In our planning and development of our thriller opening we used a film sequence website called art of the title, and the sequence I have chosen to compare is Dirty Harry.
Here is a link to the website for more information:
http://www.artofthetitle.com/2009/10/12/dirty-harry/
The reason I have chosen Dirty Harry is because there are some scenes that have similar meaning and purpose and shots and characters in it just like our thriller opening scenes.
Firstly, the opening scene is of a close up of the sniper, whereas in our first thriller scene the murderer is introduced with a mid close up, but both opening with the bad guy.
The second scene is of a close up of a girl in danger, whereas in our thriller the girl introduction is of a mid long shot of her approaching the murder, but both showing that the girl could be in danger.
The third scene shows the introduction of the main character using a mid close up, whereas in our thriller we are introduced to the murderer with a side mid close up too both showing how powerful their character is.
In the fourth scene, we see a mid close up of the girl lying dead with the two police officers, whereas in our thriller you see a mid close up of the murderer bent over the canal both making the audience think what is going to happen next.
The fifth scene shows a low angled mid shot Harry approaching the murder scene, whereas in our thriller you see the girl approaching the murderer scene its a mid shot, both making the scene suspenseful for the audience.
In the sixth and seventh scene we see establishing shots of the location, whereas in our thriller opening it is started off too with an establishing shot, both giving the audience an idea of where its set.
In the eighth scene we see an extreme close up of a bullet case, whereas the same shot type is used in our thriller opening to show the murders knife, both gripping the audience off the edge of their seats.
In the final scene, we see a close up slightly from the side of Harry reading a note, whereas in our thriller opening we have a side close up view of the murderer drinking and smoking. They both show the audience there facial expressions while doing their actions.
In conclusion, the main conventions in terms of camera shots are that they both establish where they are and make their main appear dominant. With mise-en-scene, they both wear and carry props to show the audience what kind of character they are with our thriller having a bloody shirt and knife and dirty harry with the suit and police badge. Finally, when it comes to the music and titles they both want to start with a bang to grip the audience with the non-dietetic sounds and titles in our thriller and in dirty Harry.
Our thriller was based around a man with demented psychological thoughts in which was very challenging to do because we had to prevent ourselves going overboard, but still relate it to some sort of conventions of a real media film. In the process of developing our thriller opening, this was successfully portrayed using the following;
Editing (length of shots, transitions and continuity)
Because we had edit out the mistakes, glitches, and making the thriller have good continuity by using Final cut pro on the apple Mac computers. We also used the transition effect in our thriller to fade in and out for the credits, which was created on live type to make the thriller opening look like a real movie. Each shot was cut down to 4 seconds to not bore the audience, and for them not to criticise because at the start we had encountered some continuity problems with the knife but was fixed using fading transitions and cuts.
Sound (music and dialogue)
The non-diegetic sound of the thriller was created using soundtrack pro, which is again was used on an apple Mac computer. There was a small scene with dialogue and diegetic sound in it all to put the audience in suspense.
Camerawork (angles and distances)
There were lots of different camera shots and angles used in our thriller including close-ups to show facial expressions, shot reverse shots to show dialogue and what’s happening, and establishing shot to establish the setting, pan to show the man getting up, mid long shot to show the girl approach and mid close up to show the mans actions (throwing the knife and bending over the canals).
Mise en scene (location, props and costume)
The location of the whole film was set in a canal in London to correspond to the fact that this man wearing a bloody shirt is a murder, making the thriller opening suspenseful to the audience. There were also cigarettes, vodka in a bag and a knife all used to create a stereotypical murderer.
2.) How does your media product represent particular social groups
Our thriller opening represents a particularly young social group aged between 15-21. This aged group have been stereotypically known to binge drink, smoke heavily, have unprotected sex and take drugs. This is similar to the movie Kidulthood that portrays young people in this very very effectively.
I have chosen the character Trife from the movie Kidulthood to compare, because she has stereotypically teenager carrying a knife. This inspired me to do our thriller because it used a real life stereotyped opinion and made it into an entertaining film in which we wanted to suspense the audience.
Whereas what the audience learns about our thriller, character is that, he is a young man who has committed a crime and has psychological demented thoughts similarly in the film Kidulthood.
3&4) What kind of media institution might distibute your media product and why? How will you attract/address your audience.
Being that my film is a low budget film, none of the expensive well-known distribution companies such paramount and Disney etc. Being that I would decide to get my thriller opening distributed on the internet instead on http://www.youtube.com/ , which is world’s most popular video sharing website. This can be done by creating a YouTube account, uploading the video and receiving comments and feedback about the thriller, which would benefit my thriller.
An example of an as media thriller video uploaded to YouTube can be seen at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzc0gTiq5iY
This is a screenshot of the web layout of YouTube showing the video and comments:
The audience for my thriller would be targeted at young British males aged between 15-21 which being that I am in that age group the thriller would include so much suspense and excitement into the thriller. I could advertise this film effectively by using face book and spreading it around in college where I would grab a large amount of my target audience. Other than that, I could upload it to another video sharing website called vimeo (http://www.vimeo.com/) which is well known for distributing other small low budget thrillers. And finally we could hired a small cinema screen like screen on the green to gather new audiences and gain feedback.
Here is a screenshot of vimeo and screen on the green:
The audience who would be targeted for my media products would be aged again at 15-21 year olds because, which was the age group of the most people who watched the film based on feedback. The thriller is based on a young man who is depressed, had been partying, smoking and drinking stereotyping what a young man does. The main character in the thriller is in that age group and a male making it an ideal audience for my media project.
This is a collection of images depicting the contents of a rucksack, which would belong to the typical target audience member for my movie. My typical Target audience member is named Danny. Danny is a 21 year old from London who currently goes University who lives with his parents. Danny is a smoker who likes to hang out with his mates at the pub and is never short of money.
6.) What have you leaned about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
Here is a list of the different types of technologies used in order to construct my thriller film opening.
There is a video explaining all the technologies in one of my other blogs named "Technology Audit" .
7.) Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learned in the progression fromit to the full product?
Looking back at my preliminary task, I feel I have come a long way. The biggest issue I had with the previous task was focusing the camera. Most of the shots were badly focused and very blurry, compared to now the clear quality. A badly focused movie would never get any good feedback from the audience. I am also much more aware of continuity, as of previous we were not aware of this mistake. I also learnt how to create my very own soundtrack and titles, as previous my exercise had terrible soundtrack and no titles at all.
In my two of my blogs you can compare the preliminary task named "Preliminary Match Cut Exercise" and the final thriller opening video named "Final Edit"
8.) Audience feedback and comment
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