Main Task Video

     This is our main task video.

Audience Feedback

For the finishing task of our project, we asked a number of people to watch our media product and to give constructive feedback.

One point that was made, was that they thought the music ran very well with the action. Especially the starting music. However they thought the part where the protagonist entered the shop seem to drag on a little bit.
They also felt that we fit a lot of good action into 2 minutes. The editing was also mentioned with them saying that the continuity of the film worked very well. The ending leaving the audience on a cliffhanger also seemed to be a big hit with our reviewers.
There were also some bad points however. They didnt think the horror element was portrayed very well, however the hammer sound effect worked very well with the theme.
They also thought that we portrayed boys and girls in a bad light as we made males look bad whereas the female looked like the good character.

Evaluation: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Looking back at the preliminary task, its been proved that my skills in camera and in editing have significantly imrpoved, meaning the end product to be a lot more proffessional.

My skills with a cmaera have widened meaning i can now do a lot more thanings than when we did the preliminary task. I learnt to always use a tripod when doing a eastablishing, long or medium shot. I have also learnt to match the camera angle/shot with the emotion and the goings on in that exact scene.

By learning the meanings of the different shots and angles i feel i have definatly expanded my knowledge of media and working with a camera. For example when showing vulnerability, by using a high angle shot it will convey this.

Evaluation: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Pinnacle 12 editing suite

I have learnt numurous new skills from being the director of this film. When we filmed our preliminary task we used the editig suite of Windows Movie Maker, however the editing of this turned out to be jumpy and not very clean cut. However for our main task we used Pinnacle 12. This proved to be a lot better for editing than that of Windows Movie Maker. Meaning that our editing skills were extremely better than when we did the preliminary task.

After many times of filming, it proved better to film using a tripod. However using the tripod for camera shots throughout the whole of our film can prove to be rather boring, so by adding in some hand held shots added to the horror film as they turned out to be shakey. Also by doing close up shots it adds more emotion to the movie.

Evaluation: How did you attract/address your audience?

I believe that we attracted our audience well. We did this by doing a number of things.

• Our main star, the protagonist, is a female which can then attract both female and male audiences, bringing both genders together. This doesnt very often happen with audience as it usually attracts either mostly males or mostly females.
• Also as a big film fan myself, i feel that a really good film is when you can relate to the characters or put yourself in their situation. I feel that this may be hard to do with our media product but this may just get the audience thinking more, adding to our pyschological theme.
• I feel the location was chosen well, as our media product is a psychological horror, it may get the audience wanting to know what is going on in the house as it looks like just a normal place.

Evaluation: Who would be the audience for your media product?

I think the audience for our film would be a similair audience to that of 28 days later. This is because both films get you thinking as to what might come next.

 28 days later trailor

The people that 28 days later attracts are over 18s who like a psychological horror. But also as it stars teenagers, I think it will also attract young adults.

When planning our media we looked at our audience and mainly aimed it at teenagers and more young adults, however any horror film loves may choose to watch it.

I believe that more males than females may enjoy this film, but this may just be a stereotypical judgement. I think that within our film we may have shown males in a worse light than that our females. We shown the main female to be more of a heroin, where as the males to be more evil.

Evaluation: What kind of Media Institution might distribute your Media Product and why?

The film insitution that I think might distribute our film is Vertigo films.
Vertigo films produces many english films including the 2007 released film 'Faintheart', they also produced their first 3d film 'Street Dance 3D'.

I think MyMovieMashup would be a good way to distribute our film as their is already a set audience so we can guarentee an audience, also by releasing it by multi platform release will help to take more profit. It would also fit into the theme of British culture.

Evaluation: How does your Media product represent particular social groups?

I feel that our media product shows teenagers in a good light, in the way that the main protagonist tries to save her parents from the older antagonists. As our films location is in a normal household, the audience may feel that because the teenager is in her own home she may act differently. However she seems to act in a conciencous way and didnt fear going into the house on her own. This showing the teenager to be very smart.

We tried to keep our film as clean as possible and not involve any swearing whatsoever. When filming the media product it would have been very easy to add in swearing as it would have added well to the mood, however we decided against this as it would have definatly been innappropriate.
As teenagers have a lot of bad press, by showing them to be more smart and not 'chavs' like the news shows them to be, the audiences perception of teenagers may slightly change just from watching our film.

Independant article on teenagers This link will take you to an article about teenagers being 'hoodies, louts, scum'

Evaluation: In What way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

We have used a very 'real' location for our opening sequence. 'real' meaning that it is an everyday location. We decided to use Charlottes house as it would be very quiet during the day. We used very basic mise en scene but using 2 different locations within the 1 house. This means that we could use cuts to show how the atmosphere can be very different with two situations within the same house.
The main protagonist Charlotte is seen in very casual clothes with her normal make up being used. However this is in contrast to the two characters who play the kidnappers. They wear very dark clothing and we barley see their faces so make up wasnt needed. The use of very 'normal' make up and costume suggests the theme of pyschological thriller as it gets the audience thinking as to what will happen next.
When planning a horror movie, it is easy to stick to using the stereotypical conventions of a horror movie, but we tried to be a bit more original and add our own twist onto the horror genre.

The protagonists within our movie have very minimal speech because i feel that this makes the audience questions as to what the antagonists are thinking and what they would say if they did have more speech. This is unusual for an antagonist as they have a big part in most horror movies.

The micro features we used in our film run parralell to our movie. Even though the music we used went extremely well with the action of the film, using contrapuntal music may have had more of a better effect of the audience.