Georgia's thriller evalutation

The film we produced was called “false suspect” it is not only a thriller but a physcologicial thriller. A physiological thriller is a sub –genre of thriller. A physiological thriller relates to processes of the mind. In order to help me learn more about the thriller genre I watched a movie named “The secret Window” this is a physiological thriller starring the well-known actor Johnny Depp .By watching this film I was able to have a deeper look into what made a successful physiological thriller and the conventions of a thriller in general. The movie showed me that in order to create a good thriller editing and sound were extremely important. The music gives tension to the film when it’s appropriate and the  editing   creates lighting and shadows  which is very effective. The story is often kept hidden from the audience this creates mystery and suspense. A physiological thriller focuses on the mind ,at the start of the film there are a number of establishing shots which we then blurred and made darker on final cut pro.These shots were used so that the audience could see how Megan felt and how life was from her perspective at that point. We filmed these shots with Megan looking out the window of her car again looking into Megan’s mind. The Establishing shots were filmed at different angles as we wanted to be experimental and create more distorted and abstract images to show how lost Megan felt.

We filmed our thriller on Boundary Road ,on one side of the road the street appears to be  beautiful,quiet with residential housing. However on the other  side of the road are urban gritty flats and houses. This street was an interesting place to film, and the differences between the two streets proved to be a nice contrast. We decided to film on the urban and gritty side of the street, we chose to film there because we felt that this side of the street represented how Megan felt, slightly on edge. Also because Megan was just beginning Uni and is only eighteen she is unable to afford expensive accommodation.

Luckily it was the perfect day for filming our thriller the weather was perfect it was cold, damp and slightly windy. The atmosphere was perfect a faint fog was cast over the street; this helped immensely in terms of sticking to our thriller conventions, as the atmosphere was dark and dramatic.

When filming Megan inside the flat we filmed at different angles  to see how different we could make Megan and Jemma look to the audience. In order to create shadows we used the mirror which we put under Megan’s face when she was sat down this cast different shades of shadow on her face. This gave a dramatic and tense effect. When filming we tried to stick to as many thriller conventions as possible.

The social group we represented through our film was early teens to young adults. Megan and Jemma are both eighteen year olds ,we felt this was the perfect age to cast them as because they are old enough to have responsibility’s however are still young and naïve in some aspects. Therefor e it was an easy age for younger teens to relate to and young adults. Teenagers are the main consumers of film and television therefore appealing to them would prove a successful in terms of marketing our movie. Both teenage girls are attractive and wear nice clothing in particular Jemma whose fashion sense is a mix of bright colour and edge,teenage girls could aspire to dress or be like Megan or Jemma. Megan is about to begin her first term at Uni ,she feels scared and nervous which many teenagers feel when having to leave their homes ,therefore we are representing teenagers in society today that feel the pressure and anxiety of education.

The Media institution that might distribute our Media product is the Uk film council as this is a British film which also uses British actress’s. The Uk film council is a Government backed agency for only Uk films ensuring that the economic, cultural and educational aspects of film are effectively represented at home and abroad. The Uk film council wants to make sure that the Uk enjoy watching their films. The company I have chosen to produce my film is DreamWorks .DreamWorks Studios produces and distributes films, video games and television programming. It has produced and distributed more than ten films with box office grosses totalling more than one hundred million each. Dreamworks began in 1994 as an ambitious attempt by Steven Spielbeg and Jeffrey Katzenberg. I think this would be a good company to use for distributing our film because it is very successful well known and does not only distribute film showing it appeals to a wide audience of many different ages.

In order to attract and address our audience we chose the thriller genre ,there were many aspects we had to take into consideration such as music and editting. We also had to follow the traditionial thriller conventions such as effective editting and music. For example Jemma who plays Megan's best friend wore brightly coloured and fashionable clothing inspired by Alexa Chung. This made her stand out and appeal to young people and teenagers.We added a number of effects to our film ,such as blur and darkening some shots. This made the scenes appear more dramatic and creepy.

To make our product we used a HD Sanyo Xacti camera, this is a good quality camera. We also used final cut pro to edit our film. Final cut pro is used by many successful industries using it was sometimes a difficult but all interesting experience. We used final cut pro to cut out different parts of our film also to add sound or music over the top or under the dialogue. Using Final cut pro was sometimes a difficult but we used shortcuts in order to make using it an easier process. We also added to affects to our film from the editing tool. Overall I enjoyed my experience with using Final Cut pro and learnt a lot of interesting techniques. We also used BlogSpot a site where you could create your own Blog ,we wrote about our process of filming on the blog we created and also uploaded pictures of the film to show the viewers the progress we were making in filming. We also uploaded slideshows ,our storyboard  and pictures. This sometimes proved challenging working out how to upload our work onto the Blog. We posted our film on Youtube ,the creation of the Blog and uploading our film to Youtube was so that we could attract viewers to look and become interested in our project.