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

ECU in Preliminary Exercise

The preliminary exercise was a new exciting phase for me, i relished using equipment such as, the video camera, tripod and editing software. I felt like a real professional and that i was my own boss. When we finished filming our preliminary exercise, i just wanted to get on a complete the thriller coursework. It helped me vary camera shots that i wanted to do and got me used to the editing software. Using a tri-pod helped us hold a steady shot. We used steady shots for ECU's and over the shoulder shots.

ECU in our Thriller movie

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What Have You Learnt About Technologies From The Process Of Constructing This Product?

It was my first time ever using an iMac at the start of this year. As we was on a tight schedule, i had to adapt quickly to the software. A Friend of mine was a natural at the iMovie application so he showed me all the tricks and all the different types of media you could use. after using this for a period of time, it became quite easy for me to start editing, before i knew it, i was a natural. It was also my first time using www.Blogger.com, but it wasn't difficult to understand.

I relished using equipment such as, the video camera, tripod and editing software.

How Did You Attract/Address Your Audience?

I believe it attracts the audience because they know that gangs are around them wherever the go during the night, even sometimes during the day. So the victim in the film could easily be them. In the wrong place at the wrong time. All films to do with young gang violence is popular in the UK. Young people are attracted to it.

Who Would Be The Audience For Your Media Product?

If our film made the cut then it would be certificate 15 or maybe even 18. this is because of the language and action that we would have in the rest of the film. This means that our target age group would be between the ages 15-20, all the actors used in our thriller are the age 16-17, this could also be an influence to make more young adults come to see the film. I believe that the end of our thriller makes you want to see the rest of the film.

Thriller Interviews

What Kid of Media Institution Might Distribute Your Media Product and Why?

First thing that we will do is make a trailer and also a website that promotes the film. Seen as our thriller is targeting teenagers, we know that they are forever on social networking sites, so we will advertise all over them, by making groups putting it in statuses, putting the trailers on posts, hyperlinks placed on our website. Therefore, we will attract many teenagers.

The Microwave Scheme;

this is a scheme that promotes british film-makers. The scheme provides them with money that they need, but they can't exceed more than £100,000. they have a short amount of time to Produce a finished film. it is a london-based company that wants to encourage amatuer film-makers.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

In our Thriller all the characters are male, this is for three reasons. One of the reasons is that Males have always been main characters until recently, women were used as a damsels in distress. Another reason is women are not usually in caught up in gang violence. Furthermore, the main gender we was targeting was male as they are usually attracted to these type of gang violence films. The main plot of our thriller is a male being murdered by 5 males because he saw a drug deal happen.

We have targeted the teenagers as this is their type of film. After seeing the success of 'Kidulthood' and 'Adulthood' we knew that this is what young people want to see.

Poster to KiDULTHOOD

ethnicity was restricted as i didn't want people being offended and thinking that this was a racial thriller. Therefore, we was adamant that the victim had to be a caucasian male, we used all types of ethnicity in the gang members because we didn't want to stereotype on certain in a gang.

In What Ways Does Your Media Product Use, Develop or Challenge Forms and Convetions of Real Media Products?

A Thriller is meant to be a fast pace, action- packed film genre, where usually a Hero must defeat and overcome a more resourceful Villian.

Conventions of real Media was used through-out our thriller opening. Our idea come from inspiration of other gang films. Such as, 'Kidulthood', 'Adulthood', 'Green Street' and 'Football Factory'. We are great fans of these films and was adamant that we do a thriller like the films, to do with troubled youths caught up in gangs. In some scenarios of our thriller we used the P.O.V shots to put the audience in the film, we wanted to use this technique, because films like 'Paranormal Activity', 'Cloverfield' and 'Rec' had such a powerful effect on us, it really grabs the audience. However, this technique has never been used on such a type of thriller (Gang Violence), this is the uniqueness of our extract. We put theses shots in our thriller to give the audience power (a role) of being a witness to a murder.

Gang members in 'Green Street'. Then gang members in our Thriller (Point of View).

We wanted to show more of a horror side to gang violence to raise awareness of the situation, the darkness helped us create a gloomy/ deserted atmosphere to the film and this was in turn meant to give a scary feeling to the audience. At the end of our thriller the shot goes blurry to represent the victim becoming unconscious.

Constructing the Production

We filmed at night to give a gloomy effect. it took us roughly an hour and a half to film the opening to our thriller. We knew that if we had enough that we could cut certain scenes. We took 2 hours editing the way that we wanted. we wanted to do point of view camera shots because we wanted to give the audience the role of being a witness to the savage beating. In the story board, the graphic match was meant to be the moon dissolving into a street lamp, however, we couldn't see the moon due to all the clouds in the sky, so we decided to go from on the streets of a bus light, to a street light.

Some shots we needed to hold steady to show the area where we was filming, but in some scenarios we needed to have unsteady shots to put the audience in the film, so to speak. we used ECU shots to show emotions and long shots to show what the characters are doing. dissolve shots were used through-out the start of our thriller to keep the shots flowing.

The setting of our thriller was in a car park at closing time, so it was empty. Our clothing was mostly black and mysterious to give the effect of darkness. The lack of lighting helped us with the effect that we wanted to get. We used a facial wipe packet as a prop for drugs.

Our graphic match was at the start of the thriller to get straight to the scene.