Emma Woottons AS Media Blog 2013

Above is the preliminary task that I worked on at the start of the year. I feel that my skills have definitely improved since the maki...

I have chosen to answer this question with a Prezi slide. As you can see on that slide, I've learnt to use a lot of different t...

We attracted our audience by including blood and suspense and tension into our opening. These things are typical of classic thriller films, ...

To be able to pick a target audience, we need to know the different aspects of our film. We would have to consider things like if our film ...

Our film will be exhibited through a mainstream cinema release. We have chosen to exhibit it this way as we want our film to be as popular a...

The social groups represented in my film are mainly just teen males and also 'hoodies'. Hoodies are considered a threat to modern so...

Our film follows typical film openings, and follows the accepted conventions of thrillers in many different ways, however our film also chal...

This is the final cut of our film. In this attempt we have addressed the lighting issues that were in our rough cut, and have tried to imp...

Shooting went much smoother this time, as we already knew what shots we were going to use, all that needed to be different was the lighting....

After presenting the rough cut to our class, we recieved feedback off them and Mr Hood.

This is the rough cut of our film. As you can tell, the lighting is not good at all and some of our framing is not great either. We will h...

Our shooting process was easy to an extent, as the location was fine, and the actors turned up. However, we came across quite a few difficul...

A shooting schedule is an important document for organising actors, equipment, and the location of our shoot. If we roughly follow the shoo...

As seen in the props post, a knife will be used in our film. We have chosen to use a real knife over a fake knife, as we want to see the gle...

This is the animatic that we produced. An animatic is basically an animated storyboard, with sounds and credits added to give a better ide...

For our production we only require 3 different locations to be able to complete our production. The three location that we require are: a ...

Props, also known as theatrical property, is an objects used on stage by actors. Smaller props are referred to as “hand props”. Larger p...

The storyboard is complete, so we now we can focus on details like the costume of characters. Research:  The costume specialists and the w...

The script is now complete, so the next step is to research and draw up a storyboard. Storyboard Research The purpose of a s...

Script by CallumHarris

For our film opening, we must produce a script.  Professional screenwriters are already aware of programmes with professional solut...

In order to see if our film opening would appeal to the target audience, our group asked 3 people in the 25-34 year old age bracket what the...

For our project we have to consider our target audience. Target audience is the group of people that is expected to watch our film (for exam...

In order to get appropriate feedback on our film treatment, our group must determine a target audience for our film. This will take pl...

Film treatment research A film treatment is a two to five page document that tells the whole story of the film, focusing on the highlights...

This is the discussion that me and my group had about what we're going to create for our project: Part 4 Part 3 ...

Before deciding on our film opening, we quickly made this ident. We think it fits a thriller film, as the colours are dark and basic and t...

My production team includes myself, Callum, Jon, and Jontie. Here are the links to their blogs: Callum - http://cchasmediagwhs2013.blogsp...

The above is my film pitch. As you can tell by watching it, my idea recieved a lot of constructive criticism, mainly because the drug them...

Thriller conventions are what are typically included in thriller films (like low lighting etc) and what the audience expect to be in the fil...

Thrillers are a genre of film which include suspense and tension to captivate audiences attention and to draw them into the storyline. Thril...

Choosing a genre for our film opening was a harder task than expected. The media group wanted to do either horror or comedy, as they're ...

Film distribution studios focus on the marketing of a film, like public screenings, trailers, advertisements, and the release date for films...

We researched titles using www.artofthetitle.com. From here, we were able to look up thriller films that are similar to ours to see how thei...