We used a few forms and conventions of thrillers. the most obvious one was music. Thrillers are renowned for using suspense building music. that is what we tried to capture as well. I feel it worked well. the music, sets the mood, pace, scene and helps coach along the story line. We have no identity for the people in our thriller, it is left a mystery, but we tried to make it look like they were innocent but had a darker side as well. why would they be being chased if they were completely innocent? I suppose it could be related back to 'Psycho'. The audience sympathises with her, even though she has stolen a lot of money from the bank.
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
i would imagine a company like lionsgate might distribute our media product, because they distribute to the UK and America, this would make our media product more of less global, boosting peoples viewing opportunities. Lionsgate have produced some very popular films for example, all the 'saw' films, 'Rambo', 'Transporter 3', and the 8.4 stars out of 10 (IMDb, Internet Movie Database) 'Kick-Ass'.
If audiences liked these films and Lionsgate Produced our Thriller the chances are that they would enjoy our film too.
Who would be the audiences for your media product?
After doing my research on classification certificates, I would certify our Thriller as a 12A, no one younger that twelve is permitted to view our work unless accompanied by an adult. The opening its self, I would rate as this, the opening itself I would rate as a PG, however we have to take into account to whole film complete. I would imagine that our film would appeal to any one from the age of 12 or older.
How did you attract/address your audience?
We attracted our audience by keeping what the 'documents' actually are a secret, later to be discovered in the film, In hope that the audience would be anxious to know what they were and why they are so important. By using the gunshot and the missing posters the audience would want to know who would want to kill someone over some documents, emphasising that they must be important.
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
I have learnt that what your initial idea may be, it might not be physically possible to perform with the hand help camera and Mac computer to edit on- I have learnt how to use the newer version of 'iMovie' rather than the older one similar to Windows Movie Maker.
i never understood the importance of lighting until we filmed this. i especially realised this when filming through the alley, and in the house.
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full production?
I have defiantly learnt to make sure everything is perfect in place and that there is nothing there that shouldn't be, in our preliminary piece, we made an amateur mistake, a drinks bottle and story board have been left in, in a couple of shots, defiantly something I took care about when filming our final piece.
the importance of reaction shots as well. we didn't really have any in our preliminary, so I ensured at least one was included in our final piece.
I have really enjoyed filming this, and i would love to do it again, i have also really enjoyed producing this blog.
