Evaluation Task 2: How does you product represent perticular social groups?

Our Thriller does represent different social groups. In our thriller we have three characters. Matt, mental ward worker, Adam, the van driver, and Mauricio, the escape patient. Matt and Adam represent the working class from there menial jobs. For example Adam has the appearance of someone from working class. He is dressed with a shirt, tie and a coat. The shirt and tie are part of his uniform for the Van service he works for. The Hat is of his own choice which symbolises would attire he would wear off duty as it look reasonably cheap and has a nike logo. The small glimpses of the van we see in our thriller shows that he drives a very straight forwards simple white van.

Matt also has the appearance of someone who is very stereotypical of the working class. We can see that he works in a mental ward and he is one the duty of pushing out a dead body. His tattoo sleeve on his left arm and his unshaven scruffy look also represents the working class look.

Mauricio is tall big dark male. His appearance is quite intimidating to the audience in our thriller. It is quite hard to talk about his class as we cannot depict a lot about him from the small glimpse we see of him. His appearance and act however does tell us a lot about his state. He is clearly mentally unwell, menacing and very aggressive.

Our thriller is ver male dominant as all our characters are men. Our thriller expresses a lot of violence and general male jobs. For example is would be unfitting to have a woman pushing the trolley dow the hall, because our in society maintenance handymen work is generally much better fitted to a man rather than woman because men are more physically build to these jobs than woman. It goes against, subverting the stereotypical role in society for a woman if a woman wore to carry out these jobs.

Evaluation task 1: in what ways does you media product use, develope or chalenge forms and connventions of real media products?

Evaluation Task 1 from beckett12345

Thrillers 2013

This is the final product of our Thriller.

Final stages

Everything was coming into place. We decided that the scene of Adam driving is too jumbled up and uneven, as we couldn’t get any outside shots of the van because there were signs all over it.  Instead of the scene we are going to blacken the screen and just have the audio. Of the doors closing engine staring up and driving. We are going to have the banging noise back in the back of the van. The screen will come back on when you hear Adam pulling over and jumping out of the van. The screen will then go black again as we have the shot of Adam opening the van door and Mauricio pointing the gun at him. The blackening of the screen and the sound running creates a lot more tension and make the audience focus a lot more on the sound to really hear what’s going on.  For example in the film Signs, 2002, staring Mel Gibson, they have a scene in the basement were the lights go out and its pitch black for about a minute while you hear people screaming and running around. Its quite a big risk doing this because we do have some very nice footage of Adam in the car but I think it will create more tension and that is our main aim. The gun sounds are in place but now we need to do the gun flashes and add some effects to the title at the end. We have now come up with a full name for our thriller. It is called Senseless 

Todays Editing 12.2.13

In today’s editing we explored the layering of sound onto other clips. This Time we didn’t have to go  through the whole searching for the right sequences. We have almost finish the driving scene. I found it really difficult matching some of the sound with some of the clips. For example there a shot when we shot a close up of the gear stick and Adam changing the gears but we shot this when the engine was turned off so we could suddenly ad that clip into the project with the sound still attached. If we did there would be clips in the driving scene where the engine and road noise is on and clips where it suddenly changes. I found the that I have become  much more familiar with final cut pro and sever. We are still in need of some music that will add drama and make the clips flow more smoothly but we are not allowed to use copyrighted songs. To achieve the music we must either create the music ourselves or find some un- copyrighted music up of the internet that we could download.

have tried an d experimented with a few transitions, using fade when one of our clips doesn’t flow smoothly to the other. For example when Matt is pushing  the trolley through the corridor, I used a fade out and fade in transition to switch onto the scene when Adam and Matt are loading the body into the van. I also think that the transition would fit the scene much better if we had music along with it. Hopefully we will sort this out in short time

Todays Editing.

 Today we carried on with our editing for our thriller. We were persistent on getting all the footage in the project and in place so that later on we could editing and trim them down so they run smoothly. We looked through all the keyboard shortcuts, to speed up the process. For some reason all our clips have to be rendered manually after placing them in the project but we just hit the “apple” and the “R” key and it does it. We have placed the beginning scene in order and started to trim it so that it runs well. We have also learnt how to split the clip from the sound and add the sound onto the next clip so that the sound doesn’t suddenly jolt when the clip changes. This was really effective with the opening wheels scene when we just took the sound from the first or second clip and ran it out through the wheel shots so the sound is constant and fluent. We have allot of cuts in our opening scene, too many perhaps as we got some feedback form the media department. We might have to alter that the next session. We have so many god shot of the same setting its hard not being able to use all of them but we have chosen the best of the lot. Having three of us editing can be both a good and bad thing. On the positive side we have all our ideas to combine and improve our project allot more but it can be quite stressful everyone wanting different things but its a good skill to be able to work in a group and to listen to everyone’s opinions. So far we have only positioned up to the clip scene when Adam is about to drive away. we are having a lot of trouble with cut sever at the moment. every time we save to the sever and open up again it changes the order and sequencing of our clips and we have had to start from stratch twice now, hopefully this will not be a problem any more as we are changing computors

Shooting day

The day before we got everything organised for the shoot, we sorted out the van hire for the day, which Adam picked up in the morning of the shooting day. We sorted out the props, E.g the scrubs for Matt and the apron for Mauricio. Peaslake was free so we were free to film anywhere on the house campus. We hired all the props and costumes from our theatre department. 

We filmed on a Monday the 14^th. We were the first group to start filming and we had most of the media team with us. We all meet up at Peaslake in the morning around 10ish. We put all the props in the back of the school bus and a pickup truck. We were taking a trolley that the school had with us for the stretcher.  When we arrived at Peaslake we discovered that the boys corridor was too narrow and  the carpet didn’t suite the scene, so we went upstairs up to the girls corridor where the corridor was more pale and was all one colour, suited the scene much better.  It was quite nerve wrecking but we had the whole day to film and we weren’t under much of a time pressure. Mauricio arrived in white trousers and white top which he had prepared for the day.The van was parked outside. We need a plain white van for the exterior van shots but it was cover in van hire signs.

 So we had to cut the exterior shot but we made up for it by filming more interior van scenes for the journey. I felt like we were completely in charge. It was really good having the full control over the project. We were left to all the decisions I found it very professional. We were left to find all our own shots and angles but the media team did helps us out with some of the setups in the shots and positioning of the camera.

We started to film Mauricio out on the stretcher covered by a white sheet (that gives of the impression of death) and matt pushing him down the corridor, Mauricio’s feet poking out the out of the end of the stretcher giving the impression of a body. We didn’t actually plan that but it works very well back in the footage we have run through.

We wanted a tilt down shot from the top of Matts head to Mauricio under the sheet so we had to place the tripod on top of Mauricio and i had to use the tripod handle to tilt the camera down and the car was moving. It was quite worrying because The table that mauricio was on was slowly cracking so we had to get the shots over and done with quickly but not rushed. we managed to get allot of shots upstairs in    Peaslake.
The Filming equipment we had was slighly different to what we we used to. We had a Boom to improve the sound quality which we pluged straight into the camer. We had to piont the boom face on to where we wanted