Evaluation

Our piece of coursework challenges the traditions of most thriller openings by it starting the open in a public place unlike most thrillers which usaully start in an out of the way place such as an old abandoned building after a crime has already been committed which shrouds everything in mystery.


Our media product represents youths/teens today as me, jack,jordan and lee russell are in this film. So we feel that youths/teens can relate to this film as actions like these happen to youths/teens today and is on of the issues that the UK face today. It represents youths/teens by having youths/teens in the video and the crimes that the killer commits in this video happens to youths/teens today this why we feel that youths/teens can relate to this.


The target audience on a general level is those that like the thriller genre while a more in depth target would be someone who likes or would like to see into the mind of a person growing up in an urban area now days, and what phsycotic ideas litter their mind, e.g. crime, murder etc.


The media institute that might distribute our media product would be Film 4 or United Artists as they do low budget British films. We think they would be interested in our film because they do British based on real life issues and our thriller movie shows troubled youths and their actions, and because of this realism we think this would be a film that Film 4 and United Artists would be interested in.


We feel that we attracted our audience by the name of the thriller Degrees of Murder and felt that this would be the reason to the success of the thriller just like i feel that the film I Am Legend is one of the reasons that the film made so much money was because of the name of the film I Am Legend.


From this thriller i have now learnt how to make certain shots with the camera such as Extreme close up and over the shoulder shots. From this thriller i have now learnt how to edit shots and how to take out unnessary parts in the film such as us laughing in parts of the film. I also learnt that using this technologies wasn't as hard as it was the first time in the perliminary exercise as we had gotten use to editing it all.


Looking back at this media product i have now learnt how to edit parts of the film and how easy it is to do so. I have now learnt also how to use certain shots such as over the shoulder and extreme close up shots. I have now learnt that they are a number of faults in our thriller that we could have improved such as such as the location it would have bin better to do it in a alley and we could have also edited a bit more such as the long shot in the beginning and could have used the tripod in the shot when the attention is turned on the dead body.

Thriller movie Degrees of Murder

We have finished our thriller and here is the final piece

Editing Complete

We have now finished editing our thriller today and hope to do the evaluation 2morrow. Due to difficulties with camera shots and the look of realism and what is going on with the thriller extra shots where needed in order to finish editing. We used a mid shot to show the person being chashed by the killer and then show the first person shots, showing the person being chashed by the killer. We also used an ECU in one shot to show that killer and killer his first victim when his glasses had fallen off. Other shots that were used inculed mid shots and close ups. I was involved partly in the film as i am seen making a phone call to call for help and i also used the camerea to film other partly and so did Jack Stone. Jordan was involved partly in the film aswell.

Questionnaire Results

Sorry i didnt post this earlier but this came back to mind when i saw it on another person's blog. The results are that the majority of more people asked were between 10-16 (except one person who was apperantly between 26-30 and didn't know the concept behind circling an answer). The majority of people asked were also female and most of the favourate genres chosen was romance and comedy, is stereotyping of womens' likes and dislikes true? Thirdly people mostly go to the cinema 1-3 times a month this may be because alot of people i have asked when it comes to movies and what to see they usually say that theres not much to see and how cinema isnt as good as it used to be. Lastly was that most said the thing that they liked most about films was story line. This draws to the conclusion that a genre that dominates a lot of movie studios in america is a mostly enjoyed genre of film.

Mobygratis not needed

We will not be needing to sign up to mobygratis as we have found a website to put our music which will of course be feautred in our editing. We shud b editing 2morrow and finishing this as quick as possible. The name of the website is www.newgrounds.com

Editing and Evaluation to follow

Now that we have finished filming we will now begin editing shortly and shud be able to have it all done before the final day it has to be in. After we have finished editing we will then do our evaluation of the thriller.

Filming Complete

Yesterday me, jack and jordan where able to finish filming our thriller sequence in one day with the additional help of Lee Russel who was also in the filming itself. The name of our thriller is called "Degrees of Murder" and involved a killer (Lee Russel) mudering two people in a park near a lake. The first kill involved a dispute between the killer and another person which led to the killer threating the person and began to start chasing him on a killing motive and eventually catching him and killing. The second murder happened when a vitness saw the dead body of the person and the killer noticing this and begins to chase the vitness eventually catching and killing him and therefore performing degress of murder.