5) How did you attract/address your audience?
We decided that the best way to attract and address our audience would be to make our film relatable, and not too far-fetched and fake. To do this, we set our film in a sixth form college. This meant that the characters, both main and background, were ‘normal’ and therefore would appeal to our audience because it could be a real life situation, and resembled a ‘based on a true story’ film.
Also, using the enigma theory, we attracted our audience by using cliff-hangers. Al the end of our film, we are left with the image of a gun pointed to the females head and then a loud scream with the view of the door. This makes the audience think and wonder whether the captor will kill the woman, and make them want to watch on.
6) What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
I have learned many things about technologies while constructing
our media product. We used a Canon video camera, which none of us had any
experience with. All any of us had done before was minor filming on mobile
phones or cameras of events such as concerts or everyday activities. Using this
camera allowed us to learn about the lighting and angles that we can use to
gain an effect, and also allowed us to develop our understanding how to create
specific feeling and emotions in the audience. Also, we learned that we did not
need a tripod to effectively film our product, as during the filming process we
found that using ‘shaky camera’ POV shots and a slightly blurred finish to our
shots and filming worked better to create more effect on the audience and a
sense of reality. I also learned that professional lighting is not always
necessary, and natural lighting can be just as effective if correctly used.
The editing software we used was Adobe Premier Elements 10. This
was very useful to us as it enabled us to use a variety of different techniques
to make our film appealing and fit for viewing. We were able to cut, merge and
order different scenes in order to fit with our plot and timescale, and use
varying ways to switch between these cuts, for example a ‘dip to black’ or
‘cross merge’. It also allowed us to add titles to our piece in varying fonts
and colours, which enabled us to make it fit with our thriller genre, as well
as give the relevant information. We could easily add music to promote emotions
from our audience, in our case particularly tension and fear. However, one
problem we had with this technology is that it was hard to get the correct scenes
in place, cut and in order, and any mistake early in the scene list would mean
a total re-do for the rest of the list. We learned that we had to get every
scene exactly as we wanted as we went along, as we had no time to make mistakes
and lose the entire film. Also, being on a computer means that it must be saved
regularly to ensure that it will not be lost if there is a system crash, and so
we learned the importance of this.
7) Looking back at you
preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it
to full product?
Looking back at the preliminary task, I would say my understanding
of both filming and editing has improved. In many ways. I now understand how to properly use a camera, whereas at the start
of the preliminary task I had no knowledge and found it difficult to create an
effective shot. However, now I feel as though I am able to do this and I
understand how to manipulate angles, lighting and sound in order to create an
emotion in an audience, or for entertainment. I have also learnt that a
tripod and special lighting equipment is not needed in order to create a
believable and entertaining piece. On the editing side of production, I have learned how to use the
different functions of Premier Elements 10 in order to create smooth
transitions between shots, to cut and edit scenes and to add effects to the
shots. Also, I have learned how to add music to a video, and effectively add
titles throughout the piece at appropriate times. I feel, in my final piece, I was able to make the piece more fluent
and create feeling more effectively due to these new skills I gained between
the preliminary task and our final piece.
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