EVAL Q1 ESSAY

I finished yesterday Evalulation question 1.
I did it with an Essay in Word, took screenshots from it and put it into a video on iMovie.

Thisis the draft of the Essay:

 In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

If you compare my thriller “Dark Vengeance” to a real thriller for example “The Crimson Rivers”, this film is supposed to be a thriller out of the crime/ action sub-genre, but it also includes a bit of psycho genre in it. So both opening sequences include killing, but our titles definitively diver from that one in Crimson River.

The main point is that the titles are on the actual shot and they are not on a black screen between each shot. The use of the black screen was a really important effect for our thriller, because we used it to build up tension and we used the style of suspense, which was invented by Alfred Hitchcook. This is the point where the cases study about thriller at the beginning of the term was really important, to get to know such kind of stylistic device.

The main point of our film challenging the characteristics is that we were actually looking for an adult as the Criminal, but we compensated this really well with the fact that we didn’t show the face of the criminal. We also tried to challenge a real thriller film with the use of a soundtrack, which fits perfect to each appearance of our titles, so this enhances the effect of it. We also imitated the kind of opening sequences of Se7en, because the completely don’t use a voices or speaking/acting in their opening scenes.

They just completely trust their carefully picked soundtrack, which expresses the creepy mood of a thriller perfectly and leaves the audience in expectations. This is the perfect way to draws the audience into the whole film after a short and simple opening sequence. As I knew after my interviews for EVAL Q4 the audience wanted to know what happens next. So this is another point where we imitated a real thriller, because we both had the same purpose with our opening sequences of Dark Vengeance.

We tried to imitate the opening scene of one of the American Crime Series for example: Hawaii Five-O or CSI Miami, NCIS, The Mentalist and NCIS L.A. So we tried to use these kinds of opening scene and changed it into a kind of thriller genre. We both liked these series and set us the challenge to make it suitable for a thriller.

Our Blog worked as a media product, as well. We used a media product to distribute our main product throw the whole world. So our two different media products came together and worked together, this is called convergence. I think it is completely different to a professional blog, because Film Studios that are producing a thriller film are not using a blog to present their whole process to the audience. They are using a whole film-team to create another film beside the thriller to show it from behind the scene.

EVALUATION questions

1) Who would be the audience for your media product? 


I will ask some people, who watched our thriller and the tell me what they liked most, tell their age and their favorite thriller genre and favorite thriller film. After this we are using all the results to think about the main target audience. 
I will ask following questions about 5 people from different gender,background and age. I will film them in front of a wall and will edit them afterwards, I will maybe use iMovie to edit it.


1) Age/ Culture/ Background

2) What did you like most on the thriller film? 

3) What is your favorite thriller sub-genre? 

4) what do you think attractive on the opening scene? 

5) Is there a certain film, which you are associate with it? 

6) Did the film appeal to your taste's?


2) How did you attract/ address your audience?  

1) What elements of the video attracted you ? This will include a Interview with one person.

- they are able to decide between type of plot, suspense, action, drama, actors, music or location. 

2) I will include our questionnaire and will talk about it. 

EVALUATION

We finished our Thriller opening sequence in the last week and did some little changes to try to make it perfect.
Now we need to answer 7 questions for the evaluation. The main aim is to answer them with seven different types of media resources. For example, Video, Broadcast, Blog, Podcast or just Voice recording.

FINAL CHANGES

After our main Teacher checked our Video we need to change tiny bits of our Media Video. 

1) the sound of the lighter didn´t match perfectly with the Lighting Cigarette Scene. 

2) Some of the Titles scenes had a to long black screen before the fade in of the title.

3) When the Criminal pull the knife out of his trousers, you weren´t able to see the blade of the knife. So we picked a different Shot, because we did it from many angles. 

4) we added a glim Effect to the scene´s where you able to see the blade in a better light. 

5) we changed the Name of the Thriller from RUN! to SHADY VENGEANCE

RUN!

FINISHED !!

We finsihed our Video today and are so proud, because in our opinon we created a amazing thriller opening scene. Here are some more of Screenshots. If we are able to get in on Youtube I will chare it immidiatly. Our final Title was RUN! and it is 2:02 minutes long. It includes about 15 titles .

TITLES

Here is a short overview over our titles.
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