Audience feedback:
Tom Barton – very suspenseful.
Clare Dodkins – I liked the pace of editing as it un-nerved the audience and tightened the tension of the piece.
Will Berril – very dramatic.
Leaya Hatzakis – cast perfectly, great choice of location.
Lara Kufferath – I liked the way of creating tension with the use of silence
Dan Ash – nice contrast between Alabama and Berika, also according to status. I liked the mask and the mise-en-scene. The basement gave a nice contrast. Alabama reinforced the society we live in with children getting captured, and the canted angle shots of Berika gave a sense of peculiar.
Tom Warhurst - scary, holds suspense and good choice of actress.
Lottie Avery - holds up, good suspense. A good climax at the end.
Ruby Kammer - I like the suspense and tension all the way through and then the ‘boom’ of the revelation of the girl.
Wednesday, 31 March 2010
Tuesday, 30 March 2010
Q1. part 1. in what way does your media product use, develop or challenge the forms and conventions of real media products?
Q1. part 2. in what way does your media product use, develop or challenge the forms and conventions of real media products?
we used this shot of berica as the camera was below him pointing up, this gives him the power in the shot and conforms to media conventions as he is the one in our sequence as in control, the calm calculated killer. he is walking into darkness, this represents his evil side. and conforms with media conventions.
Q1. part 3. in what way does your media product use, develop or challenge the forms and conventions of real media products?
we used an ecu on alabamas face to show her fear and emotions as berica approached. this shot had chiarascuro lighting on alabamas face and showed her fear . this type of shot is used in movies to show times of extreme emotion. that is why we used it and it conforms with media conventions.
Q1. part 4. in what way does your media product use, develop or challenge the forms and conventions of real media products?
we used a cu of berika to show his dimly lit face as in many horror movies the bad person is kept in the dark, we do not do this fully and you see our main antagonist from the begging. this challenges the norms and coventions of a horror movie. ew have used tis focus pull cu as it leaves you with our actors remorseless face in the back of your mind. this effect is also used in the silence of the lambs movie.
Q1. part 5. in what way does your media product use, develop or challenge the forms and conventions of real media products?
we bound alabamas hands in chains so that it showed how helpless and restrained she was these are big chains in contrast with her size.
these chains conform to the horror genre as it shows her captivity and torture. the chains are also black compared to her pale skin and white dress.
Q1. part 6. in what way does your media product use, develop or challenge the forms and conventions of real media products?
to achieve this shot we had berika put the mask over alabamas face and push down . alabama screamed and we cross-cut parts of this scream for the audio. we made the mask out of bed linen, in the orphanage the children wearing mask's faces are covered with potato sacks stitched together wityh buttons on one eye. we decided to go for the same concept but in our own way with bed linen that has been stitched. this conforms to media conventions as it has been used before in movies.
Q1. part7. in what way does your media product use, develop or challenge the forms and conventions of real media products?
we used a mask made of bed linen to cover alabamas face in our horror clip, in movies like the orphanage potato sacks are used to cover childrens face but we decided to use bed linen because it would have been softer on alabamas face, and less of a hassle getting hold of it.
Q1. part8. in what way does your media product use, develop or challenge the forms and conventions of real media products?
in this shot we show both alabama, the innocent young girl and the scary male, berika. berica is much bigger than alabama, we show berika in dark black clothes and alabama in white clothes to show her innocence and his evil character in contrast. this conforms with media conventions and forms. as it is like many horror movies. showing innocence and evil.
Tuesday, 23 March 2010
Monday, 22 March 2010
1. part9. in what way does your media product use, develop or challenge the forms and conventions of real media products?
this is a screen grab of our interior set, it is dimly lit like in a real horror movie, we are using candles to get a flickering light effect. the candle light is illuminating his face giving an eiree feeling to the shot and scene. this shot conforms to conventions of real media products as it is just like a horror movie, like the orphanage.this shot also shows the name of one of our actors, alabama jackson. which movies do with a white text on a black background, typical of the horror/thriller genre.
2. how does your product represent particular social groups?
Our film represents young children that are the victims of kidnapping and abuse, this is also represented in movies, the orphanage, the others and hide and seek. These films all deal with issues with children.
There are two main groups that we are representing in our video one is young girls who are the victims of sexual or violent abuse, because the girl in our movie is shown as a submissive abuse victim. This relates to cases in the media from real life like baby p who was beaten to death and ignored by social services until it was too late and Victoria Clambie who died of abuse and ignorance from the authorities in the year 2000. Other films which have young venerable children as the main victim is the orphanage, which we based our original idea on, the others and hide and seek where a young child meets an imaginary friend that sickly corrupts her.
The second social group that we represent in our film is young males, our protagonist is a young male with mental health issues. He is represented as a paedophilic psychopath, men like this also featured in Friday the 13th and psycho when Anthony Perkins plays a murderous man going after a young boy and a women. We dressed our male actor in normal clothes to seem as if it was just an everyday guy but then he goes into the basement where he has a small girl tied and bound. This plays on the fears of most parents as he seems like anyone that your children would talk to. This is an illusion though because most instances of abuse are from the home or close family.
There are two main groups that we are representing in our video one is young girls who are the victims of sexual or violent abuse, because the girl in our movie is shown as a submissive abuse victim. This relates to cases in the media from real life like baby p who was beaten to death and ignored by social services until it was too late and Victoria Clambie who died of abuse and ignorance from the authorities in the year 2000. Other films which have young venerable children as the main victim is the orphanage, which we based our original idea on, the others and hide and seek where a young child meets an imaginary friend that sickly corrupts her.
The second social group that we represent in our film is young males, our protagonist is a young male with mental health issues. He is represented as a paedophilic psychopath, men like this also featured in Friday the 13th and psycho when Anthony Perkins plays a murderous man going after a young boy and a women. We dressed our male actor in normal clothes to seem as if it was just an everyday guy but then he goes into the basement where he has a small girl tied and bound. This plays on the fears of most parents as he seems like anyone that your children would talk to. This is an illusion though because most instances of abuse are from the home or close family.
3. what kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
The kind of media institution that would distribute my movie would be an independent. English institution such as film four because they have made relatively low budget films like slumdog millionaire which has been incredibly successful grossing $377,417,293 with a budget of $15.1 million. This would be the kind of budget I would hope to receive to make this movie. Film four have also made successful movies like ‘In Bruges’ which was made for $15 million and grossed $33 million and ‘sexy beast’ which was made on a budget of $3 million and grossed $7 million in the us alone. They have a well recognised name and good publicity which would boost the profile of the movie with a good marketing department. My film is a thriller/horror and film four has successfully produced films within the thriller genre like ‘In Bruges’ and ‘slumdog millionaire’.
4. who would be the audience for your media product?
My main target audience would be 16 to 25 year old males and females if taken there by their boyfriend or husband, there is also another group of people targeted which would be the devoted horror movie watchers. The main target audience would be 16 to 25 year old males because they have the most disposable income, free time and they enjoy horror and thriller genres the most, many 16-24 year olds are in education, training or part-time workwhich gives them free time and money. also in the current economic climate many people at this age are unemployed giving them more free time.and going to the cinema still is a relativelly cheap past time. Films that would appeal to a similar target audience to ours would be ‘the orphanage’ ‘saw’ and ‘hostel’ which all are very successful movies with Saw, the budget was $1,200,000 and the gross revenue was $103,096,345. there would be a secondary audience of girlfriends of man who want to watch the movie as well. all of the movies listed appeal to the same audience as they show young teenagers and children as the victims. people that watch my movie would like to listen to heavy metal music and music from the emo genre. this kind of music plays heavilly in our movie and in others like it. 16 to 25 year olds tend to like horror movies for the jumps and scares that it provides especially males. arguably over 25's tend to like and watch movies with more psychological substance, with plot twists and could favour more character based movie than an action based one. this could be a movie like the pianist.
Saturday, 20 March 2010
task 7. looking back on your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?
the process of planning our preliminary task was a lot easier and faster than planning our actual horror sequence. we were given a set stroyboard which we then had to shoot, planning took a couple of days. with our horror it took six weeks of planning to finally be ready to do our production. a lot of this time was spent making an idea and storyboards. we first needed to learn how to use cameras and we did this by shooting our prelim task, we took two actors and put them in a brickwall set in the studio. we then shot them from different angles experimenting with different shot types. we started producing a storyboard first draft after we came up with an idea. the shot types are relativelly easy to do but we had difficulty planning the time on each shot. and where the credits would come in. we went through many drafts of our horror production and the final draft was far from the same as our first draft.
editing my final project took about 4 weeks and involved staying afterschool on some nights we chose CU shots and ECU shots to conform with the thriller horror genre. we decided to experiment with a focus pull in our prelim which we then used in our final product. we looked at other horror movies to see that tension and shock make a good movie and we tried to create this through our shots and sound. when we were editing our sequence we had to choose between the short, fast shots and the relativelly long timed shots. we used a mixture of both to create the tension and anticipation that we did. this made it seem like a real thriller/horror production.
for sound we used folleys from soundtrack pro and edited them in, we used an eerie background noise to create tension through the sequence and use a silence at the end to put the audience on the edge of their seats the use of sound in our horror created tension and made our production seem like a real horror movie. in our preliminary task we used no sound apart from the ones recorded. in this one we cut sound, used folleys and crosscut screams and sound transitions. we added titles and credits last after we had edited our horror sequence. we put the titles in as they come in order in a real movie. we used made up production names and distributers like 'a storm cunningham' film these titles as white on a black background as in other horror movies this effect is used. we used no titles at all in our prlim sequence and overall we have greatly improved in the planning and overall production of our film sequence since the prelim task.
editing my final project took about 4 weeks and involved staying afterschool on some nights we chose CU shots and ECU shots to conform with the thriller horror genre. we decided to experiment with a focus pull in our prelim which we then used in our final product. we looked at other horror movies to see that tension and shock make a good movie and we tried to create this through our shots and sound. when we were editing our sequence we had to choose between the short, fast shots and the relativelly long timed shots. we used a mixture of both to create the tension and anticipation that we did. this made it seem like a real thriller/horror production.
for sound we used folleys from soundtrack pro and edited them in, we used an eerie background noise to create tension through the sequence and use a silence at the end to put the audience on the edge of their seats the use of sound in our horror created tension and made our production seem like a real horror movie. in our preliminary task we used no sound apart from the ones recorded. in this one we cut sound, used folleys and crosscut screams and sound transitions. we added titles and credits last after we had edited our horror sequence. we put the titles in as they come in order in a real movie. we used made up production names and distributers like 'a storm cunningham' film these titles as white on a black background as in other horror movies this effect is used. we used no titles at all in our prlim sequence and overall we have greatly improved in the planning and overall production of our film sequence since the prelim task.
Thursday, 11 March 2010
Shooting day.
On Thursday, December 21st, my media group shot our horror/thriller movie, ‘Mind’, e met together at 9 am. and we started the day by assembling our set with the set designer, we tore bloody rags, and placed them on the floor and dirtied our actors white dress. We decided to set up a row of candles on screws through a piece of wood the piece of wood then went under the carpet and through it with the candles stuck on top, we did this to illuminate our female actor as she sat on the floor. I had the idea to wax candles to the desk around the tools. This casted light over his blood stained tools.
We needed something to cover the floor in our set so we took some carpeting from the theatre department in school and borrowed some fake blood to cover the tools and rags, we had brought some cloth for tearing from a member of our groups home,
When the actors arrived we briefed them on what we required that day. Alabama Jackson aged 12 and Berika Mindeli aged 18. Amy, one of my group members took Alabama to change into the dress we wanted and put some white makeup on to make it seem as if she had been there for a while and was tired from struggling, the dress was white to show her innocence as this is shown in many other horror movies like the sixth sense. Berika was made to looked clean and respectable as we wanted him this way to show that he was not a maniac but a calm and calculated murderer/paedophile and so that he looked like an average man.
When we shot the sequence we diverted from the storyboards at parts so that we had more material to work with when editing. We did experimental shots like focus pulls. This has helped with the editing process as we are using the focus pull and other shots that were not in the storyboard. These shots as well as the shots from the storyboard helped to create tension and conform to the thriller/horror genre.
We weren’t quite sure if our female actor could make it because she may not have been let out of school. We only found this out on the morning of the shoot day, we spoke to her father Ted Jackson again and he said that he would try and get her. We asked another girl to play the part in case Alabama Jackson didn’t turn up. She accepted but in the end Alabama arrived and we used her.
For lighting we used artificial moonlight coming through holes in our boarded up window. We used candles and a light bulb dangling from the ceiling. We also used studio lights which we controlled from the lighting board when we needed extra light in a scene.
We kept our actors in complete silence until the scream, this helped create tension and then shock our audience with a loud noise, this is typical of a thriller or horror movie as they build tension through jumpy actions.
Our shoot day went very well, as we had enough footage time. We had doubts about how easy it would be to work with Alabama but she turned out to work very well and listen to what we said.
On Thursday, December 21st, my media group shot our horror/thriller movie, ‘Mind’, e met together at 9 am. and we started the day by assembling our set with the set designer, we tore bloody rags, and placed them on the floor and dirtied our actors white dress. We decided to set up a row of candles on screws through a piece of wood the piece of wood then went under the carpet and through it with the candles stuck on top, we did this to illuminate our female actor as she sat on the floor. I had the idea to wax candles to the desk around the tools. This casted light over his blood stained tools.
We needed something to cover the floor in our set so we took some carpeting from the theatre department in school and borrowed some fake blood to cover the tools and rags, we had brought some cloth for tearing from a member of our groups home,
When the actors arrived we briefed them on what we required that day. Alabama Jackson aged 12 and Berika Mindeli aged 18. Amy, one of my group members took Alabama to change into the dress we wanted and put some white makeup on to make it seem as if she had been there for a while and was tired from struggling, the dress was white to show her innocence as this is shown in many other horror movies like the sixth sense. Berika was made to looked clean and respectable as we wanted him this way to show that he was not a maniac but a calm and calculated murderer/paedophile and so that he looked like an average man.
When we shot the sequence we diverted from the storyboards at parts so that we had more material to work with when editing. We did experimental shots like focus pulls. This has helped with the editing process as we are using the focus pull and other shots that were not in the storyboard. These shots as well as the shots from the storyboard helped to create tension and conform to the thriller/horror genre.
We weren’t quite sure if our female actor could make it because she may not have been let out of school. We only found this out on the morning of the shoot day, we spoke to her father Ted Jackson again and he said that he would try and get her. We asked another girl to play the part in case Alabama Jackson didn’t turn up. She accepted but in the end Alabama arrived and we used her.
For lighting we used artificial moonlight coming through holes in our boarded up window. We used candles and a light bulb dangling from the ceiling. We also used studio lights which we controlled from the lighting board when we needed extra light in a scene.
We kept our actors in complete silence until the scream, this helped create tension and then shock our audience with a loud noise, this is typical of a thriller or horror movie as they build tension through jumpy actions.
Our shoot day went very well, as we had enough footage time. We had doubts about how easy it would be to work with Alabama but she turned out to work very well and listen to what we said.
institutions
A media institution is an established, often profit based organisation like Warner-Bros. or Sony, that deals in the creation and distribution of advertising, entertainment and information services. Largely trans-national in nature but can exist in a smaller national form. While a media institution is similar to a media conglomerate, it differs in that it can be a non-commercial entity; whereas a media conglomerate is a commercial entity. For example the UK media regulatory body Ofcom can be considered a media institution but is not a Media conglomerate. Examples of Media Institutions include: News International, Time Warner, General Electric, Viacom, The Walt Disney Company. Not all media institutions are profit driven, for example the BBC (British broadcasting corporation) is a public service broadcaster which means that they must show educational programmes as well as entertainment this is because the BBC is funded by television license payers and the government.
The kind of media institution that would distribute my movie would be an independent. English institution such as film four because they have made relatively low budget films like slumdog millionaire which has been incredibly successful grossing $377,417,293 with a budget of $15.1 million. This would be the kind of budget I would hope to receive to make this movie. Film four have also made successful movies like ‘In Bruges’ which was made for $15 million and grossed $33 million and ‘sexy beast’ which was made on a budget of $3 million and grossed $7 million in the us alone. They have a well recognised name and good publicity which would boost the profile of the movie with a good marketing department. My film is a thriller/horror and film four has successfully produced films within the thriller genre like ‘In Bruges’ and ‘slumdog millionaire’.
My main target audience would be 16 to 25 year old males and females if taken there by their boyfriend or husband, there is also another group of people targeted which would be the devoted horror movie watchers. The main target audience would be 16 to 25 year old males because they have the most disposable income, free time and they enjoy horror and thriller genres the most. Films like ours would be ‘the orphanage’ ‘saw’ and ‘hostel’ which all are very successful movies with Saw, the budget was $1,200,000 and the gross revenue was $103,096,345. there would be a secondary audience of girlfriends of man who want to watch the movie as well.
The kind of media institution that would distribute my movie would be an independent. English institution such as film four because they have made relatively low budget films like slumdog millionaire which has been incredibly successful grossing $377,417,293 with a budget of $15.1 million. This would be the kind of budget I would hope to receive to make this movie. Film four have also made successful movies like ‘In Bruges’ which was made for $15 million and grossed $33 million and ‘sexy beast’ which was made on a budget of $3 million and grossed $7 million in the us alone. They have a well recognised name and good publicity which would boost the profile of the movie with a good marketing department. My film is a thriller/horror and film four has successfully produced films within the thriller genre like ‘In Bruges’ and ‘slumdog millionaire’.
My main target audience would be 16 to 25 year old males and females if taken there by their boyfriend or husband, there is also another group of people targeted which would be the devoted horror movie watchers. The main target audience would be 16 to 25 year old males because they have the most disposable income, free time and they enjoy horror and thriller genres the most. Films like ours would be ‘the orphanage’ ‘saw’ and ‘hostel’ which all are very successful movies with Saw, the budget was $1,200,000 and the gross revenue was $103,096,345. there would be a secondary audience of girlfriends of man who want to watch the movie as well.
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