Our final thriller- Nocturnal

Evaluation Q7- Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the main task?

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Question 3- The distribution of my media production

Q3- What kind of media institutions might distribute my media product and why?

As the filming industry is becoming more popular and different genres and types of films are being created, companies need to be competitive to keep their viewing rates up. Genres are widely enjoyed by all different individuals, others are liked more than others.

This graph contains the statistics of the viewing rates which was took in North America by total box office revenue from 1995 to 2016 (in billion U.S. dollars). Comedy was clearly the most viewed genre of filming and reality films was rated the least watched genre. As thriller/suspense was 5th and horror was 7th, we believe this genre was still a high rating and would attract a large population of the audience meaning more income.

Lionsgate Films 

This American company make produce and distribute horror films, creating some well known an popular films in the past. Some of these are listed below:

• Cabin in the woods
• The Last Exorcism
• You're Next
• Saw
• The Possession

These films have become a great success in the film industry as most the did end up in cinemas creating a great way for income to get back into the companies. These type of horrors contain gore and psychological thriller. This company would distribute our film to a wide audience meaning the ratings would be quite high if they enjoyed our film.

Hammer Films

This company make, produce and distribute English films. Hammer Films or Hammer Pictures is a British film production company based in London. Founded in 1934, the company is best known for a series of Gothic "Hammer Horror" films made from the mid-1950s until the 1970s. Some different films they had produced are below:

• Women In Black
• Let Me In
• Dracula  

These well produced films also had a great success in the industry. Women In Black was outselling as the producers sold it to cinemas as they believed it would be a popular film as Daniel Ratcliff (main character in Harry Potter) starred in the film. If big time actors do feature in a film, it will attract so much publicity and audience as they know the skills he has meaning they will automatically know that they will be interested in the film.

What kind of company will I want to produce and distribute our film?

As our film is a low key budgeted film, relatable to key groups of the audience we believe our film would best be distributed by Warp films as the company is small based and don't require too much money to produce the film. I believe our film relates to the Warp films audience meaning a wide range of the population will be interested in watching our film. Also, as Warp films are more populated with the  DVD sector when distributing their film, we believe our film will get a higher income if Warp distribute it on DVD rather than in the cinemas. As our film is English based, we believe distributing it with a UK company would benefit the way people enjoy the film.


Overall, our production of Nocturnal would get a wider range of audience with a UK based company such as Warp. We have decided to go with this company as we believe it will get the best out of our film meaning we will get a high income from it which is the best outcome.

Question 2- How does your media product represent particular social groups

Question 1- how does your media product use, develop or challange forms and conventions of real media products

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Bit of an insight into the first shots.

Hey guys, I thought id give you a bit of a insight into how our production of Nocturnal is going, not a lot though.. don't want to give too much away. The second day of filming gave my group chance to go out in the environment and capture some great shots for the first few clips of the opening. We walked a few miles to a woods not far from Charlie's house. Sav held the camera in her hands all the way there creating the clips to have a thrill affect. We believe this will look great when editing it, we are planning on putting a camera roll audio affect on the clip and when the clip stops and flows onto the next, we are hoping to put a sound affect of the camera cutting out to make it look more thrilling. The editing of the clips should be black and white and gloomy as we want to get a worrying affect out to the audience. We are hoping to shoot some more shots soon, so I will keep you updated if all editing goes well. Thank you bloggers, talk soon. :)

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Risk Assessment

Risk Assessment

When being in a open area, there will be many dangers and cautions we will need to look out for to prevent any occurrences before they happen. As we are going through our planning and researching stage of our production; we need to be organised meaning the risk assessment is a big must whilst being in this section of the project. The risk assessment is a structured process of evaluating the potential risks that may be involved in a projected activity or undertaking. This will be very important within this certain production as we are filming a thriller meaning more risks may occur to get the correct effect for the film e.g. some parts of the project will have to be shot in dark as it gives the thriller the right backdrop. Although, in dark conditions, more hazards will occur meaning we will have to be extra cautious. This assessment is a guide to mine and my groups safety meaning it is a very important factor of the researching and planning of the production. Most of the precautions are very dramatic but we needed to be open to all ideas of the risks which could happen to us whilst filming outside and inside for our production.

 

Being the examiner

Bonjour guys,
yes I know I am not an examiner but I thought I would try it out for a day... sad I know lol. Well within my lesson, we was given different videos to watch and a mark scheme with an aim to mark the different thrillers. I watched the productions and made a verdict on what grade they should of been awarded. Within my class, we awarded the thrillers much lower than the grade they actually was given. This was a surprise to us all and made us much confident on the grade we may get when producing our own film.


When given a level 4 (the highest grade) these are some of the aims the examiners are expected to see:

• material appropriate for the target audience task
• using titles appropriately according to institutional conventions
• using sound with images and editing appropriately for the tasks set
• shooting material appropaite to the task set, including controlled use of the camera, attention to framing, vartiety of shot distance and close attention to mise-en-scene

some examples of the videos we had to mark our listed below:


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We awarded this clip the same grade that it was given, this was because the sound effects was at a high standard and so was he images. Also the material given within the production was appropriate meaning the audience was gripped to the storyline. This was a great piece.


This different clip wasn't up to the same standard  that the level 4 production was. The clip was still awarded a high mark which was surprising as it didn't have the best shots, control of camera or sound and images. This clip was awarded a level 2
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Nocturnal - one page pitch photo evidence

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Nocturnal one page pitch

How to make a thriller

Hey guys, 
as I am planning and producing a horror movie within my media course, I am researching as much information on how to create the best highlights and shots I can within my film. I found this video on YouTube very helpful to find the different effects I can use.
I will be uploading different secondary sources e.g. websites and YouTube videos to help me with my production.


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