Monday, 4 April 2011
Friday, 1 April 2011
question 7 of the evaluation questions
7 - Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
Looking back at the preliminary I have learnt a few things and these are:
- Different shots to make the character or the shot more effective and/or powerful, this has been useful for me as now makes the authority of the character easier to recognise, other things that this technique used are that you can see the emotion more on the film
- How to change the speed of the shot, this has been useful as in the preliminary task there was a lot of time that wasn’t necessary and with being able to change the speed we could make the audience take more attention to the important parts of the film
- How to add effects to the film, this has been useful as the effects have made the transformation of one frame into another frame better quality and makes the film smoothly run from start to the end
- How to make the sound better, this has been useful as we found that out that the camera easily picks up on surrounding sounds so we tried to do the film in quieter area’s and also in the edge of the seat moments in the film we managed to get sounds that would make the scene more emotional
question 6 of evaluation question
6 - What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
The new technologies that I have learned is how to:
- Use a digital camera to film
- How to use Mac’s (I players)
- Upload to YouTube
- Use blogger
- Outlook webmail
Using these technologies I have learned:
- How to use an i-player to add effects and transitions to the film for example how to add black and white to the shot, this has been good as it has improved the standard of the film and is more likely to draw the attention of the audience
- How to use a digital camera I have learned to zoom in and out, rewind the tape and also how to record
- Uploading onto YouTube I have learnt that you can upload quickly and easily
- How to use blogger I have learnt how to import pictures and video’s to my own blog which has made it more interesting and also made it easier to understand
We have used outlook webmail we already knew how to use it be it has been important in the making of the film as we have been needing to send each other important documents
question 5 of evaluation questions
5 - How did you attract/address your audience?
We attracted our audience using a few techniques these were:
- We used places that teenagers of the age of 16-17 like to hang around for example parks or in our film we used the weir field
- Also we used the fact that our audiences hobbies are hanging around with their friends so we included this
- We used things that happen in everyday life as a teenager for example worrying about parents and relationships breaking up
We found this out by constructing questionnaires and interviews with our target audience
question 3 of evaluation question
3 - What kind of media institution might describe your media product?
Define ‘film distribution’
Film distribution is defined as “the process through which a movie is made available to watch for an audience. This task may be accomplished in a variety of ways; for example, with a theatrical release, a home entertainment release (in which the movie is made available on DVD-video or Blu-Ray disc) or a TV broadcast” By http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_distribution
What is the difference between how British/Hollywood films are distributed?
| Hollywood | Britain |
| Independent individual cinema’s mainly show Hollywood films | Films only showed in Britain |
| International films: films are shown with a wider audience | Not got a wide audience |
| More money so companies can advertiser by using billboards, T.V. adverts etc… | All the different processes are done under smaller companies |
| Done all under one company |
Where does yours fit in?
Our film would fit in as category A as it is produced using British money and a British cast.
We would hope to go down the road of Shane meadows where his films started off as low budget and now is being funded by Universal films, but in reality we would show our film in the London art house or at a film festival.
Films that could fund us would be:
· Warp
· Working title
· Optimum releasing
· Dog woof
· The Works
question 2 of the evaluation questions
2 - How does your media product represent particular social groups?
The characters featured in my Horror film are based on average teenage stereotypes. The characters aren’t particularly rebellious, which shows that they aren’t placed on the negative side of the average teenage stereotype, which would go out at night and get drunk, and vandalise property etc. However, the characters, apart from Bethan, aren’t really situated on the positive side of the teenage stereotype either, which would stay at home doing work all day, not go out much, and would tend to stay out of the way of people. The stereotype that we have created is in between of these two stereotypes, although Bethan tends to move towards the positive teenager stereotype, as she does not have many friends and tends to stay at home a lot doing college work. The clothing that our characters wear also represents their stereotype. Our characters wear average teenage clothing such as shorts, jeans, t-shirts, “hoodies” and trainers. These items of clothing convey the stereotype of teenagers, and these items of clothing aren’t particularly expensive, which is perfect for a teenager as they do not have much money, due to them not having jobs. The way the characters talk also suggest that they are teenagers. For example, in our script, the way that Alex says “Umm yea, sure...” suggests that he is a teenagers, as other more mature people would most likely not speak like this.
Friday, 25 March 2011
question 1 of evaluation questions
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
What are the forms and conventions of a horror film?
The forms and conventions of a horror films are:
· Blood
· A weapon of some sort
· Darkness
· Killings
· Mysterious happenings
· A protagonist
· A good looking female
· Abandoned houses
· Screaming
· Body parts
· Psychopaths
· Creepy noises
· Masks
· Creepy voices
· Storms
What real (horror) products did you study/deconstruct?
We studied two films that we thought were similar to our story these were Sorority row and Friday 13th, we thought these were similar to our films as Sorority row is about a bunch of teenagers who get picked of one by one and so do our film. While Friday 13th has one main killer who has been bullied during the early years of his life which causes him to go on a riot killing people who venture into his land, also the protagonists don’t know how to kill the killer.
How have you referred to that/those films visually/used a line or dialogue from the film(s) - used the visual style (Blair witch)?
In our film we don’t really use any actions that have been used in any existing horror films.
Have you developed the style/characterisation in any way?
Our characters
· Bethan is a quiet, respectful and hard working girl. She does well at college and is always kind to the people that she meets. However, because of her kindness, she tends to get bullied quite a lot by other people at her college because of the fact that she is so kind and quiet, and will not retaliate in any way. She sees Alex as the only person she can trust and talk to, and she feels that he is the only one that is there for her. This is why it comes as a huge disappointed when she catches Alex and Sarah together, which eventually causes her to end her own life due to the fact that she has nobody to talk to. Sarah also wears average clothing such as dresses, skirts, jeans, T-Shirts etc. Bethan is being played by Rachel Kerry as she tends to keep herself to herself, a lot like Bethan, which will make acting easier. Bethan’s goals in the film are to stay with Alex, as he is the only person she can talk to when she’s upset. However, when she finds Alex cheating on her, all she wants to do is get revenge on those who had made her life terrible.
· Alex is a rather outgoing person, and can be quite cocky. He is going out with Bethan in the film, but then cheats on her with Sarah, and ends up dying at the end of the film. He wears average clothing such as Jeans, and a T-Shirt. He has rather short black hair, and has an eyebrow piercing in his left eyebrow. He is a bit of a player and will go from girl to girl without a care. His attitudes towards girls is kind and friendly, but he doesn’t like being with just one girl for a long period of time, which leads to his downfall in the film. Alex is being played by Alex Dickinson, as he is tends to keep his feelings to himself, so it will be easy for him to act as a person who has a secret in the film. Alex’s goals in the film are to staying with Bethan whilst meeting up with Sarah in secret. But when Bethan comes back from the dead, his only goal is to survive.
· Ben doesn’t play a very large part in the film until the end. However, he is the leader of a large gang of people and his main goals are to make his gang laugh by any means possible. Ben is the one who insults Bethan the most. Ben is being played by Liam Chamberlain, as he is quite strong which is how we have pictures Ben. After Bethan comes back from the dead, Ben’s only goal is the survive.
· Sarah is in many ways opposite to Bethan. She is very attractive and is a big flirt with all of the men at her college. She goes to the same college as Alex, and therefore that is how they met. Due to the fact that they are both very outgoing and will switch from one partner to another they are a perfect match for each other. Sarah tends to wear jeans and skirts a lot of the time, and also wears vest tops a lot. She loves toying around with the men at college to see how they react, and in this sense is quite mean. We are not sure who is going to play Sarah yet. Sarah’s goals in the film are to get with Alex, firstly because she likes him, and secondly because she wants to annoy Bethan. However, when Bethan comes back from the dead, Sarah’s goal is also to survive.
Have you subverted or changed it? How?
We have subverted our film by having a female killer, and by having the audience feel sorry for Bethan who is the killer and side with her so it will be sort of like the audience is wanting the characters to die
Wednesday, 9 February 2011
Friday, 4 February 2011
Textual analysis of similar texts
Textual analysis and similar texts
Hannibal 2001
- Lighting and colour.
- Dark
- Red
- Misty
- Mise en scene
- Formal dressing of Hannibal
- Woods
- Camera
- Low angle
- Close up
- Extreme close up
- Editing
- Straight cuts
- Fade out
- Point of view shot
- Reaction shot
- Over the shoulder shot
- Sound
- Non digetic piano
- Dialogue
- Doors closing
Textual analysis of similar text
The grudge has opening sequence:
- Lighting and colour
- Dark mainly black
- Uses a lot blood
- Mise en scene
- Long, black hair so you can’t see the face
- Red writing at start to highlight the scary words
- Camera
- High shot
- Mid shot
- Editing
- Point of view shot
- Shot/reverse shot
- Mid shot
- Extreme close up
- Sound
- Slow piano non digetic
- Body hitting ground
Textual analysis of similar texts
Textual analysis of similar texts. The sandman 1992 is a cartoon and we analysed it like this by seeing how it created suspense and fear:
- Lighting and colour
- Dark
- Not a lot of light of natural light apart from moonlight in the bed room
- Fire colours red and orange connote warm and safety but then has to go to bed and ascend so dark staircase
- Mise en scene
- Poor housing
- Wooden staircase (creaks)
- Mice and mother break in tension
- Camera
- Tilt
- Graphic match (monster matches with moon)
- Close ups (essential in horror films as it shows emotion)
- Reaction shots
- Bird’s eye view
- Mid shot
- Editing
- Straight cut
- Sound runs parallel with editing
- Pan down
- Sound
- Suspense created when the sound gets quicker
- Ticking
- Drum as the child hits the drum
- Creaking
- Non digetic piano
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