Looking back at the prelimanary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the main task?
In particular I have leanrt about the post production process. The post production of my prelimanry task was brief and unimaginative, shooting in a chronological order for ease of editing and using all natural sound, the post production process of my final product was alot more interesting and time consuming. I created the music myself ans synched it to the editing I did, pushing as much as I could the simple editing allowed by the IMovie programme (ready now to move onto more sophisticated editing technology Final Cut Pro, etc) this has been a large leanring curve as to begin with I found the product extremely confusing and unsatisfactory but by the time I had gotten to grips with GarageBand software and IMovie on the Apple Mac I had understood how to best create my product, putting empahasis on the genres I did nt fully understand until I fully involved myself in the course. I have learnt many things about the entire process of filmmaking and look forward to carrying forward what I have learnt to newer and more successful projects, using more challenging technology and ideas.
Sunday 8 May 2011
Evaluation- Question 6
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
Technologies have played a large part in every aspect of making the film from understanding the Thriller genre to its creative and productive process of my product. Blogger has been the main site where I have gathered and showcased my notes and ideas on my product, having taken market research from sites like Facebook (for audience research) and IMDB (for film research and inspiration). I have alos used youtube and Google images to show what direction I want to take my film, showcaseing examples of ready made material that I can dissect and lend to my own ideas. The creative process on Blogger has allowed me to put down my ideas and learn what is possible to create and what else can be done, scanning over my posts I can see where I got to grips with the blogging technology and how elements and inspiration for my original idea has developed into my final product. In conclusion, technology has helped me in every aspect and played an active part in even the production of my product.
Technologies have played a large part in every aspect of making the film from understanding the Thriller genre to its creative and productive process of my product. Blogger has been the main site where I have gathered and showcased my notes and ideas on my product, having taken market research from sites like Facebook (for audience research) and IMDB (for film research and inspiration). I have alos used youtube and Google images to show what direction I want to take my film, showcaseing examples of ready made material that I can dissect and lend to my own ideas. The creative process on Blogger has allowed me to put down my ideas and learn what is possible to create and what else can be done, scanning over my posts I can see where I got to grips with the blogging technology and how elements and inspiration for my original idea has developed into my final product. In conclusion, technology has helped me in every aspect and played an active part in even the production of my product.
Evaluation- Question 5
How did you attract/address your audience?
I attracted my audiences ideas and opinions on thriller via social networking sites, particularly facebook, to gather important opinions and give my audience an actual involvemnt in the deveolopment process of the film, this in turn attracted the audience as they felt it was a film that they had an input in. Helping me to understand what the audience wants from a thriller film and attract them to the final product of my design.
I attracted my audiences ideas and opinions on thriller via social networking sites, particularly facebook, to gather important opinions and give my audience an actual involvemnt in the deveolopment process of the film, this in turn attracted the audience as they felt it was a film that they had an input in. Helping me to understand what the audience wants from a thriller film and attract them to the final product of my design.
Evaluation- Question 4
Who would be the audience for your media product?
"What I personally look for in thriller films are imaginative ways to create suspense and tension."
"However the most important feature of a thriller is keeping the audience guessing until the very end, and the aspect of mystery has been lost in formulaic sequences of many thrillers today. For that reason avant-garde and arthouse styles that push the boundaries and don’t follow the convention are the most thrilling."
That is an example from my market research into the teenage audience, my target audience is my own age group and they look for imagination in film, new ways to create thriller comventions, like tension and suspense.. The melding of genre in my opening is applicable to arthouse cinema and the more film savvy teenagers of that target audience. My film is tailored to the in-education and intelligent teenager+ (15 - 25s).
The opening is trying to adress those themes and ideas, upon viewing it Calum Sugett (anb audience research interviewee) stated,
"It adresses the ideas talked about by myself well, just needed more thriller elements, tension feels flat but mystery is most definitely purveyed."
I take this as a positive review and given more time would attempt to use more standard genre conventions in order ot appeal to a wider audience and appeal to my chosen audeince more.
Evaluation- Question 3
What kind of media institutions might distribute your media product and why?
The overall direction of my opening is to expand into a feature film, the opening a small and suspenseful set up to a genre bending surreal thriller. I can imagine my film being produced and distributed by New Line Cinema, as they are willing to take risks on such thrillers as they walk a marketing tight rope between mainstream and arthouse audiences, even more seeing as the target audience is usually the prey of blockbusters and not genre bending independent thrillers. New Line have produced and distributed thrillers of the same vein to great success and slight failure, and are willing to try something new like my thriller.
The overall direction of my opening is to expand into a feature film, the opening a small and suspenseful set up to a genre bending surreal thriller. I can imagine my film being produced and distributed by New Line Cinema, as they are willing to take risks on such thrillers as they walk a marketing tight rope between mainstream and arthouse audiences, even more seeing as the target audience is usually the prey of blockbusters and not genre bending independent thrillers. New Line have produced and distributed thrillers of the same vein to great success and slight failure, and are willing to try something new like my thriller.
Evaluation- Question 2
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
My film in short doesn't seek to represent social class. It is a film that strays away from third party viewing, by shying away from representing specific social groups my film becomes more focused on narrative and appealing to a wide audience without challenging an audience without anything but the narrative. I think it represents its target audince, 15-25s, as a hard audience to please, needing to be exited by challengeing genre conventions to create narrative importance.
My film in short doesn't seek to represent social class. It is a film that strays away from third party viewing, by shying away from representing specific social groups my film becomes more focused on narrative and appealing to a wide audience without challenging an audience without anything but the narrative. I think it represents its target audince, 15-25s, as a hard audience to please, needing to be exited by challengeing genre conventions to create narrative importance.
Evaluation- Question 1
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
My project uses conventions of thriller with slight twists to its formualtion and challenges to larger parts of the genre. The sound is distinctly strange and unnsettling as I felt the natural sound didnt create impressive atmosphere, although some natural sound could have improved the idea of the characters seclusion, an aspect lost because of my strive to challenge conventions of thriller. The expressionist style (taken from "Dark City") I feel puts emphasis on the mystery element I tried to convey in the narrative as using conventional thriller wouldnt draw the audience to my red herring, a staple of Hitchcockian thriller I attempted to use. My opening focuses on trying to pawn itself off as a combination of the Noir Thriller genre with Surrealism and Expressionist nuances, in the same vein as "Se7en" (1995, David Fincher) , "Blue Velvet" (1986, David Lynch) and Cronos (1993, Guillermo del Toro). Particularly using the mystrious almost fantastical elemnts of "Cronos" creating an element of mystery that almost excels the human character, creating colour in the film (although briefly).
In conclusion my thriller focuses on challengeing the conventions of modern/.conventional thriller in search of creating a mysterious and interesting take on the genre, using arthouse style and using developed directors ideas.
My project uses conventions of thriller with slight twists to its formualtion and challenges to larger parts of the genre. The sound is distinctly strange and unnsettling as I felt the natural sound didnt create impressive atmosphere, although some natural sound could have improved the idea of the characters seclusion, an aspect lost because of my strive to challenge conventions of thriller. The expressionist style (taken from "Dark City") I feel puts emphasis on the mystery element I tried to convey in the narrative as using conventional thriller wouldnt draw the audience to my red herring, a staple of Hitchcockian thriller I attempted to use. My opening focuses on trying to pawn itself off as a combination of the Noir Thriller genre with Surrealism and Expressionist nuances, in the same vein as "Se7en" (1995, David Fincher) , "Blue Velvet" (1986, David Lynch) and Cronos (1993, Guillermo del Toro). Particularly using the mystrious almost fantastical elemnts of "Cronos" creating an element of mystery that almost excels the human character, creating colour in the film (although briefly).
In conclusion my thriller focuses on challengeing the conventions of modern/.conventional thriller in search of creating a mysterious and interesting take on the genre, using arthouse style and using developed directors ideas.
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