Wednesday 13 April 2011
Evaluation questions 5 - 9
5: How did you attract/address your audience?
As i explained earlier the targeted age/audience group would be fifteen years and above. I believe with the use of unique editing techniques such as the letterbox effect and following the conventions of pyschological horror (not reveiling too much gore and horror) i attracted the audience. I also decided to put titles of, '2 weekes before abduction' so the audience of whatever age would be intrigued about how the male character got into his prediciment with organ trafficking. Adding to this i used a limited amount of gore so i wouldn't exclude anyone under eighteen and i would still stay in the fifteen certificate bracket. I believe my film worked in attracting and entertaining my audience as out of fifty people who reviewed my film (14 of them being older than twenty the rest being under) 90% gave the film 9/10 or above.
6: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
If i was to choose a company to fund my project iwould probably choose a co-production between Film-Four and EM media. Film-Four is known for funding bigger British projects such as Slumdog Millionaire. I would not use this company because of its horror expertise but more so on there capable financial attributes. I would use EM media to help co-fund the project through companys like the National Lottery. Although EM media have not funded many Horror feature films they have funded many horror shorts, for example, 'In The Meadows' directed by Dave Alexander Smith.
7: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
The technologies i used within the making of this project such as the internet, Blogger and I-Movie i was already fluent at using. Garageband on the other hand was a new software and i felt for making soundtracks it was exceptional. It was also especially handy in the use of post-production foley work. I-Movie on the other hand i felt was more of a hinderance as i was used to editing off more complex editing systems such as Avid, Final Cut Pro and Sony Vegas 8.0. A positive for I-movie though was the letterbox effect which i felt made the film seem more professional but a added negetive is the titles system was awful and i had limited movement of where i wanted to place them.
8: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
In the original task i felt that the pace of the editing was slow. I made an extended effort to improve this and i feel in my final project this has shown. If i was going to produce the product again i would make sure that i planned the production earlier and more efficiently. I spent a lot of time planning and although i did not have to reshoot this was still added pressure.
9 What was your contribution the the process during the planning, production and post production stages?
In the planning folder i created the concept and script and later on edited the storyboard. I also found and built the location, alongside setting up the lighting. In the production and post-production part of the project i worked alone and therefore did all the work by myself. The only work i received aid in was with the artificial wound, this was created by Misty-Rose Dunsmore and she was chosen to do this because of her talents in this specific area of work.
As i explained earlier the targeted age/audience group would be fifteen years and above. I believe with the use of unique editing techniques such as the letterbox effect and following the conventions of pyschological horror (not reveiling too much gore and horror) i attracted the audience. I also decided to put titles of, '2 weekes before abduction' so the audience of whatever age would be intrigued about how the male character got into his prediciment with organ trafficking. Adding to this i used a limited amount of gore so i wouldn't exclude anyone under eighteen and i would still stay in the fifteen certificate bracket. I believe my film worked in attracting and entertaining my audience as out of fifty people who reviewed my film (14 of them being older than twenty the rest being under) 90% gave the film 9/10 or above.
6: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
If i was to choose a company to fund my project iwould probably choose a co-production between Film-Four and EM media. Film-Four is known for funding bigger British projects such as Slumdog Millionaire. I would not use this company because of its horror expertise but more so on there capable financial attributes. I would use EM media to help co-fund the project through companys like the National Lottery. Although EM media have not funded many Horror feature films they have funded many horror shorts, for example, 'In The Meadows' directed by Dave Alexander Smith.
7: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
The technologies i used within the making of this project such as the internet, Blogger and I-Movie i was already fluent at using. Garageband on the other hand was a new software and i felt for making soundtracks it was exceptional. It was also especially handy in the use of post-production foley work. I-Movie on the other hand i felt was more of a hinderance as i was used to editing off more complex editing systems such as Avid, Final Cut Pro and Sony Vegas 8.0. A positive for I-movie though was the letterbox effect which i felt made the film seem more professional but a added negetive is the titles system was awful and i had limited movement of where i wanted to place them.
8: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
In the original task i felt that the pace of the editing was slow. I made an extended effort to improve this and i feel in my final project this has shown. If i was going to produce the product again i would make sure that i planned the production earlier and more efficiently. I spent a lot of time planning and although i did not have to reshoot this was still added pressure.
9 What was your contribution the the process during the planning, production and post production stages?
In the planning folder i created the concept and script and later on edited the storyboard. I also found and built the location, alongside setting up the lighting. In the production and post-production part of the project i worked alone and therefore did all the work by myself. The only work i received aid in was with the artificial wound, this was created by Misty-Rose Dunsmore and she was chosen to do this because of her talents in this specific area of work.
Evaluation: Part one: Questions 1 - 4
AS Media Studies: Foundation Portfolio Evaluation Questions Part One: Half Term Homework
1: For my AS Media project I was briefed to create the first two minutes of a Horror film. The film had to show an understanding of the horror genre and an exceptional standard of directing capability.
I began this project in a group of three with Sophie Liddiard and Michaela Megran-Handley but due to a difference in creative opinions the group split up. I personally preferred working alone and the benefit of having total creative control outweighed the liabilities.
The concept was originally taken from an online BBC news report published on the 16th December 2010. The article was written about a growing number of organ trafficking cases within Kosovo and the expected amount of deaths that had already occurred because of it. As I researched more I began to understand the velocity of this subject and how it had actually dated back to the Kosovo war in 1999.
2: People being abducted and their organs taken out I felt was a unique yet realistic topic. If I was going to continue the film I’d make it a hybrid of genres between Physiological horror and a thriller. The narrative would not be linear and it would follow the story of the criminal organisation abducting humans, parallel to the detectives trying to uncover where these killings are taking place.
For this specific brief the genre of my film shall be Physiological-horror. The definition of a physiological horror is as follows:
“Psychological horror is a subgenre of horror fiction that relies on character fears, guilt, beliefs, eerie sound effects, relevant music and emotional instability to build tension and further the plot. Psychological horror is different from the type of horror found in "splatter films," which derive their effects from gore and violence, and from the sub-genre of horror-of-personality, in which the object of horror does not look like a monstrous other, but rather a normal human being, whose horrific identity is often not revealed until well into the work, or even at the very end.”
With this in mind I understood that I could not make the beginning of the horror cliché with gore and a horrific antagonist. I needed the film to introduce the scenario and maybe only partially reveal some of the antagonists that were going to be involved.
The two films that influenced my directual technique were ‘The Thing’ directed by John Carpenter and ‘The Exorcist’ directed by William Friedkin. Both of these films are critically acclaimed horrors but they both introduce the horror later on within the film. This is different to other sub-genres of film, for example ‘Slasher’ where the antagonist and violence is introduced early on within the narrative. The horror that I would link most closely to mine within my sub-genre would be Silence of the Lambs. This film follows a number of twists and turns within the plot being and if my movie narrative continued it would do exactly the same.
Within a physiological horror genre there is a regular occurrence of twists within the plot. As well as looking at the human psyche films within this sub-genre will also play with the audiences mind sometimes changing the perspective on who is the antagonist. The film may also show the odd logic of the killer or killers for example Silence of the Lambs where its shows the killers perspective. It also shows a more multi-dimensional aspect to the protagonist character compared to other genres such as slasher where the evil guy can be quite one dimensional. While researching a number of physcological films such as The Others and the exorcist I noticed both started there films slowly and they don’t reveal the protagonist until later on in the movie. I followed this convention and I merely showed the consequences of the psycho’s actions within the opening two minutes of my film.
3+4: The target audience for my film would be fifteen years of age and above. I decided to choose this certificate as The Exorcist; another psychological film had a highest number of views from females under the age eighteen on IMDB.
With this information I decided to make the victim within film an older male. I felt if the victim were too young, male or female the audience would still think the film was unrealistic.
Friday 1 April 2011
First version of film
This is my first version of the film. I asked ten students to review the film and then i changed the films continuity errors and then i added a title.
Reviews From students
The project was completed yesterday and today it was reviewed by fifteen students within my class. Out of sixty, the film scored an average 54.3 and a median of 53. The lowest score being 47 and the highest being 60. The film encountered a number of criticisms on the font size but apart from this the movie had a good reception.
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