First attempt

This was my first attempt for the first major scene of my movie trailer however as you can see this was a failure for many reasons. The lighting was to bright and at points the camera angle spoils the shot. With the lighting being so bright it paints an image of happiness when this is meant to be a dark movie. The surroundings is a sports hall and as this is an experiment this is spoils the atmosphere. The acting was also of poor quality with actors laughing and painting a completely unrealistic account of the experiment. Because of all these reasons i chose to re shoot this scene entirely with new actors.

Preliminary task

our first attempt

Our final media product

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

I feel I have learnt a great deal since my preliminary task compared to my new completed product.  My camera angles improved a great deal since the shooting of my preliminary task. For example my camera angles in my original task were extremely shoddy, with no imaginations what so ever. They were continually shaky and did not change to different shots quick, so the audience would enjoy the movie. However compared to my new video where the camera angle were of a great quality as they went from shot to shot, using a mixture of close ups, mid-shots, pans and long shots. These helped to hook the audience and also shots were a bit shaky, however it was a small quantity. The lighting within my preliminary task was the greatest worry we had when filming our new video, as the lighting was of extreme poor quality and came as a great disadvantage to our original film, as the audience were unable to see characters clearly. However we used the editing on I movie and used natural light within our new media product and the lighting was of good quality to match the genre of the movie. The soundtrack throughout my preliminary task was uninventive and did not match the movie at all, on the other hand within our new media product we were able to pick a soundtrack and edit the music on garage to match our video perfectly. More so the editing used throughout my preliminary task was of poor quality, the titles were of poor quality and the transitions used did not match the complete video. However my new media product had inventive title and also the transitions used match the whole of the movie and helped a great deal to flow the video.      

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Through the process of constructing my work I have learnt many new things about technology. I have learnt how to use a Sony video camera, as I have learnt how to film, take pictures, freeze a shot and delete unwanted work. We also re-shot the video so we were able to improve the quality as the original lighting was too dark. Also from the process of constructing this product I learnt how to use everything on the Mac books, which helped me to edit my whole piece of work. For instance I learnt how to use Garage band, where I was able to complete edit the soundtrack of my video. I used it to edit the non-diegetic piece of music, which is played throughout, as towards the end I wanted the music to fade out more, so through the use of garage band I was able to do this.  I then learnt how to use I Movie a great deal to improve my movie. For example I used transition between the clips so the whole video would flow a whole lot easier. I also used fade out at the end of my video so I was able to only leave the word red on the screen which was the main emphasis of the whole movie. I was also able to edit each individual clip so that it matched my expectations. For instance as the movie was a psychological thriller I wanted there to be a darker lighting of the whole video so through the use of clip adjustments I was able to darker the lighting to add a better atmosphere. More so I was able to speed up certain clips which were to long and did not stay within the time limit which was provided. We also clipped certain clips down so it would flow on a better scale, and also we learnt how to use titles on our video to display characters name and members of my group. 

How did you attract/ address your audience?

The main method we used to attract the audience was through the use of curiosity. For instance within the two minutes clip the is only a slight hint of the murders taking place, and from watching the audience will want to know more, like why he doing it?, what he will do next?, His social background and what will happen to him next?. These are all questions the audience will be asking themselves on watching the movie and hopefully continue to watch because of this.

Confusing the audience would help a great deal into attracting the audience to continue to watch. For instance the start begins completely different to any traditional thriller movie. For example in a traditional thriller movie there may be the victim on screen first usually women, but with my opening there is the perpetrator on the screen first, this would make the audience want to continue watching. More so the audience may now sympathise with the killer, and actually begin to like the killer. This would have an effect on the audience so they will keep watching; we formed this idea from one hour photo where the audience feel a lot of sympathy towards the character.

The editing of our movie would also have an effect on whether or not the audience would continue to watch. We used non-diegetic sound to attract the audience as it added to the creepy atmosphere and created suspense, also the lighting was darkened even more which also added suspense.  Both of these attract the audience to continue to enjoy the movie.

The characters obsessive personality would also attract the audience to continue watching the film as they would form a likeness towards the character. Furthermore the violence he commits to himself and also to the women attracts many men to continue watching the film. Furthermore as the character is isolated through the start of the movie and people who are lost or alone can identify with this character, this is another aspect that people will continue to watch the movie.