This Is The Actual Film. FINISHED :)

Re-Photoshoping.

Right, for some reason the film crashed and whiped the photoshopped images within our film. Therefore i had to do them again. I changed the canvas size to the size of the adobe premiere pro screen size. This was 720 pixels by 576 pixels. This fitted perfectly. I then used the same eye from the last image. I made a change to it though. I decided to change it blue because it looked more natural, unlike a red one. The red eye made it look more made up and i feel that the redness that is used shows that our production company just produces thrillers and horrors when they may not.

I made the eye smaller aswell so we were able to see all of the eye as it is quite detailed. This looked better and more proffesional. The image before looked "tacky " and looked like the fact that the eye did not fit the page properly was a mistake and not intensional.

Voiceover.

Because we have no lyrics in our music, i feel it would be good to use a voice over done by the actor so we are able to create the mood and sort of explain the storyline. Leave questions as to why he did it and why everything that is happening is happening. Later on today i am going to use garageband to create a voiceover explaining what is happening and create tension within the film.

Re-Photoshoping Again.

Once again, we lost the other title to our film. I had to change the canvas size to 720 pixels by 576 pixels. I used exactly the same fonts and i made it identical to the last one. The only thing i chnaged was the size. I decided making the title smaller and more central the title would get more attention. Within the film i will also put an effect on it so it will tie in with the film a lot more because it is inbetween the cmaera shots of the girl.

Last Minute Change.

We have had to make some very important last minute changes to our film. We have found out that the music we have used within our film is not allowed because of copyright. Therefore we ahve now had to make a new music soundtrack for our film. I have used Garageband to do this on an Apple Mac. I can now time the music in with what is happening on screen. I can cut the music when dialogue is used and i can make the music tie in with the mood on screen. When something dramatic happens, such as the screaming, i am able to build this up with different beats and instruments.

At the beginning of the film, i have decided to use a slow soft piano beat. I feel this is what should happen at the start of a thriller film because it will gradually build up tension. This is what i have done. I have chosen to build up different parts of the story by bringing in a new layer everytime something dramatic is going to happen. I have used a piano all the way through the music because i feel that piano is quite classical but also very sugestive of thrillers.

This is a convention of a thriller. The slow music usually suggests something will happen. If the music was more up beat and jumpy the film would not be so jumpy. The music also makes the mind ask questions because the music is so contrasted compared to the actually film. It fits though because of this.

What people thought..

4:00 am by CIA Productions

I watched the 4:00 am film introduction. I believe it starts very well; the music brings the tension up as it is repetitive and methodical. The way the clips are edited makes them look very emotional and interesting. This is down to the fact that they are made to be black and white, and look grainy. Also the shots are mixed in speed. Some are quite quick and punchy, whereas some of the flash back images are really jerky and all piece together to zoom into Issy’s eye. This is a shocking and realistic way of filming the clips.

When the film goes to the room where Issy is on the floor in the corner the frame around the screen, with the clock along the bottom, this looks really realistic and similar to a CCTV image which is what the students are trying to mimic. When the big 4:00 sign comes up on the screen, the mood changes and the actress starts to scream and claw at the walls. This is very realistic and makes the film very thrilling. This film would be classed as a thriller, as it has the major components of one. It has tension and drama, and shocks emotions which are what makes this film good.

Finished Film

Preliminary Task

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

As our film is low budgeted, and we would be more likely that an independent company such as Metradome will distribute our film. Metradome specialise in distributing low budget films.

A film that is very similar to ours is Firewall which was distributed by Warner Brothers. Unlike Metrodome, Warner Brothers distributes higher budget films. They were able to use big settings and better equipment to film and edit, therefore, the film in total was a lot more widely distributed around the world in festivals and premiers. As our film is low budget and would not be taken on by any big companies we would distribute it via, Facebook, Myspace and Youtube. These ill still be shown around the world but not be advertised anywhere special.

If we had access to better equipment and more money we would be able to make the film a lot more interactive and more detailed. As we don’t however, we have to stick with the basics.

Evaluation.

Evaluation 4 Am

Following The Conventions.

Our film is packed with conventions of a thriller. We used conventions from films that we all analysed and took them into great concideration. We used a blonde grils as the victim as this tends to happen in thrillers, they never do end up surviving. We then move into the start of the film where the main character turns to a brunette girl. We intend her to go on and be captured throughout the film, but she will survive unlike the blonde. We have used a security camera within our thriller opening and flashbacks which explains the story. These sometimes are used within thrillers because they are being watched or they want to show what had happened before hand.

We also went against the way of a thriller film by using the mmusic at the start of the film which include lyrics and isnt really what would be expected. It is more emotional. We used the music at the star tso we could explain the feeling from the males perspecive. We also used a zoom which is never used in a film but we had to work with in because the ground was to bumpy to move in to the actors.

At the start of our project we researched into the conventions and this is what we found.