Horror Film Pitch

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evaluation question 7

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

evaluation question 2

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.

evaluation question 6

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

Evaluation question 5:

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

Evaluation question 5:

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

Evaluation question 3:

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
Independent individual cinema’s mainly show Hollywood films
International films: films are shown with a wider audience
More money so companies can advertiser by using billboards, T.V. adverts etc…
Done all under one company

Britain
Films only showed in Britain
Not got a wide audience
All the different processes are done under smaller companies


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

Survey Answers

Prop List

Mood Board

Evaluation Question 1

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

Interview: Scott

Soundtrack

Here is the soundtrack for our Horror film. We thought that we would choose this as our soundtrack as it is quiet, and has a Romantic side to it, but also is quite scary and creepy at the same time.

Preliminary Task

Here is out Preliminary Task for our Media course.

Here is the first Practice Task that we did to practice out camera angles.

Final Locations

The two locations that we have finalised on using for our Horror Film are Attenborough Nature Reserve and Highfields Park. We have chosen these locations as they have a lot of forests within them, in which Alex, our main character, can run through as he is being chased. It is also very spacious, so we will have a lot of different areas to work with as we film our Horror. Finally, Highfields has a rather large cliff within it, which we are going to use as the cliff that Bethan jumps off to kill herself at the end of the film. Above are some pictures of Highfields.

Pictures

This is the last of our ideas for our film so far. We were thinking of using this park because of the fact that a park is usually a happy and generally friendly place to be. We were thinking that we could Juxtapose this by creating a scary and frightening part of the film at the park.

Pictures

This is another setting that we were thinking of using for our Horror Film. We thought that this setting would be good, as there are a lot of trees for people to hide in. There is also the fact that at this time of year, the trees seem to look dead, and in the dark they would look quite eerie.

Pictures

Here is one of the settings where we are thinking of filming our Horror film. We thought that this may be a good idea as because the field is so big, it would give the audience a sense of isolation, as they are in a large field with nothing around them.

Questions for Evaluation

Here are the 7 questions i need to answer for my evaluation.

1. In what ways does your media product use, devlop or challenge forms and conventions of real media productions?

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

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

4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

5. How did you attract/address your audience?

6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

How to make a good film

These are some tips that I have written down on how to make a good film.

-Take the camera to the action

-Don't stand up when using the camera all of the time. If somebody is low down, get down on the floor to capture the action even better.

-Get the story straight first, and then think about how to improve it using camera angles.

-Make every detail easy to understand and recognisable

-Get right in the characters faces when you are trying to show emotion. This guarantees that the audience will know the emotion that the character is going through.

Preliminary Task

Today we learnt about the different shots we need to include in our Preliminary task, which we will need to do before we start our Horror Film opening sequence. In the Preliminary task we need to have a person walking into a room, sitting down on a table with another person, and then exchanging a few lines of dialogue. In our Preliminary exercise we need to include:-

-The 180 Degree Rule
-A Match On Action
-A Shot Reverse Shot.