Last Changes

Today I have had a final look ever my blog, and made small changes suggested by my teachers in order to improve my mark, and achieve the best mark that I can. I now feel as though both my film and blog are completed to a good enough standard, content including;
- Coursework brief
- Conventions of a thriller
- Thriller examples
- Preliminary Task
- Audience research
- Planning

- Filming

- Editing
- The process of editing written on blog
- Audience Feedback 
- Evaluation

Addition to Evaluation

I realised that saying in question 3 that our film could be distributed by the major institutions i had mentioned was very unrealistic. For this reason I added information about 'The Microwave Scheme' and a film we are watching at the moment in lesson; 'Shifty'. This is a more realistic way that our film could be distributed.

I Am Number Four (2011)

Last night, me and Tom went to see a thriller called 'I Am Number Four' at the cinema, starring Alex Pettyfer, Timothy Olyphant and Dianna Agron. The film is about a teen who is being hunted down, like 3 previously to him, as a group of enemies attempt to take over his world. He is number four, and is attempting to live a normal life, and fit in amongst humans, to avoid being killed. It was a great example of a thriller, with the enemy providing a obstacle to overcome. It includes tension and suspense, and is at times quite jumpy. The audience is kept on the edge of their seats. I personally really likes the soundtrack and sound effects. Furthermore it had a good cast; Agron is big in the USA and UK at the moment starring as Quinn Fabray in 'Glee', and Pettyfer having huge hits with 'Alex Rider; Stormbreaker' and British film 'Tormented'.

More on the Evaluation

Today I have continued to make improvements to my evaluations, and added in various slide shows via slide share, such as one about our characters and one about different film institutions. 

Today

This evening I continued to work on my evaluation questions, in an attempt to make them better. My main focus was on question 6, which I had originally written out and planned to accompany with printscreens and images, but I instead used my knowledge of multimedia formats, and created a slide show instead, using powerpoint and then slideshare.com to upload it as this is more interesting, and varied my technique of displaying information. I Will continue to make any changes to my evaluation questions as the week progresses.

Audience Feedback- Wordle

To gain more of an idea of our audience feedback, as well as the interview i made yesterday, i also asked each member of the class, as well as the teachers to come up with 2-3 words each to describe our film. To display my findings, I then created a wordle What i discovered is as follows;

People described our film as such things as captivating, eerie and intense, but the main answers given were suspense, tense and exciting. These are all things that are conventions of a thriller, and therefore it is good that we gained such positive feedback, considering it is these sorts of things that we set out to include in our thriller . 

Audience Feedback- Interview

Today during lesson, we carried out several interviews to gain the opinions and thoughts of the audience. We asked a variety of people four questions;

- What were your initial thoughts upon watching the thriller opening?

- What was your favourite part of the thriller opening?

- What criticisms of the opening do you have?

- Does the opening encourage you to want to watch the rest of the film?