Media Evaluation

Chance opening

This is our opening sequence called Chance

Survey for Chance

Chelsea created a survey for the audience of our thriller too fill out to give us some feedback on the meaning we have created, whether people enjoyed it, whether they would want to see more and whether our opening sequence actually suited our target audience.

BEFORE you complete the survey; please watch out two minute opening, the link for our opening  is presented below;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqjgHebiQbA

Below is the link to the survey; 

https://chanceasmedia.typeform.com/to/uKwbAN

Final Sound

We got our final sound of a website that allows you to have the music for free so we don't copyright or buy anything, it is called freeplaymusic.com and allowed us to get a range of different types of music for our opening. We done different sounds and music for the different scenes but was carefull to not put that much different sound in there or this would look silly and childish. So we had music for me and Luke, the opening and the chelseas mum scene. The music is very eary throughout and allows you to get drawn into the opening as the music adds tension. For example when me and Luke see each other the kind of action music that comes with it draws you in as a audience more because you want to know what's going to happen next. All of our final sound got added on Monday.


This is freeplaymusic website.

My progress

I have made a lot of progress from the start of the year, my blogs have improved and i now know what to write on my blogs and i actually blog compared to the start of the year where as i didn't know what to write and also not doing it. I have done a lot of independent blogs about editing and lighting and what we should include for our film based on the different thriller openings like Final destination and Shutter island which has helped me and my group include different things in our film and what not to include. Also as we decided to go with black and white before we made the final decision to do this i done a blogpost and researched if it would be ideal for our film, then we decided to go for it. Without these blogposts we wouldn't be 100 percent about the decision. Also i did not know how to edit the film and wasn't sure about using adobe premiere but Priyanka taught me how to use adobe premiere which allowed me to edit the film while my group done other things. Me and priyanka have come in for 5 free periods a week to edit and film for our movie and Luke and chelsea have also been coming in frequently.

As a group i believe we have come very far because due to the continunity task wasn't as good as we hoped because as a group we weren't talking much to each other and just done our work. But we knew as a group we needed to come along to get the best grade possible and starting talking to each other more and started to come in the free periods. me and Priyanka are editing and re shooting everything that isn't 100 percent and chelsea is also editing. Luke is using his time to make the opening title sequence and chelsea is also helping him with this. We are coming along very good as a group and i believe we will meet the deadlines and get a good grade.

Lighting for our opening

The type of lighting we will go for  would be dim light and we will edit our movie to make it darker than it appears to get more of a thriller look and feel.

I have done research on thriller films and there lights like "Shutter island" and i noticed that throughout the film even though the lighting outside is normal sunlight they have edited it to make it seem darker than it is. This was very effective as it is one of the best thrillers rated and one that i have seen as i was not bored of it.

Changing the opening sequence to Black and White

We decided to change our opening sequence to black and white to help our production as, as a group we decided that it looks better for our sequence and it is very different from other groups as not many people are doing black and white so it is original.

There are a lot off famous black and white thrillers like the stranger, as it is an opening the audience will question about why it is black and white and i believe it will add a lot more tension for the audience if it is black and white as it looks plain and boring in colour.


A modern film using black and white would be Tabu which was done in 2012.

It was done by a famous director Miguel gomes who is mostly famous for the silent movies he has done, this movie is in the old days and therefore they done this in black and white and at the start it starts in full sound and then goes to silent. Black and white allows us to change our story completely as it looks different in colour compared to black and white. 

In the famous film kill bill the colour switches from black and white to colour, they used this to mainly get the film as a rated R due to so much gore they had to change the colour to not have that much blood. this is what they done in the old films to not scare our audience but in modern day with the gore films there is a lot more more gore in colour like Saw.

Colour films started to come in 1930 but it costed a lot of money for the production companies so they only realesed 1 or 2 every year. The black and white film era didn't end quickly and still now we have black and white films as they are cheaper and are very different from normal colour films we have today.

I believe our black and white decision will pay off for the group as it will get originality as our opening sequence and plot is very different from other groups which allows us more room to change and edit our sequence.