Evaluation

To produce an opening scene for a thriller movie my group and I decided to produce a crime thriller. We looked at many different films including Psycho and Reservoir Dogs. We decided that we would go with a crime thriller as many people think of a scary movie (horror) when they hear of the genre thriller, so we wanted to try something different. We chose to pick a hip hop instrumental sound clip to add more of an atmosphere to our film which is different to the stereotypical sounds from previous thrillers. Even though we have chosen to go with a different type of thriller it’s still clear that it’s a thriller movie due to the use of camera angles and the pace of the storyline we have also used credits and titles to help add suspense.

We have used costume, music and the original idea of our storyline to represent social group such as stereotypical youths, this fits in well with our genre of a crime thriller. The whole scene has an aggressive tension, with the boy protagonist wearing a tracksuit and trainers waking in arrogant manor. By using these pieces of clothing for costume it conveys an image to the target audience very similar to themselves making them feel familiar to the surrounding of the film as if it were everyday life. This will help make teenagers and young youths want to come and watch the film helping boost profits and popularity. We have very carefully tried to use camera angles and transition so that the boy protagonist’s face is not shown to the audience. By doing this it makes the audience create their own opinion of what they think the character is like, whether he’s your average teenager or very mysterious person. The object which is hidden under the boys hoodie is not exposed which is constantly building tension and helping build up to a big climax later on. By doing all of these add to the genre of the film as expands of the title KARMA which means what goes around comes around.

Media institution used to distribute films is production companies. The production companies for Kidulthood would be good to distribute our thriller movie as they have similar ideas to ours of a social group of youths. The target audience would fit perfectly with whom we are aiming our film at aged 15 as its young teenagers normally getting in to trouble. This is because they believe they are old enough yet still not old enough to be able to go out or being legally able to drink or smoke, resulting in underage drinking and groups hanging around streets causing trouble and immature behaviour.

My group and I research in too different target audiences, looking at the content and terms and conditions of each age certificate. We decided we would certify our movie as a fifteen as we knew we could include crime and a sense of violence without going to the extreme of bad language, sex, drugs and nudity. We did lots of research including a online survey and class discussions to see if the target audience would be relevant. Our target audience and social group of the film fits with the age of 15 and many people say that when a thriller comes out at the cinema it’s normally certified as an 18 due to bad language or nudity resulting in a lot of people who want to see the films not being able to. So by choosing to certify our film as a fifteen more people can enjoy going to the cinema to watch it.

Through making this opening sequence for a thriller movie, I have found it can become very time consuming and not as simple as it looks. During making the main thriller I found it was very successful and we only encountered a few minor problems and these only occur during the editing procedure. Due to the problems that we had with premier pro we used Movie Maker however it meant there was not a large source of transitions that looked professional. Also when placing the movie over the movie clips it was quite tricky to fit it with the moving images to make sure it was all in time with each other. However we were very lucky as most parts did seem to link together. In addition to this the biggest problem we had was when we first put it on the computer. As we used movie maker you cannot save a permanent file until it is complete and as we had not finished during one process. We were only allowed to use that computer that the film had been captured onto. Therefore we had to make sure that computer was free when we wanted to work on our editing.

By looking at my preliminary task as well as my main thriller I can see a vast improvement in all aspects of our theory and practical work. Because we found a lot of problems with creating our preliminary task there are a few problems that were obviously not in our main task. I feel our camera skill has improved a lot and the choice of editing transitions and design of credits I feel it flows much better than the previous task. Also I feel even though we have not used a large amount of different camera angles and fancy transitions I feel the choices we have made have made it look more professional and shows the effort and time we put in to show progression. In addition to this I feel b doing a lot more theory side to the main task I feel we were able to get a good understanding on what were the best ideas and what worked best to make it all fit together without looking cheesy and predictable. The music I think also make a film therefore by using no dialogue like in the preliminary task and just use unknown music adds a more professional and dramatic final piece without a well known song overwhelming it .Overall, by comparing the two I am happy with what has been produced and the progression made.