This video outlines and explains the reasoning behind what we have done and why.
Editing Diary
I am editing the film "Through The Window" on Final Cut Pro X, I will be showing you step by step how we did the things we did, to get the effect we wanted. I will be showing this in the form of a tutorial, so hopefully you'll learn something new too.
Quarantine Poster Analysis
This poster is promoting the film Quarantine. As soon as we see the title of the film we know that there is going to be a lock down in a location. The word quarantine tells us that there is going to be a location which has enforced isolation stopping anything from getting in or out to prevent a disease from spreading. Our attention is directly brought to the picture of the woman directly in the middle who appears to be crying, this draws the audience in as they would like to know who the woman is and why she is crying.
Also the text that we see at the top left of the poster gives us a base to the film and tells us that this is the only evidence of the events in 2008. The certificate of this film is 18+ which means that the audience that it is targeting are people ages 18-30.
Shot type:high angle medium close up used. There is an implication that the canvas is decaying as some areas are faded. Costume: White vest top, and minimal usage of props are used as this character seems to be portrayed as the victim in the film.
The colours that have been used is mainly black, this is used to symbolize death. We know from just seeing the colours that it is going to be a horror. The colour green is also used which I believe symbolizes destruction and sort of gives the audience an insight into the films night vision shots.
Overall I think the poster is very effective in the sense that it makes people want to find out more and want to watch the film.
Costume
Costume
Here is a picture of myself in the costume for our antagonist. We’ve shopped about to find a cheap white dress. We found the dress in Oxfam for £4.00 we then bought another dress in the same shop in the same sort of style, this too was cheap at the same price of £4.00. As you can see from the picture we’ve added our own fake blood to the costume, thus adding suspicion and mystery to the characters identities. We saved money also by creating the blood at home by mixing warm water, red food dye, honey and chocolate sauce together. We felt that the blood had good consistency and projected onto both of the dresses well.
 We're also going to purchase some red contact lenses, these will add to James' creepy and scary nature that appears towards the very end of our thriller. This will allow us to do an effective close up, demonstrating the change in his now, hate filled eyes. |
Music
A KEY thing when making a thriller or any film is choosing the music. Music can really create the atmosphere for the scene, and if not done correctly, the scene won't have the effect you want it to. When choosing you have to think about CopyRight (c) as the music doesn't belong to you. Music that you are allowed to use are ones that you have made, royalty free music or music with a CC-license.
CC-license stands for Creative Commons License, this is a new system, built upon current copyright law, that allows you to legally use “some rights reserved” music, movies, images, and other content all for free. CC offers free copyright licenses that anyone can use (without a lawyer) to mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. For instance, a musician would use a Creative Commons license to allow people to legally share her songs online, make copies for friends, or even use them in videos or other compositions.
Royalty Free Music is a popular music license model for producers of all types of projects that use music. With some Royalty Free Music there is no fee if the license holder agrees to credit the music owner as part of the production. You can use the music without paying royalty's, this is where you pay the own of the music every time the song is played.
A good site is to find music that we can use is:
freeplaymusic.com
This allowed us to listen to a variety of music and allowed the group to decide what type of music we did and didn't want. Therefore we gained an understanding between everyone of what atmosphere we wanted to express in our thriller.
This allowed us to listen to a variety of music and allowed the group to decide what type of music we did and didn't want. Therefore we gained an understanding between everyone of what atmosphere we wanted to express in our thriller.
Music influences
Devil Town - Bright Eyes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQrpYfm_qUk
Psycho - Prodigy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_PAHbqq-o4
Tip Toe Through The Tulips - Tim Tiny - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5rXqAsZnGU
The Final Zepp - Charlie Clouser - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v95e0pvTVY0
We added this music into the start of our thriller and from having a few outside views and our own we feel that we should change the music as we feel its too dramatic for what actually is happening in the scene, this is a learning curve but we feel we've benefited from it as now we've found better suited music to fit with the thriller appropriately. Some of the music we have used for our thriller we found on http://freeplaymusic.com/ this allows you to download copy right music that you can use.
The music we used is as follows:
The Haunting
Another way to get music was to record a song from a baby mobile. The last place we got our music was from a free template in iMovie this comes with copyright free music for you to use in your film projects. The music for a scary trailer template fit in really well with our theme and created to mood/atmosphere we wanted.
Demographics
When your creating a film you need to know who your target audience is, you need to know what kind of people are watching your film and what interests they have etc.This is important as then we can try to appeal a specific group of people that we feel will be interested in our thriller. Therefore, we know we can produce a film that certain people will definitely like.
There are different ways to target your audience such as Abraham Maslow triangle which is where we are all put into different 'layers' of needs, and to move from one to another you need to satisfy one before you can move on to the next one. we all start from the bottom.
The main focus when targeting your audience is to get the widest audience as you possibly can. You need to base your thriller on something that will grip a young but wide audience. We have targeted it as a 15 and as you can see from an older post. We believe that this will be effective because the audience most interested in horrors are about 15-18. We believe that we appeal mostly to people of the ages 16/17.
Demographics
- Sex:
- Age:
- Social grade:
- Working Status:
- Occupation and Industry:
- Marital Status:
- Presence of Children:
- House Hold:
- Income:
- Education:
Psychographics
Psychographics
Psychographics is a way of describing an audience; it labels a person and makes an assessment about their viewing of films. Young and Rubican (advertising agency) invented a psychographic profile which is known as the 4c’s Marketing Model. The 4c’s stands for Cross Cultural Consumer Characterisation. This marketing model puts audiences into groups so they know their position in society.
After reading through the psychographic and demographic profiling we needed to make a decision to what target audience we are going to use for our thriller.
In terms of demographics we think our thriller applies to category E, unemployed, students, pensioners and casual workers. Our thriller will be a 15 certificate so this group of people are most likely to go and watch our film. The majority of people who go to see thrillers are mostly students, young adults and teenagers therefore, we feel this is a very suitable and appropriate demographic category.
Here this is a table of all the different
categories that people of the society fit into. In terms of psychographics we feel that our target audience are in the 'aspirers' category. Many teenagers, young adults and students are influenced by social trends and fashion. Also influenced by their friends to go see new films etc. With this generation, scary/thriller films are very popular and we feel that this category is very much suited for our target audience.
BBFC Ratings
The certificate that we have chosen to base our thriller is a 15+ which means that the viewers have to be 15 years or older to gain access to our thriller. The reason we have chosen to base our thriller on this certificate is because by doing this we can appeal to the widest audience possible, due to the gap in the market for thrillers for people aged from 15-18 years old.
The Crazies Movie Analysis
The Crazies
The first scene is actually an action before narrative, which is more effective than we think at this very point. The first scene opens with a tilted shot which comes down to reveal a house which is ablaze. The scene then cuts to a wide shot of a strip of houses to bring to our attention that the flame has spread to all of the houses. The director then uses a simple black screen which has text on it which reads "two days earlier" and effectively uses soft contrapuntal music which completely counteracts the scene we've just seen. The director then uses a variety of camera shots which follow a car that leads into the same strip of houses which were on fire in the very first scene, this backs up the fact that its just shown the future. The director then uses a variety of shots which show civilisation in the town. The next scene is one of which a baseball game is taking place. This is in fact where we first are given an insight into how the infected characters act. The director uses a wide shot which shows the baseball players fielding and in the very distance an infected man has entered the field wielded with a shotgun. The dialogue which is then used by the FBI in this scene shows us as the audience that this man is known by the policeman.
Importance of a title sequence
We all did research into different title sequences from successful thriller films. We felt this was important as it gave us ideas of how to stage our titles onto our own thriller and how we could go about creating suspense in the first 2 and a half minutes of our film. We found that this title sequence for Batman shared some similarities we wanted to incorporate into our thriller and we discussed some difference that we feel could benefit our start to the film. We think that the dramatic music is key as it automatically creates a feel of suspense and mystery for the audience. We wanted to make sure that we had music that did the same sort of thing. From this were going to look into different types of music which can create an eerie and strong atmosphere. Also, we liked the way the opening ended with batman’s sign. We felt this allowed the audience to be reminded of the main protagonist 'Batman'. So, we've decided we will end our opening on a dramatic end to leave the audience wanting more. The differences we will have is that we want to entice more action with characters so the audience can make a relationship between them Overall we feel this research has helped us benefit more ideas that we think will help create an effective thriller.
Prelim
When thinking of what we could do for our preliminary task we decided to create a storyboard so we have an organized plan of what we could in co-operate into our prelim. This was helpful as then we were able to create sub category's including mise en scene, cinematography etc. This allowed us to make sure we involved a variety of shots in the prelim. By creating a storyboard it made the filming take relatively little time as we knew exactly what techniques, shots and composition we were going to use.
To understand really what we needed to do for the task, we watched previous years prelims to see what sort of shots etc we needed to have in our prelim. Also it gave us an aim to try and compete against these previous years prelims and made the group determined to try and come up with something better.
In our task we had to include the 180 rule, match on action shot and shot-reverse-shot into the task to show our understanding. This was beneficial as it allowed the group to have to think about what shots would actually look good, instead of just putting things in we wanted to do.
During the filming of our prelim the group worked well as a team and we were able to film the shots quickly as everything ran to plan. The only problems we had was the costume. The prelim shooting was taken over two days, we tried to make sure everybody wore the same costume. However, James decided to wear the wrong shirt! So, half way through the prelim we had a huge continuity error. This however, made us more aware of what weren't going to do when we had to shoot our thriller.
This process helped the group work with a camera and how to film shots to make them look professional, we also made sure we included 180 degree rule, match on action and shot-reverse-shot. We could then use these shots in our own thriller if we wanted to.
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