'Who would be the audience for your media product?'
When we first started looking at ideas for our final piece we compared our ideas to films like 'The Blaire Witch Project' and 'Shrooms' where both sets of characters are in their teens, and obviously as we had teenagers in our group we decided to target our film at teenagers and young adults between the ages of 16 and 25 so our Certificate rating would be 15 or possibly 18.We also understood that most of the audience would be male as scenes of blood and gore may discourage female attendance.
With a certificate 18 advertising would be tricky, billboards could still be used but the image shown would have to be universally appropriate, the same principle stands for TV advertising where the trailer would not be aloud to be to horrific and would have to be shown after the watershed at 9pm.
Friday, 30 April 2010
Thursday, 29 April 2010
Evaluation - Question 3
'What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?'
As our film is a horror film there are some restrictions which obviously we have to address, as some scenes may be inappropriate for young children so if we were to use a TV advert it would have to be later in the evening, past 9 o clock.
Alternativly we could use the website www.horrorfilmmag.com as it had a nice layout - in the center you have a video player that automatically plays up and coming film trailers and to the left of that player you have a blog entry link, where you can see whats been said in reviews and on the forum.
We could also use billboards for advertising as time and time again you drive along and see a 20 ft tall sky movies advert, but it does invite you to take a gander into it, showing that it must pay off!
In the modern age a film can also be distributed through social networking sights, if a user of facebook,bebo, twitter or myspace went a whole day without seeing an ad for a film it would be a miracle. So obviously this will attract a young audience.
We had discussed in class and had agreed that if the product was to be released it would be around Halloween time and would be released in cinema then DVD and then hopefully sold to sky movies or another channel.
Always aim high so we decided that companies like 20th Century Fox or Paramount would be the best to aim for as they have released horror films before and they are global trademark's for good films and will instantly draw interest.
As our film is a horror film there are some restrictions which obviously we have to address, as some scenes may be inappropriate for young children so if we were to use a TV advert it would have to be later in the evening, past 9 o clock.
Alternativly we could use the website www.horrorfilmmag.com as it had a nice layout - in the center you have a video player that automatically plays up and coming film trailers and to the left of that player you have a blog entry link, where you can see whats been said in reviews and on the forum.
We could also use billboards for advertising as time and time again you drive along and see a 20 ft tall sky movies advert, but it does invite you to take a gander into it, showing that it must pay off!
In the modern age a film can also be distributed through social networking sights, if a user of facebook,bebo, twitter or myspace went a whole day without seeing an ad for a film it would be a miracle. So obviously this will attract a young audience.
We had discussed in class and had agreed that if the product was to be released it would be around Halloween time and would be released in cinema then DVD and then hopefully sold to sky movies or another channel.
Always aim high so we decided that companies like 20th Century Fox or Paramount would be the best to aim for as they have released horror films before and they are global trademark's for good films and will instantly draw interest.
Evaluation - Question 2
'How does your media product represent particular social groups?'
The 'Particular social group' in our film would have to be teenagers and as every generation should be able to accept is that the majority of sterotypes for teenagers are negative. For example this extract is from an article titled 'God Damned Young People Are Poisoning Their Minds With To Much Information': It’s one of the reasons that young people are all stupid as Hell. They’re overloading their tiny noggins with an unhealthy mix of conflicting opinions, warped ideologies, asinine lolcats and uncensored citizen news. It’s amazing their damned heads aren’t exploding left and right. I admit i don't understand several of two of those terms but i know myself when I'm being insulted or patronized. Obviously someone had to publish this and had to select what to print which curves the ideologies of readers.
Aside from this extreme example other common stereotypes include Dumb Blondes, Over make-up'ed girls and loud masculine behavior from all male teens.
We did conform to several stereotypes in our film.
Dulcie was picked as our 'running girl' and played the role well portraying fear and panic well which conforms to the ideology of girls being weaker than men and having to be rescued by the male 'hero'.
Sexuality was again use for the decision of the Killer, if we had used a female actor we could challenge the dominant ideology as it is rare that you get a strong female lead in a film, a film which focuses just around females. However we decided to go with the Conformative male role as the killer which was played by myself for my physique - wide and tall which is stereotypically an intimidating build. For example Arnold Schwarzenegger in the Terminator films.
For example Arnold Schwarzenegger in the Terminator films.
This segment is from a Bbc news report about hoodies, 'Hooded tops have come to be viewed by some as a symbol of social disorder. ' which shows the fact hoodies have become a symbol, not just an item of clothing. We challenge this wrong doing by having Dulcie, the role in trouble and being supposedly chased by the killer, in a hoodie. I feel strongly in the matter of teenage prejudice so i was happy we could include a hoodie for at this rate robin hood will be censored in five years.
The 'Particular social group' in our film would have to be teenagers and as every generation should be able to accept is that the majority of sterotypes for teenagers are negative. For example this extract is from an article titled 'God Damned Young People Are Poisoning Their Minds With To Much Information': It’s one of the reasons that young people are all stupid as Hell. They’re overloading their tiny noggins with an unhealthy mix of conflicting opinions, warped ideologies, asinine lolcats and uncensored citizen news. It’s amazing their damned heads aren’t exploding left and right. I admit i don't understand several of two of those terms but i know myself when I'm being insulted or patronized. Obviously someone had to publish this and had to select what to print which curves the ideologies of readers.
Aside from this extreme example other common stereotypes include Dumb Blondes, Over make-up'ed girls and loud masculine behavior from all male teens.
We did conform to several stereotypes in our film.
Dulcie was picked as our 'running girl' and played the role well portraying fear and panic well which conforms to the ideology of girls being weaker than men and having to be rescued by the male 'hero'.
Sexuality was again use for the decision of the Killer, if we had used a female actor we could challenge the dominant ideology as it is rare that you get a strong female lead in a film, a film which focuses just around females. However we decided to go with the Conformative male role as the killer which was played by myself for my physique - wide and tall which is stereotypically an intimidating build. For example Arnold Schwarzenegger in the Terminator films.
For example Arnold Schwarzenegger in the Terminator films.This segment is from a Bbc news report about hoodies, 'Hooded tops have come to be viewed by some as a symbol of social disorder. ' which shows the fact hoodies have become a symbol, not just an item of clothing. We challenge this wrong doing by having Dulcie, the role in trouble and being supposedly chased by the killer, in a hoodie. I feel strongly in the matter of teenage prejudice so i was happy we could include a hoodie for at this rate robin hood will be censored in five years.
Wednesday, 31 March 2010
Evaluation - Question 1
"In what way does your media product use,develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?"
The definition of a horror film from Wikipedia is 'Movies that strive to elicit the emotions of fear, horror and terror from viewers'. It goes on to mention 'Their plots frequently involve themes of death, the supernatural or mental illness. Many horror movies also include a central villain' which is obviously needed because nobody pays to watch a horror film if they don't want to be scared or at least a little bit anxious.
I don't tend to watch horror films but paranormal activity and the decent are
at different ends of the horror film scale, if there was one. Paranormal Activity is a film realesed in 2009 relies on sutle hints and no violence giving off a sense of mystery which admitadly put me on the edge of my seat until they overplayed it and i got bored. The Decent is another horror film showing fear after a prolonged build up using the darkness of the cave throughout the film to create an un-nerving atmosphere.
Obviously the two mentioned horror films were big sellers so we decided as a group to develop the idea of a lot of tension being built up, we did this with shots of running characters which changes the atmosphere of the footage, shots of short un-informative sentances from The Decent - we did intend to use a dark room but in the end couldn't find the shots for it to work, but this would have given the film a higher sense of mystery. And finally at the end of the trailer a loud scream is let off which is effectivly the tension relief that is given off at the end of each scene in paranormal activity.
Although using darker surroundings is stereotypically a scarier choice, our group made the decision of a dimly lit woodland area with a small river running next to it which was possibly the best we could have made because after slight editing to the outdoor shots the film looked more disorientated than say a Romantic-comedy. Having looked back at the original pictures, early scenes of The Decent show a similar tree scene.
The definition of a horror film from Wikipedia is 'Movies that strive to elicit the emotions of fear, horror and terror from viewers'. It goes on to mention 'Their plots frequently involve themes of death, the supernatural or mental illness. Many horror movies also include a central villain' which is obviously needed because nobody pays to watch a horror film if they don't want to be scared or at least a little bit anxious.
I don't tend to watch horror films but paranormal activity and the decent are
at different ends of the horror film scale, if there was one. Paranormal Activity is a film realesed in 2009 relies on sutle hints and no violence giving off a sense of mystery which admitadly put me on the edge of my seat until they overplayed it and i got bored. The Decent is another horror film showing fear after a prolonged build up using the darkness of the cave throughout the film to create an un-nerving atmosphere.Obviously the two mentioned horror films were big sellers so we decided as a group to develop the idea of a lot of tension being built up, we did this with shots of running characters which changes the atmosphere of the footage, shots of short un-informative sentances from The Decent - we did intend to use a dark room but in the end couldn't find the shots for it to work, but this would have given the film a higher sense of mystery. And finally at the end of the trailer a loud scream is let off which is effectivly the tension relief that is given off at the end of each scene in paranormal activity.
Although using darker surroundings is stereotypically a scarier choice, our group made the decision of a dimly lit woodland area with a small river running next to it which was possibly the best we could have made because after slight editing to the outdoor shots the film looked more disorientated than say a Romantic-comedy. Having looked back at the original pictures, early scenes of The Decent show a similar tree scene.
Finished Project
This is the final project - it has given Myself, Dulcie, Lainey and Alice a fair bit of hardship between us but it is a satisfying feeling to be able to say that i've done it.
Wednesday, 24 February 2010
Logging and Capturing
We finished our logging on Friday the 29th January and began capturing the same day.
Logging is the process of watching the footage already filmed and writing down what shots you are going to use, this means you have to take note of:
Logging is the process of watching the footage already filmed and writing down what shots you are going to use, this means you have to take note of:
- The time the shot starts and ends.
- What kind of shot it is.
- Whether it is useful or not.
- Clip name.
- Description.
- Scene.
- Shot/Take.
Filming
25th January 2010 was the first time our group had gone off site to get a substantial amount of filming done. We went down to a river surronded by trees and a train track right next to it which we thought was perfect for our idea of a fast paced opening sequence for a horror/thriller film. However we were un-organised by not checking the camera battery and ironically the battery did die on us but fortunatly when we returned we found that we had enough shots to prevent us having to go back and film further. From here we needed to log and capture the shots, as well as make a rough edit to see what we were working with.
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