amy" because Amy means beloved therefore giving positive connotations of innocence. This is why it was a perfect decision to call our film this because the character in our film is the complete opposite of what the name Amy connotes. This is appealing to the audience because by hearing the name of the film, the audience may think that she is the victim in the film when really she is the bad person in the film.

Production Company
The production company candi studios is appealing to our audience because candi studios is a small production company which has produced films of the same genre before so this will allow the audience to expect the best.

Rough Cut FeedBack
The feedback that we got from our teacher helped us in terms of how to appeal to the audience because he told us that he was very impressed. However, he said that our film was too disturbing to be a just a psychological thriller, therefore he said that it has horror elements in it.

How we have reached our audience so far
So far, we have reach our audience in various ways. We posted our film on facebook, vimeo and has been shown in the cinema. Soon our film will have DVD release so this will be good because our audience will have their own copy of the film.

Evaluation Q2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Representation is: the way groups or individuals are presented in the media. Usually groups or individuals have stereotypical images attached to them, which affect our views of the following:

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Evaluation Q3: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

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Evaluation Q7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Q6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Evaluation: Question1

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? on Prezi


My Group has tried in all ways to follow both: Film opening conventions and title sequences conventions in our film.

Here is the our production company Logo compared to a real company logo compared to Orphan:

In our film we did not manage to use a different distribution company we used the same one as they would be the same one to distribute it. Unlike the huge Hollywood company that would need a different distribution company because they would a lot of money to distribute it.
Here it is compared to Orphan:

Here is our title sequences compared to the title sequence of seven:

In all ways we tried our best to follow the conventions of title sequences. In our film we introduced intertexuality for example: by making our title sequence very similar to the title sequence of Seven. Within our title sequence we also included the key production and cast member names.

In terms of Visuals and sound, we also followed the rule of 3 and the 180 degree rule to its full extent. We managed to follow and copy some of the scenes found in Seven ( in terms of Visuals) however in term of sound we used the same type of music that would be found in the films Chucky and Orphan as both films are to do with children.

The tone and mood of my film was established through sound, camera, editing and mise en scene.

In terms of camera; we tried our best to get the same angle shots as seen in orphan. Here are the comparisons from our film to Orphan:

In terms of editing; we were inspired by the film Seven to give the right psychological thriller mood. We use the same overlapping effect:

In terms of Mise en Scene, we was inspired by both Orphan and Seven as we took scenes from the playground in Orphan but used the random things to do with the film concept from Seven.

Evaluation-Q4: Who would be the audience for your media product?

FINISHED!!!!!

It feels so good to be DONE!!! We are so proud of ourselves with everything that we have done, hope we get the grade we deserve!! =]

A quick film we made talking about our finished opening.

FINAL VERSION!!!!!!!!

Editing sound

This just a screen shot of the editing we had to do to the final edited opening with the sound. It took a bit more time but we eventually got through that little phase and managed to get the sounds all at the right place.

180 Degree rule

Definition: A rule that two characters should always have the same left and the same right relationship to each other.

When a camera crosses the axis, connecting to the two characters is called crossing the line. The new shot is called a reverse angle.

Rule of 3

Throughout filming we tried our best to stick to the RULE OF Three.



The rule of thirds is a idea in video and film production in which the frame is "mentally" divided into into nine sections. This acts as guides for framing the image or object whilst filming.
The lines should be 1/3 or 2/3 of the way up or across the frame, than it being in the centre. This rule is not always necessary but it should be understood fully before it is broken.

When filming people, the main line goes through the eyes. (Like the above picture) In this shot, the eyes are placed approximately 1/3 of the way down the frame. however, depending on the type of shot, gettinga shot like this is not always possible.

Change of title AGAIN

Once again we have had to change our title due to the fact our teachers don't highly approve of it. This however has made us pick a simple title which we all consider as nice to fit to our film. It is called 'Amy'.
After hearing the criticism, Mickey advised us that our title sequence should also be a bit longer, he thought it was too short.

Concerns from the rough cut sample

Having showed three of our teachers the rough cut of our film opening, their opinions have varied mainly positive. However there are some concerns such as the length of the film, the genre and the title change.

Time length:
Dan and Usman have both considered our film as short but can be worked with when adding title sequences by extending them. Right now our film is 1min 20 seconds and it is required to be maximum 2 minutes so we have a lot of spare time to use. Whereas Mary agrees with us that we definitely need to go out and film more footage because we have a great film opening but it is just too short. Hence we have decide to film Tuesday morning, tomorrow.

Genre:
Again our genre is meant to be a psychological thriller however our teachers, having watching our rough cut have said that it is becoming a bit out of context of a psychological and looks/has more horror elements making them consider our genre as maybe being a horror thriller. However we have explained our storyline to Mary - which is focused on the girl's disturb and her journey through the mental illness - and she has seen that it can be then said to be a psychological thriller, with some elements of Horror, and so we can stay with this initial genre.

Title Change:
We as a group have decide that we feel to change our title. At first it was called 'Shanelle' but due to changes of the girl and putting the actual name to what we have edited it just did not fit. So we decided it was for the best to change it. Asking Mary for her opinion on this we finally came up with a new name called 'Untarnished'.

Our film New Title: UNTARNISHED

We have decided to rename our film and call it:

 UNTARNISHED


Untarnished means not tarnished or discoloured not tainted or spoiled.
We decided to give this our film name because our main character in the film is seen to be guilty in reality but she just has her own perception of reality therefore making her guilty in the eyes of others.

The title of our film has two meanings:
1) Her actions are out of her control which means she is untarnished
2) However because she does not know what she is doing therefore makes her the opposite of our title.

Editing- Title sequence

Today's lesson, Mary told us about using the 'title safe'. This guarantees that no matter what kind of screen our film is played on the titles will not be cut off as long as it is within the first rectangle. This was actually a good thing that she told us this because when we put it on some of our title sequences were out of this rectangle box so we had to quickly change this.

More Rough cut feedback

We have had the feedback and we will take on the criticisms.

Interviews asking about what we did

Here we interviewed each other about what we did to contribute to help our film opening.

Working in Lesson

This is us working during lesson. We all do different things during the lesson.

Angeline usually does the editing of the music and blogging.

Anaya usually helps us with the group blogs and with editing.

Rachelle usually does the group blogging and helps editing.

Fabiolla usually does the editing.