Final thriller

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Question 3 What kind of Institution might distributed your media product and why?

An independent company would distribute our film because it wouldn't cost as much to distribute the film but also because if this film is a fail in the box office it would not affect the independent company that much as it would not cost that much in the first place. but with bigger named films if they fail they would affect the independent company a lot and could cause the company to go bankrupt.



This is an example of a company that would likely distribute our film

But on the other hand major companies like Disney, paramount or universal if a big budget film failed at the box office it wouldn't affect the company that much as they have made so much money from the other movies they have produced. The reason why major companies would not distribute our film is because they wouldn't see much of a profit in the film.

However television wise I think Film 4 would distribute our film because film 4 show many popular movies like iron man but also many small movies like Dreams of a life. Also film 4 often help young inspiring directors by giving them a budget and dead line to make a movie these budgets aren't huge like the budget for Iron man or Avatar. Some of the minor films are made very quickly like Shifty was made in 18 days. This is why I think film 4 would distribute our film because film 4 support minor films   and distribute them which makes them more popular.

To get an audience for our film we could release different types of trailers on youtube for the different age groups like for the younger generation release an action packed trailer with lots of different shots and the tension building at the end of the trailer so they will want to go and watch it. But for older people have a trailer showing a bit more of what the story is about but also build the tension up slowly so by the end of the trailer they would want to go and watch this film. However the people who made shifty decided to get an audience for shifty they were going to use other ways. They sent an email to people as if they were characters from the film with a link to a website which took them to the shifty website. They also gave out  business cards with a website link at the bottom that took the person to the shifty website.        

Question 4

We used survey monkey to find out what sort of people would be interested in our film and we found out that age wise it was more suited for people between the ages of 17 to 32 because the majority of the people who took our survey were between these ages. Also from our survey monkey our film would be more directed at males than females double the amount of males took the survey than females. Finally our film would be directed more at the working class people because it shows the stereotypes that there is against the working class people. But it could also be directed at middle and upper class people because there could be the stereotypes against them and it would motivate all classes to prove that these stereotypes are wrong. Furthermore the films intro has hitmen fighting over a USB but they clearly work for someone higher up.

Someone would want to continue to watch our film because although there is a lot going on in the intro the audience only know that they are fighting over a USB but don't know what is on the USB or who these people are fighting over the USB. Also our film might not be in linear narrative because the intro could be the middle of the film and the next part could show the audience the events leading up to this fight over the USB and the affects it had after the fight. Also our film has some mystery to it because no one knows who the person is who saved the innocent person or if he killed or saved the innocent person. Also in our survey we asked people what their favourite genre of film was and the most common one was crime and our thriller is a crime thriller so i think that the majority of the people who like crime films will like our film becuase it has aspects of the crime film in there like mystery.

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In our audience feedback we asked ten different people what they fought of our final thriller. We asked 5 teens and 5 older people what they thought of our film and we found out that the younger people thought our film looked good as there was a lot of action in the opening and the older people thought our film opening was okay but had too much going on in the opening. This shows us that our film is more for young people becuase they seemed to like the film more than the older people. Our film was directed

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Our thriller attracts and keeps the audience by opening the film with fast paced action to grip the audience to see what happens next. also at the end of the intro an hitman kills the other hitman trying to kill an innocent person but all the audience can see is the rock being thrown down where the innocent and hitman was and then it cuts to the hitman dumping something in the lake and slowly walking away but the audience don't know if the hitman killed or saved the innocent and that would grip the reader as the would think the hitman killed him.

Also there is the USB the mcguffin which the audience don't care about and would leave the audience wondering why go through so much trouble for a USB and then wanting to find out what is on it. Also we tried  to keep the audiences attention by having suspense music building up the tension as both groups tired to get their hands on the USB. In our film there is no much non diegetic sound and that is because we didn't feel that it improved the film it was very windy when we were filming so much of non diegetic sound was destroyed by the wind.

In addition our thrillers story is deep and very interesting and there are twists and mytery in our film as the film progresses. The area where we filmed our opening of our film gave the impression that we wanted as it is a quiet area which is where the murder takes place.  

 

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Question 7

Our final piece has no relation to our preliminary task because we didn’t realise that it would be linked to our final piece.

Camera

In our preliminary task we used a simple camera to get used to all of the camera techniques, which made the quality of our poorer than our final piece. In our preliminary task we used shot reverse shot to show the conversation of the 2 people. But in our final thriller we didn’t use shot reverse shot because there was no conversation in our final piece and it wouldn’t have fitted into our final piece.

Editing

In our preliminary task we used final cut express and for our final piece we used adobe premiere. Our group preferred adobe because we found it easier to use and to find and use different tools like the effects as we didn’t know where to find them on final cut express. You can see a big difference in the editing from the preliminary task to the final piece as we used dissolves and it was edited smoothly.   

Here are some examples of how our preliminary is different to our final piece:

In our preliminary task we had a deal that didn't have any problems.

But in our final piece we had a deal that went bad.













Also in our preliminary task we didn't put in any title sequences or dissolves to improve the edits so it jumped from shot to shot. But in our final thriller we used dissolves to show passing of time and to make it so it doesn't jump from shot to shot.

 

Mise-en-scene

Mise-en-scene is french for screen/frame and things that are included in the mise-en-scene are settings, costumes, props, lighting, colour, appearance of characters and the postioning of characters and objects.

Here are some examples of mise-en-scene.
  This is an image of someone getting angry and a close up is used.

This is an image of someone who is confused.

This is an image of a deserted house and is often used in horror movies. Nearly every horror movie will have a haunted house or a dark gloomy place where the characters are stuck and in these places.

This is an image of a villian and the appearance of the character shows the audience that he is the villian in the movies because of the face paint and costume.

 

 

Lighting

Background lighting is lighting used to light the background area of the set to show the audience what the what the setting looks like. Also it provides a separation between the main subject and the background.

Cameo lighting is lighting used to emphasis someone or something by having the light only on them. Spotlights are commonly used for this.

Fill light is lighting used to make sure there is no shadow in the shot. Often they use a 3 point lighting so the lights are placed all around the set to make sure there is no shadow.

High key lighting is used to reduce the lighting ratio of the shot. This is used to minimize the shadow in the shot but not completely.

Low key lighting is used to reduce light in a shot. This is so the audience can just make out the image of a person or object or so the audience knows that someone is there but can't make out who it is. Is also known as chiaroscuro.

Under light is when the light source comes from below the character or object and often is used in thrillers and horrors.

Top lighting is when the source of light comes from above the character.

Key light is the most commonly used lighting technique. The main purpose of key light is to highlight the character from the set.    

Sound

There are different ways that sound is used in films.

Diegetic sound is also known as actual sound which is sound that the character and audience can hear. E.g. dog barking or cars going by. Non-diegetic also known as commentary sound which is sound that the audience can hear but the characters cannot for example music is often non diegetic sound, sound effects and the narrator's commentary.

On screen sound is when the audience can see the source of the sound on screen. Off screen sound is when the audience cannot see the source of the sound. Parallel sound is when the sound matches the action. Contrapuntal sound is sound that doesn't fit the action that is on screen. Finally a sound bridge is when sound has a smooth transition between shots so if in one shot their are people talking quietly and the next shot is 2 people shouting at each other there has to be a smooth transition between the 2 shots otherwise it will affect the shot. and a sound bridge is known to bridge the gap between both shots this is why it is called a sound bridge.

Cinematography

An close up is a shot of someones face or object.


An medium shot is a shot is when you can see the head and shoulders of a person.

An long shot is a shot where you can see the whole picture like a shot of the landscape.

An low angle shot is to show that the character is strong and powerful.


Ann high angle shot is to show that the character is weak and powerless.

An extreme close up to show fear or add drama to the shot as it is a extreme close up of a persons eyes or of a object.

A point of view is a shot to show what the character is seeing.
  

The other camera shots are tilt, tracking, crane, pan, steady-cam, and rolling shot.

The tilt shot is used to reveal a character or to show the size of a building or object.
The tracking shot is used to follow the action of a scene used when there is fast paced action such as a person running. The tracking shot is used to keep up with the action but not look like a POV.
The crane shot is a shot from above to give an overview of the area and is often used to show where the character is.
The pan shot is used to show where the person is going. It is on a fixed position and and moves across and is often used to show a chase scene.
The steady cam is also used in chases as when the cameraman follows one if the characters the camera will not move so the shot will stay steady.
The rolling shot is used to show when the character is thinking about something or has  realized that they have made the wrong decision.