Question One :
In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of a real media product?
In our media project me, Jaye Parker and Louise Vann worked together to think up different conventions we would be using that would relate and work with the genre of film we was asked to do which was a thriler. Therefore we thought it would be creatative and would give off the right effect to use a collection of different angles and a different collection of sounds. In our film we used non dietgetic and dietgetic sound to show the use of media as a whole. We challenged forms of conventions by including an antagonist and a protagonist. In having to consider aspects of a thriller and place them into our own thriller film. We had to consider the target audience and then arrange what our main idea wuld be to suit the audience, the target audience was for around 15-18 year olds and we then linked this age group with the idea of abuse in society and then worked out how we could turn these aspects in society into a thriller. The backing music was then our next idea and realised that we did not want an overload of dialouge and therefore the music was essential. We looked at different free music sites with short pieces of music in the end we chose a chilling piece which entwined perfectly with our thriller. The camera angles were important to show the vulnerability of the young traumatised girl and in having flashbacks in the film it was crucuial to get the camera angle correct so tnat in editing it would be clear to what was the flashback, we did this with slow motion shots and rapid jump cuts troughout. The most important convention of a thriller would be to build suspense and sustain it and to do this i needed to discuss with my group the importance of suspense and the success that would come across if we managed to hold it. To do this we focused on they way shots were edited in the film and using the right camera shots to not give away to much, keeping things slow but making sure they wasnt to a point of boredom.
Likens by Indianapolis housewife Gertrude.
In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of a real media product?
In our media project me, Jaye Parker and Louise Vann worked together to think up different conventions we would be using that would relate and work with the genre of film we was asked to do which was a thriler. Therefore we thought it would be creatative and would give off the right effect to use a collection of different angles and a different collection of sounds. In our film we used non dietgetic and dietgetic sound to show the use of media as a whole. We challenged forms of conventions by including an antagonist and a protagonist. In having to consider aspects of a thriller and place them into our own thriller film. We had to consider the target audience and then arrange what our main idea wuld be to suit the audience, the target audience was for around 15-18 year olds and we then linked this age group with the idea of abuse in society and then worked out how we could turn these aspects in society into a thriller. The backing music was then our next idea and realised that we did not want an overload of dialouge and therefore the music was essential. We looked at different free music sites with short pieces of music in the end we chose a chilling piece which entwined perfectly with our thriller. The camera angles were important to show the vulnerability of the young traumatised girl and in having flashbacks in the film it was crucuial to get the camera angle correct so tnat in editing it would be clear to what was the flashback, we did this with slow motion shots and rapid jump cuts troughout. The most important convention of a thriller would be to build suspense and sustain it and to do this i needed to discuss with my group the importance of suspense and the success that would come across if we managed to hold it. To do this we focused on they way shots were edited in the film and using the right camera shots to not give away to much, keeping things slow but making sure they wasnt to a point of boredom.
One film that our media project can be compared to is An American crime. An american crime is a 2007 drama about the life and abuse of Sylvia
Likens by Indianapolis housewife Gertrude.The film consists of torture and abuse from the housewife. This film is similar to our media project because of the abuse that ha
The video below is the bath scene from the film called what lies beneath. There are some high and low angle shots in this scene which we used in our own media project.
ppens, also in this film there are scenes of flashbacks which relate to the flashbacks we have used in our film. Les Diaboliques is a 1955 black and white french suspense film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot starring Simone Signoret, Vera Clouzot and Paul Meruisse. The story blends elements of thriller and horror, with the plot focusing on a woman and her husband's mistress who conspire to murder the man; after the crime
is committed, however, his body disappears, and a number of strange occurrences ensue. This film relates to our media project because of the bath scenes that are in both of them and as a group we would agree that this film was our biggest inspiration. Also here are some comparrison images to show just how much our film relates to les diaboliques:
The video below is the bath scene from the film called what lies beneath. There are some high and low angle shots in this scene which we used in our own media project. Question Two:
How does your media product represent a particular social group?
Our media film would represent not one society but a diverse group of people, some people find it compelling to watch thrillers that are not completely about blood and gore and therefore something that actually happens in every day life with a twist might be more interesting. People that are interested in true life films would also find this a relevant film to watch as it contains reality but holds the whole child abusive perspective at a completely different angle which makes it into a thriller but can tell a story at the same time.
Question Three:
What kind of media institution might describe your media product?
People who have had personal experiences of child abuse maybe the type of people who would be interested in this short film. I think it lives up to many expectations of a thriller but with keeping simple ideas intact and not over thinking a situation like abuse, as it is tragic in its self it was a rich idea that could be used and as a group we found there was multiple ideas you could take from that situation.
How does your media product represent a particular social group?
Our media film would represent not one society but a diverse group of people, some people find it compelling to watch thrillers that are not completely about blood and gore and therefore something that actually happens in every day life with a twist might be more interesting. People that are interested in true life films would also find this a relevant film to watch as it contains reality but holds the whole child abusive perspective at a completely different angle which makes it into a thriller but can tell a story at the same time.
Question Three:
What kind of media institution might describe your media product?
People who have had personal experiences of child abuse maybe the type of people who would be interested in this short film. I think it lives up to many expectations of a thriller but with keeping simple ideas intact and not over thinking a situation like abuse, as it is tragic in its self it was a rich idea that could be used and as a group we found there was multiple ideas you could take from that situation.
The type of companies to distribute our media film would clearly only be the type of companies that know it will make profit so companies that usually release love films or comedys will know that this isnt the type of film they would like to distribute as it would cost them money and they wouldnt feel 100% reliant that the film will make its money back. Where as companies that are used to distributing thrillers, horrors will feel confident in their experience of when is the right time to distribut a thriller and how to go around to so.
Question four:
Who would be the audience for your media product?
The audience for our media product culd consist of young teenagers, it could raise awareness or they might like to see it for the joy of a thrill or having had a personal experience of the same situation it could entice them to watch it. Also young adults and maybe the parent range of people would be interested in this film because of its capability to change views and tell a side to two stories which has been cleverly put together.
Question Five:
How do you attract/address your audience?
As a group we came up with ideas such as making the film fairly simple but wanted to leave the mystery of the flashbacks still lingering throughtout the start of the film to give an impact straight away on the audience. We feel that having three different main steps in the film created a kind of puzzel which could be easily figured out whilst watching parts of the film. For example; when the teenage character is standing in the door way faceing herself when she was younger but with using another character. This would have oozing confusion for about 5-7 seconds but then this would be cast away with clear thoughts of the teenage girl and with an acual fight (abuse) scene included roughly as a flashback i feel it addresses the audience in an intelligent manner and gives them something to think about.
Question Six:
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
To put together our thriller the main thing we used would have been an imac computer we then would have uploaded our movie to an editing software on the computer and we each learned in my group many different ways to edit and understood the different things you could add to a film with you literally didnt actually film. The camera and tripod were the firstly obvious pieces of equipment we had to use to actually film the thriller. We did use the tripod quite often in the film for we had many straight mid shots where the shot would only work if the camera was dead still and thats where the tripod became very useful. However there were some shots during the flash back scenes where we purposely moved the camera from side to side to create a shaky and eventful feeling. Imovie was the software inwhich we used to completely edit to film so we could get it at a final stage. On imovie there are muliple options to chose from in the sense of how the image on the screen is going to come across on the final movie and how much of the film are you going to cut and also it was very crucial that we had the oppourtunity of cutting and moving scenes around to make sure that film actually flowed the way i wanted.
Question Seven:
Looking back at your preliminary rask, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to be the product?
Throughtout the thriller there has been consistant progression, learing and understanding of using different ideas and working in a group, also there has been the construction of understanding how to use imovie and actually edit your film and the way as a group we put ideas together and gradually increased on them to get to a state of continous pregression. Looking back on the preliminary task it is clear that there was little knowledge or understanding of camera angles and ways to have the ability to make something as simple as a converstaion in a preliminary task a little bit more exciting. We now all have the knwoledge and ndertsnading that we could now do this. I am also now more able to preform a camera shot with more meaning, such as a high up shot thats looking down means something has power over someone else we used this shot twice within our thriller whereas in our preliminary it was all at one l
evel.
One of the main things we learned was the 180 degree angle as shown in the picture below you cannot defestg this rule.
Question four:
Who would be the audience for your media product?
The audience for our media product culd consist of young teenagers, it could raise awareness or they might like to see it for the joy of a thrill or having had a personal experience of the same situation it could entice them to watch it. Also young adults and maybe the parent range of people would be interested in this film because of its capability to change views and tell a side to two stories which has been cleverly put together.
Question Five:
How do you attract/address your audience?
As a group we came up with ideas such as making the film fairly simple but wanted to leave the mystery of the flashbacks still lingering throughtout the start of the film to give an impact straight away on the audience. We feel that having three different main steps in the film created a kind of puzzel which could be easily figured out whilst watching parts of the film. For example; when the teenage character is standing in the door way faceing herself when she was younger but with using another character. This would have oozing confusion for about 5-7 seconds but then this would be cast away with clear thoughts of the teenage girl and with an acual fight (abuse) scene included roughly as a flashback i feel it addresses the audience in an intelligent manner and gives them something to think about.
Question Six:
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
To put together our thriller the main thing we used would have been an imac computer we then would have uploaded our movie to an editing software on the computer and we each learned in my group many different ways to edit and understood the different things you could add to a film with you literally didnt actually film. The camera and tripod were the firstly obvious pieces of equipment we had to use to actually film the thriller. We did use the tripod quite often in the film for we had many straight mid shots where the shot would only work if the camera was dead still and thats where the tripod became very useful. However there were some shots during the flash back scenes where we purposely moved the camera from side to side to create a shaky and eventful feeling. Imovie was the software inwhich we used to completely edit to film so we could get it at a final stage. On imovie there are muliple options to chose from in the sense of how the image on the screen is going to come across on the final movie and how much of the film are you going to cut and also it was very crucial that we had the oppourtunity of cutting and moving scenes around to make sure that film actually flowed the way i wanted.
Question Seven:
Looking back at your preliminary rask, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to be the product?
Throughtout the thriller there has been consistant progression, learing and understanding of using different ideas and working in a group, also there has been the construction of understanding how to use imovie and actually edit your film and the way as a group we put ideas together and gradually increased on them to get to a state of continous pregression. Looking back on the preliminary task it is clear that there was little knowledge or understanding of camera angles and ways to have the ability to make something as simple as a converstaion in a preliminary task a little bit more exciting. We now all have the knwoledge and ndertsnading that we could now do this. I am also now more able to preform a camera shot with more meaning, such as a high up shot thats looking down means something has power over someone else we used this shot twice within our thriller whereas in our preliminary it was all at one l
evel.One of the main things we learned was the 180 degree angle as shown in the picture below you cannot defestg this rule.
This is a screengrab of me acting, i am playing the main character and am the girl who is bused as a child and the memories come back to haunt her. This scene here i am in the bath and as i go under water ,like the screen shot below i start to see the memories infront of me all over again and become more and more distressed about my past. This was the hardest shot to shoot in terms of the camera angle louise has to stand over the bath and craefully hold the camera as steady as possible whilst i went under water and then as i come up in a shock which is what this image is showing. The effect it would have on an audience would be a shocked imapct and quite jumpy as it is all quiet and then i shoot up in fear as quick as possible without hitting louise or the camera.
