Finished thriller

Evaluation

Evaluation Activity 3

What kind of media institution might distribute you media product and why?

What is a Production Company?

A production company is a company responsible for physical production of new media. The company may also be responsible for the funding or raising money for the production. The company may be either a small company or a larger one, selling its product to a film studio in the case of film and television, it may be the studio itself. It is common for actors to form their own production companies so that they can have more control over their own careers. 

Our production company

Our Production Company name is Engrosser INC. by having our own company we are able to make our own choices. Because we are a small company there is a possibility that we wont be able to fund the filming ourselves, but such as raising the money. 

What is a Distribution Company

A film distributor is a company or an individual that is responsible for releasing films to the public. A distributor may do this directly if the distributor owns the theatres or distribution network.

 this is an example of a film distributor they are called Arrow Films . as you can see in the picture, they have a advertisement for 'the killing' this website would be perfect for us to have our film advertised on, as it already has a lot of similar film genres to ours.

this is an example of a production company. On this website they have made the are looking for people to take them on to help in making films and such. this company is called crewscontrol.


Promotions: 
the intititio that would show our film would promote our film through, site such as facebook and twitter, and other sites that get alot of veiws by the general public 

Evaluatioin Activity 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Name: Jerry Roberts

Age: 17

Gender: Male

Favourite Shops: Top Man, Blue Inc, River Island, Fred Perry, Ben Sherman, Hollister.

Favourite Music: RnB classics, Drum and Bass, Soft Rock.

Favourite Tv Programme(s): Celebrity Juice, CSI, Being Human, NCIS,

bio: Jerry is a 17 year old boy who left school last year and is now part of a apprenticeship to become an electrician. He is extremely hardworking so at weekends he enjoys seeing friends going out and visiting his local cinema.Jerry really enjoys either watching films alone or with a small gathering of friends. His favorite genre of thriller would probably be an action thriller he enjoys the fast pace tension and high paced scenes that come with it and enjoys watching scene of crime and his favourite style thriller would be a gangster/crime genre.He does not however necessarily enjoy films that have long or complicated story lines as he often finds them confusing or hard to follow which can causes him not to enjoy the film.

Name: Rosie Smith

Age: 16

Gender: Female

Favourite Shops: Top Shop, River Island, New Look, Hollister, Urban Outfitters, Zara, Dorothy Perkins.
Favourite Music: Pop, Dance, Soft Rock, Drum and Bass, RnB,
Favourite Tv Programme(s): Glee, Celebrity Juice, Being Human, True Blood,

Bio:Rosie is a 16 year old girl who really enjoys going out especially with large groups of friends.She is currently still studying in full time school education but hopes to leave school after achieving good GCSE results and moving on to study fashion a college.Rosie like watching films by herself and with  friends and would only choose a thriller if she was to watch it will a large friendship group.Rosie's  ideal thriller would be one that is not to gory or graphic, but something that challenges her leaves her asking questions and does not have an obvious or typical thriller storyline.Her favourite genre of thriller would be a psychological thriller as she enjoys something that goes against the typical thriller and challenges her views or perception of something.

Evaluation Activity 6

Filming Ideas/ Inception App

The Inception App: This app is a dream machine that transforms the world around you into a dreamworld. It uses augmented sound to induce dreams through the headset of your iPhone and iPod Touch. It will change your perception of reality.

Use this app in the same way you use your iPod. Switch it on when you are out and about, at work or going to bed. The difference here is that this app mixes your acoustic reality with the soundtrack of Inception. The result is a realtime soundtrack to your life, or your dreams.

Features of the App:

• The app is based on the Inception movie concept.
• Just like the characters in the movie Inception you can enter a dreamworld by pressing a button.
• The Inception app puts the spirit of Inception the movie right into the real life of every user.
• It is a dream machine that transforms the world around you into a dreamworld using augmented sound.
• It includes pervasive gaming elements. For example new dreams are unlocked by walking, being in a quiet room, traveling faster than 30 mph, when the sun shines or it is full moon.

 Remember that the dream-space is less about the visual, but more about the feeling.

http://inceptiontheapp.com/dreams

Using the App idea in the opening:

We liked the idea of the app and how the noise from the surrounding areas around the person fit into the dream with the music and the people talking around them.

So we decided to leave some of the backgorund talking in the film because we thought it would add suspence to the opening thriller, because people will be asking what the noise is, what are the noise's saying, and who voices are they?

We did this by speeding up the random talking so it sounded like mumbling, when overlapping this mumbling with the music, it sounded alot like the app does.

Title Sequence

It is important to have a title that is short and snappy this is to grab the attention of the people walking by, and to have them questioning what may happen in the film, which will want them to find out more about the film, then they may even want to see it, not only the title of the film is important. We need to come up with a suitable title name that does not reveal to much of the plot of the film and leaves a sense of enigma among what could happen in the film. We may be able to use a single word title to do so.

In our opening we will use the titles to further convey a sense of enigma and mystery by including transitions like fades and dissolves so that the text appears to be moving in a way that coincides with the action and soundtrack of the opening.

The font has a big part to play because if the font is pink, bold, and bubbly and the film is a thriller, then no one would take the film seriously and wouldn't want want to see it because it wouldn't look scary. A better font would be a sharp, bold, black, white, or red according to the background of the photo, something that stands out and looks scary.

The Font we are thinking of using would be a bold white with a faded blurred edge that would standout against the dark background of the train station but the faded edges further convey the thrillers sense of mystery and enigma and work well with the thrillers dream style theme.

Editing the clips

Due to the problems with editing and having to use a students laptop to edit our opening for a thriller we have only had limited time to get the film edited. in three hours we managed to edit the clips so they are linked together, brightened them, sped some of the clips up, used effects on some clips to make them creepy and jumpy.

We have realised that some of the clips we took were taken quite late at night so they are particularly dark, when we brightened them they became really grainy and the light in the clip looked like it was glowing, we aren't able to retake these clips because the cut on her belly and blood on the bed sheet and pajamas can only be done once. We should of watched the clips after we filmed them to see if we needed to retake any.

Film Poster

For our film poster we include some of the key imagery from our opening such as the knife which is used as the murderer weapon from the dream. And also the dream character. We have included such imagery so we do not reveal exactly what the story line of the film and keep an enigma among the audience as the the plot of the film. Hopefully buy not revealing exactly what the story line is it will encourage a large audience to watch it in order to find out.Furthermore we have blurred the background image and font to create a sense of mystery surrounding the film and to suit the dream theme of our thriller similarly the poster reflects the action of our thriller as it appears dark and mysterious as does our opening.

Font Choice's

I went through different types of fonts to find an appropriate one to fit, for the title of our film and the genre of it. I think the first and fourth one are to 'girly' and 'bubbly' to represent the genre of our film, i like fonts three, five and six because they are sharp, i think one of these will suit the name and the genre of our film.

Incubus facebook page, Marketing

We wanted to direct the target audience, 15-21 year olds, so we wanted to think of a strategy to promote our film to them directly using media that they regularly use such as social networking e.g Facebook, Twitter, Myspace. We created a page that will hopefully promote our film to them, inform them about it and make them more likely to see it, this will hopefully lead to more people joining it and as the page collects more group members it shall get more well known and more people are likely to come and see it.

the process of making the stab wound

Firstly we got Becca's sister (who specialises in special effects) to make a stab wound in our characters stomach, this was made with wax and blood like goo and paint.


After making the stab wound we then cut a hole in the top that our character is wearing.

When we were then ready to film we put the blood around the stab wound and the top.

A Diary of a day Filming

Here I decided to shoot a 'behind the scenes,' section to show what we did while filming and the discussions we had to the logic of what was happening in the film and where to shoot, at what angle and how close up.

Pitch/brief

We filmed ourselves talking about our thriller opening, where we are filming and the props the actors need, and reasons why we aren't doing certain things.

Title for our thriller

INCUBUS
We have decided to call our thriller Incubus, we went through the idea of calling it 'only in your dreams' we thought that this was to long and devalued the suspense of the film's opening.

We then decided to look up the word dream and see what other synonyms there were for dream.

The words, delusion, incubus and speculation stood out to us the most, we then looked into these three words.

We didn't choose delusion because it means misconception and misbelief, and that isn't what our film is trying to portray.

We also didn't choose speculation because it means theory and guessing, and this isn't what our film is mainly about.

We decided to stick with incubus because it can mean nightmares, or devils, or demons, we thought this fitted perfectly because we have an unpleasant character, in the thriller but nobody knows who it actually is.

Filming Problems

On Sunday 13th of March, we chose to start filming our thriller, we first went to Ingatestone train station. Unfortunately when we arrived there rail works had been taking place that day and Ingatestone station was the end of the rail line, this means there were buses and security all around the place because there were buses in for trains.

As we parked the car to begin filming a security guard said we were unable to park in this area as it was needed for the replacement buses to park. As we left the car to begin filming on the platform a train stopped and a large crowd of people left the station. We tried to set up to film but there was two station workers said we weren't allowed to film there without permission from the national rail service. With this news we then decided to go to Brentwood train station to film, this worked fine but because it was a busy station, we had to wait for times when there were no people around and when there were no trains around. We often had to stop filming due to the public disrupting our shots. We were also worried about scaring the public with various props we used for the scene such as the mask and knife, we often felt ourselves rushing various scenes so we did not strike fear in the public present during filming.

Costume design :Female character

Costume design female character

We have chosen this dress because it creates  a childlike sense of innocence making the character appear venerable. Similarly the white shoes make the character appear young and innocent. Using white as a major stable of the costume makes the character appear untouched and virginal.

Initial opening ideas

Questionaire Results

Focus Group

We asked three of our peers that are in our target audience to tell us their views on a thriller. This video shows our findings from our focus group. During which we received some useful feedback that will help us develop an idea for our thriller opening. We found that our peers enjoyed thrillers especially Black Swan, Inception and Shutter Island. They also said they enjoy thrillers that do not necessarily have a straight forward story line and that confuse the audience. Furthermore they named elements of the thrillers they did not enjoy such as pictures on the wall and stalking in woods.