Fatima khanum

EVALUATION

In our film sequence one of our main coventions is that we wanted to focus on our location as in horror films the location gives an insight of the films concept and plot.we achieved this by using similar locations that related to films that had a similar story line that was getting stalked where it was quite and calm like an alley way or a path way that is of the location. We managed to find that location around the college ground as it matched our desciption which was a quite road and near a foresty location on the way to another building. That was our major location we used as well as a house that we used that followed into the road and foresty atmosphere.

IN WHAT WAY DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT USE, DEVELOP OR CHALLENGE FORMS AND CONVENTIONS OF REAL MEDIA PRODUCTS?

We decided that our costumes would be very simple and casual for the girl that was the victim and who got attacked. She was mainly wearing black clothes and looked a little dressed up and that can assume she has been at some gathering with her friends as the audience don’t know who’s house she came out from the beginning. The dress sence already shows that the audience attraction is more for teenagers rather than children. Our secon costume was for the attacker that was disguised in a white mask and a long black coat as in most horror films the attacker is usually hid behind a mask and we followed the conventions of a masked murderer like strangers and the purge. We had the mask as it links with other horror films and has an effect on the audience to who this killer is.

In our film the sound effects was a main coventions as well as we wanted to portray what was happing into a sound track that fitted well with the events that took place. We was inspired by the soundtrack from sinister as it was very intensed as well as dark and creepy. We wanted to start of with a soundtrack that went through the beginning credits into the opening scene to keep the audienced tenced out till the attack happens. We didn’t want any dialouge in the opening scene as we wanted the audience to be more aware of what is about to take place rather than what the characters where saying as it builds more attention with the soundtrack behind it.

In our film sequence the location at the beginning was where the attack happened as the girl walked around that area and it was the main location for that scene. We wanted to use a location where it was quite and of the map to add a little bit more suspicious of what's about to take place. In most horror films the attacker usually attacks where there's less people and places that people would’t go. In the location we where able to do different shots and the main one in this genre was a long shot where it establishes the whereabouts and creates attention.

HOW DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT REPRESENT PARTICULAR SOCIAL GROUPS ?

In our horror film the footage only shows two leading characters that is the killer and the victim girl. The other two remaining characters are not seen on this as it was the friend house she left from and her mother who she was talking to during the attack.

Emma is a normal teenager girl who looks really happy from a gathering with her friends. This shows that she was just being a normal teenager having fun and who is happy and is just walking back home. The expression on her face shows a positive mood as it looks like she’s telling someone about her night.As she walks past the second character makes its first appearance by looking gloomy and creepy appearing near the frosty area. He had a mask on and that suggest the murderer wanted to be known anonymous. Also from the body language you can tell he's about to commit crime the way he's staring at Emma whilst she walks past.

When she was walking she start to get a gut feeling that’s someone's behind her so she looks back and know one is their. The expression on her face as she turns around shows how confused she was at this point as she felt someone was behind her but there appears to be know one their. The mobile shows some teenage behavior as she's propyl telling someone what's going onEmma continues to walk but a little faster the second character appears again and starts to follow her and at this point it’s all tenced as in what's going to happen next. The second character appears to walk a little faster to get to the girl as if he's in a rush.

Overall the film represents a social group of teenagers that are not from a certain background neither race or culture as we wanted our audience to take in account that we did it to be suitable and what is right. So we decided we wanted Emma to be an average teenager that is from a middle class family. Also we made sure that the storyline was understandable for teens as that was our main aim. The film was a way to show a recognizable thing that could happen if you decide to walk home on your own late-night in a isolated place. This usually occurs with teenagers as they would go home or on their own through the quickest way.

WHAT KIND OF MEDIA INSTITUTION MIGHT DISTRIBUTE YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT AND WHY ?

Our film would be distribute byBloomhouse production would distribute in our film because its been well known for its outstanding work in the genre horror. They have released films like sinister and the series of paranormal activity and insidious . Also some of the most watched films on box office.

Watching is a horror film and our distribute mainly releases that genre. The films in that genre are usually low budget same as ours. Therefore it wont have a huge publicity like major other companies. The company has also been really popular on box office with the series of paranormal activity and insidious. Also twisted pictures would link with our film and would be a good distribute as it focuses around horror and is well known for all the saw films but its better for slasher/grisly films as ours is more horror. We decided Bloomhouse would be the best superior as our film has been done in low budget as well as its more horror/ thriller than gore like the saw franchise.

WHO WOULD BE THE AUDIENCE FOR YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT ?

As we where planning our idea we thought it would be a good idea to be for an audience that are teenagers as there the most common age that go to cinema to watch films. Our film was a 15 certificate due to it been a horror genre. The age was decided not only for our media product but as well we have considered that we have responsibility to the society. The age we certified for our film was appropriate as the film consenpt/behavior matched with age that was certified with. Also the genre we have choose to do our piece with is more appealing to teens and ages 20 + but not being stereotypical most horror films usually uses young characters and that indicates it attracts more younger people as older people might find it to immature for them. Also most teens would use their money to go watch films whereas older people would spend money on things like clothes and bills.

Teen-horrors

Jug face2013

Jennifer's body2009

Scream1996

Looking at the horror films on the previous slide it shows that the genre of the film are not only popular in the past but they are popular now as well. The genre has grossed over 300,000,000 on box office around the world. From our research we knew that the audience was important so our style throughout the film was appropriate for a teen horror.

Primary audience

Our primary audience is for teens and students as we found out in our research that they are mostly interested in horrors as its good exitment.Also the characters used in our film relate to more of a teen audience.

Our main aim was to make our film appeal to both genders that are in theire teens and possibly older people if they where intrested as our second audience. However we didn’t do a questionair to know this information but we considerd to check on the internet what gender age likes the horror genre.. We found that there wasen’t much differnce between the gender as it depends on what mood there in and other variables at the time.in conclusion our audience appeal is for teenagers but can be for older people but depends on whether there intrested in our film and concept.

We insured are audience to be a group of people that are 15+ both male or a female. As this age they are still studying and in our films the roles we wanted was to be similar age as our audience . We filmed in the college premises and outside of it to relate to real life, so it could make the audience feel that its real and could relate to real crime and accidents.

HOW DID YOU ATTRACT/ADDRESS YOUR AUDIENCE ?

Camera Layoutone way we attracted our teen audience by was having a range of camera shots. We decided to have different shots like POV shots, establish shots and low angle to keep the audience exited and intrested.

This was an example of a pov shot from the killers pov as he disappears then reappears. This will have a great effect as it gives the chance for the audience to be in the killers perspective. This style of shot usually attracts the audience as it builds up excitement and starts to build up attention. Having a a range of camera shots gives the audience a varied perspective of the film.

Existing horrorsWe have looked at existing horrors to help us to know what sort of concept and costume and language you need to attract your audience. We then looked at previous horrors like the (nightmare on elm street 1984) and (scream 1996) from looking at past films it helped us and showed that teen horrors where popular back then. Also how they used masks to make the killer anonymous was very popular and we responded by adding a mask to our killer. Moreover how the killer would act very suspicious and stalky in the film and we interpreted that into our film. We realised we had to clearly think about dress scence and language to help our teen audience to understand and relate to it easily.

WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNT ABOUT TECHNOLOGIES FROM THE PROCESS OF CONSTRUCTING THE PRODUCT ?

Filming

I have learnt that using a camera and doing basic filming is fairly simple as we had practice from our previous task that was the preliminary task. The task helped us gain skills for our final film that we where going to produce. We also found it easy to use the tripod to get clear and stable shots.

Sound We first started of with experimenting on garage band to fill in sound effects in our film but we came to conclusion that the sound effects where not really working with the film. Then we decided to look at previous horror theme tunes and came across sinister and ended up using the soundtrack from there onto ours. Then we edited it on garage band as we didn’t want the full soundtrack but it was a little difficult when it came to transferring and inputting into final cut but we eventually managed it.

Editing Software

Using the editing software was fairly difficult as there was a range of options and editing need doing from the footage we managed to collect. This is because none in our group had any previous knowledge of using any editing programmed and this effected us by a loss of time to be editing and getting use to the the programmed. We mainly found adding extra filming into our timeline of our film as we had reedit and render it.

LOOKING BACK TO YOUR PRELIMINARY TASK, WHAT DO YOU FEEL THAT YOU HAVE LEARNT IN THE PROGRESSION FROM IT TO THE FULL PRODUCT ?

FilmingWe mainly found that we where very confident in using the camera beforehand and that helped us in our preliminary task and our final film. The equipment was easy to get to use to as people in the group had previous knowledge from other projects they have done. This made our skills gradually get even stronger for our final media product. I would see the filming was a lot easier for the prelimanary task as didn’t have a structured and well thought planning as we did for our final product which included a lot of edititing and reshooting with some scenes. Also it looked more professional and also had some newer and varies of camera shot.

Editing

Editing was similar but for our final product our skills where more superior on editing than our preliminary task as we where limited with what we could have done as we didn’t have much experience on garage band and final cut. I have learnt that it takes time to get used to with the new programme but once you know the editing skills its a lot more easier to cut, render and add sound effects to your footage.