Evaluation Activity: 1

The Title of the Film, Font, Style & Effects:

The title of the film is 'Blood From A Stone'. The font used in the clip is 'Cracked'. The effects used on the titles in the clip is 'Block Dissolve'.


Settings/ Location:

There are two locations in the clip. One is a secluded woodland area which I think is is good for the purpose of the scene because it is quite sinister, secluded and hidden from any main path. The other location is a science lab which is a good location because I was attempting to make a Forensics scene.








Costume and Props:

The costume in our clip is not the best. There's basically nothing however, I couldn't source all the costume as all of the timescale was planned in haste. The props used I feel are relevant to the scene and used effectively.

Final Cut for Blood From a Stone

New things that have been added:

• Full foley
• Changing the title sequence title timing

OUR FINAL CUT

This is our Final cut for our Thriller Film production: 'Blood From A Stone'.

Soundtrack 2

This is the soundtrack for the forensic scenes.

SoundTrack 1

This is the first soundtrack our media production. it will be tracked over the crime scene shots.

Casting

This is Lillian Jordan who we've chosen to be our main female protagonist in our thriller film which we've called "Hallucinate". 

This is Jess Hodson who we've chosen to be our back-up actress for our thriller film if Lillian is unable to attend the days of production.

This is Nick Gard who we've picked to be the male antagonist for our thriller film

Storyboard

This storyboard is a brief walk-through of the frames we'll be using to shoot out thriller film. We aim to have a tense atmosphere with sharp transitions

Production Schedule

Recces

This is one of the locations we'd like to film out thriller when the female protagonist is having a flashback of being mugged. This long road in Stone is usually empty which adds to the "deserted" feel we're trying to create in our thriller. In this large space filled with nothing but trees and cliffs, the protagonist in our film would feel inferior, paranoid and vulnerable

The lakes at Bluewater Shopping Center could be another possible location for our thriller film when the protagonist is remembering the event that triggered her anxiety.

One of the bedrooms in my house is going to be used as the female protagonist's room where the majority of the thriller opening would be filmed. We plan to arrange the items on the desk neatly and in some sort of excessive clean order so the audience can fully understand how heavily affected the protagonist is by previous events.

COSTUME RESEARCH.

Female Protagonist: The protagonist will have two different sets of clothes, pone for reality, and another for the hyper reality state.

When the female protagonist is having flashbacks/switching back and forth from hyper-reality, she'll be wearing clothes that make her stand out as an individual and clearly being the main character

Male thief/mugger: We'll dress this character in dark colours and urban clothes to show he's a character who's trouble and is capable of wrong doings. Stereotypical clothing for a thug/thief/criminal

Parity Filming Process

On Thursday 28th November, our production group filmed our Parity shooting in the male toilets in Goals. We managed to film this in the space of an afternoon. We did a recce before hand were we just filmed a couple of shots off of our shot list that we had previously made. We had written down the camera shots that we were going to use, and had time scales written down to list the events in chronological order.

imdb thriller audience research

To understand what kind of audiences were interested in specific films, we used IMDB and looked at the user ratings of some thriller films to get an idea of what age we should target our own thriller film for.

Test footage of our Thriller Film

To get a rough idea of what our opening two minute sequence, we created a small sample of what our thriller film could look like. Without giving away too much about the story in the first few moments of the opening, we created a basic idea of what themes and characters our film would include
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8on2fSGP_U&feature=youtu.be

Vox Pops: audience expectations of a thriller

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFpkDttmvg0&feature=youtu.be

The questions that were asked to the audience were
1) How old are you?
2) What do you look for in a thriller?
3) What is your favourite thriller film?

From the feedback given, I was able to conclude that most people aged 15-25 enjoy thriller films that include action, a firm storyline, mystery, cliffhangers and entertainment.