Finished Thriller

Finished Thriller 

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

Preliminary Task


Final Media Product

Compared to our preliminary task our finished product, the thriller opening, was an improvement. In the preliminary task our use of sound was not very good as there was parts with dramatic changes in sound which were noticeable when we watched it back. The microphone we used in the preliminary task was not very good as it had to be placed  close by the source of sound to pick it up clearly. For the final product we used a boom pole microphone which picked up sound effectively and clearly. In the preliminary task we only used diegetic sound whilst in the final product, our thriller opening, we used both diegetic and non-diegetic sound. The use of non diegetic sound helped  add to the action scenes by making them more dramatic.

Preliminary microphone                                                   Final product microphone

                     

The use of editing is also better in our final product as the cuts run more smoothly and so does the transactions between each cut. Camera techniques have also improved over the course of time as we have used more in our final product. However the camera was a lot steadier in the preliminary task as it was mostly in a fixed position, our final product has some action scenes where we had to move the camera a lot to capture the scenes in an interesting way. The continuity of the editing is quite random as we filmed over the duration of five days. However this was appropriate for our film as we had one of the characters Rupert having visions of the other character Angela which are all meant to be at different times in different places. The 180 degree rule was not broken during filming. We had learnt how to use different continuity editing techniques during the preliminary task such as the eye-line match and match on action but they were not used in our final product.

The lighting in the the final product is better as we used three stage lights which we could move around or turn off and on to get the type of lighting we wanted. Natural lighting was used in our preliminary task which was uncontrollable. 

Mise-en-scene was more thought about in our final product as we did not consider it much in our preliminary task. Our props were well suited to our storyline and worked quite successfully. 

Overall, the preliminary task has helped me to use equipment more effectively in order to produce a more successful product.

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Location Sheet Study Room

Production Schedule Location Visit Sheet Programme Title: The Hypnotist Client: Writer: Producer: Director: Date:

Rough Sketch/Explanation of location and key points to note Robert Clack Lower Site Access to location via: Busses, 175/173 from Heathway and 5 from Barking, 128 from Ilford  Name and number of location contact: Robert Clack Lower School 0208 8270 4222

Health and Safety Issues to note: Weather problems

Potential Filming Problems : Noise in the background depending on time of day due to change in lessons and other classes going on at the same time

Additional Notes:  (map of area/weather forecast etc)

The Hypnotist rough cut

The Hypnotist- Rough Cut 

This is the rough cut for our thriller "The Hypnotist." For this opening to our film we attempted to include as many conventions of a thriller as possible. 

To get to this point we had to do a lot of research around thrillers. We watched a lot of thrillers and evaluated them as in depth as possible. Alfred Hitchcock was one of the thriller producers/directors films we looked at. Some of his films we looked at were, North by Northwest, Psycho and The Birds. These films included a MacGuffin, red herrings cliff hangers, mystery suspense and much more. All of these conventions we thought were effective so we wanted to include as many as possible in our film. 

First we had to select an appropriate story line which would fit the thriller genre. To do this we had to think of the other thrillers we had watched and what they included.  This is the story line we came up with:

Dr J. Smith specialises in hypnotism and provides treatment for patients who have previously suffered trauma. Rupert Jones is one of his patients who attends a session after suffering from increasingly violent and obsessive visions of an unknown girl. In attempt to unravel his issues the doctor heavily influences his patient to confront the issue by finding this girl. Rupert, who remains disorientated, is offered hypnotism and without consent, a strange injection to follow. Rupert’s visions repeatedly reveal him carrying a torn photograph of his victim which matches the complete photograph on his doctor’s desk. The complete copy shows that Dr. J. Smith is in the previously missing half of the photograph. Is the hypnotist really who he appears to be?

This story line was chosen as we thought it would be possible to include fast paced action and many thriller conventions.