Evaluation Question Two

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Evaluation Question One

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

Shot List of Final Cut

Fade in
Shot 1- long shot
Shot 2- dutch tilt shot
Shot 3- long shot
Shot 4- long shot
Shot 5- mid shot
Shot 6-extreme long shot
Shot 7- extreme long shot (Zoom in)
Fade out to in
Shot 8-mid shot
Shot 9- mid shot
Fade out to in
Shot 10- close up to extreme close up (credit) 
Shot 11- mid shot
Shot 12- close up
Shot 13- extreme close up
Shot 14- close up
Fade out to in
Shot 15- close up to extreme close up (credit)
Fade out to in
Shot 16, 17, 18- match on action
Shot 19- close up (low angle)
Shot 20- close up (high angle)
Shot 21- long shot to extreme long shot (Zoom out)
Shot 22- close up
Shot 23- extreme close up
Fade out to in
Shot 24, 25, 26- mid shot
Shot 27- over the shoulder
Shot 28- over the shoulder shot
Shot 29- close up shot
Shot 30- close up shot
Fade out to in
Shot 31- mid shot
Shot 32- mid/ close shot
fade out to in
Shot 33- close up to extreme close up (credit)
Fade out to in
Shot 34- close up (Zoom in)
Fade out to in
Shot 35- close up (Zoom out)
Fade out to in
Shot 36- close up to extreme close up (credit)
Fade out to in
Shot 37- long shot
Shot 38- point of view shot
Shot 39- extreme long shot/ point of view
Fade out to in

Final Cut of 'The Last Chapter'

This is our final cut of our opening thriller 'The Last Chapter'. We took the advise which we were given from our rough cut and have made some changes towards it, which we think has improved it.

We hope you enjoy it.

Discarded Loctions/Scenes

At first as shown in our animatic, we had a scene in the school library and also in the photocopier room. We ended up getting rid of both of these scenes and locations. Firstly, we took out the school library location as we felt like we didn't need it to be here. We felt like it would be too public for the serial killer. It would be unrealistic as the serial killer would not plan his murders in a public place when anyone could over look him and see what he was doing. We thought it would make people suspicious and would look unrealistic. However, we still wanted to see the serial killer planning the murders but we felt like Gabby's front room where we did film it in that location in the end was more promising, as it had a plain cream wall, with a large wooden table in the middle. We felt like this location was a lot more suitable compared to the library as it was private, the serial killer could do what he wanted without anyone knowing what he was planning. In the end we felt like this location was very effective because of the low lighting and gritty effect which we accomplished, in comparison to the bright, open, public library which would be hard to look effective.

We also took out the photocopier scene. We did film this and was going to put it into our opening thriller. However, when we did put it in to the draft it was far too long, and needed cutting down by at least 30 seconds, and the only way we could do it without making the narrative look unclear was to take out this scene. We felt like the narrative was clear enough without seeing the serial killer photocopying information due to the front room scene where he is searching through books for information and planning on how to kill the victims.

Improvements

After looking at the feedback, we have took on board the weaknesses of our thriller opening 'The Last Chapter'. We have looked at the weaknesses and have decided how we are going to improve our final cut.

Our weaknesses and how we are going to improve:

• The final scene where the victim is walking through the park. We have decided to improve this by filming the scene later on at night to make the audience feel more tension as the darkness equals a sense of mystery. The noisy background sound was also weakness on our rough cut, and to improve this we would either have to mute the sound out on our editing system 'imove' or redo the scene, and we have decided to redo it as we want to redo it at night. Also, people commented on our camera shots, movement and angles, they said that we could have used a fuller range of different one instead of just a long shot. We have decided to improve this by doing  long shot, point of view shot and also a high angle shot.
• The credits looked to still and unrealistic so we have decided to listen to our audience feedback and to re-film it by using a hand held camera, instead of it being a picture. 
• The scene where the serial killer is walking through the gate into the garden, we got a lot of comments saying this was a good match on action shot, however we filmed it on two different days which meant it went from night to day. By improving this it means that we have to re-film it so that it is all at night to make it realistic and seem natural.
• The final weakness which we had to improve was the music. Due to the music not being in time with the scenes, we will have to re look at it after we have filmed all of our scenes again and make it fit to the scenes so it makes it look realistic and so it creates tension. 

Rough Cut

This is our rough cut of our thriller opening 'The Last Chapter'.