Audience Feedback

To understand and analyse how successful our thriller was, we asked a variety of people for their opinions on it. The results that we got we will try to show in various ways using different techniques.

We asked a variety of people about our thriller, but took responses from the questions which we asked 3 people. The 3 people are from different age groups, 17, 21 and 38. Two of these 3 people were female and the other was male. Below are our results;

What did you enjoy the most about the thriller?
Female, 17
"I enjoyed the scene where the girl was walking, trying to get a signal and then running back. I liked this because the editing matched the pace of plot, and built up tension."

Male, 21
"I liked the shots of the stalker's eyes, as it made us realise that the stalker was following the girls, and getting closer and closer to them."

Female, 38
"I like the opening, as I could see what was happening with the stalker, whilst the girls were setting off. This made me understand that the two sets of characters were related, and hinted at them meeting at some point in the film."

How do you think we could have improved the opening?

Female, 17
"I would have liked to have seen more of the other two girls, rather than the main one. I didn't really get to know them that much, and then they disappeared."

Male, 21
"The stalker's weapon was a bit unrealistic. I don't see how he managed to attack the two girls with his bare hands and a small piece of rope."

Female, 38
"The section where the girls walk from the house to the camp site is slightly slow. Maybe it would have been better to quicken it a bit."

Would you watch the remainder of the film?

Female, 17
"Yes, I want to see if the main girl dies or not."

Male, 21
"Yes. I want to know who the stalker is, and what happened to the two girls that went missing."

Female, 38
"No. Unfortunately, I don't see how the story could develop and continue for an extra hour or so."

Judging by the response from the three participants, the thriller opening was a success. As suspected, it was least successful with the eldest participant - the thriller was not aimed at her age group, therefore, we believed that she would be least likely to enjoy the thriller.

We asked these participants, and the others that watched the thriller, to state a few words that summed up our thriller. Using these words, I created a wordle, which clearly shows all the words used, and their popularity.

Lost Signal Our Thriller opening

Evaluation of Finished Production - Question seven

Looking back at the preliminary task, What do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the product?




Above is our preliminary task, when watching it back I relaised there were many differences between this and our thriller opening. The quality of the video is not as good as what the thriller opening was, and we can see big improvments between the two videos.

Our preliminary task had not been prepared as well as what our main thriller had and we did not out as much time or effort into what we was doing with it. This lead to us only have a half completed storyboard to work from and no clue to the plot of our preliminary task. When filming our preliminary tasks many of the shots were repeated as we had not written down the variety of shots which could of been used. When we was making the storyboard to our thriller we made sure there was lots of detail added to it so we had a variet of shots and angles and it would not become boring. Although we did not completely stick to our storyboard when filming as we thought of better more exciting ways to films.

When looking at the Prliminary exercise i noticed below that where comments are left their was one dislike to to it although there was no comments explaining why they had disliked it, although it may be that there was no story to our preliminary task it was mainly people walking.

Storyboard to Preliminary Task;

Storyboard to our Thriller opening;



Sound was a particular problem for us during our preliminary exercise, when filming we did not know how loud or quietly we would have to speak for the camera to pick up voices from a far distance, so at some points sound is barely noticable and at other times it is like the characters are shouting. Also when we was editing our preliminary task as we did not understand how the sound on the computer, we were not sure if the computer was defficient or if we had not turned the sound up. Either way, as a result of this when watching the finished piece on youtube we noticed that in some placed you could hear the director saying 'Go!' there was lack of continuity and some of the sound had been cut off. When editing our Thriller we made sure we knew how the sound worked and knew that we was at a computer with fully functioning speakers, also our skills with using the computers had developed meaning we could create sound bridges so sound from a previous piece of footage continued on, We also learnt dissolves and fades with the sound so that our thriller flowed well and the sound was not out of place with what was on screen.

The variety of shots we used in our preliminary task where very little compared to the number of shots we used during our thriller. Also the shots used in our preliminary exercise were at a poor quality for example, the pan shot could sometimes be too slow and the the characters could walk out of shot, or it would pan to fast meaning the characters would again not be in shot.

 The image above is a point in the preliminary task where the two characters where spread too far apart within the short meaning it was difficult for the cameraman to keep them both in shot, which thus meant this girl at the back drifted out of shot. However due to lack of time this had to be included in our preliminary task as we did not have time to film over it.

However in our actual thriller we made sure that all 3 characters could be seen at one point and explained to our actors not to all step over the gate at the same time but slowly after each other, this left a small enough gap for all 3 people to be seen but not a too bigger gap so that some characters were off screen whilst others were left behind.

Since completeing our Preliminary task our skills developed rapidly and using final cut express and using the camera together became a lot easier as the technology wasnt so new to us when it come to filming our thriller. The adjusting of the sound took some getting used to but we worked it out and overall learnt new editing tecniques and understood new and different types of transitions.

Evaluation of Finished Production - Question six

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the thriller?

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Evaluation of Finished Production - Question five

How did we attract/address our audience?

I attracted an audience in many different ways, one of the ways was through facebook, i used this to publish my survey on to it, so i had a wider variety of people acknowledging thrillers, and i particular our thriller. I feel that this worked. This seemed to work reasonably well as i did get a few responses, however not as many as i would of liked.

There are different ways in which we kept the audience was kept engaged through the thriller. We done this by creating suspense and tension which made the person want to keep watching to find out what happened next. In the previous question i mentioned using survey monkey to help find out what the audience would like to see involved in a thriller. We used female actors, and we used the age of which was most popular with the survey results this meant that the viewers could feel more involved and relate to what was going on. Also all of our actors were of similar age to those who we want to watch our thriller. As we used teenagers in our thriller it means that the audience will be able to feel our main characters fear and be able to imagine themselves in the same situation. We tried to make our characters look like they are from a normal working class background, this meant it was easier for the audience to relate to them as they live the same type of lifestyle. I think i used the information from my survey monkey results quiet effectively to produce a better outcome on the thriller. I took into consideration what people wanted to see, and who seemed more interested in thrillers and worked around it.

The location for our thriller was picked rather carefully and we believe that we picked a good setting, we thought it was very effective as it was eerie. We had decided to film over Eastbrook End Country Park as it was very deserted, with the location picked it added to the mysterious effect and added to the tension which we had already created. The trees and the bushes, made it seem very eerie and scary as they were looming over the people and made them look small and vulnerable. The setting was in some ways perfect as it was deserted, it made it seem that if the protagonist was to run away they had no where to run, as their was a lack of space and would be hunted down. Although, the tree's were surrounding the people, they were closely packed together, this made less space for the protagonist to run, and made it look like she was cornered.

From the image above you can see there is little space for the protagonist to run, this can help build up the suspense and the feeling that the individual is being trapped.
We ended our thriller on  a cliffhanger, this would encourage the person watching want to continue watching the thriller. This is because from the thriller which they had seen it made them ask a lot of questions, such as 'Where have the girls friends gone?' 'Who was on the phone?' 'Who is the antagonist?' 'What does he want with the girl?' 'Will the girl survive?' 'What has he done/ going to do with her?'

Evaluation of Finished Production - Question four

Who would be the audience for our media product?

Previously i have done some research into who could be the thrille's audience by creating a survey on http://www.surveymonkey.com/. This enabled me to discover the age group which be more likely to watch our thriller. I had only recieved 8 responses on my survey after posting it to popular social networks such as facebook and twitter, many people did not reply. This means my results were not as reliable as i would of liked them to be, as i would of liked at least 30 or 40 responses.

Our thriller can be watched by anyone however will have a more popular audience. It can relate to different people in different ways. The target audience would more likely to be females between the ages of 17-24 as this was the largest age group, of people who answered in my thriller survey. I think this is because they can relate to our female protagonist who is a teenager, and they may be able to put themselves in her situation, and feel that she is weak and vulnerable.

To ensure that the audience were interested in the thriller, in my survey i asked the question 'what do you think makes a good thriller'. I got a few different answers, however as not many people completed my survey it made it difficult for me to create wordle that had numerous and various words in it. Although saying that, below are some of the answers which were given;

 

I think if i am to use survey monkey again iwill encourage more people to complete my thriller, and upload it onto various social networking sites for a wider variety of results. I will also tell people about my survey and ask them if they could fill it in for me, if i gave them the web address

Evaluation of Finished Product - Question three

What type of media institution might distribute your media production and why?

There are quite a few variaties of media institutions which might like to distribute our media production, as they fit their criteria for a thriller rather well. In order to find out which one may be more likely to distribute our thriller i done some research into the different types of production companies which have previously been known to produce thrillers, such as warner brothers, dimension films, Summit productions and Universal Studio.

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Evaluation of Finished Production - Question two

There were very few actors in our thriller opening, this was because people who wanted to participate in our short film were very limited. We used 4 females over all in our thriller however we did use a female to play the male antagonist. We tried to get the females to try and look as weak and vulnerable as possible, so that they fitted their characters better. However a female critic could argue that we are being prejudice by making the females look weak towards the man, like he is more dominating. We had originally planned for a male to play the part of the antagonist, but after some confusion this had to be changed. This means a female critic could also protest that it is unfair for one female to be portrayed as a dominant male, and the others looking weak and vulnerable.

The character on the left of the picture was the protagonist during our 2 minute thriller. She is shown as a 'normal' teenager in a normal situation, from what she knew she was simply going out with her friends. She could be seen as having a normal life, however in the thriller she is portrayed as quiet weak and vulnerable, to make it obvious that she is the victim of the stalker. She seems to be from a working class background as she is not over dressed and looks like an average teenager. Her sexuality is unknown and also irrelivant

The person in the centre of the image is the antagonist, we do not know much about this character, this causes the effect of an enigma and the scary effect which causes an ominous effect.

Finally the other two people in the image were the protagonists friends, they were also 'normal' teenagers and we didn't dig deep into their characters. Their part in the story was to keep the story flowing . Like the protagonist they are working class and their sexuality is not exposed in the thriller. Not much is revealed about these two.

We did not put much thought into ethnic minoritites as we didnt think it would make of a difference which ethnicity our actors were. However we did try to refrain from using any prejudice or racist language or remarks as this could cause a problem if the thriller was to be watched as a film. Although, by having the protagonist as a mixed race person this could be seen as a racist remark as it could look as though the thriller is suggesting that mixed race people are weaker and more vulnerable than others. However by saying that we could say that if we had put a mixed race of black person as our antagonist it could be suggested that we are stereotyping as our antagonist was also wearing a 'hoodie'.

We felt that sexuality was not relivant throughout the thriller and it was not revealed at any stage. Although the pictures of the protagonist on the antagonists wall are placed in a heart shape, it may seem that the antagonist is in love with the thriller, however we only done this to portray the antagonists obsession with the protagonist, as we do not know the sex of the antagonist it is irrelivant of what their sexuality is.

Our thriller is not likely to be watched by younger children as it can be seen as innapropriate and too disturbing or frightening for them. The teenagers in our thriller are portrayed as 'normal' teens this means our thriller is more for the adolenscent age catagory, As we show the girls as 'working class' and normal, the audience should be able to relate to them better as the characters are 'ordinary' making the audience more involved in the thriller.

Evaluation of Finished Product - Question one

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Below is a powerpoint on what conventions we used in our thriller, i uploaded this powerpoint onto slideshare. This is shown below;

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Analysis of our finished thriller

Today we finished piecing together our thriller and had placed the music on it. We believe that it has gone well, is at a high standard and we are very happy with it. Looking over the aspects needed in a good construction of the short film we believe we used all of them, these include;

• Holding a shot steady
• USing a variety of shot distances
• Framing a shot
• Shooting appropriate material
• Selecting mise-en-scene including colour, figures, lighting, objects and setting
• Editing so that meaning is apparent to the viewer
• Using varied shot transitions and captions
• Using sound with images and editing appropriately for the task

Futhermore to make our thriller seem more realistic when editing it and placing in names of the cinematographer or the smaller characters. This was to make our film look more professional instead of repeating the same name, as it makes it look like more people were involved in the development of the film

Final Tweeks to the film

Today we finished the adjusting little things on the thriller, we tried to make it flow more naturally and look more proffessional so that the music was in time with what you could see. We made sure that all shots and transitions ran smoothly, we used dissolves and fades in a fades out on both the music and the images. This enabled the music to gradually fade out and fade in instead of changing to abruplty and not soud as good. Some pieces of music in the film increased in volume to much, however by using a tool on final cut express we could avoid this, by placing pink dots on the sounds bar we could drag them up or down increasing or decreasing the sound, this is shown below. Also some parts of our thriller was cut out to avoid it from being to long and so that we could fit the opening credits in.

Dissolve;


Final Cut Express;


Credits;

Finishing and Uploading

Today myself and ashleigh completed putting the music on the ident whilst Connor made some finishing touches to the music on the thriller. WE asked some class members what they thought of the thriller and then uploaded it onto youtube. However when watching it on youtube we noticed there was a glitch in part of it. This must of occurred when uploading to youtube, however we will have a look at it in tomorrows lesson. Now that we have finished editing and the 2 minute thriller is complete I can start evaluating our work.

Finished Product of the ident

Today whilst connor was double checking all the editing of our thriller, Ashleigh and myself added the music which i had created on Garaband onto the ident. We think they work well with each other as the image in a sense is sy-fy due to the robot which is futuristic and the music is screechy, like aliens. I think they correspond well together. Below is our finished ident ;

Adding the music

Today in class connor made the opening credits for our thriller whilst myself and ashleigh added together the last bits of the thriller. By two of us editing the thriller together we could discuss what we thought could be good or bad for the final outcome. After school we then returned to finish adding music to the thriller, we watched it all together and are very pleased with the final outcome.

New Participants

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1) Georgia Wigley - Protagonist
2) Hannah Sharples - Friend
3) Ashleigh Hay - Friend
4) Connor Murray - Group Member (Director)
5) Sarah Warnock - Antagonist
6)Hollie Tuvey Group member

Final version of our ident

Below is the final outcome of our ident. The music on it was produced by myself on garageband and the idea of the image was thought up by Connor. The Ident is very well arranged as the music and the image combined help set out expectations for the rest of the thriller.

Plans for today

Connor, Ashleigh and myself hope to spend the majority of the day editing our thriller, we will be editing for 9.00am to 10.35 am and again from 3.00pm to 5.00pm. We are hoping that in this time our thriller will come together and we would have put all the music over the top aswell.

Finishing Filming

Today we finished all of the filming needed for our two minute thriller, we worked quickly but proffessioinaly in order to get this done as we feel like we are running out of time. We filmed alot of this footage many times to make sure it was filmed to perfection and we wont have to film it again when editing. Here is an image of us filming;

NEw opening credits

As we have had to change some of our actors it means we have also had to change the opening sequence to our thriller.


1: Panoptic Productions present

2: A film by Connor Murray

3: Starring 
    Georgia Wigley
    Sarah Warnock

5: Also starring 
    Hannah Sharples
    Ashleigh Hay


6: Edited by Hollie Tuvey
                 Connor Murray
                 Sarah Warnock
                 Ashleigh Hay


6: Music by Sarah Warnock

7: Cinematography by Hollie Tuvey


8: Producers Sarah Warnock
                  Connor Murray
                  Ashleigh Hay

9: Directed by Connor Murray

10: LOST SIGNAL

Filming the graphic match

After school we went back to the loaction where filming was taking place and we got georgia to sit in the computer chair, we was filming her part of the graphic match which is when she is on facebook, she needed to typ a status which is a amain part to a thriller as it is how the antagonist knows where she is going, however as the status could not be seen in this part of the thriller she typed anything randomly as she kept making mistakes when doing it properly. The camera angle then changed to a point of view shot when she got a notification leading her onto her picture which we zoomed into, when we zoomed out we was in the antagonists room where he was sticking the same picture to a collage of pictures he had of her on his wall in a love heart shape. We felt this worked very well and was very effecient making our thriller look more realistic and proffesional.

Editing

Today in class, myself, Connor and Ashleigh began to edit the parts of the thriller which we have filmed. We had some very long shots of the 3 girls walking which took up lots of time, we edited most of these down to one or two seconds each. We feel like we have got a lot completed and are making much progress.

Re-preparing to film

As we had changed our main actress we had to remove all the pictures of her from the 'stalkers' room and put up the new ones of our new main character. This took some time as it was hard to get them into a love heart shape like we had before. However once we had put all the pictures up we still had time to film some of our thriller, we filmed the part where the main character was typing at the computer. This means we only have the finishing scene left to film and the part where the stalker is in his bedroom.

Below are some photo's of us preparing to film;

Filming;

Filming

Today we tried to get as much filming done as we could. We feel that we have completed over half our filming and only have a little bit left to do, we are hoping to have completed all of our filming by the end of the week.

Below are some images of us filming;

Change of Plan

Unfortunately our main actress was unable to show for filming on numerous times, in order to make filming easier and more frequent for us we changed the main character to someone who is not in our group but is reliable. We also changed her two friends to someone else who is not in the group and someone who is. Also as our stalker was being awkward to work with and hard to get hold of we had to change that role also. I took his place, and therefore in the thriller i am wearing a hoodie jumper. We had to start filming our footage again as all of our characters had changed, however this is better as we are finding filming a lot easier and quicker to complete.

Finished \product of our Visual Mindmap

We did experience some difficulties when filming this as the words n the white board could not been seen from the distance and the angle of the camera. We the tested out different camera angles and finally got a good angle, however when we started again we had the issue of the camera man speaking over what we was doing, so we had to start again. Finally we had completed it, and this is our final visual mind map.

First Part of Editing the thriller

Today two members of the group started to put together the first part of the thriller. However as they was watching the footage they realised there had been some errors in the filming that couldn't be fixed through editing and will need to be re-filmed. We have made a list of what needs re-filming and will do it when we next have spare time,

Filming our Visual Mind Map

Today we decided to take the camera and record ourselves making a mind map. We wrote the word thriller on a white board and asked 2 individuals what come to mind when they thought of the word. We had some trouble with the writing being visable in the camera and had to re-shoot it a few times.

Research into theartofthetitle.com

Today I visited http://www.artofthetitle.com/

I done this in order to gain some ideas for our two minute thriller. Whilst on the website i watched different openings to thrillers to get a wider range ideas and perceptions. These included, 'Days of Heaven', 'Scott pilgrim vs the world' and others.


I just watched the opening sequence to the film 'the shining' this is very dramatic as the camera flows over a lake and follows a car up the mountainside, this gives the impression that the people in the car are being followed. Also over the top of the pictures is dull and deep music which continues to progress until they reach there destination. The name of the director is first to appear on the screen and is then followed by the main actor then followed by smaller actors. 

More Filming

Yesterday myself and another group member got together our actresses and attempted filming one fo the opening sequences of our thriller. It took us most of the day as we had to keep finding new camera angles and try and share our ideas equally. It took as about half an hour film our 3 actresses crossing the road as we was trying to get it so no cars were passing on either side, this meant quite a lot of standing around as we was near quite a busy road. We didn't get as much filming as we would have liked though as the camera had soon ran out of battery. We have however now got the opening to our thriller

Thrillers within Text

Recently i have read the book 'by midnight' this was filled with suspense and i felt whilst reading it i was continuiously asking questions in my head about the book. The book felt like a traditional thriller with a protagonist and an antagonist, however different to any i have seen on tv or as films due to the fact that it is fiction.

The Story;
April Dunne is a new girl at Ravenwood school for the gifted (both financially and academically), she has recently moved from Endinborough to Highgate in London. Like any normal 16 year old girl April is interested in knowing any boys in the area but all seem very mysterious. On her first day of school she meets Caro JAckson A conspiracy theorist, and Gabrille Swift who she instantaniously likes. However after growing close to gabrielle secrets start to reveal themself as Ravenwood isnt only for gifted many of the students there are like vampires. As April realises this murders are taking place throughout the city, even with her dad being one of them and April as distressed as ever she still choses to try and unravel the mystery behind Ravenwood. On the Night of Davina's party, April and one of the vampire' s Benjamin grew closer and ended the night with a kiss, however something in April's DNA triggered something in Benjamin to become ill. A battle where Gabrielle and April draw closer to become on the side agaisnt vampires can lead to terrible consequences. With Marcus finding out the April is a born slayer he sets out to destroy her and her new lover Gabrielle. The book ends with a giant cliffhanger as Marcus nearly kills April and runs of into the dark cemetery and Gabrielle is dying after kissing April for what could be the first and last time.

List of characters and titles and how they will be presented during our opening credits

As a group we have dicussed the order in which names will appear in the opening credits of our thriller and what else we would like to include. The following is what we have come up with;
1: Panoptic Productions present
2: A film by Connor Murray
                 and Sarah Warnock
3: Starring Hollie Tuvey
4: Gera Zaharov
5: Also starring Georgia Wigley
                      Ashleigh Hay
6: Music by Connor Murray
7: Edited by Ashleigh Hay
                 Connor Murray
                 Hollie Tuvey
                 Sarah Warnock
8: Directed by Connor Murray
                    Sarah Warnock
9: Assistant Directors Ashleigh Hay
                               Hollie Tuvey
10: Name of thriller; LOST SIGNAL

My Survey Analysis

My survey was completed by 2 maes and 6 females. I was expecting most of the paticipants to be sixteen or under, however 3 of the 8 were sixteen or ovver, 4 of them were 17 to 24 and one person skipped the question so i do not know their age. 37.5% of the particpants watch movies ones a week and again 37.5% watch a movie at least once a day. 12.5% of people watch moves only once a month and again for more than once a week. The majority answer for 'How often do you watch thrillers?' was Once a month, with having 85.7%. The other 14.3% watch thrillers more than once a week. The main ways people described a thriller was by using words such as 'suspence' 'eerie' 'cliffhanger' and 'tension'. I took into consideration the results of my survey and will be using them to try and help improve our thriller.

More filming

Today we had planned to do more filming and get alot done as it was very cloudy all day which gave the effect of it beinging close to nightfall. However our main actress failed to show up as she didnt know what time we was filming, we attempted to do another part of the thriller with the stalker in his bedroom, but he could not stay in order for us to film. In the future we will make sure our actors and actresses dont have any plans and know the correct time which we want them there.

Participants

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There are 4 participants in our thriller;

Hollie Tuvey (Image one) - The main character who is the stalkee

Georgia Wigley (Image Two) - One of the main characters friends

Harley Mason (Image Three) - Another of the main characters friends

Gera Zaharov (Image Four) - The Stalker 

Also their are 3 images of the producers;

Sarah Warnock (Image Five)

Connor Murray (Image Six)

Ashleigh Hay (Image Seven

Filming

Today the group left the lesson to go to one of the group members houses to do some filming. We was hoping to get quite a lot done. However it took us a long time to set up as we had to arrange props such as make up and hairspray on a computer desk in order to make it look like the main characters bedroom. As it took us a while to get this perfect we didnt have much time filming, we also was trying to figure out camera angles so we could see both the girl and what she was writing so whe we zoomed to the computer it would be easy to read, and not go pixilated. This has maybe caused us to rethink this part of our thriller. In order to film more next time we will have already set up the props and figured out the placing of the camera.

Setting up for our thriller

Today myself and my group signed the camera out to do some filming, however we realised we needed to set up the room which was filming in which took up most of our time. In part of our thriller the stalker is standing infront of a wall of pictures of one particular girl. Our time today was spent printing off these pictures and sticking them to the wall ready for the next time we film. I will be uploading the pictures we took of us putting up pictures as soon as i can.

Garageband experiment

During free time i went into the media room to test out the garageband application. I was hoping to get together a piece of music to put with our ident. However it took me some time to understand the application, by the time i had recorded a piece i needed to leave. I have saved the music onto the computer and will be testing it out with our ident image to see if it fits.

Scenery/ location for thriller

Yesterday myself and another group member went to take pictures of scenery which we will be using in our thriller. We also took pictures of each other taking the pictures as evidence that we took the pictures ourselves. We tried to get different angles of each shot to see how it would be better portrayed in the thriller video and make it easier for us when filming. Today we put the pictures on final cut express and edited them together. Below is the animatic which was created.

Storyboard

Today we finished our storyboard on final cut express and put music with it, however whenwe uploaded it onto youtube the sound no longer worked. We are aiming to get this fixed shortly, but for now I will upload the video which we have got.

Mobygratis Approval

The member of our group who askedfor the licensing of the two tracks recieved confirmation of the licensing of the tracks shortly after.

Mobygratis

Today, within the group we discussed the type of music which we would like to play in our thriller and agreed on two main tracks that we believe will go well with the opening scene to our thriller. One of the member's of our group has requested the use of both the tracks, and we are now awaiting for the reply. In order to gain a wider range of music we will also visit different websites such as unsigned.com. As a group we have decided that we would like to secure the licencing of around ten tracks, this will enable us to have a wide variety of music to chose from.

Storyboard Attempt

Today we finally finished our storyboard for our actual thriller, we took pictures of it and were trying to put it together on final cut express so it would become an animatic and be simple to upload onto youtube and onto our blogs as a video. However whilst using final cut express the system crashed and we lost our work, we will try again next week when we next have a lesson.

Treatment for our thriller

Outiline of Ideas;

• Stalker
• Abandoned Park
• Fog
• Room Full of pictures showing obsession

What Resources will be needed;

• Tent
• Small Room
• Pictures
• Fog?
• A Lake?

Justification of ideas in relation to our thriller;

• Suspense
• Shadows
• Point of view shots
• Danger
• Mysterious chartacters
• Tension
• Death? (Mystery)

Conventions of the genre;

• Low Level lighting. shadows
• Isolated/deserted/confined spaces
• Quick Editing - fast paced
• Point of view shots and frantic camera  movements
• Eerie sounds / silence
• Ominous Character

Research into real films of the genre;
No country for old men 2007;

• Antagonist is the main characte

Manchurian Candidate 2004;

• Political and psychological - room with lights, constant changing of scenes, camera movement

North by Northwest 1959;

• Crop Scene - Red Herring

Research into Potential Target Audience;
Young women as our film would be psychological rather than filled with action and weapons.

Proposal to how your project would appeal to the target audience and beyond;
Young women are more inclined to watch thrillers that also fall into the catagory as horror. Ours woould do this, therefore the females would be more likey to enjoy it. Furthermore our main character is a female so she will be eaasier to relate to.

Our final company ident - Panoptic productions

As a group we chose which two idents we believed to be the better designs and edited them both on Livetype in order to make them more effective and more like famous production company idents. Below are the two idents which we edited, Design 3 and Design 4;

Design 3;


Design 4;

As a group we decided that Design 4 of the original ideas was the best so the ident featured above as design 4 is our final production company idea and will be used for our 2 minute thriller opening.

Ident and logo ideas





During lesson we were talking about creating idents and logos for the opening of our thrillers. In our group we came up with 4 different logo's in which we could choose from. We chose to make each one different from the next, as we felt if they were too similar it would make the decision of which one to pick harder. All the files were have saved in two file formats: .psd, the Photoshop file so that I can edit them later, and .png, so that the empty areas remain transparent.

We chose the name 'Panoptic Productions' as the word 'panoptic' means to view things from many directions. This links to our coursework, as each shot of our thriller will have to be viewed from different directions in order to make it a high-quality opening. 

Design 1;

This design was inspired by a drawing which Connor, a member of our group, made a long time ago. Cartoon clouds are often used in work by artists who usually specialise in forms which are less realistic. The font is a brilliant striking blue which corroborates with the cloud, the blue is the colour of rain which is produced from clouds. We added a glow to both the cloud and the text, we thought this made them seem more angelic and dainty. If we were to use this image it would not include the grey background, it would just be transparent, this was only added to show the shape of the cloud.

Design 2;

This is the second design which we came up with. The white area would be transparent in the actual thriller. We decided to use faces which are angled in different directions as  it relates to our company name. Also the text and faces are very cartoon like, this creates the effect of a fun and young design. However we feel as though this design is lacking in something, although we cannot figure out what, so we will be less likely to use it as our final production company ident.

Design 3;

Our third design is inspired by pain splats. We felt that the bold colours, pink and purple, were a good choice as they stood out from the page and were more eye catching then other colours. Also the font is bold and eye catching and looks as though exploding out from the paint. The design is simple but effective, we think this would go down well once place on livetype.

Design 4;

This design is the favourite from the four. We think it is an ironic take on the Columbia pictures ident. AS Columbia pictures use a woman features as standing on a podium holding a torch. We have created a different futuristic character within the ident and also have place him on a podium like Columbia pictures have done. As we come from an industrialised area we have chosen a skyline to the design. The white area shown in the picture however will be transparent.Once we have placed the image onto Livetype we could edit a background into with moving clouds, which is another reference to Columbia Pictures. The text is separate from the picture so it can be moved freely on the page one we edit it onto Livtype. This means we can place it exactly where we would like it to be on the screen without shifting the design of the ident.  

Visual Brainstorm

Today we went out with the camera and recorded 2 members of the group's opinions of a thriller. We did this to get a better understanding of the genre. Below is the video.