Thriller Movie

Evaluation
FANGZ
 In what ways does your media product use developed
or challenged forms and conventions of real media
products?
Well,  a variety of conventions were used in the
thriller movie FANGZ  such as romance  where the
black rose was used, shock horror where blood
dripped down from timothy Edwards, played by
Sarah khan’s face and also in and around the
vase.  As well as the thrills of mysterious music
and different camera angles and the actions of
the characters this contributed to the suspense.
Well,  a variety of conventions were used in the

thriller movie FANGZ  such as romance  where the

black rose was used, shock horror where blood
dripped down from timothy Edwards, played by
Sarah khan’s face and also in and around the
vase.  As well as the thrills of mysterious music
and different camera angles and the actions of
the characters this contributed to the suspense.
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 How did you
attract/address your
audience?
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What we did to attract and get the audience’s
attention is to actually find out what different
types of people like to watch in a thriller movie.
Therefor we found out what people like to see in
thriller movie is by doing a questionnaire.
After looking at the questionnaires that we
handed out, we found out that the most common
answer in one of our questions was to have good
plot, lots of emotions, and young actors in the
film. So we took on board these requests and
used them in our final idea.
We also decided our movie would be certificate

12 as this allows teenagers over 12 to view our

film. We set the setting in a high school class
room and the emotions that were shown through
the effects, and also through the acting and style
of music.
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How does the media product
represent particular social
groups?
Our media product represents a
teenage social group because all our
characters are teenagers aged 16 and
17
Also again talking about the setting

which was in a school class room, this

shows evidence relating to a teenage
social group.
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 What kind of media institution
might distribute your media
product and why?
• Working Title - UK
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l - U S 2 0 th C e n t u r y
Uni versa Fox-US
We researched the different types of media
institutions that have successfully made thriller
movies. Three media institutions that we decided
to pick were Universal, Working Title and 20th
century fox.
Universal is a major film company in the US and

have made many films past and present which we

took interest in, therefore we defiantly would like
Universal to distribute our media product.
The second media institution we would like to

distribute our media product is Working Title, this

is because universal owns 67% of working titles
budget and therefore universal have made
working title a success.
Finally, another media institution that we would

like to distribute our media product is 20th century

fox, this is because this institution has gained a
lot of publicity through one of their films called
avatar and therefore we feel our film will gain a
lot of publicity.
 What have you learnt about
technologies from the process of
constructing this product?
T h e film in g e q u ip m e n t w e u se d w a s a C a n o n
LE G R IA FS 3 0 6 ca m e ra . T h is ca m e ra  h a s a
g o o d  q u a lity p ictu re , it is sm a ll a n d it m a ke s
it e a sie r to film sh o ts ste a d ily. A lso th is
ca m e ra ta ke s in a m e m o ry ca rd  ( S D ca rd )
w h ich h e lp s u s to tra n sfe r th e ra w fo o ta g e to
th e co m p u te r.
 
T h e n w e u se d th e so ftw a re A d o b e p re m ie re
p ro cs5 to e d it o u r ra w fo o ta g e a n d a d d o th e r
th in g s su ch a s e ffe cts.
W h ilst w e w e re film in g w e u se d a Tri p o d th a t
n o t o n ly h e lp e d u s h a ve ste a d y sh o ts b u t it
h e lp e d u s g e t a ra n g e o f h ig h a n d lo w sh o ts
to o .
 Looking at your preliminary task,
what do you feel you have learnt
in the progression from it to the
full product?
As we had to film a preliminary task, this enabled us to gain experience with using the
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equipment such as the camera and tri pod and learn how to use the equipment in a variety of
effective ways which aided us with the making of our final production.
Another aspect of the preliminary task we learnt was about was lighting and how lighting can
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affect our film. We learnt about which sorted of lighting would be appropriate depending on
the genre of the film. In our a preliminary task, we had to film a series of match-on-action
where a character walked through a door and had a conversation with another character, this
did not really need a special type of lighting but we needed enough light to see the character
facial expression.
A third aspect of the preliminary task that we learnt was about sound and how it contributed
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to our film. In our preliminary task we did not include and secondary sound but we had two
characters talking and it was important that the characters spoke loud and clear, but in our
final production we used music which built suspense and tension.
 
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The types of camera angels that we used in the in the preliminary task
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match-on-action but we had to follow the rule of keeping it on the 180deg line.
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However when we filmed are introduction we could use whatever shots we wanted to use. So
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the shot we used where, closes-ups for example on the face, extreme closes-up for example
the eyes , mid shots, panning of the class room, and the use of long shots for example the
empty classrooms.
The team work between myself and Nat had grown stronger since we did the preliminary task.
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 Conclusion…
To bring our evaluation to a conclusion, we encountered many
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experiences in the whole course overall. We learnt a lot about films and
the production of film making from using the camera and tri pod to
editing our film using editing software’s (in our case adobe premiere pro
cs5 as mentioned previously).

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Although we encountered a series of problems such as, the original
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character to play the boy character (Timothy Edwards which should be

played by Bradley Taylor) was unable to attend our filming sessions that
were available to us and so therefore we had to look for another person
to fill in the role, therefore we had to use a female (Sarah khan) to play a
male character. Another problem is that because we are all studying our
a level at the moment all the cast were not available at certain times
that were planned due to educational issues which limited our filming
time even though we had planned out specific dates for filming and
meetings on our production schedule.