8) Evaluation: Look back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learned in the progression from it to the full product

I am going to show what we have learnt from the prelim to our final thriller opening . i am going to show the improvements of our group using editing, mis en scene, sound and camera.

This is our prelim as you can see it is not very good. the reason for this is mainly because we did not et enough light into the lens and we had the filter on. 

Here in our final film the other side we see the lighting is much better as we knew there was little light therefore we took the light filter off. and this is a much better piece which we have put together and shows improvement. 

Here is the mis en scene it is very simple not in any way complex and not really effective and quite dull because it doesn't ask question or make the audience feel in any way. 

This however if you see it, it asks question why and who and is it a good and bad thing he is doing and this makes the audience feel worried and unlike the prelim the mis en scene much more thought about in detail and what it can do. 

There is no sound in the prelim just talking and nothing really to build up the tension and make the audience feel at the edge of there seat there were just talking and nothing else. however in our final film we tried to adress this problem in adding sound making it build up to something and keep the audience engaged. with the editing it was not at its best we found it hard to make it good because we didn't really know any of the extra things the programs does to improve your film. On the other hand in our final film we gained greater knowledge of this and tried to apply it which i feel it went well. 

Here is a link to our prelim to you can watch it 

http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=7518030103629856229&postID=5842253943911876980 

Here is a link to our final cut the other side you can watch it and see the improvements. 

http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=7518030103629856229&postID=1803710399366853716 

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7) Evaluation: What have you learned about media technologies

6) Evaluation: Audience feedback and comments

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I Interview more boys because my target audience where mainly young men

Evaluation: 4&5: the kind of media institution might distribute my media product & how will i attract aduience?

Our film is low budget we did not have all the money to buy all the lastest technology and have the world class superstart actors but what we had we used to the best of our ability. we also created our own production company with the help of candi studio. our film will be in cinema april 5th and there are going to be 200 people to watch the opening. also there will be a DVD release of 200 copies given out with our opening on it.  Also i plan to put our opening on Facebook and vimeo to get it out to a even wider audience.  

  Here is a student film called glitch it has  284,290 views. the internet has helped this student to launch a film and get it out there for people to watch on things like youtube, social networking sites and vimeo . when it comes to youtube there are more than a billion people signed up or using it so not just his family and friends and his peers can see the whole world can see what he has done. 

3) Evaluation: Who would be the audience for your media product



Could Be In University 



A young male / female

Wears Designers Like Nike

John, 20, a young male who is about to leave university who shops at places like JD Sports, Footlocker and H&M. He is an aspiring film director who loves to watch films. He travells to the cinema for different type of films to see what he likes best. His favourite genre is thrillers of course.

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

Red Dawn
black man about to get shot

Red Dawn
the black man dies first

Drinking Something something bad

Moments before The character dies

How are these two characters represented 

Similarities: They are both black 

                    They both die first 

                    Both good people but still die 

Differences: Hollywood makes the man die from gun shots to his chest

                    We make him die from drugging him 

                     They both die in different circumstances. 

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

Our Ident(Low Budget College Production)

Professional Ident (A big company)

A Film By Tony Scott
(Taking Of Phelem 123)

A Film by Group 21
(The Other Side)

One Of The Main Characters
(Taking Of Phelem 123)

Another Main Character
(Taking Of Phelem 123)

The Main Character
(The Other Side)

Another Character
(The Other Side)

Then The Name Of The Thriller
(Taking Of Phelem 123)

After Our Names Then Came Our Title
(The Other Side)

Then Came The Name Of The Editor
(Taking Of Phelem 123)

Then Our Editor
(The Other Side)

Then Came The Music By
(Taking Of Phelem 123)

Then Came Our Music
(The Other Side)

The Other Side - FINAL CUT

What Experience Have I Gained

Throughout this project i have gain knowledge of many things such as i know how to editing because at the start i had no clue about what it was now i no how to frame and zoom in or even remove the colour if needed. plus i now know how to film different type of shots with the camera. I know how to important and export video's and convert them. I also helped with the music so i watched Michael do the music and now i can do something on soundtrack and on live type i know how to add the titles and effects or if i wanted to i could take the easier option and do the titles on final cut.

The Last Day

Well, the media room is jam packed everyone is adding the finishing touches to their films and blog. Everyone is trying their best to meet the deadline with everything done. Its 2:05 now so less than an hour till the deadline. All eyes are glued to the screen for the last Hour Rush.

On shoot video production

Bloopers

Screenshots of Editing

Using Final Cut Pro

Shots of the Titles. We added dissolves to make it flow and add suspense

We used man different clips, camera shots, and even images.

We aso added a voice over

The Title

At the start of this project were thinking about names for our thriller and a group member came up with "whats the Latin word for trapped" and it was Deceptus. So we had a name which everyone agreed and liked very much. however when it came to the pitch we had a major set back because the teachers said the title is sounds like the thriller is going to be deceiving people and our thriller is about being trapped with two personalities so we had to wonder and ponder again about what our film is going to be called. And while we were filming it came to a group member that because its like there are two sides to him so what about the other side everyone agreed and the name was okay with the teachers

Soundtrack Screenshots

Our sound track consist of violins fading in and out from each other. 

Also a thrilling music bed that adds action as well aas suspense

This Is the finished soundtrack. There is many fades and cuts. This is an advanced sound track

The Roles

                                                              Editor - Imani

                                                               Actor - Denzel

                                               Music Producer - Michael

                                                        Director - Samarge

The Effect We Want It To Have

Before we started filming our thriller the question came to me, what effect do we want the opening to have on the audience? Well it is a thriller so we want the audience to feel the suspense right from the start. When we watched the documentry it said 'a good opening must make the audience feel like they don't know enough yet, at the same time to make sure that they don't know too little, this is good because if they know too much they wont to watch it and know whats going to happen so it gets boring in only a matter of time'. However if they know too little they will lose interest saying they do not want to watch it no more. This is what we tried to apply during our opening sequence. 

The Countdown To Deadline Date

Well there is 3 days left till the deadline and there is still alot of work to be done. I am a little worried but i think we will be fine, our group will come through.

1. The music still needs to go on final cut
2. The titles needs to be up and in the right places
3. making certain parts of the edit sharper.

Countdown

What Structure Of Thriller Opening Are We Using

We had a think about what structure we were going to use but we were not sure. It has now come nearer to the time when the film is due and we do not have enough time to make a discrete title sequence because that in its self needs time and music and effects and time is not on our side so we decided it was best to do a narrative opening which is the title sequence going through the main part of the film. An example of this type of structure is the shining opening credit.

Title Font Research

We realised that the titles of the film are important because it tells you who did what and some people like to watch a certain directors film furthermore the font or the way it appears on screen we feel is just as important.
The font has to go with what your thriller is about if it does then there is no point of using a nice font or a font to try create some sort of an effect so we did some research.
Our group only use two main sites to find the right font; http://www.dafont.com/ and http://www.1001freefonts.com/

Here are a few example of fonts we may use from both sites.