Final Thriller VIDEO

Preliminary Exercise Video- The Deal

Evaluation Q1 In what ways does your media product use, develop, or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Evaluation Q2 How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Evaluation Q3 What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Evaluation Q4 Who would be the best audience for your media product?

Who would be your audience for your media product? - Video Maker

Evaluation Q5 How did you address/attract your audience?

Evaluation Q6 What have you learned about technologies from the process of constructing the product?

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Evaluation Q7- Looking back at the preliminary task, what do you feel that you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Finding your music

The music that was included as the soundtrack to our film, was hard to find but worth the trouble. Sophie and I found it hard to find a piece of music that would suit our film effectively and to our tastes, we went through numerous websites until we found the specified piece of music that we decided to include in our film. The music was ambient as to not distract the viewer and let them focus on what was going on in the film, but still adding a theme of suspense and mystery to the film.

Production Company Ident

Studio Ident Analysis

Ruopia Productions was the name of our production company for the thriller film that we produced for our media coursework.
The idents all focus around a gothic and negative metallic theme which represents and conveys the idea of a thriller film.
The font used was Abadi Light'. We believe that our film studio ident should be something that is faint with a dark edge to it, as we believe the ident should have a dark edgy theme to it to represent the film.
'Ruopia' is a mix of Sophie and my name to create 'Ruopia', it was an easy enough name for our studio production company and we felt it connected us into the movie even more if our names were attached.
The look of the ident on the film was spontaneously created and not attached or affiliated to any sort of connection with any other ident.
Overall I believe the ident could of been better created so that the audience could remember the ident and name of the production company as the ident is very faint and unlikely to remember as it does not drag out the attention of the audience too much.

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Title Sequences Analysis

The title sequence that was made for the film was made to be very simplistic so that the audience could read the credit titles and not become distracted from the film that they were watching.

The fonts and everything else were all used and found on the Ident programe LiveType we used on the imacs, to create the idents and produce/edit our film.
The color of the font was white and the font was a recognisable Helvetica.
Overall, I believe the title sequence worked effectively as we included the major recognised titles that occur in a title sequence, and we managed to demonstrate and pull off the title sequence effectively so to not disturb the audience, but subtly catch their attention. As we only had two actors in the film, we managed to add more film actors into the credits to make sure we had all the needed necessities in a title sequence, however I believe we could of improved our title sequence by including all of the names and people of recognition to add into the title sequence, which was our main fault in making the title sequences, such as missing out the 'Set Designer' and 'Makeup', but this was our only main fault in making the title sequences.

We used the word 'crooked' as our title to represent the life of the protagonist, crooked- meaning that the protagonist is different from everybody-else, they may seem a little off-balanced on the surface but underneath our protagonist is a messed-up psycho-killer.

Title Sequence Order

*Production Compay Presents*- Ruopia Productions

*Staring* Sophie Wallace and Ruby Canary

*Starring* Anne Hathaway

And David Tennant

*Ruopia Productions*

*Edited by Sophie Wallace*

*Produced by Ruby Canary*

*Director Ruby Canary*

*CROOKED!*

Past Student Work Analysis

This first piece of work comes from 2012 As Media Studies, it shows us the daily routine of a boy waking up in the morning and everything seems normal, this is repeated until one day he wakes up and everything seems odd and misplaced, this is evident when a black figure with non diegetic appears in the bathroom window, suggesting to the audience that something evil is about to unknowingly happen to the victim/character(s), the character is subjected to this and is knocked out by the blacked figure. Overall there is non diegetic music that starts off at the very beginning cheery and happy leading the audience to believe this film to be one of a positive attitude, however the low beat vibrations that are played whenever this black figure is present lead us to believe in something different; this works well as it portrays the theme of a thriller for confusing the audience. The boy being kidnapped by the unknown figure gives a sense of mystery and terror for the audience and character, a good mix for a convention of a thriller, overall this short film works well in targeting the theme of a thriller, however the jump scare at the end is more of a horror theme, nonetheless the film still has the basic elements of a thriller. The same shots are used to represent the same daily routine in those particular shots, which I think also worked well for this thriller.





The second piece of film follows a boy who is kidnapped after meeting with a stranger in the park, the film itself seems false in terms of realistic approach to meeting with a complete stranger in the park, however the non diegetic music is of a rushed and anxious theme subjecting the audience to feel this way in particular,
the close up of the kidnapping worked okay as it gave us a sense of what the characters were feeling and how it portrays a theme of mystery and kidnapping. Overall this film was okay but it should of been reconsidered with more thought into the plot and the cinematography also.






The film starts off with a sharp black and white scenery focusing on scribbled out words and photographs, a great start to a short thriller movie, it becomes apparent that the story follows of two girls, one who it appears to be stalking or obsessed with the other, the diegetic sound of the girl who is stalking's haunted laughter chills us and disturbs us a little, the editing sequence works well as it is in time with the non diegetic plucking music which adds to the effect of the storyline following a thriller; the film then goes to reverse backwards in time where we are shown an unknown piece of shot showing a possible killing of a woman by another woman, making us question if the woman who appears to be the stalker, has killed before and will kill again, creating a create impression on the audience and as a thriller.

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Continuity, Speed and Style Editing

Continuity Editing is where you are using this system of cutting to maintain clear and continuoius narrative action by following a set of rules.

Continuity editing is reliable as it allows the audience to watch the film effectively and clearly, making it easy to watch the film.

The benefits include:

Easy to watch

Structured narrative

Easy and clear shot sequence

The Rules:

180 degree rule

Establishing shot

Shot/reverse shot

30 degree role

Crosscutting

Match on eye action

Eyeline Match

Re-establishing Shot

Re-establishing shot: This is a shot that is taken straight after an establishing or close up, to establish (re) what the audience is focusing on. 

Establishing shot: This shows the innital relationship between a person, scene, location prop etc.

 Shot/reverse shot: Mainly used to show conversation netween two characters, described almost like watching a tennis mathc, back and forth, back and forth.

30 degree  rule: The two shots should be no less than 30 degrees, this is to show the spatial relationship in the given setting/location.

 Crosscutting: A scene that transfers to another scene, through use of camera/video shot

180 degree rule: To make sure that only 180 degrees of the room is shown, breaking this will reak the 180 degree rule and could potentially reveal setting over 180 degrees that will not fit into the footage and potentially confuse the audience, as idf everything looks mirrored.

Match on action: Used ot mae the scene 'flow', it is where the camera shot may change slightly but the scene will still flow effectively, almost invisible or called that, as it is rarely noticed by the audience at the given times.

Eyeline match:Where for example you have a close up of somebody's eyes watching something, then the camera reveals the shot of what that person is looking at, to suggest to the audience this is vital to the film or it is what the character is looking at.

Speed of editing is where the scene for scene matches the tempo and the emotion of the feeling that that particular scenes are trying to play off

Narrative- Structure, Formulas and Devices

Narrative Structure is where a consistant and traditional storyline is followed with easy elements that us as the audience have come to accept and easily understand, providing a framework for the unfolding story. These elements that represent narrative structure are dependant and varied on whatever the genre is or the film is about. Narrative sturcture can be broken down into content and form, and how it is used to tell the storyline, and how tit is presented to the audience.


Narrative Formula is where the film is showed to portray elements and themes that would be speficific to the film that the audience would guess at.


Narrative devices include ways of the author/director etc using devices to convey a message to the audience, devices can come across in many forms, this could be for example two characters speaking in code to signifify something is strange and unkown about the two characters, usind dialogue as a narrative device.