Thursday 24 March 2011

Screen Grabs [1]

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Feedback from all groups

Positive:
"you used a variety of shots including match-on-action, close ups, high angle shot and you never revealed the characters face which i liked"
"I like the titles, the music you picked for the beginning is a lot better than the original. The ending is very effective"
"'Vengeance' title with the type-writer effect + sound"

"Titles are brill. Well edited and engaging"
"I like the use of panning around the setting I also like the unknown sense with only the feet being shown while walking"
"I liked how the lighting and music added a really good slow pace, which made it really dramatic"

"Camerawork - of looking down on the feet + match on action shots"
"Maintains an eerie atmosphere"
"Camerawork was good --> match on action"
"Nice use on match-on-action and nice saturation of the footage"

"I like the shot where the camera followed the characters feet to where the place he was going"
"I like use of the shots"
"The music is good as it helps you realise that the thriller is about someone remembering someone and adds to the tense atmosphere"

"I like the titles at the beginning there is movement and they are introduced very well with sounds"
"I like the use of keeping everything black and white which makes the piece look darker and more intense."

Improvement:
"The photographs could be a bit clearer, also the first scene seems to go on too long. The scene where the camera pans around the room is a bit pointless."
"In the second scene the shot is a bit pointless going back and forth."
"The change in music could have been more linked and flowed better"

"Not so sure about the choice of music and the pan shot is a little jumpy."
"It doesn't give an insight to the storyline at all not giving the viewer much information"

"Music didn't really go with the filming"
"Slightly unrealistic having an unattended crime scene in a bedroom"
"Lighting was spelt incorrectly, Victim has very small legs"
"The music doesn't really fit together (titles --> film) ((however music's really good though!)"

"Maybe add more shots so we see the characters face, or victim as the viewer could switch off during the clip"
"i think the music could build up to make it more dramatic and build up tension more and i think the ending could be improved"
"I think the ending is a bit boring and confusing and didn't really have a plot"

"It ends too suddenly, maybe use a long fade with a title at the end so it doesn't end too suddenly"

Tuesday 22 March 2011

Title Pane


picture 1 = lighting showed, we used colour corrector to improve the lighting this sequence also to add to the emotional atmosphere created.
picture 2 =  showing the location of the film and set the scene.
picture 3 = showing a key prop to the audience, photo book showing memories before his sons tragic death.
picture 4 = showing a match-on-action (with use of a close-up)
Picture 5 = displaying the thriller convention, which is the psychological state of the character's mind, being displayed by the title.
picture 6 = this is a screen grab of the costume of the main actor in the film.
picture 7 = The narrative presents ordinary situations in which extraordinary things happen.
picture 8 = The narrative centres around a crime
picture 9 = hand held shot of the main actor walking.

Friday 11 March 2011

Friday 4 March 2011

Jake's Evaluation Notes

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


The king of media institution that might distribute my media product is a company such as Newmarket. This company called Newmarket is likely to distribute our product because it has numerous thriller films, such as Donnie Darko. But they have distributed a well-known thriller which fits into the same categories as ours, this is called Memento. This film is a Crime Thriller


{{list some media institutions like; Warner Studios,  Fox Searchlight, Newmarket and }}}} {{{{Paramount Pictures. list some of their films like Newmarket-Memento and say why}}} {{{{the film company have made films similar to ours, or what is different/appealing.}}}}

Thursday 3 March 2011

Evaluation Questions

Evaluation Questions

Evaluation Questions

The following questions must be answered in your evaluation PowerPoint:
1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
4. Who would be the audience for your media product?
5. How did you attract/address your audience?
6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product?
7. Looking back to your preliminary task, what do you feel that you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

1. talk about conventions of a thriller and if we used them in the way they are normally used or if we changed them.

2. talk about if we have different social groups in our film and how they are represented, such as; genders, ethnicity, sexuality and age.

3. list some media institutions like; Warner Studios,  Fox Searchlight, Newmarket and Paramount Pictures. list some of their films like Newmarket-Memento and say why the film company have made films similar to ours, or what is different/appealing.

4. think about an age group or gender, maybe mostly males form the age of 16+.

5. ----------------------

6. talk about Final Cut and how we used different effects such as the fade in fade out tools and flickering our text for out opening credits. flickr and photoshop and how we uploaded pictures and edited them. the camera that we used was different so talking about how we learnt to use the new HD camera effectively.

7. what we did in our preliminary and what we changed for our real product. talk about time managment, organisation, technology and team skills.

Research - memento opening.

The film Memento starts with a lens flare effect and the opening credits. The production company 'Newmarket' and the rest of the credits are all in blue writing fades in and out into white. After the credits the main character 'Lenny' is holding a photo as a memory which fades in, this along with the slow string music creates a calm dramatic sense of feeling. As Lenny shakes the picture up until we see him kill 'Teddy' the scene moves very slowly with no cuts, and is showing the motion of time roll backwards which gives the feeling of disorientation and confusion (non-linear). In the scene there are loads of extreme close ups and close ups on important objects, such as the gun, blood, bullet, glasses, photo. as the scene changes we hear a voice over describing the room and see a black and white hotel room and get a close up of lenny's eye, (a convention of the thriller genre).