Thriller Opening - final product

Here is my thriller opening 'Dark Room'

Question 7

Question 7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression of it to full product?

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Question 5

Question 5: How did you attract/address your audience? 

Question 4

Question 4: Who would be the audience for your media product?

Maslow's hierarchy

Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a motivational theory containing a five tier model of human needs. The hierarchy can be divided into deficiency needs and growth needs. The deficiency needs are said to motivate people when they are not met.The longer the need is left, the stronger it will become. 

My media product links to a physiological feeling as well as the feeling of safety and security. In my thriller opening, the girl is locked in an unknown place and the audience do not know how long she had been down there. Therefore, this affects the girl's physiological state as she had no free will to look after herself, it is all in the hands of her kidnapper. Furthermore,  safety of the girl is challenged as the thriller opening shows the antagonist travelling towards where the girl is secretly locked up and so it is inferred that the person is going to hurt her, especially when the screen cuts to black as the door opens and there is a loud, non-diegetic scream at the end.

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Question 2

Question 1

Lighting technique

The lighting in any media video is very important as it creates a certain atmosphere that immediately impacts the audience. Lighting is effective in creating a mood, tone and foreshadowing what is about to come. For example, if a person is in a dark room with barely any light, we automatically think something scary, dark or grim is going to happen.

With my thriller opening, my partner and I decided in our meetings that we wanted to use minimal light as possible in the scenes when the protagonist is tied up. This is so we do not give away too much of her surroundings and therefore do not spoil the plot for what would be the rest of the movie. We used mostly natural light so that the scene looked more realistic and therefore could be relatable to the audience as they probably could envision themselves in the same situation.  The only non natural light that we used was a torch light in order to illuminate the face of the protagonist and show her expressions.




This dim lighting in this is similar to the one in my thriller opening as the lighting is mostly natural and you can still see the facial expression of the character. This sort of lighting causes suspense as it is quite dark and looks quite eerie. Similar to this, our thriller opening creates a feeling nervousness and anxiousness as you don't know what could happen next/

Editing

Editing: Final Cut Pro

To edit our Thriller opening 'Infliction' we used the editing software Final Cut Pro. This editing software enabled us to piece together the entire Thriller opening smoothly, add music and also add special effects. 

As seen in the screen shot above, we used Final Cut Pro to add in a sound effect that would act as incidental music to heighten tension. The 'stab' of music comes in when the shadowy figure walks past , creating an eerie feeling for the audience, Final Cut Pro enabled us to add the sound effect smoothly and not make it sound or look to broken up in pace. Initially, we were going to add some transitions in between shots but later decided that it negatively impacted the pace of the Thriller opening and took away from the realistic nature we were aiming for

Using Final Cut Pro, we layered the clips so that the transition from shot to shot ran smoothly. The layering, as shown in the screenshot above, helped us to move the clips about if we changed our minds about their position. This made editing much easier and it was simple to navigate and layering made the structure of our Thriller opening very clear.

Furthermore, using Final Cut Pro we added a sound effect of a creaking door to add suspense to our thriller. This also allowed us to give an example non-diegetic sound and it also projects the convention of mystery as the audience do not know where the creaking came from as it was not shown on camera.