Murder In Mind-Thriller Opening

Evaluation of our opening thriller

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

Our thriller is based around what a typical thriller should be like and we were able to do this by ensuring that we did research into typical 20th and 21st century thriller movies. We then used the different ideas from the movies and mixed and matched them, this was how our final piece came together. We used a variety of different soundtracks to highlight the mood in each shot and this was influenced by the way soundtracks change in each of the movies we looked into. The soundtracks we used are slow to highlight the shock, the nervousness of the characters in our thriller. Our thrillers scene paces are quite fast compared to the music which makes the audience more interested and at the end with the big gong, it shows the surprised face of the detective which is to our grow opens a new page into what else could come after the discovery.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our thriller we believe would be attractive to certificate 12, this is because the thriller would not be understood by those under 12 due to the huge twist in the story line and our thriller is aimed at an audience more lik

ely to go view our thriller. The story behind our thriller is about a murder detective with schizophrenia who later discovers that the latest victim had died because of him and this then leaves him on a trail to discover if that was the only victim he had attacked. 

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

The media institution who is more likely to distribute our groups work are those in the mainstream industry such as the VUE cinema,

this is because our idea is a mixture of previous movies which were big and these types of institutions had previously and currently show movies similar to the produ

ct we want to distribute. Our group decided on this method of awareness of our movie because it guarantees  a hug quantity of viewing of our movies plus profitability which will then enable us to do a sequence to our thriller. 

How did you attract/address your audience?

Our group aims to attract audiences to view our thriller by showing trailers before the launch , this will enable audiences to know roughly what our thriller is about and what they should be expecting. The trailer will show details of when our thriller

is going to be in the cinema's, the genre of our thriller and the actors/actresses featured in our thriller. Our thriller will be addressed to those from the ages of 12 and above because we believe that many teenagers see police as their enemies. This movie highlights just how normal the police force is and that even the police can suffer from illnesses. 

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

Our group was given the opportunity to work with professional equipments which top studio managers use such as the Apple Mac, which gave us the skills required to edit and add special effects onto our thriller. Due to the fact that two members of our group had previous experiences with a camcorder it made the recording of our thriller easier to shoot but we had difficulties because the camcorder we were given was more high tech than the ones we had previously used. Our group found it very exciting to be able to record our thriller with each of us getting the opportunity to use the equipment, this gave us knowledge and skills to finish our thriller. We used softwares such Pages,Soundtrack Pro,Motion,Live Type and Final Cut Pro which helped us to edit our thriller by adding soundtracks, special effect words.

Using these softwares has helped me

 and my group members to gain skills and knowledge about filming and editing, this will help all of us in the future, such as being able to analyse movies. This will help us to know how each scene in a movie fits in with what directors want and how each scene helps to create a reaction from audiences.

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

During the preliminary task each individual in our group learnt the different shots required to make our thriller a success and how each shots helped to get audiences interested in our thriller. We have learnt how different shots/scenes are important in ensuring that audiences are attracted to our thriller opening. We have learnt how different movie companies such as DreamWorks brings together different scenes to make blockbusting movies, we have learnt how important it is to put hard work into shooting and editing scenes. Movie companies such as Universal use the same technology we used to do our thriller such as the new Apple Mac with features such as Final Cut Pro and LiveType which we used when typing words into our thriller.

Audience Opening Thriller Review

We showed my opening sequence to over 20 other students amongst the people in our college and outside. we asked them to give us feedback on what they thought of our opening sequence. we was listening to things they liked about it and what they didn’t like about it.

We let a group of people watch it at once to make it easier for us to take notes. We noticed that through their facial expressions during the viewing that their certain things they found odd and some they liked. 

We mentioned two reviews from two students who gave their points of views on the opening 

Reviewer 1

“I thought the movie was okay. I didn’t really get it at first, I had to watch it a 2nd time to understand it because it moved so fast. The actions were well organized and it made sense to me. I also liked how the detective saw himself when he was searching for the murderer I was thinking to myself how did they do that.”

Reviewer 2

“The beginning told me the story of the film of how the detective was going to find the killer of a girl who was murdered. Then when I saw the dead body I got an uncomfortable feeling. It was the first picture you see and you’d look at it and gasp, just like i did. I also liked the way they made the detective see himself in the murderers body. I thought that was done really well. One last thing the title speaks for itself “Murder in Mind” the way the thunder and bong noise made it so thriller chilling.”