Created Thriller: Who am I?

Prelim

Evaluation

Question 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of media products?

Question 2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Evaluation Question 2


Question 3: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Question 4: Who would be the audience for your media product?

Question 5: How did you attract/address your audience?

Evaluation Question 5

Question 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Question 7: Looking back at the task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression for it to the full product?

Section 12 - Analysis of completed thriller

Thriller analysis - Who am i?

Narrative Structure
There is no dialogue throughout the opening sequence of the thriller, we are introduced to a character who is getting ready to go to school, we see him walking to school then back to his home after a hard day at school, this sequence uses piano music and this shows innocence in the character and the audience does not suspect anything of this character.

The music changes the tone when he wakes up in an unknown area and he is unfamiliar with his surroundings and the audience is suddenly thrust into a story and we are eager to found out why this character is here. We are then shown that this character has in fact killed someone but he is unaware of the event even happening, this changes the audience’s perspective but eager to know why he is there and if he has a form of 'dark side'.

Thriller Codes and Conventions
The thriller uses codes and conventions of typical thrillers such as partial vision which hides specific aspects of the story or a character and this makes the viewing experience better as the audience are eager to learn more about this character. The thriller also uses music to set tones and change the mood of the scene as the opening begins with a piano playing then the music suddenly changes when the scene does to a drone noise which creates a dark tone in the scene and gives the audience emotion to this scene such as tension.

Camerawork
The camerawork shows all the aspects of the characters daily routine showing medium shots which would portray that the character is familiar with the area, this is then contrasted later on when the character wakes up and the camera uses an extreme long shot to show that this character is surrounded by nothing but the woods which the character is unfamiliar with ann this shows a scence of loneliness in the character and no-one is there to hear him or help him escape from this area and what he has just done and woke up to see.

Mise-En-Scene
The opening sequence uses the typical urban areas you would see in many thrillers and the character is familiar to these surroundings. As the scene changes the phone still goes off like in the characters everyday routine but he wakes up in an unknown forest area which the character has never been before so this contrast the typical urban surroundings and familiar areas so this portrays the character is alone and unfamiliar with the area  in the middle of nowhere so this portrays loneliness in the character.


Sound
The music at the beginning of the opening sequence is a piano playing, this sets the mood of the first scene when we are introduced to the character who is getting ready to go to school, this music portrays innocence in this character and the audience would not suspect anything of this character as all they are doing is their daily routine.

The music suddenly changes when the character walks home and sets a tone to the audience that not everything is as it seems, the character wakes up in a unknown area and the music portrays a dark tone which goes with the scene as he wakes up to discover he is covered in blood and the music portrays that the character has a 'dark side' to them and this would make the audience change the perspective of this character and make them eager to learn what actually happened to this character and why.


Editing
The editing of the opening sequence uses cuts between different times of the day as at the start we see the character walking to school during the day then we skip to when he arrives home. The scene suddenly skips to the day after when the character wakes up again but this time he wakes up in a area unfamiliar to him.

Graphics
The graphics of the opening sequence follow codes and conventions as it uses dark backgrounds during the credits with white writing, it also uses dark graphics such as the black and white background to change the mood of the scene as the scene changes when the character wakes up to discover that he is covered in someone else’s blood and he is unknown to what happened the night before and how he woke up in this place.

Section 11 - Audience Feedback

1.       Age:

2.       Gender:                   Male                       Female

3.       Did the thriller opening meet what you would expect from a thriller opening?

Yes                          No

4.       Why do feel this?

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5.       On a scale of 1 to 10 how strongly do you think the opening show the genre as a thriller??

1              2              3              4              5              6              7              8              9              10

Strongly                                                                                                                                 Strongly

Agree                                                                                                                                     Disagree

6.       Do you think the sound creates tension and suspense?

Yes                          No

7.       Do you think the music matches the thriller genre?

Yes                          No

8.       What emotions does the thriller opening evoke in you?

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9.       Do you think the black and white for when the main character wakes up in the secluded area effective compared with the colour when the character wakes up right at the beginning?

Yes                          No

10.    Why do you feel this?

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11.    On a scale of 1 to 10 how effective would you say having still pictures of the unknown victim placed sporadically through the opening of our thriller is?

1              2              3              4              5              6              7              8              9              10

Effective                                                                                                                                                Not very

                                                                                                                                                 Effective

12.    What particular aspects of the opening the thriller do you think stood out?

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13.    Why do you think this?

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14.    What particular aspects of the thriller opening do you think did not work well?

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15.    Do you think there is a high level of continuity?

Yes                          No                           Unsure

Here are the results in tabular form

The majority of people that filled in the questionnaire were between the ages of 16 and 17 which was our target audience

 





The questionnaire was mostly filled out by males but the movie is directed to an audience of both male and female

 



From the second questionnaire, the audience have said that the movie was what they expected to see in a thriller style of film

 



The majority of the people who answered the questionnaire stated that they liked the opening sequence due to it creating tension and suspence

Some of the participants thought that the genre was shown very clearly while others decided that although it was shown it was not shown very clearly

 The audience believed that the sound used did create tension and suspense during the opening sequence

 Most of the people who answered the questionnaire stated that the music did match the genre but a small amount thought that it did not

 The majority of the people asked believed that the use of black and white during second scene where the main character wakes up

 

 On a scale on 1-10 the majority of the people said that the use of still images did create a good effect
















The majority asked said that the use of pictures used during the opening sequence stood out the most

 The audience believed what they put from question 12 due to it creating suspense during the opening sequence














 The audience believed that the use of effects did not work during the opening sequence and could be improved


















The majority of our target audience thought that the opening sequence flowed like a thriller opening should