Media A level- Thriller

 When we edited our thriller, one of the stages was to add titles to our thriller, we had to make sure that the titles we used were appropriate for a thriller and suited the conventions well. When I analysed thriller film openings, this helped a lot with what we needed to do as we could see how other popular thrillers used titles effectively, for example, the timing of how long each title was going to be on screen for, where on the screen to put them and what order to put the titles in. Also what font to put the titles in. Therefore I researched into fonts and found out about serif and sans-serif fonts that were popular in thrillers. We used this establishing shot to open up our title sequence. We thought this would be good as it shows the location but also gives a date so the audience knows when this happened.  This is our main title where we present the name of the film to the audience, this occurs right at the end of the opening sequence, it pops up in the middle of the screen to ga

 Initially, my first idea was to film in a woods or forest as I thought that location fitted a thriller opening scene best, as a forest gives off the feel of the conventions of a thriller e.g. Scary, mystery, anything can happen. However after my research and watching a few thriller openings I realised that filming in a woods isn't the best idea as it is quite genereic and can be difficult to film in the woods as lighting and sound is not the best. After I did my location scout I found that filming in an empty room where the lighting, sound and space would be perfect and would still suit the conventions of a thriller, especially with the props we used. We also used an antagonist character as it is key to have one in a thriller because it also fits the conventions of a thriller. We used camera shots and angles that we had seen been used in the thrillers that we analysed, this was too make sure the audience knows that the main genre was a thriller. We also needed to make sure we made

 From the survey I made I found that the majority of our target audience will range between ages 15-18, therefore the conventions we use need to match their preferences. This is going to help me find out what kind of demographics and psychographics people have that will watch our thriller.  Gender- Male Aged- 15-18 Education-  Student/ 6th form Media preferences- Youtube, social apps (snapchat, instagram) TV, Films Likes: Thrillers, cinemas, music, TV, follows trends Socio- Economic group- lives at home, goes to school full time, enjoys going out with friends to cinema, has part-time job on weekends Psychographic group- Likes TV series, follows the crowd,  This is a key example of what our target audience is, people like this that have similar preferences will want to watch and like our project. Therefore it is key that we know what to include and what our audience likes. 

 When we had all our clips sorted out and put them all together, we then moved on to finding background non-diagetic music that suited our thriller, we also added title screens, where our names would pop up in the opening of our thriller to state to the audience the roles we played. It was mine and Oscar's role to find the music and add titles, as Tom and Ollie roles was to edit the clips and put them together.  In this screenshot we were testing different music to see what one we liked and suited our piece best. We also started to then add the titles so the timing of the music fitted well with the time of the titles popping up, with the titles we chose a font that suited the conventions of a thriller, we did this by looking at other thriller examples and seeing what font they were using. This was important as it has to be clear to the audience that they are watching a thriller.  In this shot we were experimenting where the best place was to put the titles, so they were not blockin

 My group and I had a discussion to sort out the roles of the editing stages. Ollie- Editing clips and putting them together Jack- Organising clips, adding sound effects, finding music Oscar- Sound effects,  Tom- Getting rid of clips we don't need, editing clips, I organised the clips by numbering them and giving them brief descriptions of what each clip included, this made it much easier for my group to find the clips we were looking for and saved us a lot of time. I added the gunshot sounds by going onto YouTube and finding a non copywrited gunshot sound which we used.  We hope to get it all done by the 25th of May so we can have an opportunity to get feedback from our target audience where we will do a screening, meaning we will be able to improve our piece from the feedback we receive from our target audience. This also means that once we have completely finished it should match what our target audience wants to see.

 Tom and Oscar created a health and safety post for our group project.   Motor bikes  As there were multiple elements of our film that require us to extra take care in acting and filming our scenes. The first area we films that had potential area's of danger were the motor bike scenes. As there were two members of our acting cast that knew how to drive motorbikes and have high levels of experience we decided it would be the safest option to give them the roles of the characters who have to drive the bikes in the getaway chase.  This decision resulted in us having to give Ollie Blayne and Oli Newland to be the main protagonist and antagonist. As the motor bike scene looks best at relatively high speeds these two people had to be put forward for these two roles.  The props  As our props have a dangerous nature we made sure to handle them with extreme care and made sure they had as little involvement in the scene as possible. These props hold vital context within our scenes so it was 

Ollie- " In!" Ollie- " What you looking at?" Ollie- " Right, come here! Come!"  Jack- " We're next!" Oli N- " No, we're not going to let that happen." Ollie N- " Get the knife on the table". Jack- " What?" Oli N- " Get the knife!" Jack- " Quick, cut me! cut me!  ( Ollie enters back from killing Oscar) Jack- " Go, run!"  Ollie- " Oi!" Oli N- " Wait, wait please!" Ollie- " No, you've messed me around enough".

 

 

 When we uploaded all the clips onto the computer we had 82 clips, we didn't use all of them as there are some duplicates, clips that we don't need to use and some clips where we made mistakes therefore we cant use them.  My role of the editing process is to sort out all the clips that we will use and are not using, and also put the clips that we are using together cutting parts out of the clips that we don't need, to make our thriller more exciting to try and keep the audience interested.  As we are in a group of 4 we have split the editing roles between us Jack- Organising clips, editing clips, finding music, sound effects Ollie- Putting clips together, cutting clips, editing,  music,  Tom- Editing,  Oscar- Editing, We couldn't use this shot as the motorbike was misplaced and we didn't want it in the shot, but was accidentally put there. When we first started editing and got all our clips onto the computer we put small detailed descriptions in to make it more orga

I did a prelim task, to test out and try camera angles that I could possibly use in my actual thriller, this prelim task gave me some experience and an idea of what it will be like when we film.  I realised that this prelim is quite bad, however it was just a start and from my research and watching other thrillers I now know what conventions I can include to make my thriller better. This prelim task was mainly done so I can compare my first ever experience of filming a sequence to my final one, therefore I can see what I have learnt and the differences between the two. 

Actor Scouting  Jack Young-  In our film, one of our actors Jack will be playing the role of a teenager who has been abducted with his friends. Jack did GCSE drama which meant that due to his experience in front of the camera, he was the right person for the role. Oscar  Mccarthy -   Oscar will play the role of the second teenager who has been abducted. We choose Oscar to be an actor because he fitted the role presented well compared to the other choices.   Tom Barrett- Tom was another option that we had for an actor. However, we decided that Tom suited the role of the cameraman more. Tom creative ability paired him well with the role of the cameraman.   Ollie Blayne- Ollie will play the role of the killer in our film. We came to this conclusion as he did GCSE drama, so he is a good actor. It was good for Ollie to play this role as the killer has ride a motorbike, which Ollie can do.  Oli Newland- Oli will play the role of the third teenager who has been abducted by the killer. Oli did