How did you attract/adress your audience?
to attract our target audience we first had to think of an age group and gender to attract. we looked closely at our film story line nd opening and discussed what would be most suitable after discussing we then decided that from the ages of 15 and above to young adults would be best we also decided it would be better for girls. from creating our film opening we decided this because we thought that the opening would be interesting so we then hoped other girls our age would also find our opening intresting. we also had been researching seeing what the most popular films for our age group were. we then saw that thrillers were. This was because most young people love the idea of escapism and the feeling you get when you watch it, you become scared worried you get an adrenaline rush even though you know your safe. Also from watching films in class we then saw that our class mates also enjoyed thriller and horror the most. Another factor we used to attract our audience was the steorotypical stalker storyline. we decided on a man stalking woman storyline. this was chosen as it is most likely to happen today. it is often heard about on the news and such things so it would also be interesting for young girls. another way that we hoped to attract the audience would be the age of our actors these being in the same age bracket 16-17 years. while discussing and thinking about other factors to attract our audience to our thriller opening we looked at the thriller conventions that are used. we decided for our opening scene to start with the stalkers point of view and how he is stalking her while she is unaware. this would then hopefully show that the way the begining is set att out it will put the audience at an un ease. as its not natural. also this way you know he is stalking her but you dont find out why which would make you want to carry on watching the film. these are some of the ways we used our opening to attract our audience.
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
from the begining of this project myself and our group have learnt a great deal more about the technologies that are involved. If we were to start from the begining the first thing we had to learn about was the camera, we looked closely at the angles we wanted in our film opening so we had to learn how to shoot them for example if we were doing a point of view shot we were not allowed to zoom in, because the persons eyes would not zoom, we learnt this after our first filming session and had to re film that part, we also used the tripod to achieve different shots that we wanted, our filming was a success as we only had to film twice as we had lost some of our footage due to someone rewinding the tape. next we had to develope our knowledge with pinnicle studios, we have used ti previously for our preliminary task but we had to use more editing functions such as transitions and fonts and slowing a part of a scene down. when we edited our work in pinnicle it was best that we worked as a team because everyone had different ways of how they liked it so we had to decide as a team what worked best in the end. another part of technologie we learnt about was the edi-role. we used this when we recorded our directors commentary, we had to figure out how to upload it into pinnicle and cut at certain points. for the music we found a non copywrited website and looked through many pieces of music and decided on one we believed fitted the most. we then uploaded it onto pinnicle and edited it so it fitted in with the opening. overall from constructing our film opening i have learnt many new skills. i am now more aware of a camera and what you can not do when filming certain shots.and to never delete film off the camera or re wind the tape. in pinnicle it was a whole new expirence but i know feel i can use it anid be confident with it. and the many different ways you can edit a shot. such as cutting down a scene or making it longer.
Looking back at your Preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
when i look back at our preliminary task i can see how we have progressed as a group and also me on my own. one of the main things we made sure that we had no continuety errors. as we did have one in our preliminary task but we managed to cover up. Also we looked at our camera angles we could use in our film opening. we used different and more extreme camera angles such as titled camera angles and extreme close ups.These helped our film opening look more effective and created more tension then to film it normally. As well as this when we were editing our film in pinnicle studios we then learnt new ways of editing we hadnt known before such as the zooming in and out of shots. as well as this we then also learnt how slowing down a shot can make it fit in more with the thriller conventions by adding suspense. from our preliminary task we learnt and made sure we followed the 180 degree rule this was something we knew we could not break. when we did our preliminary task we focused mainly on making sure we did not break the rules while doing our film opening we had to think about whole reasons why the opening would be happening and what the whole film would be about. other factors that went into our film opening that did not go into our preliminary task were our audience and deciding who would be the target audience as we did not have to think about this in our preliminary task. Creating an anamatic storyboard was also new to me and our group as we had never done this before but we worked well as a group and completed it this then helped us film our opening more smoothly as we had a better idea of how we needed each shot.
I feel that i and our group have progressed a lot from our preliminary task, because of all the new skills we have learnt each factor that went into filming our opening allowed us to do that. i hope our final piece shows that we have improved by what we have learnt from our opening. i feel that if we were given a longer time then 2 minutes and a longer period of time to film we may have been able to improve even more so if we were able to do this again it would be interesting to see what we will be able to improve on as a group and individualy.
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