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Evaluation - Question 1

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

Our media product- a thriller opening- uses the key elements of a conventions of other more professional and experienced media products. We gained ideas  from a range of films which fall in the category of  supernatural and action, for example; The Grudge, Paranormal activity and Orphan.

The basic elements in a film openings include?

There are many components for a film opening, one of the main and most of the time first portrayed  elements is the production company. Soon after the next element which follow after are cast members and director names ect. the name of the film and the production/distribution company are both very effective to show the audience what the film is called. We showed these conventions by following different types of film openings such as Psycho And grudge.




Here are some of the similarities between our film opening and other thrillers:


                                          The Street

The Stairs

Bathroom

Scary Girl

within our film there were many different elements where we took from other thrillers to put in to ours. overall the use of intertextuality came out quite well as we managed to use some of the scenes very effectively in our opening of a thriller.

Rough Cut Final

Me and my group have uploaded our rough cut final 'TWELVE'. Which turned out to be a really good 

rough copy of our film opening this was according to our schedule, this gives us an advantage which means we are more likely to finish our final film opening on time. 

The footage that me and my group had was superb, however we had a few problems as not all off the footage synchronised properly. On the other hand we managed to film at another to attain more footage for our opening. Using the other footage and by adding some effects the rough cut of our film opening came up to a decent standard. The two days of filming that we had was enough to create a outstanding rough cut. 

Overall we were happy with our rough cut final due to the effort that was put in by my group and also we got positive feedback from our teacher which was really encouraging.

 

FINAL EDITING

This is me and Humawin, when we were editing our rough cut final to out thriller opening. At first it was a bit difficult because we had a lot of editing to do, but then we had got the hang of it and was able to successfully complete the editing of our rough cut final. 

In our rough cut final, we used many elements of editing some of which were match cut and the 180 degree rule. When we were editing we decided were to put those element of editing and it turned out to fall in place quite well.  We also managed to use some transitions such as addictive dissolve, which worked well with the clip too. 

We were also able to put the names of the cast, director and producers. The names were in White and Red, we used the colour White because it connotes the innocence of the male and we have used the colour Red because it represents the colour of death or a supernatural force. 

We were not able to start on the sound as the deadline for the rough cut final was here, however, we did plan what kind of music we would want. We wanted to use non- diegetic sound throughout the whole clip and also use some foley sounds and original sound of what we had filmed. 

Although the editing of the rough cut final was time consuming, it was still great and a good experience.   

Summary of the film TWELVE.

In a quiet suburban town in London, a college student is dared by his friends to call on the evil spirits in the infamous haunted house, which has always been abandoned. At 12 o'clock, midnight, he chants the words of a charm book. The evil spirit of Ann Summers, a infamous and provocative girl who was honour killed by her family at her family home, possesses Olufemi Jones and takes over his body. He then silently but deadly terrorises the town by killing young children and teenagers. Ann Summers gets her revenge on the town for not being sympathetic about her death. His friends try to perform an exorcism on him but we are yet to know if it worked...

Filming Summary - TWELVE.

We had travelled to Hornchurch, Essex in the half term and done filming for our opening for a whole day. As we had booked the equipment out for the half term we were able to do a majority of our filming in one day. It wasn't too difficult as we didn't experience problems that we would have if we was to have filmed outdoors. For example, we did not need to be careful about getting in the way of bystanders as we filmed in a bathroom indoors. A problem that had occurred was to avoid getting members of our group in the mirrors reflection, however we had overcame this by the positioning of our camera.

TWLEVE - Rough Cut

Intertexuality in TWELVE

An intertexuality technique we had used was our choice of location for our thriller opening. We had seen this location be used in 'Psycho (1960)'. As it had received a good reaction from audiences, we had aimed to receive a similar reaction from our audiences by using a bathroom as our location.

Bathroom Scene from TWELVE.

Bathroom Scene from Psycho.

Another technique of intertexuality that we had used was the hair of the 'ghost' in our thriller opening. In 'The Ring, (2002)', the child seen in the video has her hair across her face, we had decided to use this as well for our character to give her a distinguished appearance.

'Ghost' from TWELVE

Child from 'The Ring'

LOCATION; of TWELVE.

LOCATION 1; Hornchurch, Essex.

LOCATION 2; Tania's house, Hackney. 

We used two locations; we were meant to use only one, as we were not going to move our setting. However, after we had come back from Essex we were told to film outside of the house. We could not do this as Essex was very far, so Tania filmed the outside and inside of her house. We used the bathroom because you could see the mirror clearly, which is absolutely vital for our film. It also makes sense in our film to do that. Overall both locations worked well with our film opening and made sense.

CAST; of TWELVE.

Due to the fact that we only had to film the opening of a film, we only needed two actors for it. We needed a victim and the supernatural being. We chose Humawin to be the victim as normally in thriller supernaturals, women are the victims in the movie, so we flipped the gender roles. We also used a male character because it shows that not even the stereotypical view of men will overcome the 'suspense' and horror of this movie. It also makes it even more scary as a man was a victim which means the male audience will get slightly freaked out as well. For the supernatural being, we used Tania; this is because she had long hair. She did her own make up and made sure it looked scary, and made sure her hair was infront of her face at all times. We used intertextuality at this from 'The Ring' as she also had her hair on her face. 

PROPS; for TWELVE.

These are the props we used in out thriller opening. We filmed close-ups of these because they are significant to the film and add suspense to the film. It also hints to the audience what the film might be about. The props we used were candles - which were bought and gotten from home - and a book which was also brought from home. 

FILMING; pictures.

The images shown above were taken whilst filming our thriller opening. We had taken pictures of the props, characters, settings/locations and the camerawork. We had found it difficult whilst filming as our camera did not fit correctly on the tripod we had. Overall, the experience of filming was interesting and a good challenge.

Shoot 2

After receiving feedback from our teachers we had decided to go out and film some more shots that we could use in our opening. We needed to film some establishing shots and close ups of the ‘ghost’ to include in our editing.

As we had originally filmed our opening in Hornchurch, Essex we decided that it would be best for us to do our establishing shots in Hackney as it was a closer location. This was useful to do so because if the establishing shots weren’t good enough, we could easily re-film the shots.

To do the close ups we had used Tania’s bathroom as it was available to film in. This did not affect our opening as the shots only focused on the face of the ‘ghost’.

We had begun filming from 5PM onwards as it had started to get dark around that time. It was essential to film around this time, as the dark lighting for the establishing was needed. Since there was not much filming to be done we had finished by 7PM and returned the equipment the next morning at 9AM as we had it booked for overnight.

Shoot 1

The first day we were shooting, we were filming at the only location we were going to film; Hornchurch, Essex. We planned to do all our filming in one day as we knew our film opening did not need other location shots. We were lucky enough to film all of it in a day as it was a holiday and we all had busy schedules. We planned where we were going to meet up and how we were going to get there by train.

We all met up at college to pick up the equipment needed for filming. We then went to Angel Station, took the northern line to Bank station. From there we took the district line to Hornchurch station. The area in which the house was in was very quiet and it was very unlikely that we were going to be disturbed. One thing which could have went wrong is the time difference; our film opening was set to be filmed at 12 AM at night but we weren’t allowed to film at the location at that time. We were lucky enough that it gets dark quickly so we could pretend that it was actually 12 PM.

There were some problems throughout the course of the filming. One was that we were given the wrong tripod; the camera did fit and secure on to the tripod. This meant that we had to hand hold the camera whilst we were recording and panning. It was quite difficult as we were not sure if we had a steady hand and  we were afraid that it would show in the film. Another problem we had was that the space in the bathroom was very limited and all of us could not fit in there.

We eventually finished all our filming at -- PM and made sure we had double of all recordings so we could see which ones were better than the other. This is important because one shot might lack the power and acting skills than the other. We all agreed that the people who were going to go in to college on Monday 20^th February would take the equipment back to college as it was scheduled to give it back then, at 9 AM. 

Prop Shopping

As a group, we had decided to go prop shopping together to purchase the essential items needed for our thriller opening. A main object that we needed for our thriller was candles. We had chosen to buy white candles as we wanted them to represent innocence for our character whilst he chants as he is also wearing white in opposition to the spirit that later appears who is wearing black.