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The below posts contain: My thriller film opening as well as a poster and social media tools used to promote the thriller film opening as well as planning and other details about the construction stages with a variety of images and presentational tools to present this.


Elliot Hogan-Keogh 9106

Claremont Fan Court School: 64680

OCR AS Media Studies

April 2014

Brief:

To create a film opening of a chosen genre (Thriller).

FINISHED THRILLER FILM OPENING - AN EYE FOR DANGER

FACEBOOK: AN EYE FOR DANGER

CONSTRUCTION: SOUND EDITING

We recorded a voice over of a news reader reporting prejudice against immigrants as a result of sensationalist coverage of rising crime figures. We have made particular meanings clear through our sound and vision editing:

• The word crime occurs at the same moment as Olez, the Ukrainian immigrant, picks up his fish filleting knife. This links the idea of crime to Olez's thoughts. 
• The audience's understanding that Olez is an immigrant is reinforced by the slow tilt pan upwards towards his face occurring as the news reader talks about the plight of immigrants.
• Olez dreams about his chances with "a nice girl" like his coworker has. His dreams are conveyed through our vision editing technique of the opacity tool combined with slow mo. The words of the Public Affairs Officer for the Migrant Rights Network ("all they want is to find a nice girl and settle down with a good job") occur at the same time. 

CONSTRUCTION: SOUNDTRACK VOICEOVER

We developed the back story today through the creation of a news report that drew attention to negative press coverage of immigrant workers. We had noticed sensational news articles where immigrants are depicted as criminals or as depleting essential services. One example is the sensational reports that immigrant mothers were draining the health service budget in hospitals. Others included sensational statistics about immigrant crime. 

Our central character Oles is represented as a Ukrainian immigrant with a job in the service industry. Negative news reports inevitably make him uncomfortable socially and have an impact on how successful he can be when he tries to meet girls. Compared to his younger colleague who works with him on the fish counter, he doesn't stand a chance. Insecurity and jealousy mount.

Today we wrote the script for the voice over spoken by the news reader and the public affairs officer of the Migrant Rights Network

NEW TECHNOLOGIES - NEW HIVE

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TWITTER PAGE FOR 'AN EYE FOR DANGER'

I created the Twitter page for our thriller film 'An Eye for Danger'. I used our poster as the picture for our twitter page to make it recognisable, whilst using the username 'AnEyeForDanger' so that it is an easily findable account for those who want to follow us and keep on track with our latest news and information on the film. I wrote a short biography, simply explaining who we are, and why we are producing this thriller film. The biography also contains the date of release so that the audiences are aware of when they can expect to see the final product. As soon as our website, and Facebook page is completed there will also be a link from the twitter directly to these in order for the public to be able to keep in close range with everything we do with the film opening.

I already have tweeted three times to try and create a 'hype' with the film and begin our social media marketing. I've encouraged the public to use #'s associating with the film in which I made up, so that trends begin to form, and this attracts more attention as more and more people being to #. The public will want to # because of what you potentially get in return for doing so...as an enticer I tweeted 'Use the hashtag #aneyeforprizes to be entered into our latest competition' and also #eyeforfeed which encourages people to give us feedback on what they think of our work so far.

Click here to be taken too 'An Eye for Dangers' twitter page and join in the fun too!