4. How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages? (Images with evaluation of digital equipment used for whole process).
Film posterThe film poster that Analyses of ten still images:still 1 -
this first still that I have is a two person shot of the two main characters, Gabby and Scott. This shot follows many films that have two main characters of opposite genders who are inn some form of relationship e.g.
this shot here on the other hand has the woman smiling and the man is paying attention to her, ours challenges this by having the man on the phone (ignoring her) and the woman is angry and disappointed, this shows the audience that the couple are arguing or maybe even splitting up, this being the feel that we wanted the audience to get as it is what fuels Gabby's rage.
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this shot is the second, a shot of Gabby walking away from Scott. This follows the conventions of films that have a couple breaking up in them, where the side of the couple that is angry walks off and then it fades out, this conveys that they have split up which is what the audience needs to get from this shot.
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this still is of Gabby on the stairs outside, this follows conventions from other films as the person is phone up there boyfriend and has a sad look on her face, she wants to get back with her boyfriend but then the next part of the film happens and this fuels the rage of Gabby throughout the rest of the film.
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this still establishes that the two of these people are related or are good friends as they are sitting next to each other and look like they are hanging out or something of the sort, this follows the conventions of other thriller films as there is usually a friend of the main character that is in fact there to lend support with a problem that the character runs into, in the case of this scene, it is that of the fact that he needs him to lie to Gabby, we wanted this to show that Scott did not want anything to do with Gabby any more and wants to move on, not realising the consequences...
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this is similar to the 4th still but this time Scott is looking at Kyle and shaking his head, therefore he does not want Gabby to know he is there, the feeling that wanted to put across exactly.
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this still is a close-up of the reaction on the face of Gabby when she hears that Scott is not in, sad, this follows conventions for example
but this shot is very close up and you cannot see the whole face, this the only difference.
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this still is of Gabby as she is stalking Scott, the conventions that this follows is the fact that she slowly peers around the corner, so not to be seen and to fit with the fact that she is now known to be quiet mentally unstable, and want to get Scott back, an example.
in the example, the man is peering around the corner afraid of something, instead in ours the roles are reversed, as Gabby is peering around the corner to seek and find Scott.
this example shows that we have not followed the conventions of the "Scream" films, as here the female character has no idea that the villain is following her, therefore, we have challenged these conventions as we do not have a two shot and that we have a POV shot and that the male character knows that the stalker is there, the feel that we wanted from tjis was that the audience now knows that the follower is there so this still here below...
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seems alot more scary, as the follower has gone. so with these 2 shots we have challenged conventions but I feel that it has worked to a good point as it still provides the build in tension that the audience needs in this thriller.
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this still I feel follows conventions in some scary films there is a part where a monster or villain of some kind attacks or appears as the tension has built and the music has died down and is very quite. This shot was intended to provide a scare to the viewers and a last punch to the trailer as this is the last shot before the titles and release date are shown.
For the construction and the research stage of the project we used a computer as the basis of all of the parts of this, the computers in college and my PC at home.
We also use a pen and paper for some parts, e.g. the storyboard, as this would of been very tricky to do on a computer or laptop and then scanned all the images that we drew and uploaded them onto blogger.
Due to this, I believe that, if we did not have any of this then the whole thing would be impossible to have accomplished.
The software that was used on the computer was also very important as they were vital to getting things done.
Adobe premier pro was one of the main programs in use, along side the other Adobe program, Photoshop. We used these two programs to edit the final products of each of the ancillary tasks and also the main task. If these two things were not present, again the final products would have proven very difficult to produce.
The smaller things that were used included, Word and Paint, which we used to accomplish some smaller but very necessary goals.
The internet for this project has played a huge role in whole thing, in the construction it was used to gather soundtracks, get images and to blog. The research was where the main consumption of internet usage was used, as we used it to find trailers, posters and magazines for the research of these things. Youtube was a large contributor on the internet as well, as when I needed watch trailers I could either watch them on here or on IMdb, either of these were very good.
Planning
The planning section was a vital part of the project, and there were many technologies that I used to help plan that made the project very manageable compared to if they weren't there.
Again computers were used for this but there was no use of had drawn or written things, this whole section was on the PC.
A camera was used alot in this section as we used photos to show the costumes, props and the location of the filming. the camera was very vital as we used it to show behind the scene shots and then took all the photos that we would then look through for images and place them on our blogs.
That is another thing that was used, as it is where all of this is going, the blogs.
Mobile phones and email on the computer was used alot to communicate with actors that would potentially be acting in our trailer, also email was a way of communicating with our teacher to ask for permission to use the camera, or if we had any queries.
Production
The production section we used Premier, Photoshop, Word and Paint to edit all of the things that we had gathered into our final pieces.