Question 1.

This is the Title sequence of our opening. We followed the order of the conventional title sequence. Our title sequence goes as followed: 

Production Company Ident

Distribution Compnay Ident

Actor 1: Fahmida Begum

Actor 2: James Muir

Actor 3: Alex Smith

Actor 4: Lynne Sharper

Actor 5: Terry Allen

Crew

Casting by: Tyler Camino

Costume Designer: Fahmida Begum

Music Supervisor: Ray Charles

Music by: James Muir

Editing by: Eugenie MacDonald

Product Designer: Andy Strong

Director of Photography: Nicholas Lopez

Executive Producer: Stacey Mac

Producer: Sally Rollip

Writer: Ashley Reis

Director: Nicole Miller

Film Title : Two Minds

Question 2.

HOW DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT REPRESENT PARTICULAR SCIAL GROUPS?





This is a prezi explaining the social groups represented in our opening.

Question 3.

WHAT KIND OF MEDIA INSTITUTION MIGHT DISTRIBUTE YOUR MEDIA RODUCT AND WHY?





This is a powerpoint explaining who might distribute our film.

Question 4.

WHO WOULD BE THE AUDIENCE FOR YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT? 

I interviewed 5 people asking them the following questions: 

1. Do you like thrillers?
2. What types of thrillers do you like?
3. What age do you think thrillers are aimed at?
4. What do you think of psychological thrillers?
5. What makes a good psychological thriller?

As I asked students aged 16-18, it allowed me to gain their opinions on thrillers. This was helpful as my thriller's target audience was 16-35 year olds. Psychological thrillers usually have an audience of 16+ which is what influenced our storyline, mise en scene etc.

Our thriller was filmed and edited to suit an audience of 16-35 year olds.

Question 5.

HOW DID YOU ATTRACT/ADDRESS YOUR AUDIENCE?


Our thriller is a psychological thriller aimed at 16+ year olds. As this is our target audience, we used younger actors rather than older ones as they'd appeal to the lower spectrum as well as the older. Our storyline would keep an audience of this age interested and wanting to watch the entire film. Through interviews, I gathered that 16-18 year olds would only continue watching the film if there were twists in the plot and they had to figure aspects of the film out themselves. The title of our film is simple, therefore our target audience will have an idea of the plot and decide if they want to watch it or not.
When we showed our rough cut to our peers, we realised that not many of them understood the plot, therefore we changed our target audience to an older age. We also noticed that our thriller appealed more to males because of the violent and mysterious plot.
Prior to the cinema screening, we gained an audience through twitter and Facebook. This was successful as our target audience tend to use these websites a lot. We also advertised our film on YouTube and in class.

Question 6.

Question 7.

LOOKING BACK AT YOUR PRELIM TASK, WHAT DO YOU FEEL YOU HAVE LEARNT IN THE PROGRESSION FROM IT TO THE FULL PRODUCT?

Editing: Final Stages

 

 This is our final stage of the editing process as we are choosing the correct non diegetic sound to add and synchronise with our film.

 

 

Editing Day 3 - Vlog

This is how far we are in the editing stage of our opening. Fahmida is currently creating the distribution ident, while Eugenie is editing transitions into the footage. Also, Nicole is blogging and finding appropriate foley sounds.

Editing - Vlog

Fahmida and Eugenie deciding on how the title sequence should appear. At this stage, all the footage is in the correct sequence and now we're trying to finalise our opening by adding the title sequence and sound.

Editing Process - Sound

This is the programme we are using to add sound to our opening - Soundtrack Pro. 

We are using Foley sounds for the knocking of the door and the opening of the door. 

We will also use this programme to find background music. 

Filming: More Photos

As our thriller was too short once we had cut the clips down, we decided to get some establishing shots to add at the beginning of the title sequence in order to help make the thriller slightly longer.

Rough Cut: Feedback

Receiving feedback from peers and our teacher was crucial as we were given constructive criticism and helped us see what our thriller opening looks like to an audience so far. We were also told what was good about our opening so far.
The first thing which was picked up was the colour of the titles - red. We were told that this did not suit our opening as it is not a horror movie.
Another problem which some people encountered was actually understanding the concept of our opening. It made sense once it had been explained; however we realised that if this was to be a real thriller we would not be around to fully explain the story. Therefore, we must change some of the camera work and re-work the order of the title sequence somehow. 

A strength of our opening was that we used match cuts, close ups, and other various shot type well. Also, the music accompanied the opening most of the time despite not being fully planned and synchronized.  

We have taken note of this feedback and will work on fixing these errors in the coming days.

Rough Cut of 'Two Minds'

This is the rough cut of our thriller opening 'Two Minds'. We haven't added all of the titles such as production and distribution ident and we are yet to edited them in terms of font, colour, size. We have some diegetic sound on set for e.g. footsteps and the door creaking when it opens, and we are going to amplify these sounds to make them louder which we have not done yet. We have also short listed some non diegetic sound for us to add to the thriller, but we have not synchronised the sound with the film. We have no transitions at the moment, but we will had some in later when editing. As our thriller is only 1 minute, we are going to add some establishing shots in the beginning.

Editing - Title Sequence

This is the Title sequence of our opening. We followed the order of the conventional title sequence. Our title sequence goes as followed: 

Production Company Ident
Distribution Compnay Ident
Actor 1: Fahmida Begum
Actor 2: James Muir
Actor 3: Alex Smith
Actor 4: Lynne Sharper
Actor 5: Terry Allen
Crew
Casting by: Tyler Camino
Costume Designer: Fahmida Begum
Music Supervisor: Ray Charles
Music by: James Muir
Editing by: Eugenie MacDonald
Product Designer: Andy Strong
Director of Photography: Nicholas Lopez
Executive Producer: Stacey Mac
Producer: Sally Rollip
Writer: Ashley Reis
Director: Nicole Miller
Film Title : Two Minds

Editing process - Sound

This google search was to get an idea of what sounds are usually used in the opening of thrillers. Searching for this gave me an idea of what types of music and the speed of the music that is used. We will get/create sounds on Soundtrack Pro and Garage Band.

This is the programme 'Soundtrack Pro' that we will get our sounds from.

Editing Process

This is the sequence so far of the opening. All of the footage has been used and most transitions have been added. What's left to do is find a soundtrack that fits in and to add foley sound.

Filming: On shoot vlog

This is a short snippet of the day we were filming. 

Filming: On Shoot Photos

The filming process went well for us as we managed to record all the footages we needed. We managed to use various shot types and everyone had a go at filming

By being able to film everything on the day, we reduced any continuity errors which could've occurred if we filmed on separate days. 

Setting up the tripod and camera

Our very own special camera man

Both the camera men working well

Filming - Props

The props which we had originally intended to use had changed because we did not think it would have much of an impact in the thriller. Therefore, we decided to use props which created a better context; such as a telephone, letters and flowers which would create a more realistic and office-like atmosphere. Most of these props were already in the office which we decided to film in.

Newspaper article we created

Diary

Flowers used to add an atmosphere that the office belongs to the detective

Objects to make it look like a real office

Letters

Adding small props like hand cream and calculator helps to make the office seem more realistic

A Desk

Files

Computer