Thriller Planning // Rough Cut

This is the original Cut that was made of our film, half way through the editing process. Several strengths and weaknesses of the opening arise from. Strengths include: shot composition, lighting and mise en scene. but weaknesses, mainly comprising the edit, include: confusing narrative, short length (below 1 minute minimum time frame), rushed shots, lack of soundtrack and titles and unnecessary action. These issues would fairly easy to resolve if time consuming as I feel it would need an entirely new edit in order to play on its strengths without further accentuating it's weaknesses.In addition, a list of possible, copy-write free soundtracks would need to be compiled and title font would need to be explored.

Evaluation // 2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Evaluation 2

Thriller Planning // Shot list

This was the shot list that was made after I had wrapped up filming, slightly before beginning our second edit. I decided to use this changed list as the first edit was too short, not suspenseful enough and too difficult to follow. This was in response to the issues raised by my analysis of the first rough cut of the opening, discussed shortly here.

Evaluation // 3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Once a film has been completed, it then requires distribution to reach its intended audience. Like any other, our film would also require distribution, but which institutions would distribute Flashpoint?

Flashpoint is an independent, low budget, British art-house thriller. from this, we can tell that the target audience is a British niche audience so it would likely have a limited and targeted release, being shown in smaller art-house cinemas such as Cinema City. Cinema city would be appropriate because they show mainly arthouse, independent and niche films, in comparison to multiplexes such as Vue.

Cinema city

Vue

Evaluation // 1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Evaluation 1 by LarsosMedia

Flashpoint // Final Cut

Thriller Planning // Fonts

Some of the most important aspects of any thriller's mise en scene are the titles and the font. Thus it was important that the font we chose to use reflected the mood we were trying to create.

The first font I experimented with was 'Bohemian Typewriter'. I felt that this would be good for the thriller because the grungy effect reflects the nasty element of the thrillers plot and mise en scene. Additionally, it was a font that was simple to read isolated from any background. However I chose not to use this font because on the background of the film it was too illegible and distracting and because it contrasted the detached tone of the film.