Evaluation; Part 5

How did you attract/address your audience?

Evaluation; Part 4

Who would be the main audience for your media product?

The audience for our thriller would be anyone over the age of 15, as our thriller features violence and possible strong language further on in the film. Young people aged 15 to 20 would be the main age range we would attract to watch our thriller as it is a fast pace revenge story with a femme fatale main character which could be an advantage to attracting a young male audience.
Below I have created a 'wordle' about who the main audience for our thriller would be.

Evaluation; Part 3

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


As our film is a small budget thriller, the likely-hood of a large studio such as The ODEON and Warner Brothers is very slim as our thriller doesn't have a famous actors or a well known director. However a UK based institution, or an Art House exhibition chain such as The Curzon, Everyman or Picture House cinema might pick up our film. Films such as Melancholia and Batman, (one an art house film and one a mainstream) have both distributed their trailers via television and Youtube, before showing trailers in cinemas.

Evaluation; Part 2

Hows does your media product represent particular social groups? (gender, 
age, sexuality, ethnicity etc)

Evaluation; Part 1

evaluation on Prezi

Final Film

Here is our final Thriller opening, called 'Independent Law'.

Blackouts and Gradual Sound

During our thriller opening we used blackouts to create tension and build suspense for the audience. We used one when Shelby walked into the living room and as she switched on the light we made the film black out and combined it with a scream off youtube. 

We also added a further blackout when Shelby went to hit Drilon accompanied with the sound of bone crushing against the wall which we got from a short clip of 'Mr and Mrs' Smith'.

We then gradually faded the music in and faded it out again at certain points for effective use of silence or other sounds.

Gradual sound and a blackout

Blackout

Blackout and scream

Editing

Today we finished editing and reviewed our footage to make sure we hadn't missed anything out. However we had a continuity editing problem. One thing I  noticed was that in one shot, you see Shelby walking over to Drilon from his point of view, but in a later shot shortly after, you see her walking again; making it look like she had walked back on her self. To fix this problem, we cut the second shot so it looks like she am only just coming over to him and it flows much better.

Editing

Today we finished editing and had a look back at all our footage to make sure we hadn't missed anything out or had any continuity editing problems. One thing we did notice was that in one shot, you see Shelby walking over to Drilon from his point of view, but in the a shot shortly afterward, you see Shelby walking again, making it look like she had walked back on myself. To fix this problem, we cut the second shot so it looks like she am only just coming over to him and it flows much better.

Editing

In lesson and any spare time we have, Shelby, Ahmed and I have been adding the final touches to editing our thriller opening. To emphasise the shot of Shelby killing Drilon, we reversed the action and then replayed it the correct way- however after watching it we decided to cut this out. Also to emphasise the sound of the iron pole hitting the floor, we stopped the music just as it was hitting the floor so you can hear the clinking and echos of when it falls. We have also slowed the pace of each shot down to exaggarate the flashback and emphasise the 'normalness' of the shot. 

Analysis of 'Brick' film posters

I found the 2005 film 'Brick' a good example of multiple poster designs. All these designs below feature effective aspects that I would like to incorporate into my own poster design, and that also reflect properties of the thriller genre; some have low level lighting effects, while in a juxtaposition some are bright block colours. The 'colour' of the film 'Brick' is blue as it comes up in many scenes (for example the dead girls bracelets which are featured on poster 2 and his eyes) this is why it's been used in the poster. For my own thriller poster, I think the colour is red, as we have scenes that feature heavily on violence, blood and death- aspects that are usually reflected by the colour red. 

The title is always the largest font used and the font colour always effectively contrasts with the background colour, and is usually used for another piece of text in the poster. These aspects I will incorporate into my own poster. Between Ahmed, Shelby and I, our favourite posters out of the selection below are number 2 and 3.

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