What is a title sequence?

Title sequence from Element Productions

Poll for thriller movie name

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Year 13 talk

Yr 13 advice from Element Productions

Analysis of mood board

Analysis of mood board from Element Productions

Thriller Questionnaire

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Logo Feedback

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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

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"Silence Of The Lambs" opening scene analysis

Silence of the lambs analysis from Element Productions

"Conjuring" opening scene analysis

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"The Woman in Black" opening scene analysis

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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!