Film Pitch and Feedback

After facing her worst nightmare, 18 year old Anna Smith is convinced she is being followed, little does she know  the game is within herself.

Feedback Transcript :

Rose: How will this film appear to your target audience?

Klodiana: Our film has got good connections with our target audience because we have decided to aim it at young females and as being young females like our selves we know how to connect with them.

Rose: What type of audience will you have for this film?

Klodiana: Girls aged 16- 24 years of age, basically young adults 

Rose: What sub genre is this film and how will your film fit this sub genre?

Klodiana: Our sub genre is Psychological Horror and our film fits our sub genre because it shows the mental side of our character. We have studied carefully the conventions used in Psychological horror so we are confident with presenting Psychological techniques.


We also chosen to an Male audience he said that he is confused about what the last part 'the game is within herself ' he said that the film is predictable and that you can tell that the main character will die in the end, we asked if would go watch the film and his reply was no was it is too predictable.
He suggest that we change the last part and that we add more detail on the main character such as age, occupation etc.

We then chose another Female audience and she said that she was also confused but that it is was good confusing because it raises questions as to what might happen in the film. We asked her if she would go  watch the film and her reply was yes because we haven't given much away but enough to tempt our target audience.

This has confirmed that we have chosen our target audience 

'After.Life' Trailer HD

Sub Genre Parody

The purpose of our sub genre parody task sequence is to learn about and explore psychological horror through filming. 

In psychological horror most of these camera shots are used eg birds eye shot, extreme close up, match on match action,180 degree rule and a series of different editing formats. The effect of this is to show the characters views and feelings through different camera angles.

Some other conventions we used to show psychological are...

• someone sat in a hospital/hospital bed- this shows that there is a sick person 
• someone playing mind games with the sick person-this is used to show that the person is being played mind games 
• the narrative speech through the sequence- this is used in this sub genre to give a feel of what the film is about 
• not showing a full shot of the evil persons face - this helps to create mystery 

During the process of creating this parody I have learned how to make a short sequence humorous and how to re-create a short scene. I have also learned more about psychological horror so when I go on to do my main task, I will be more confident in creating and putting the main ideas across through the conventions of sub genre.

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Target Audience

For our main task we have chosen our target audience would be young adults from ages to 16  to 24 years of age. The reason for this is because of the sub genre in which we decided to base our main task on. To accompany this age range we have also decided that our product will be aimed at mostly towards females because the main character is a female who are either single or in a relationship. These people would preferable have subtle or no jobs due to them still being full time students and because of this, and their age range, they will not have children. The area in which our target would be mostly set towards is in metropolitan towns such as London. Finally, the things that our audience would usually spend their money on would include technology, clothing and going out with friends - e.g. cinemas.

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Sound 

Diegetic sound- The definition of Diegetic sound is the sound within the clip, film, drama etc. that the characters can hear such as people in the background talking, phones, traffic or guns 

Non Diegetic sound - The definition of Non Diegetic sound is sound that the characters in the clip, film or drama can not hear, such as soundtrack music or/and not only always but most time voice overs.  

Shot

There are many different camera shots  here are a few 

- Close ups = which is used for capturing a characters expression/emotion 

- Extreme Close ups = which helps makes the view feel more intimate with the image 

- Mid Shot = (Chest upwards) which show a form of body language and helps give effect to the character reaction 

- Long Shot = which gives the audience a chance to see the surrounding and gives a better  view of the situation  

- Extreme Long Shot = which helps make the character seem venerable 

Horror Film Interview

Evaluation 

After interviewing different people selected out of our target audience I was able to collect data to help construct our main task and with hold any mistakes and make more improvements so that we can make our main task great. 

What people mostly said as an answer about what film is the scariest they mostly said Saw films. 

Saw
Saw Trailer

Two men wake up at opposite sides of a dirty, disused bathroom, chained by their ankles to pipes. Between them lies a dead man loosely clutching a hand-held tape player and a handgun. Each finds a tape the perfect fit for the player in their back pocket. They play the tapes. One is threatened, the other isn't. But they have a task: One must kill the other by 6:00, or his wife and daughter will die. They find hacksaws in a toilet, and try to cut the chains, but it doesn't work. They are the two newest victims of the Jigsaw Killer. In a flashback, we learn of Amanda, a girl who falls victim to the Jigsaw Killer. On her head is a mask, which is hooked into her lower jaw. There is a timer on it. Only one key will unlock it, and that key is in the digestive tract of her cell mate who lies paralysed on the opposite side of the room. If she doesn't unlock the mask in time, her lower jaw will be ripped wide open. She survives, but her cell mate doesn't. Through a series of flashbacks, we learn of more victims, and of the nearly-successful capture of the Jigsaw Killer, who doesn't actually kill his victims. Instead, he finds ways to make them kill either themselves, or each other, and he thinks the entire 'game' out perfectly, with no other ways out. Or so it would seem.

Saw mostly has flashback and contains many scene containing blood and unpleasant situations.

Many things could scare the audience such as the the scene, setting and props the fact that there is a lot of blood and dangerous scenes but what I think scares the most is the fact that the characters know how and when it will happen if one of them doesn't die.

We would have to make sure that our main task has few of these features along side some features from other films mentioned in the clip.

What most people answered when they were asked about what there fear was there answer were like spiders, the dark heights, clowns, snakes and getting buried alive so we will have to take into consideration which one these we will choose to explore in our main task.

For our fourth question we asked what was their recent nightmare about and most peoples answered involved them getting hurt some way or another whether it was getting eating by a snake, being chased, getting buried alive or basically dying. In our main task could involve feature such as being chased or being buried alive.

In the last question which was is there anything that you don't find scary in horrors most said fake monster and blood which is something we can ignore in our main task by not adding monsters and not over doing it with the blood scenes.

Overall, the interviews has made it clear that the films they watched are what interprets their dreams and the feature presented in the films are most likely to be their worst fear, we will make sure to take into consideration everything in the clip and included features like flash backs and a chase.

Se7en (Opening Credits)

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Shot 1 

In this shot I have chosen it is a extreme close up of a person hand who is holding a safety blade, they have used this shot so that the audience can see the details of the person cracked dirty fingers and fingernails and so they have an impression of the character. The fact that the finger and fingernails are all cracked and dirty might give the audience an impression that the character is a male because it is very unlikely that a woman would have such dirty nails in stero-typical way it would most probably a male hands. A close up has been used to create an image

 because of the way the hands look it creates an image of what his face looks like and that would be based around what his fingers and nails look like so it would mostly be a scruffy dirty man who doesn't care about his appearance which then leads question about what his personality would be like.

There is quite a bit of lighting in this shot so that the dirt in his finger nails are contrasted in the bright scene of the background, it seems that the only light in the scene is produced by the daylight that might be shining through a window.You notice that the background is a blur so that the audience can only focus on what the man is doing and holding which focuses the audience's attention and  their interest toward what will he do with the safety blade.

The sounds in the scene is diegetic which means it can be heard by the character in the scene and the sound is of all the tools he is using and has use so it makes a screechy noise and electrical sound which makes the audience notice how much noise the tools they might use make such horrible nois+es and so it brings a part of the film into the audience everyday life style.

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Shot 2

In this shot they male character has changed the activity to writing on paper and the shot they have used is a close up because it allow the audience to be able to see in detail what he is doing but also how long he has been writing for and that allows the audience to consider wether or not he has been doing this often or not. Again in this shot you can see the dirty finger nails up close but they are not as dirty as before which raises questions as to why that might be. It also portrays the male character to be hard working and an intellectual because he writes, but his dirty hand portrays him as a busy male that does not have time for grooming because of what he does.

The fact that the writing he has already done is blurry could suggest that it has be done on purpose show adds effect and makes the audience more interested about what he is writing so much about.

You can see that the source of light is coming from the left and seems to be the only source of light that could be daylight from a window which causes very dark shadows over the rest of his hand but lets the audience see how much he has already written.

The lettering used in this scene a very pale pink and it looks like very scruffy hand writing style of font has been used maybe to state a point that the lack of technology which could also be the reason he is writing and not typing the information on a computer.

The sound being used is now diegetic tools that almost sound like doctors tools and surgical electronics, a non diegetic beat is being used to emphasise his work it also adds mystery to the work he is doing. They use a lot of the colour black to symbolise that this film will contain death which gives detail about the theme and events of this horror film.

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Shot 3

This shot is a close up of  the writing and red ink where photographs are dipped in the effect this has on the audience is that they have more than one thing to focus on in detail, you can see the photograph or all the writing on the paper. The colours used in the scene is interesting and grabs the audience attention because it introduces the colour red and in this context it is the ink that photos get dipped to help them develop but it can also symbolise blood even though its connotation is stop. The red has a bright contrast against the white paper focusing the audience attention to the red ink then what grabs the audience attention is what is in the ink a photograph of what seems of a person but it is distorted so that it make the audience want to find out who it might be. You notice that the shot has been altered because the pen is the wrong way around. The fact that the male character has dipped his photographs in red ink could give the audience more information about him, it shows that he is a professional and that he likes to use all the right equipment.

The lettering is now a pale white and is still in the same font as the other lettering I looked at which then contradicts what they audience might think about him being professional.

the light is bright so that the audience can see the detail that is happening in the shot such as the photo and the writing. The non- diegetic music at this point is almost very alien like and almost sounds like a radio tuning when a radio station is not found but the beat from the previous scene I looked at has increased its tempo which builds up the tension for the audience making this scene feel dangerous.

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Shot 4 

This is a close up of the male character hand applying some sort of binder with tape on to a paper and a close up has been used to show that to the audience. His hand is dirty again but this time you can see a bandage on his thumb which could impersonate that he is careless and clumsy and that maybe he did it to himself but it could also mean that he is a victim and he had this done to him. The bandage is a dirty white which could raise a question of how long ago it happened and if it still hurt why is he still working so hard. Even though you can see the background you cant make out exactly what that blue item is or what it could be because the camera has focused on the hand and the binder and what seems to be sheets of paper beneath.

The lighting in this scene is coming in from the right side of the shot and it appears to be produced by daylight which implies that it is coming in through a window. The non diegetic sound is like radio station and the tempo of the beat has slowed down it reminds me of the music from detectives murder cases which could imply what the theme of the horror might be about.

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Shot 5

This last shot I have looked at is an extreme close up of his hand and it allow the audience to see very clearly that he is holding a needle in between his fingers, in this scene it also allows the audience to have a clearer look at his hand, cracked skin and dirty fingernails and allow them to think for themselves how the rest of him must look like.

The character is being portrayed as a male hard working stero-typical type of guy who is professional but doesn't seem to care about hygiene. The space in this shot has been filled with just the needle and his hands it shows the contrast to how smooth the needle to how rough his finger and hand are.

He is stroking the needle which is ironic if he like to feel that kind of surface when his hands are so rough.

The fact that they have used an extreme close up means that whats happening in this shot is really important and they want the audience to remember this because it might be an important part of the film.The lighting in this piece is a typical daylight source coming from a window most likely but it creates careful shadow across his finger and across the crease of his thumb that the audience can actually see the skin and the individual skin cells which the audience can see because of the shadow created by the right lighting. Even though there is mostly black in this scene that is created by the shadows but in the background it is also black too which can strongly symbolise death and the fact that this is a gloomy horror film project tiling it theme across to the audience.

The sound in the scene is a constant drone almost like the beat of a train track and it helps the needle scene come across to the audience as gross because it looks like the male character is pulling the needle out of his fingers which is horrible.