final Product - AS Opening Sequence 'Premonition'

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

During the time between my preliminary task and the opening sequence i have just created, i have learnt a lot. Little things like match on action and eye line match have been made evident to me and we as a group thought about this carefully when filming to make sure they meet. Also continuity has been thought about a lot and to make our film look realistic we have thought about this. Like when we were in the forest filming, i kept on snapping random plants and tree branches, so when i did this we had to re-film in order to keep continuity. Also continuity was used when i was getting ready in the morning scene. as when buttering the toast, we did it wrong a few times, so i had to re-film it because it would look weird if i buttered it one way and it looked different. When filming for this task, i hada better idea about camera angles and differnt camera shots, so as a group we wer able to combine our thoughts and make the opening sequence as good as possible.

How did you attract/address your audience?

In our opening sequence, we address the audience immeditialey by making it look like i open my eyes and see the audience, then a split second cut attracts the audience, as it appears as if they are looking through my eyes and seeing exactly what i'm seeing. This attracts my audience immediatley as they can experience what my character is, and also try to picture themselves in that situation. We were also able to attract our audience as we used a young innocent looking character that they may be able to relate to. We also attracted our audience immediately as the use of very odd non diegetic sound interests the viewers as to why it has been used.

Who would be the audience for your media product

This would be the audience that my thriller opening is aimed at, as they are young aduls to adults and they will most probabably be able to relate to what is happening, also they would be roughly the same age as our main character, so the situations my character might get into may be similiar, or realistic, so they can relate. The opening sequence is quite confusing at a first glance also, as there is things like clocks in the woods, which could possibly interests young adults as they may like films they have to think about and guess what is going to happen. However, this isn't to say that older people wont enjoy it, as they may have experienced some of the feelings my character has in the opening sequence. Through the use of very up beat music for our opening sequence we hoped that we interested our young audience as they may listen to this kind of music themsleves. However, through the use of the non diegetic sound of the music box, could relate to many age of viewers as they may have had one as a child.

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

These 2 companies may distribute my opening sequence as these 2 companies have uploaded other films similiar to mine, with the same genre of a thriller. Having these 2 companies associated with my film will also add to the popularity of my film as these 2 are quite big well recognised companies.
Thrillers Spyglass have produced- The cabin in the woods, The tourist, The happening
Thrillers hollywood pictures have produced- The invisible, Sixth sense, shadow conspiracy.

How does your media product represent particular social groups

AS we only had one character in or opening sequenced, we spent a lot of time choosing suitable attire for our character in order to portray to the audience what type of person he is. We wanted to portray our main character Damien, played by me, to be a well off young, hard working and educated young man, about 21 years of age. To do this, we chose our character Damien to where a suit, whih represents his working class and to show that he is a typical hard working man. To show that Damien is a normal everyday kind of person, we show him doing normal activites in our opening sequence such as eating breakfast, going to the toilet and getting ready for work. All of these things we deliberately did in order to fuel the stereotype of a young working man. However, we did challenge the stereotype of men, as usually in films, we show the women in danger, and the men seem to be the heroes, however, in our opening sequence, we showed that Damien was in trouble.
I looked at the main charater of shutter island to help to understand the kind of role i was going to be playing. The reason i chose Teddy from shutter island is due to the fact that he was a well respected, well off citizen who seemed very normal and organised. He was dressed in very tide clothes such as suits throughout the film to portray that he was well off. However, during the film, we as the audience find out that he is very psychologically challenged and suffers from mental flashbacks and horrific, detailed dreams which was very relevant for our character, as our opening sequence was a dream sequence that out main character was trying to make sense of.

Here you can see where we have thought about lighting, as although the time scale of the dreams in both scenes are different, we still used the bright white light so that we could distinguish the similarity between them.

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

Our media product has been influence by the 2010 film Alice in Wonerland, as we chose to do our first setting in a forest with many confusing, yet spooky objects to add to the eerie effect we are giving to the audience. We chose to use many normal house hold objects as this would add to the confusion further, as the audience would be asking questions, as to why they are in the middle of these woods. Looking at the Alice in Wonderland pictures, we saw things such as clocks in the strange environments, and this gave us the idea of the clock.

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(Screenshot of clock part on our opening)

I think as a group we conveyed a very psychologically confusing opening as we used more common every day items, such as an umbrella in the woods, a dressing gown, and a small neatly wrapped present. Much like Alice's dress, we used the colour light blue as a theme running throughout or opening, as the dressing gown and the symbol that appeared was blue.