Evaluation - extended

When we were given the task the first thing we started to do was research as much as we could about thrillers. Because we decided we wanted our thriller to have a subgenre of horror, we also had to research horror films as well. I started by finding out out what the codes and conventions are of horrors and thrillers. I stared analysing the first 10 or so minutes of films such as Seven, and begun to pick out where the producer had used the codes and conventions of this particular genre of film. This then gave us more of an idea of what we had to include in our own film opening. Other members of my group begun researching other films and also by producing a questionnaire which was then gradually filled out by a range of different audiences. When we got the results back from the questionnaire, we could then start planing our thriller/horror film opening. For the planning stage, we had to think about characters, setting, camera shots, content and mise en scene. Once we had come up with the ideas for our film opening, we put everything into a story board so when we began too film we could look at it to know what scene we need to be filming next. I think that the storyboard helped in the sense that we knew what order the scenes were going to be in, however, we did change our minds about some shots on it but initially we did stick to it. I think planning overall was our weakest point as I don't feel enough was done. Even though we didn't do very much I think we did a good job with our media product and am pleased with how it turned out and our audience feedback results.