Evaluation Q5

How did you attract/address your audience?

We attracted our taret audience by using actors and storys that could relate to our age group (16-25) we used male and females so it would appeal to both genders, girls will feel sorry for the girl in our filma nd men will want to relate to the man in our film as he is confident. Our audience will be familiar with the red font in the titles which will imedietly help them reaslise what genre it is within the first 2 mins and make them want to watch the rest of the film. Somethin they might not be familiar with is the music as we dont have the typical type of music associated with this genre, we used an acustic song love song and chose it because it contrasts with the mood of the film and the theme is love so it does fit in with the story line.

Evaluation Q4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Our target audience is teenagers as they are mostly into films that are quite dark and want to scare themselves, stereotyping- Emo. We did a questionare to see what people of our agegroup wanted from a horror film and using this we put together our film. We dont really have a target gender as when it comes to this age group ad genre there is very little differences between genders about what they are expecting from a horror film.

Evaluation Q3

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

For our Institution company we chose Lionsgate as they have distributed films of the similar genre before.

A production company is a company that makes the psyical production of media, i.e Radio T.V, Films ect ect the company can in most cases also be responsable for the funding of the production.

A Distributor is a company that releases the film to the public for eaither cinima or home veiwing.

Funding for our film would of come from lionsgate as they have funded films like this before and they are well known in the genre.

In the opening of our film we have only featured actors, music and mine and nyashas name as on films we looked at if they listed all of the people that helped make it it would take too long so they only put the most important people at the start and then everyone was listed in the credits at the end. Also the people we we noticed at the start were the poeple that can sometimes infulence whether people see the film or not, so it is important to have them at the beggining.

Our film is similar to the fim 'Sorority Row' the story line closely match and the muders take place in the same sort of place (woody forest area)

Evaluation Q2

How does your media product represent particular social groups? The girl in our film can be compared to Ellie in Soroity Row as they both are quiet and dont like arguing but as the film goes on they both stand up for themselves alot more (in our film, i break up the relationship, in sorority row she stands up to the other charaters more and more as the film oes on) the difference is in sorority row the charater goes from weak to strong but in our film she doesnt have the chance to do that as she is killed in the first 2 mins. Our charater links to Laura Mulveys , Male Gaze as she is seen as the weaker charater compared to the men as he kills her but she is not portrayed as a maddona or a whore, so is only very loosely linked to this theory. According to Stuart Halls theory people who are the same sexuality and have shared a background with the charater interpret text in different ways. People who are quiet or have had the same experiences as our charater would be able to ecept the meaning of our film easily.

Evaluation Q1

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (i.e. film openings) Before editing.

After editing.

Most horror films use editing to show a difference between flash backs and real time.

We used a editing to keep with the conventions of horror using light to show what scenes are 'happy' and flash backs, we also slowed it down to make it look different to the reality scenes which are moving in normal time which also helps with suspence.

We were orrignially going to make the flash backs black and white as that is what most horror films use but the effect wasnt working properly so we had to use something different, although i think it worked out better because it shows its a 'happy' scene more as the better lit it is generally shows happyness.

Our titles of our film keep to the conventions of horror as well as some of the posters for films we looked at used red lettering which represents blood for gorey films and anger and dangour for other scary films so it fits well as in our film there isnt too much gore but there is a little bit and there is certainly lots of anger. We used american type writer which suits what we are trying to show as its simple and slightly old fastioned as its in the past.

This is the main killin scene for our horror film, it is very fitting within our genre as in most horror films there is the main murder in a feild or somewhere secluded and quiet where there is no witnesses!! In the horror genre this is usally the most stuck to convention and we followed it as it is one of the most important ways to tell if the film is horror or not, e.g if the victim died soundly in their bed it would be more of a drama sad film rather than a horror film.

This shot it a dutch angle shot and we used it to show Alison is dead, we also zoomed out from her face on this shot to show her surroundings and to create movement so the audience feels even less easy because dutch angles are used to create uneasyness.

Finally finished!!!

Editing again

We did more editing today and we put in the transactions to make it split up the reality shots from the flash backs and we also used some effects to make the flash backs look different to the reality shots because it looked a bit confusing for the audience as it wasnt clear enough which shots were reality and which were flash backs.

Editing

We have now finished filming our film and have moved onto editing, we didnt need a script for our film as we are dubbing over it with music, we have found the song we are going to use on youtube and we dont have to get copyright permission as it states that it is free to use if you credit the band which we will do:

This track has been legally confirmed as Free. You may insert it into your youtube videos as long as you credit the band verbally or in the description bar.download link http://tinyurl.com/thevarsityyoungerMSRSong title: "Younger" Band Name: The VarsityGenre: Rock/PopLinks:

Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/thevarsitymusic

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/thevarsityvision

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/music.thevarsity

I think that this song is good to use as the music for horror films is one of the most important parts for setting the scene and creating a mood, we choose a happy song and not an earry one because it makes the audience feel less comfortable and puts them on edge. It also ties in with our film as it has elements of love in it and its a song about love. So it fits both ways.

Filming finished

The actor we were now using wasnt relaible enough and wouldnt film aymore scenes so we had to re film the whole film, we used a new actor (Jack) and we got it all done on the tuesday after school so now we can focus on editing.

Production Diary

We filmed a bit today we did the killing scene and did a few of the happy scenes, looking over it we need to refilm the killing scene as it doesnt look realistic enough and we need to film a few more happy scenes for the flash back parts. We plan to do this on monmday and hope to finish it then.

Problems

We planned to film on the thursday of the holidays, however due to personal problems with the actors, they had to pull out. Leaving us to rush to find someone else.
In the end we found a boy to film for us (James) and i was the girl as we couldnt find anyone to be in it that was trustworthy enough.