Review for thriller

Comments which the thriller received:

"Whooa, okay, the way you filmed it could of been better cause the final product is distorted"

"Music builds up climax"

"Needed dialogue" 

"Plot is easy to understand"

"The music for it is really good, overall it's really good"

" Music sounds like nollywood, which is an African movie network"

"I liked the storyline, it kind of resembles Psycho in my opinion" 

"The scene in the alley way isn't edited properly I think" 

"The house scene is amazing, the cliff hanger on the stairs makes me want to see what's going to happen next"

"There wasn't any sound, there was only music, which I didn't really like" 

Thriller Mind Map

The mind map helped me to remember what our thriller was going to be about.

The idea of reality vs dreams would have the audience shocked when they realised that the scene in which the female victim is about to get caught was only but a dream. Personally I felt that this would make the audience want to see more if the thriller and not get bored.

To bring the reality vs dream to life, my group and I will be filming in a narrow alley way and due to our character being a young teenage character, I'm sure the thought if someone chasing her within a narrow alley way will certainly have an effect upon the audience.

I felt that if we kept the identity if the antagonist a secret then this would make a better storyline. Due to this only being the opening scene, it would be to early to give away certain details and the motive of the antagonist.

Introducing our Thriller: Stalker

Planning: Props

The Bracelet:

The bracelet plays a huge part within our thriller. The hold bracelet is worn by the antagonist throughout the alley way scene. 

As the antagonist is about to strangle the female victim, you see that he is wearing the gold bracelet. 

We needed to find a way to link the alley way scene and the house scene, so that the audience realised what is actually happening and seeing that the alley way scene was just a dream.

In the house scene as the female victim goes into her sitting room, she realises a gold bracelet which then reminds her of her dream, leading to her saying "This can't be real". This causes a dilemma which then leads the victim into disbelief, leaving yet again terrified and at the same time puzzled.

Mobile Phone:

During the beginning of the opening scene we decided to make our female character have a conversation to a friend on her phone. This was effective because this added to the stereotype of the female character being a normal teenage girl, who is distracted by modern technology. 

Research: Conventions of Characters

Thrillers normally represent a type of background when being filmed. When creating a thriller, distributions try to make the film as relatable as possible to normal everyday life, even if it's a futuristic film, the characters still face general problems.

Characters can be based upon:

Psychological Problems

Terrorism

Convicts

Spies

Normal Working Life

Sports

Drug Addition

Social Problems

Assassinations

Adventuerer 

All these things are thought about when a distribution is about to create a film. They use these to create characters and how the character is going to be represented.

Film Production

Within filming, there are three key processes when finalising a filming product.

These three processes are:

Pre-Production

Production

Post Production

Describing the three processes:

Pre-production

Pre-Production is the process in which the main script for the film is divided into frames within storyboards. After this is done, planning then has to be done; the filming location for the film will have to be found and safety checks will have to be carried out, ensuring that the location is safe to be film at, props will also need to be done, auditions will need to be carried out in order to find casting members and a director(s) will need to be found to direct the movie. This process is also where financial agreements will need to be set in order to find the filming project.

Production

This process is the time when the film is being created and captured.

This refers to the acting being film and editing certain scenes.

Post Production

This is the final process which will need to be done when creating a film. Post production is the task that must be executed after the shooting of the film ends. This refers to tasks such as editing footages and cutting scenes that aren't needed, inserting transitions, adding sound effects & music and adding subtitles (which will be needed for people who can't hear properly and need to read what the characters are saying).

Evaluation 7) Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Preliminary Task:

Our preliminary task was shot for 38 seconds. The key role of the short clip was to introduce us to the process of filming and editing. Another reasoning for doing the preliminary task was identify who would be best suited to be the camera person for our group, but even before, I had made up my mind that I would do the filming due to my experience with filming in the past. The preliminary was also used to manifest on and see what improvements would need to be done in terms of cinematography and our thriller.

Preliminary Task Video:

Areas in which I have improved upon:

Within filming, I am now able to film from different camera angles. I represented this parts if the thriller from different angles.

A camera angle shot in which I used was a birds eye view shot. Using a birds eye view allowed the audience to see the characters from directly above, allowing the audience to see what is happening in the scene clearly. 

I am also now better at capturing film movement. A Follow shot was used from behind the female victim as she slowly moved down the stairs, suspecting someone was in her home. This shot allowed me to show the audience what the character was moving towards and allowed the audience to share the tension with the character because just like her the audience is unaware of what is waiting ahead. Although we used different angles within the preliminary, I was able to experiment with other angles during the filming of my groups thriller.

I am now better at editing scenes for a film. I am able to add special effects to scenes, for example changing the quality of the background by manipulating light. Learning how to edit also allow me to merge different clips to make it all look like an full scene, rather than showing separate clips.

After editing the thriller we realised there was a few scenes that we didn't need. This showed that we improved upon our knowledge of editing and edited scenes to make them better and got rid of unwanted scenes.