Audience feedback

This lesson we started editing our new raw footage for the start of our sequence. After editing part of our film we showed it to our target audience in order to receive feedback. We received extremely positive feedback in the effect and reaction from the audience we wanted to achieve. They thought that the footage and the scenario is very realistic and similitude.

Mindmap showing conventions of thriller media

In order to better understand the genre- thriller. We worked as a group and identified some key characteristics of thriller films and created this mindmap.

Sky Movies Crime & Thriller UK - IDENT 2011

SKY MEDIA- TEXTUAL ANALYSIS

This lesson we investigated television audiences for channels such as "Sky Media". In doing this my group and I should be able to gage and identify our type of Viewer and our target market. Sky, a brand with many channels such as sky sports, sky movies, sky boxoffice, etc. My film is a psychological thriller and som my group and I was interested in what sought of audience would watch Sky's thriller channels such as Sky's,  "Crime and Thriller" channel.

Sky has described this channel and its film features as "gritty noirs and gangster sagas, this channel is all about edge-of- the-seat plot twists and gripping tales of the underworld. Full of mystery, murder and tension, it's always worth investigating."

Information we found interesting and useful in how they identified their viewer audience.

Learning The new camera.

This lesson my group and I learned the features of our new camera, the Canon 550D. We practiced taking pictures and filming.

PLANNING OUR VIEWER PROFILE

In order to understander our targeted audience and their character profile we conducted market research of 20 people that are likely to watch our film. We found that generally these viewers were more likely to:


Age- 15- 30.
Gender- generally male.
Hobbies- sport, T.V, music, socialising, movies.
Movie genres- thriller, action, horror such as films like Shutter Island starring Leonardo Di-caprio.
Music types- drum and bass, rock, punk, pop.
Clothes: Hollister, Topman, River Island.
T.V: Sitcom such as Hollyoaks, Eastenders, Scrubs, glee, etc.
Food: fast food-KFC, Costa coffee, Mcdonalds, etc.


Below is our viewer profile :

OUR NEW Canon 550D CAMERAS!

This lesson my group and I experimented with our media department's new cameras. We found that these cameras gave a crisper and more detailed pictures and film footage than our previous cameras.

Preliminary task

Our preliminary task was to create a short sequence which includes a short reverse shot combination. In order to gather ideas my group brainstormed these in a powerpoint and this is our final decision.

To film our short sequence we used an Iphone 4 to show that we can use many different media devices to film footage including phones. Many phones these days have similar or even possibly better picture quality than standard film cameras. 

Below is our video:

Below are screen shots of us editing the footage, cutting and ordering the footage into our desired sequence.

The screenshot below shows how we managed to increase the picture frame size of our footage in order to enlarge the footage and make it larger.