The document discusses a film project created by the author. It represents men as powerful and dominant over women, following thriller film conventions. It aims its target audience of 15+ year olds due to disturbing scientific images and complex themes of adultery and murder. Feedback was gathered from teachers and peers to improve the film for its target audience. Technologies like Final Cut Pro, cameras, and YouTube were used to create, edit, and share the film. The author learned important filmmaking skills throughout the process like using transitions effectively and improving lighting and mise-en-scene from preliminary tasks to the final product.

2. Our film represents men as powerful ones compared to the shy lonely
school girl. This is a typical convention of a thriller film. In society women
are seen as weak compared to men so we decided to stick with this role as
it betrayed weakness and gave suspense to the audience. You can see by
the girls facial expressions that she is less powerful than the men in the
white lab coats and their overall posture. They stand tall and the camera
angles convey this were as the girl has to look up at them which
represents being powerless. Usually in society men are seen as the more
dominant gender, however the women is the main character therefore is
going against the typical dominance of a man. Our film follows the
conventions of representing particular social groups as it represents men
in their mid 20’s as being successful as the men work in the science lab.
This represents men as being successful because they have a good
successful job that implies their are experienced. We represented women
in their teen years as being the typical teenager with her phone and a
splash of makeup. This represent a typical girly social group who looks like
they wouldn't have a clue what to do in the situation about to happen as
the girl is clueless and unaware of what is happening until its to late.

4. Our target audience for our film is 15+ year olds as you see gory science
resources such as a dead duck in a jar and a dead rabbits body which can be
quite disturbing. Throughout the film you also see a person undergoing a
experiment which is intriguing and I believe it would confuse a child below
the age of 15. However, because it is for 15 year olds we are losing out on
profit as 12-14 year olds will not be able to see the film and this is a
potential loss for us as film makers. However, if we did lower the age we
would get complaints off of concerned parents so it could be worth the
loss. The characters in our film are easy to relate to with the older
audience. The older audience could feel sympathy for the younger girl as
they understand what emotions she is going through. However, a younger
audience would be scared by the way the men in the white coats when they
grab the girl. They may also be scared of the unknown as the men in white
coats faces are not revealed. The themes that are included in our film are
aimed at a more mature audience. The themes that are included are
adultery, blackmail and a murder scène within the film. This not only would
have been too graphic with the murder but it would be hard for the
younger audience to understand such complex issues.

5. We made sure that with every draft of the film we made, we got feedback
on what we had done by our teachers. This proved helpful as it meant we
could create a film that best suited our target audience. For example in
our first audience feedback it was mentioned that our Establishing shot
was too long and that it was a bit messy, this meant that we could fix it to
make the film a better quality and suit our audience’s needs. We received
a lot of feedback some good and some not so good during a peer assess
activity. We made sure that we asked the audience on what they thought
about the plot, first reactions, strong and weak points of the film and what
else they would add to make it better. We took on their feedback and are
making adjustments to our film to please our specific target audience.
given the task to create a thriller film we knew that we would have to
work on certain conventions that all thriller films use such as quick
cuts, cliff-hangers, suspense etc. By focusing on these conventions we
were able to attract our audience because it would appeal to them. The
reason that Hollywood thrillers are so popular is because they follow
typical conventions and make sure the audience get what they want. But
when they break some of these conventions I believe they become even
popular.

6. To create our final film we used Final Cut pro which proved stressful. This is because we have
never used a programme like this before. It was a lot to learn in a small time period but I
believe I was an expert at using it by the end of the task. Most of the time the programme
was temperamental creating problems such as freezing when trying to save, not rendering
etc… The main things we learned was how to cut clips and add non diegetic sounds. Cutting
clips was very important as we used a lot of quick cutting in our thriller film which is
conventional. While creating our blog we learnt how to embed clips, embed images, upload
videos and add hyperlinks to other websites. This was information that we previously didn’t
know but now we can do with ease. We also used YouTube to showcase our preliminary
tasks, first drafts, finding songs and movie clips etc… This was a huge help to us as when
other technologies failed to work this was always a backup for us. It was also a rich source of
information for us when having to research into thriller films. Our blog that we created and
our audience research film that we put onto YouTube. Other technologies we used were
scanners, cameras and microphones. The scanner helped us when we uploaded our
storyboards, audience feedback and other pieces of work that needed to be on the blog. The
cameras were important to us to as it’s what we’d used to create our film with. The cameras
were easy to use. Even though we didn’t use a microphone we tried it out and found it hard
to use as you’d pick up small noises that would ruin a shot. Overall, these technologies
helped us learn a lot of information about how the media industry uses different media
platforms to create the finished product.

7. Since our preliminary tasks we have both learnt how to effectively use transitions and that certain
transitions convey a different meaning to the audience. If you look closely you can still see the
main actresses face close up. We felt that it made the audience feel uncomfortable as you can still
see she is panicking and that she is locked within the science lab. My choice of setting in my
preliminary task was not as good as what I would have liked it to be. So, in our final film I made
sure that the setting looked better and at the end I was happier with how the setting looked. We
have both learnt that during our preliminary tasks we used messy over the shoulder shots.
So, when making our final thriller we made sure that if we were going to do this shot, we were
going to make sure it was not messy and looked excellent. From our preliminary task to our final
product, we learnt that to include something in your film, it needed meaning. In our preliminary
task some things were used just because we could use them, however, we didn’t do this in our
final task we actually planned each shot to prevent confusion with the audience. We both learnt
from our preliminary tasks that when you saw something through the camera, it was going to be
darker when you saw the same clip on the computer. So, when making our final film we made sure
that the lighting was brighter than what we needed it to be so that it would be the right light for
the final product. Lastly From our preliminary tasks to our final product we have learnt about the
mise en scene of our films and how important it is.
Prelim
setting