ABSENCE - FINAL EDIT

This is my final edit for my thriller opening sequence.

(Unsure how to make it better quality? may have to re-export??)

Storyboard

Final Edit

This is our final edit for our Thriller Opening Scene.

Evaluation - Question 2

This is question 2 of my evaluation.
"How does your media present particular social groups?"
I have presented this on Prezi.com

Evaluation - Question 3

This is the third question for my evaluation.
"What kind of media institution may distribute your media and why?"
I have presented this answer on Popplet.com

Evaluation - Question 1

This is the first question of my evaluation.
"In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?"
I have presented this answer on spicynodes.com



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Evaluation - Question 4

This is the third question for my evaluation.
"What would be audience be for your media?"
I have presented this question on emaze.com

Evaluation - Question 5

This is the fifth question of my evaluation.
"How did you attract/address your audience?"
I have presented this answer on SlideShare.com

Media Evaluation from Ellie Mae Kirk

Evaluation - Question 6

This is the sixth question of my evaluation.
"What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?"
I have presented this on Prezi.com

Evaluation - Question 7

This is the final question for my evaluation.
"Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression of it to the full product?
I have presented this question on Prezi.com

Titles

We have included titles with a typewriter effect to make the audience uncomfortable at it seems like somebody is typing to them but they are unsure who it is. The titles include texts such as 'notice me', 'Do you see me' and 'I'm always with you'. This gives a sense of uncertainty and nervousness towards the audience. The idea behind this is that this man is an online stalker and is planning to kill Alice. We have used this technique on Abobe After Effects by creating a composition and adding a typewriter effect to a new text. 

Second Storyboard

This is the second story board we have created due to us changing the idea of our opening scene. I believe that this story line is a much more thrilling and intriguing theme and fits well to the idea of a suspenseful, thrilling and intense opening scene. Each box represents what will happen in the shots, however, we may add a few more shots and scenes into the opening scene. We will also add titles to most of the shots, not just the first one. We also have not included the film title at the end of the opening scene but we are yet to decide the font and layout of it. This storyboard is better than our previous idea and i believe it will connect to the theme of thriller opening scenes closer. 

Editing - December 17th 2014

In today's lesson, we have began editing our final idea for our opening scene. 

I believe that this final edit will be better than our previous draft edit as there is a wider variety of shots within it

Planning The Location Of Our Thriller Opening Scene

The locations that we will use in our new idea include different locations within a house, for example, the front door, hallway, kitchen, and bedroom. 

Our opening scene can only be set within a house as the idea of the clip will be a young woman coming home from a day out and feeling paranoid if there is a stranger following or stalking her. 

Therefore, a variety of shots will be used in our opening scene. 

Planning The Costumes For Our Thriller Opening Scene

   As we have decided to change our Final Idea for our Thriller Opening Scene, we have had to change the costume that our Actress, Alice Hobson will be wearing. previously, she was in a running outfit, as our idea was to have a girl out on a run and then ending up bumping into a strange man. However, now we have decided on the idea of her coming home from a day out with her friends/family and entering her home, paranoid about the dangers from outside. Therefore, she needed to be in a more casual day-to-day costume. Now, we have her in a simple black skirt, black tights, boots and a rugby top which suggests her youth. Also, for the last two shots, the character is shown in her pyjamas as she is getting into bed. 

The actor, Tom Gent will be wearing the same costume as we previously decided as his character is the same. He will still be playing a strange man of which is creating a nervous atmosphere for Alice. 

Draft Edit - Into The Fire

Audience Research (Survey)

We have conducted a survey to give us an insight to how the audience feels about thrillers in general. We asked what genre thriller the public liked from Horror, Psychological, Action or Paranormal. The most popular answer was Psychological. This suggests that for our opening scene, we should include some dialogue to present the character as emotionally unstable.
The second question was What is your favourite thriller? The most popular answer for this question was 'The Usual Suspects' therefore the shots and ideas used in that opening scene should be analysed by us to give us an idea of what to put in our own. 

From our survey, we discovered that the most popular protagonist is the most fitting for a Thriller film was a detective whose partner had been killed. However, we believe that our idea will still be good as it includes mysterious and thrilling ideas.
Finally we discovered that a person whom of which is mentally deranged makes the audience feel the most uncomfortable. This idea can be incorperated into our opening scene.
Finally, the most popular name for our thriller was 'Into The Fire'. This idea will be used as it was the most popular by far from all of the other answers including; 'Strangers', 'Someone Else's Demons', 'Never Go Alone' and 'Real Nightmare'.