Storyboard Development

As you can see from the following images, we have developed our drawn story board to images, helping us visualise how effective certain angles and movements will look.

Question 6: Technology Development

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Post Production: Audience Feedback

This photo shows us playing our final thriller piece to a small audience, to gain feedback. We received the following feedback;

"Overall, the thriller was enticing, consistent and well edited- with some effects that really gave the 'wow factor'. The quality of acting remained strong throughout and the play with time effectively revealed the storyline. To improve, I would recommend choosing a slightly thinner and more crisp font that suited the genre more"

"Straight away, we knew it was of the thriller/horror genre and by the end of the trailer, we had a good idea about what the story plot was. There was a wide variety of camera shots and angles as well as different transitions and effects used. All of the needed titles to show that it was an opening were included (such as directed by...etc.). My only constructive criticism is that the font used didn't fit too well and didn't have the connotations of thriller and therefore didn't contribute to creating any suspense"

After reading through feedback and taking it on board, it is apparent that the font used was disliked by viewers as they felt it didn't suit the thriller genre- which may be something we will have to consider more of next time.

Music Activity

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This was composed on the music software Mixcraft and helped us experiment in creating a non-diegetic sound track to add onto our thriller piece. Due to uploading issues, the video will not upload to my blog, however, I still contributed greatly towards the making of this.

Filming Timetable

To help us stay organised and time efficient, we have created a week's timetable that depicts what days we will be filming, these days are also based on the online weather report and works around both our school and work hours. We have made the decision to film in the evening or night due to the lighting outside, as low key lighting and shadows is more suited to the thriller genre as it has the connotations of mystery and danger- which will help create tension.

Update: Storyboard & Weather

This image of myself drawing up our storyboard so we have an exact idea on what camera angles and movements to use and to help us visualise the storyline coming together through the different shots. However, we do expect we may slightly alter our storyboard if we;

• Have new spontaneous ideas that are better than our previous thoughts
• For some reason cannot film the shot we planned, for example because of the weather 
• After looking at the video, decide it will not be effective and can come up with an alternative

As said before, the weather is a predictable factor that we're very much reliant on (due to our location being outdoors). It would deem unsafe to film in conditions such as rain, fog and ice as it could damage our electrical damage and is dangerous for everyone in our group. 

Green Screen activity: Preliminary

 

Below is a video, illustrating how I experimented with using a green screen and then added it into our piece by using the editing software Adobe Premier Pro and using the chroma key effect. This not only developed my technical knowledge of this program which will be useful when editing my thriller piece, but also allowed me to try new methods of presenting an evaluation, using different types of media. Unfortunately, this was too time consuming to complete.

Editing: Sound (Post Production)

We used the site http://www.sounddogs.com/ to find synchronous, diegetic sound effects for out thriller. We decided on using the creak of a gate, as this adds a rather sinister atmosphere and will be accompanied by our non-diegetic soundtrack that we have created on the software Mixcraft.
  Our soundtrack will remain on throughout our piece but decreases in volume when the voice over begins, as we decided it would distract the audience from our narration which effectively informs the audience on what's happening. The soundtrack is parallel to the thriller genre has it hold a eerie tone and so once again will add to the tight atmosphere we've created

Voice over- Production

After recording our voice over, we realised the microphone had picked up background noise and was of poor quality, as an alternative we used our phones- but once again the sound quality wasn't what we was looking for. We resulted in using a 'boom' mic in an empty office and removing the slight bit of background noise on mixcraft- ending up with a clear, good quality voice over that we shall add onto our thriller piece.

THRILLER EVALUATION

Question 1: http://prezi.com/ghf6s-fn7xda/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share

Vladimir Propp:
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Questions 2-7: http://prezi.com/hb0i7zpxuwjf/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share

PRODUCTION

These picture's were took during production and shows us setting up equipment and props, ready to film. We have also had a few setbacks due to the weather, which couldn't be predicted by our group and so we had to postpone filming for a later date.