Evaluation - Question 6

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Evaluation - Question 5

Primary and secondary research assisted me with planning my thriller as it allowed me to explore different types of thrillers and how they were all equally successful. Researching allowed me to experiment and see which thrillers I found the most interesting and most effective in my opinion. By involving my interests, makes the whole thriller that little bit more personal towards me as a person and which I find most engaging. My primary research involved questionnaires of asking particular ages groups of their types of thrillers. This type of feedback allowed me to understand what the audience prefer more and what they would most likely want more to see. An example of secondary research was researching analysis of thriller films and film certificates. This allowed me understand on a deeper level with more knowledge upon what makes what more effective for a certain film. For example; using lots of blood and violence in a movie would then not be appropriate for younger audiences. You have to start to think about which would be more appropriate for certain ages which would help to make them feel comfortable and enjoy the film. This also helped when planning my opening sequence as I was more aware from my research upon certain aspects which would attract or disinterest the audience.

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Evaluation - Question 7

The preliminary was extremely helpful as it allowed me and my group to become more familar with the camera before shooting scenes for our opening sequence. This allowed me, Cara and Harry to become more effective when we was shooting and also allowed us to become more effective with our groups timing as we already had practise of how to work the camera. For this task, we was required to make a few scenes of a conversation using the camera methods of panning and close up. This task was helpful as for our thriller sequence as I had the roll of the camera woman, and did frequently use these two types of cinematography throughout the sequence. For example; using panning to allow the audience to watch Brittany walk past the camera as she is walking home from school and using close up before Brittany is about to commit suicide and using the close up method to show the fear in her facial expressions.

The progression since this task to the present day has increased effectively as the particular task was to learn a few basic skills of the camera and learning how to do two camera shots: panning and close up. To this day, I now understand how to do all of the camera shots professionally. The preliminary task helped me to the full extent as my one of my responsibilities was how to work the camera which was in fact my main production role. Caras main role was the acting aspect throughout he sequence whilst Harry's main role was editing. As a group, we would all take part in every production role to show a team effort and would equally come up with a narrative of the product and the sound track. We would all have a say before changing something as the groups members would all get to hear everyone's ideas and pick the most effective. This shows that we worked well as a group and had effective listening skills if it benefitted our opening sequence.

If I could do anything differently; I would've suggested to learn more techniques of cinematography to help gain my knowledge. This would have then helped me when shooting the actual footage of the opening sequence to already be professional upon more camera techniques rather than learning on the spot without it not enabling to be at its most potential. Within this preliminary task, what we did differently was the communication aspect of our group. We were put into an unfamiliar scenario, where we would act and use some techniques of cinematography, which we have all never took part in. We had to work as a group to listen to each others opinions upon the situation the characters were about to be in whilst showing evidence of both panning and close up.

Evaluation - Question 2

2) The opening sequence 'Female Obsession,' includes the main character 'Brittany,' who is a student at the age of 16 with her only goal at the present time of doing well in her exams. However, she is constantly being distracted. 'Steve,' is the character who is stalking Brittany to the point of death (the antagonist.) Brittany is a pretty, naive, teenager girl, feeling vulnerable with little experience into what the world and people living in it are like. Showing she has a lot to learn from this stalking experience. She is dressed in school girl clothes,which allows the audience to understand the young age she is due to her still being educated but having to deal with this terrible situation at the same time. 'Steve' is an older, mentally unstable man who is always in dark colours, covered head to toe to represent the hidden identity and the mystery about him. This makes it seem more scary for the audience and Brittany. Another character, 'Carol,' is seen as the hero throughout this opening sequence. She is in her early 20's, which makes her seem more like a role model to Brittany and someone for her to look up to and trust. She is firstly a stranger but quickly creates a strong bond with the teenage girl Brittany which the audience are happy to witness. Carol is dressed in very sweet clothing, wearing knitwear and comfy clothes which are very nudely coloured, which help to assure the audience in her sweet and pure presence. The audience would be interested in these characters as they are all different with different personalities, so putting them all together would cause conflict, making the audience want to watch further to see who is in danger or some sort of trouble.

Gender within my opening sequence was formed in a stereotypical way to make this product more effective. Both characters of Brittany and Carol are both intimidated by the dominant male in this product.

By using a younger, teenage girl shows vulnerability as she does not fully understand what is going on and why it is all happening. By using females who are young shows weakness and the fact they cannot stand up for themselves, due to the stereotypical opinion of women not being as strong as men. By having weaker characters, enphasises the antagonists strengths.

The antagonist is played by a tall male with muscles, which represents how strong he is and also; the fact that this whole character is played with a hidden identity, interprets to the audience that it is unsure just how strong he could potentially be. This makes the opening sequence more effective due to the intimidation the audience create. By using character genders shown in a stereotypical way does make the thriller film more effective effective as it is a successful convention within this genre.





Relationships between the characters throughout the product is extremely important as it varies from different types of relationships and how different characters handle the situation of being with different types of people. Even though there are only a few characters, it still represents a wide range of different aspects. These relationships include the association between the main characters of the antagonist (Steve) and the female victim (Brittany.) This particular relationship is very uncomfortable as it shows Brittany having very little interest towards Steve and wants nothing to do with him and is very scared. Steve on the other hand, is represented as quite the opposite as he is shown to be creepily obsessed with her. From Brittany not even knowing who this person was until she came into realisation that this stranger knows every little detail about her (who her friends are, how she gets home from school etc)

The age group aimed at this opening sequence is teenagers or young adults. Aimed at around 15-25 years old. By having these particular age groups aimed to watch this product can make it more relatable, enabling the audience of the target audience to form a stronger bond with the characters rather than someone younger or older than the target audience. This is because the audience can relate due to the similar age and can understand why the characters are expressing a particular emotion or how they are behaving. This target audience are also the popular ages to watch thriller films, this lets them enjoy a genre they enjoy and form a relationship with the characters easily. This happens by the audience also being vulnerable and then able to put themselves in the characters position and be able to feel and experience how shocked or scared the characters are. This the shows how effective the opening sequence due to the audience allowing themselves to be involved within a scene, making it more realistic to them and more thrilling. 

Final Thriller Opening Sequence

West Hatch High School- 16807

Emma Allen 9303

I also worked along side:
Harry Osborn 9126
Cara Jackson 9344