Sent Final draft

This is the final version of SENT and is now uploaded to youtube ready to be marked.

Question 7) what have we learnt in the progression from the preliminary to the final product?

2.25 : 4.24

From our prelim exercise to our finished thriller i really feel we have improved immensely. in our prelim we were still really learning the ropes of the camera work and still learning about the shots hance why some of the shots are blurry and not exactly correct. in our actual thriller film we stopped to consider the aspects a lot more to perfect shots and sequences. a lot of time was put into certain scenes where we had to film two or more times however we knew we needed to do this to improve on the technical aspects from the preliminery exercise.
i think in the journey fro mthe preliminary to the actual result i have gained a lot of skills. firstly in how to use the camera and use the different shots to effect such as close ups,extreme closeups etc. another skill i feel ive learnt is directing, during filming sessions I often arranged characters and props around to suit the scene as well as inputting key ideas.

Sent

Preliminary exercise

Question 6) What have we learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

 4.24: the end

we used a range of technologies below are some examples.

1. Blackberry - this was used for taking pictures of locations and arranging meeting times and places with the actors and crew

2. Digital camera -this was used to take photos of filming sessions for our blog and also taking pictures of our story boards and sheets.

3. Apple mac - this was used for research on the market e.g survey monkey and updating progress to ur blog.

4. Blogger- this was used for making our online blog to keep up with teh progress we were making and any film ideas we may of had.

5. handheld video camera- this was used for the filming of every part of our film and preliminery exercise.

Question 5) How did we attract our audience?

Our thriller really hold,s theb audiences attention by switching shots and making the outcome unpredicatbel it keeps the audience on the edge of their seats wanting to watch on and find out what happens at the end.
It has a mixture of aspects to it from romance to murder so it can appeal to both genders.
The audience would want to watch on after the initial 2 minute opener becasue they would want to know why the murders occured and the story of the characters before. Also in the way the film ends with a cliffhanger makes the audience watch in wonder about what hapens after the messgage is sent.

Question 4)Who would be the audience for our media product?

Before creating our thriller we carried out. four pieces of market research between our group. we used survey monkey surveys and posted them on a Facebook pages for or peers to carry out.

i know the target group for our thriller film sent because all of the people that filled out my survey were between 16 - 21 so we aim to please this part of the market.
the reason they would watch our film is because it is fast paced editing to create adrenaline and take their breath away. generally the people of this age group are searching for a piece of media that actually does this.
we had already identified our target market as we knew that people of our age would enjoy however reults from our surveys proved conclusive. Below is a wordle our group created to show out target market :

People would watch our film as it is based around modern day technology to attract the modern day people. it represents how the people who are watching live and represents there activities however with a           murderous twist to make it interesting.

Question 3) what kind of media institution might distribute our media project?

our thriller film sent could be distributed by a real film production company such as film four, working title and metrodome.  these are UK examples

US examples.

the forms that our film could be viewed in would be :
Cinema (celluloid)
Cinema (digital)
internet
DVD
Television
Viral marketing.
the reason for using these methods would be that these are all popular forms of entertainment and popular comanies. our target market genreally use all of the forms of technology above so this would be a great place to show our thriller.

some real life examples of films similar to ours are: ''i know what you did last summer''
and  a film that uses social networking sites and computers. is ''the social network''

Question 2) How does your media product represent particular social groups?

how does our thriller show gender?
within our thriller we show the relationship of boys and girls together. our film subverts the stereotype of dominance by the male because our film shows an even relationship between the two main characters.












age
Within our film there are only young people and it aims to show the way young people feel and live by incorporating modern technologies such as Facebook.










Are young people shown in a positive way?
The young people in this film are shown as happy teens having a good time experiencing a relationship and not causing any trouble. i would say the representation subverts the stereotype older people seem to put on the younger groups of people.

what classes are shown?
Within our film through the  people shown are working class. they are all students who live normal life within a working class background.

SexualityIn our thriller the only sexuality represented is heterosexual. it is the story of a "straight" couple and there are no stereotyped homosexual characters or any at all. the film shows how much of an integer part of young people life social networking is to keep up relationships.

Stereotypes within our film our main actress; shelby is blonde however fights the dumb blonde stereotype and comes across as mature and rational. 

Dumb blonde 

Shelby

Question 1) in what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?(conventions of the thriller genre)

Within our thriller movie 'SENT' we used two of the major thriller conventions firstly number 2). within our thriller we dropped lots of clues as to what  may happen and olayed around withe order to make it slightly complex and create the feeling of confusion. secondly we used convention number 11). in our thriller our protangonist ( Billy the boyfriend) is maliciously attacked from behind whilst on his computer.

I feel that our thriller is rather unique and cannot really be compared to to any films currently out. however the on film we looked at ' i know what you did last summer' has the teenage age group incorporated within it which is what we aimed to do to attract our target audience.


A key factor that our film incorporates is the Crime at the main point of the film. the place where this occurs within SENT is when Billy is murdered by louise. a vie which incorporates a murder is 'phsyco'.

Phycho killer

Louise (killer from SENT)

Editing After Feedback

Today we showed our teacher what we have. The feedback we received was about the way we ordered our film. We are going to re-edit and re-order it to create more suspense and make it more confusing with hints as to what will happen.

Final scene

Today we filmed the party scene. This consists of a friendly gathering with the boys playing computer games and the girl chatting and gossiping.

SENT title sequence

Filming progress

Last week we encountered a big problem. we were due to fil on the thursday however our main actress fell ill. so we experienced a set back but this week thursday we will be filming the final scene to add to our film.

More pictures from filming.

location for the park scene

main characters at the park scene

Me with the camera and tripod :D

thriller conventions

Editing of our film

 In the past few we have been editing the footage that e shot. last week. we have edited our music onto our panda productions ident and put that on the video. it is all coming together really well below our some pictues of last weeks filming `:D

Filming

Today we are going to film two major scenes in our thriller film the park scene and the killing scene. Once we have finished these we will be well on the way to completing our film.

Ident music

Today i made a short composition of music to accompany the "Panda Productions" Ident.

Script for 'SENT'

scene 1 party scene.
(shelby by her self)
billy: alright shelb'
shelby: yeah thanks
(flirting between shelby and billy)
scene ends.

Scene 2 park scene
(walk in sit on the bench)
(holding hands flirting again)
(Kiss)

Scene 3 web cam scene
 (billy stting relaxing on his laptop)
(shelby sitting the same on webcam to billy)
(killer appears behind shelby)
Billy: SHELBY!!!
(shocked on billys face)
thud
(shelby is killed)
killer types in GOTCHA on the keyboard and presses
"send"

Locations for 'SENT'

Location
There will be four locations in our film. They will be

                                             A party house

 

A park

• Her house
• His house

Analysis of Audience Research

From the bit of audience i have carried out i have found out a lot. the first thing i have found is that most people feel that a decent thriller should include suspense, tension and a hero and villain. after this our group have decided to try and incorporate all three of these aspects to try and cater to our audiences desire.  

Music- Moby Gratis

In our thriller we need un-copyrighted music which Moby Gratis provide. yesterday we applied for two pieces of music from the website and both of these requests were approved. 

The Art Of The Titles

The art of the titles website is a site that specializes in looking at openings and title sequences in films. it analyses each individual aspect of many title sequences from popular films such as 'Spiderman' and 'Scott Pilgrim Vs The World. we have incorporated many of the techniques used within the big films

Sent Titles

Treatment sheet

Outline of ideas

• Girl and Boy meet at a party.
• They get together and start going out.
• They go out to the park together about a month later from the party. 
• They go home and live message each other via web cam. 
• killer comes behind the girl on web cam with the boy getting up in shock.
• Killer appears behind boy and murders him.  

What resources will you need?

• Web cam.
• Bedrooms.
• Laptop.
• Weapon for killer.
• Actors.
• Locations.

Justification of ideas in relation to the genre

• Going to have a murderer killing someone expectantly which occurs frequently in a thriller movie.
• There is going to be a mystery as to why the boy saw the murderer in the girls house then it kills him in his house.

list of characters

The list of characters have been clarified.
Billy cove - boy friend
Shelby Osbourne - girl friend
louise Levitt- killer

Myles Wilson- extra
Jess Wallin - extra

production comapny

we have come up with a name for our film production company his is 'Panda productions'
:)

StoryBoard