Evaluation...

Thriller Music.... Garage Band...

Garage Band: We have learnt how to record our own music, due to plagerism... To do this we used garage band on the Mac Computers. Firstly we opened up a new track, and selected the software option... There are a variety of instruments provided. We experimented with different kinds of instruments to find which would blend best together. After alot of time spent moulding them, we decided that the flutes, organs and futuristic music suited the thriller styled music. After doing our questionaire we realised that the audience would expect to hear choral music, which fitted perfectly with our thriller opening. We used five seperate instruments: Orchestral String - this was the main sound the music was based around as this added a distant and eerie tone to the music. Serena Swirl (keyboard) was added on a low tone over the top, this added a low murmur to the music. We also used Aquatic Sunbeam and Bondi Breathe, also adding a creepy dark tone to the music. For every thirty seconds we used the Drum Kit to add a sense of suprise to the music, this is conventional to a Thriller.

The Matrix

Mise-En- Scene

• Black suits worn by men, looking professional
• Green Filter over the shots, like viewing the film through an old fashioned computer screen.
• Black Glasses are very secretive and also proffessional.
• Slow motion action, building up the tention - conventional to a thriller
• Dark room, with low lighting, like a cellar, this makes it seem like a police investigation and very dark and eerie.
• Rubbish on the floor
• Smashing of the light falling onto the floor, breaks the tension of the fighting.... conventional to a thriller.
• Blowing of a newspaper across the floor, like tumbelweed in America, this adds a sense of loneliness and apandement of this location, like a haunted house, no one wants to go there.

Camera Shots

• Mid-shot of man in suit wearing glasses, very intense expression on his face.
• Three shot of three men walking through the door, very powerful.
• In the Three shot, the men spred out and cover the whole screen, very dominating
• Extreme close up of the man standing in the middle which leads into a master shot of the room as the man in the middle is attacking the man originally in the room - conventional to a thriller with fighting
• Zooming into the action of the fighting, focusing of the punches and kicking
• Combination of over the shoulder shots between the two men fighting.
• Birds eye view shot of man lieing on floor after being thrown in the fight.
• Extreme Close-up of the glass light smashing.

Editing

• Straight Cuts between the shots, conventional to a Thriller as are very simple, and realistic continuity

Rebecca.

A textual analysis of Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca..
Rebecca was directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1940, it was yet another one of his successful thriller films, with the sub genres of mystery and romance. It won two oscars and had 9 other nomination.
The opening starts of with the creepy sinistar music that creates much suspence for the veiwer, which is conventional for a thriller film. As the film is in black and white creates an old, spooky atmosphere fitting in with the music. The overall feel i get from the opening is very mysterious and unknown, with the voice over of the charcter Rebecca createds a mysterious and unusual atmosphere. Although the music appears cheerful at the beginig it changes when the character speaks to more dark. The fact that the music has quite a cheerful element at the begining creates a contrast making it all seem much mkore sinistar and odd. The setting of the opening is also dark and mysterious creating unease. I found when watching this that i was always waiting for something to jump out and for something sinistar to happen, always on edge. A very typical setting for a thriller to take place in a drak mysterious wood by a enormous haunted like mansion. Its as if were being told a story by an narrator, which is unusal thereforeis holding our attention. It as if were being told a story by a character after the events have occured. When the transistion is made from that haunted mansion straight on to the crashing sea suddenly grabs your attention and seems so distant from the creepy old footage you were just shown. Establishing the main character in the first scene, conventional. From what the characters costume it implys that he is of some proffesion of quite a high social class as he is wearing a suit and hat, from the dialogue of the character this also tells us this as he speaking to the young women in a authorative tone. As the female character obeys him shows his high status and social class also. He appears as quite a mysterious character, keeping the audience intrigued as they want to know more about him and the whole reveal of the story.
Overall the opening scene of Rebecca creates much suspence and mystery is does this through the non-diegetic music and the mysterious character. These conventions all keep the veiwer hooked and intrigued to the action going on, on set.

Evaluation:

Within our evaluation we included still shots of the pictures shown. These are just some of the pictures incoperated within our media product. We included the photo of Alfred Hitchcock as we explained within our evaluation the successful thriller films created by Hitchcock, films such as 'Psycho' 'The Birds' and 'Vertigo'.

The Birds

Textured Analysis...



Mis-En-Scene

• Colour of Writing is blue, the same colour as the sky... Cold, dull colour, conventional to a Thriller
• Black Crows flying aross the screen... Crows symbolysing death and decay.
• Alfred Hitchcocks name in blue (cold colour) in a bold font, symbolising his importance

Editing

• The Institutions name 'Universal Pictures Present' the shot fades out, symbolising death with a person or something dieing.
• Distorted Transitions between the different Titles, to show the disorder and confusion of the film, which is conventional to a Thriller.

Camera Shots

• Extreme close ups of birds flying past the screen. This shows the main plot and characters of the film, which links to the Title of 'The Birds'.

Filming For Evaluation:

We plan to film and take location shots tomorrow for our evaluation piece.
What we plan to film:

- Audience feedback.
- Shots of the different locations used.

All our footage will be uploaded and will be incoperated within our evaluation footage. We are uploading the footage of me and Millie directing the actor on set and explaing is in order to portray our directing skills and managment on set.
We have created a script which will use in our evalutaion in order to anwser the questions effectively. In our evaluation we will may be using a voiceover and will be filmed whilst anwsering.

Our Evaluation:

Notes..
- Time Keeping
- Location choices
- Editing
- Garage Band
- Title sequence
- Filming Process
- What i did
- Filming dates
- Blogging process
- How our idea has changed since we have started.

Ideas for evaluation..
We plan to upload footage from our film in to our evaluation while a voiceover is being played. We also want to add in footage of me and millie on location whilst filming, to show our directing skills.
We are also going to use still shots, one idea we had for using still shots is when anwsering what the audience type is for our media product, is to draw out a type of diagram explaing our target audience, male is one discription. We came to the conclusion of male based on all the sterotypes of all associated with a male viewer.
We also plan to include footage of the audience watching our opening, focusing on their reactions and asking them their thoughts and opinions, this would link in to the audience feedback.
We will be including sound within our evaluation to, we plan to upload clips of the music which we used in our opening, Also the voiceover of me and millie anwsering and the digetic sounds of the background noise whilst filming.
Linking to the 'Evaluation Notes' our film has developed quite a large amount since we first begun regarding the plot. Although this slowed down the precess of filming this allowed us to think and analyse more deeply about the plot and what we wanted.

Planning for evaluation...

There are multiple styles in which we can protray our evaluation through film. A directors commentry style documentary is what we are hoping to achieve. To gain a better understanding of how a commentry is filmed, we shall evaluate different film directors commentries. With in our directors commentry we plan to include audience feedback for our film, to understand how an outsider has viewed our production and whether they like it or not. We are also thinking of using a voice over, and extracts from our film, and also including other footage i.e footage of us directing the film. The voice over will cover how we filmed, where, what difficulties we came across and what we wanted the audience to feel while watching the opening of our thriller.

What we need to do.....

- Upload the storyboards
- Cut the Music at the end of the film
- Upload new missing person poster (as we changed the actress)
- Start planning evaluation
- Location Shots
- Audience feedback


Sophie and Millie

Annabel

We have finally completed our film, and are happy with the outcome.

Annabel.