Our production film is based in the horror genre and more precisely psychological horror sub genre. I do think we did create our ideas round this genre and made at fits completely as you can see from the film. Instantly from the beginning you know what film you’re in for as we portray the right elements we need (clown mask image), this photo was taken whilst filming the title sequence so you know what genre it is from the start. We looked at other clown films such as Stephen King’s It but we didn’t want our character to be too clown with all the costume and make up so we just had the mask but I still think this is very affective. Majority of horror film title sequences are usually the same kind of style with starting off black and hardly anything showing to show the illusion of that there are many possibilities of what is to come.
2.2 2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
The gender in the film is very stereotypical as the female being the victim and the male character are all in power whilst the female is weak. The female character is shown as isolated, lonely, afraid and this is how they are usually shown as in horror films and she looks more vulnerable with being a teenage girl. Well out target audience is 15+ so I believe they would understand more about the stereotypical situation where as people of younger age may be a bit confused and frightened by this.
3. 3. 3. What kind of media institution distribute your media product and why?
I believe our production could have the potential to be distributed by a big production. I think a distributor could be the Liongate; they have done some horror films such as ‘Saw’. I do believe that our film we produced could be successful if we were to create it all. I think if the film wasn’t good enough to hit the cinema screens that it could be a TV movie as if it was an internet release it may be easier for people to find ways of illegally getting the film so it would cut down on profits of producing the film. So I think TV movie would be best if not in the cinemas as if it was to be in the cinemas it would create the write atmosphere to get the full thrill of watching the film with being in pitch black, music at you from every angle and the big screen to capture the moments. I believe there could be merchandise but like the film having a 15+ audience the merchandise would refer to the same audience. I think a good merchandise to sell could actually be a replica of the clown mask maybe for Halloween purposes or just for the fun of it. If that was to be successful may be figures could be made of the characters or more so the clown figure.
4. 4. 4. Who would be the audience for your media product?
Our audience certificate is a 15. This is due to our film being horror, it doesn’t necessarily show the violence but it shows that some could have happened in the story lines so this could be upsetting towards a younger audience. They reasons for some films to be put as a certificate as is strong threats involved minor violence without really much gore. So our film doesn’t actually show the violence or any gore it just refers about what has happened which shows the psychological side from what has happened which some people could find quite disturbing. Other horror films that have a certificate 15 are ‘The Omen’ (2006), ‘The Exorcism of Emily Rose’ (2005), ‘The Fog’ (2005), ‘Dark Water’ (2005) and ‘The Ring Two’ (2005). Another film that is also certificated 15 is ‘The Wolfman’ which is the film I did my analysis on. http://www.bbfc.co.uk/ this site is about the bbfc which stand for British Board of Film Classification. This is a company that looks at safety of viewing films and many other relevant film matters.
5. 5. 5. How did you attract/address your audience?
Our audience are focusing on the Rachael character as she is the victim of the events in which have happened. At the beginning she narrates a couple of sentences to say a bit to draw you into the film to see what exactly has happened when, where, what, who and why? The Him character follows the victim so it shows more focused on her as to why is she the victim, why was she chosen. There would have been point of view shots from the him character if we were to do the full film rather than just 2 minutes. The audience are following the life of Rachael, at the beginning there is an eyeline match shot from Rachael looking at a photo frame so the audience are following her lead to get more onto her frame of mind. We have feedback from our film from the audience of people in our class, I'm really pleased with the feed back as people seemed to enjoy the film with quotes of 'font really fitted at the beginning', 'quite creepy', 'music tense, builds up', 'creepy vibe' and other good comments. Here is a link to the review. welcome to the circus review
6. 6. 6. What have you learnt about technology from the process of constructing the product?
Well for our production we used a HDV 1000 camera which does a built in microphone which made it easier as we only needed distant voices not too close as pre mic recorded as it might have looked silly and harder to sync with the film. Although one time when filming our microphone was unplugged from the camera so we had to redo some scenes which were frustrating and wasted time that we didn’t have much of. Another weakness for us that it rained very heavily every time we seemed to have planned to film, de us postpone filming a lot as the majority of our film is outside so this also wasted time for us. So although we had some complications I am very pleased with the result we ended up with our film. A strength I do know is that I created the music for the title scene with help from my brother and I do think the music really fits in with the genre we are giving off. Also the narrator from Rachael was recorded with a microphone then soothed down so that the voice didn’t sound harsh as it needed to be a voice to draw you in to what she has to say. The software we used for editing made it easier as we could change things so then the film would look very smoothly cut together and that the sound does sound correct and in sync. It gave us great effects to make our film more complete together such as our last scene, it’s actually two scenes crossed together sort of with the him character fading in and out, which I love that it does because it really could boost the film ratings from the audience.
7. 7. 7. Looking back to your preliminary task, what do you feel that you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
Well our preliminary task was a lot of fun to do and we even used them skills into out full product more than we’d all actually realise. Such as the 180̊ rule and reverse shots, both in the conversations between the therapist and Rachael, also between Rachael and Laura. The preliminary task gave us an insight of working around the equipment on positioning of the camera with how you want to present your scenes and the people in them. For our preliminary we used a smaller simpler camera which means the quality wouldn’t have been as good as the HDV 1000 video camera that we used for our full product so that would be a huge difference to see if you watched one straight after the other. I believe that our shots in the full produce are so much more smoothly cut together than the preliminary just due to having more experience and knowing more about the software rather than just the basics.
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