Final Piece

This is our final cut of our Thriller movie opening, 'Manor Way'.

I hope you enjoy:

Feedback analysis

This is the opening we created:

And this is the feedback we received over multiple media platforms, such as: Facebook and Youtube:

 

Now that we've had our feedback we would go back to our work and edit the music more and make the music suit our opening better. This is what i would change: I would make the beginning music quieter and make it so that the music would slowly build up as the opening goes on. I would make the music less imposing by making the volume lower. I would do this because with the music so loud it distracts you from whats happening in the opening rather then contributing to the opening. I would also make the music fade to silence at key points in the opening so that it build more suspense.

Question 7

Looking back on your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to  a full product?

The preliminary task we shot back in January was our first time using cameras and filming techniques such as the 180° rule. In our preliminary task we used simple camera angles and acton shots, we did this as a introduction into filming. At this time we did not know about all the editing tools in Final cut pro or how to use Garageband, but we managed to piece together a short clip without music and simple transitions. This video ended up being a very simple one without any filters or much alteration to it. Our clip was of a boy walking into a school classroom full of people who bully him and a short conversation with his friend, where the only sounds produced were the diegetic sounds of him walking and talking. Our shot types consisted of: establishing shots, action shots, medium shots, close-ups, low angled shots and over the shoulder shots. Thanks to this clip we learnt the basics of film making and we used that experience as a stepping stone to move onto bigger projects, like out movie opening. we learnt about the rule of thirds - the spacing on the screen and where the character is positioned on screen. Also the 180° rule - where you must keep the same right to left relationship with two characters while they are on screen. The only time you don't need to follow this rule is when you 'Cross the line'. This is when a director challenges this rule in order to make a interesting clip or shot. We used the 180° rule when our two characters conversed. However, we did not know of rule of thirds until after our shoot. However we learnt from our mistake and used better spacing on later projects.

Before we shot our piriliminary task we went through sevral stages of planning such as a storyboard and animatic. When i first attempted to make a storyboard i found it surprisingly hard to emagin how to draw the angles of the shots. However after we made both the storyboard and the animatic we found them extremely useful when we begun shooting.

We learnt a lot of helpful information and skills after we finished our preliminary task, and since then we have improved significantly. Our camera angles have diversitied along with knowleage of different software and effects. As for equipment we have become more confident in using and experimenting with the cameras.

I believe our preliminary task was sucssesful because we learnt how to correct our mistakes and how to properly used the equiptment at our disposal.

Here is our preliminary task:

Question 6

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

Question 5

How did you attract/address your audience?

Question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Our main target audience would be middle/working class woman aged 15-35. We set this as our target audience because the genre is a thriller so we can't cater for any ages below 15. This age range would also be suitable for our movie because we found that people this age can easily enjoy the suspense filled movie without feeling scared or overly filled with adrenalin. We said that middle/working class woman are our target because we believe that our movie will better connect to that audience and make them feel more emotionally bonded to the movie. Also this audience will be able to easily emphasise with a fellow female. Since our thrillers main protagonist is female this would further make our target audience feel a sense of woman's pride because our protagonist faces many challenges throughout the movie. 

Many thriller movies have similarities to our movie. The one that is most like 'Manor Way' would be the movie 'The visit'. These two movies are alike in the way that they are both filled with suspense and both story lines are quite similar but still have there key differences. 'The visit' was released in 2015 with a genre of horror/thriller, and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. 

In Abraham Maslow's 1943 paper "A Theory of Human Motivation" begun a theory called Maslow's Hierarchy of needs. On the website, 'Simply Psychology" it states, "Maslow said that people are motivated to achieve certain need and that some needs take precedence over others. Our most basic need is for physical survival, and this will be the first thing that motivates our behaviour. Once that level is fulfilled the next level up is what motivates us, and so on."

This theory links to my media product because our opening makes our views think about their own safety and security. This is because throughout our opening and our movie the protagonists safety is constantly being challenged and this in turn makes the views question their level of safety. In the movie our protagonist is faced with the murder of three family members and also the challenge to escape with her life. This would make the viewers feel uneasy and conscientious about losing their own family members. This opening would leave the views feeling panicked and also make them feel more lovingly towards their loved ones because of the fear of losing them.

Simply Psychology website:https://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html

Question 3

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

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