Post-Production Evaluation

In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

We chose our stock narratives, characters and settings carefully so that the audiences watching our film can identify that it is a thriller. Working in our group, we carried out research in watching 3 different Thriller films which were The Bourne Ultimatum, The Collateral and The Godfather. Our group put all of the research in to a repertoire of elements table. The themes of Thriller is a story of an assassin who works for a CIA who is asked to carry out s series of task’s of assassination, kidnap or simply destroying another secret organisation. Our group have chosen to use a similar sort of story when an assassin try’s to get out of his job to keep his family safe, from our research we also have used an assassin in our Thriller. Our group filmed the Thriller in a posh hotel were the assassination takes place, and the meeting between the assassin and the boss takes place in a dark office room. The audience will see from watching the clip we know that it is a thriller by seeing the assassin wearing a black long coat, dark shirt and pulling out a gun to complete the assassination. I feel that we chose our characters, settings and themes very well according to our research.

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

If i was selling this film i would have someone like Michael Mann who produced Collateral or Martin Scorsses who produced Gangs of New York. Being a big budget film i feel that these producers would fit the part well because these producers have produced some big films with big actors (stars) such as Tom Cruise and Leonardo Dicaprio with these stars there would attract huge audiences world-wide. i would like to make this a british film though with british actors and some american actors, actors like Cristian Bale and Daniel Craig would be considered for the part of the assassin.

Who would be the audience for your media product

As our film is a Thriller the film would be released as a 15 so people 15 and older can watch this film. our group decided on a 15 rating as our film contains scenes of  violence, this would not be suitable for the 15 and younger. we discussed this in our presentation of what rating we should use.

How did you attract/address your audience

Once the 20th century logo has faded out a deep tense bass music comes into the scene and we see a person walking down a corridor and whilst this is happening there is a cut back to what the audience see is a flashback of a tense conversation, from watching this the audiences want to know where the person is going and why and what the conversation is about.

What have you learnt about technologies from constructing this product?

Whilst filming i was acting but we had problems setting up the camera for recording or playback, before i did not know how to use a camera very well but throughout our filming i have learnt how to use a camera and how to set it up. Whilst we were editing i had also learnt a lot of how to use the Mac computer, by adding music to the clip or cutting a bit out of the scene. I found garage band very hard to use, our group would have liked to create our own piece of music but we found ourselves playing with it but not coming up with anything and wasting time, so in the end we found a piece of music which fitted our scene we found this piece of music copy free-right for one of our group members dad who also works in the media.

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

I have learnt from doing my final piece that planning is key. When our group did the preliminary task i feel that our group went into film in it not knowing what shots we were using and were we were going to film it, but we planned setting, theme’s and characters for out final piece and i believe this helped us but we did not film enough which means we did not fully plan our final piece we were asked to make a 2 minute opening instead we filmed a 1:40 minutes. we concentrated on more on the camera shots than worrying about how long it was going to be . Working with each other is also key, sticking together, and listening to each other ideas is important as you will get along with each other and i believe we did not listen to each other as much in the preliminary task.

Evaluation of Preminlary task

For our preminlary task we were assigned to create a two minute scene. in the preminlary task we were asked to create a scene in which a character had to open a door, crossing a room and sitting down on a chair opposite another charcter, with which she/he then exchanges a couple lines of dialogue, using shots such as match on macth action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule. In my group there was Tom: character A, Charlie character B, Buffy: cameraman  and Anthony: editor. in our task we wanted to create a thriller. our clip started with a very long shot of the art room focusing on the art room door, Character A then walks into the scene, walks upto the art room door opens it and walks into the art room, we then added a clip within which there was a close up shot of a hand opening the door and then character A walking through. I thought this worked very well because it adds a bit suspense, the audience might be thinking what was going to happen when Character A walks into the art room. Anthony and Buffy did well to add it to the scene without making the scenejump from one clip to the other.

After Character A open’s a door and walked through, using shot’s as very long shotand close up. We then moved onto our next clip which involved character A walking into the dark room, character A then noticves a dark figure sitting in the corner of the dark room looking surprised and worried, charactyer A then says into the darkness of the room ”Who’s there??..”  we get to see character A’s facial expression by using a close up shot on the camera which i was happy with becasue the close up camera shot caught character A facial expression peferct, when we see the clip, the audience can tell by looking at character A’s facial expression that he is worried and surprised that someone is in the room. one of the points i was not happy with was that we had broken the 180 degree rule, understanding that we were on the wrong side of the 180 degree line.

Textual Anaylsis of The Godfather

Iconography of a Thriller

Thriller Characters:

• Assassin
• Children in peril
• victims
• physco
• dectective
• Group leader E.g Don Vito the god father

Naratives and Themes:

• Kidnapping
• Car chases and chases on foot
• hand on hand combat
• murder
• conspiracy

Stock Settings:

• In a city/or different cities around the world
• Realsitic, known places
• in a forrest, isolated areas

Iconography:

• Guns/weaponary-‘fancy’ guns, sniper rifle’s, pistols/silencers, bombs.
• FBI/CIA
• Shields
• Brief cases.

The Godfather is a 1972 American thriller film based on the 1969 novel of the same name by mario puzo and directed by Francis Ford Coppola from a screenplay by Puzo,Coppola, and Robert Towne. The film starts of witha fade in black to reveal a close up shot of Ballester a freind of Don Vito (the godfather), but the film starts of by not knowing were the set is scene which gives the audience a sense of mystery. Ballester is telling why he had moved to america ” i believe in America, America has raised my fortune”, later on in the scene we find out that Ballester is asking Don Vito a favour on the day of his daughter’s wedding day. Through out the first couple of minutes the camera dolly’s out very slowly  from Ballester’s face to reveal a dark room with a desk with which Ballester is sitting at, tables, chairs and a big oak door in the backround which tells the audience that the scene is set in an office. The camera eventually stops to a over the shoulder shot of a man who is lisenting to Ballester, we later find out that it is the Godfather Don Vito.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_RcT9qCCFo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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