Emily Grasby (2016) AS Foundation Portfolio

After creating a storyboard of our thriller opening, we had an idea as a group of what we wanted our location to look like. We took our idea and turned it into reality by finding a woods nearby, luckily the gloomy, dull weather/sky set the thriller scene perfectly! It turned out that the woods had a train track behind it, which even though it wasn't what we'd originally planned for, came into good use for our mise-en-scene. Another reason why this was a good location was due to the isolated atmosphere - even though this is a public location, no one was to be seen throughout the hour we spent here. What we liked about the setting is that between the train track and the woods is a wide path, which was perfect for us to walk and set our equipment up on. Both photo collages created using PicMonkey.

Hey guys! Although I've already created a 'Canva' poster on a different theory used to target audiences (Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs), I decided to use a designing site called 'PicMonkey' to display what I know about Blumler and Katz for you all. This is something we've briefly covered in a theory lesson before, but I wanted understand it better and creating this has helped me. Hopefully it can help you too! 

Welcome back, everyone! As sir once told us, it's important to view previous thriller openings by ex-students before making our own. So after viewing some, it's time for me to become the examiner in this blog post - instead of being the pupil.   The first one was shown to us by sir during a theory lesson... I'll begin with what I love about it - the voiceover of the antagonist. It really gives an eerie atmosphere to the thriller, and definitely, leaves the audience feeling uncomfortable (which we want). I also really like the camera flare effects, as well as the colour correction and the shaky transitions added post production throughout, which all scream out conventions of a thriller. However, my negative about this opening is that I don't believe the narrative had been made as clear as it could've been. I would still rate this a level 4 though, giving it 50 marks out of 60 (real examiner gave it 48).   The next one I'm going to 'examine' i...

Hey everyone, here's our storyboard that we created via the very helpful website StoryboardThat - I recommend you give them a try sometime. With the help of the storyboard, we now have a clearly idea of what our thriller will look like. 

When filming for our thriller, it's important we consider safety. Risk Assessment forms are vital to fill in before the production stage begins, fingers crossed nobody gets themselves injured!