Matthew Wright

Due to unforseen circumstances, one of our influential members of our group will unfortunately not be able to carry on with this course. This was a result from a complication that arose from a simple medical operation, that has unfortunately left Matthew Wright with paralysis of his left leg. He will be sorely missed, and we wish him all the best.

Get well soon Matt!

A delve into Garage Band

We believe that the music is highly important to bring out the tension that we want the audience to experience throughout the opening sequence of 30 days earlier. Yesterday I had a chance for my first quick look into Apples software, Garage Band.

Firstly, as a new comer to the world of Apple Macs, it was quite overwhelming and confusing to navigate throughout the interface of the software. After a quick tutorial by someone that has previously used Garage band before, I was well on my way into the basics. I shortly after found the software to be great! It supplies you with a wide variety of instruments, sounds and tools to play around with, such as:

• Bass
• Drum Kits
• Guitars
• Horns
• Mallets
• Organs
• Pianos and Keyboards
• Sound Effects
• Strings
• Synth Basics
• Synth Leads
• Synth Pads
• Synth Textures
• Woodwinds

Whilst playing around with the software and listening to all of the instruments and sounds provided, I had a rough idea with which instruments could bring out the tension for our production. All 4 Synth categories had some great options to bring out the creepy sounds that you would hear within a typical thriller production. These sounds could be the base of our sound throughout the production to give the audience a high level of tension as it brings a level of confusion and eeriness to their emotions.

As well as this, the software provided some great sound effects. This gave me a handful of ideas to incorporate real life sounds, to bring a sense of realism to the audience and an even higher sensation of tension throughout the opening sequence. I found a series of radio sounds under the category of sound effects, which gave me an idea to bring out a sense of familiarity to the audience's own life's with the protagonists life, due to the fact that we all listen to the radio during some part of our day, whether its via the car, kitchen or morning alarm. I will be looking more into Garage band shortly throughout the coming weeks, hopefully ill be able to create something for the production that will combine well with our recent filming.

Rough cut Questionaire for feedback

The questions above will be asked to a wide variety of people and we will be filming the response. The questions are of a wide range as we wanted to get as much feedback and suggestions as possible to make our film as appealing to the audience as possible.

'30 Days Earlier' - Rough cut

This is the rough cut of our title sequence. Unfortunately, we had problems with processing the intended monologue and our first draft of music. We have taken in all the feedback and our currently working on improving the sequence.

Posting schedule

We devised a posting schedule for all of us in the group, to even all the posts. Obviously, this isn't a full planfor all the posts and another schedule should be posted soon when we gathered more ideas. All together we have accumulated the 30 posts evenly to each other, with all the post having interesting information on our planning and production.

Ryan
Genre survey
Target, intended audiences
Shot list
Draft storyboard
Photo storyboard
Footage from London
Editing
Audience's feedback to rough cut
Typical thriller props
Evaluation

Matt
Actor survey
Title sequence characters
Sequence script
Ideas for credits
Possible costumes
Music
Rough cut
Typical thriller camera shots, angles
Evaluation

Jade
Suitable non-copyright music
Mise-en-scene survey
Possible locations
Possible props
Mood board
Casting
Typical thriller costumes
Typical thriller locations
Evaluation

Alex
About us
Music survey
Preliminary task
Title sequence narrative
Thriller conventions
Time management, shooting schedule
The shoot
Finished product
Evaluation

Preliminary task

This is our preliminary task. We chose a thriller genre for this task as we wanted to gain experience to what we can acheive on our main task. By having a thriller genre, we twisted the brief slightly by showing a character walk into a room whilst also having shots showing the room with a kidnapped character inside. This worked effectively as the unique idea we had created original connotations.

About us

MARJ Productions is the AS Level Media group that consists of: Matthew Wright, Alex Barham, Ryan Malster and Jade Smith. Our aim is to create an exciting, vibrant and original title sequence for a fictional film that will grip movie-goers. We commit to working hard to excel in our production and already took a large amount of research before starting our creative project.

Matthew Wright

Unfortunately Matthew has left the course due to unforseen medical circumstances.

Alex Barham

Creative and hardworking, Alex is an ideas person in the group who strives to make the group stand out with detailed work and a tendency to think outside of the box.

Ryan Malster

Skilled and experimental with a video camera, Ryan is the member who like Matthew, aims to correct any errors and makes sure everything in production sticks with the term thriller, so we can keep with the target audience and the intended narrative.

Jade Smith

Great with a video camera and hardworking, Jade delivers fresh ideas that beats the audience's expectations and communicates deeply with audiences to understand what the group needs to do in order to make the production perfect.