our media project conveys to most of the conventions of a thriller opening. For example, suspense, mixtures of fast and slow editing, and also action. We did this so it keeps our target audience’s attention. Although our piece does not differ from a normal thriller, it uses the conventions to create sequence that the audience will enjoy but still sticks with the conventions associated with this genre. The music we used was created by us as we knew that we wanted to create a very eery sound that we knew we wouldn't be able to create if we didn't make it ourselves.
title of the film
We chose victim calling as our title of our thriller because it involves the typical traits of one. however, we put a twist on the name because it reverses the story line in the sense of you don’t expect the ‘victim’ to be the one making the phone calls.
setting/location
We chose the park as our location and setting for our thriller because it has all the general aspects to what you would normally find in a thriller. For example, the big open space surround by woodland gave the opening of our thriller an eery feel. Also the dark and gloomy weather creates a very mysterious feel which you could not achieve if it was filmed in a closed off space.
Costumes and props
The costumes and props we used for our thriller were a hooded jacket and a mobile phone. We used these props because they were key parts in our thriller to show the differences between social groups. For example, the hooded jacket is used on one of our characters to automatically give the audiences a sense of threat towards him because he is dressed suspiciously. We used the mobile phone as this played an important part of our thriller. Without using a mobile phone, our thriller would not have made sense.
Camerawork and editing
Although we used basic camerawork throughout our thriller, we tried to create a lot of continuous shots which worked quite well. For example, the transition from the phone in the girls hand to her putting the phone in her bag. Even though there was a few mistakes that were made, the editing helped phase out a few of them with cutting slightly before the mistake was made.
Title font and style
we used basic fonts for our opening sequence which we created on live type because we found a lot of the actual live fonts were too bright and not did not match the ambience we were trying to create.
Story and how the opening sets it up
Our story is based around a mobile phone and how stealing it leads to serious consequences. the opening sets this up because of the set up of the shot and how we have portrayed each character. For example, the boy is wearing dark clothing and a hooded jacket which gives the impression that he is trouble. Whereas the two girls on the bench are wearing bright clothing and they’re giving off positive body language.
Genre and how the opening suggests it
The genre of our opening is a thriller and this is suggested by the whole mise en scene of the beginning. For example, the non-diagetic sounds create an eery feel as well as the opening credits and the fonts that have been used and the video transitions used are also helped to give the impression that it is a thriller.
How characters are introduced
The characters are introduced through the different shots, which are used to associate them with a particular role. For example, the boy has lots of close up shots of his eyes to show how he is suspicious.
2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Our thriller opening’s characters are all different from one another and are portrayed in ways to make us have a certain opinion of them, for example, the main social group represented is young adults however we have divided up this social group into two different ways, good and bad. The characters in our thriller are of the same age as our target audience which makes the sequence connect to our audience more than others.
3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
There are quite a few institutions which would like to create a thriller with the target audience of both younger and older people as the more audience targeted than the larger the gross income. For example, Working Title produced a film called ‘Thirteen’ which had a large majority of younger cast members. However, it still appeals to a large audience as it had hard hitting facts about young teenagers lives and how their parents coped.
4. Who would be the audience for your media product?
Based on the fact that our opening has young adults starring in it I would expect the typical age of our target audience to be mainly females of ages 15+. We feel it would attract a female audience because it is about revenge in the sense that women can stand up for themselves.
5. How did you attract/address your audience?
The main attraction to our target audience is the fact that the characters are their age and some of them reflect how the audience behaves. In the mise en scene aspects we chose our characters to be portrayed in certain ways by the clothes they wear.
6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product?
During the planning, filming and editing stages of our opening thriller we learnt how to combine various technologies to create a plausible final product. We like the fact that we filmed ours off of college premises and outside of college hours as we thought that it would gave it a more realistic feel. We edited and changed sounds in the video using Final Cut Pro to create the best opening we could. Through using all of these various technologies we have learnt that we need to pay a lot of attention to detail to create the best opening sequence possible.
7. Looking back to you preliminary task, what do you feel that you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product? We feel that we have learnt alot since filming the preliminary task to filming our opening sequence. We learnt lots of valuable lessons whilst considering all the different technicalities and complicated circumstances we had to overcome when creating our opening sequence. We feel we have learnt how to film better and use a larger variety of shots as well as filming off of school premises to create a more realistic feel to the thriller.
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