Friday, 1 May 2009

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