Friday, 21 May 2010
Saturday, 1 May 2010
Thursday, 29 April 2010
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learned in the progression from it to the full product?

Still from Prliminary task 'Bag Swap'
The still above shows a shot from our preliminary task that is out of focus. This has allowed us to be aware adjusting the focus before setting a new shot.

Still from the thriller title sequence
The still above shows the focused shot from our thriller title sequence. The differences between the focuses show our development in progress and being aware of our previouse mistakes.

Still from the thriller title sequence
Evaluation Question 7
Our first preliminary task was the "Bag Swap". It was the first time we was filming with JVC cameras. Even though it was our first time filming.. I think it went really good. After having some scenes shot in the bag swap we had to take it to Final Cut Pro. (a program which was used to edit the clips.)
Using Final Cut Pro we have put the clips in-order to make it work out, we used razor tool to delete un-needed bits of the clips, made it into match-cuts to make it work out really well. it was the first time we've used Final Cut Pro too. Before all this we had a little tutorial from our teacher to show us how to use it.
As a group we had different ideas - we put the ideas together to come up with a even bigger idea, to lead us to success. The Bag Swap clip was just a little test.. to get our media skills involved and come up with a good peace. We had good camera shots, zoom ins and outs and so on in our clip.
Little exercises such as the Bag Swap was very helpful to us - as it helped us in our final work. We had better ideas of shots and techniques for our final thriller peace.

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Tuesday, 27 April 2010
What have you learned about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
Technologies we were introduced to, and technologies that has helped us with the process of constructing our media product:
By using Google, we were able to research nearly anything we needed. For example, if we needed to research a particular film we would just simply use google to open IMBD which would show us all the information we would be needing on a film. Youtube allows us to find almost every video we could possibly look for such as, films, music, trailers and many more things.
We were introduced to JVC cameras. We had a brief tutorial on how to use cameras. This tutorial really allowed us to understand all the functions to a high tech camera.
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? How will you attract/address your audience?
As a group we have produced an armature thriller film called 'The Killing Spree'. Our thriller would be best suited to be released by a low-budget production company. Our low-budget film would be a motion picture shot on limited budget. We class ourselves as young armature directors, and because we are unknown it would be appropriate for us to start our film with a low-budget production company. Candi Studios would be best suitable to invest in our film, due to the support and experience they provide for young directors.
Our thriller would get an independent release mainly because its an armature film. Every film sets a target audience depending on their budget and genre. For example if you release a film based on romance with a high budget production company, then you are bound to have a mainstream audience.

Here is a picture of the type of cinema at which our thriller would be shown.
For examples of the style of marketing campaign we would envisage for our movie and examples of the types of media which would promote our movie. We would be using social networks, such as, youtube, facebook and myspace.
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? How will you attract/address your audience?
This is a thriller opening sequence from amateur students which was launched on a video website (youtube.com). Eventhough this is a low budget film it had large number of hits on Youtube as people can share or send these videos to their friends and families which can then lead to reach a global audience. As OOH advertising is not possible because of the low budget, we can also attract our audience through social networking sites such as Youtube, Facebook and Myspace as they are free of cost.
The screen on the green is a suitable cinema for our film to be shown as it is a small cinema where selected films are screened.
The Screen On The Green
83 Upper Street,Islington,London,N1 0NP
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
The still above shows the character who is psychologically disturbed from our opening title sequence. A film 'Kidulthood' involves a character who is similar to ours. Both characters are wearing hooded jumper/jacket. The hood and the darkness in their clothes implies that they don't want to be seen, as this also imply the darkness of their lifestyle.
A still from 'Kidulthood'
What have you learned about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
Research (web) - http://www.google.com/ http://www.imdb.com/ http://www.artofthetitle.com/
During the period of producing our title sequence we have used web to either to research or to reach a particular information, for example to analyse different shots from other movies we used Art of the Title Sequence to select the movie shots we wanted to analyse.
Introduced to JVC Cameras
We had a tutorial by technicians showing us how to use a JVC cameras and other equipment. This tutorial had allowed us to gain skills that we have taken further during our filming process. To experiment and undertsand clearly on how to use the cameras we had an exercise on filming Preliminary Match Cut. This exercise gave us visual understanding on how the camera should be set and used.
Apple Macs & Softwares
Apple Macs are one of the leading technologies along with the different softwares it includes, such as Final Cut Pro that allowed us to edit the shots we have taken as we first edited our Preliminary match cut exercise, which we mostly enjoyed producing. Soundtrack Pro includes variety of different sounds that can be put together to create a whole new soundtrack as we have created our own track for the sequence. Livetype has many different types of font and style this was very useful to select the type to highlight the genre clearly.
Overall, throughout the process of constructing this prouct has involved many different technologies. Without involving even one of these techologies, the final outcome of producing thriller title sequence could not be completed successfully. I have learned many techniques and gained many information about these technologies that led us to success.
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
In our media product, we have represented a male character who is psychologically disturbed. This character is simply disturbed in the mind. The use of drugs and alcohol triggers him to assault, rape and kill people, however his main victims tend to be women. He takes advantage of the vulnerability and weakness of women.

Monday, 26 April 2010
Evaluation Question 6
Eventhough I've used Apple MACs before, when I was introduced to them once again with my AS Media class, I've learnt more things. e.g. how to use programs even better.. Final Cut Pro, LiveType & SoundTrack. I'm sure these programs will be helpful for me in the future, as I'm planning to take media further more in life. Apple MACs are difficult to use, but once you get used to them, it gets easier. At first we got a little tutorial from our teacher with the programs, and later in other lessons we used these programs to edit our clips.

Evaluation No.5
Evaluation Question 3&4
3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
I think that working title 2 (Universal Pictures) might distribute our media product. The reason why I picked this distribution company is because our film is most likely going to be a low budget film. Working title 2 is known to do low budget films, as in a way of giving them a chance to succeed. We weren’t really inspired by any other film, so we wouldn’t need any great special effects or anything. As a group we thought we should come up with one ourselves and I think we had succeeded very well.
4. How will you attract/address your audience?
I will be advertising my media product on Youtube. Make it into little teasers to give a taste to my audience. Youtube has millions of viewers daily, so using this should be a good idea. Also I will be advertising it on Facebook/Twitter. Making my media products own page and advertising it through there should be easy to, with this we could get through to many people around the world.
Evaluation Question 2
In our media product we only had two characters (main characters). The male character was sterotypical in a way, he had his jeans down low and a jacket which had a hoody, which went back to the saying "people with hoodies are criminals". The male character was a killer, he was the type of person who didn't care, he does what he wants and is a pretty strong character in the media product. This character easily fits into the 'criminal' category.
On the other hand we had the female character, also playing a sterotypical vulnerable female, easy to hurt and is very weak. She was the victim who the 'killer' decided to choose. She was wearing casual clothes - which a girl will wear in a normal day out, nothing special.
In the scene the male character was sitting on the bench, waiting for its best victim - reading the newspaper, like any other man will do in the morning. At last comes along a vulnerable female who decides to sit on the other bench near the killer. After a few seconds of staring, the girl feels uncomfortable and unprotected and decides to leave and walks away. The male character puts on his 'hood' and starts to follow his victim. This is where the tension builds up and the actions kicks in.
Overall, our clip shows what most girls go through nearly each day.

Friday, 23 April 2010
Evaluation No.8
Evaluation No.7
Our first preliminary task was "Bag Swap". We thought our first filming using JVC cameras and editing using Final Cut Pro worked really well.
We have learnt several different techniques during filming process, such as before zooming in we had to adjust the focus. In our thriller opening we made sure that every time we set the new shot we had to adjust the focus.
Our second preliminary task was about a police officer questioning a serial killer. We didn't have a title for this particular clip as it was just one of the task we wanted to create to improve our skills.
We thought we had succeeded in creating this task as our match cuts had worked really well. The only thing that went wrong in this task was that we did not turn the microphone on, so therefore the was no dialogues throughout the clip.
Evaluation No.6
In my first encounter with Final Cut Pro i used clips from Bait tutorial to practice putting short clips together in order to make sequence that made sense.


Evaluation No.3/4
I think that Candi Studios would distribute our media product. The reason why I picked this distribution company is because our film was made by ameture students. Candi studios is known to do low budget films. Candi studios was ideal for distributing our media product, as alot of students known about them. We weren't really inspired by any other film, so we wouldn't need any great special affects or anything. As a group we thought we should come up with one ourselves and I think we had succeeded very well.
4. How will you attract/address your audience?
There are many ways you could attracting my audience, I am planning on advertising my media product on Facebook. This is a very easy way of advertising because it’s a very easy process, e.g. just creating a page foe your media product or having advertisement on Facebook.
Another way I could attract audiences is by putting advertisements on YouTube and movie sites e.g. IMDB (Internet movie data base), for example if they wanted to watch a specific thing they would need to watch our media product first. I would try to aim it at students all over the world as we would hope the film to be released globally and at the same time in order to decrease privacy on the film.

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Evaluation No.2
In out media product we had two characters starring in it. One of them was the victim which was played by a female, the female character was wearing casual clothes, e.g. jeans, t-shirt and a cardigan, this character in our media product represents the social group of a vulnerable girl that have a higher chance in becoming a victim.
Another character starring in our media product was the killer, which was played by me (male), for that I wore the normal cloths I would normally wear, e.g. jeans, t-shirt and a hoodie. For this to be represented for a particular social group it would have to be stereotypically as all hooded teenagers are up to no good.
Our media product was filmed in the location Regents Canal in the morning, we chose that location as most teenagers would be walking around there, as you wouldn't really see a lot of people in suits walking along the canal, our characters were both wearing casual clothes to be suit into the location.
The killer was just waiting around reading his newspaper waiting for the perfect victim to arrive, when that victim comes he puts down the newspaper and starts watching her, see what she does, since the girl isn’t sure what it going on she starts walking off, the killer follows, then finally catches her and finishes what he was set out to do.
This part of the clip sort of shows nearly everyday life, boy sees girl, boy likes girl, but this is where it changes, instead of boy trying to talk to girl, it turns into boy killing the girl. Overall, this media product represents how boys are attracted to the girls.

I think our film is kinder similar to the film Kidulthood, Kidulthood is is a 2006 British drama film about the life of several teenagers in a certain area.
Our film relates to this because our film is about the life of a couple teenagers, but this one partically teenager that has a problem, a mental illness lets say.
Trailer for Kidulthood
This is the killer who played in our film( played by me)

This was a character in Kidulthood who was also another killer.
Both characters are similar as they are both are wearing a hoodie in order to hide thier identities.
Thursday, 22 April 2010
Evaluation No.1

This is the thriller title sequence made by Sukru Taskiran, Baran Arslan, Derya Yilmaz, Sifa Karadeniz. We chose Candi studios as our production company.
The Shining is a 1980 psychological horror film directed by Stanley Kubrick, co-written with novelist Diane Johnson, and starring Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, and Danny Lloyd. The film is based on the novel (The Shinning)
There are similarities and differences in both opening title sequence. Both sequences are a narrative opening with the titles running throughout. The differences are, in Killing Spree we view the characters along with the location where as in The Shinning the characters are excluded and we only follow a car throughout its journey.

Tuesday, 20 April 2010
Audience feedback and comment
These are the words that is used by other groups to describe our media product.
Feedback
Evaluation No.8
Thursday, 25 March 2010
Wednesday, 17 March 2010
Preliminary Match Cut
After we were done with out tutorial on camera introduction, we started on our Preliminary Match Cut excercise. We started off by planning our storyboard which had to relate to a title sequence that we were given by our teacher. The title sequence we had to illustrate was, 'A character opens a door, walks into a room, sits down opposite another character, then they share a few lines of dialogue'. This exercise allowed us to experiment with the camera and it also helped us identify the use of Preliminary Match Cut. To complete our task we had to have examples of, match cuts, shot reverse shot, and lastly we had to show our understanding of the 180 degree rule. Overall i really enjoyed the whole exercise and also found Preliminary Match Cut very useful.
Our storyline illustrated a suspect waiting to be questioned by a police officer.
Thursday, 11 March 2010
Preliminary Match Cut
These shots were then put in to Final Cut Pro to be edited to set the match cuts for the shots to be continuous.
Camera Shots
- Extreme Long Shot
- Long Shot
- Full Shot
- Mid Shot
- Extreme close-up
Camera Angles
- Bird Eye Angle
- High Angle
- Eye-level Angle
- Low Angle
Camera Movements
- Crane Shot
- Panning
- Tracking Shot
Camera shots are used to highlight different aspects of a film's setting, characters and themes. Camera angles are used to position the viewer so that they can understand the relationships between the characters. Therefore camera shots and angles are very important in shaping meaning in a film.
Preliminary match cut exercise has allowed us to improve our skills on how to produce match cuts during filming process and editing.
Bag Swap
This is another practice that we have produced along with the preliminary match cut exercise. This practice has allowed us to create further developments during our filming process and improved our editing skills.
Friday, 5 March 2010
Preliminary Match Cut Film
Thursday, 4 March 2010
Pitch
Pitch is created to concrete plans about our film opening.
Monday, 1 March 2010
Intro To Cameras & Health and Safety Tutorial
After watching the slide show we had learnt,
- How to insert the memory card into slot A & B
- How to insert the battery
- How to turn the camera On and Off
- How to record & play back
- Focus Assist function
- User selection (1 & 2)
- Manual audio control - Auto shooting mode
- Zoom In & Out
- Tripod - to attach camera for steady cam
- Tripod base adapter
- Lock and unlock the camera on the tripod

Thursday, 18 February 2010
Intro to Cameras & Health and Safety Tutorial

Intro to Cameras & Health and Safety Tutorial has allowed us to understand how a camera works and improtant aspects of Health and Safety.
Firstly we were introduced to JVC cameras and we have learnt the followings;

- How to insert the memory card into slot A & B
- How to insert the battery
- How to turn the camera On and Off
- How to record & play back
- Focus Assist function
- User selection (1 & 2)
- Manual audio control - Auto shooting mode
- Zoom In & Out
- Tripod - to attach camera for steady cam
- Tripod base adapter
- Lock and unlock the camera on the tripod
Art of the Title Sequence
News and current affairs events


Tuesday, 16 February 2010
News And Currents Affairs Events

A British soldier has been killed by an explosion while trying to clear a roadside bomb in Afghanistan.
The member of 36 Engineer Regiment died as a result of wounds he suffered north east of Sangin, Helmand province.
This explosion happened in Afghanistan. This could become a good thriller movie, the movie could be about the UK bomb expert was going to clear a roadside bomb but then another group had planted another bomb near by, he is trying to defuse this bomb, and any minute now the new bomb could go off.
News And Currents Affairs Events

Kingsman Sean Dawson of 2nd Battalion, The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, who was killed in southern Afghanistan.
Kingsman Sean Dawson, 19, from 2nd Battalion, The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, died in the Musa Qala area of Helmand Province on Sunday evening.
Kingsman Dawson, from Stalybridge, Manchester, was deployed to Afghanistan on January 16 after passing a course to become a sniper. He was killed while taking part in an ambush of suspected militants near Patrol Base Minden in the north of Helmand. The incident was not connected to the ongoing Operation Moshtarak to drive the Taliban out of a stronghold around Marjah and Nad-e-Ali in Helmand.
This sad story could potentially be a good thriller, mainly beacuse there are many thrillers based on terrorism and war. This story could be about a young man who's only ambition is to serve his country, however his journey could be very sad, thrilling and traumatic.
The Art Of The Title Sequence
Intro To Cameras & Health and Safety Tutorial
We learned, how there are two slots where we could put two memory cards in (A&B).
How to turn the camera on and off.
How to focus with the camera and zoom in and out.
How to detach and attach the lens.
How to record and play back footage.
How to insert the memory card, and how important it is to always remember to take the memory card out of the camera after we are done with it.
How to attach the camera to the tripod, and also how to lock and unlock the camera on the tripod.
Camera Tripod


Thursday, 11 February 2010
Art Of The Title Sequence
The title is 300 which explains how many warriors there is or how many is left.
They don't give any images of the real characters, the imagery looks like it has came out from a comic.
The shots used are mainly wide shots, to show to show the surroundings and also to see a bunch of characters, a mid shot to see a man holding a shield and a knife and a close up of a man spitting blood.
The reason i have chosen this title sequence is because it sounds out from other title sequences, its a comic title sequence and it doesn't introduce any of the characters.
The title sequence of the movie 300:
http://artofthetitle.com/media/film/2006/300_end_titles_720p.html
Hi Group 13
Friday, 5 February 2010
Live Type & Sound Track Pro Skills
Thursday, 4 February 2010
Live Type & Soundtrack Skills
Skills Audit - Livetype and Sound
To create the specific type of font during producing our thriller film opening, we were introduced to Livetype a program on Apple Macs which has allowed us to view variety of different fonts in different styles. The program Livetype is really useful and quick way to produce the type of font you would like to have.
Soundtrack

On Apple Macs we were also introduced to Soundtrack. This program allows us to listen to variety of different sounds. It is also possible to edit the sound you have inserted on to the timeline. This program will be useful for our soundtrack for our opening sequence as we are need to produce our soundtrack without a copywright.
live type and soundtrack pro
To have a good thriller opening title sequence, we need to have a good quality opening title with a soundtrack that creates anxiety. The two programs that will allow us to do this is, Live Type and Sound.

