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Hello! Welcome to our Media Studies blog! We have created a film opening for the psychological thriller genre, aimed at a target audience of about 20 to 45, which we will link in this post.

For our opening, we decided on specific job roles, although we did share a lot of the responsibilities.

Sonia - Officially, the director, I took responsibility for directing actors and crew members to create the perfect (to an extent) opening. I also contributed heavily in post-production, including piecing together the necessary cuts from the raw footage, adding effects and being the main composer for the incidental music.

Mitali - Mitali was the sound designer for the opening and she was also in charge of controlling the background noise on set, alongside Shivani.

Shivani - Shivani was the production designer, which meant that she was the designer of the arrangement of props, costume and set, although this was shared amongst the group. Shivani also took the vital role of location and casting scout.

Ayaan - Ayaan was the official camera operator for the opening. She took the role of taking shots and, alongside the director, correcting shots and angles (in relation to our original storyboard) to make sure they looked as interesting and effective as possible. Ayaan also assisted me with composing the incidental music.

 

We hope you enjoy our blog and film opening.

Evaluation Question 7

Evaluation Question 6

Question 6 ayaan from pomegranatestudios

Sonia Pal - Evaluation Question 7

<<< angry director

Question 7- Shivani Rangi

My script:

In my preliminary task I had to focus on three camera techniques, which were over the shoulder, close-up and match on action.  This was difficult for me as I didn't know that much about this camera techniques as I was new about all this. Although I tried this technique in my preliminary work, as I had to use it. Also, we had to use 18-degree rule, which was very hard to use, as we add to use the rule all the time without making any mistake and if we did make any mistake we add to redo the scene.  This did challenge my skills as I started improving myself as I started improving my camera work skills and also, I did challenge myself to improve all the time in every challenge that did come in front of me.

Also that time we did our preliminary task we didn't take that long writing a script, which did make me lose the quality of my preliminary task as i feel that our actors did feel confused on what to talk about in the scene, as our script wasn't perfect and there was only dialogues written in our script. Our editing in preliminary task was mostly cuts, as we didn't know much about editing and other editing skills, which didn't allow me use different editing skills as i didn't know much about it.

Now if I look at my opening scene, I believe i have improved but i still need to improve more as i need to know more about all the different techniques. In this we did use different camera technique such as mid shots, long shots, long shot and many more, this suggests that i did improve my techniques although i could had improved more, using this camera techniques in different angles.  This did improve my skills by challenging them every step, also in my editing skills as i used different type of editing such as fade, shadows and others. I even added diegetic and non-diegetic sound, but if i compared this to my preliminary work I didn't do this, as I only used one sound. I even added a different type of font titles in my opening scene, as I didn't do that for my preliminary work. As I started progressing I also used high and low angles in my work, to add tension between the audiences and comparing to my preliminary I did challenge myself in other skills as well such as changing the colour or adding effects in my scenes for my opening scene film.

This will also imply that in my preliminary task I didn't use any props, like I did in my opening scenes such as pregnancy test and telephone and I didn't even do technical and location recce for my preliminary task as I don't for my opening scene, this shows that I did improve and done more planning for my opening scene than my preliminary task. We even did more planning for our opening scene such as storyboards, call sheets, risk assessment and much more and if I compare this with my preliminary task I didn't do this as I didn't even that much knowledge about it.

Other people's opinions were that we could have done better by using more effects and different angles for our camera. Also, we could have used more props as it would create more effect in our film and in last we should have used different sound as it would create curiosity and suspense between the audiences. Although, they liked our story in the film as it's different than other opening scenes and the way we presented the characters.

Sonia Pal - Evaluation Question 6

 

Evaluation Question 6 - Sonia Pal from SoniaTryphenaPal

^^^ the foley sound we used. 

Evaluation Question 5

Question 6- Shivani Rangi

Question 5- Shivani Rangi

Question 4 - Shivani Rangi

Sonia Pal - Evaluation Question 5

Evaluation Question 4

Media Evaluation-Question 7-Mitali

Question 3- Shivani Rangi

The distributer for our film is between Universal and Icon. Watch the pitch to find out which distributer is willing to show our film.

Evaluation Question 3

Question 3 Ayaan from pomegranatestudios

Evaluation Question 2

Sonia Pal - Evaluation Question 4

Evaluation Question 1

Sonia Pal - Evaluation Question 3

Click here to be transported to my Eval Q3

Question 2- Shivani Rangi

Question 1- Shivani Rangi

Question 1 by Shivani Rangi

Sonia Pal - Evaluation Question 2

Please click on the dots on the images to see the annotations.

Media Evaluation-Question 6-Mitali

In case you can't hear what i'm saying, below is the script.

Media evaluation question 6 from mitali solanki

Sonia Pal - Evaluation Question 1

Media Evaluation-Question 5-Mitali

Media Evaluation-Question 4-Mitali

Media Evaluation-Question 3-Mitali

Media Evaluation-Question 2-Mitali

media evaluation question 2 mitali from mitali solanki

Media Evaluation-Question 1-Mitali

Edit - Titles

Opening titles:

Jatine Maugi
Jainisha Navinkumar
Karen White
Lawrence Williams
Andy Rodrigez
echoes
Vernon A.Marsh
Katie McDann
Music Peter Martinez
Editor Ayaan Mahmaed
Executive Producer Sonia T.Pal
Co-Producer Shivani Rangi
Producer Mitali Pravin
Story Riya Chandra
Screenplay James Suleweski
Director Sonia T.Pal

Edit - Sound

Copyright Free Sounds

First Scene music used alongside GarageBand made music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOTEaLY5cQY

First Scene Insect/CCTV sound (black and white shot):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvMNCUSq-cs 

First Scene Car Crash sound (in conjunction with actress screaming and foley sound):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y354W-J4j8

Echoes - Final Cut

Costume and Prop

Ayaan (1) from pomegranatestudios

Location Change

After our first shoot, we realised that much of our footage was out of focus and some pieces were missing. This meant that we had to reshoot. However, by this time, the location had become unavailable and this was beyond our control. This meant we had to scout for another location. We managed to find one within the short time frame. However, it's small upstairs hallway meant that we have to remove the section of the script where the character Jatin looks into his empty bedroom.
We have still used the original location for the first scene as it was the few parts of footage that was not out of focus.

New ideas

Target Audience Research

Social Media for Target Audience

This is some social medias that we would use in the future to target our audiences. Our target audiences gender are both female and male, as both of the genders are attracted and prefer watching psychological thriller movies, as they like thriller and suspense in the movies. The class that may get attracted by our advertisements and opening scene are most likely to be middle class, as they would go out and watch movies more frequently. Also, our opening scene would allow any person to watch it even if they are educated or not in the society. The audience will mostly befrom the UK as the language the character in our opening scene speak English.

This type of films (psychological thriller) may be most of the audiences hobbies as they would like to watch this all the time and have a quite bigger interest on this, as they may like the content in it which may be crime or mystery, that would attract our audiences to watch our opening scene. This is the reason why in the pictures I added a darker effect that would create mystery and suspense around the audiences, also show the character is positioned in the advertisement.

Echoes - Test Shoot

Call sheet

Callsheettemp 1 from pomegranatestudios

Production Schedule

Production Schedule

Production: Echoes
Shoot Day: 31st January 2016
Location: East Hounslow

Cast: Jatine Maugi, Jainisha Navinkumar
Crew: Sonia T. Pal, Director
           Mitali Pravin, Executive Producer
           Ayaan Mahmaed, Camera Operator 
           Shivani Rangi, Co-producer

Script and scene analysis

Foreshadowing

This term is a warning or indication of a future event, which is a form crucial for of exposition for example in a TV or film script.

Recurring motifs

This means any element that may appear in the script which as a significance in a story, which may be appearing many times (repetition). This does help to produce any other aspects in the script as theme or mood. 

Scene transitions

This is all the transitions that are used in the process of the film editing, by all the scenes and shots that may be combined, although most of the times this happens from a normal cut to other shot.

Counterpoint

This is the combination of more than one music into a single melody that is played together. 

Repetition

This can be the repetition of dialogues in the script by the characters. This may be because that specific dialogues may have an important meaning in the film. 

Contrast

When two things are very different or opposite. 

Clarity of information

Being clear giving all the information that audiences may want to know in the film. This means the script needs to have all the information clear so it's easy for the audiences to understand. 

Action and stunts

This can be any actions that may appear in the film as there may be some written in the script. Stunts are very rare in a new productions films as its very dangerous and may appear dangerous. 

Comedy scenes

This is a genre which wants the audiences to have fun watching it with laughter, through all the entertainments parts that may appear along the film. 

Special effects 

This can be a fantasy that films create an extra effect, this can be done with props, camera work, computer graphic, etc. This is mainly done to attract more audiences.

Visual effects 

This process creates imagination which involves a combination of live-action and imagery to make the environment look realistic. Although it can be dangerous, expensive or very hard to put in the film. 

Locations

This is any locations that the script may need to produce their film. This can be for example houses, shopping malls, etc.

scanned script and scene analysis by Shivani Rangi

Release forms

Editors

The editors have a great contribution in making a movie or even TV shows. They are likely to work closely with the directors, as they need to check if every shot is perfectly chosen to that they can edit into the series scene, which need to make scene to the audience. 

All the editors work very long hours as, with a lot of pressure with them, as all the edits they do need to make scenes of hoe the story did unfold, that's the reason y they start working with all the films scene from the beginning till the end. Although in  last they do choose the best edit and takes from the film scenes. 

This shows how they have to work so hard, but also it takes a lot of time to make the edits so it can look perfect, as if any mistake does happen in editing the audience will be less likely to watch the film as it wont make sense to them. 

Representation of Gender in Psychological Thrillers

The females in the thriller films are very significant because they have no stereotypical role in the genre, this is because in some films, they play the cold hearted and emotionless. Females in thrillers can be also portrayed as the damsel in distress, who needs saving by the protagonist, which is usually the male as he is portrayed as mentally and physically stronger than females in thriller films. On the other hand it is quite common for the females to be the survivor in thrillers and horror films, which could also subvert to this stereotype, they are also portrayed as very charming and glamorous due to mise en scene such as clothing and make up.

The men in thriller film are portrayed as both the protagonists and the antagonists; The males are often portrayed as the strong hero, who saves the day by figuring out the enigma which is usually given to the audience at the start or middle of the film.They are usually mentally and physically strong and shows there strength and independent. The males are also the antagonists which is the villain, there is usually a background story to why the male wants to do evil, due to previous situations which may include the protagonist which could link into any of the key themes.