Dark Minds - Final Cut.

Evaluation 7: Part 3 - Looking back at our final cut.

Evaluation 7: Part 2 - Looking back at our very first cut.

Evaluation 7: Part 1 - Looking back at our preliminary task.

Evaluation 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Evaluation 5: How did you attract/address your audience?

Evaluation 4: Who would be the audience for your thriller?

Evaluation 4 by elementproductions

Evaluation 3: What kind of media institution might describe your media product and why?

Evaluation 3 from Element Productions

Evaluation 2: How does your media product represent paticular social groups?

Evaluation 1: In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Evaluation 1: what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Thriller Feedback Videos

Dark Minds - Third Cut.

Music choice

Chosen props

Chosen props by elementproductions

Editor's interview

Director's intervew

Element Productions Opening Credits 

Opening Credits Research

Film Improvements

Editors Commentary.

Thriller Makeup Tutorial

Edited By: Megan Greenwood.
Filmed by: Faith Lovell.
Makeup by: Faith and Megan.

Updated storyboard

storyboard

Filming Day 3

Tips and Tricks for filming!

Filming schedule

Second draft feedback

Film feedback

 Social media update

Final teaser poster!

Final Film Poster

This is the final and complete film poster. My group and I have come to the final desicion of our thriller name which is 'Dark Minds'. We thought this name works best as our thriller is about someone's mind being corrupted by the way they view and see things, not like a 'normal' person would. Also how 'dark' connotes with the night time where stereotypically suggests caution and danger, like the colour black which is highlighted in this images background within the trees has been edited to make darker. 

Filming Day 2

Costume ideas!

This costume idea is for the protagonist of our thriller. I thought quite plain, dark coloured clothing, along with white trainers would be best to use as the actor is going for a run in the thriller and runs into  what she thinks is a scary little girl, when in reality is not abnormal at all. We decided these colours would be suitable as we didn't want to use anything colourful to distract the audience and pull them away from the main focus, which is the plot of our thriller.

This second costume idea is for antagonist in our thriller. Along with the make up and hair used to make this character look abnormal and scary, A grey top would be worn underneath, with bare feet to heighten the abnormailty of this character as. When the caera is showing her as a 'normal' character, she will be wearing normal, everyday clothes. 

SECOND CUT (DRAFT)

This is our second and final idea for our thriller, showing the first moments of our thriller in draft. We have missing footage as we have been facing technical difficulties, however the missing footage will be added as soon as possible including music. This footage shows the 'run' up to our main plot line.

Challenges we faced when filming our first cuts

FIRST CUT

First cut

This is our first cut of our thriller. We filmed it a few weeks ago and has just been edited, we have not incuded music or sound effects because in between we have been filming our second cut, which is a completely different idea. This is what we initially thought was going to be our idea, but has now changed. 

Final Name For Film

Filming - Diary Day 1!

Behind the scenes when filming with Element Productions...

Film poster draft 1

Film poster ideas

I have created the finaised film poster for our thriller film. The name we decided to go with is 'Dark Horizon'.

Along with the title of the film I have also inserted the age rating we gave our film, which we decided would be a 15. 

As well as that I included poster credits at the bottom of the poster to give credit to those in the group.

Practice shots for film poster

Practice shots for film poster 

I took a variety of photos for the film poster and here are the final four that I most prefered. I have edited them to gain more contrast on the image, and to give the HD low-key lighting effect I desired to confirm the steroetypes of a thriller. 

First storyboard before filming.

Storyboard by rhigraemhay on Scribd

Risk Assesment

Filming schedule

Pitch / Brief

In this video we are describing and explaining the brief idea we have for our thriller film.

Over the course of filming ideas may change and if that does occur we will update you on why and how it has.

I hope you enjoy our pitch :)

Finalised Logo

Logo Update

Location ideas

Questionnaire for our thriller!

We asked a variety of people consisting of different ages and genders to find out what they liked and disliked in thriller films, to help guide ourselves in the right direction to create the best thriller for our target audience.

Question ideas

Question ideas and Final questions asked from Element productions

Title Sequence

Title sequence for 'Sinister'

Sinister title sequence

Title Sequence for 'Insidious'

Insidious Title by rhigraemhay on Scribd

Title Sequence for 'The Dark Knight'

Title Sequence for 'Phsyco'

Cape Fear Analysis Improvements

Cape fear analysis (1) from Element Productions

Demographic and psychographic profiling

Marketing Ideas

Results for Thriller Movie Name

 Results on are thriller film vote

Response to our Blog Feedback

Sir gave us a list of things to improve and this is a video explaining how we intend to get better and what we need to do.

Initial Ideas

A mind map reflecting all different ideas we have brainstormed for our thriller, before we go into making our actual thriller.

Research into different logos

Logo Research by rhigraemhay on Scribd

What is a title sequence?

Title sequence from Element Productions

Poll for thriller movie name

Create your own user feedback survey

Year 13 talk

Yr 13 advice from Element Productions

Analysis of mood board

Analysis of mood board from Element Productions

Thriller Questionnaire

Create your own user feedback survey

Logo Feedback

Logo Feedback Media on Scribd

The BBFC 

Twitter account

Twitter account improvments

For our product to entice a widespread audience - specifically aged from 12-18 as our demographic target audience. We understand that the majority of youths today own a smart phone and therefore uses socail media platforms on a regular basis. With that in mind, we used it as an

advantage to create a socail networking account of Twitter to make updates on the process of research, planning, creating and evaluating our Thriller film. My peer Charlie set up the account and I have made it look more appealing and proffesional to an audience.

I set the profile picture up as the photo of our team, but will soon be changed when we have chosen our logo. The header has been replaced with the name of our company 'Element Productions' in black and white to give a sense of proffesionalism, although this could also change when we configure a colour scheme and logo for our project.

Codes and conventions of a thriller

Logo idea

Instagram

Instagram account

Element productions Instagram account is now up and running and ready to answer all enquiries you have about our upcoming film this will be a visual platform to attract our followers. This is a social media platform frequently platform frequently used by our target demographic. We will be posting pictures regarding information for the up coming film to create awareness and excitement.

Word Cloud

"Prisoners" opening scene analysis

Prisoners Analysis by rhigraemhay on Scribd

"Silence Of The Lambs" opening scene analysis

Silence of the lambs analysis from Element Productions

"Conjuring" opening scene analysis

horror film analysis

"The Woman in Black" opening scene analysis

The Woman in Black by Faith Lovell on Scribd

Prelim

PRELIM

This is our prelim, doing this helps us to navigate new angles and practice and prepare our camera skills before we go into our real thriller. In the prelim we have a match on action, a shot reverse shot and an over the shoulder shot. Being able to use a camera swiftly and using different angles it enables the piece to be more entertaining and natural and helps people see every angle of the performance. 

WHAT WENT WELL: 

• We managed to film from a wide range of angles and this made our prelim look professional.
• As well as filming from different angles, they transitioned smoothly and none of them stuck out. 
• There was nothing distracting our performance and the focus was purely on the actors in the prelim. 
• The editing in the prelim is sharp and nothing sticks out. 
• We managed to keep it simple, yet effective through the different cuts.

WHAT NEEDS IMPROVING: 

• Always remembering to make sure the actor is doing the exact same thing as he was in the previous clip, e.g the phone in the same hand. 
• Trying to film over the shoulder shots more precisely so they match when the shot reverses and they are at the same level.
• Making our conversation longer so it gives us a chance to play around with more different angles. 
• Trying to remain focused throughout filming, because it was hard to cut out moments of laughter in between and making sure they still look accurate. 

 

Mood Board

For further research into thriller films and to have a broader understanding of the codes and conventions within thriller films I created a mood board. By these pictures of film posters I noticed that the colour schemes used dark blue and grey with shadowy, low-key lighting to create suspense and tensionconfirming to the themes thrillers to aim for the audience to perceive. Knowing this, for our thriller will contain similar aspects from these film posters used as inspiration.

Cape Fear analysis

Media Anaylis by Faith Lovell on Scribd

Cape Fear analysis

Charlies cape fear analysis from Element Productions

Cape Fear Analysis

Pats cape fear analysis from Element Productions

Cape Fear Analysis

Cape fear analysis Faith Lovell from Element Productions

Prelim plan

For our prelim we had a discussion as a group where we should locate our prelim and what the dialogue will say. We decided for Pat to walk through two doors, the second portraying match-on-action, this gives us a feel for what it will be like for when we start filming for the real film. He will then have a conversation with Charlie sitting down at a table and here we are able to practice shot-reverse-shot. Doing this will help us have an understanding of how to edit and film properly using the correct angles etc.

Element Productions Introduction

Element Productions

Welcome to Element Productions, we are a group of media studies A level students (from left to right) Charlie, Faith, Megan and Pat. For our course we are producing the first 2 minutes of a thriller film and will be posting our progress onto the blog . We may not look it, but we are very enthusiastic and excited to start planning, prepping, filming and evaluating this project!