In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products ?
The title of the film
The title of our media production is twelve, this is because there is an ongoing theme throughout the media production of the main character looking back at his watch as the time draws ever nearer to twelve o clock where he begins to get flashbacks of the terrible crimes in which he has committed. The title twelve goes along with the theme that the film is a race against time thriller, this can be compared with other thrillers where there is a race against time such as "Taken" and "Phone Booth" from this you can see that the title goes against the conventions of the normal titles that thrillers are given, as there are few thrillers that are given titles that are just a number, normally the title is based around the setting of the thriller or the main action that takes place in the thriller.
The setting/location of the film
The majority of the media production was filmed in a derelict building in a field in Ongar. The derelict building has obviously been worn and torn and it already had alot of mise en scene inside it, such as graffiti and broken roof beams and smashed up bricks. This was why it was a very good location because it fits in with the codes and conventions of a thriller and made the whole feeling of the film a lot more intense and scary to watch.
Costumes and Props
Costumes and props were an extremely important part of our media production and took a lot of perfecting, at first we decided upon a plain costume which was just a white shirt/t-shirt with blue jeans, and we were using red acrylic paint as a prop for blood. However we found that this costume did not suit the codes and conventions of a thriller and that the red acrylic paints looked extremely fake as a substitute for blood, therefore we decided upon changing the costume to a more gangster like look, with dark jeans and a dark smart jacket, also we decided not to use the acrylic paints as blood. We also found out that props were very important to use in order to make the thriller more scary so when filming in the derelict building we made our own Polaroid photos out of laminated paper and put them onto a washing line with pegs, this gave a very good effect and made the thriller a lot more scary and intense in this scene.
This is a picture of the final costume.
This is a picture of the props we used as polaroid photos on a washing line.
Camera work and Editing
Throughout out media production we used a lot of very innovative shots in order to enhance the professionalism of our thriller. Because we decided upon re-shooting after our first day of filming, we decided to make a very detailed storyboard with a lot of very different yet effective shots.
This is a picture of Christian taking a low angle shot of me.
This is the result of the low angle shot.
This is a picture of Christian taking a very innovative shot between the feet of Charlie.
This is the result of the shot between Charlie's feet.
Title font and Style
The title of our thriller is twelve, this is because the thriller is a race against time thriller and throughout the thriller there is a consistent reference back to the characters watch in order to check the time which is drawing ever closer to twelve o clock. The font of our title is very stereotypical of that of a thriller, there is a dark background and then large bold writing which has a slight blur to it in order to give it a tense and scary effect.
Here is the picture of our opening sequence, this is the font of our title.
Genre and how the opening suggests It
Obviously the genre of our production is a thriller, however it is extremely important that you get this across in the opening few seconds of the production in order to make sure that you capture your audience and that they know what genre they are watching. In our thriller we done this by having the opening scene of our thriller in a dark woodland alley, this is the stereotypical setting for a thriller, a dark place with bushes and trees overhead. This meant that as soon as viewers watched our production they new straight away that it was a thriller.
This is a picture of the setting in the opening scene that really establishes what the genre of the production is.
By George Hick
The title of our media production is twelve, this is because there is an ongoing theme throughout the media production of the main character looking back at his watch as the time draws ever nearer to twelve o clock where he begins to get flashbacks of the terrible crimes in which he has committed. The title twelve goes along with the theme that the film is a race against time thriller, this can be compared with other thrillers where there is a race against time such as "Taken" and "Phone Booth" from this you can see that the title goes against the conventions of the normal titles that thrillers are given, as there are few thrillers that are given titles that are just a number, normally the title is based around the setting of the thriller or the main action that takes place in the thriller.
The setting/location of the film
The majority of the media production was filmed in a derelict building in a field in Ongar. The derelict building has obviously been worn and torn and it already had alot of mise en scene inside it, such as graffiti and broken roof beams and smashed up bricks. This was why it was a very good location because it fits in with the codes and conventions of a thriller and made the whole feeling of the film a lot more intense and scary to watch.Costumes and Props
Costumes and props were an extremely important part of our media production and took a lot of perfecting, at first we decided upon a plain costume which was just a white shirt/t-shirt with blue jeans, and we were using red acrylic paint as a prop for blood. However we found that this costume did not suit the codes and conventions of a thriller and that the red acrylic paints looked extremely fake as a substitute for blood, therefore we decided upon changing the costume to a more gangster like look, with dark jeans and a dark smart jacket, also we decided not to use the acrylic paints as blood. We also found out that props were very important to use in order to make the thriller more scary so when filming in the derelict building we made our own Polaroid photos out of laminated paper and put them onto a washing line with pegs, this gave a very good effect and made the thriller a lot more scary and intense in this scene.
This is a picture of the final costume.
This is a picture of the props we used as polaroid photos on a washing line.
Camera work and Editing
Throughout out media production we used a lot of very innovative shots in order to enhance the professionalism of our thriller. Because we decided upon re-shooting after our first day of filming, we decided to make a very detailed storyboard with a lot of very different yet effective shots.
This is a picture of Christian taking a low angle shot of me.
This is the result of the low angle shot.
Title font and Style
The title of our thriller is twelve, this is because the thriller is a race against time thriller and throughout the thriller there is a consistent reference back to the characters watch in order to check the time which is drawing ever closer to twelve o clock. The font of our title is very stereotypical of that of a thriller, there is a dark background and then large bold writing which has a slight blur to it in order to give it a tense and scary effect.
Here is the picture of our opening sequence, this is the font of our title.
Genre and how the opening suggests It
Obviously the genre of our production is a thriller, however it is extremely important that you get this across in the opening few seconds of the production in order to make sure that you capture your audience and that they know what genre they are watching. In our thriller we done this by having the opening scene of our thriller in a dark woodland alley, this is the stereotypical setting for a thriller, a dark place with bushes and trees overhead. This meant that as soon as viewers watched our production they new straight away that it was a thriller.
This is a picture of the setting in the opening scene that really establishes what the genre of the production is.
By George Hick
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