Matt, Paul and Luke all agreed that the intimacy between the characters in the sequence we had come up with, was most likely to be unachievable because of the age of the teenage actors and the relationship they were going to be having with the adult actors i.e our teachers. Matt, Paul and Luke also said that the idea we had come up with wasn't strong enough to create a good thriller and it wouldn't be exciting for the audience to watch.Monday, 8 December 2014
MEETING WITH THE MEDIA DEPARTMENT
Today we had a meeting with the head of media department; about our opening thriller sequence. My group and myself explained the idea we had to them and they gave us feedback.
Matt, Paul and Luke all agreed that the intimacy between the characters in the sequence we had come up with, was most likely to be unachievable because of the age of the teenage actors and the relationship they were going to be having with the adult actors i.e our teachers. Matt, Paul and Luke also said that the idea we had come up with wasn't strong enough to create a good thriller and it wouldn't be exciting for the audience to watch.
Matt, Paul and Luke all agreed that the intimacy between the characters in the sequence we had come up with, was most likely to be unachievable because of the age of the teenage actors and the relationship they were going to be having with the adult actors i.e our teachers. Matt, Paul and Luke also said that the idea we had come up with wasn't strong enough to create a good thriller and it wouldn't be exciting for the audience to watch.
Sunday, 7 December 2014
Tuesday, 2 December 2014
MOOD-BOARD
To help improve our idea of the opening sequence we created a Mood-board with things that we wanted to see in the sequence; for example we kept our original ideas of the three girls, the knives, the alley way and the man but we added more things which gave us more ideas to improve the sequence.
REVIEW OF TEST SHOOT
For our first test shoot we filmed our original idea of our opening sequence to see if it worked and created enough tension to be a Thriller. When filming our test shoot we used substitutions instead of the actual props as we just wanted to get a rough idea of what it would looke like visually; for example we used pens instead of knives and we changed the location to a basement instead of a alley way as we were not allowed to leave the college premises.
Throughout the test shoot we tried many different ways of filming the sequence; using different camera angles and movements to create different effects. For example we used a high angled shot when filming the man on the floor to make him look weak and an establishing shot at the beginning of the sequence to set the scene and the atmosphere.
As a group we all found from doing the test shoot it was very useful to us as it gave us all a clear idea of what the sequence will actually look like once it is properly filmed and edited. From doing the test shoot we found that the idea worked and the the use of camera angle shots we used worked to portray what we wanted the audience to see.
However from doing the test shoot we found the sequence needed to be a lot longer and a lot more interesting for the audience; to really grab their attention.
Now we have done the test shoot and wrote down our ideas to improve it we are going to create a different storyboard and film another test shoot with the improvements made.
To improve our opening sequence we have the following ideas; add more tension, make it more interesting to both females and males and make it a lot longer.
Throughout the test shoot we tried many different ways of filming the sequence; using different camera angles and movements to create different effects. For example we used a high angled shot when filming the man on the floor to make him look weak and an establishing shot at the beginning of the sequence to set the scene and the atmosphere.
As a group we all found from doing the test shoot it was very useful to us as it gave us all a clear idea of what the sequence will actually look like once it is properly filmed and edited. From doing the test shoot we found that the idea worked and the the use of camera angle shots we used worked to portray what we wanted the audience to see.
However from doing the test shoot we found the sequence needed to be a lot longer and a lot more interesting for the audience; to really grab their attention.
Now we have done the test shoot and wrote down our ideas to improve it we are going to create a different storyboard and film another test shoot with the improvements made.
To improve our opening sequence we have the following ideas; add more tension, make it more interesting to both females and males and make it a lot longer.
Monday, 1 December 2014
Sunday, 30 November 2014
GENRE, AUDIENCE AND INSTITUTION
Genre is a relevant concept for audiences, as we as the audience go by the genre of the film when choosing which film to watch.
Genre is important to film production companies because they need to know what to include in their films in order to make it a particular genre. Film companies will need to consider the conventions that they want to include to show what genre it is and they will need to consider who the film Is targeted at and what they can include in the film to interest there target audience even more.
Genre is also useful for film distribution companies, for example: advertising and marketing companies as they are able to use the conventions of the certain genre in order to make it immediately recognisable to the target audience, therefore drawing the target audience to the media text. For example, creating a poster that doesn’t give a lot away but intrigues the viewer and makes them want to watch it.
Thursday, 27 November 2014
SUB GENRES
Although the thriller genre is extremely varied compared to other genres, within the thriller genre there are several sub genres which means that within the films there is a high degree of similarity.
Below are three different film posters for sub-genre films, however they all use the same conventions in order to create these texts. ( Nightcrawler, Sin City: A Dame to kill for & The November Man - all Crime Thrillers )
Through the use of Mise en scene we can clearly see what type of genre this film is most likely to be. The lighting in this picture is very dark which contrasts with the title font which is very bright. The man is standing on his own makes him look independent which connotes the idea that he may be the main character.
This poster is also very dark like the Nightcrawler. However from the poster the audience see a lot more characters than they do in the one above. Both of these posters use the colours black and red which connotes an evil and death theme again very similar to the NightCrawler.
This poster again uses the colours red and black connoting evil and death. Similar to the first poster we only see one character again telling the audience that this man is clearly independent and may be the main character.
Through the use of Mise en scene we can clearly see what type of genre this film is most likely to be. The lighting in this picture is very dark which contrasts with the title font which is very bright. The man is standing on his own makes him look independent which connotes the idea that he may be the main character. This poster is also very dark like the Nightcrawler. However from the poster the audience see a lot more characters than they do in the one above. Both of these posters use the colours black and red which connotes an evil and death theme again very similar to the NightCrawler.
This poster again uses the colours red and black connoting evil and death. Similar to the first poster we only see one character again telling the audience that this man is clearly independent and may be the main character.
From looking at these three posters we as the audience can see that although they are different films they all use the same conventions in order to portray there sub - genre. All of these film posters use the colours black and red and they all have dark use of lighting which suggests an unpleasant tone to the audience.
THRILLER SUB GENRES
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