Monday, 9 May 2011
Wednesday, 4 May 2011
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
In our opening thriller sequence you are introduced to all characters through the use of freeze frames, and all these characters are all represented as being student explorers. As the whole opening seque
nce is set in a location where these sterotypes would normally go to for their spare time. To approach this sterotype we planned and have made the characters dress in outdoor clothes which was choosen in the early process of our planning. The outdoor clothes e.g jackets, would help represent them as these sterotypical exploers. The choice of making the characters follow this sterotype is set out to be positive and not negative to our audience. We made them seem positive by not going too much to the fact the characters love the outside nature, for example here is a picture of a more sterotypical explorer but shown as a negative representation (left). We have followed a sterotype that is showing a neagative representation to females. The sterotype is saying that femalee can't protect themselves and this is shown in our opening sequence as a female character goes out into the woods alone and ends up dead. We use this sterotpye to attract our audience as they maybe believe in these from research we have done, and this will help make the film be more aimed at the niche audience that we are intended to look at.
nce is set in a location where these sterotypes would normally go to for their spare time. To approach this sterotype we planned and have made the characters dress in outdoor clothes which was choosen in the early process of our planning. The outdoor clothes e.g jackets, would help represent them as these sterotypical exploers. The choice of making the characters follow this sterotype is set out to be positive and not negative to our audience. We made them seem positive by not going too much to the fact the characters love the outside nature, for example here is a picture of a more sterotypical explorer but shown as a negative representation (left). We have followed a sterotype that is showing a neagative representation to females. The sterotype is saying that femalee can't protect themselves and this is shown in our opening sequence as a female character goes out into the woods alone and ends up dead. We use this sterotpye to attract our audience as they maybe believe in these from research we have done, and this will help make the film be more aimed at the niche audience that we are intended to look at.
How did you attract/ address your audience?
We think that to define our film sequence's genre of horror/thriller, we have done this by having the theme blood, suspense, fear and disturbing images in our opening sequence. So for our media product one of the targeting audiences would be teenagers who can take disturbing things, who can see death images. People who are brave to watch a horror/thriller genre is our main target audience. we have grabbed the attention of our audience by having the cast as teenagers who are the same age as our target audience. the fact that it hasd the genre or horror/thriller is a typical genre what teenagers are watching in modern society.
We would say that we don't really have a protagonist as we don't have one main character in particular, however we would say that the teacher in our film who gets most of the camera time and delivers the most dialogue (Ciaran Keavney) can be seen as the protagonist in our opening film sequence. The teacher also has mainly close up shots to show he may be the protagonist. The teacher relates to the audience as he is seen as a more socaible and approachable teacher as teenagers in our target audience like teachers to be like this character.
The use of high-angle camera shots makes attract our audience in believeing that this is from a persons view in the tree's looking down on there victims or prey. Making our audience the fear more as the audience may expect whats going to happen but the characters don't, this will also give a better spectators view as the audience on the film. The use of handheld camera gives another point of view of the characters and how they would see the surroundings. This also builds up tension and fear of something is going to happen, as the handheld camera is very shakey and uneasy to see whats happening on the screen. Doing these camerashots have helped very well to help attract the audience to be more drawn into the film so they can find out what will happen in these mysterious woods.
Progression from the preliminary task to the main task.
From our preliminary task we have learned how to make a good plan of deatailed shots on paper and this helped alot in making our and editing techniques to make our film genre be fitted perfectly as a thriller/horror.
First to help our progress was to find a location that fits our genre (thriller/horror). We did this by looking at variety of locations such as forest's and parks, as shown in this pictur
e to the right of a location we looked at but didnt use. This location did not fit to our genre so good as it was not as enclosed or clostraphobic to make it seem more horrific or build tension and suspense to our opening sequence. Therefore taking this into account we chosen Alexandra park as the woods in the park was more enclosed to make our genre seem more fit to having a fear feeling to it. We also chose Alexandra park in our planning because it was much easier for all members of our group to get there with no problems, as it would of been harder for the group to get to Chorlton.
e to the right of a location we looked at but didnt use. This location did not fit to our genre so good as it was not as enclosed or clostraphobic to make it seem more horrific or build tension and suspense to our opening sequence. Therefore taking this into account we chosen Alexandra park as the woods in the park was more enclosed to make our genre seem more fit to having a fear feeling to it. We also chose Alexandra park in our planning because it was much easier for all members of our group to get there with no problems, as it would of been harder for the group to get to Chorlton.Our group have found many skills from the preliminary task which we have used in our
main task. Such as the 180 degree rule and adding effects to our timeline to show cuts and tranisitions across each shot. These two skills that we consumed from the preliminary have been used in our main task as shown on the picture to the right, where we have used a cross dissolve transition on our timeline to make the film seem more intresting and attract the audience to watch our horror film.
main task. Such as the 180 degree rule and adding effects to our timeline to show cuts and tranisitions across each shot. These two skills that we consumed from the preliminary have been used in our main task as shown on the picture to the right, where we have used a cross dissolve transition on our timeline to make the film seem more intresting and attract the audience to watch our horror film.We took into advice from a preliminary task some certain shots aswel, such as the match cut shot in our opening sequence. This helps with our genre of our film in help to progress through to make the audience like our film and this will be helping for our target audience to build a word of mouth from watching the film, then they will tell their friends about the film to get more of our niche audience to watch the film. Using the match cut was a clever way of begining the tension as two of the characters walk into the woods with no clue who or what is out there.
Overall in our main task we have taken the techniques and skills from our planning, production and editing of our preliminary task, which helped very well for our main task. We learnt a difficult range of camera shots and editing techniques such as freeze frames. We have also learnt much more about our genre and to make each shot and every editing technique to fit with a thirller genre, so this will help in further films if need to be with the genre of thriller/horror.
Sunday, 1 May 2011
Who would be the audience for your media product?
Well firstly we think that by having teenagers (meaning the cast) who fit the film rating 15 and over , having to acting a film sequence really goes to fit our target audience. Our film sequence isn't targeted at girls but both genders; male and female.
Secondly we think that teenagers who like to go camping can also be our targeted audience, because by watching our film sequence in may give an insight for teenagers who are both male and female to be aware of some of the things that may occur in the woods in a park late at night.
All teenagers are more likely to be clumsy but by watching our film sequence they may gain a slight bit of knowledge on how to be careful.
Our opening film sequence isn't really targeted at a specific ethnicity as our film sequence mostly concentrates on targeting students of any sort of the age 15 and above. The students can be of any ethnicity, there are none in particular. However we would say that because our film sequence's storyline is based on students going on a camping trip with a teacher in the woods in something that is more likely to happen in Europe. For example I wouldn't exactly say these things would happen in Asia, especially India and Pakistan, as in them sort of countries it has a more higher risk of something bad to happen andthey are unsafe countries. So for that reason Asian families don't exactly let their children out late at night and especially not to go on camping trips.
Our film sequence contains blood, suspense, fear and disturbing images. So for our media product one of the targeting audiences would be teenagers who can take disturbing things, who can see death images. People who are brave to watch a horror/thriller genre is our main target audience.
Lastly we would say that our film sequence is targeted at a niche audience because our film sequence is an independant film, and independant films are usually aimed at a small audience. And our storyline helps with this as it relates to our audience.
Secondly we think that teenagers who like to go camping can also be our targeted audience, because by watching our film sequence in may give an insight for teenagers who are both male and female to be aware of some of the things that may occur in the woods in a park late at night.
All teenagers are more likely to be clumsy but by watching our film sequence they may gain a slight bit of knowledge on how to be careful.
Our opening film sequence isn't really targeted at a specific ethnicity as our film sequence mostly concentrates on targeting students of any sort of the age 15 and above. The students can be of any ethnicity, there are none in particular. However we would say that because our film sequence's storyline is based on students going on a camping trip with a teacher in the woods in something that is more likely to happen in Europe. For example I wouldn't exactly say these things would happen in Asia, especially India and Pakistan, as in them sort of countries it has a more higher risk of something bad to happen andthey are unsafe countries. So for that reason Asian families don't exactly let their children out late at night and especially not to go on camping trips.
Our film sequence contains blood, suspense, fear and disturbing images. So for our media product one of the targeting audiences would be teenagers who can take disturbing things, who can see death images. People who are brave to watch a horror/thriller genre is our main target audience.
Lastly we would say that our film sequence is targeted at a niche audience because our film sequence is an independant film, and independant films are usually aimed at a small audience. And our storyline helps with this as it relates to our audience.
The media insitution that would distrubute our media product and why?
We have chosen that the distrubuition company to take our film and get it into cinemas would be Artisan Entertainment. We did reasearch into this company and found they distrubuted many films similar to our film, as such from the similar film we are making 'The blair witch project' was distributed behind this company.
These production and distribution companies are big and being realistic, they wouldn’t produce or distribute our media product. However, we did some research about what kind of low budget independent British film companies would produce or distribute our product, a British distribution company, called 'Dogwoof' would also distribute our film. They would be useful to help distribute our thriller film around the UK. DogWoof film company has a online website so this would get our film to be easily distributed.
Another film production company that would distribute our media product would be Hammer Film Productions they are a Britsh film company that produced a lot of films that have a genre of thriller.
Another option for distributing our film could be Film4 Productions which is a production company owned by channel 4. They produced a lot of films made in the UK and all of them were reasonably low budget films for example Shaun of the dead which is a British film of low budget and was produced by Working Title 2. Other films successfully produced by Working Title 2 are Billy Elliot and Four Weddings and a Funeral. Working Title is a production company which might be interested in our media product because it is a bigger production company than Working Title 2.
To market our film we would make trailers and clips around the web to find more about the film as the release date comes near. This would be a very effective way for marketing our film through viral marketing. As we have a target audience of 15-21's, and the age of our target audience will mostly all use the web for many things such as films coming out.
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