THRILLER TITLE SEQUENCE FINAL EDIT

Question 7: What do you feel you have learned in the progression from it to the full product?

Question 6: What have you learned about technologies from the process of constructing?

Question 8: Audience Feedback and Comments!

Here are some videos that we took before, during and after the screening:

Harry Kinsley's comment after watching 'Of Unsound Mind'

Michael Lewry's comment.

Francene and Alexandra's comment.

The atmosphere before the viewing of all our clips in 'The Green Screen'.

We were pleased with all the comments and found that all of them were postive and was happy that they found that our film was unique and interesting.

Evaluation Q;5. who would be the audience for my media product?

'Farhana, 17, currently studying for her A levels, a particular interest in Psychology, loves to go out with her friends to the cinema, shops in high street; Topshop, River island, Dorothy Perkins'

From this interview that i conducted with Farhana, i feel that she is the main audience for our Thriller film 'Of Unsound Mind'. I felt that she was of the right age group as it is centered around a teenager-- of which she is. I also think it would mainly appeal to her because of her general hobbies and day to day life, she enjoys watching television and films and also has a specialised interest in Psychology, as she does the lesson in her A levels which makes our film even more of an appeal to her.

EVALUATION

1) How media product is used, developed, challenged forms and conventions of real media products?

Here is my 9 still title sequence. You could see that there were effects used to evoke a sense of thriller and tension.

Another tool that we used was layering 2 clips together so it presents a scary psychological theme, for example when she's sitting on the ban stand by herself while the walls of the band stand are moving round it expresses that she is in her own world.

For our titles we used a sharp font with a blue effect so it blends in with what the girl is wearing. Moreover the shot of the teddy bear fading out was a useful technique which flowed with the soundtrack but indicated an illusion of it disappearing hence showing an insight of the girls mind in this clip 'Of Unsound Mind'.

We used some long shots and close ups to allow the audience to see every detail of the clip and mise en scene.

Here is the title sequence of Se7en. The shots here are all close ups so it is very effective in allowing the audience to see every detail of mise en scene, similarly to how we used a close up of the teddy bear and 'Jessica's eyes'. The titles are small and in white and kiddish style writing which presents to us that it may be a psychological thriller. Compared to our titles they were spooky and striking and more memorable. Although the title sequence isn't completely similar to our title sequence, we used this title sequence to influence ours as our titles are in different places on the screen just like 'Se7en'. Moreover the effects that were used in this title sequence are similar to the way we used some effects. For example when the girl is on the bench touching the bear, we used a dark suspensed effect.

Another title sequence that we used as an influence was 'Panic Room'. We tried using the style of the titles used in the title sequence on ours which i think we have done pretty well because our titles come out as striking and suit generally well with the rest of the clip. In addition they were presented in different places of the screen like 'Panic Room'.

2) How media product represents our particular social group?

We used a young girls to attract audiences of youths which should attract these types of audiences but through the use of edit and soundtrack of the title sequence it would broaden the audience to those who like thrillers especially psychological.

In comparison to the film ' Fatal Attraction', Glenn Close is a female psycho who kills unreasonably. This similar to our film 'Of Unsound Mind' because they are both female characters which is going to attract the female audience as well as the male audience. Moreover because both are psychological thrillers it will engage those who like to watch psychological films. This character has inspired us to include a female character in our 2 minutes clip because it creates more tension as well as giving the audience ambiguous thoughts to make them want to watch more of the film.

3 &4) Media Institution that may distributes media product and why. How we would attract the audiences.

This is one of the pieces that a group of AS students made and posted it on youtube and recieved 11,458 hits which shows that it has gained a great amount of audiences. This proves that this is a realistic way of gaining a wider audience and since it was a low budget film with limited access to technology, it shows that it can still be distributed and interest others through the use of the internet. Moreover, youtube is a worldwide website that is accessed by millions of people around the world which allows distribution to a greater market and it is easier to be recognised.

Here is another clip of a singer who started off posting videos of herself singing and everytime she posted a video she recieved as many as 15 million hits. This lead to her being recognised and becoming and international singer.

5) Who would be the audience for our media product?

Our typical audience would by young female teens. Here is images of things that will be in a typical young female teens handbag and there is also a video of the target audience and why it would appeal to them.

7) What i have learnt in progression from the the preliminary task to the full product.

Here is one of the first filming activites that we had to do. This shows our steadiness of the camera and how we could use Final Cut Pro to match the clips together and make it flow. It clearly shows that we had a lot of glitches and needed more time to improve it as well as more time to practise with the tools.

And here is out final cut that we did for our final clip 'Of Unsound Mind'. You can see that we have made a major improvement as we explored Final Cut Pro and used many effects. On our first match cut activity we only learnt how to put certain clips into the timeline and not use the other effects on making it more interesting. Moreover our final cut includes sound and more effects and titles which was not included in our preliminary task. This was because it was the build up of learning more on how to use the Dual Macs and the programmes.

EVALUATION: Q8. Audience feedback and comment

Jessica Comerford: These words in the above picture are from Wordle and are the instant reactions and feedback we received from our class before showing it in the cinema. The words that were predominantly used in each groups feedback were 'Effective' 'good' 'shots' 'Breathing' and 'Soundtrack'. Although four of the words on the wordle seem to be quite general it may show that the audience did not fully take in the message that we tried to give across. It however shows that we created a competent piece that was enjoyed and we felt it represented things and feelings we wanted to get across, especially by the word 'Breathing'. A lot of the audience after watching felt that it was very different from other Thriller openings they had seen, with it not being a narrative opening.

Farhana Maleque: The words in the Wordle represent the immediate comments from the rest of our class members once they watched our 2 minute clip. I have identified that the bigger words are the ones that were the most used from the feedback. The students found our 'shots' 'really' 'effective'. Also 'soundtrack' and 'breathing' came up a lot and we were pleased to find that we successfully aimed to make the features of our clip obvious. I am pleased with all the comments and have portrayed a unique Thriller opening clip that the audience was not expecting.

skills audit: creation of titles

We used our knowledge of using 'SoundTrack Pro' from our preliminary task and applied it to making our titles for our real clip. We experimented again with different fonts, style and colour to choose the best suited for our clip.

skills audit soundtrack

We used a nursery rhyme song 'twinkle twinkle as well as other sounds in soundtrack. It took us some time to choose a component of sound which matched to the soundtrack that we imported from youtube. When we experimented sounds we chose just a simple ' heartbeat' to flow with the 'twinkle twinkle' soundtrack.

Skills Audit Editing

This is a screengrab of our editing. We used many tools such as: speeding, fading, and layering. In comparison to the preliminary task we have majorly improved by linking shots together smoothly and using effects to make our clip interesting.

Skills Audit: Filming

We went out on a sunny day to film. Because of the great weather we were able to film with efficient exposure to light. There were no distraction except that we filmed near a university which attracted students to pass by in some of our shots. This wasn't helpful as we needed to film again. Overall the location and the weather was perfect to make it a good filming day. Luckily we managed to finish all our filming on the same day.

Location Shots:

Our group found a nice quite square in the east of islington, its quite and spookey location was perfect the only trouble w e had is as the spot wos located next to a University it wos hard to film during the day with such big crowds. and found it hard to achieve the atmospher we wanted. But with careful and clever angles, we seemd to have achieved a remote location.

Inspiration for Our thriller Soundtrack

whilst researching for our soundtrack, we came across a video that was highly suitable for our thriller video, with a female vocal singing "twinkle twinkle little star" it gave our thriller a spooky and chilling atmosphere.

the video also inspired us to add extra shots to our thriller, at the end of the you tube video there is a close up of a woman's face. You will find in our thriller a close up of our main character(Jessica).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=menntxDUe4I

Rough cut edit and Changed in Light of feedback from rough cut

Here is our 'Rough Cut'. This shows all our technqiues of using the camera and editing.

The feedback that we recieved from our teachers seeing the rough cut was:
* Not to have many effects, just stick to one to portray one aspect instead of several to make it absolutely clear

* To smooth the connection between one shot to another

* Be better to do more fading shots
and
*to add a soundtrack to have that extra effect on the clip.

We now have to apply this feedback and produce a clear smooth clip of our film.

Planning Preliminary Match Cut exercise including storyboard

We were given the synopsis we were given for this scene was:

"a character opens a door, walks into a room, sits opposite another character and they share a few lines of dialogue"

We implemented about 15 shots which included close ups of someones feet walking down the hall and a hand opening the door. We also filmed a long shot of the persons whole body so we can show the background of the setting.
We included the match cut when the girl opens the door and going into the toilet. We chose the toilet as a setting to make it strange and to build up suspense as its a closed space and kind of a secretive room. We filmed a close up of the girls face and then filmed a mid shot of another girl that she talks to. We were intending to do a shot reverse shot but when editing we didnt have sufficient footage to be able to do this but did acknowledge it.

Skills Audit: Livetype and Sound

LIVETYPE:
This is the program that allows you to add texts, objects, templates and effects. We did a practise of it on our matchcut prelimanary and added titles such as our names.
We used different kind of styles such as dissolving,fades, glows and we used different backgrounds.

For the matchcut, i created a blue font masculine style to go with the match cut just as a tester. I used some glows and decreased the size of the letters. I was also able to lengthen the time i left the title onthe sceen.

SOUNDTRACK:
This enabled me to explore different kinds of sounds and input them into one big track for the title sequence. One of the favourite sounds that i liked were the footsteps, the heart beat and the different kinds of percussion sounds which i feel would be great to be used in our thriller. There are various sound effects which is great because we have a variety to use for our title sequence.

Intro To Cameras & Health amd Safety Tutorial

Before we were allowed to start filming, we had to have a tutorial on how to use the equipment such as:

- Tripod
- Video Camera
- Memory Card
- Hard Drive

The Tripod is used to keep the camera still and is perfect to use it for panning. Also to use it for different angles as i can extend or shorten the legs.

The video camera is used to film our scenes. I learnt how to put the battery in and out. We also learnt how to switch it on, record by pressing the red button and looking back at the footage that we filmer by pressing the button on the side of the small screen. Moreover I learnt how to focus on an object in the shot to make the shot look sharp.

The 2 memory cards is inputted onto the side of the video camera and the recorded footage would be saved in there. But before recording we had to make sure that both memory cards are unlocked. When putting the footages in for editting, we insert the memory card on the memory card reader and input it to the mac computer.

The video drive is used to save and access all of our footages and work that we have done like final cut pro, soundtrack and livetype.

THE HEALTH AND SAFETY!:
* If its raining then we should use an umbrella to keep the video camera dry
* we should not touch the video camera screen as it would leave finger marks on it.
* after finishing filming then the lens should be closed.

Analysis of 9 shots from Art Of The Title Sequence

The fonts used for the titles are bold and white which contrast between the black and colourful backgrounds. The styles look friendlier, feminine and easily attracted. In 5 different shots the titles include the actor’s names which are placed on different places in the shots. Some are at the bottom of the page while others are at the centre and top. The titles are put in front of animated images so it stands out.
But some of them are off the images and are placed outside so we can clearly see the images and the titles. In the 9 shots, it consists of close-ups, mid shots and long shots to give us a brief overview of the movie.
The most interesting thing that appealed to me was the images and the colour used. They used the effects of using black as the main pictures/images while the backgrounds is another colour.

Animatic Storyboard