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

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

Q4. Who would be the audience for your media project ?

Our film opening is a psychological thriller and our main target audience is 16to 40 year old adults because of the level of understanding needed to enjoy the opening, it also has a female skew because of the psychological genre.  We are also targeting a younger audience to buy the buy or watch the dvd because of the hype and aspiration to watch an 16+ movie
















Our sub genre the psychological aspect of the film has the same target audience but with a female skew as they like movies which needs a level of understanding to watch. There isn't many fights or action which tend to have a male skew but a deep plot which is full of pain and loneliness. The target audience for the subgenre is slightly higher which starts from 25 and ends at 40

















The Unique selling point for our film opening is the psychological genre and the mix of a student main character with an adult main character. We have tried to create a film catering which would be interesting to watch because of the tension and suspense added into the opening. It have a small target audience of 25 to 35 and have a female skew.

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

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Q5. How did you attract/ address your audience ?

Q6. what have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product ?

During the course of this project we have used many technologies to make the blog more interesting by lowering the amount of words and paragraphs used in the blogs. The most used technology was the software final cut pro which we used to edit our scenes and bring them them together to create the film opening. Final cut pro provided a platform that aloud us to add special effects to make the opening more appealing and interesting and also aloud as to add titles and production company logos to film opening.

We also used Sideshows to help present our pitch and planing to the teacher. The slideshow helped

to present all the information like the props and location in an easy to view format with images. Prezis are another technology like a sideshow but it is easier to customise with unique backgrounds and animation making it more interesting.

The good things about these technologies is their versatility as we could add a sideshow into final cut pro and make it into a video or add a sideshow to a prezi. These technologies have been extremely useful to our group for this project.

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

Overall the preliminary task helped us to improve our skills to a higher level which made our final film opening better quality

Final Film Opening

Yayyy we've finished!!!

We were the first group in our set to finish our Thriller opening!! :D

Editing Sound

This was our last minute editing of the sound that was then added to our final thriller opening on Final cut pro. We were making the sound longer for the extra titles that we added and also for the new production ident that we made.

Creating our own Production Ident

Soundtrack Pro: adding sounds

We added sounds such as 'Appear Crystal', 'Pencil Writing', 'City', 'City Park' and 'Camera Flash'.

Special effects For Opening

For are special effects we did a few sketches/scribbles and wrote diary entries on acetate to achieve the look that was on the Seven opening. 

This is the effect we where hoping to achieve from the Seven opening:

These are acetates and us recording it:

This is how it looks on are opening:

Editing process

Here we are adding a title to our sequence

We added the 'earthquake' filter to our titles

Rough Cut of Film Opening- Feedback

Rebecca gave us feedback on our opening and told us what we needed to work on

• Intercutting titles to the rest of the film
• Change the names because you can't repeat names
• Shorten one of the clips
• Change the production company name

We also added some video filters to our titles

Rough Cut of Film Opening

'Se7en' Opening inspiration

We looked at the opening of 'Se7en' for inspiration on the title sequences and the video filters they have used. They went with the sepia effect which made the opening look older. The titles were written in lowercase and the font looked liked it was handwritten which we are going to do in our opening.

The first scene of the film has a slight sepia effect which we have tried to add in our first scene.

The main actors' names have been written in lowercase and on a black screen

This scene had a slight grainy effect which made the clip look less 'clean'

The Director's name was placed at the end of the opening

Editing Process: Rough Copy

Video of location

The Main location for our film opening is Grimaldi park which is around kings cross. Grimaldi park is the best location to film our main scenes because of the open space in the park and the eeriness of the cemetery.   

Second day of Filming

Today we went to our chosen location to film the scenes with the stalker and the victim. We were able to film today as there wasn't anything that would have interrupted our filming.