Eval- Question 7

What do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

Throughout the process of my opening thriller sequence i feel that I've gained key skills for filming as well as editing and have I have learnt the importance of things such as props, costumes and locations. After experimenting with the camera's I've come to realise that to create a specific mood or atmosphere you can adjust lighting, angle and composition to achieve this. Although I didn't gain group skills, I did manage to gather new actors and people that were willing to help me film my opening sequence. 

We had to learn from scratch how to use the software needed as none of us from the group had any experience with it before. We now know we must leave a lot of time when editing the film as it takes a lot of time to complete. We have realised how important sound is for a film as it completely sets the mood and genre.

Grab 9 frames from both tasks side by side 

Include your screen captures of editing, sound mixing and shooting from your blog 

For sound - upload the sounds of your film from garageband

Colour code your responses by student so we know who has answered what

What have you learned about filmmaking/progressed your skills from Preliminary to Final Film?

Camera: shot types & framing/composition, variety of angles, exposure & focus

Editing: Continuity (180 deg rule, match on action, shot rev shot), Pace

Sound: Foley & ambient sounds, scoring the soundtrack of the film to the action, overdubbing dialogue

Lighting & Colour Grading

Make sure you mention the 180 degree rule, match on action and shot/reverse shot

Eval- Question 3

About our Production Company:

Our production company makes opening sequences for films in the genre of thrillers. We decided to call it Prime Productions because the sequences we make are "of first importance' so we thought it would correspond with the companies reputation. The foley I attached to the animated logo was because the sequence of the logo was a formation of the title so I added foley from the transformers trailer.

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

Production companies are essential during the making of any film. They handle things such as the funding, production and organization of the film as well as post production, distribution, marketing and staff hiring ect. Another major part of this is the distribution of the film. These are essential, as they make sure it reaches its target audience, this making sure that film is appealing to the audience and sells successfully.

A production company helps to create the film. It inspects the film from day one to the final product, which means that if there’s any issues that arise between this period of time they are responsible it. A film distributor is a company/ individual responsible for marketing of the film. They set the release date and the method of which the film is available for viewing and also makes sure that the film becomes appealing to the target audience and therefor sells. The money for our film intellectual would have come from the production company Intensity Productions, if it had been a real company. We made it look as professional as we could because of this.

 Although our company would not be a major and have significant amounts of funding to produce the film there would be enough to make a good film and hopefully gain a great profit from it, to then produce new better higher quality films. Our title sequence worked in a specific order, people that done the major work for the thriller opening get more screen time of their names and are shown first. The actors are also shown as they are involved in the film and we wanted the audience to know if they liked the actors or not for future films, but also for their own recognition. We then put the name of other people who helped make the film possible as there are many different roles all important to make the final piece.

Eval- Question 6

What have you learnt about technologies during the process of constructing my opening thriller sequence?

Throughout the making of my opening thriller sequence I learnt about various editing softwares such as Final cut pro, adobe after effects, iMovie and Adobe Premier. I also gained further understanding of filming equipment such as SLR cameras, lighting and mobile devices.

Final cut is absolutely vile and Premier pro is so much better! Don't listen to Barton.

After spending over 12 hours in school trying to edit my footage I decided to download a trial of Adobe Premier Pro which was recommended by a friend. What would of taken a week on FCP, took 2 days to edit with APP. Using this software I was able to achieve editing effects such as motion tracking and masking text behind moving objects within my footage. Although iMovie played a minimal part in the editing of my film it did allow me to cut up the most important parts of my filming and arrange them accordingly.











These two images show the main equiptment that I used to film my opening sequence. I was unable to use the proper camera's because they were given to another member of my group at the time. So I improvised and used a borrowed digital single lens reflex camera as well as my iPhone.

Eval- Question 5

How did you attract/address your audience?

You could use YOUTUBE's annotation tools to add NOTES, SPEECHBUBBLES, and LINKS to your video:

posting annotations to youube

These annotations will highlight the ways in which your Film Opening links to other similiar films in order to attract the particular Audience you have previously identified. Alternatively you could use still images of your film and embed these as a Prezi with notes or as images in a written blog entry.

You should embed examples of your audience feedback also from your focus group (vox pops taken on your phones)


Your annotations will refer to

Genre conventions,
Music & Effects, 
Use of characters & story,
Similarities with other movies, 
What you have identified as the Unique Selling Point of your imaginary film,
Evidence of your audience feedback (quotes) from your production companies youtube & facebook pages

1. How did you capture their interest in the opening?

2. How did you target your gender, what characters could they identify with/appeal to them?

3. How did you appeal to your age group, and the audience who watches Thrillers?

4. Evidence of your survey monkey - what did you learn about meeting their expectations & interests?

5. Comparison with successful Thrillers similar to your audience (with trailers)/images.

Eval- Question 4

My target audience for my product is ideally males that range between 16-30 years of age. I researched what type of people that viewed thriller films and it came up with the same results as my target audience. I looked at who had watched my influential films such as Salt, Falling down and Dexter. All these thrillers roughly had the same range of viewers.

To achieve my target audience i further research into thriller films like our own such as limitless and found out the target audience of them. The violence suspense and action of the chase make our thriller film a film aimed more towards the male gender.

This is an example of a regular male, this is the type of audience that I expect to view my thriller.

I expect my audience to shop in the mainstream male shops such as Topman, River island and Burton. They'd dress smart casual because the shops I gave examples of have a range of casual as well as smart clothes. Some of my characters outfits were purchased from the mainstream shops which makes them appear more believable.