How did you attract/address your audience?

This film was aimed at age 15 and over. Our main character represents the target audience that we would like to watch this. She is a teenager which most teens could identify with. Our antagonist/villian in this film is actually Samantha Evans boyfriend but he uses the toy clown to play mind games on her. Viewers could identify with this because the slasher classic scream uses this plot where the girl’s boyfriend is the main killer.  The audience should also hopefully like our soundtrack as the music we have used has a good beat whilst keeping the tension, the musics tension also builds and eventually ends on a climax.

Our victim Samantha Evans is“normal 16 year old” wearing orange top and black velour’s and socks whilst in bed. She is obviously a female (a damsel in distress)

We used camera shots from the point of view of Grimaldi the clown, used a blur effect and had a sense of voyeurism someone watching Sam whilst she sleeps; they seem to take pleasure in her having a nightmare. Clear shots of her location from the beginning of the sequence we can identify that we are in her room. Somewhere personal that is being intruded on.  We also used point of view shots of Samantha our victim. Due to the fact this film was low budget there are no SFX.

Audience feedback

After filming editing and putting the final pieces together we had a group screening with our media class and few invited friends and family. We got fairly positive feedback from most of the people. Everybody who watched had to fill out a questionnaire. The results were as follows.

Our audiences favourite scene was the ending in which the hand try’s to open the door.

Our audience’s favourite character was Samantha  

Our audience mostly agreed on the film being a thriller whilst some felt it was more of a horror.

All in all we got some positive feedback about the music as well.

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

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


Firstly here are all the diffrent technologies I used whilst working on both my blog and filming.

Blogger- To put all my work on blogger, to see how I have progressed on a daily basis.

Microsoft Word - To write my blog posts on so there is correct grammer and sentences on my blog.

Microsoft powerpoint - To create my presentations, graphs, tables.

Prezi- To create my character profile and to create my ' What is a open title sequence' presentation

Mindjet- To create my intial ideas mindmap, narrative theorey mind map

Slideshare/ Scribed - To put presentations on my blog such as ' Reservoir Dogs opening analysis' and presentations on what is a thriller?

Microsoft paint - to create moodslide and cut/paste pictures from the internet.

Google- Researching target audience, reading about saul bass, Kyle cooper, Alfred Hitchcock, finding information about films, finding pictures.

Youtube- Finding open sequences, embedding them on to my blog, using links, putting my preliminary and film on tube. Researching other AS Level open sequences.

Freeplaymusic- To find copyright free music.

Adobe premiere 3/ Photoshop - To create film poster, film company logo, animatic of storyboard, editing of the preliminary task and main task.

My phone NOKIA N900- I could upload posts on my blog via my phone.

This is the camera used to record the title sequence. Sony SR220.

As you can see I have used alot of diffrent programs inorder to work on this project. I learnt how to embed from youtube to blogger, how to charge the camera, use the zoom, night vision and other functions on the camera. Im not very good with technology and whilst working on this project I have become very confident and competent with all things media :) . This project also made me realize just how important and useful technology is. Without gadgets such as my phone, Programs like Adobe, Microsoft Paint/ Powerpoint. It would not be possible for me to do any of this. Researching online any time when I needed some information was quick & useful. The fact that I could also watch diffrent films/openings/previous As students films was also a big help and that would not be possible without YouTube.

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?



This year has been my first year studying media. When I began this course there were a lot of things that I had to learn and there where even some things I found difficult. When I was given my preliminary task it seemed fairly easy. Until I had to learn about the different camera shots, 180 degree rule, holding the camera steady and even editing.  The preliminary task gave me and my group the tools to transfer on to the main task. The preliminary took us at least 3 attempts before we got it right. I also learnt that organization was very important because we just threw our preliminary task together, so it wasn’t planned very well when we filmed it. This meant resulted in some shots that weren’t precise and did not fit in with the scene. I also learnt about using the camera, zoom, night vision.

The task helped me learn about camera functions. I also learnt about creating storyboards, which helped me with creating the animation storyboard. I used adobe premier 3 which I used to edit the preliminary I learnt to cut shots out, stretch them to last for longer and. I also learnt how to add effects such as blur, transitions and etc.

The preliminary task also encouraged me to be more confident with the main task because at first I was very nervous and felt really lost.

Furthermore when I began the preliminary task I learnt about different camera shots. I have created a power point presentation of all the different shots I learnt whilst completing my prelim task. Some of these shots I later used in my open sequence.

Camera shots and angles

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The sound quality at times is not good and you can barely hear the actress and what she is saying.
The shots are not that complicated nor are they even interesting.
The editing is very basic and doesn’t really go with the sequence.
The framing is not to good either.

On my Thriller open title sequence I learnt from these previous mistakes by, choosing interesting and complicated shots such as the shot of Samantha Evans walking down the stairs. Close up of Grimaldi and Samantha Evans face/ better shot reverse shot which flows is smoother than the preliminary.
The framing is much better, the editing is much more complex and a lot of time was spent on trying to perfect it. The editing also shows a diverse range of skills which I think add to the  smooth and fluid feel to the sequence. In the prelim the shots were jumpy and I had to cut out a lot. Due to the fact that Thriller sequence because it was shot better the editing was a bit easier. Also the choice of music was much better. The music really goes with the Thriller open sequence and we used at least 2 different types of music and 1 SFX which was a heartbeat, however on the prelim I used one piece of music which was not well thought out and picked not because it fitted in with the shot. From the prelim I have also learnt about group work and how to take everybody’s ideas in to account and then create a vision which appeals to us the individuals and the audience in mind. This
meant at times there were things that I wanted to do in the Thriller sequence but because I had the audience in mind and thought about what would best appeal to them I changed it with the help of my group because on the prelim I used ideas that were maybe inside jokes and things that only a few people would understand but in the Thriller sequence I have thought about what my intended target age group of 15 upwards would want to see, find interesting and challenge them. Had I not filmed my prelim I would not be aware of any of that. So all in all even though I feel that my prelim task was not that successful from a viewer’s point of view. I feel that it has given me along with my group the tools and maybe even wisdom that we needed to create are open title sequence. Moreover if you compare our prelim to our opening title sequence you will see that it is recorded better, edited better, has a better plot/narrative.