First draft/Evaluation

First Draft/Evaluation
With the first draft to our final thriller, we found that it wasn't very good. We didn't connect some of the scenes, so they will not make sense. E.g. at 1:34, we can see the character 'Nortz' walking away angrily, but we are not shown why he is angry. Furthermore, the music that we chose doesn't fit in the genre of thrillers. It is rather informal and laid back, which is not the effect we are trying to give from our thriller. Furthermore, we forgot to give our student examination numbers, so the examiner would not be able to identify who made this film easily. Lastly, we did not include a title to our thriller, so it just begins and ends without telling us what this film would've been called.

 

Sound exercise

Sound exercise
Our sound exercise features a short film called Snitch, in which there is a drug deal being set up by me. During this drug deal, I call my friend who works for the police (Tino) to easily walk into the drug deal and take the money and the drugs, leaving the other two characters. (Leon, Gottfried)
Much of the film features diegetic sound, when I am on the phone setting up the drug deal. But as soon as the other character (Leon) comes on screen, non-diegetic sound begins as music plays. This music plays until he meets the other character (Gottfried) and diegetic sound begins again when they are talking. This diegetic sound is cut off with a comical non diegetic vinal disk rip. This kicks off more non-diegetic music, this time being that of a sad tone. The characters begin to talk again, and the non-diegetic music continues to play in the back ground just under the sounds of them speaking, this continues until the film comes to an end.

Evaluation Question 7

The 7th evaluation question is answered featuring a prezi powerpoint presentation.


http://prezi.com/a9xzcndibodt/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy
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Evaluation Question 6

For the 6th evaluation question, I used a website called padlet to produce it.


http://padlet.com/elijahjace1/jjpxq5r48rh2
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Created with Padlet

Evaluation Question 5

The 5th of my evaluation question I used PowToon.

https://www.powtoon.com/show/dMtLuLvGPTV/evaluation-question-5/#/

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Evaluation question 4

https://www.mindomo.com/mindmap/16543f23167f475885020e8b878c02d5
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Make your own mind maps with Mindomo.

Evaluation Question 3

http://app.emaze.com/@ALRRLLTL/presentation-name

Evaluation Question 2

This particular evaluation question is unable for embedded links to this blog, so I just added the hyperlink that you can paste into your URL to open. The link is below.


https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l3Gsstn2Gx0kjMttS9t3q9iN0ERq3h58hLC8-PD_MVc/edit?usp=sharing

Evaluation question 1

Evaluation question 1:

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

The conventions of thrillers that feature in our film are changes in the angles of our shots, an antagonist and a possible protagonist, tense non-diegetic music, scenes of action. These particular conventions featured in our thriller because they were the ones we saw as appropriate to fit in our film.

In our thriller, I have found that it is quite difficult to apply any key media theories. One that I can apply, is the enigma code. Because our thriller starts with something that happens during the mid-point of the sequence, it leads the audience wondering how the characters got in to the particular place that they were in this scene. 

A real film that we could compare our thriller to is 50 cents “Get rich or die tryin’.” The reason that I am comparing our thriller to this is because of course that film is also a thriller. Not only that, but that film has similar theme to it. It is based in the streets about young black males in a similar situation to those in the film.

We developed our conventions by watching the film get rich or die tryin' before hand, and getting ideas from it. Our thriller conforms to most conventions of thrillers, as it features different components such as action scenes, and a red herring,being the fact that the film goes backward, and features what would be the mid-point of the film at the end. We have challenged small conventions of thrillers e.g. we do not feature any romance in our thrillers, nor do we feature any binary opposites as the characters in the film are all of similar genders and backgrounds.

Third production meeting

Third production meeting

On this day, this photo was taken before visiting my house for more filming. This particular production meeting wasn't found to be very successful as construction of the film did not go very well. We found ourselves improvising ideas as we needed the scene to be outside in the dark, so we just filmed anyway but with small changes in the script and the direction.

Film Screening/Audience Feedback

Audience feedback
With the screening for our finished thriller, we gathered a small group of people from our classroom and asked them to watch and give their opinion on it. Deja said she felt 'gripped' by it, and that the visuals were very well done, besides for a few obvious mistakes. Dara said that the editing was done at a high standard and that it is one of the best that he had seen from AS level students. And Markus said that our opening was "amazing", even better than what his group had produced.

Final piece Thriller - Resentment