Monday, 10 May 2010
Tuesday, 4 May 2010
Final Audience Research
These were the questions we asked;
1. Did you enjoy our two minute opening sequence?
2. How would you rate the sound we used in the opening? (out of 5)
3. Was our opening true to the horror genre?
4. Have you seen any films which are similar to ours, and if so, what?
5. Was our film opening; Awful, Bad, Average, Good, Amazing?
Person A
1. Yes i did
2. 4
3. Definitely
4. No
5. Good
Person B
1. Yes
2. 4
3. Yes
4. Yes Candyman
5. Amazing
Person C
1. Yes
2. 3
3. Yes
4. No
5. Good
Person D
1. Yes
2. 4
3. Yes
4. Yes, couldnt remember which film.
5. Good
Person E
1. Yes
2. 3
3. Maybe
4. No
5. Average
These results show that most people did infact enjoy our opening sequence and most found it true to the horror genre. This was important as for our target audience we would have to make sure the film appeals to the horror fans that we are targeting. We asked a question about the sound because we spent a long time trying to find a suitable sound to use for our backing track. Most of the results were positive but there was a 3, meaning in the middle.
1. Did you enjoy our two minute opening sequence?
2. How would you rate the sound we used in the opening? (out of 5)
3. Was our opening true to the horror genre?
4. Have you seen any films which are similar to ours, and if so, what?
5. Was our film opening; Awful, Bad, Average, Good, Amazing?
Person A
1. Yes i did
2. 4
3. Definitely
4. No
5. Good
Person B
1. Yes
2. 4
3. Yes
4. Yes Candyman
5. Amazing
Person C
1. Yes
2. 3
3. Yes
4. No
5. Good
Person D
1. Yes
2. 4
3. Yes
4. Yes, couldnt remember which film.
5. Good
Person E
1. Yes
2. 3
3. Maybe
4. No
5. Average
These results show that most people did infact enjoy our opening sequence and most found it true to the horror genre. This was important as for our target audience we would have to make sure the film appeals to the horror fans that we are targeting. We asked a question about the sound because we spent a long time trying to find a suitable sound to use for our backing track. Most of the results were positive but there was a 3, meaning in the middle.
Monday, 26 April 2010
Proposal for Evaluation
We are going to do a directors cut, interviews with both the actor and the director and a DVD menu. We may also do a comparison video between the preliminary task and Bloody Mary opening. We will both have an interview done for ourselves and we will both put some of our blogs in the dvd extract, we are spliting it half and half.
Tuesday, 20 April 2010
Evaluation (Draft)
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Normally in an opening horror sequence the audience witnesses a woman die with her screaming and then the titles begin to roll. Our opening sequence differs however with a teenage boy being the victim instead of viewing a negative stereotype of where the girl is powerless and always in need of rescuing. The boy ends up dying therefore challenging the negative stereotype as we watch the boy becoming powerless and in need of rescue. This challenges other films such as Scary Movie where a girl dies. The teenager also looks blank and like he has nothing in life.
We use a typical horror soundtrack for our opening as it is dark and creepy. We use blood as iconography for the horror genre. This worked for us as it created a serious feel about the horror; we showed through the iconography that the teenager was in trouble and that he had been possessed.
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Our two minute opening follows a teenage boy to his death. This opening represents teenagers in a horror situation with the boy being powerless. We follow him walking though to the cliff where he ends up jumping and killing himself.
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
There might be a few media institutions who may distribute our film such as Optimum Releasing or Verve Pictures. Optimum Releasing distributes over 200 independent films a year therefore providing a reason as to why they may distribute ours. We would probably focus on a smaller target audience as it gives it more chance of success. There is an audience for this type of film with the success of Scream and Candyman. The latter grossed over $25 million and is similar to our film.
Who would be the audience for your media product?
The audience for our two minute opening would probably vary from teenagers to adults as it is a teen horror movie. The ages would probably start from around 15 and rise to about 30. Obviously as this is a teen horror we are aiming the audience to be teenagers but awe would expect adults to be interested in certain aspects of our film such as the horror. Audience feedback is extremely important to our opening as we can find out the views of our peers and see what we could have improved on. We will also find out what mistakes we made if any and see what is good about our opening.
Normally in an opening horror sequence the audience witnesses a woman die with her screaming and then the titles begin to roll. Our opening sequence differs however with a teenage boy being the victim instead of viewing a negative stereotype of where the girl is powerless and always in need of rescuing. The boy ends up dying therefore challenging the negative stereotype as we watch the boy becoming powerless and in need of rescue. This challenges other films such as Scary Movie where a girl dies. The teenager also looks blank and like he has nothing in life.
We use a typical horror soundtrack for our opening as it is dark and creepy. We use blood as iconography for the horror genre. This worked for us as it created a serious feel about the horror; we showed through the iconography that the teenager was in trouble and that he had been possessed.
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Our two minute opening follows a teenage boy to his death. This opening represents teenagers in a horror situation with the boy being powerless. We follow him walking though to the cliff where he ends up jumping and killing himself.
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
There might be a few media institutions who may distribute our film such as Optimum Releasing or Verve Pictures. Optimum Releasing distributes over 200 independent films a year therefore providing a reason as to why they may distribute ours. We would probably focus on a smaller target audience as it gives it more chance of success. There is an audience for this type of film with the success of Scream and Candyman. The latter grossed over $25 million and is similar to our film.
Who would be the audience for your media product?
The audience for our two minute opening would probably vary from teenagers to adults as it is a teen horror movie. The ages would probably start from around 15 and rise to about 30. Obviously as this is a teen horror we are aiming the audience to be teenagers but awe would expect adults to be interested in certain aspects of our film such as the horror. Audience feedback is extremely important to our opening as we can find out the views of our peers and see what we could have improved on. We will also find out what mistakes we made if any and see what is good about our opening.
Monday, 29 March 2010
Sound at the End
We downloaded a guitar melody to compliment the final shot of me walking up the drive. It is simple but we both feel it works as it contrasts the tension built up beforehand. We took it again from the web site 'free sound.org'. This web site has proven to be very useful to us as we have got all of our sounds barring the diagetic ones, from there.
Image Control
We needed to make all the walking shots more gloomy, so we changed the image control and pushed the blue bar up slightly so we took out all the warmth. It was too red with the leaves so the blue toned that down a bit. We also moved a few things around such as the close up of my face bleeding in the mirror so it made the film easier to understand what was going on.
Film Opening Changes
We decided to change our film opening compared to our storyboard as we felt it would fit better with the story. What i mean by this is that the ending on our storyboard didn't have '3 Days Earlier'. We felt we needed to change it also so because we needed to include an extra few seconds so we could get to the time limit of 10% either side of two minutes. We added on the '3 days earlier' shot so our film didn't look like a trailer and it looked like a film opening.
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