1. What programs did you use?
Flickr allowed us to imbed power point presentations to webs, with
this program you can show a structured research plan where you
can plan what should come first and what should follow after.
YouTube –we used this program quite often to look at other
examples of thriller, we were able to compare evident convention between
thriller opening and also look at other examples of opening so we
could get an idea of what’s aspect are a must to include.
Imbd- using this program we could read story lines of other
thriller and horror films so get can imagine our own and get ideas,
this helped us create a ‘spider gram’ of several ideas and also
finally our official idea.
What kind of research did you do?
We researched how to create a cross dissolve by looking at a
specific scene from midnight cowboy this help us create our
flash back effect and make it look professional.
We also looked at thriller movies such as the Amityville
horror and nightmare on Elm Street this allowed us to
compare movies and see what convention where taken on
board which were subverted.
We also had to do a research on commonly worn costume
from those were able to see what to include and what not to.
What planning did you do?
For planning aspects we made story board, mood boards created
timescales and dead line when certain parts of the film should be
done by so that we were organised are finished filming by the set
deadline we also made spider grams so that we have several ideas
then we voted and the most popular one was pit forward similarly
this was done with genre we were very indecisive on what genre to
do so as a group we voted and choose to do thriller as it had the
most interesting storylines.
How effective was this?
Research and planning is effective because it enables a sort of order
and organisation, which is very important to create a successful
media product with a good budget.