Group Meeting--Tuesday 10th March

Our groups were finalised and we started organising our roles of which the outcome was that:

Ali will do the production schedual
Shadei will do the script
Daniel will do the treatment and pitch
Usman will do the storyboards

We also decided that we would complete our tasks by the 19th of March ready to film on the 20th of March

We finilased the idea and narrative for the film

Media Production

In the past two weeks we have been busy with the groups (including shadei, Daniel, Usman) togeather we planned what we would do for our prelimanary task which consisted of storyboards, scripts, shooting scheduals. The planning proved to be useful as on the 3rd of March we began filming in school. We were fortunate enough to be invite to the City Learning Centre (CLC) where we were taught to use editing software. The final edited film looked really good.

Thriller task

The media department announced to the media class that for our final film we will be doing a introduction to a film in the Thriller genre. As a preperation we studied the thriller genre.

We looked at an article from "Thrillers" by Martin Rubin which gave us a grater understanding of the genre. We found out that Thrillers can not be classed as genre by its self "The concept of thriller falls somewhere between a genre proper and a descriptive quality that is attached to other, more clearly defined genres- such as a spy thriller ,detective thriller, horror thriller. There is possibly no such thing as a pure, freestanding thriller thriller."


What makes an effective Thriller?
- As we mentioned Martin Rubin suggests that there is no such thing as a "Thriller". The "Thriller" is in fact a metagenre that "Gathers several other genres under its "unbrella"
-Thriller components work better wit some genres than others. it works well with spy; crime; horror but not well wit musicals o war films.
-in my own opinion an effective Thriller film should keep the audience in a state of suspense and uncertainty. we only know as much as the characters and always there are unanswered questions (narrative enigmas). Thrillers play with the mind of the audience.

We focused on British Social reality Dramas, from directors such as Shane Meadows film "A Room for Romeo Brass" which uses
-a unique font
-had credits on a black background
-soundtrack which sets a feel for the film
-volume is high on credits and in background when action occours
-merging of narrative and credts. credits used to break up action and involve audience more in the story waiting to see what happens next
-introduction to characters/storyline and a mini storyline started and completed
- clues about genre real-life movie elements of comedy/drama

British Social Reality Dramas

We viewed the introductions to films so that we can expand our imignation the first film we viewed was A Room for Romeo Brass directed by the Shane Meadows
The introduction to the film had:
Unique font
Credits on a black background
SoundTrack that sets a feel for the film
volume increases on credits and when action occurs
Merging of narrative and credits. Credits are used to break up action and involve audience more in the story waiting to see what happens next
Introduces us to the characters and storyline
Gives us clues on the genre, shows us that it has elements of comedy/drama
Uses local locations