Final Thriller

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

The purpose of the preliminary task was to get to know the equipment that we would be using in the actual filming of my opening scene this would be the camera, tripod and the editing software (Final Cut Pro X)

Aside from learning how to basically use the equipment given in the preliminary task we learnt what we needed to consider when we are actually filming such as an appropriate setting this can be seen when we tried to film some angles, particularly the angles in the shot reverse shot, they were difficult to film as our characters were placed quite close to the wall so it was hard to actually get the camera to show the whole of both of the characters in the shot reverse. I overcame this by only getting the sections of the characters that we needed in the film so just the head and not a large proportion of the body. In the case that we couldn't fit one character in we decided to film without that characters so it looked like to the audience a Point of View shot. Reflecting back to overcome this we could have moved the characters along to a place where we had a lot of room behind each of them.

This task benefited my group and I for a mixture of many reasons......... 

From this I clearly understood what I needed to achieve before I even considered starting film, like finding particular places for all of the shots I need to be achieved before we started filming so they looked as professional as possible, with lots of space behind so the angles are  not hard to film, also we need to take into consideration zooming in on subjects for impact on the audience as out shots are quite wide and expose a mass amount of the background in the setting, this can be seen in all of the screenshots in the blog. Other skills that I took were how to successfully operate the camera and tripod maintain a steady shot at all given times, in addition I also took a basic understand that I have already mentioned of using the editing software as we were able to successfully import, place in order, crop and export the preliminary task footage. All together this provided a platform at which we could go and film then edit the footage once I had collectively decided on a narrative of my opening scene from the result I would gather from the research and questionnaires. 

       

  

Question 6 - What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constucting the product?

Question 5 - How did you attract/address your audience?

Question 4 - Who would be your audience for your media product?

Question 3 -What kind of media institution might distribute your media and why?

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

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

There are only two characters in my opening scene these being a small blonde female girl and a teenager.

My group and I decided to include the small blonde female as she was a conventional character to the thriller genre but also because she is a strongly relatable character for my target audience as they will have mostly a younger brother or sister that can be related to through the use of this character. The target audience will feel the duty of care for that character so  will create a stronger bond, this because at first this character is portrayed as weak and vulnerable due to the particular camera angles used also this will be further portrayed by the costume of this character.

This is why I have included the other character of the teenager. The teenager has a representation of the typical person that would be seen in a thriller film which is around the age of my target audience. They will see this character as a threat to the child at first because he is male, older and more educated than the girl. This is why the audience will have a weaker bond with this character as they will see him as a threat to that girl.

I also included them as they audience can relate to them both in a fashion and can because the audience can easy be manipulated into thinking that the character is a victim then a killer as both roles are easy to achieve through a carefully plot narrative and good use of camera angles which I think we have achieved.

I think gender is presented in a stereotypical way through the opening scene through the characters and the conventions of a thriller genre it is hard to not do this. Blonde Females are always portrayed as victims and weak, while the male teenager is portrayed as dominant as and awfully more powerful than the girl. But by reversing the roles it makes the scene also un-stereotypical as the for when the roles are reversed then the dominants of the female changes dramatically as she been portrayed as weak then see becomes extremely powerful when it is apparent to the audience that the male actually the weakest of the two.

The clothing worn by both of the character is one that is stereotypical of both of the characters gender and both age. The young blonde female killer is wearing clothes that resemble a female, a nightie worn by also that particular age group upwards, while the victim a teenager is wearing causal clothes jeans, trainers and a coat which is the expected attire of all teenage males. The only thing that I would consider as not conventional is the clothes worn by the female in this particular setting as it is considered as indoor night wear not outdoor clothing. I specifically used this because it is meant to resemble the idea of mental illness issues as the clothing is slightly different to the norm expected in the setting.