Q6-Evaluation

From this experience we have learnt how to use various media technologies, for instance we have learnt how to use the camcorder appropriately. We have learnt how to change the settings for example how to adjust brightness levels. We also learnt how to take various different shots on the cam corder, from medium angle shot to good quality establishing shots.

As you can see this establishing shot is very clear and looks very clean. It has just the right amount of darkness/lightness within the picture perfect for a outdoor scene in a horror movie, during the prelim to take a establishing shot as clear as this one here would have been very difficult because we did not know how to use the camcorder also we did not have much practise beforehand.

Using the digital cameras, we were able create a lot of different shots and capture a lot of emotions. For example, an close up angle would be showing how frighten and scared how character was at the time.  A median shot, of the scene would show how erie it really was, and how our character found it hard 'to escape'. 

     

This was an annotation of our film and we used a software programme called Canasta which helps us annotate on a timeline clearly each part of the film. This was very good in helping us outline where we did something good and something that wasn't good. 

Thank You

Blogging has had its ups and downs but it going through our journey of filming and producing our very own media product has been amazing. Thank you for following our blog. See ya!

Q5-Evaluation

How did you attract//address your audience?

From our research tasks and analysing our favourite title sequences we came to a conclusion that our film opening appealed to our target audience by 

Its style/ look of the title credits:

Firstly, the style of title sequence was very simple this was because our title sequences was a horror genre, this has more of a serious touch to it. However if we played around with the look of it too much, we would've made it look animated, then the touch of a scary movie would be gone, and the whole purpose of our movie would be lost.

Mise-en-scene:

Our mise-en-scene is very appealing to our target audience this is because of the stereotypes behind horror genres. 

The setting was a forest, consist of a lot of greenery and wood-like surroundings. These all contribute to the idea of a scary atmosphere and the horror factor. 

The camera angles used were a range this also appealed to our target audience as it is showing a range views from different perspectives. Such as birds eye view, over the shoulder, medium shot, establishing shot.

Actors/Actresses:

Our actors/actresses most definitely appealed to our target audience. This is because our target audience people aged 16-21 and the wider audience being 16-5 year olds. The characters used were a real representation of the normality of our audience. It shows the everyday life styles, the dangers, it allows them to become the character emphasis with the our film even more. Almost feel every emotion, making the movie a little bit more realistic. 

Storyline:

Our storyline appeals to our target audience very much so, as it is showing the everyday life of a girl whose life has rapidly just changed,  and our target audience are young teens so once in there lifetime something has happened and changed them, either for the good or bad. 

Sound track: 

Our soundtrack is very appealing to our audience as it goes well with our clips shown on the screen at the time. The sound track was very fitting to the horror genre as it includes all the conventions needed to create a scary emotion to the audience. 

The role of the rough cut feedback:

The rough cut was very important in helping us make sure we got the most important things included in our title sequences, for example make sure we actually have the title credits put in place. It was very clear and evident to see that as a group we were slacking with our editing sessions as we really were just focusing on the blogging part and needed to invest more time in the edit to make sure everything made sense. As in the rough cut it was clear to see that the shots were not in order which therefore made our film look cheap and unorganised. 

looking back at what we had for the rough cut we had time to reflect  about the fact that the shots we had were they conforming to our stereotypes where they what we wanted, where they most importantly conventions of a horror movie. It was also clear that our film had many necessary

Q4-Evaluation

'Who would be the audience for your media products?'

 

 

 

The term audience mean the assembled spectators or listeners at a public event such as a play, film, concert, or meeting

 

The term target audience is used to describe a particular group at which a product such as a film or advertisement is aimed at.

 

Through our research we came to a conclusion that our wider target audience would be 16-35 year olds. This is because in the BFI statistics that was the wider audience whom still watched horror movies, and we would want them to have an interest in our film. Also from our target audience research we have also found that its between that age range of people who watch horror as their favourite genre.

 

We came to this conclusion of target audience being 16-21year olds and wider target audience being 16-35 year olds, through our survey monkey surveys. We handed out the surveys to a bunch of people all different ages, sex, class and ethnicity. And looking at the result is was clear that people in the age range of 16-21 enjoy watching horror movies, closely followed by 21-35 year olds. As a group we really wanted to do a horror movie as, as we thought it would be much more fun and challenging.

 

 

An example of a horror movie with a similar target audience to us is

'Cabin in the woods' aimed at young people

Nightmare on elm street again aimed at young people

 

 

 

 

 

 

Q3-Evaluation

'What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?'

We decided to use the idea of Lionsgate and choose a distributor called Brain damages, as it is everything that lionsgate, however it is a lot cheaper. 

Q2- evaluation

'How does your media product represent particular social groups?'

Firstly representation in media, is the way the media re-presents individuals, groups, events and issues.

In our title sequence the social group we are trying to represent is young people. With that being said to be more specific people aged 16-21. The reason why we decided to represent these individuals is because we as media directors can empathise with them as we are in the same age group. Also from our research we came to conclusion, young people are placed at the heart of being the main characters in horror movies. This is mainly because of their vulnerability and innocence.

For example the horror movie 'Cabin the woods' main characters were a bunch of university friends. Another example is the original movie Scream, a bunch of high schoolers were targeted.

Our social class is working class female/male aged 16-21. The reason behind this social class is our idea of your typical young person is portrayed in this title sequence. Someone who is ordinary, some one who does the same thing you and I do on a day to day basis. As a group we thought that if that was portrayed in the movie then our target audience who are in the age range can relate.

Our representation is positive and negative. As the reasons why young people are targeted for horror movies are because of the fact that their not an adult yet. So in a way, this is exposing the vulnerability which young people can face in society. However it could be a good thing as because its a common theme in horror movies, and we have decided to conform to it many people would enjoy it.

 In a typical horror movie the main character would  be a young, white, blonde women in her early teens, however we broke the stereotypes a little bit and decided to have a young female with brown hair, who is asian.

With the villain we decided to conform to the stereotypes of having a young, black, male with tall and strong built.

Q7- Evaluation

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel have learnt in the progression from it to the full production?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Evaluation- Q1

In what ways does your media product use develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? 

Our final product is a horror genre. In order for our film sell to our audience we realised that we had to conform to the stereotypes of our chosen genre which is Horror. We came to a realisation that, all horror films in their title sequences have elements which make it much easier for the audience to realise that it is a horror movie. In a horror movie the emotion of which the characters should feel is tension, scared and distraught. This is exactly what our movie provided.

Firstly, conventions of a horror genre include:

• flashback, this is images/scenes of what events that have already have already occurred. It is used to either to show how these 'events' haunt our characters or play as a reminder to our audience. 
• Chase, is most commonly used in horror movies. Its a chase between the character and the 'villain'. This creates suspension and more of eerie atmosphere.
• planning of/establishing shot, is used to introduce the a new scene. It shows the audience the settings of each scene.
• Narrations, the telling of a story. (voice-over)
• Action scene's are typically shown in horror movies. Consisting of a lot of movement and changing of the scenes.
• Mise-en-scene, this is what is in that particular scene. Props//makeup//angels//
• Soundtrack in a horror movie is very important. As it creates the scary, horror movie whilst watching it. These could consist of a heart beating, running, screams etc.

In our horror movie, we conformed to a lot of horror conventions. For example, we included a chase scene, between our main character and her attacker. We decided to use a chase scene because we wanted our audience to know what exactly our character was running away from. Also adding a chase scene creates more of a suspense. We took this idea from our prelim activity we did at the start of the course. Our one was about Se7en. Se7en had lots of small snippets and lots of chase scene which whilst we were watching thought created a suspenseful atmosphere. We also included lots of flashbacks, as these illustrate how our actress ended up escaping. In our mise en scene, we made sure to conform to all of stereotypes of a horror movie. Examples, dark room, blood, blindfolded, tied up, knife and scary objects. We knew that if anyone was watching our film they would instantly be able to tell its a horror movie. So its easily recognisable. Also when we added our credits we made sure that it was written in a white font, to illustrate the seriousness and scariness of this film.

Here are a screenshots of some of the conventions we conformed too:

This is a establishing shot

Another establishing shot



Another establishing shot

This is our dangerous weapons used to hurt our character. This angle is a medium angle which clearly shows what equipment used to harm the actress.

Pools of blood ,illustrating someone is seriously hurt.

Ass you can see here is our attacker, the camera angle is showing the bottom half to illustrate the anonymity of who could this be and their reason behind this attack.

Middle of a chase.
This is a shot taken from behind, this looks like as if the audience are running with our actress, going along with the action and chase.

Here are the shots from the se7en title sequence we took ideas from:

A close up of objects/weapons used

Weapons used

Props used to kill//hurt someone

This here was the soundtrack we used in our video, this was the main tune for the whole of the film. However we did have other sounds.

Here is a print screen of all the different sounds we used in our video. These sounds are all stereotypical in a horror movie, which create a dark, gloomy, scary atmosphere.

Our media product 'escaping' conforms to the conventions of real horror movies as we thought as a group our target audience 16-35 year olds would want to watch something that is easily recognisable. However, with that being said we didn't want to be boring and do the same old thing. We thought that instead of having long, studious shots why not have a quick, fast snap shots and have these repeated a couple of times. This way the shots would match the tempo of our soundtrack. Making it even more visual and entertaining for our audience.

Draft production schedule (planning)

1st week	Scenes to film in college
FRIDAY	Teenage girl in the abandoned room
	Villain tying to harm main character
	Take different type of shots of main character and the scene (close up, extreme close up) also different shots of the props.
TUESDAY	Blogging, uploading evidence of filming (pictures)

2nd  week	Scenes to film outside of college (Hackney)
FRIDAY	The escaping scenes, the scene of the main character running away from the villain into the woods (take pictures of filming to use as evidence)
	Take different type of shots of main character and the scene (close up, extreme close up) also different shots of the props.
TUESDAY	Blogging and catching up on missed blog posts, uploading evidence of filming (pictures)

Sound design Task 29 (planning)

                                                                       SOUND 1

                                                                      SOUND 2

SOUND 3

SOUND 4

SOUND 5

Target Audience Task 26 (planning)

This is one of our target audience research.

We have interviewed someone who fits in our target audience sector and that is 16-24, and wider target audience is 24-45.

Editing Task 48

In today's lesson its the 19th and we decided to get some feedback on our work from our teacher Dan.
We came to a conclusion that some of the scenes we we captured looked a bit cheap and we could improve it by re-filming, and holding the camera still.

Task 44 Final Production Schedule (Planning)

Production Schedule

Date	Time	Footage	Crew	Location
03/12/2015	20 minutes	Girls (Saima’s character) has been kidnapped. Various weapons and bloodstained props.	Saima Omari Erykah Rizwana	City and Islington 6th Form (Dark Room 333)
04/12/2015	25 minutes	The young girl’s reaction and facial expressions.	Saima Rizwana Erykah	CandI 6th Form (Dark Room 333)
06/12/2015	15 minutes	Girl running away. Scary figure appearing (Omari’s character).	Omari Rizwana Saima	Hackney Springfield Park
08/12/2015	10 minutes	The scenery of the park- bushes, shrubs trees etc.	Omari Rizwana Saima Erykah	Owens Field Park
16/12/2015	10 minutes	Close up shot of blood dripping. Close up shot of moving chair	Omari Rizwana Saima Erykah	CandI 6th Form (Dark Room 333)
05/01/2016	20 minutes	The girl’s (Saima’s character) facial expressions. Various extreme close up shots of her features.	Erykah Saima	Candi 6th Form (Dark Room)
08/01/2016	10 minutes	Various bloodstained weapons and materials.	Erykah Rizwana Omari	Candi 6th Form (Dark Room)