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Pre-Production Production Post-

Production
We began by studying the actual genre of a thriller and The research and planning which we did Post-Production included editing and
Research viewed some texts of that genre and sub-genres with
it. This included films such as ‘One Hour Photo’ and
for our production was the shot list and
screenplay etc. This was a key part of
sound which we had already planned
in our research and planning stage.
‘Phonebooth’. We then studied conventions of a thriller our production as it co-ordinated what For example, in our shot list we had
and such as the events of the narrative, but also the

characters and this allowed us to make a decision
was being done and when. already stated the length of the shot
and the transition therefore editing was
towards our opening. easily done because it was already
Planning We also decided to focus on a film-noir genre at this

stage so we focused our time on researching this kind
planned.
of style including lighting and voiceovers.
Our focus in creativity for the opening sequence was to Creativity was used in production as we Our creativity during post production
Creativity base our work around the style of film-noir. This was
more of an original idea in comparison to thriller of the
spontaneously decided to change our
shots according to the cameras quality
was mainly to do with the our sound as
we made it from nothing but also
current time period. and to make the narrative clearer because we had not planned it in an
Our characters were against the level of creativity as through a technical point of view. For earlier stage but only had a vague idea
they were conventional with the genre of a thriller. example, we changed a shot of both of what to do.
The genre of a romantic thriller was not a popular one characters into a single shot of them This was done well according to our
each other to convey the loneliness feedback of the final work therefore
amongst the common one but was effective towards
our target audience. between them as they are no longer this stage of creativity was successful.
together.
The digital technology we took advantage of during this Digital technology at this stage included Digital technology was widely used in
Digital stage was blogger and the internet as a whole to gain

research into the genre and background of film noir in
the camera equipment and also the flip
cameras as they were used for our
this point of the project because we
used a wide variety of programs for
order for us to work with that and create our own video logs and as they were connected different tasks. For example we used
Technology narrative using the convention we learnt from research

in our work.
via an internal usb, it was the perfect
design for a quick and easy upload to
the internet to post our final work
through YOUTUBE. We editing our
youtube. work together on iMovie. And created
the sound on garage band and then
imported it through iTunes and into
iMovie.
Similar tests we studied were phonebooth and one- Similar texts of this thriller genre mixed While the editing stage, we used
Similar hour-photo along with independent research into the

background. Things such as filmnoir styles top films
with film noir styles such as Max Payne
would be able to convey their noir style
iMovie to take advantage of effects
which would ultimately complete our
e.g. Double Indemnity and compared it with a modern better as they have better software and work to enable the audience through
Texts noir style film which would be Max Payne. equipment but we do feel as if this was
a good representation of darkness and
the use of codes to convey the
convention. For example, in our final
sadness through the work using lighting work the falshback is saturated to
techniques and a noir style therefore convey the flashback and appeal to a
making it easily representative of this happier audience in comparsion to the
genre. dark noir style audience.
Our shots changed from pre-productions plan and shot The main appeal we had during this The appeal we had during post-

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PRODUCTION REFLECTION GRID

ONE PARAGRAPH PER BOX, WITH DETAILED EXAMPLES

Pre-Production Production Post-

and such as the events of the narrative, but also the

Planning We also decided to focus on a film-noir genre at this

of style including lighting and voiceovers.

Digital stage was blogger and the internet as a whole to gain

Technology narrative using the convention we learnt from research

Similar hour-photo along with independent research into the

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