In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms a
nd conventions of real media products?
This is a 9 shot still image of Zombieland, i will compare this with stills from our own Thriller opening.
Just from looking you can straight away notice that shot is action packed and something attention grabbing is happening in them. In comparison to our Thriller "Twisted", there are big differences in how each film starts. Zombieland jumps straight into action in its open sequence whereas Twisted has a slow progressing typical thriller opening which switches between two completely different scenes/locations which quite different from Zombieland's approach but just as effective. Similar features of the opening sequences between the two include the credits, title of the film and pro
duction comapanies.
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Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learned in the progression from it to the full product?
The preliminary exercise gave us our first filming experience, we had guidelines and rules to abide by such as; not leaving too much space above a characters head, including a match cut, shot reverse shot and over the shoulder. This activity would be good for getting an idea about filming our final thriller, we firstly made a storyboard including drawings and specific camera movement within that shot, we followed the storyboard roughly and along the way changed an idea if we had thought of a better one.
One of the most obvious a
nd vital factors to consider whilst filming is to make sure the camera is in focus, unfortunately our group did not check to make sure we was filming with our camera in focus and we only realised this after we had uploaded the clips onto the computer and the exercise was finished. The shots that were shot out of focus look very unprofessional and you literally have to squint to watch the clip.
Comparing this to how we filmed the final thriller, our camera technique and experience has definately gotten better, learning from our mistakes we constantly checked if the camera was in focus when shooting each and every shot of the thriller opening. This paid off as all of our shots came out crystal clear and because of this we had plenty of shots to work with to build together our final piece.
Another factor we have improved since our preliminary exercise is the type and amount of shots used in a scene, the sh
ort sequence we made before was very dull as we used one shot to film one action. So when the character walked into the room, sat down, and had a talk with the other character, this was all shot using the same angel.
Films and programs will nev
er have this much action crammed into one shot, so we thought about this feature of the clip and decided it was a feature we definaitly needed to deal with and change for tour thriller. In the thriller we included a wide variety of shots and included as many shots into a scene as visually possible, when put together we had great match cuts in a lot of our scenes which we did not include in the preliminary exe
rcise.
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How does your media pro
duct represent particular social groups?
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? How will you attract/address your audience?
"Alseep" is a 2009 short student thriller trailer which was posted on Youtube on September 22, 2009 and has 8,184 views.
Releasing the short
film
onto the internet instantly gets it out to the world and it being on such a popular site as Youtube gave it very high chances of it getting recognised. The vid
eos success is not only due to it being on the most used video sharing site in the world, its actual content is very good. The filming is professional and of top class, they have used brave and inventive shots that work very well with storyline and mood the clip gives to the audience. The dissolves, match cuts, jumps cuts and other effects work smoothly together as one as well as those points the fashion in which the credits were presented really worked and suited well. As a whole i think the film is extremely good, the filming looks as if done by professional camera men and is way above average for a student project.
In comparison to
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Who would be your the audience for your media product?
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What have you learned about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
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Audience feedback and comment
