Audience Feedback

As part of our media coursework we were to create the opening two minutes of a film from the thriller genre. To be successful we had to gather back feedback from our target audience.

As a group we decided to receive constructive feedback at two different points, whilst we were still editing and after we had completed the final product. Receiving feedback from media students while we were still editing helped us realise where we had to change to improve our work. Parts that as a group we thought linked and worked well, to others did not make sense or thought of them as confusing the storyline. The media students then advised us to re-film the phone booth scene as they could notice cars in the background and the camera in the reflection of the phone booth window.

After we had completed our thriller we showed it again to our target audience, overall we were pleased with our final production and they seemed to be too from the positive response we received. They all thought that the idea of the thriller being located in a ‘deserted city’ was a good idea and all responded positively to how well we had filmed it and made it look deserted. Some even stated it was ‘excellent’. Sarah Panzetta adds ' I thought it was very clever how you manadged to make it look like london was empty, although people and veichles were really there'

However, they did also pick apart our thriller well and gave us some constructive feedback. One of the two parts they picked out as ‘bad’ was the establishing shot of the Gherkin building; they felt the tilt was not as steady as it should have been and a little shaky. They second point they made was that there wasn’t any dialogue within our thriller, however once they watched it again and we explained to them that we didn’t want to give away any possible twists or enigmas; they agreed that this was a good idea. We also explained that the establishing shot was shaky because of the faulty tripod we were using.

By Joseph Mulhare and Kerry Sheehan

Evaluation Activity 3

Evaluation Activity 5

By Kerry Sheehan

Evaluation Activity 7

Evaluation Activity 1

1. The title of the film is Pandemic which we feel fits under the Thriller category as you are not going to have a Ron-Com called Pandemic. It also makes the audience wonder what is going to happen in this film.
2. The location of the film was filmed up in London when it was deserted so that we can capitalise on the Mise en scene of our thriller and having London deserted.
3. The costume that we used for the thriller was just ordinary everyday clothing for a male of my age to make it seem real that this could happen to anyone. Also in the flashback we used different clothing so that it was made clearer that it was a flashback.
4. For the camera work we used a lot of long and mid shots to show isolation. This also emphasised the fact that something was not right at the start.
5. We used Lucida sans font as it fits into the thriller conventions by being blunt and clear.
6. We started with the quote “I’m running, I don't know why I'm running, maybe to something or to somewhere, all I know is that I'm running". This was to create an enigma at the start and to fit into the conventions of a thriller and make it clear from the start that this is a thriller.
7. The character is introduced by a tilt down gherkin into an empty car park drive way where the main protagonist appears from. with the establishing shot being the Gherkin it shows to the audience that we are in London then when the tilt comes down there is no cars no people and only the protagonist with a long shot showing that they are far away and isolated.
   
   
   
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Evaluation Acivity 2

By Joseph Mulhare

Directors Commentary

As we had completed all the tasks assigned to us we decided to create a 'directors commentary' explaining why we chose certain camera shots, our choice of music, the reason for enigmas, why we used flashbacks and the reason behind the point of view shot.



By Kerry Sheehan, Joe Mulhare Helen Daniel and Jack Partridge

Evaluation Activity 6

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?



By Joe Mulhare, Kerry Sheehan, Helen Daniel and Jack Partridge

Filming in London - diary of the day

Shooting Schedule -
Sunday 28^th March
Location – Central London (St Mary AXE, Lime Street and Leadenhall Market)
Filming Times – 8am till 1pm
Cast – Jack
Filming – Helen, Kerry and Joe
Scenes to be filmed – Establishing shot of buildings, jack entering, walking around the area and ending up at the telephone box

Equipment Needed –

Kerry – posters, charger, spare tape, sellotape

Helen – digital camera, storyboards, blue tac

Jack – costume

Joe – video camera, main tape, tripod

By Kerry Sheehan

Evaluation Activity 4

Music

The music that we chose we feel ads to the isolation that we were aiming to achieve in the clip. The way that this piece of music achieves this isolation is the slow fairly high pitched piano beat that is accompanied by soft percussion. We found the music off a copyright free website page that allows people to have copyright free music for no cost (http://www.freeplaymusic.com/). When the protagonist is walking around the streets of London the background music is playing over in a non digetic maner which adds tension, the beat accompanies the lone protagonist through the streets of London as he try’s to find out what is happening and why there is no one to be seen. The music plays right through till the end of the scene to show that this is the beginning clip of the film. There was a few other pieces of music that we found but did not feel that they accompanied the clip as well as what the piece that we chose did.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhPExz99r4I&feature=related this is the music that we used and uploaded on to youtube.

By Jack Partridge

Rating Our Film

By BBFC standard we believe that our thriller does not exemplify criteria that will be justified as an 18 certificated film. Pandemic does not portray any of the usual film ideologies that the majority of 18 rated films have; these are items such as use of sex and drugs. Due to it being classified as a psychological thriller it does however contain modest amounts of violence and swearing, yet these are not used to a degree in which minors from ages of 15-17 are vulnerable towards, fitting in well with the age rating of 15 in comparison to 18. Other films that support this statement are those such as, Shutter Island (2010) and I Am Legend (2007), as both of these films were given the rating certificate of 15. Yet they contained the correct combination of mystery and use of enigmas in creating the same thrill without the use of excessive violence, sex, drugs and swearing.
Due to us having to base our age rating on the opening 2minutes of Pandemic there is a possibility that later in the film it could encounter some aspects of borderline 18 certificated films. Yet since we had classified it as a sub-genre, psychological thriller, it is unlikely our thriller would cross over into an 18.

By Helen Daniel