EVALUATION: Question 5 - Who would be the audience for your media product.

Naomi, is a 18 year old girl, who does childcare training and wants to become a social worker. She likes fashion and reading horror books and enjoys books and movies to do with vampires. Listens to r'n'b, garage and rock. She likes politics. Her bag contains a purse, make-up bag, tissues, toiletrees, brush, ID card, driving liscence, oyster card, ipod and a blackberry.

EVALUATION: Question 2 - How does your media product represent particular social groups

With eyes being the "windows to the soul" i have picked two stills - one from our title sequence and one from the film "Hannibal Lecter" dircted by Thomas Harris. The picture of yasmins eyes compearted to the hannibal lecters eyes shows the psycotic side to the characters. The blood smudged on yasmins face compared with the red eyes of the hannibal lecters eyes represents the blood, murder and gore of the films.

Skills audit: filming and editing preliminary match cut exercise

For our second filming practice we filmed a match-cut exercise. The film started myself and Julie. To film this scene, we wanted to add more camera shots other then the required shots: the match cut, 180 degree rule and dialogue. So when we come to filming we used a over the shoulder shot where the camera focuses on Julie and the tilt both high and low during the dialogue. I'm shown to be the one with the power in this clip so the high tilt gives the idea of authority and power to me and also a little effect of menace to show that i shouldn't be double crossed or messed with. We also used low tilt for Julie, showing that she is the vulnerable and weak one in this situation. We also added a variety of different shots such as long shots, wide shots and medium close ups. The 180 degree rule was used on the focus of me to show the conversation between me a Julie. Our match cut was right at the start of the clip where Julie opens the door and enters the room.

Evaluation Question 8 Response: Audience Feedback and Comment

With the responses we had from the audience, we used some of their main words to create a wordle blog to create a connotation of all the words the film was described as in the feedback for our thriller opening scene. With the film's genre being a pyshcological thriller, the words ' dark', 'spooky', ' scary' were the reactions we was expecting and hoped for.

The responses that the film had received were positive:

The Quotes

Mica, 17, 'WOW! it was good and I liked the scene with the water in the glass changing from still to blood.'

Jason, 16, 'Yeah! I liked the gory theme of the film- great thriller.'

Jasmine, 17, 'It left a creepy crunch in my mouth! Eek!

Daisy,17, 'It was bloody great.'

Final edit of livetype and sound filming practice

For our first filming exercise, we filmed a "bag swap" scene staring Kelly and Julie. This was the first lesson we was introduced to LiveType. We was shown how to use it to add titles to our video. We also had our first experience in using the software to create a soundtrack to add to our video using our previous experience and knowledge from out SoundTrack Pro tutorial. I made the sound track for this film with the inspiration from a 'James Bond' as i wanted the film to have a spy feeling to the film and the group agreed this would be a good genre for the soundtrack as it would match the bag swap theme of the film.

Evaluation Question Two: How does your media product represent social groups?

The characters portrayed by Jodie Foster, Meg and Kirsten Stewart, Sarah being pyschological tortured by the decision to divorce her husband Stephen who had an affair, as they are hiding in a room panicking in fear for their lives. Whereas, Yasmin's character is not hiding from anyone as she is in her kitchen, where she cooks humans.

The cannibal in 'The List' is inflicting the pain on her victims that she kills and eats, as she eats humans only.
Forest Whitaker’s character, Burnham, saves Sarah’s life as she would have died from a lack of sugar because she is diabetic.
The similarities of Yasmin’s character and Jared Leto’s character, Junior all have the psychological intent to kill, as she kills a girl from no reason. However, Junior gets killed by Raoul, who shoots him in the eye when he attempts to leave the house and stop the operation.
Junior and Yasmin’s character have ideas of inflicting pain as Junior invades Meg’s house. On the other hand, Yasmin’s character seeks revenge by the idea of cannibalism, which is how she responds to people who have angered her.
The similarity is both films have white middle class women. Nevertheless, the difference is Sarah in ‘Panic Room’ is vulnerable as she is hiding in a room from a drug addict. In ‘The List’ Yasmin’s character is not going to be victimised by humans, therefore she takes revenge personal by eating humans.

EVALUATION Question 7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learned in the progression from it to the full product?

During the preliminary exercise, the sound which we made for it was very basic throughout with the same types of sound being played all the way through the scene. This wasn't particularly great because it created a sound which suited what we wanted to achieve which was spy theme (following inspiration of something like the James Bond films) however, the sound wasn't developed to its full potential, making the visuals not as gripping for the audience. Also we only used non-digetic sound which meant that there was no variety of skills used when producing the sound. We think that our skills in producing sound had developed and improved extensively. For the title sequence, we created a detailed soundtrack to go on it, having a variety of sounds featuring in it. A few examples include Appear Crystal 1, 2, 3; Drone Etheral, Footsteps heels, Cathedral walk, Heavy Water and Screams. We also had them featuring at the appropriate times, one example being that at the glass scene (show above) we have the sound of a glass being rubbed at the top rim which suits what is happening at the visuals perfectly. What also shows that we had improved the sound and developed our skills is that we had a mixture of both digetic and non-digetic sounds within the title sequence. While having out non-digetic sound in order to create the mood and tone of the film, we also made sure that the necessary digetic sounds was put in. This was everything from the burning of the butter in the pan and the sharpening of the knives to the turning on of the cooker. This shows that as a group, we have progressed well when it came to the sound skills and therefore has made our title sequence all the more better.
Mise en scene was one thing which we had developed and progressed in the most for very simple reasons. For the preliminary exercise we didn't really take much attention in terms of clothing, props or the background location. We chose the location of the gardens opposite the college on City Road but we didn't make sure that the location was perfect or that any bystanders were in the shots. The only props we took into account were the briefcases because that was what the scene was all about. However, we payed a lot of attention to the mise en scene for the title sequence in order to achieve the visuals that we wanted and theme of the film. This included lots of props such as knives, wine glass, fake blood and steak. The location which was Melissa's kitchen was key for the whole title sequence as you couldn't really have a psychotic woman cooking and eating a person in a bathroom as that would not be a good visual. Also the make-up of both characters were one in order to make the characters fit in with their profile as much as possible.

When it comes to filming and editing, we have improved our technique on a big scale. For example, if you see the first video on this post, it shows a little clip from our preliminary filming exercise and there are two things wrong with it. For one, the second part of the match cut is much too long and the second thing is that the handheld camera is a tiny bit shaky when it was following Kelly walking. This had been taken on board and enabled us to improve and develop our skills for the final title sequence. This becomes apparent in the 'glass scene' of our title sequence which is shown in video 3 of this blog post. The match cuts in this part are done more smoothly and fit in with each other perfectly. Following this, the shots are quite short so it keeps the audience captured throughout the whole scene. Following this, we done most of the filming on a tripod so there was no way in which the camera could shake, making the filming of a better quality.

Overall, by looking back at our preliminary task and comparing it with our final title sequence, we have seen how we have progressed from the the beginning of the coursework stage to the end and how we have all developed our skills into producing a much better piece of work.