Evaluation(Questions 5-9).

5: How did you attract/address the audience?

We did this by having a female teenage cast as this would attract teenagers, also because it is a horror teenagers will enjoy it. Having the title sequence set at a girls house were they a having a few drinks and dancing creates a familiar setting for the teenage viewers. The music in the title sequence is modern popular music which would attract teenagers. Also the title of the film ‘Inquisitive’ would attract an older audience as it is quite an interesting title and they might want to know more and what the film is about.

6: What kind of media institution might distribute your media project and why?

The media institute I have researched is Pine Studios, even though they are not just focused on horror films but they do distribute a variety genres. It is a major British Film Company and they have distributed a lot of famous film and worked with famous directors. Also Hammer Film Productions, even though most of their horror films have a main monster eg. Dracula. They do produce psychological films, which is the genre of our film and because they do not produce a lot of psychological they may be interested as it is different to what they normal produce.

7: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing your project?

Using imovie helped us create the title sequence we wanted well as we wanted it to cut from outside to inside the house without looking messy; especially because music would be on inside. With the help of imovie the cuts worked effectively and when we added the music in over the top we could make it silent when we needed it to be. Also we imovie made the music sound like diegetic sound, played in the room rather than sounding like non-diegetic sound. Also using imovie, we could cut the clips precisely which made the film look seemless. 

Garageband let us take clips of instruments or music and put them all together to create a non-diegetic sound, this worked well when outside and toward the end when the film gets creepy.

Blogger helped us by having all our research in one place and it was on the computer so it could not get ruined or deleted easily.

8: Looking back at the preliminary task, what do you feel you learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

We learnt that continuity is a very big part of the film, if one small thing is different in a shot it makes it very confusing for the viewer and also makes it look unprofessional. Also to get actors that will take it seriously and will not laugh all the time, as this will make the film look unprofessional and also take twice as long to film.

9: What was your contribution to the process during the planning, production and post production stages?

Sophie: I did the research on classification of films, a textual analysis on Saw IV and the make up research and design.

Kris: I did titles evaluations, textual analysis on saw I, created the script and drew the story boards.

We did the title research, film outline, shot list together and evaluation of previous students films together. We also completed the Recee Sheet together. We created a pitch together using out research to show others our idea. We also did the preliminary task together showing part of our film. We shared directing and filming on the day of film, so we both got chance to do both.

Final Film Edit.

here is our final edit of our film! 

Evaluation (Questions 1-4).

1: Introduction: What did you make, who did you work with and where did the original idea come from?

We set out to create the beginning of a Horror film, with limit being at least two minutes. Once being given this focus we began to research into different horror films helping us to look at what type of thing we wanted to do. I am working with a girl called Sophie; we chose to work with each other because we wanted to put those two genres together to create a different style of horror, these being Psychological with an aspect of Possession and Zombie. We were inspired by John Carter’s Halloween with the use of the unsteady camera angles from outside looking in at the people. We then began to research into different horror films looking for different ideas that we could be inspired by for our aural setting and different titles. Looking at films like Paranormal Activity we were motivated by the lack of aural setting in a good way because it added more mystery to it building more tension. To then fit in with this we wanted to keep the titles quite simple so it doesn’t distract from the scene as we decided they look better over the top of the action rather than on a block colour. Our film has worked out well as we worked in a good team, we took it in turns to record then other person directed the action so it worked either way and when we had to re-shoot we talked over the aims of what we wanted to get done to prevent wasting time so we both had the same vision of what was needed. 

2: What does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

The typical forms and conventions of a horror film or the fake blood, dark lighting and screaming people. Our play challenges this by having the horror/scary part coming from a female character as opposed to the stereotypical male murderer/psycho. For example the convention in the film ‘Halloween’ would be the scary looking pumpkin that moves slowly, in a creepy manor. However Paranormal Activity challenges the forms and conventions because the whole thing is filmed from the point of view of a camera. We used the research into the horror films to then talk over what we wanted to get out of our film; we wanted to use the unsteady camera work in Paranormal Activity so it was from someone’s point of view – challenging the forms. Then using the developed forms in Halloween of the stereotypical stalking sequence with the eerie night time ambience and spooky atmosphere. We also developed the forms of vulnerable girls being hurt in some way in the horror genre, we did this by having four pretty girls that were dressed in skirts and typical female attire this then allows us to challenge the forms and conventions by having the female character that makes it a horror film.  We are challenging the forms and conventions of real media products by not using music to its full potential, we feel that with this sequence, the less music the better, also at the start of most horror films as we learnt from research there isn’t as much dialogue as what we put in so therefore we are challenging the conventions further.

3: Who would be the audience for your media product?

The audience for our media product would most likely be teenagers of over 15 years old because our research shows that this is the age group that mostly watch horror films. We feel it should be a 15 certificate as opposed to an 18 certificate because there are parts that could scare people from around 12 but there is nothing completely explicit that could terrify older people. The film would mostly be aimed at males because again research shows that more males watch horror films as opposed to females however our film could also apply to woman/girls because it contains four actresses so therefore they can relate to them and how they would feel if they would be in that position making it more scary for the audience. On the other hand it could also attract the older adult audience because it is a psychological horror film making it more realistic than a zombie film which is more for the younger generation with their imaginations. So therefore our audience is very wide range making it more popular and it would also sell better if we were to produce it properly.


4: How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Our film represents teenage girls as being quite vulnerable because in our film the actresses are on their own within the house yet someone has managed to make it to the window and spy in on the girls at the front and back of the house. It also shows that these girls are even more vulnerable after they have had a drink of alcohol, however having one of the girls turns challenges the particular stereotype of a blonde small girl who at first you would think is innocent however as the title sequence progresses on it shows that she is the psycho within the end, this being a typical element of a psychological film. So our film represents the social group of girls, it helps to reflect the dominant ideology that they're weak and vulnerable and can't look after themselves however it also shows that they can be capable of anything as the character of Rachel turns at the end on her best friends.

Film Outline & Shot List.

Lighting Design Sheet.

Permission Form, Release Form, Health & Safety Forms.

Storyboard.