Vlogs

To explore the different kinds of camera angles and shots in a thriller, Calum and I made a video to show the audience why different shots and angles are used. This video can be seen on Calum's blog under 'Research into Camera angles and 180 degree rule', as the file would not upload onto my blog.

The whole group was involved in making the 2nd video in which we tried to find an interesting and amusing way to teach the audience about the 180 degree rule and why it's used. This video can also be seen on Calum's blog under 'Research into Camera angles and 180 degree rule', as the file would not upload onto my blog.


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Director's Commentary

We also decided to do a directors commentary where we were able to pick out our favourite aspects of our main task and explain them to the audience. This can be found below:

Evaluation Evidence

Finally we filmed ourselves presenting the evaluation and giving the first screening of the main task. We then received audience feedback and edited the sequence, the final product can be found on the coursework disk as it was too big to upload onto the blog.

The Evaluation

Below is our groups evaluation. In it, we explore how we made our film fit with the conventions of thrillers and compare it to other films of the same genre. Each of us took a separate section of the evaluation to research. Everyone then sent me the work that they had done and I made it into a powerpoint, changing their research into bullet points and adding pictures, sounds and videos where appropriate.

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Main Task

Actors:

Charlie Lesley can be seen above, she played the dead girl in our thriller as she is a teenager who is almost 19, so fits the role of the dead 19 year old girl perfectly. Charlie has experience in acting as she takes drama and therefore she found it easy to act out her murder and keep still whilst we filmed her lying dead on the floor with her eyes open.

Jack Higgs can be seen above. He played the protagonist in our media project, the dead girl's father. We chose Jack for this part as his deep voice fitted the role perfectly especially for the threatening phone call which was the main basis of the sinister atmosphere of our thriller.

Michael Scorer can be seen above. He plays the main police detective in our thriller. We chose Michael as he looks a lot older then the other actors making him seem more distinguished and therefore fit the role of the detective perfectly. Although Michael has had no previous acting skills, he did feature in our preliminary task and we were impressed at how well he did.

Mike Elsayed can be seen above. He played the part of our second police detective as he looks mature yet younger than michael. This made it seem like Michael was the older and wiser police detective who was more knowledgeable. This is typical of thrillers and for these reasons we felt Mike fitted this role perfectly.

Stephen Chinnadorai can be seen above. He was the murderer in our thriller. He is tall with dark features and we felt that this fitted the conventions of a killer perfectly. Killers typically wear black and dark colours as this connotations of the colour black are negative. As Stephen has dark features, this us enhanced. Furthermore, as Stephen is tall, it makes him seem more dominant and therefore Charlie seem more vulnerable.

Voice Overs:

Calum Bowen can be seen above. We chose Calum as Jack's boss. A lot of this was down to the fact that we only decided to add the part of a boss firing Jack in at the last minute. We chose Calum because his voice again sounds sympathetic and reluctant to let Jack go as well as sounding old enough to be the boss of the protagonist.

George Nicholls can be seen above. We chose him as our other voice over as George has a sympathetic voice that doesn't sound too young, so could fit the role of a police officer that has to deliver bad news to a family. The sympathy he expresses helps the audience to also feel more sympathetic towards the family of the dead girl.

Tilly Guess can be seen above. We chose Tilly to be the voice of the dead girl's room mate as her voice sounds like the voice of a teenager rather than a mother. Her experience of drama helped her to sound convincingly distressed which was perfect in making the audience feel disturbed at her room mates death.

Lauren Anthony can be seen above. Lauren had a voice that sounds more mature and therefore fitted the role of the mother perfectly. Furthermore, Lauren's previous experience with drama also enabled her to sound distressed and devastated at the news of her daughters death again giving the flashback a more sinister and engaging atmosphere.

Main Task Evidence

Letter of Permission:

As we wanted to use 'How d'ya like your eggs in the morning?' By Dean Martin, we needed to get permission as we did not create the song ourselves. I wrote the letter to get the permission from the producers of the song. This letter can be found below:

Main Task Evidence

Costume and Make up Evidence:

As seen here, we had Mike in more casual smart wear for his part in our thriller. We did this so that it was clear to the audience that he was not as high in his profession as Michael is however he still takes his jobs seriously as he is wearing a smart shirt and a smart black jacket and trousers.

This is the costume of Michael. As you can see we put him in a suit to make him look more professional. As you can see, Michael's hair is not normally slicked back however we felt that this was more appropriate as it made him look older and again, more professional. We put no make up on Michael as he was meant to be a police detective and stereotypically they are quite masculine so do not wear make up.

This is the costume and make up of Charlie as the dead girl we chose these clothes as they are a typical inexpensive high street brand that would be affordable to A 19 year old girl. Furthermore the pale make up and the dark circles around her eyes make her look as if she has been dead for a few hours. The red marks around her neck make her look as if she has been strangled and the nose bleed also enhances this. The bruise helps to indicate that there has been a struggle.

These Pictures were taken by Lauren on the day of the filming of the investigation.

Main Task - Finished product

After finishing our editing of the new section, we had finally finished our media project and were ready to receive feedback on ways in which we could improve.