Finished Thriller

Preliminary Task

Evaluation Question 7: "Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learned from the progression from it to your product?"

Evaluation Question 6: "What have you learned about the technologies from the process of constructing your product?"

Evaluation Question 5: "How did you address/attract your audience?"

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Evaluation Question 4: "Who would be the audience for your media product?"

Evaluation Question 3: "What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?"

Evaluation Question 2: "How does your media product represent particular social groups?"

Evaluation Question 1: "In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?"

Audience Feedback

I asked four friends, two boys and two girls (17-18), their opinions of my final outcome by asking them to answer the following questions:

1- Discuss any positives and/or negatives of The Hypnotist. i.e. cinematography (any particular interesting shots), sound (diegetic i.e. on-screen, any speech etc or non-diegetic i.e. off-screen, sfx), mise-en-scene (i.e. costumes, acting, lighting etc)...

2- Did it resemble the opening of a film? If not, why?

3- Did The Hypnotist grasp your interest? If so, how? If not, why?

4- Did you want to carry on watching after the opening ended? If yes, explain why and how/if not, explain why.

5- Who would be the target audience of the film and why do you think this? Age, gender and class

Overall they said they enjoyed watching it and positive comments were mainly about the non-linear narrative and the frequent action which was achieved through editing. Sharon, who also commented on the rough cut, noticed improvements in the realism of the acting which was solved by re-filming scenes and precise editing. There were positive comments on some shots including the point of view shots of Angela Smith running away from Rupert which apparently added to the action. However some disagreed and said all of the erratic action made it look more like a trailer of a film instead. Some also picked up on a sound issue caused by the microphone in one of the shots of the hypnotist which does ruin it slightly. They didn't notice another fault which is during the actual hypnotism. Our first take on voice overs was through the use of the camera and a boom pole microphone- during the editing process we simply removed the film's track and kept the audio. But after we agreed that the quality wasn't so good because of the room we were in; it had caused some unwanted echoing. Therefore we decided to do the voice overs on the Mac which improved the sound quality however we had forgotten to remove one of the previous voice over tracks which caused a clash between that and a new voice over. It is noticeable for me because I know that it isn't supposed to be there but the viewers didn't seem to pick up on this. Chloe commented on how she had to concentrate, although this wasn't a negative comment I think it would have helped to have included a shot of the photo frame in a POV shot of the doctor at his desk perhaps rearranging or neatening things up. This would establish the 'key symbol' of the photograph before the action unfolds in order to make it clearer to the audience that the hypnotist is the villain.