Finished.

Sarah Nicholson 4151.

Foundation production G321 finished. 

continuity.

Final cut.

Evaluation.

Question 1.

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Question 2.

Our media product represents 3 different characters social groups, in 3 different ways.

Our first character is the male lead. Me and Becky wanted to represent this character following the gender theory. He was dressed in smart, black clothes coming home from work, we represented this through his briefcase. This gave the audience the assumption of his wealth and power, being a smart working man. We have also linked this character to Laura Mulveys theory, putting the audience in a masculine position. He is represented as the Active character, doing the action.
This then relates to our female lead, her being the passive character of the theory, having the actions done for her. Laura Mulvey also quotes that the woman is represented in either of two ways, innocent and naive or Flirtatious and dangerous. Our character is clearly represented as innocent and naive dressed in soft, peaceful colours like pink and white, with her hair flowing and genuine happy personality. She can also apply to the gender theory in this way, having these signifiers represent her as a mother/wife figure being loving and caring. We did not just represent the female character through her clothes and personality we also represented the mother/wife figure through her actions. She acted in serving her husbands dinner and pouring his wine. We thought this would clearly represent to the audience his power and pride over the female character. Although we did challenge Laura Mulveys theory by giving the female character a knife whilst preparing the dinner, this would then signify her as maybe dangerous and a threat, therefore the audience would learn she was a confusing character to understand and that although she was represented as innocent and naive through her clothes, other small actions could represented her danger. Our last character is the stranger in the house. We wanted this character to be as mysterious as possible towards the audience. We dressed him all in black to represent his danger and threat. Me and Becky Contemplated over whether to use black or red for the character, we chose the colour black because we worried that the red may signify love and not danger, but black can signify darkness and danger together. We kept him very mysterious and hard for the audience to identify using only close up shots of his eyes or back, he had many cuts and bruises to represent his violence and dark eyes to represent his almost deluded personality. The audience always have the assumption men are stronger than woman, bringing Laura Mulveys theory forward again. This is why we used a male character for this role, because although not completely agreeing with the theory ourselves, the audience are most likely to already assume that a male character will be more of a threat.


Question 3.

There are many film distribution companys that exist. For my media product i will need a well known company that distribute all genres of films. I researched many options and narrowed down to my chose distirbutor being New line cinema. New line cinema is a multi-media company which have created some of the most succesful film franchises in history. This company will be suitable for my product being a large company of many genres, attracting all types of people.


Question 4.

Our film being a horror movie would have a large audience. Although me and Becky wanted to choose the audience suited to our film we researched some information on horror movies to gain a knowledge of what the target audience was for the genre. Here are two graphs that identify the outcome.

Researching these graphs showed us that males were more likely to watch a horror movie, and that they were in age range 18-24. Me and Becky decided together that our audience would be 18-26 couples, and groups of males in this age range. We chose couples because they would relate to the couple in our film being around the same age, we felt this would make them as the audience more involved knowing the characters are just normal people like them at the same age, and that this could happen to them. We also chose the group of males because, males being the biggest target audience for the horror genre made us think that maybe social gatherings for them would involve them in watching our film. Here are two pictures of our typical audiences.

We thought these would be the suitable, typical people to watch our film because. The group of males all seem down to earth and willing to have a good laugh together around 19 years old. The couple seem quite close around 20 years old and would sit in and watch a film.

Question 5.
I think our opening two minutes of a horror film immediately attaches the audience. From the very opening few shots the genre is clearly represented. The first 20 seconds are very fast paced and interesting. Numerous shots are used of numerous people, the audience will immediately want to know who these unidentified people are and how they relate to the film. There are many different uses of audio and flashing images which the audience will find hard to be distracted from. Me and Becky felt having the start fast paced and interesting for the audience knowing this will later relate, will want them to keep watching as to whether it will later happen to the couple that are shown after these images.

Question 6.

To create this film a wide use of technology was needed. We used a Dv camera to shoot the movie, this worked out very well. The cameras were easy to understand and use making the filming process less time consuming and easier. We edited our film on a apple imac in software called imovie. imovie is a program where you can cut clips, add titles, sound effects etc. It was extremely useful with numerous amounts of effects for editing and to lead to the completion of our film. Not being able to use copyrighted music in our film caused a problem, but was easily solved using the software garageband where me and Becky produced our own music to use in its place. Not knowing much about the technology used in our film was actually proven not to be so bad. I found the software and Dv camera easy and understandable to use making the process faster and not hard work, although the apple imacs were slightly time consuming in uploading clips and effects, it proved to be necessary and worth the time.

Question 7.

From the preliminary task to our final cut i have learnt many things. I have learnt a number of techniques and gained many skills in creating and editing my own horror film. My final cut has proven to be successful and I would not of done this without knowing and going through a learning process before. Our prelim task was created very quickly, with no aspects of planning and drafting. It has been proven to me that planning out your film before making it is extremely important. Creating storyboards helped tremendously in knowing what shot to film from what angle, what sound effects on top etc. It made the whole process of filming easier and less time consuming rather than thinking it up at the time. Learning about the software used was also helpful, it helped me to create and edit the film much faster and it was easier for me, knowing what I was doing. Feedback was also very useful, we gained many others opinions and thoughts on the film and what they thought needed improving or changing. We were then able to apply this and see if it worked well and satisfactory. I have learnt many things from prelim to my final product, from what is necessary to creating your own film to how you do it. It has been hard and easy at times but I am overall pleased with the outcome of my horror film.