As earlier stated, our target audience was people aged between 16-20 and of both genders. I believe we have successfully appealled to our target audience through using several different techniques.
Firstly, the soundtrack to the beginnning of our Thriller opening is a modern upbeat track that most people of the mentioned age to could relate to listening to; by using a song that our target audience can associate with it automatically draws in thier attention.
Secondly, we also added a large amount of suspense to our Thriller opening, drawing a younger audience who get more excited at Thriller films containing a lot of tension (see target audience questionnaires)
We also used actors of around that age group, yet again giving the audience something to associate with, as if putting them in the shoes of the character more easily and drawing them in quicker.
Lastly, our Thriller opening contained no extreme violence, only mild nudity, no sexual references or bad language, and no horror scenes of which may disturb a young audience. By keeping these above topics to a mild degree, we make the Thriller viewable to a younger audience.
Also, due to the fact the protagonist was male, and no other females seemed to feature within our thriller opening, we kept the villain masked, therefore suggesting it could be female, and maybe then drawing in a female audience also.
Saturday, 25 February 2012
Friday, 24 February 2012
Thursday, 23 February 2012
Monday, 20 February 2012
How does your Thriller opening challenge conventions and forms of real media products? [1]
From our thriller we have noted that there are certain aspects that we have added that differentiates us from regular thrillers produced, for example;
-From the rest of the villain's costume we see that he shows signs of youth. Wearing converse trainers it makes the audience recognise the brand as something that younger people would generally wear. This then adds another level as well as we begin to slowly put some of the peices together on this characters possible life. Even though we barely see him, we are able to slowly gain an idea on who and what this man is, and some of the psycological reasons why he is doing what he is doing.
-Our film keeps the secretive, tense tone that thrillers are known for doing, creating suspence.
-The way in which the villains gender is secretive means it is up to the audiences to decide whether it is a woman or a man. Not only does this mean interactivity, but it gives females the chance to consider that the villain is too a woman, this being a rarity in films. An example of this being Uma Thurmen in 'Kill Bill'.
-Our Thriller differentiates from most Thrillers by not including a Maguffin (atleast noticable in the opening).
-From the rest of the villain's costume we see that he shows signs of youth. Wearing converse trainers it makes the audience recognise the brand as something that younger people would generally wear. This then adds another level as well as we begin to slowly put some of the peices together on this characters possible life. Even though we barely see him, we are able to slowly gain an idea on who and what this man is, and some of the psycological reasons why he is doing what he is doing.
-Our film keeps the secretive, tense tone that thrillers are known for doing, creating suspence.
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| Uma Thurman- 'Kill Bill' |
-The way in which the villains gender is secretive means it is up to the audiences to decide whether it is a woman or a man. Not only does this mean interactivity, but it gives females the chance to consider that the villain is too a woman, this being a rarity in films. An example of this being Uma Thurmen in 'Kill Bill'.
-Our Thriller differentiates from most Thrillers by not including a Maguffin (atleast noticable in the opening).
Late film analysis: 'Ground hog Day'
Wednesday, 15 February 2012
What would we have done differently within our Thriller opening if we'd have had a chance:
These are the problems we encountered whilst creating our Thriller opening and how we would have changed/resolved them if given another chance;
- Firstly, the first few storyboards we created were far too extreme. I'm not talking blowing up buildings and gang gun fights, but for the time, money and rescources we had it was just impossible to do. This meant each time we came up with another extravagant idea we wasted yet more precious time. If i could go back i wouldve created a simple storyboard that would have been easy to follow straight away.
- Also, we only had one day to film our Thriller opening where all four of our members where available, so we had to either film it all in this one day or have nothing to hand in at the end. This meant it was all planned in a bit of a rush, this led to us not only forgetting things such as fake blood and changes of clothes for the main actor, but also the camera and tripod itself. This was resolved by a friend lending us his camera and us actually using a washing line as a tripod. Although it still worked well, it meant we couldnt edit our shots on our school iMac computers, and therefore had to film it on a different computer which used SonyVegas editing software. This meant yet more time was wasted as it took more time and effort to edit our clips as we could only use this one computer. If we could change it, im sure we would have just used the camcorders given to us, even though the Sony camcorder we did use was much better quality.
- Another thing i would change would have been the ident. The ident was actually one of the very last things we did as we near enough forgot about it entirely, leaving it right to the last minute. This meant we had very little time to teach ourselves how to use the programme and how to create a proffesional looking ident. What we ended up with was something we all did like, but im pretty sure we all think we couldve done a bit better given we had enough time.
- I would also change the song to our Thriller. I dont know whether its the fact i had heard it be played hundreds of times by the end of creating our Thriller opening, but by the end it just didnt seem to quite fit. Although the song was young and catchy, perfect for our target audience, and the ironic lines about repition used once or twice, it seemed like the song wasn't as obvious as to why we picked that particular song to go with our Thriller as we would have hoped. So i perhaps would have gone back and looked harder for a replacement song.
- Also, there is one clip within our Thriller opening i'm not particularly keen on. The moment when our main character of the topless man's head collides with the door then fades into a shot of him lying on the floor. Although i like the effect of this shot, i believe it is much too quick after the rush of the attack and would've prefered to have extended it a little longer to add a little most hesitation and tension.
- Firstly, the first few storyboards we created were far too extreme. I'm not talking blowing up buildings and gang gun fights, but for the time, money and rescources we had it was just impossible to do. This meant each time we came up with another extravagant idea we wasted yet more precious time. If i could go back i wouldve created a simple storyboard that would have been easy to follow straight away.
- Also, we only had one day to film our Thriller opening where all four of our members where available, so we had to either film it all in this one day or have nothing to hand in at the end. This meant it was all planned in a bit of a rush, this led to us not only forgetting things such as fake blood and changes of clothes for the main actor, but also the camera and tripod itself. This was resolved by a friend lending us his camera and us actually using a washing line as a tripod. Although it still worked well, it meant we couldnt edit our shots on our school iMac computers, and therefore had to film it on a different computer which used SonyVegas editing software. This meant yet more time was wasted as it took more time and effort to edit our clips as we could only use this one computer. If we could change it, im sure we would have just used the camcorders given to us, even though the Sony camcorder we did use was much better quality.
- Another thing i would change would have been the ident. The ident was actually one of the very last things we did as we near enough forgot about it entirely, leaving it right to the last minute. This meant we had very little time to teach ourselves how to use the programme and how to create a proffesional looking ident. What we ended up with was something we all did like, but im pretty sure we all think we couldve done a bit better given we had enough time.
- I would also change the song to our Thriller. I dont know whether its the fact i had heard it be played hundreds of times by the end of creating our Thriller opening, but by the end it just didnt seem to quite fit. Although the song was young and catchy, perfect for our target audience, and the ironic lines about repition used once or twice, it seemed like the song wasn't as obvious as to why we picked that particular song to go with our Thriller as we would have hoped. So i perhaps would have gone back and looked harder for a replacement song.
- Also, there is one clip within our Thriller opening i'm not particularly keen on. The moment when our main character of the topless man's head collides with the door then fades into a shot of him lying on the floor. Although i like the effect of this shot, i believe it is much too quick after the rush of the attack and would've prefered to have extended it a little longer to add a little most hesitation and tension.
Sunday, 12 February 2012
Sound Effects within our Thriller
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| Fruit Loops Logo |
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| Fruit Loops User Interface Screenshot |
Here is an example of what the programs user interface looks like. On the far left there are many instrumental sounds which can be selected and edited just like we did.
Friday, 10 February 2012
Graphic Matches
Towards the end of our Thriller opening, we use a graphic match for the continuity between two shots in different locations. When the main characters head is slammed into the wall, there is a slight pause as his head rests there, then blurs into that same shot but in a different location (changing angles by 90 degrees from horizontal to diagonal) we feel this is an effective way to continue the two shots smoothly and effectively.
Thursday, 9 February 2012
Creating The Ident
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| Print screen of Ident creation on Final Cut Express |
To accompany our Thriller opening, we had to create an ident for our 'company'. Although we are yet to find a suitable sound to play with the ident itself, the actual animation is complete. We named our production company 'CCTF' (a collaboration of the initials of all the members of our group). First, we added a background effect called 'fog machine' that created the eery smokey effect. Then, we added the text, which was made with the effect 'cat eyes' to help it find in and out. We then created a logo (unseen in the picture above, it is a directors clapping board on a white circle background) which also fades in with the text. We will later add this to our Thriller opening.
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