Rough Cut - Miss Georgiou

It is important to get audience feedback when in the production stage as it is good to hear the audiences response and get their opinions of what the enjoy and prefer to see in a thriller film. We can then take the publics points and views and try to include them in our thriller so the audience enjoy it and suit their wants.

We carried out a number of ways to recieve audience feedback. One of these included my group and I coming up with 10 random questions about what the public prefer to see and have included in a thriller that they're about to watch. We then asked the questions to quite a few people, videoing there answers. When the production stage was complete, we started to edit our rough cut of our thriller sequence, we tried to include as much of the audiences feedback as possible. After this was completed, our group uploaded the video to youtube to see the audiences comments and feedback of what they liked and disliked about the sequence. This was done to get an outside perspective of our sequence, and what we have to make changes on to improve it and it also benifets our production as it should hopefully improve it and make it more successful.

Evaluation - Miss Georgiou

The brief of my thriller sequence is about a young, teenage girl who ha been having an online relationship with a man. She goes to meet him for the first time a few weeks after they had been speaking. However the location he gives the girl sends her in to the middle of the forest. This makes the girl Gemma feel vulnerable and abit scared. She begins to hear sounds and as she goes to ring her friend to come and pick her up, the antagonist appears, stabbing her to death. Gemmas friend begins to worry as she isn't speaking through the phone, her friend then comes to find Gemma but dosen't make it in time to save her.

My group members were Chloe Eustace and Elizabeth Lawrie, my role was the director, Chloe's role was the director of music and photography and Liz's role was the producer. My role as director I felt was the best idea as I  like to give my opinion on what i think is right and should be done. I enjoyed this as i felt i learnt different skills such as taking charge and become more of a team leader. It also gave me more ideas during filming on what needed to be changed and improved on. We felt it was most appropriate fore Chloe to be the director of music and photography as she has had experience in the past so really knows what she is talking about, such as using the equipment aswell. Liz was the producer as she is good as she was good at advising us on how she felt our sequence would be most successful, she was good at controling the production throughout.

I think that all round we worked well as a group as our different strengths and weaknesses made us calaborate and interact well. I feel as though our thriller sequence was successful as we tried to include as many conventions as possible. For example, one of the conventions we used was low-key lighting which occured towards the end as the antagonist begins to approach the victim, it becomes darker and darker to the point the antagonist can't see where she is going and if the antagonist is still behimd her. We felt using this as one of our conventions would create suspense for the audience as we feel sympathy for the victim, from where she is in a scared, vulnerable state. Another convention we used was having the camera positioned in P.O.V. This tells the audience that we are in the antagonists point of view as he is watching the victim, this builds tension as we as an audience wonder who and what the antagonist looks like.