Our Final Media Piece - Preliminary Stages

We have now been set our final media piece to complete for a deadline of mid March. We have to create opening titles for our won movie, which have to be two minutes long, and no longer. My group which I have chosen to work with is Garry and I. We have a preliminary idea which we look to forward and develop on in the near future and we are currently in the process of making our storyboard, and then making it animatic. The development with ideas and set etc with the project is going well and we are happy.

We have decided to use the genre of Thriller/Mystery. We have chosen this genre because, I believe it is an interesting genre. Our target audience will be young people, as we believe this genre will fit the interests of the young people.

Garry and myself have researched famous films that have the same genre and idea as we do. I researched the film I Am Legend, this film is a mystery film throughout and I believed this was a very good film to base our storyline on. I found that the genre of mystery is fulfilled in the opening scenes, when the main character is driving around New York City, and the city is completely empty. I believe this is a mystery as it makes the viewer wonder what has happened.

We have now just not developed ideas on genre for our project but we have ideas for different editing ideas and camera angles, which we believe will be very beneficial to ensuring we get the full grades possible. We have used different camera angles, for instance at the end of the piece we hope to use a high angle shot which zooms out of thee area. Also we want to use panning shots, tilts and close-ups. Also we will use another vital camera shot to our project which is the point of view camera shot, this means that the audience will See exactly what the character in our film will see. This is effective because the audience can get the point of view of the character and see what he sees. This will be used quite regularly throughout the project.
We are hoping to use quite a few editing techniques, however, we will not include too many so we do not ruin the piece or overload it with editing techniques. We hope to use techniques such as changing eye colour, this will be used when people die in our film, this will be effective because it will distinguish the dead from the living. Another technique we will use is to zoom through a car window, this will be used to zoom in on the dead character in the car and will be effective becuase it gives the effect of going through glass. Lastly, we will use a zoom out at the end of the piece which goes from a close-up of the characters face, zooming out until you see the whole world. This will give the effect that he is the only person left on earth and I believe this will be extremely effective.

So far these are preliminary ideas but we feel that these ideas could be finalised to create a solid piece which will hopefully be interesting and worth watching for the audience.