Draft Of Evaluation-Nicola Hartley

1) Whilst shooting our opening sequence we used the conventions of a thriller such as a

• Typical mise-en-scene such as a dark lighting, empty & dirty room and with no windows or very dirty ones.
• Characters like a mysterious person who is often hidden from the camera, people who are in danger.
• Questions being set up for the audience like in ours why are our main characters in the room.

Using these conventions it makes it more obvious to the audience about what genre they are watching.

2)In our Thriller opening sequence we only really have two types of groups. Such as our victims are from the same social group as they both wear similar clothing and our both in the same situation so this could hint to the audience about who they are. We also have our killer wearing dark clothing which is baggy & covers his face which keeps him mysterious this shows a different social group to our victims.

3)I think the place that would distribute our sequence would be somewhere like Hollywood as it would be the best place to deal with the intricacy of filming a thriller as a lot of time & money would need to be put into shooting one because costumes & other items would need more effort than other genres.

4)The audience would be people aged anywhere above 15. I feel that anyone under 15 wouldn't be suitable to watch this because of the violence involved in the film. I think it is aimed at both genders as we have both male & female victims so both genders can relate.

5)I think our thriller will attract audiences because we create a lot of questions such as "Why has the killer kidnapped our victims?" & "Who is the killer?".Also as we have both genders in our sequence both genders would like to watch it. I feel that also our sequence has more meaning to it, as its not all about the action of the kidnapping we also have the emotional side to kidnapping and the aftermath as well.

6)Throughout making our sequence the main programmes we used were Final Cut & Garageband.Each member of our group had basic skills with this programmes but we all added to them creating our sequence.

Using final cut we were showed how to use a "Day For Night" filter which gave our shots a blue tint which gave a overall darker look to our shots & fitted in better with the genre. We also learned how to slow down or speed up a shot, such as we wanted to slow down our female victim looking down at her wrist.

We created our soundtrack on Garageband, once we completed the soundtrack we had to make certain sounds longer or shorter to make it fit with the changing of the shots in final cut which took some time but worked well when finished.

7)The biggest progression from the preliminary task to our thriller task was that the quality of our work was a lot better. Because we had more time to shot & film our sequences so we could take more care & effort into getting the shots just how we wanted them to look. Our storyboard & shot lists were more detailed than before which made filming easier & more efficient. We also learned more technical skills when using final cut & other programmes for example the "Day For Night" filter.