Audit of AS skills Using Conventions From Real Media Texts

Pre Production

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Production

For the production element of my film i used real thriller texts in order to create multiple presentations on the exact elements the opening title sequences of the thriller genre feature. I truly feel that using my media knowledge and passion for thriller films developed my skills which are visible in the footage from Ultimatum.

 

Post Production

My post production involved creating multiple directors commentary's on films and programmes that are real media texts that have truly inspired my creation of Ultimatum, denoting to my audience exactly what creates tension in terms of Camera, Editing, Sound and Mise-En-Scene. The clips below feature inspirations from top Thrillers such as Inception, Taken and Breaking Bad.

 

Furthermore, there are several conventions key when creating a media production that require a great deal of editing. For example, the editor always has to be able to make the audience instantly understand who the antagonist and protagonist are using various techniques such as the lighting there shown in or the pace of the cuts when they are in shot. There are also Thriller structures that I myself had to follow in order to produce our opening title sequence. The Narrative structure of a Thriller film follows the conventions of Equilibrium, New Equilibrium and return to Equilibrium where everything Is solved, climaxing in the middle. Another element in which digital technology played a huge part was matching the pace of our editing on Adobe Premiere Pro to match the convention of our opening title sequence. We held an interview with Michael Harrowes which is visible in another blog post which was extremely helpful, however we also used crossed cutting after we released the tension wasn't building enough for a truly thrilling audience experience.

 

For example placed below is the final cut of Ultimatum before we realised that our song was indeed not copyright free, causing our group to utilise multiple mixing and editing skills making sure the new copyright free songs were extremely fast flowing and provided an action match to the production.

 

 

Below is the cut with the copyright free songs in, the clip truly shows our skills of editing to quickly adapt to change and still produce a high quality piece.