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The document discusses how the opening film uses genre, narrative, and style to attract and engage its audience. It establishes suspense and builds questions through genre elements like a door handle turning and silhouette shots. It also uses changes in narrative tempo from slow to fast to create suspense. Additionally, the style of the secret agent character in costume generates audience interest in his role.
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The document discusses how a media product opening sequence uses and develops conventions of real thriller films. Specifically:
- It is set in an eerie location under a bridge shot with low key lighting, similar to thrillers.
- Opening titles constantly appearing on screen is a convention developed from research. A bold, faded font was chosen.
- Tension is built through slow, lack of movement shots and ends with a character panicking at a light/mystery character, catching viewers' attention.
- It establishes confusion from the start, as thrillers often do, with a cliffhanger to set the thriller genre before showing equilibrium.
Q5- forms and conventions of media products
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Drama genre of film
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Assignment 5: Editing In Trailers
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- It is set in an eerie location under a bridge shot with low key lighting, similar to thrillers.
- Opening titles constantly appearing on screen is a convention developed from research. A bold, faded font was chosen.
- Tension is built through slow, lack of movement shots and ends with a character panicking at a light/mystery character, catching viewers' attention.
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2) Shots were sped up to add urgency and pace, and fades were used between location changes. Black screens with diegetic sounds were inserted to let the audience use their imagination.
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Analysis clip 3 and 4
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Evaluation 1
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The document discusses how the filmmakers attracted and addressed their audience through their creative choices. They used young actors to make the film more relatable to younger viewers and involve older audiences who may worry about the young actors' safety. Ordinary back road locations were chosen to create a sense of realism that audiences could relate to. Eye-catching camera shots and effects, like having antagonists appear from nowhere, were employed to hook viewers' attention throughout the thriller.
Evaluation for 'National Security''
The document summarizes Louis Blakeney's media studies portfolio project creating an opening sequence for a new thriller film. It discusses researching similar films, planning and storyboarding the project, how conventions were used to set tone and build suspense, and receiving positive audience feedback while also identifying areas for improvement. The project fulfilled the brief of creating a film opening under three minutes for any genre.
Media product use
This document analyzes various shots from a thriller film sequence and how they utilize conventions of the thriller genre. It discusses shots of strings creating tension, a character's shocked facial expression connecting the audience to his feelings, building tension as he walks towards a door not knowing what's on the other side, revealing the setting to answer questions posed earlier. It also analyzes the title design, use of a bell to alert the character, a moving door handle not behaving as expected, an axe used for protection, and traps made of strings and cans to protect from a killer in a disaster scenario. The document aims to show how the sequence employs standard thriller conventions.
Genre research and creating meaning for the audience
This document discusses how genre conventions and codes create meaning for audiences. It provides examples of conventions for romantic comedies, horror, and thriller films. These include scenarios, characters, music, and visual elements. The document then discusses how the author will use conventions like chase sequences, sunglasses, and short script language in their action thriller opening to create meaning for the audience through technical and symbolic codes. Research on spy films helped inform choices to create recognizable genre meaning.
Answer to question 7
The document provides an analysis of the progression from the author's preliminary film task to their final film product. Some key lessons learned include: considering every detail of filming, editing, effects on the audience and genre conventions; the importance of cinematography, sound, mise-en-scene and editing; and properly applying techniques like the 180 degree rule to make the film look professional. Specific techniques improved on include smoother match-on-action cuts, more interesting camera shots and angles, and showing a wider range of skills through techniques like slow motion shots. Overall, the author gained skills and confidence in using equipment and software that allowed them to put more thought and polish into their final film.
Chosen Film
The document discusses the filmmaker's idea for a found footage thriller film about a home invasion. It will start after the invasion when characters find the camera and view footage of the events. The film aims to build suspense while feeling realistic. The genre of thriller was chosen due to limited budget and filming techniques for suspense. Handheld camera work will establish the found footage effect, with some steadicam and CCTV footage. Editing will include discontinuity and vary cut speed. Mostly diegetic sound and limited music will be used. There will be four characters and small online distribution targeted towards young adult audiences.
Film Opening Sequence Codes and Conventions
The document discusses various codes and conventions used in film opening sequences. It identifies elements like studio logos, titles, themes, character introductions, sound, narration, enigma, credits, flashbacks, establishing shots, action scenes, and animation that are commonly used to set the tone and genre of a film and grab audience attention. Sound specifically is discussed as being used to display emotion through dialogue, ambient noise, sound effects, and soundtrack. The purpose of these various elements in opening sequences is to effectively introduce audiences to the world of the film.
Creative critical reflection
Maaz Tabrez created a suspense film for a class project. They followed conventions of the genre like using low key lighting and non-diegetic sound to create suspense. The film addresses the social issue of kidnapping and violence. If distributed commercially, Maaz would partner with Warner Bros due to their success in the suspense genre. Through the project, Maaz developed skills like camera angles, lighting techniques, editing, and integrating technologies like movie making software, online sound effects, and creating a blog to share their work.
Evaluation
1. The document summarizes the production of a student thriller film titled "Locked." It describes the genre conventions used, such as filming in an old church and using creepy music.
2. Key locations for the film included the outside of a church and the basement of an old school building, which was dark and creepy. Costumes were normal clothes to make the character seem like an ordinary girl.
3. Lighting and camera techniques like close-ups, shadows, and levels shots up and down staircases were used to create atmosphere and highlight details. Editing, titles, and special effects helped tell the story of a girl trying to escape from locked doors.
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How did you attract
- 1. How did you attract/address your audience?
- 2. How my opening film uses genre • The decisions about genre to attract the audience includes the element of suspense for example in the scenes in which build up the idea whos that such as the scene of the door handle being turned and the siluet shot of the door which then shuts to a black screen.
- 3. How my opening film uses narrative • The opening sequence includes a soft and slow tempo in the park and then at the beginning of the house scene and then when Will realises the problem the tempo suddenly changes and creates the suspense keeping the audience glued to the screen.
- 4. How my opening film uses style • The style of my film hooks the audience because of the way the characters look because the secret agent in his costume makes the audience ask what's his job and just more general questions about that character?