Research and Planning:

Research: 

One of the first things i did in the research process was make a survey ,monkey- in which i asked people to answer questions on what they would expect to see in a thriller film.

Not only this but i targeted specific people and asked them in the audience profile in order to get different people from different class, culture and backgrounds.

It was one of my favourites because it was developing my understanding on the thriller genre and interacting with people , seeing how they got passionate about different genres and their expectations from the films.

As a group we conducted two interviews, one group interview with two students at our school watching Gone Girl. This enabled us to get different opinions as to what they were expecting from a thriller and their thoughts on the opening. After, we conducted a one on one interview to get a more personal response. During this we played Killers allowing us to discussed in depth the opening and conventions of a thriller. This research allowed us to get feedback and different opinions as well as enabling us to think about how we could add it into our own thriller openings.

We also done 9 frame analysis so that we understood and were able to make our opening the best that we could. 

Planning: 

Our most important part of our panning is when we had decide what we had wanted to base our thriller on , then we set out a story board of each scene and what would happen then we made an animatic story board in which we put the music we were going to use in the background. 

Pre planning the Mise-en-scene. 

And the pre planning what would be saying. 

Post-production:

During our post-production process we put our footage together in order to produce our thriller opening, we did this through editing. Our main editing programme was final cut pro.

Here is a a video of our editing process : 

I personally edited a lot more in our final piece than our preliminary investigation and made significant improvements because of this.

Visually-
what we done: 

• stabilised footage 
• added colours in order to appear darker and sister
• adjusted lighting 
• music 
• blurred footage
• sharpened footage ect.

Titles and credits-

what we done: 

• placement of our credits , correlated to that of other famous thrillers e.g. Gone Girl 
• faded them in and out - so were not the complete focus 
• Type writer font - to create mystery 
• Our film title sat in the middle in order to be different and stand out from the titles 

Soundtrack/Audio-

what we done: 

• we had an idea of what the 'perfect' thriller opening would sound like
• we could not find a track that suited what we envisioned 
• therefore we created it ourselves on garage band.
• As well as adding in a second track from Soundcloud to make the contrast  and show the apparent time difference. 

Preliminary comparison to our final product: 

In our preliminary we were very pushed for time and did not have a lot of time to plan, not only this but we had never used the cameras before and neither one of us had experience in filming such things. As a result our piece was quite unsuccessful.

 Where as for our thriller opening we had much longer to plan and more experience with the camera , we were able to learn from what we had got wrong previously and as a result were able to make a more successful piece overall. 

As a result of the time we were given we had more time to edit giving the reasons our thriller opening was so successful as we achieved match on match action and were able to hold up the aspects of continuity editing which created verisimilitude throughout our piece. 

Preliminary:

Thriller opening :

Preliminary:

Thriller opening:

Conventions from real media texts - reflection:

The Pitch - what songs we could use:

I think as a group we should go for a song that fits in the grime/rap genre. I think we could produce a video that portrays and man and woman falling in love , with the aspects of the 21st century which makes it difficult for relationships to work e.g. social media and the influence of other people.

I thought these songs could fit the sort of avenue we would want to go down , when producing our music video.





Both artists are unsigned but some what known artists, this may be the most difficult part of trying to use the songs when producing the music videos. However , if collectively as a group we decide that one of them is a song we would want to use i would go about contacting their management or get their serious contact details e.g. email address and ask them permission to use the songs.

If we don't get permissions from the artist then ill set about asking other artists and have back up options to fall back on. If we do get permission i think it would be good to request a high quality version of the track.

Locations:

• party
• date night
• london at night 
• Driving around in a 'nice car'

(conveying a certain type of lifestyle)

Characters:

• two central boys
• two central girls
• 'temptation' characters
• extras

The main message of the video is to convey how in this day and age, it is difficult to be involved in a relationships when there is other people that put it on a plate and often ruin relationships because they can. Although it is the party involved in the relationship that is to fault, it shows how easy it is to get caught up and make these stupid decisions which we later realise wont get us what we want and love. 

Zoella from Lauren Gilbert

Pointless blogg from Lauren Gilbert

Genre: (Pop)

Pop music: 

What is pop music?:

often referred to as commercial popular music, accessible, tuneful music of a kind popular since the 1950s and sometimes contrasted with rock, soul, or other forms of popular music.


Pop music is the genre of popular music that produces the most hits. A hit is a song that sells many copies, and the latest hits are listed every week on the charts. 

They have a good rhythm, a catchy melody, and are easy to remember and sing along to. They usually have a chorus that's repeated several tim

Forms and conventions:

• Artists wear fashionable , stylish and what may be considered 'mainstream'  outfits.
• song is set between 3-5 minutes , with a persistent beat and set structure.
• Artists are always portrayed as being completely content, happy with life 
• Lyrics are most often based around love and relationships. 
•  Bands express a form of unity, the unity associated with teens, teenagers being the main TA for the genre.
• The music genre is usually conveyed through the music video , by mise-en-scene
• Associated with bright and bold colours.
• Usually follows a verse-chorus-verse structure  
• Uses hook lines, which are very catchy and stay in the audience's mind.
• Generic and played on extremely popular radio stations all over the country.

Imagery:

• Usually include beats that are very dance related.
• typically associated with teens 
• Due to the fact that teens and young adults are often associated with enjoying partying , clubbing and dancing - the main purpose for pop music. 
• A lot of the imagery and visuals is based on sex and partying ,which could be said to be the youth culture of today.

Presentation of Artists in Pop:

• Expressed sexually
• seductive
• Try to draw audience in through their sexuality
• Dressing provocatively
• All to create a sexual atmosphere
• 'sex sells'  

 famous pop singers:

Use of digital technology:

creativity:

https://soundcloud.com/user-351076208/new-recording

creativity:

https://soundcloud.com/user-351076208/new-recording-1

Technical Post : Green Screen

What we did:

We set up the green screen and placed a sheet of green card underneath our feet so that it gave a virtual effect as if we were on a movie set, we had already set up the camera on the tripod and as a 
group we tried different things we thought would look funny once edited.

Positives:

• gave us experience with using  green screen.
• gave us experience with editing green screen footage
• means we can incorporate it into our course work- music videos 

Negatives:

• some of the footage is a bit off as it was the first time filming applying greenscreen.
• during editing we needed to change the colour of the blankets ect, as they still appeared beige when on final cut pro. 

we may be able to use greenscreen effectively when filming clips for our music videos but we would have to sharpen up on taking the footage and editing to make it more realistic.