Evaluation

Are opening of are thriller uses and challenges forms and conventions of a real thriller films. We used a black and white effect over are film this is a typical effect in thriller films such as Sin City and Casablanca, this effect is used as it instantly creates a mysterious aura. Conventions we have challenged is the music, we have used music which isn't a typical modern thriller music it doesn't have fast beats and disorted electronic sounds. The music we have used is more relaxing and creates a surreal feel to our film. (Jack Ware)

Our film is about a young man who assasinates people for money, like a hitman. This means that our film is representative of young men, which suggests that alot of young men may have certain problems, such as family problems and also financial problems. The reasons behind these problems may be that the young man has just finished university and cannot pay his fees or he may be feeding an addiction such as an alcohol problem or a drug addiction.(Lee Ervine)

With our film finished we could use many ways to distribute it to the public and our target audience for example, we can upload it to online video services such as youtube or vimeo, these websites would be great for publicity as they are known for generate great views and trafic towards their sites. A more profesional way would be to give our film to a british film company who would distribute it over wide formats, starting with local cinema. A more comercial way would be releasing Above suspicion on DVD/BlueRay disk formats, And release them in local shops and even try and get a deal with household known shops and online eCommerce websites this would give us more of a ease of access for people to get hold of our film. We could also give our film to a Rental store who could feature Above Suspicion in there lineup. (Harry Newsome)

Our media films audience is for older mature people. We have set our film for this range of audience because our film is very complex and hard to understand for a younger audience. A younger audience would find our film hard to follow because you have to take notice of every detail and younger people seem to lose interest quickly. Also, our film relates to violence and we dont want a younger audience to view this because they mite find it scary or disturbing. (Tommy Guiver)

When we received the answer's from the participants in our questionnaire. We used these answer's to use aspects of what people would accept in thriller's in our media film to attract a audience. The first aspect we included in our film was character types. Even though this was varied the majority of people would expect an anti-hero and a detective. Our film is based around assassion and why he has to kill so we won't the audience feel connected to the character and feel his pain. The second aspect we used was type of setting in our film. Most people preffered to see an isolated setting, straight from the start of our film you see the assassion livivng alone in a broken down derelict warehouse. We feel we caputured the isolating setting well but it also links into how he is alone and never can get close to anyone. The last aspect we used was a black and white effect over our film, the results from our questionnaire showed that high majority of people would see black and white. At the intial planning we were going to use this effect as it is a very typical aspect in thriller films the questionnaire just helped us confirm our decision. (Jack Ware)

What our group learned from making our film was how to film certain camera shots such as, a tracking shot, a closeup shot and we also learned the 180 degree rule. Our group also used the premier pro editing software provided on the apple macs. We have learned how to use this software and it has helped us greatly in making our film, from adding the soundtrack down to cutting each scene precisely to fit the opening credits that we added in. We also used an internet website which downloads music and places it automatically onto itunes which we could then export into premier pro. (Lee Ervine)

While making our film from beginning to end, we feel that our group has learnt many things, covering a wide boundary, from filming techniques to editing. (Harry Newsome)

Before being able to start filming our group, just like any other group, had to have a decent and stable storyboard and a planned out sequence so we was able to produce a decent quality amount of raw footage which we could cut down to leave us with the best of our footage. Our storyboard had our final ideas and shots we would aim to perfect while filming, we used it as a sheet we could go back to and review the shots we did. (Harry Newsome)

When we first began filming we tried to use involve shots that we haven’t tried before, and a few of us have barely even used to a video camera to this extent, so a fair amount of our work we wanted to redo to make it perfect as we had more experience and expertise. We tried involving shots like long-shot, tracking and over the shoulder. (Harry Newsome)

Editing

With all the filming finshed, we have uploaded the film to the computers were we will edit it down to a short opening scene of two minutes. From all the footage we have filmed we have edited it down to our inital ideas from our storyboard as well as adding new shots. (Jack Ware)

We started with our original footage and began to cut it down and edit. Firstly we added a black and white effect over our whole film, we wanted to have black and white from the start of when we was planning, this is beacause it instantly creates a mysterious aura and is a typical aspect of a thriller film, many film makers use this in there films such as Sin City. (Jack Ware)

Secondly we created our opening credits, we added an effect at the start where our names appeared, we did this using the premier pro editing software. Our names are also in black and white. We decided to keep the credits in black and white to go with the rest of the film and also we didn't want them to stand out too much, we wanted the credits to be subtle, so as they didn't immediatley draw the viewers eye. (Lee Ervine)

Who edited what parts...

Lee Ervine-part of the opening credits, the flashback, the cutting of the seperate scenes, the soundtrack and diegetic sound.

Jack Ware-the ordering of the scenes (where each part we filmed fitted into the movie, the music in the flashback.

Harry Newsome-part of the opening credits, the film title at the end.

Tommy Guiver-cutting of the different scenes, adding the soundtrack.