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

Q2 How does your media product represent particular social groups?

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

Q3
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Q4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

Collector target audience: 

My groups film the collector is a psychological thriller, so our film would mainly be targeted to both genders male and female, to ages around 20- 30 adults. We chose to target our film to at male and female adults aged 20 – 30 because, the film is a psychological film so it would be targeted to people who are mature enough, Because of the level of understanding needed to enjoy the film. Some of the parts that will be used in my film, teenagers would not understand.  

The wider audience for our film could be people from 16 – 40, because of the 2^nd main character is a female student, some students could relate to the character. We hope 16 years old would watch and buy the DVD because, some teenagers enjoy watching a 16+ movie. This film is for intelligent people with a good memory, it doesn’t matter about the gender. Even if you are not very intelligent, you may want to give the movie a try, and who knows you might even understand what the film is about.    

The age certificate for our film would be 15. The reason why I chose to give the film an age certificate 15 and not 20 was because we want as many people as possible to watch my film, to get a wider audience. If the age certificate was 20 then we would lose sales because people below the age 20 might want to watch the film in the cinema, but they are too young to get in, so I think the age certificate should be 15.

The most interesting selling point for my film would be that it’s a psychological thriller so it is aimed at males and females. Also the main characters are a female student and a young adult. Which, both male and female audiences could relate to the characters.    

Q5. How did you attract/address your audience?

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

The main programs me and my group used was, Final cut pro: we used final cut pro to edit our film in order and to add some special effects to the title and to the scenes. We also used soundtrack: to add some sounds and music to our film, we used sound to add some tension and excitement to the audience. We used slideshows to present our planning and pitch to our teacher. The slideshow made it easier to present and all information needed like the locations and props.

These technologies and programs were very useful in creating our thriller opening. Final cut pro was the most used program for our thriller opening, it was very helpful and very easy to use. The second most used program was sound track, this program was very useful in adding all the sounds and music we needed to out thriller opening. The most used and important equipment was the JVC camcorder, this equipment was very, very useful, without it we wouldn’t be able to film our thriller opening. Also the tripod was used to keep the camera still and not hand held. 

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

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.