7. Looking back at your preliminary task what do you feel you have learned in the progression from it to the product?

6. What have you learned about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

5. How did you attract/address your audience?

4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

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1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and convection's of real media products?

Finished Thriller Opening

Screening

This is my finished media product and I showed it to a few people. I have shown to to a couple of my friends who are not in my media studies class during our free periods on the school computers. They said it was alright since it was my first serious piece of work. However, they did say that in the thriller opening I could've added a longer chase scene. I have also shown this to my dad and one of my younger brothers. My dad enjoyed it it, but my brother thought it was a bit inadequate and the acting could've been better.

Audience Feedback

I showed a few class mates my thriller product and they said that it was good even though the acting was not perfect. The feedback that I got from my brother was that the acting could've been slightly better.

I made a survey on SurveyMonkey and asked a few members of the class to answer the three questions. I got feedback from two members of the class and they said that we could've added a more intense chase scene and made it slightly longer so that there was more action. 

Designing/Making: A Title Sequence

In our group we included a title sequence in our media product. The title sequence was the last thing we did to our thriller. We tried to make it as professional as possible by including different names, roles and making the names appear on different sides of the screen.

Editing 1

This is our first editing draft and in this we decided to make our studio ident and import some more footage of our thriller opening. We also asked a few people to watch the edited piece of work and they told us on how we can improve. Since our thriller opening lasted 1 minute Azimul and I discussed on how we could film more footage to make it longer.

Chase scene
We have added some more footage to the chase scene and other shots of my character from the beginning leading to the chase scene. We have added different types of shots, but the next time that we go to shoot some more footage we are thinking of including more shots so that it can be more fast pace. 

The end
We have added some footage for our ending, even though it was shorter than we had planned it to be. Azimul and I decided that we were going to extend the ending a bit so that the audience can understand what is going on. 

Treatment

Treatment

Group Roles Cinematography: *Jack Mise-en-scene: James, *Sam, Azimul  Sound: *Destiny Editing: James, Azimul

Title: THE EXCHANGE  Tag Line:  Wrong place, wrong time!

Synopsis: The story line of the film is a teen (Sam) walking through the park on his way home. He is just minding his own business, but seems to find himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. Unfortunately he sees a drop off for some drugs around the corner and he starts to feel uncomfortable as he is been stared at. The dealer (Azimul) then indicates the thug (James) to get the bystander in order to keep the information concealed.

Key Genre Conventions: Thriller Drama

* Sam, Destiny and Jack helped us to make our thriller opening. 

First Draft/Evaluation

This is our draft of our film. As you can see it is not entirely finished yet, but we wanted to show it to an audience to get some feedback on how it was looking so far. Two of our audience members felt that they didn't quite understand how the first character and the two characters with the bag were connected. one person thought the scene with the two characters was meant to be a flashback!

Chase sequence
We are going to film some more footage of me chasing Sam at the end of the sequence.

Cross cutting
we are going to shoot some more footage on my way to meet the "boss" so we can cross cut between me walking and Sam walking so that the audience can understand that they are approaching the same place.

The end 
We decided to change the ending and now I'm going to die in an accident and we'll have Sam live so that it the audience know that he has to get away because the "boss" is after him. 

The Exchange: Shooting Schedule

Day	Scene	Location	Equipment	Costumes	Props	Cast +Crew
15/01/2015	Walking scene Deal scene	Central park car park, Footpath	Camera, Boom, Tripod	Sam: white shirt, tie, smart black trousers, black shoes, smart hooded jacket James: grey track bottoms, grey track hoodie, trainers Dealer: grey suit, smart shoes	Sam: mobile phone, earphones, backpack James: sports bag, small items crossover bag	Everyone
22/01/2015	Deal scene Chase scene	Central Park car park, Footpath	Camera, Boom, Tripod	Sam: white shirt, tie, smart black trousers, black shoes, smart hooded jacket James: grey track bottoms, grey track hoodie, trainers Dealer: grey suit, smart shoes	Sam: mobile phone, backpack James: sports bag, small items crossover bag Dealer: small bag of drugs	Everyone
04/02/2015	Chase scene	Footpath	Camera, Boom, Tripod, Monopod	Sam: white shirt, tie, smart black trousers, black shoes, smart hooded jacket James: grey track bottoms, grey track hoodie, trainers	Sam: backpack, money James: small items crossover bag	Everyone

The Exchange: Risk Assessment

Group Members: Azimul and James                              Location: Central Park, Dagenham

Hazard	Person(s) at Risk	Likelihood of Hazard 1 – Extremely Unlikely 5 – Extremely Likely	Severity of Hazard Outcomes 1 – Very Low Risk 5 – Very High Risk	Risk Level (Likelihood + Severity) 2	Measures to Take to Manage Risk	Risk Managed? Y/N
Slipping/Tripping onto the ground when running.	James and Sam	2	2	2	Be careful where we run and to make sure that we watch out for any litter that may trip us up.
Lying on sharp objects	Sam	1	3	1	To make sure that we check the ground before Sam acts tripping.
Unfriendly intruders	Anyone	1	3	1	To not bother anyone and make sure that all the equipment is kept safe.
Plants (e.g: thorns, nettles,ferns)	Anyone	2	1	1	To make sure that we check where we are walking and stay on the path as much as possible.

Contacts

Emergency Service: 111           
Robert Clack School: 020 8270 4222
Other Contacts: N/A

The Exchange: Costumes and Props

Character Name: Sam	Role: Old teen
Costume:  White shirt with black tie Smart black trousers Smart black shoes Smart hooded jacket	Props: Mobile phone Earphones Backpack Money
Character Name: James	Role: Thug
Costume: Grey track bottoms Grey track hoodie Trainers	Props: Sports bag - containing money Small items crossover bag
Character Name: Aziman	Role: Dealer
Costume: Shirt and tie Grey suit Smart black shoes	Props: Small bag of drugs

1st Day of Filming

On the first day of filming we recorded a lot of scenes and different types of shots. We managed to film all of Sams scenes and most of the drug deal scene. 

We had to retake a couple of shots because we either forgot what we had to do or we forgot the lines that we had to say. We also had to re-shoot some parts just so that when we had come back to edit the footage we would have a variety to choose from. 

One of the main reasons we didn't get as much footage on the first day is because we were trying to pick the best place to film. This didn't take up too much time, but because we were filming around 02:30pm we were interrupted a few times by parents walking by to go pick up their children from school. 

We ended it earlier than we had planned to because the wind was too much and we were all starting to get really cold. Before everyone had packed up all of the filming equipment we all planned and agreed when our next filming day was going to be so that we could finish shooting the rest of our thriller opening.

Designing/Making: Ident

This is the ident that my group decided to make. Azimul wanted to have a background picture of a clock or time. This was because he wanted to give anyone watching the film the idea that we spent a lot of time producing and editing it. We eventually came across this picture and decided to name ourselves "CITYTIME STUDIOS".

3rd Production Meeting

In our 3rd production meeting we imported all the footage that we had previously filmed and made a short 40 second video from it. After doing this we then discussed where we were going to film additional scenes and how we were going to film them.

Reviewing our first draft we noticed that we had to re-shoot some shots that we previously recorded because we were not happy with the outcome. So we planned when our next shooting session would be.     

Animatic

This a quick animatic of "The Exchange" that Azimul and I have made. It is a rough piece of work showing all of our shots that we have drawn.  

Location Sheet

This is the location that we will be filming our thriller opening. We chose this location because we think that we can include all the shots and chase scenes without any trouble.