Progress report on filming session 3

During our third filming session, we filmed an actor marching that is supposed to mimic a clip of person that was in the army, marching. The filming session was the shortest one that was taken, with the end clip lasting no longer than 8 seconds. I thought that this filming session, also went very well, with our group able to get the clip that we wanted without taking many camera shots. With asked the actor if he could march for us, seen as he attends army cadets and knows how to march and already has the army uniform. The thing that I would say that we could improve is the location, as we filmed it in the school premises but this was due to the short amount of time that we had. A recommended location that we could use that would improve the film is the Carver Barracks or a scene similar.

Progress report on filming session 2.

During our second filming session, we filmed the News Report, which overall I thought was a great success. We took about 8 shots of the same news report so that we could chose with one best suit our thriller film, without any distributions, like background noise or mistakes in the speech. If we were to film this again, I would recommend that we made sure that the actor learnt the lines that were given so that there would be as little mistakes as possible. We could do this, by giving the actor the lines previously, so that he could learn the script instead of reading the script by the side of the camera.

Evaluation

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

Two Pairs of frames where we have used the forms and conventions of real media products:-

In our thriller film, this is where the main character (Charlie) makes a cup of tea. 

In the tv series, Dexter, this is where the main character makes coffee.

We have used these pairs of images as it shows the conventions of a thriller film in both the TV show 'Dexter' and the opening of our thriller film. It shows the conventions as making a cup of tea or coffee is an every day event, therefore as its used in a thriller theme, it shows the conventions. 

During the film, we have used food colouring to make the impression of blood in a sink. 

In Psycho, during the film there is a camera shot of blood going down a bath drain.

During our first filming session, we poured the food coloring into the sink to make the appearance of blood, this shows the conventions of a thriller film 'Phycho' in relation to the opening of our thriller film.  

Two pairs of frames where we have developed the forms and conventions of real media products:-

This is a clip taken from Save Private Ryan. 

 We have developed our clip from the previous media clip by using the 'Desaturation' effect to give it a past tense appearance.

Developing the army theme, we used an effect to change the original filming so that it looks like our clip was taken in the past, therefore we have developed the conventions of a thriller film.

This clip was taken from the film 'Children of Men'. The news report was featured in the opening scene of the film. 

We have developed the news report by making our version fit the whole screen so the viewer will only see the news report, this is because we only wanted the viewer to see news report rather than the television that its also filmed on. 

We have compared our film to 'Dexter', which is a TV series. This is because the Dexter is the genre that we hoped to achieve. Therefore, this is why our opening scene of the thriller is compared to Dexter. 

We have challenged the forms and conventions of real media products

2. How does your media product represent particlar social groups?

Evaluation Question 2 on Prezi

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

http://nfgsmedia.wikispaces.com/Hyperion

 

4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

• Our main audience is a 38 year old male named Simon.
•  He has no children and has a girlfriend he has been with for 3 months. 
• He goes to Sci-Fi conventions and loves the film 'The Matrix' and has seen the trilogy 68 times.

•  He is middle class and lives in a small town near London.
•  He is right wing and votes conservative because they tax richer people less and he is well off. 
• He loves our film because it is set nearby to where he lives.
•  He is quite well off because he stayed single most of the time and he likes to save his money. 
• He doesn't keep himself fit but is quite skinny and tall.
•  He moved out of his parents house when he was 25 years old. 
• He listens to 70's progressive rock because that is the music he grew up with and doesn't understand the music of today. 
• His parents were well off and paid for his university fees. He went to a modest university doing a computer science bachelors degree. 
• He works as a IT technician in an office and has worked there since he graduated from University.
•  His favourite hobby is painting army figurines and his girlfriend doesn't understand why he does it.

5. How did you attract/address your audience?

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

This is an image of the camera we have used to film. Th camera is a Canon, in which we used to film the whole of our opening thriller. When we first started using the cameras (during filming the preliminary) we didn't know how to use the cameras, so from then till now, we have gathered a lot more understanding.

This is another image of the Canon camera, taken with a close up shot. 

This is an image of the mac we used, and on it, a picture of our blog.

This is an image of the tripod we used to ensure as to the best of our abilities so that the filming was steady. 

This is another image of the tripod we have used. Again, during the filming of our preliminary we were unsure how to use the tripod, but since then we have used the tripods well.

This is another image of the computer we used to do most of our work on.              

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

Progress report on doing the evaluation 1

So far we have done most of number 1 getting the images to compare to our film. We have done most of number 3 and 4. We are have done number 5 and 7.

Evaluation

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

Two Pairs of frames where we have used the forms and conventions of real media products:-

First Pair of frames:-

Here is the title of the existing Thriller film 'Seven'

Here is our title of our film. We have used existing conventions of Thriller films because we have, like existing films used credits so the viewer knows what they are watching.

Second Pair of frames:-

    

This is where, in Psycho there is a plug hole in a bath containing what looks like blood.

This is where we have a scene that has a sink containing what looks like blood. We have strongly used this convention of having a plug hole and having blood flowing into the plug hole as our snapshot is very similar to the snapshot of the film "Psycho".

Two pairs of frames where we have developed the forms and conventions of real media products:-
   

Third Pair of frames:-

This is a real media product (Saving Private Ryan).

This is a snapshot of our groups film intro. We have challenged the forms and conventions of the film "Saving Private Ryan" because we have used the 'Desaturation' effect to give it a past tense effect.

Forth Pair of frames:-
  

This is a news report from the film 'Children of Men'. It has a news report that is featured in the opening scene.

We have developed ours from this by making it fit the whole screen so the viewer will only see the news report, instead of seeing the screen with a background around it. 

We have challenged the forms and conventions of real media products by:-

Fifth Pair of frames:-


This is a snapshot of the film 'Silence of the Lambs'. The location of this part is a gloomy looking prison.

This contrasts greatly to the snapshot of our film where we have our main character in a warm, happy looking house. This is how we have challenged the forms and conventions of existing media products. Because we have used a complete non-thriller location to try and catch the viewers off guard as they do not suspect anything because of the calm, nice looking location.

Sixth Pair of frames:-

Here is an existing media product, the TV thriller series 'Dexter' where 'Dexter' is making a cup of coffee.

  
We have challenged the forms and conventions of existing media products similarly to 'Dexter' by having our main character (who is a killer) do a normal, friendly, calm act of making a cup of tea. We have challenged conventions because our character is not stereotypically a killer.

One of the comparisons we have used have been to 'Dexter' which is a TV series. Despite this, Dexter is of the same genre that we are going for. Therefore our film opening is compared to Dexter.

2. How does your media product represent particlar social groups?

http://prezi.com/z1icuvudgmjp/how-does-you-media-product-represent-particular-social-groups/

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

http://nfgsmedia.wikispaces.com/Hyperion

 

4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

• Our main audience is a 38 year old male named Simon. 
• He has no children and has a girlfriend he has been with for 3 months.
• He goes to Sci-Fi conventions and loves the film 'The Matrix' and has seen the trilogy 68 times. 

• He is middle class and lives in a small town near London. 

• He is right wing and votes conservative because they tax richer people less and he is well off. 

• He loves our film because it is set nearby to where he lives. 
• He is quite well off because he stayed single most of the time and he likes to save his money. 
• He doesn't keep himself fit but is quite skinny and tall. 

• He moved out of his parents house when he was 25 years old. 
• He listens to 70's progressive rock because that is the music he grew up with and doesn't understand the music of today. 

• His parents were well off and paid for his university fees. 
• He went to a modest university doing a computer science bachelors degree. 
• He works as a IT technician in an office and has worked there since he graduated from University. 

• His favourite hobby is painting army figurines and his girlfriend doesn't understand why he does it.

• He doesnt buy into Bluray or 3D and feels that they are just a phase  and will be gone soon enough.

• He reads comics instead of books and his favourite comic is 'Army of Two'.

5. How did you attract/address your audience?

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

This is an image of the camera we have used to film. I have progressed with using this camera because, at first I did not know how to use the camera very well and had to learn what button did what on the camera.

This is another image of the camera we have used to film.

This is an image of the computer we used, and on it, a picture of our blog.

This is an image of the tripod we used to ensure as to the best of our abilities that the filming is not wobbly.

This is another image of the tripod we have used. I have progressed with using this tripod because, at first, I was not very good at using it. This was shown in the poor filming for the preliminary task.

This is another image of the computer we used to do most of our work on.

This is an image of my computer screen where, on "logic pro" I made the music for our groups Thriller film opening. I have progressed using the logic pro software, because, at first I was not very good at making Thriller music or making any music that would sound convincing for an original Thriller film.

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

              

Report on how filming session 4 went

Overall, I believe filming session 4 went well, it was the part that is in my house where our character makes a cup of tea and watches the news report. I believe it went well because we managed to get the scenes that we wanted. One criticism would be that we couldn't get all of our group to my house to film, meaning one of us couldn't be involved, which is unfortunate. So for next time, it will be beneficial when one or more of us can drive so we can easily get to and from a filming location. Another criticism could be that in some of our scenes that we filmed in this session had reflections of us in the mirror/window, so we have had to do some editing to cut those parts out.

Filming Session 2 Report

This part of the filming went well; we filmed a news report in the same Science room as the scene with the food colourings and test tubes, which made the location aspect of the filming easy. What we did was we filmed the news reporter in front of the whiteboard and we created a background with Earth and the words "London Network News" to make it look like an actual news report
We managed to get someone not in our group to act, which was useful, especially as it would be noticed if the only actors were me, Ben and Amelia! However, we did have to film lots of takes as Josh (our actor/news reporter) forgot his lines a few times. Instead of Josh reading the lines for the news report from the table, which was clearly visible by the camera, it looked more professional if Josh was looking at the camera most of the time (and for him not to misread his lines!) and we achieved this by Amelia holding the lines next to the camera, and this proved to be successful.