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Question 2 Evaluation

Question 1 Evaluation

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

Evaluation Q7

Q7
Looking back at my preliminary film a lot of skills have developed over this period of time and is shown in our film. My preliminary movie was a pretty simplistic film which involved only 2 scenes.
Our film during the pre-production stage involved a lot of research as shown in our blogs. This meant that i had to pick out key bits of information when looking through different informative sites. Due to these research tasks i feel as if my ability to pick out relevant and important bits of information related to the the task set. Another skill i also improved on was be able to plan an idea which we were going to make reality properly in order to know what was going to be achieved and for me this was one of the best skills gained from this piece of work. Organisation was key and helped our team to stay on track. Although organisation was not perfect through out the course it has definitely improved significantly and has helped us to gain a respectable piece of work. Working on a story build allowed me to build a set image and goal of what i wanted to the end the product to be and this was pretty much achieved for the space and time we had set.

Technology wise my camera skills have improved massively. I am now able to film a piece of work once without having any problems and capturing a smooth focused clear shoot. I have learnt about different camera rules such as the 180 degrees rule which is if 2 people are having a conversation on camera that it should be filmed from one side and should remain within 180 degrees on that side. This rule is very useful and although wasn't used in our film it was a still helpful to know. In our preliminary film this was 180 degrees was used and worked successfully. However one of the things that didn't go to plan was camera placement as some of the characters were not fully in the shot. In our final film we made sure that this problem did not occur and that all the shots we used were of a good enough quality.

Editing skills were key for this project and definitely played a big part in the production of our film and simple parts like putting titles into our film became tricky. This was one of the key factors that played a big role when it came to editing as we needed to find some sort of way of integrating our titles into our sequence. W e used a program called after effects which is and adobe based program which allows you to create different effects on not just videos but texts to like our movie titles. After affects was tricky to use but after a while i started to get the hang of it and completed what needed to be done on it. A skill i learnt in after affects is integrating titles into a a moving scene making them look like they were apart of it. Another program that played a big part in this production was definitely adobe premier pro which is were most of the film was put together from shots to sounds. I first used this program on the preliminary task which was decent as some scenes could have had a

better transition. I feel as if the final piece was a step up from a the task before and have gained ability of putting together clips and syncing them to sounds. In order to have done this successfully i had to slow down certain clips ad speed theme up. I also came across a stabilizing effect which gave a cool look to one of our running scenes making it look a bit more

Evaluation Q2

Q2

Our character represents a normal person who lives an everyday life. We tried to represent this as much as possible by keeping the character simple and through clothing. 

In our opening scene social groups aren't represented which is breaking the normal convention of a horror movie as most horror movies general involve Teen college students or some sort of family being troubled. However our film does represent the normal horror stereotype of a young women however we break the stereotypical convention of her being a young blonde white girl that is seen as innocent pretty and not particularly smart at making tough decisions on the spot. Our main character is asian with brown hair and this is completely different to the norm of an horror however this was just due to availability and we kept the general gist of the characteristics of a normal horror film such as a vulnerable female victim. The killer in the film is masked male which is pretty much a normal stereotype. This is similar to the movie Friday 13th where there is a masked
killer who is trying to kill someone. Our masked character is represented in a mysterious but negative way as we don't actually see a lot of him but we see enough to know which allows the audience to see that he is the villain. We chose to represent this character in this way to make our audience curious about this character and to lure them into the rest of the movie.

Evaluation Q4

Q4
An audience can be defined as a group of people who participate ,via viewing or through interaction,
in a piece of work but have no part in production.

This is different from a an audience as a target audience can be defined as an audience that the product is intended to attract and is aimed at.
Most horror films are generally aimed at 18-25 as this is age group are most popular for going to the cinema. A lot of horror movies also intend and purposely include certain aspects and characters in their movie in order to attract a certain type of audience for example, most horror movies use a young female blonde character who is attractive in order to attract males of a young age. The wider target audience for these types of films are generally people old enough to watch the movie from about 15-40. Statistics also show that a great number of the wider the audience is over 25 males and this may again be due to certain aspects and elements most horror films include.
Our group has identified our target audience which ranges between 15-24 as we found out through researching that this particular age range attend the cinema the most. Not only was this useful and relevant to our genre we have chosen to do but it allowed us to be less restricted and create a scene which appealed to this age group.