Question 7 Evaluation ; - Felicity Bearfoot-Fallon

7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Looking back at our preliminary task, I feel that we have improved in knowledge and understanding of filming and editing,  and have allowed ourselves to explore and experiment more during the filming an editing process. We definitely have learnt more about camera techniques and angles, as well as what best fits a particular shot or scene, and how to edit it. 

Pre-production:

• Pre-production is all the beforehand planning before the actual filming takes place. This consists of, location, script writing, getting together actors, a plot, and gathering equipment. We had to make sure we did this efficiently as it would make the filming process harder later on. Because we had the experience of our preliminary task, we knew how to properly plan when it came to filming our thriller opening, and this lead to a successful process. 

Production:

When filming our preliminary task, we experimented with different camera angles and shots, such as jump-cuts, close-ups and panning. Because we had learnt during the preliminary task, it made it easy for us to film for our final thriller opening. It also made it easier when deciding what different types of shots and angles to do for each scene of our opening.

 This is a close-up shot we took our the main protagonists hands to show her trying to distract herself while she's suspicious that someone is following her. 

 Close-up of the main protagonist in the first part of the scene where she is talking to the camera and is confused to where she is and whats happened. 

Post-production:

The post-production part mainly just consisted of editing all the footage as we had pre-planned everything else, so there wasn't any need to re shoot any scenes. We had our story board and shot list to look back on so we knew what to film and what to use when it came to the editing process, making it a lot quicker and easier. 

An example of one of the techniques we used was the concept of continuity editing. We all had learnt how it worked and how to edit it so it looked smooth and the camera shots flowed into one another. It's also a really good technique to know as it makes the transitions between each shot more clean, making it look more professional and successful.

To conclude, we had researched and planned properly for our thriller opening as we had learnt to from our preliminary task. This made the process of making and producing our final product much quicker and easier, therefore making it more successful. We also have learnt more about the conventions of a thriller, which we were able to include in our own thriller opening. Overall, I think our thriller film opening called 'The Missing' was very successful as we all had the knowledge and standing of conventions and technologies of a thriller.

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Who would be the audience for your media product?


The target audience for our film opening is teenagers and young adults. We decided this because our main character, the protagonist is a teenage girl and we felt that the audience would be able to relate to her more. The certificate for our film would be a 15.We decided this as even though there may be some violence and some tense scenes we thought making the film have a certificate of 12 wouldn't be appropriate as it contains some violence and abusive scenes. Having the main protagonist as a young female allows audience members to connect and relate to her more.

We also did a questionnaire and found out that more boys would rather go see a thriller than girls, however this also depended on which gender played the main role. If a girl was playing the main role, more girls would more likely go see the film, whereas if the main role was a man, more boys would go see the film. Because of this, we didn't want to make our thriller seem too feminine as we had a female lead, hence why we included the idea of a male antagonist and that the girl was in danger because of him. 

We attracted our audience by having a female lead, but a male antagonist, who is dark and suspicious. We also attracted our audience through clothing. Our main character is a young trendy girl, wearing converse and an arctic monkeys top, which already tells the audience what music she is into and what type of person she may be. 

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Question 2 Evaluation; Felicity Bearfoot-Fallon

2. How does your media product represent a particular social group?

Protagonist and Antagonist

An antagonist is a character, group of characters, institution, or concept that stands in, or represents, opposition against which the protagonist(s) must contend. In other words, an antagonist is a person or a group of people who oppose the main character(s).

The protagonist or main character is a narrative's central or primary personal figure, who comes into conflict with an opposing major character or force (called the antagonist). The audience is intended to mostly identify with the protagonist. 

Protagonist

In our opening, our main character is played by a white, young teenager, as we thought this would best show the vulnerability of the character. She is taken away by the antagonist and doesn't know where she is or why he has taken her there.

We chose to have this girl as our protagonist as we felt our target audience would be able to relate to her more as she is of their age group. She is a stereotypical young, blonde, white female and is seen as the vulnerable victim.
In many films, there is this type of character, for example in the film 'Let Me In', one of the main charcters is a young, blonde female, who we see is played by Chloe Grace Moretz.
                                       

                                     
                                      

Antagonist

The antagonist in our thriller opening is a random man who is not identified, and we only see his feet and shadows of him. All the audience find out about him is that he had kidnapped the main character and locked her away, and no one knows why. We decided to have a man as the antagonist as in many thrillers we researched we found that a man playing the antagonist was more common than a woman playing the role, and this may add to the stereotype of men being stronger than woman and able to over-rule them.
The antagonist in Thrillers is stereo typically someone who is a mystery, or not often seen but definitely known about. Or they are just the 'villain' of the film. However, some thrillers play against that stereotype, such as 'Divergent', where the antagonist is played by a woman. 

--> Jeanine Mathhews played by Kate Winslet in                                'Divergent'

Victims

In our thriller opening, the main character of the teenage girl is the victim. She is shown to be frightened and confused to why she has been kidnapped and doesn't know how to get help. The only thing she can do is record herself on a camera she found in the basement.


We felt that our opening represents the typical young teenage social group and attracts them too, as our thriller is based around young teenage girl who seems vulnerable. This makes the audience able to relate to her and put themselves in her position, adding to the effect and tension.

Question 1 Evaluation; Felicity Bearfoot-Fallon

Frame 1, 2 & 3:

These first three frames are of the production, entertainment and distributions companies. We made the first two our selves ( X Productions and Bearfoot Entertainment), and then added BBC Films in after. We had researched and compared many different thriller openings such as 'Taken', 'The Sixth Sense', and 'Black Swan' and then decided how to layout our companies from there. 

Frame 4:

In this frame, we see the main protagonist talking to a broken camera, about how she has been kidnapped by a random stalker who she had never previously met before. She starts talking about how scared she is and looks like she is panicking, and then pushed the camera to the side as we hear the door open and footsteps coming closer towards her. 

Frame 5&6: