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

Evaluation Question 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

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

Evaluation Question 5: How did you attract/address your audience?

Evaluation Question 4: Who would be the audience for your media product?

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From the graph at the side, we can see that from ages 16-31 would go view our thriller but not so much those under 15 because this is a thriller that depicts a lot of violence and drug use as well which might not be pleasant thing to show children under age therefore it is completely understandable to receive this result. From the graph we can see that the highest age group that would view our thriller is 16-20 years old and this is mainly because it is relate-able. As we all know that teenagers are put in a very negative light more than any other age group and our thriller shows that negativity as there is drugs, violence and peer pressure involved in this thriller. Those at the ages of 31+ would view our thriller but not so many of them probably because it does not relate to them and their lives but the minority that would watch might watch it because it relates to their children.

Evaluation Question 2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Evaluation Question 3: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

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

If I were to pitch my film to one of the big production companies ( also known as the big six) which is 20th Century Fox, Universal Pictures, Colombia, Warner Brothers, Paramount or Walt Disney they would most likely turn down my idea because as it nor any other film which may have a similar storyline has never been developed, produced and published to the world, and they may face the risk of losing money if it doesn't become successful at the box office and that is simply a risk big production companies can not take. They prefer to play it safe by adapting existing films and creating sequels because if they have been successful, then creating another 3 more would be another chance of gaining success. This is what they done with Fast and Furious, they are continuously making a new Fast and Furious because all the others have been a big success and it generates a lot of profit.

Furthermore if it were to be distributed I think it would be viewed by independent cinemas because to make the opening it didn't cost anything because everything was provided by the school. However if I were to go about making this full version of this film professionally it would probably be a low budget film costing at about £50,000. 

But I distributed it through social media platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and Snapchat because I have a lot of followers on both my Instagram and Snapchat so I knew my followers would enjoy seeing what I have been working on for all this time as I used to keep them updated. And this benefited us because these were ways we promoted our film for free. But as Instagram and Snapchat videos could only be about 10-15 seconds long, showing them a few clips of the interesting scenes I believed interested and intrigueed them into watching the whole thing and this is where YouTube and Facebook was useful because you are able to have a long duration of videos and it can be accessible to everyone and it will be easy for them to share it with their friends and family.

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

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

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

The key convections used in most thrillers are:

• Suspense 
• Tension
• Fast pacing
• Red herrings
• Cliff Hangers
• Action
• McGuffin

A McGuffin is a plot device in the form of some goal or an achievement in the film that the main characters in the film seem to focus on a lot making it seem like their main goal in the movie.

The audience aren't really engaged about what happens in terms of the McGuffin as they are more likely to more intrigued about the characters of the film. In me and my group thriller the plot device is the map in which Lord Healey is trying to recover to restart the human race.

Suspense is used in me and my group thriller film in a number of very effective ways. Suspense is firstly used by the background music which takes place throughout the thriller film, the music gives a sense of adventure., when he is picking items, so the audience is wondering what is he trying to do?The background music is taken from the theme song of award winning PlayStation 4 Game ''The Last Of Us'' the song was made by Gustavo Santaolalla.

Another way suspense was created in our thriller film was the story-line because with each scene passing suspense builds up into revealing if Lord Healey retrieves the map or not.

Also we added many filming techniques to add suspense. Firstly, we used an eyeline match to add suspense, as it puts a question in the audience heads, as they wonder what the protagnist was looking at. Also we used POV shots, to add the thrill into our thriller as it makes the audience feel like their in the protagnist position, making this a very effective shot.  

A cliffhanger is when the film ends in suspense. 
The cliffhanger in our thriller "Road to London" is the audience isn't sure if Lord Healey recovers the human race with the map he found in the end. The film ends with Lord Healey walking in the distance. This leavers the audience with a question in there head, what is going to happen next? 

     Example of a cliff hanger: 

Audience feedback on Thriller

After screening our thriller we received lots of positive feedback and constructive criticism from our audience. Many people felt that the film had an interesting idea that managed to draw them into in and said that they would like to watch the rest of the film. However many people felt that the film needed to be faster paced and have more conventional elements of a thriller. Some people also said they would of liked some dialogue in the film.

Screening

In this, we had to show our thriller to a class, to see if they liked our thriller. we gave them a questionnaire to fill out to see if they liked our film and see if there any way we could improve our film. We got many positive feedback, better than our rough cut, which was a good sign

COMPLETED THRILLER

Audience feedback on rough cut

First Impressions

Good Editing/ Effects, Interesting, Confusing, Professional, Short, Good Camera

  Out of 10? 

Average 5/10

What went well?

Good effects, Music, Camera Work,  Intense, Attention grabbing beginning, 

What Could Be Improved?

Better Production Company, Longer, Need Complete Film.

My media colleague analysed our Rough cut. He said it did not make sense at all. However, his suspense did build up as he wanted to know what was going on. He did find it alright. Therefore we have completed our objectives because we wanted to find out if it was engaging or not. Therefore we all we have to do is tell the story very well in the rest of the part of the film. He said if we do this, our thriller would be a really good thriller.

Editing 2

This was the editing of our second idea of our film. This is our editing of our rough cut and this scene was shot in central park and we had to do different camera angles. We added in different types of screen transitions, to make our film to look professional. Also, added in music which fits into our thriller. Furthermore, we added titles and used a colour corrector to perfect our thriller. 

location sheet

Location Visit Sheet Programme Title: A Bullet for the Preacher Writer: Patrick Producer:  Dennis Director: Stefan, Damola Date: 9/1/17

St. Mary's Parish Church for the establishing shot Inside Robert Clack Hall for Church scene In Robert Clack's Park for chase scene Rough Sketch/Explanation of location and key points to note Access to location via: Name and number of location contact: St. Mary’s Parish Church - Phone: 020 8592 2822 - Address: 191 Valence Wood Rd, Dagenham RM8 3AH Robert Clack Lower School - Address: Green Ln, Dagenham RM8 1AL - Phone: 020 8270 4222

Health and Safety Issues to note:

Potential Filming Problems : Weather (rain, wind) ●      Lighting ●      Pedestrians and animals ●      Students ●      Disruptive sounds

Additional Notes:  (map of area/weather forecast etc)

Analysis of Modern Thriller Opening

Memento


This film has an extremely difficult narrative structure where events are told in 10 minutes segments but backwards. This echoes the confusion that the main character feels as he struggles to remember events. The opening scene was very disturbing because the first thing you will see is the picture of the wall covered with blood and the next you will see you is that the man is shaking the picture and the picture just carries on fading away as the more he is shaking the picture. The background music is very sad as its to show the event which just happened was an accident and someone who was not meant to die died.

Brick


This film opening scene is weird as a little kid is sitting in a sewage pathway looking into the tunnel as if he is waiting for someone to come out. The opening of "Brick" starts with non-diegetic western music, which feels a bit weird. The sound is almost trickled into the film but the transition is a little off putting. This is followed by a pot to a close up of shoes which again is a little bit of an odd way to start, it gives the audience very little information about what is going on and makes the audience question why they are being shown shoes. This then transitions to a close up of a face which then cuts to the view of a tunnel where we can see that the face and the shoes belong to a boy and the boy is crouched looking over at the dead body of a woman. He appears to be quite fascinated by the dead body which is really creepy. This is then emphasized by the western music that is still playing in the background. However the fact that the boy is looking at the woman in this way, and the way that he is positioned on the other side of the tunnel crouched makes the audience curious as to whether he killed this person.

Title Sequences

The production company of Se7en was New line cinema which is owned by Time Warner. The title is presented through a short footage and this was used because its the first thing you will see when you watch the trailer of the movie ning credits of the movie.The title never gave us a clue of the type of movie we was going to watch because that opening title is sued in all Time Warner films in the 90s. The title suits the genre of the film because in the center is a good distinct color of blue and the other colour is black and I think this gives the idea that the film will be a dark story,


The production company of Panic Room was Columbia which is owned by Sony Pictures entertainment. The title is a well recognised ident because Columbia is part of the big six.



The production team of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo was Sony Pictures and in this title opening Sony used their unknown ident as this was the first movie that Sony made.

Audience feedback on three initial ideas

Audience Feedback on 3 initial ideas

I had my media colleague analyse our 3 initial ideas. In the inaugural idea, he said that our idea was bad, but the last bit was confusing. He thought it didnt make sense at all. He gave us very negative feedback, and he did not like it at all. Secondly, in Idea 2, he found it very interesting and unique and made him very engaging in the idea. He also sees potential in our idea. Therefore, we decided to make this our final idea. Finally, he found our idea 3 similar to Idea 1. It was not very good and also confused him. He also gave us negative feedback and suggested that we should not do this idea.

Shooting schedule

Fourth production meeting

Fourth Production Meeting
In my group we decided to form our fourth group production meeting, me and my group decided to film some material to add to the last bits of our short thriller film, so we can expand and edit the thriller film.

Editing is very important in producing a film it can either make or break it due to this my group took a long time in the editing post, as we wanted to almost perfect a outstanding thriller film. 

After editing was completed in post we added our group very unique indent and title sequence at the start of the thriller this was one of the required objectives of this thriller. 

Overall my group was happy with the final output.

This is my groups studio ident.

Third production meeting

In this meeting we discussed the rest of the scenes we were going to film. In this production meeting, we decided to film our rough cut. Everyone did their roles very well, and had a very good output. We edited the rough copy to see how it turns out. We were all happy with the rough copy and decided to carry on with the film.

Final Idea

The idea we chose , which was:

A man wakes up from a dream where he sees a woman dancing in front of couple of colours and us as the audience we think this is his wife and he trying to get to her before it is too late and this is his last memory of her. He is stranded in the forest trying to look for a piece of map which would lead him to London so he is in the forest for a couple of hours searching everywhere for this map and he has to survive