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

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product

Who would be the audience for your media and how did you attract them?

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

How does your media project represent particular social groups?

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

Final Cut

This is our final cut, we are happy with the outcome and we hope that you enjoy.

Discarded ideas

After showing our rough cut, we decided on a whole new look for our opening:

Discarded Scenes:

We removed the suicide scene after re-filming we realized that the new footage who be more appropriate for the narrative than that scene so we decided to remove it from the beginning but it would most likely be present during the end of the film.

Discarded Prop:

Because the suicide scene was removed, the prop of the pills was not need anymore.

Discarded Locations:

As mentioned in our settings we changed the stalker scene from being set on a kitchen table to being in a dim, gloomy garage.

Discarded Costumes:

The outfit for the girl was no longer needed. 

Filming schedule

Our first filming was on the 21st February at 6pm- this was because it would be dark and that way we could use  artificial lights to create an unnatural feel to the suicide scene.

We filmed our credit scene on the 23rd February after school- the time was not of importance as we were filming inside.

For both of these dates due to conflicting schedules I had to film one whilst Mabel had to film the other. It did cause a slight problem but it was easily reconciled.  

We are going have to re-film due to the feed back on our rough cut and hopefully this will take place on 22nd April.   

Audience feedback on our rough cut

We held a small viewing of our rough cut to a few of our As media studies peers, we asked for unstructured feedback as although asking them questions on what they thought would work we wanted to see if they could pick up on anything else.

Monica: She mentioned that the use of the prop- the collage- in our opening credits was very effective fitted in with the genre we are trying to create. Although she said that the lighting could be a little bright as sometimes you struggle to see the names of the cast and production team.

Estefano: He liked the contrast of the everyday life clips with the suicide scene, especially the contrast of the light and dark.

Mrs Bingham: She liked our use of different camera shots and movement during our credits although she agreed with Monica that they were much too dark and it would aid our project if we re-filmed them.

We have taken all of the comments on board and are going to make changes in our project to better it.

Costume ideas.

The main costume is the stalkers. The outfit consisting of a black hoodie and bottoms as well as well as black gloves. The purpose was the keep the identity and gender of the stalker secret so that the film is able to progress with many different twists with the identity of the stalker.

Rough Cut

This is the rough cut for our thriller. There are minor alterations we have agreed to change, such as;

• The soundtrack. We are planning on having the music fade out towards the end of our credits as we believe this will be more effective to what may follow. 
• Secondly the order of the two main scenes may be changed around to give our thriller more of an opening instead of jumping straight into the credits.
•  After viewing the opening we both agreed that the scenes of flashbacks would be more suited during our credit scene, rather than the suicide scene to give an insight of how much the protagonists life has changed. 
• Also we may be adding a few more joyful scenes to contrast with the story line.
• We also need to added the name of our thriller as well as our production company.

Although we want to make these changes we also will be holding a viewing of the rough cut to a small audience where we will be taking feedback on what they think is positive and negative about it. After that we will be able to edit our thriller based on the feedback and our own thoughts to make it a much better opening.

Soundtrack

We created our soundtrack via garage band. We created our sounds from scratch, cutting and adding different sounds until we believed the sound was suitable for the clips. Originally we chose strings as they added an eerie feel to the film, and a sense of mystery, and also added 'dogma' which was more of a harsh sound. The 2 together complimented each other however felt the sound was too old fashioned and didn't fit in with the modern version of our final cut, and wasn't as harsh as we expected.

  Finally we decided on 'pulsing sweep' to begin with at the start of the film, add we decided the shot being silent didn't work as well. We then bought in a modern bass guitar sound as it was low and ominous and much more modern.

Settings

Initially we set our villain admiring the shrine in a house at a large kitchen table, however we agreed the lighting was too bright and the scene could be more creepy. So we then changed it to a rather large garage, as the light was better to work with and it added to the genre and mysterious sense of an unknown stalker. We chose a garage as it is more secluded and hidden away and the villain is less likely to be caught there.

Production company

We decided to go with the production company, New Line Cinema as they are a very successful with thriller films. They have produced thriller films such as the psychological thrillers The butterfly effect and The number 23. Our film is also a psychological thriller so we hope that through the use of this production company we hope our film will be as successful.