PRODUCTION REFLECTION GRID
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Pre-Production Production Post-Production
We posted a questionnaire onto survey monkey.com and We organized locations to film at, made We wanted to get some feedback on our
Research then posted an AD onto Gumtree.com which allowed sure the media room was free on days that production so other Media students, viewed
many other people to access our questionnaire and for we needed to film specific scenes such as our work and then we video recorded them
and us to get back lots of feedback of what they would like to
see in a thriller, what would interest them and also what
the white room and we made a schedule
so we could organize and plan when to film
assessing it and telling us what the strengths
and weaknesses were.
Planning they wouldn’t like to see. certain shots/scenes and still have
sufficient time to edit.
Initially we started out writing down different ideas and During production we continued to conduct When we received feed back from the
Creativity thought about a stalker type thriller, but then thought that research into what we would like to include audience, one of the things they said about
that’s a popular choice, so tried to think of genre that in the thriller. Such as blood, a straight the creativity was that the way we edited
people wouldn’t necessarily choose. We started off with jacket and a white back drop, which would could have been confusing, but by showing
ideas of a zombie, and then the ideas developed into a give more of an effect on the audience as the end and then the story leading up to it
psychological/supernatural thriller. they would easily be able to establish that with flashbacks in between, it was easy to
the actor is in a mental room. Regarding see what the plot was. Also another aspect
editing we wanted the shots to be less than that helped the audience to see what was
a second long and very fact. We also the present and the past in the thriller was
showed the end of the thriller at the the editing in which changed the ‘past; shots
beginning and then showing the story into black and white and kept the present
leading up to it. shots as colour.
Regarding Camera work we wanted to use a variety of During production, to save errors occurring We got feedback on our production as a
Digital different shots which would keep the audience interested when we came to editing we made sure we whole and one of the less successful
in what they are watching. However we had to make a filmed a variety of different camera angles aspects which was mentioned was that two
Technology decision to not have too many different styles of shots
next to each other, as this would give the effect of too
of each shot. This allowed us to reduce the
risk of having to go back to the specific
of the shots didn’t match up, the 180 degree
rule had been broken. However the use of
much going on at once. We also looked online on past location and re film, which would waste different camera angles and shots had the
students work to get an idea of what genre they chose valuable editing time. desired effect of keeping the audiences
and what effect it had on us as the audience watching it. attention.
A film called Memento is one which is similar to our During production when we shot the white Regarding out thriller we did something
Similar thriller ‘ The Silence’ as it starts from the end and then room scene, this was also similar to a film different as you don’t often see the
works its way from the beginning to the end. In our thriller called ‘ Jennifer's Body’ in which a girl is psychological genre mixed with the
Texts we showed the end at the beginning and then the shots
changed to show the story leading up to the end.
locked away in a mental hospital and the
room in the film is similar to the one in our
supernatural in a thriller. Its usually one or
the other. This choice of genre worked to
thriller. pour advantage as it was something different
so drew the audience in.
We were coming up with a lot of different ideas. We Suring production we did make changes The decision to have no dialogue had its
Post decided that we didn’t want to make a thriller that went such as putting the end of the thriller at the positive effects and negative effects. When
down the typical route of stalker thriller. beginning and then showing the story collecting feedback from the audience they
Production leading up to the end. We also made the
decision to have no dialogue.
said a negative effect of no dialogue was
that it was sometimes unclear what was
going on in the plot. However a positive was
that the sound we composed was enough to
draw the audience in and dialogue was not
needed to establish the storyline.
