Evaluation - Q7 - Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

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

Before we filmed the preliminary task, we researched and studied different types of camera shots in advance so that when we filmed preliminary task, we had some knowledge about the process and work which goes into films. We only used one specific location to film our prelim task which I found a quite difficult location to film certain shots in. We were quite confident with the film that we produced, even though that we could have improved certain conventions like the lighting; unfortunately the lighting was too dark and it was not a standard quality video. In our final task, we had a lot more time to plan everything; we had a little past experience with the preliminary task so we knew what we were doing. We found that we had a lot more knowledge and skills when we were doing the final task rather than the preliminary task; for example, we knew and used more of a variety of camera shots.

Evaluation - Q3 - What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Karma

07. Andreia Loureiro Cardoso, Esme Worrell, Abida Uddin, Alisha Kaur from 283goswell on Vimeo.

Evaluation - Q6 - What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

We used various professional technology and equipment to film our thriller. During the process we have learnt a great deal about how the equipment is used; this had helped us expand our knowledge on the process of creating a product. There are a number of different technologies we used to complete our task including:
- Digital video camera - proffessional equipment like this made the product more realistic and we got experience what it is actally like to use this equipment in a proffessional way.
- Professional camera - taking pictures for proof of the work we were actually doing, props and costumes and the location we were filming in
- Google Chrome
- Final cut pro
- Soundtrack pro
- Blogger
- hard drive
- memory card/(s)
- mac computer
- sound recorder

A number of websites have helped us to research on this project which covered our research which we then put onto the blogs.

Evaluation - Q1 - In what ways does your media product use, develop or challange forms and conventions of real media products?

Our media product was intended to use conventions from other media products such as the successful psychological thriller Se7en. In preparation before we filmed our thriller, we researched many different thriller films, looking at the variety of different genres, and we finally decided that it would be best for the sub-genre of the thriller to be psychological. The subgenre of out thriller also consisted of elements from out subgenres such as horror, mystery and supernatural.

For our music consists our conventions from the soft rock genre, although we recorded and created and produced the music ourselves using instruments such as a guitar and a piano. The inspiration behind this was influenced by the reserch of other music from a variety of thriller films. We looked in depths of analysing the other films before using ideas for our own.

We also looked at the lighting of other thrillers; and we found a mixture of light and dark scenes.
We focused on the characters, lighting and features from other psychological thriller films. The opening sequence of our thriller film was influenced by the one of the most successful psychological thriller film, Se7en.

As you can see, the font styles and colours are similar. Originally we were going to use black backgrounds in between the clips for some of the credits. Unfortunately, after some thought we decided it would be best not to as it did not all fit into the right scale and timings of out thriller. We still briefly used the idea, overall and used this as an advantage to explore our own original ideas.

Our product title 'Karma' was influenced hugely by the storyline which revolves around the fact that the main character is trying to seek revenge towards her ex bestfriend, ruining her childhood.
The title 'Karma' is also a distorted like the one shown above, purposely taken the idea from Se7en and interpreted it in our own way.

Karma Bloopers

Here is the Karma Bloopers which were edited out our film. Bloopers are the scenes that went wrong; in professional films they are usualy humerous of the actor messing up their line or doing the wrong thing. We decided to make bloopers seperate from the title sequence as our title sequence has got to be 2 minutes in total and if we added on the bloopers themn it would be too long and it is also not essential for our coursework.

Fonts for cast and crew

These are our favourite two fonts:

Editing at workshop

Rough cut - What people think the plot is

Rough cut feedback

Karma - Rough cut

This is our rough cut. It is unfinished as we did not have much time to edit the scene. The title sequence  is unfinished as is the soundrack. There is yet a lot more editing to be done to look professional and have an impact on the audience.

Lighting - problems and advantages

Lighting was a very important aspect of out shooting. Some scenes we filmed in daylight, showing the time of the day at that point but other scenes showed lack of light. Lack of light was purposely done so to create suspense which is usually always used in modern Thriller films. Althought this was good, some scenes were just too light or two dark for a clear scene, we then used editing effects to

Movie mistakes

We noticed that or film had a few errors which we had to later cut out or change. We cut out a whole scene from out movie which didn't quite fit into the introduction.

Foley sounds

Camera shooting points to consider

Camera:

1. How big the memory is - make sure their is enough for out footage
2. Battery - making sure the battery is fully charged in order to save time
3. Does the camera have an automatic filter
4. How far can the camera zoom in and out
5. Is the camera still - on a stand
6. Is the camera focused
7. white balance and exposure

Support

Using a tripod will make a big difference to the image quality. With a tripod, the shots were steadier, giving us more time to plan our shots.

Free hand would be also useful to film our footage, but in order to do this the person in charge of the camera must keep it steady and making sure it isnt shaking. This allows us to experience in usual shots and camera positions. 

Supporting moving cameras

In order for our camera shots to be successful for our thriller opening, we considered other camera shots to experience with such as 'crane' 'pan' 'tilt' and 'tracking'.

Costume for the character 'Karma'

Analysis for the opening of Se7en

Costumes and Props

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