Evaluation Question 4 & 5

Evaluation Question 3 Part 2

This is the second part of my use of Voki to answer question 3.



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Evaluation Question 3 Part 1

I am answering question 3 using a website named Voki.



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Screen Shots

Here are some screen shots from editing my intro using Final Cut Pro and Motion 4.

 

 

Here are screenshots of all the final used titles in my thriller.

Evaluation Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

There are no particular groups of people of a certain age, race, gender, religion, ethnicity or culture. However I do believe that my thriller product does “speak” to a certain type of people who would enjoy watching my thrillers genre. These people I would associate as relatively within the ages of 15-60, any race, any gender, and any religion except those that view violence as particularly bad and any ethnicity or culture.

Speaking of culture however does raise the question of whether or not my thriller could be associated as a realistic possibility and whether or not it is more possible to occur in a certain culture. This is important to know as I would then realise these characteristics of my target audience and possibly alter the thriller or market it to certain people. This culture I see as possibly European, or American? I see it less likely to relate to audiences of other cultures such as Asian, African, South American etc. as the actors do not look like them or act in certain ways that the public from another culture would. The whole thriller is also set in the English countryside, and not somewhere else that other cultures may find easy to relate to. It is for this reason why I don’t think that any other culture would easily relate to my product.

Age wise, there are also small limits to which I think my thriller will be appropriate or enjoyable to certain groups of ages. For example I believe my thriller is not suitable for anyone under the age of 12 to watch, this is due to the large use of cigarettes, violence etc. And I also believe that anyone over the age of 60 may dislike the genre of a thriller but I could be wrong with that certain hypothesis. It completely depends on the own persons personal taste.

In conclusion I have not particularly “altered” my video to fit a certain social group’s perceived tastes. However I believe that my thriller rather fits into a universal social group of most people, which in general means that anyone can enjoy it but it purely depends on the own audience members personal tastes.

Evaluation Question 1

Original Prezi Presentation

Final Changes

I have now finished the intro and I am very proud of it! We had to make a very small amount of changes but I am happy they worked well and now compliment the intro well.

1. The first change was I could not film the actor William actually driving in the car, I wanted this as shown in the storyboard to show he was driving and make it more realistic however I could not since William was not comfortable enough trying to drive the vehicle.
2. Secondly I could not film the Actor Anthony hiding behind a tree/rock when he had fallen over, not only because it would have made my film too long but it also was very hard to find a realistic place that he could have fallen.
3. I could not get any titles made with a graffiti looking font on the tunnel, due to the program I was using not having a suitable effect.
4. In the last scene we took out the part of William standing over Anthony (the protagonist) as we found it took some of the suspense out of it, we also did not put the sound of a gun in as we felt this caused the same problem and instead left the audience eager to find out what happened with out it.

Adding Music

The use of music was a tricky subject for me, I wanted to keep my original soundtrack but found that problems in the sound made it seem worse than using music and I also thought a real musical soundtrack could help add more tension and suspense.

Therefor I have chosen to use a free uncopyrighted/royalty free music track called Stormdrum Rock I feel it is a very effective and suspenseful track to use and I now need to quickly edit this soundtrack to fit perfectly into my thriller intro.

Nearly Finished!

I am now very close to finishing my editing of Road Rage. I have put all of the scenes together in order, cut them and I have also added special effects and all the titles.

 

This is a screen shot of me editing Road Rage on Final Cut Pro, as you can see most of it is done I just need to add music and then I should be done!

Creating Titles

Today I made a plan of what titles I will put onto my intro, I will make the titles using Final Cut Pro and Motion 4 to create nice effects. And we obviously needed to make sure we included absolutely everybody involved in the making of the film to thank them.

1. Roduction Productions Present
2. A Leinad Eipo Film (My name backwards)
3. In association with Scary Sound Studios (Made to ripple in the puddle scene)
4. With Anthony Zorbis
5. William Stein
6. Stunt Driver Mary-Jane Opie
7. Keith Burgess
8. Director Daniel Opie
9. Road Rage

Start of Editing

I have now gathered all of the film needed and I am now uploading it onto Final Cut Pro.

The first thing I did was name all of the titles of the shots I had so I could easily organise and choose them when editing. I also took this time to delete any shots which I did not need or were not good enough.

I then started to add all the clips I wanted onto the timeline and I cut them into position so that they all fitted together.

Next I need to add titles and effects.

Pictures Of The Set

Here are a few pictures of us filming the thriller intro:

Planning My Thriller - Securing the Location

I have looked around my immediate vicinity that would be readily accessible for the logistical side of not only transporting myself and the equipment needed, as well as a location that my actors will be able to reach. But also the location would need to tick all the check boxes that will ultimately make my intro good. These include:

• Ergonomically if it is easy to film there.
• If it is safe to film there.
• If the set is aesthetically pleasing and accompanies my idea.
• If I am allowed to film there.

It is a huge importance to me that I did not film like many of my other students at our school Aldenham. My teachers have said that it has got very repetitive and boring watching everyone's films being set in Aldenham so I have chosen a place near it which has never been filmed before.

It is for all of these reasons that I believe I have found the exact perfect location to film at: Otterspool Lane, Bushey.

 

 

Permission Form - Vehicle

The following is a permission form that the owner of the vehicle I would like to use must fill out to give permission for us to use and film the car:

Permission Form - Actors

The following are two permission forms for my two actors Anthony and William:

Planning My Thriller - Shooting Schedule

The following is a shooting schedule I made to keep me organised and prepared for the day of filming:

Saturday 1^st February:

4:15 - Shot of Will dropping cigarette. (5m)

4:20 - Low shot of wills legs climbing into the car, and shutting door. (5m)

4:25 - Over shoulder shot of Will turning on ignition. (5m)

4:30 - Long Shot of Anthony running out the tunnel and into the woods. (10m)

4:40 - Pan Shot of Anthony running through the woods. (5m)

4:45 - Shot of Anthony getting up off ground and hiding. (10m)

4:55 - Headlights turning onto Anthony. (5m)

5:00 - Close up of Anthony’s face and hands shielding himself from the light. (5m)

5:05 - Long shot of Will aiming at Anthony on the ground. (5m)

5:10 - Shot of Will walking to Anthony in the headlights. (5m)

5:15 - Mid shot of Will bringing up the gun. (5m)

5:20 - Close up of Will with a serious face. (5m)

5:25 - Finished filming.

 

Sunday 2^nd February:

3:15 - Shot of Anthony’s feet running along the ground. (5m)

3:20 - The mid shot of Anthony’s torso looking around. (5m)

3:25 - Film the shot of Anthony’s foot running through a puddle. (5m)

3:30 - Shot of Anthony with his hands on his thighs, out of breath. (5m)

3:35 - Establishing shot of Anthony running on the road. (10m)

3:45 - Shot of car pulling out. (5m)

3:50 - Shot of car driving past. (5m)

3:55 - Low shot of car driving over camera. (5m)

4:00 - Establishing shot of Anthony running into the tunnel and car driving in. (10m)

4:10 - Over shoulder shot of Anthony running through the tunnel. (10m)

4:20 - Over shoulder shot of driver, through tunnel. (5m)

4:25 - Shot of Anthony running through tunnel and outside, shot on car bonnet. (10m)

4:35 - 1^st person view of Anthony running through the tunnel and looking back. (10m)

4:45 - 1^st person view of Anthony running along road. (10m)

4:55 - 1^st person view of running through the woods, and falling. (10m)

5:25 - Mid shot from passenger side, of Will driving the car. (30m)

5:55 - Over shoulder shot of Will driving. (10m)

6:05 - Low shot of Will driving over camera. (10m)

6:15 - Finished filming.

Planning My Thriller - Choosing Actors

Today I made final arrangements on who will be the actors in my thriller intro. For the antagonist I needed someone strong, tall and powerful. It is for that reason I asked my friend Will Stein (Age 17) to play this role.

The protagonist on the other hand had to be smaller, weaker etc. For those reasons I asked my friend Anthony Zorbis  (Age 17) to play this role.

I Will now refer to those roles with the actors first names that are playing them e.g. in storyboards and when writing in evaluation.

Final Draft Storyboard

 

 

Planning My Thriller - Props

Props will hopefully also add to my thrillers atmosphere, they will make the characters stand out and will obviously allow for a thriller that makes sense yet creates attitude and extreme tension.

The props I would like to use for the protagonist are just boots, I have chosen this as not only does it create a realistic association of what normal civilians wear. But boots also allow for a good universal footwear to record for the thriller, they would create a good ripple effect in the puddle scene and lastly will provide the protagonist actor with a safe stable footwear for continuous running through dangerous terrains.

The antagonist on the other hand will require a few different props. Firstly the character should wear dark sunglasses throughout the filming of the thriller, I want this because dark sunglasses aren't only considered a typical accessory of those type of characters but it also means that the audience cannot actually see the eyes of the antagonist, this gives off the impression the antagonist is inhuman, evil and without sole as they can see little emotion or life without seeing his eyes.

 

The antagonist will drive a black Ford Ranger as the pursuit/getaway car. I believe this is a good car to use as it is something that is large and powerful over ordinary cars just as is the story in my thriller.

 

 

 

Lastly the antagonist will use a black hand gun (Colt Defender), and a cigarette to make his demeanour and look complete.

 

 



Planning My Thriller - Draft Script

Today I made a draft of the storyboard I would like to use in script format:

• The first part will show the antagonist running away from the protagonist, this will be done through various shots, such as close ups and establishing shots of the protagonist running.
• We will then film the antagonist acting "cool" by filming him in dark sunglasses with him leaning on a wall smoking.
• Their will then be shots of the antagonist climbing into his car and driving off.
• The shots will turn to the protagonist still running yet getting tired with the antagonist getting closer and closer.
• Soon we will show the antagonist who catches up to the protagonist and will then taunt him, the protagonist will run off to an area where he can't be followed by the car but while running away falls over.
• Lastly we will film the protagonist being caught in the headlights like a hare being dazed into the lights as if he is hunted.
• It will end by the antagonist leaving the car and walking up to the protagonist, he will raise a gun but we will not know what happens.

I will use a lot of various camera angles, shots, equipment and editing tools to make this thriller intro unique, suspenseful and exiting. Even though I am not planning to have any talking in this intro as I feel if anything it will add to the tension.

The next step I will take is updating this draft script into a finalised storyboard.