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This blog lets you see what my team and I will be doing towards our AS Media. The theme is horror and we will be posting new short films.

Sunday, 6 January 2013

6 Locations

These are the locationa we are considering as a setting for our main task ...
1. Shotover Woods --- We were originally going to do our opening scene in a wooded area and we thought that Shotover would be the perfect place for the opening sequence.


2. South Park Park--- We chose south park because we thought that it would create a spooky effect on where the wind creaks and moves the swings and roundabout, but decided not to go through with because it is too public.


3. Temple Cowley Car Park
4. Klodianas House--- We thought we could use Klodiana house and have the main character waking up at a park near by but having her break into the house she falls in front of.




5. Rosaline Attic --- We thought that the attic would be a good idea in where the main character can wake up but then we couldn't think of how the she will get out start to run away from the mysterious person who is following her.



6. Cheney school Corridor--- We though we could use a school site so that our target audience can relate to an everyday situation and she can leave the school and that would be where she is followed but then we though that it would be hard to film one character at the end of the day when every other student is leaving.


Wednesday, 19 December 2012

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 


Tuesday, 18 December 2012

'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.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_F8lpJXUTA

Thursday, 6 December 2012

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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Tuesday, 27 November 2012


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 










Tuesday, 20 November 2012

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. 

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.