Marlon's Evaluation

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

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

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

4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

5. How did you attract/address your audience?

6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
(Video)

7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learned in the progression from it to the full product?

Match on Action in our Thriller - Aimee

We used Match on Action in our barn scene footage to add continuity to our Thriller film. We also used match on action because when Marlon (the Detective) opened the door the LED light was in shot, but luckily we filmed a shot of Marlon walking in the barn from the inside.

It works well because Marlon used the same hand opening the door and its more creative than him just walking into the barn. Match on Action is also a  popular type of continuity editing so we decided to use it in our two minute thriller.

Character, costume and props when filming the barn footage - Dani

Marlon who was playing the role of detective Simon Jet, wore a detective stylee coat, which reinforced his character. We also thought that it would be a good idea to show a certain character trait of this detective, give him a 'thing' if you like and we decided that he would smoke. Smoking would help him in the thought process of solving crimes.



Aimee who was playing the role of the dead body just wore jeans and an old shirt for practicality. As she had to have fake blood all over her, so using old clothes was the best idea so that it didn't matter if she ruined them. The fact that it was an old shirt that she no longer wanted allowed us to be able to rip the shirt as well as the fake blood, making it seem like there was a struggle before she was murdered. Aimee also used make up to give herself a black eye which also reinforces some kind of struggle and fight before she was killed. The positioning of the body was also important, as we needed it to look as if she was a murder victim but also something which wouldn't be too uncomfortable for the actor.

The main prop that we required to enhance the murder scene was fake blood. We found some ordinary costume fake blood from a party shop and watered it down so that it looked more realistic.

Last day of filming - Aimee

Unfortunately we are unable to film at Marlon's barn as it has become univaliable, but we are using our back-up barn in Horsted Keynes. We plan to finish the rest of our filming which should leave us with enough time to finish editing! The barn in Horsted Keynes is a lot more practical as it is closer and easier to get to. We are arriving at college for 13:00 where we will all meet to get the equipment that we have booked. The equipment we are using is:

- HD camera

- Tripod

- LED light

- Red Head light (important for poor lighting in barn)

After picking up the required equipment, we will drive to the barn and finish the last of our filming!!

Editing! - Aimee

We have begun editing our first lot of shots from the police station on the iMacs. About 40seconds of the 2minutes is completed. So far our thriller is coming along well and we are just waiting to finish our filming of the barn scene, this will hopefully be done Tuesday 13th March during our double lesson.
We have had a few trial and errors whilst editing especially with the police car. We decided to speed up the shot to show more action, we sped it up to 200 and 300 but it look like a Benny Hill shot so we slowed it down to 150, making it look more realistic.

Back up plan for location 2 - Dani

Our first plan was to film at a Barn in Dormansland, but due to complications involved with this location we may now be unable to film there. However we do have a back up plan which could work just as well, without us having to change any of our storyboard. The back up location is at a house on the outskirts of Horsted Keynes where there are old barns which we would be able to use. The plus side of this new location is that it would be closer and easier to get to than the first location.

First Day of Filming! - Aimee

Tuesday 28th of Feb. Kieran, Dani and I (Aimee) went to Haywards Heath police station to get our first lot of shots done. Marlon was missing due to lack of communtication between all of us. We also couldn't use the old prisoner cells as they are no longer in use but we made it work by using an interview room. The room was well lit so we used the LED light to create more of an interogation scene. We also had an opportunity to film one of the police cars pulling into the station with its lights on which was a plus. All in all we had a productive first day of filming and we made everything work even though we were an actor down. Hoping to film next tuesday (6th of march!!)