Evaluation Question 1

Sorry all but I had to post the last slide as a picture as projeqt wouldn't put it on the slideshow even though I kept trying...

Evaluation Question 2

Question 2 for our evaluation was "How does your media
product represent particular social groups?"
Here is how I answered, hope you enjoy...

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Evaluation Question 3

Evaluation Question 4

Evaluation Question 5

Evaluation Question 6

Evaluation Question 7

Here is my thriller opening evaluation question 7...

The question for this was "Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the main task"

Thriller opening evaluation Question 7 from LauraKN

Class feedback on our finished thriller

Hi everyone, here is some feedback from my media class on mine and Tammy's finished thriller opening 'What Can't Speak Can't Lie'.

This will hopefully help us both answer evaluation questions 4 and 5 as we can see what our target audience liked about our opening. 

This should also help us for future filming and will allow us to improve our skills by seeing what we could have done to make our thriller better.

differences between our screenplay and our finished thriller opening

Hi everyone, todays post I will be talking about the screenplay that we wrote before he making of our thriller opening and how it is different to our thriller opening now we have finished it.

First doesn't have as many of the shots that we planned to include in our screenplay. This is because, we thought that if we did this then it might look too much like a trailer or be too long which would bore the audience.

For example, in our screenplay we said that our thriller would open with a shot of the house that

'The girl' was in before going inside to the argument that she is having with her Dad. However, In

our finished thriller opening, we didn't include this as we wanted to get straight to the point and

start out thriller with the dad complaining to the girl. We think that this worked quite well as it

then set a more dramatic setting before the rest of the opening by starting with some conflict.

We also decided not to do the part where the girl picks up a photo of he family and smashes it

on the floor due to a couple of reasons. 1. We didn't want glass on the floor and decided that it was

too hard to put a realistic effect on it. (also the floor was carpet so if we decided we were actually

smashing it then it wouldn't have smashed very well. 2. We also thought that when we would have

added everything into our opening that it would be too long and probably look more like a trailer,

as we decided that we were going to add a montage at the end including the titles.

In scene two (The grandma scene), we also decided not to
 have dialogue with the girl and the grandma inside the
 house and also we didn't have them sitting on the sofa 
together. This is also because we didn't want to make it 
too long as we decided that we were going to do the
 montage at the end which included the titles. We also
 wanted to make it more brief and use something that

showed passage of time well.

Istead of using a long shot of the girls grandma' house in
 scene three (The morning scene), we decided to use 
2 different shots of the sky outside along with diegetic 
sound of birds to show the fact that it is the morning after. 
We blended these 2 pictures (one after the other) to show
 different parts of the sky, and also to show the passage of
 time to the morning.

'What Can't Speak Can't Lie'- Draft feedback

Here is the feedback from our thriller opening draft. I have used two audience members and asked them what they liked about our product, then we asked them what they thought we could do to improve...
 

'What Can't Speak Can't Lie'- Draft

This is a draft for our thriller opening 'What Can't Speak Can't Lie', I will later post some target
audience feedback on what they thought of it and how they think we could have improved it.
This will then let us know what we have to do to make it better...

Past student thriller analysis of 'Excemption'

Hi everyone, today I would like to show you 

a analysis that I did on a past student thriller 

opening. This opening is also one that is not 

from our school and is one that I found that I 

liked on YouTube.

Hope you enjoy...

Production logo update & stylistic influences

Hi, just to let you all know, me and Tammy have decided to change our production logo as we 

decided that our last one did not look professional enough and it was too small to put into our

thriller opening. Here is our new and improved design and we hope that you like it...

Something else that influenced us to do this was some past student thriller logos which we had seen on YouTube.

We thought that these logos were good as they were usually more simple than our first design but 

still had a good effect and looked very professional. Therefore, we decided to make our own logo more simple

but more professional looking.

Propp's characters theory in relation to the Harry Potter films...

Hi everyone, today I will be relating the Propp's character theory (which I have previously talked about) to the Harry Potter movies in order to give a better understanding, hope you enjoy...

The Hero: In the Harry Potter films, oviously Harry Potter is the hero. This is because Harry is the protagonist who is on a quest to ultimatley defeat Voldemort (The villian). 

The Villian: Voldemort ("He who must not be named") is the villian in the Harry Potter films as he is the character who brings danger and chaos to the lives of others. The villian is the one who must be stopped by the hero.

The dispatcher: Dumbledore is the dispatcher in the Harry Potter films as hetells Harry (the hero) what he needs to do to stop the danger and chaos that is brought by Voldemort. For example, this is shown after Dumbledores death when Harry has to find the horcrux's.

Dumbledore is also The Donor as he leaves Ron, Hermione and Harry the Deluminator, The tales of Beedle the Bard and the Golden snitch (The stone of resurrection) which help restore normality.      

                                                                     

  

The helpers: In the Harry Potter films, Hermione and Ron are the helpers for Harry and they go on the quest with him to help defeat Voldemort. 

'The Princess':  In the chamber of secrets, Ginny plays this character as she is put into danger by the Voldemort/Tom Riddle (the villian) and needs the help of Harry (the hero) to save her.

The false hero: In the Goblet of fire, Professor Moody is the false her are people think that he is professor moody when in reality it is Bartemius Crouch Jr. is disguise.

'DrIvE' previous student thriller analysis

Hi everyone, today I would like to share a analysis that i did of a previous AS students thriller opening named 'DrIvE'.

Although this student was not from our school, I thougt that it would be a good opening to analyse as it got full marks, hope you enjoy...

Click on the link below to get to the full powerpoint.

https://www.canva.com/design/DABvckyOce4/AV9OpA5WOuGEyZWEg__HZw/view?&utm_content=DABvckyOce4&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=sharebutton

Thriller camera shots -Sneak Peeks

Hi everyone, here are some sneak peeks of short clips in our thriller film that we are editing at the moment. These short clips are techniques that we are using and I have explained why we are using them. Stay in touch for more updates...

Here is a close-up that we used
of the girl grabbing her 'War
Hero' Grandads picture off of
the shelf. We wanted to use a
close-up as we wanted our
audience to clearly see what the
photo is of (as this is the same
one used on the document that
she finds at the end).

Here is an example of another
one of the short shots we used in
our thriller of the girl grabbing
her coat before heading our of
the door. Short clips have been
added in places to help tell the
story better so as our audience
understand what is going on more.

Here is an example of a shot
reverse shot that we are using at
the begining of our thriller
opening. This is a simple but effective 
techique for conversations
between characters.
  

I hope that you enjoyed these short spoilers and we can't wait for you all to see our finished product :)