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.

Eval- Question 2

Originally, the other members of my group were supposed to allocate an actors for the opening thriller sequence but I ended up having to play the main character (the Protagonist) and had to use friends and family to assist in the making and casting of the actors. I took inspiration from two main films, Salt and Maid in Manhattan because Salt changes her appearance depending on her situation as well as having a secret identity. The Maid in Manhattan influenced my work because she works as a maid and so i based my costume on her.
Although Jennifer Lopez and I don't visually look the same we both have maid costumes and labour based jobs. My costume is slightly more edgy than hers because she hasn't got a second secret identity where as I have. The last image shows how she's in an action shot because her hairs blowing in the wind, similarly to my screenshot from my sequence. This represents how the post feminism characters appear as if they never stops and are independent.