Images

These images are of lines we drew to mark out where we should place the different papers which had our titles on it.

Talal and Mr Meade filming our titles again to make them stand out more to our viewers as before it wasn't fully clear about our Thriller name.

The Sony camera we used gave high quality images and was easy to use.

This is the Tripod we used, it was very sturdy and made panning and using tilts effortless.

Synoptic day

Seeing as our group had filmed before the Synoptic day as we knew that because our main location is our media room it would be in use by other media students we used our time to edit what we previously filmed.

On this day we:

• Edited our opening using Imovie
• Noted down the scenes/parts we needed to re shoot
• Looked for our non diegetic music
• And planned any shots we missed out that could improve our thriller opening

Afshan Naeem-evaluation question 7

We feel that we have developed our skills in filming, storyboarding and narration throughout the process of this product. We have learnt how to use the space given to us as in the preliminary task we had a lot of space to film whereas in our final product we did not so we had to have a good framing to get everything needed in particular shots. Some of our shots from the preliminary task were very steady because the camera was placed on the pod whereas in the final product you can see the camera moving because we could not use the pod in some places for example when we filmed through the blinds the camera was shaking.




Now we know how to edit shots and how imovie works. I am able to figure out what shot needs what kind of angle such as taking shots of the display we thought we should take a high angle shot as it would look better and zooming in from a long shot to a mid-shot. We used non-diagetic sounds in our preliminary task but did not use it in our final product this is because there was so much distraction in some shots such as the time when we needed to film the printer we had to edit it so that you can only here the printer and nobody else, we faced difficulties during our filming because we always had to find a time where there was nobody in the room as the room we used was where the rest of the students were editing there work. The flashback scene in our film was supposed to be non-diagetic sound but because of some difficulty with the camera we used at the time no sound got recorded. In our preliminary task we used shot reverse shot. We also used this in our final product where the flashback seen is shown. We have also shown match on action in our opening just as we showed it in the preliminary task. This is the shot/reverse shot from our priliminary task:



This is the shot/reverse shot from our final piece:

Afshan Naeem-evaluation question 6

From the process of making our film I have learnt about different technologies when constructing this product. We used blogger, YouTube, imovie, cameras and still cameras for our product. We used cameras for our filming now I have learnt how to use high quality digital cameras which I did not know how to use before. Imovie was used to insert all our clips in and to edit. At first I found it quite difficult to use but with the help of other group members I got the hang of it and edited some clips in to our opening, by this I am now able to edit and make films.



We used YouTube to upload our preliminary task, test shots, other films openings for research and our own films opening.



We used blogger to post our research, storyboards, evaluation etc.

Afshan Naeem-evaluation question 5

By having a stalker as our main character we attracted our audience a lot and as mentioned before using the social networking site we also attracted them, this is the unique selling point of our film as when our audience would look at the website that they use being shown in a film they would want to watch it. The music used is tense music with a high beat at times when it wants to create tension for the audience. The setting we used was good because it fitted in with our narrative it also creates a sense of realism as we have shown a room full of computers with the social networking site opened with different pages of different people and a board which displayed maps and pictures of people. This would alert the audience in a way to show how stalkers are and attract them because they might want to know how stalkers actually work there way through stalking people.

Afshan Naeem-evaluation question 4

We gave out questionnaires by hand and through the internet by mail and a social networking site. By doing this research we were able to create pie charts to show what our audience were interested in. this made it very easy for us to establish who are target audience would be. Our target audience are late teenagers who are probably in the ages of 16 to 20 year olds. Our target audience are people who are mostly interested in using the internet and concentrate more on the narrative of a film then the music or the characters. By taking this into mind our opening mostly concentrates on the internet and our narrative is fairly realistic as to what might be happening in the society today which our target audience will be interested in.

Afshan Naeem-evaluation question 3

A production company is a company which is responsible for the development and physical production of any media product. Our production company name is ‘Tass productions’. According to our storyline our opening is seen as an independent film but could also be seen as a mainstream distributed. Entertainment film distributers could be the distributers of our film as they are an independent company however as it could also be a mainstream film universal studios, working title or Lionsgate could also distribute our film as they already have distributed thriller films.



Institutionally our film is similar to The Talented Mr. Ripley which is distributed by Paramount Pictures.