Final Cut

Evaluation 7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product? (Part 3)

                      

Evaluation 7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product? (Part 2)

Evaluation 7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product? (Part 1)

Evaluation 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

            

Evaluation 5: How did you attract/address your audience

Evaluation 4: Who would be the audience for your media product?

Evaluation 3: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

 

Evaluation 2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

EVALUATION 2 by george

Evaluation 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Editing Diary

An overlook of our editing process.

Teaser Poster

This is another possible idea for a teaser poster, it includes our actor as well as star and age rating.

Merchandise

Merchandise by wemadeit

I created some products to endorse our film that people could purchase and wear which would spread the message about the release of the film

Interview With Actor

Interview with George Brignull, the starring role in our thriller Smoke and Mirrors.

Last day filming - Time lapse

Time lapse of our last day shooting our thriller.

Teaser trailer

  

Teaser trailer for Smoke and Mirrors.

2nd Cut Feedback

2nd Cut - Soundtrack Added

Our completed second cut.

Teaser Poster Feedback

Feedback received in order to improve our teaser poster.

First draft of Teaser Poster

This is the group's first draft for the teaser poster of our thriller.

First Cut Feedback

Last week we received feedback about our first cut of our thriller opening. Above are some suggestions that we need to complete to improve it

Smoke & Mirrors 1st Cut

The first cut for our thriller- music still to be added.

Day 1 of Filming Vlog

Behind the scenes of our first day of filming.

Our Smoke machine

How the smoke machine used for our thriller works.

Final film location

               

A quick view of the final set-up of our filming location

Creating the scene

How the set for our thriller was created.

Thriller Makeup Tutorial

Makeup tutorial following how we created our main protagonists final look.

Update on Filming

            

 

We created this to update you on our filming process so far.

Tips to Filming Success

Shot list

Planning the different shots we will use within our opening.

Applying Fake Blood

Testing out the fake blood we made.

Making Fake Blood

Step-by-step how we made the fake blood to use in our thriller.

Robyn's Shopping Adventure

As Robyn walked into the High Street to buy the ingredients for our fake blood I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to practice my filming and editing skills as the more practice I get, the better our final thriller will be.

Schedule For the Week

https://teamup.com/ksg5brydwnu4sunhix

 

With the help of the website 'Teamup' I have created a schedule for the group including filming days and blog posts which need to be created. The site allows me to create both an individual schedule for each team member as well as a group schedule which will help us plan what we need to do each week and improve our organisation. You can visit our current weekly schedule by visiting the link above.

How to Make Fake Blood Research

Looking into three potential methods of creating fake blood for use in our thriller opening.

Ready For Filming

Our planning process is coming to an end now, our thriller storyboard is complete and we are ready to begin filming.  We are running out of things to do in class regarding planning so Ella has decided to explore the presentation side of our thriller and is trying to find the best website for this purpose. We are going to be filming the flashbacks on Saturday before I go away on holiday to ensure that our filming process is underway.

Updated Storyboard

This is an updated version of a storyboard concerning the changes we made to our plot

Plot pitch

An overview of our final plot.

Change of Plot Discussion

Discussing the changes we have made to our plot in order to create a more unique, interesting storyline.

Second Mood Board

 

We've created a second mood board expanding on one of our plot ideas and exploring the storyline of our thriller further.

Blog Feedback

 

Today we received the first feedback for our blog so far, overall our progress is going well however we need to start thinking about when we are going to start filming for our thriller opening. 

Title Sequence

This is our title sequence that I spent todays lessons creating using Flixpress.com

Costume

A look into the costumes decided upon for our main character.

Plot Planning

Today we sat down as a group and planned out our plot idea as well as locations, camera shots and props/costumes we will use.

Influences

oon design studio co. presents by wemadeit

When making our own thriller opening we have been influenced by many films with similar storylines. By watching these films we can take ideas from these films and incorporate them into our own opening

Risk Assessment

       

        Risk assessment from WeMadeIt99

Before filming begins, a risk assessment needs to be completed on all possible locations. This is necessary as it would be a danger to film in a location where there could be hazards that we are unaware of. We have four possible locations that we could use to film so above is the hazards that we could face in these areas.

Possible Locations for Filming

Created using Visme. The Free Online Presentation Tool.

Job Role- Director

Looking into the role of the director.

Twitter Poll Results

The results of our poll have concluded that the most favoured plot is the 'trapped hostage' idea, with 52% of the votes. Hence, we will be using this audience feedback to sculpt our storyline for our thriller opening.

Twitter Poll

Head over to our twitter account @WeMadeIt99 to take part in our poll and have your say on what plot idea we should go with for our thriller opening! Updates on the results of our poll to come in the next few days.

Inital Ideas Mind Map

Inital Ideas

This mind map is a variety of our ideas that could be included in our thriller opening. These include possible locations, what kind of thriller genre to choose, plot ideas and character personalities.

 

Job Role- Actor

Questionnaire Results

Audience Feedback on Storyboard

Gaining audience feedback to help further our thriller research.

Storyboard

A storyboard created based on our initial idea for the plot to our thriller opening. The story follows a boy who has just woken up in a dark room to find he is being held prisoner by a man who has been watching his every move.

Marketing a thriller

Marketing by gree

Demographics

    

The BBFC

Questionnaire

   Create your own user feedback survey

I created this questionnaire to gather more information on the public's opinion on the thriller genre. These results can be used when working on our thriller opening to ensure we create an opening that will appeal to viewers and the target audience.

Poster Analysis

   

Analysis of various thriller posters in order to help us create our own.

Title Sequence Analysis

Title Sequence Analysis by wemadeit

A title sequence is the opening of a film where a film presents it's title, cast and crew members and generally sets the mood of a film. I particularly focused on the film 'Psycho' and it's title sequence created by Saul Bass who was very well known for his designs of film posters and title sequences. 

Thriller Trailer Analysis

Created using Visme. The Free Online Presentation Tool.

Initial Ideas Mood Board

Mood Board X222222

Although we still haven't decided on a main plot for our thriller opening, I decided to create a mood board which incorporates all my favourite types of thrillers and touches upon some of our groups first draft ideas. I decided to use a limited colour spectrum as I feel thrillers are best executed in dark lighting, however there is a hint of orange as I sometimes a slight drop of a brighter colour can show hope within the evil.  

Thriller Word Cloud

Thriller word cloud – Word cloud – WordItOut


A word cloud composed of words conventionally related to what a successful thriller includes, helping to spark ideas and inspiration for a storyline for our own thriller opening.

Use of Music in Thrillers

       
               

    Looking into the use of non-diegetic music soundtracks within thriller openings.

Thriller Codes and Conventions

This video explores the codes and conventions of a thriller in an entertaining layout. It was helpful as a means of editing practice as getting the timing right for the animations proved stressful. Hopefully you find it interesting and I would recommend watching with volume for the full effect.

Goggleblog

A Gogglebox-inspired blog as we watch and analyse popular thriller films.

Goggleblog (Behind the Scenes)

Some behind the scenes pictures of the production of our 'Goggleblog'.

Cape Fear Analysis

Cape Fear

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Analysis of the opening of thriller film 'Cape Fear' to further our knowledge of the genre and its codes and conventions to use in our own opening.

Cape Fear Analysis

                          

In order to further our knowledge of the thriller genre and gain inspiration, we have analysed the crime, thriller Cape Fear. The film follows a convicted rapist who is released from prison after serving a fourteen-year sentence, only then to stalk the family of the lawyer who originally defended him. Here is my analysis of the opening, frame by frame.

Cape Fear Analysis

Cape Fear Analysis

This analysis is of the opening of thriller film Cape Fear. The story follows Max Cady (Robert De Niro) who was wrongfully sentenced. After his release after 14 years, he devotes his life to stalking and destroying the life of attorney Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte), who knew the real truth about Cady's crime. By analysing thriller openings, the groups knowledge of the thriller genre has been widened, and this can be put to use when creating our own thriller opening.

Post-Prelim Discussion

A post-prelim discussion from Robyn and Thomas, sharing what we think went well and what challenges we faced during the production of the prelim. 

Prelim Complete!

 

Our continuity error has been fixed at the end meaning that our Preliminary Video is now complete. A video will be uploaded soon of our group discussion reflecting on our decisions that we made during the entire process. Feedback is vital moving forward as we need to know what works well and what doesn't in order to make our work as efficient as possible.

1st Draft of Prelim

1st draft of our Prelim.

We struggled with some technical difficulties regarding storage and sound however we have fixed this to create out first draft of the prelim. We have spotted a slight continuity error in the last five seconds of the clip as Robyn is facing George instead of the wall however we plan to re-shoot and edit this to make it complete.

Filming the Prelim

These are several pictures of us behind the scenes while we filmed our prelim. Robyn and George starred in it while Tom and I guided them to ensure that the prelim was of a good quality.

Planning Process

 

Our planning process begun with a quick mind map of ideas until we decided on a general idea and plot for the prelim, however we thought it'd be more efficient to make the rest of the decisions as we went along. We then went for a walk around the school to find a suitable location for filming.

In our first chosen location we encountered some problems as we were disrupted by the noise of a classroom so we found a much quieter spot of the school instead which proved successful as we were only disrupted on one occasion by a student passing by. Despite the spontaneity being a problem at first, overall it saved us a great deal of time, having almost completed our prelim by the end of the hour. All that is left to do now is to correct a minor continuity error which means we will have to re-film the final section here in one frame Robyn is looking at George and the next she is looking away, however this shouldn't take too long and you can expect our completed prelim to come in the next few days.

Twitter Account @WeMadeIt99

 

Our twitter account is up and running now with the username @wemadeit99 if you wish to follow us. It is an open account meaning that anybody is free to witness our progress and it shall be used to keep  our followers updated with our planning process.

The account is ran by both Robyn and Tom who will continue to post throughout the blogging process.

@WeMadeIt99

WeMadeIt Logo

Introducing our team logo! After a long process of deliberating, we finally agreed on the team name 'WeMadeIt Entertaiment'.

"But why?" we hear you ask! Well, it represents how we're collectively making our very own thriller opening and hopefully by the end of the process we can proudly say we made it through the work, we made it through the producing, we made it through any obstacles and we had fun whilst doing it...     
WeMadeIt Entertainment.

Year 13 Talk

Year 13 Talk

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In order to kick-start our blog and coursework process, we first had a visit from the Year 13s who created their thriller openings last year. The students helped give useful advice and answer any questions we had in order to prevent us from making the same mistakes they made, from remembering to always charge your phone prior to filming, to what apps they found most useful. Here is a list created of some of the key points which were brought up in the discussion which we will bare in mind as we progress in to coursework production. 

Meet The Team

From left to right- George, Ella, Tom, Robyn

 Welcome to our blog!

Here's introducing the team behind WeMadeIt Entertainment. (From left to right) We have George, Ella, Tom and Robyn. All being A level media students, we all carry the same interest in exploring the industry from music to film production and are keen to start our journey into developing a thriller opening. We'll be using the blog to keep you updated and give an insight into the process but until then, follow us on our twitter @WeMadeIt99.