Individual Evaluation 7

Individual Evaluation 6

I have learnt over the last few months about many different technologies that i didnt know about before the project started. Through the process of this project we have used many different types of equipment in order to produce this media product. By the end of the filming process we had mastered the art of using the camera and we had also figured out on how to process the the footage to the Mac. Processing footage is a long task that needs to be done as it has to be converted into the prefered format. once on the Mac you can re-order it and then begin editing.

This is a picture of Me, Fay and Reece using the mac book Pro to take a photo of ourselves during the experimental stages of this main Task. This was to show that we was getting used to the Mac and all the different things that we can do with it. the camera we only used, to take a photo of the people in our group.

This is a photo of me using the camera to show that i am able to use it and am able to show how the process of filming takes place and for how long it takes.Using the camera at tyhe start was okay for me as i have had previous experience making short films and knew how to waork a camera. It was a pretty simple peice of technology that i enjoyed using as i filmed the majority of our main task.

Finally this is me on the Mac Book Pro. I am showing how we  all used this software to edit our Film opening and how to edit our footage properly. as i am doing this my team are editing different part of the footage on their own computers using the basic software. This was a little bit more complex then using the camera as there is a lot more stuff that we had to do in order to convert and edit it.

Individual Evaluation 3

This is the directors commentary for our media product to help in get distributed to other countries. 

We called our production company “BRYF Productions” because we used this name in the preliminary task and we decided we wanted to keep it we stayed in the same group.

·        A production company provides the fundraising for making the film like partnering with another company like Pixar partnered with Disney.

·        A film distributer would release the film to the public through the cinema or DVD’s or Blue Ray. They do this directly if they own the film distribution networks or by the other sub-distributers.

·        The money for producing our film came from borrowing money from the school which if we were to produce our film we would make money and make a profit so we would pay them back

·        We decided to put all the names and titles in this order because we thought that it would better suit in the way it was so that you see the production company first and then the actors who star in it.

·        We decided on the colour of the footage because we wanted to create a creepy effect on the film without doing too many special effects.

·        We used a song from YouTube called scary music to add a different dimension to the opening. It was creepy and made the footage look so realistic and true to real life media.

·        The Title was done in blood Red font to make audiences see that there is blood and gore ahead in the rest of the film to keep them entertained. It is a hidden part which makes audiences thinks that it is scarier than other horror/thriller films.

Individual Evaluation 5

The way in which we have attracted our audience is simple. We used quite an attractive actor in the Film opening so that we can have more of the female audience attracted to the idea of the film. As well as this we used an attractive acctress in the Film opening so that we could boost the number of males who decided to watch it. We also used our skills in advertising, by going around our schhol and letting people know that we was going to be filming on the school grounds, so if they wanted they could always participate in viewing the production of our film first hand.

These are the pictures of the two actors in our film opening. as you can see they are both attractive actors and our audience will be exited to watch the action for themselves. this is one reason why they have been urged to watch our film opening.



We have annotated the video and we have commented on how we have done things and the things that we have accomplished from it.  the link to the Annotated youtube video is HERE!!!!

The annotations for the video focus on editing decisions we have made as a group.

Individual Evaluation 4

The Target Audience for our media product would be Teenage Girls from the age of 15 to 17. we have discussed in other posts that they would be the audience we would target as they were the ones to answer our questionnaire and we got the most audience feedback from them. We had a graph which showed that the majority of the audience who saw our Film opening liked it and would like to see it again. 

The picture to the left is a drawing which we drew of our typical target audience. It is female because of the amount of females that participated in our questionnaire. She is 16 and enjoys watching zombie comedy's with friends. She shops at New look and Republic and enjoys buying lots of clothes. she occasionally shops at Rampage to get some funky belts and studs. She has recently purchased an acid Green Hair extension to wear when she goes out.

She listens to All sorts of different music such as Punk rock and Electro music. She buys lots of CD's with any spare money she has as she is a real fan of the music industry.

Her favorite TV programs are Walking Dead and Death Valley because they are slightly scary and they are the sort of programs that she enjoys watching. Her favorite films are Zombieland and The Crazies because they are also scary and she enjoys the thrill of the films. she like to buy the DVDs to the films also as she likes to be frightened over and over again. Our whole target audience is like this character and enjoy many of the same things as her and are as crazy as her to be as committed to the genre of film and stay that way. Lots of our Target audience are the same as her and enjoyed Our film opening.


These are the Two TV shows that our target audience enjoys because of the gore and scary qualities of them.

 

These are two very good examples of well made Horror shows that have done well over in America and in Britain itself.





This is the Film "The Crazies" which is one of our target audiences favorite films as well as "Zombieland"


This is another example of a well made and produced film that is aimed at the same target audience as us and has had great success because of them.


The Target audiences that we have chosen and the film competitors have chosen have been relevant to our focus groups and we have had success due to the fact that we tackled the problem of getting an audience. We then got the correct target audience for Our film opening and therefore have had great success.

Individual Evaluation 2

I think that the Media product does represent certain social groups and the main one would be teenagers. teenagers are attracted to Horror/Thriller films as they are more interested in these sort of films rather than an older audience. The Audience will be able to relate to the characters of our film as they are round about the same age and they will be feeling emotionally attached to the characters. Teenagers will also be able to understand the story a lot better as they will relate to them, whereas an older audience might not understand because of there wisdom and common sense. The 3 weeks later scene was added in the end to attract a wider range of people because they will be interested in what exactly does happen next. Teenagers will also be aware of the events that may happen and will want to stay tuned to see if the rest of the film turns out like as planned.

In the picture above we have a comparison between Reece's character and a zombie character from the film "Zombieland". for our version of the shot we have edited the colour on it as part of our film. We have changed the colour of the video footage to make it appear more creepy. the original footage was bright and Colourful because the weather was very bright although it was raining. the picture from Zombieland is bright because this is the way that the their producers and director wanted it. This picture is very similar to the quality of our original film footage. The blood used in these are very different as in our film as we didn't use a lot of special effects for the blood. Unfortunately we didn't have the time or materials to make them look  realistic. we also did not want to make a lot of mess as this would have to of had more effort and time wasted cleaning up after ourselves. In Zombieland they had a lot more time then us to make mess and to clean up afterwards. Because of this Zombieland looks more realistic than our film opening.


The costumes that where used in the two films are very different also. the ones used for Zombieland were made especially for the stunt actors to wear. The clothes are very normal looking also and have been covered in fake blood to make them look more authentic. The clothes in which we used in our Film Opening were dark so that Reece could blend in with the backdrop and could be hidden from fays character. We also made his cloth choice quite normal looking and nothing with blood on so that he looked like a regular person. This would have been a good effect to use in Zombieland as it would have kept the audience guessing on who are the Zombies, and who are the regular people.


Reece doesn't appear to have eaten yet, whereas the zombies in Zombieland eat all the time. Because Reece is not covered in blood like a regular zombie then it must mean that he has only recently gone through "The Change". As said before it is really obvious who the zombies are and that they will kill everyone in sight. In our film Opening this is not as clear and this puts our audience on edge.


Although there are many differences between Reece's Character and the Zombie, There is a few similarities too. One of them is that both of them have the same goal in mind and that would be to kill and eat their victims. This makes them both ideal candidates for both films and perfect for any Horror/Thriller. The social group which is Female teenagers who we are targeting this at, must be very impressed with the characters use and how they are both unique to this film and may not be seen in other film that have been produced.

Individual Evaluation 1

Our Main Task for media was to Create a Opening To a Film which is no longer than 2 minutes. We have successfully completed our film opening which is fit for purpose and is watchable. It fits perfectly to the genre  which we set out to have which was Thriller/Horror. we have also successfully made sure that it is suited for our target audience. It was all a very long process be as we all worked together, we was able to complete it on time. It was a hard process with lots of ups and downs but we managed to improve our skills in media and create a worth while piece of film.

                              This is Our opening Sequence to our Film "Prohibited" 

The conventions that we were planning to use for our film opening were:

• To make our Film as dark and Creepy as possible
• To have Bright and Bold Font for the Opening Title
• Use as many different camera angles as we could.

I personally say that we have challenged the forms and conventions of real media                         products as our film opening is unique and has many unanswered questions evolved within it which a lot of other film opening do not have. we have used some other conventions from our Deconstructions "Zombieland" and "Hostage" because we wanted to film real life action with the credits overlaying it. we wanted to do it like Hostage, as we wanted the audience to feel involved in the film so they knew what was going on and the events that could follow. 

We used a Bold Red Title, like the one from Zombieland. we wanted to make the title jump out at our audiences and to make sure that it stuck in their minds throughout the film. We used Blood RED so that the audience identified that as Blood, and they would instantly know the film may contain a lot of gore. This 100% is relevant to the type of film we set out to make.

I think that we used a wide variety of shots and camera angles as we wanted to do this from the beginning. Our film opening is good because of this reason and inst boring by using the same camera angle all the way through it. We did not use the conventions of "The Mummy" as there was drawn elements which we couldn't fit into our film as it wasn't relevent to the story, therefor we did not achieve this type of form. The mummy's scene also quickly merged into one another which we did not do as our piece was made up of live action shot, whereas the Mummy is a lot of drawings and different effects which we didn't want to have as it wasn't relevant to the effect that we wanted to achieve.         

I think that we deffinatly achieved all of the Conventions which we set out to do in the beginning throughout our film opening. We created the Creepy and scary effect by placing an innocent girl and a cute dog in a dark and abandoned area. this instantly caused our audience some stress as they knew that things were not good. By adding a Crazed Fresh eating lunatic  to the equation, we created fear in the minds our our audience and the sympathy emotion for the girl and her dog. We also achieved our third convention as we made sure to add lots of different camera angles including: Close ups, match on Action, mid shots and panning shots. we used the 180 degree rule and wide shots with the Hand held camera to create more of a scary atmosphere and to make sure we didn't break one of Films key rules.