Final Product - Seized

Here is the final version of 'Seized'

Facebook Feedback

print screen of seized on fb

This is a showing feedback from people on facebook and this is what Shehabur did.

Although Shehabur did this facebook audience feedback, I did ask some people if they would watch Seized and so they did. The audience feedback that they gave me was quite positive such as, some people said "I thought it was very good, quite creepy" and I did get some feedback that was not as positive which consisted of "I don't understand what this bit has to do with the film" and "Why has this been repeated twice". All the feedback that was given was taken into account and we did changed some of the film a little bit due to this comments which really helped.

Storyboard - Seized

This is the storyboard to "Seized" and this is showing what is happening in the film exactly. This storyboard shows what is going to be happening in the opening sequence in detail clearly and what is written next to the hand drawn images is shown clearly.

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

As I have said within question six, I have learnt how to use blogger, the macs and how to upload something to the macs. I feel that I have also learnt how to use more shots effectively because when making short films for the preliminary task I wasn’t making them as good and effective as I have made the final product. When making things within the preliminary task we didn’t make good use of props whereas working on the final product we have made use of a lot of props. Also I feel that I have progressed when thinking about ideas for opening sequences because when doing the preliminary task we didn’t really have that many ideas to contribute but when making the final product it was one whole big idea from ourselves. Looking back I remember do the 180 degree rule, match on action and shot/reverse shot which I think we have used some of these within Seized.

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

I feel that I have learnt about many technologies when going through the process of creating this media product, such as; blogger, how to upload footage to the macs and how to use the macs. I have been using blogger a lot throughout this process and at first I wasn’t too sure on how to use it, such as the labelling. I got familiar with using blogger and so this became very easy to use. Uploading footage from a camera to the macs was difficult at first because I didn’t know what I was doing at all. The more I filmed when making my media product the more I would upload and now it find this very easy t

o do. The macs were not that difficult to use at first but as I went along making this media product I got to use a few new things on them and this became very easy to use.

How did you attract/address your audience?

In this opening sequence we first see the glowing of a candle which then goes into the image of a victim, someone that this killer has a fixation on. We do not see the killer and so the audience cannot relate to this killer in any way because we do not know if he is young or old. The image of the girl looks innocent, this is shown by the way she looks; she looks just like any other teenage girl. This story is showing how someone is preying on their victim and this could be out of hate or out of love and this is something that can attract the audience because they can relate to this, the audience may know a time when they have not been able to stop thinking about someone because they hate them or they love them except within this opening sequence we show that the killer is going to far with this hate or love for this girl.

This is some audience feedback

Here you will see our voiceover for Seized

This is a voiceover for our original film 'Seized' until we changed it a bit.

Who would be the audience for your media product?

I think that the audience for my media product would be directed at people over the age of 18 years because I think that people of the age and over this age are mature enough and would understand the film more whereas some of the age of 12 years would probably be quite scared and frightened and not understand what is going on, also this sort of production should not be exposed to people of the age of 12 years as this could give them ideas. The genre of the film can also apply to people of the ages of 18 years because a lot of people seem to like films that have a twist and have a scary plotline.

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

I think that although our media product has a similar opening sequence to a high budget film such as Se7en, the film would most likely be distributed by a low budget production company, such as; a channel 4 production or a Coffee Films production company. I think that these sort of low budget film production companies would most likely distribute our media product is because we have not used the best of props and the casting is not well-known whereas in Warner Bros films have well-known actors and have the financial backing to produce films with stunts and have the timing right when filming. A low budget film such as our media production wouldn’t cost much for the props and for the opening scene a dark room can just be used and not a hired place.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Within a particular media product I do not think we have represented any social groups in particular because it does not really have any acting within it. We are only seeing close-ups of objects and photographs. We may have challenged one stereotype when creating our media product,such as; the psychotic killer always seems to be a male and the male is always stalking a female. We did not intentionally challenge this particular stereotype but found that the person playing the killer is a male and the personplaying thevictim is a female, a female that looks very innocent. Another stereotype that we did not intentionally challenge was the psychotic killer being within a dark room with tools and photographs of the victim, this particular stereotype has been shown by the location that we have chosen to film our media product.

Here are some victims from films:

Here are some psychotic killers from other movies:

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

Many things have influenced the decisions that have been made for our film, some of which are the film Se7en and also watching other thriller opening sequences so we could get ideas from them. My media product is verysimilar to the film Se7en as that is where most of the ideas for my media product came from although they are not exactly the same. Although my media product has been influenced by the thriller Se7en there has been developments and changes to ours, such as; we decided to used a particular victim and we are showing this victim through images in our opening sequence whereas in the filmSe7enthere is no particular victim shown to the audience. My media product is a very simple and easy way to show an opening sequence and is used within a lot of films and so that is why we thoughtthat it would be good to use this as it is original. I think that the media product is effective because once again it is original and used a lot and so works best within a film.

The Opening Sequence from Se7en

Props, Costumes & Location

Props

We decided to take an image of a tripod because we used this a lot when we were filming, this helped us to get all of the high angle shots that we needed when looking over the shoulder of the killer and looking down upon the objects.

We used these scissors within filming; these scissors were used when the killer was cutting up some of the images of the victim within the film.

These pins were used in the film when the killer was finding out where the victim lived, he then put a pin to know for future reference.

We used these within the film and decided to take a picture of them. These were used for the killer to make sure that all of the documents he had on the victim were all together.

This glue was used within the film so that the killer could stick down some of the images of the victim.

This cello tape was used to hold some of the images of the victim down.

This is an image that we took of a camera and decided to take this because without this we would not have been able to create our film at all.

Costumes

This is an image of what the victim will be wearing within the images that have been taken of her. We can see that from the light colors that the victim is very innocent and this is what we wanted to portray when choosing our costumes.

Shehabur will be wearing black clothing and because we won't see the whole of him within the film we will only be seeing the dark sleeves that he is wearing and his hands.

Location

Our location had to be very dark and so we chose to shoot some of our stuff inPDH and Shehabur also shot some stuff at his house in a room that was very dark. Here are some images of where we shot some of our stuff.

Sound

Shehabur decided to find the music as we did not have long to film our opening sequence and while he was finding the music me and Sophie were trying to make the titles.

Within our film all we hear is our music, we do not hear anything else at all because we thought it would be better to have our music just overlap any other sound. A site that was used to get this music that we have for our opening sequence is called free sound. Here is a link:

http://www.freesound.org/

http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=105044

Script

There is going to be no dialogue within the opening sequence but we thought that it was right that we made a script consisting of what noises the audience may hear within the opening sequence and also the music the audience will be hearing.

The music we will be using is an original piece of music and is being made by Alisha as we felt that if the piece of music was original then it wouldn’t be like other films.

The audience does not hear any dialogue or any other noises within the opening sequence and so there is not much more that I can talk about.

Pictures of the group in action

Titles

Titles

In this lesson we came up with the relevant titles that will appear on screen at the beginning of our opening sequence.

Name of Studio

Shemol Studio’s

Name of Production Company

Million Productions

Director Name

A Film by Donna Ellis

Starring

Donna Ellis

Featuring

Shehabur Rahman

Casting by

Sophie Hardy

Music composed by

Alisha Salas

Shot Lists

Initial Ideas

These were some of the ideas that got took down when we were working in our groups.

Donna.

Location Research - My Actual Setting

I took the above images of the location of where we will be filming, I did this to give people an insight of what our location would look like in the day time because when we will be filming using this location it will be starting to get dark. I took an image of the wall looking into the car park to show how big the location is on the outside and then I went into the car park and took some images of the trees and the river that flows through this to show that in the park it is bigger than as it appears on outside. I also took an image of a sign on the wall of morden park to show that these pictures are of the location that we have said we are filming at.