Thursday, 13 December 2012
Sunday, 25 November 2012
Target Audience Survey - Analysis
7.
We asked this
to support knowledge of what gender most people prefer the leading character to
be. The majority result of Male showed us what most people think and put in our
minds ideas of who our leading character should be and what would be suitable
for our type of movie.
8.
This question
was effective in letting us know what people like the beginnings of their
thrillers to be like so that we could incorporate ideas into our film opening.
Majority result was ‘Slowly building up to action’ This gave us ideas of how to
start our movie as we want to impress our target audience and giving them
something substantial is our aim.
Overall we
thought that some of our results would be useful in the openings of our
thrillers as it allows us to gain an insight into the minds of the target
audience and a wide variety of audiences. Doing this survey has been useful and
effective in letting us know what to add and what not to add in our film and
has given us ideas for certain areas concerning the movie. E.g. the subgenre we
pick
Target Audience Survey - Analysis
Questions 5 and 6
5. This was also
effective in expanding our knowledge of what people like and what we should do
to make our film likeable to a variety of people. It made sure that we were
certain of things we should include and things that the audience would like.
6. I thought
this question was good for letting us know what we shouldn’t emphasise in our
thriller as most people don’t like it and so we want our audience to like the
movie and so wouldn’t incorporate these things. The majority answer of ‘Other’
let us know that it would be alright to include a good plot, tension/adrenaline/suspense,
shocking/unexpected features, characters and villains without the audience
feeling uncomfortable and instead enjoying the movie.
Target Audience Survey - Analysis
Questions 3 and 4
3. This question
was highly effective in letting us know how to mould our movie to make it
suitable and likeable for a wide target audience. The top answers being Psychological
and Crime thrillers gave us an insight into what people like to see and gave us
ideas of what to incorporate into our film. It also gave us a starting point
into think what subgenre or thrillers we would like our movie to fit into.
4. We also asked
this question as a continuation of the previous one to deepen our understanding
of what makes these thrillers so durable for these people and what intrigues them
into watching the thrillers. The majority
answer was the excitement of it all and the second highest result was that the
film plays with your mind. This was interesting for us to find out as we now
know how we can make our thriller more appealing to the target audience and how
we can improve and expand.
Target Audience Survey - Analysis
1. The majority answer of 12 people were between the age of 16-18 and so our target audience could mainly be targeted at this area as we have most information of the preferences of this age group. Also the age showed us the differences of opinions according to age when it comes to thriller movies.
2. This showed us the difference in opinion for the different genders of thriller movies late on in the questions and having different genders made sure that the survey was fairly valid. Although there were more female than male and so we did get more of a feminine view however we did validate and see that there were similarities. It also made our film, more based for a female audience as we now know what they prefer and will be able to shape our movie to fit their preferences.
Breakdown of 'Quantum of Solace' Opening Sequence
This the continuation
From doing this task I have learnt that there are many titles used on a title sequence and that certain titles are given different amounts of time to stay up on screen. I was also able to see the different titles so that I would know what to use on our own title sequence.
Breakdown of 'Quantum of Solace' Opening Sequence
I felt that using a breakdown of another movie was highly useful in that it made me think about the effort put into put into making title sequences. It also gave me a rough idea of the different typed of title positions which can be used for the title sequences. It also showed me how long each title was on for and I saw approximately what order the sequences tend to go in. This method of research was effective in telling me what our titles need to consist of and gave me ideas of how we could present these titles in our own title sequence.
Saturday, 24 November 2012
Film Treatment
In this psychological spy thriller, average girl Kristen Star wakes up in hospital. In the beginning of an action packed stalker situation, Kristen receives a recording on her side table giving alleged details of an exploding hospital.
The recording says “Listen very carefully. The hospital you are currently in is going to be bombed in a minute’s time once the recording has finished. Don’t ask questions. Don’t help others just run” Kristen manages to make it out in time. The hospital explodes. Kristen receives a call from an unknown number saying ‘you’ve passed the first test, go straight home before paramedics and police arrive and make sure you are not seen’
Kristen follows her instructions despite her injuries from the explosion and her injuries for her being in hospital. On her way home the phone keeps ringing but she ignores all the calls. Kristen approaches a river and falls over in shock and pain. Kristen starts thinking it is all her fault and she didn’t do anything to help all the other innocent people. She realises she just witnessed a terrorist attack and did nothing to help. Her thoughts start to take control of her and she throws her phone in the river whilst in tears. A young man called Peter Crown comes up to her and asks if she is alright she tries to get away from him remembering the phone call saying ‘make sure you are not seen’ He insists on taking her home because he can see she is not well enough to be home. She eventually is persuaded to go with him.
When she arrives at his house he goes to the kitchen to make her some lunch and get her a drink. Kristen has been left alone and the phone starts ringing he yells from the kitchen to answer she slowly answers the phone. It’s the unknown man again saying ‘we told you not to be seen there will be consequences’ She yells down the phone to leave her alone he replies saying ‘turn on channel one news’ and hangs up. Peter runs in to check if she is alright she ignores him asking if she is okay and shouts at him to turn the news on. The news gets turned on as the news reporter reports that there has been another terrorist attack. Kristen is now distraught and runs out of the apartment.
When she is out of the building she sees some police on duty and tells them everything they don’t take her seriously because they can see she is ill. She begs them to come up to Peter’s apartment so he would explain for her as well. They go along with her. They knock on the door and it opens by itself. Peter is dead on the floor. Kristen can’t believe what she is seeing and runs the police try to stop her but end up having to stay with Peter. She leaves the building and screams, she runs over to a telephone box, answers the phone as it says ‘break one more rule or don’t follow one more command or try to ring the police there will be more consequences’
Throughout the movie she tries to run to ultimate lengths to stop the attacks from taking place. On the next attack Kristen manages to save one person and ends up making the young man called Luke stay with her because she doesn’t want what happened to Peter to happen to him. Kristen ends up finding herself on the run from the unknown stalkers and the police because of Peter’s death.
As the film goes on there are more attacks and phone calls which Kristen tries to prevent until she receives one very important phone call saying they want to meet her. Kristen agrees as long as Luke is guaranteed safety. They agree and meet.
When Kristen goes to the agreed location she finds her husband and best friend standing there she runs to them asking if they are alright. Three vans full of people Kristen knows drive into the abandoned location. Kristen then finds out that the unknown callers were people she knows and loves. Everyone tells her that she was in an accident and in a coma for a week and she is a terrorist just like the others in front of her. It turns out Kristen lost her memory in the accident and can’t believe what has happened.
They then reveal their master plan on killing the prime minister in the big, live conference today. Kristen manages to escape from them and can’t believe what has happened to her and what she was. She decides to try to prevent the plan from succeeding. The only way this is possible is Kristen going through many impossible tasks of sneaking into 10 Downing Street and warning the police, security and Prime Minister himself.
She starts regaining parts of her memory and skills which is how she succeeds on sneaking into 10 Downing Street and commits identity fraud. Once she is able to stop the plan from taking place she receives her final life changing call from the terrorists saying she has to pick between the life of the Prime Minister or the life of her new companion Luke and her 3 children and if she does stop the plan they will frame her for the murder of Peter and will tell the police everything about her.
What will Kristen do?
Feedback-
The recording says “Listen very carefully. The hospital you are currently in is going to be bombed in a minute’s time once the recording has finished. Don’t ask questions. Don’t help others just run” Kristen manages to make it out in time. The hospital explodes. Kristen receives a call from an unknown number saying ‘you’ve passed the first test, go straight home before paramedics and police arrive and make sure you are not seen’
Kristen follows her instructions despite her injuries from the explosion and her injuries for her being in hospital. On her way home the phone keeps ringing but she ignores all the calls. Kristen approaches a river and falls over in shock and pain. Kristen starts thinking it is all her fault and she didn’t do anything to help all the other innocent people. She realises she just witnessed a terrorist attack and did nothing to help. Her thoughts start to take control of her and she throws her phone in the river whilst in tears. A young man called Peter Crown comes up to her and asks if she is alright she tries to get away from him remembering the phone call saying ‘make sure you are not seen’ He insists on taking her home because he can see she is not well enough to be home. She eventually is persuaded to go with him.
When she arrives at his house he goes to the kitchen to make her some lunch and get her a drink. Kristen has been left alone and the phone starts ringing he yells from the kitchen to answer she slowly answers the phone. It’s the unknown man again saying ‘we told you not to be seen there will be consequences’ She yells down the phone to leave her alone he replies saying ‘turn on channel one news’ and hangs up. Peter runs in to check if she is alright she ignores him asking if she is okay and shouts at him to turn the news on. The news gets turned on as the news reporter reports that there has been another terrorist attack. Kristen is now distraught and runs out of the apartment.
When she is out of the building she sees some police on duty and tells them everything they don’t take her seriously because they can see she is ill. She begs them to come up to Peter’s apartment so he would explain for her as well. They go along with her. They knock on the door and it opens by itself. Peter is dead on the floor. Kristen can’t believe what she is seeing and runs the police try to stop her but end up having to stay with Peter. She leaves the building and screams, she runs over to a telephone box, answers the phone as it says ‘break one more rule or don’t follow one more command or try to ring the police there will be more consequences’
Throughout the movie she tries to run to ultimate lengths to stop the attacks from taking place. On the next attack Kristen manages to save one person and ends up making the young man called Luke stay with her because she doesn’t want what happened to Peter to happen to him. Kristen ends up finding herself on the run from the unknown stalkers and the police because of Peter’s death.
As the film goes on there are more attacks and phone calls which Kristen tries to prevent until she receives one very important phone call saying they want to meet her. Kristen agrees as long as Luke is guaranteed safety. They agree and meet.
When Kristen goes to the agreed location she finds her husband and best friend standing there she runs to them asking if they are alright. Three vans full of people Kristen knows drive into the abandoned location. Kristen then finds out that the unknown callers were people she knows and loves. Everyone tells her that she was in an accident and in a coma for a week and she is a terrorist just like the others in front of her. It turns out Kristen lost her memory in the accident and can’t believe what has happened.
They then reveal their master plan on killing the prime minister in the big, live conference today. Kristen manages to escape from them and can’t believe what has happened to her and what she was. She decides to try to prevent the plan from succeeding. The only way this is possible is Kristen going through many impossible tasks of sneaking into 10 Downing Street and warning the police, security and Prime Minister himself.
She starts regaining parts of her memory and skills which is how she succeeds on sneaking into 10 Downing Street and commits identity fraud. Once she is able to stop the plan from taking place she receives her final life changing call from the terrorists saying she has to pick between the life of the Prime Minister or the life of her new companion Luke and her 3 children and if she does stop the plan they will frame her for the murder of Peter and will tell the police everything about her.
What will Kristen do?
Feedback-
This film sounds really interesting from this feedback. It
goes into a lot of detail and I like the main plot and idea of the film. This
treatment does give me an inclining into the movie; however, I am now intrigued
to actually see it. (Zoe Panayioti, 17)
Monday, 15 October 2012
Arlington Road Notes
Arlington Road Notes
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Dark light when something is about to happen.
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Over the shoulder shot in fast driving scenes.
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Music which matches the pace of the movie.
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There was a point where killings were taking
place and you could only hear hints of what they were saying but the rest was
sound effects.
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The camera moved alongside the action.
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They also used point of view shots.
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Also the use of shadows shows that something bad
is about to happen. They also use establishing shots and when something is
going fast they do extreme close ups.
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There is a few times when the audience feels
uncomfortable because of extreme close ups.
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They also under-light the face a lot and show
many of the facial expressions when needed.
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They use a lot of movement at the beginning
which shows confusion.
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A lot of two person shots.
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Establishing shots used when trying to show
where they are at that point in time.
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The lesson was about bombing in the beginning
foreshadowing what is going to happen at the end.
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Crane shot in the study to give an over view
shot of everything which was happening in the study.
Sunday, 14 October 2012
Preliminary Task
Nicole,Chantelle,rosette,Emma from Alan Riley on Vimeo.
These are my two preliminary tasks, the aim of this was to
gain some camera skills and experience in using the camera for the first time.
We had to film someone entering a room and having a conversation while sitting
down. It was an exciting experience as we were worried about shaky camera work.
We had to demonstrate the 180 degree rule, match on action, shot revers shot
and two shot. We also had mid-shots and close ups on the face when speaking. It
was at first quite a challenging thing to do as we had to work out which way to
position the camera however; on getting used to using the camera we were able
to work out how to position the camera correctly. After filming the editing was
prepared using Adobe Premier Pro CS5 which was also a new programme for me to
get used to however we learnt to use the different features and so were able to
learn new skills. Then we uploaded it to Youtube so as to get it into a
suitable format to be posted onto our blog. Overall I think doing the
preliminary task was a helpful thing to do as it allowed us to gain skills in
not only using the camera but in the editing process needed afterwards and this
experience has enabled me to be more aware of things which I do when filming
the real film sequence.
Feedback -
Feedback -
These preliminary tasks were very good. I liked them because
it ran smoothly and I liked the way the shots moved from one face to another.
There is also contrast between the two tasks as we can see that in the second
one there is more movement and is more zoomed in to see the face of people speaking.
(Sheliesa Stewart,17)
Thursday, 13 September 2012
Welcome to my Blog
Welcome to my Blog,
My name is Chantelle Walker and this is my A-level Media Blog. We will be studying thriller movies.
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