Friday, 27 April 2012
Evaluation: Looking back your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it, to the full product?
Our final production:
Credit to Billy Christensen
Thursday, 26 April 2012
Evaluation: How did you attract/address your target audience?
Evaluation: How did attract/address our target audience?
During the production of our film we tried to add as many
Horror/Thriller conventions as possible, these conventions will help to attract
and address our target audience of young people aged 16-24. The fact our main,
and only character is a young male aged 17 immediately lets the audience
identify with him. The fact he represents the average, young male is hugely
important in attracting a young audience as they life as the character and the
audience have something in common.
The initial shot focuses into an urban setting covered in
graffiti. The urban setting addresses our young audience and attracts them to
carry on watching the film. The bloody, horrific themes featured in the film
were added to address our audience as younger audiences enjoy gore and controversial
themes.
During our planning and research we discovered young
audiences enjoy Horror/ Thriller films at the most when visiting the cinema
with friends. To complement this we put a huge emphasis of our product on
having good quality and sound that will be emphasised by high quality cinematic
experiences. Our target audience ‘Voki’ can be viewed on our blog, along with
some interviews of our typical target audiences.
St Werburghs Tunnel: Graffiti.
Gore scene.
Credit to Billy Christensen
Wednesday, 25 April 2012
Evaluation: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
Evaluation: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
Here's a quick clip of me discussing media institutions and why Lionsgate would be the best suited institution to distribute our film.
Evaluation: Who would be the Audience for your media product?
Who would be the audience for your media product?
Our target audience would be 16-24 olds who enjoy the thrill of Horror/Thriller movies. Horror films normally receive the most popularity at the cinema instead of DVD because young people like to go to the cinema to experience the mutual thrill with friends. Statistic show the younger audience prefer the Horror/Thriller genre of any other, reinforcing that young people are the best target audience for our product.
Here are some quick clips of some stereotypical target audiences:
Credit to Billy Christensen
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
Monday, 19 March 2012
Monday, 12 March 2012
Filming examples
Here we have some quick shots showing Jordan filming some Cutaways at our most recent shoot at Magpie Bottom, Hanham.
Filming exemplar power point
Photographs and PowerPoint by Billy Christensen.
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Monday, 5 March 2012
Further Genre Research
Genre research
What is a Psychological Horror?
Psychological Horror films differ from your typical slasher horror like saw. Psychological horrors rely on taking a character that the audience can (but not all the time) relate to and focus on creating fear through sound effects, mise en scene, guilt, sound, and fate. Slashers focus almost entirely on making the audience jump with sudden loud sounds or feel scared by the gore and dismemberment on-screen.
Psychological horror is a lot more subtle when compared to traditional horror films and usually does not rely on physically harming people as much as typical horror does. The genre tends to play on sexual themes and relationships to build a more emotional link with the audience, and, in turn, makes it more dramatic to watch. You can usually expect psychological horrors to play on a character’s mental and emotional weaknesses and/or disease and suffering to exploit them.
We will use this research to help us to structure a successful horror opening that matches the genre well. A lot can be learned from simply watching other psychological horror films and thinking carefully about elements used in each film.
Key elements include:
- Sound
- Lighting
- Supernatural Presence
- Camera-work
- Transitions
- Visual effects
- Narrative
If we can get all of these key areas covered we will be able to produce a successful end product that fits well amongst other psychological horror films.
Credit to Jordan Barclay.
Thursday, 1 March 2012
Wednesday, 29 February 2012
Visual Storyboard
Visual storyboard
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Pictures by Jordan Barclay
Acting by Billy Christensen
Annotations/power point by Billy Christensen
Pictures by Jordan Barclay
Acting by Billy Christensen
Annotations/power point by Billy Christensen
Further Logo production
Here are a few interpretations of the logos and font that we
like. All content was sources from royalty free, public sources to avoid any
possible copyright infringement. The use of the Blogger logos will used to
write our blog page URL’s underneath the production title overlay
Credit to Jordan Barclay
Costume, Characters mood board
Characters & costumes mood board
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Credit to Jordan Barclay.
These mood boards help us to identify what shots are commonly used in horror films. Depth of field is used heavily to obscure the backgrounds of shots to make the audience curious and suspicious of hidden elements. The use of suits in horror films provides a strong level of juxtaposition and we will experiment with the use of suits in our production.The use of long shots also work well because it leaves out just enough detail to leave the audience curious, whereas the close ups are designed to shock the audience.
Credit to Jordan Barclay.
Target Audience Profiles
Here I have produced two short clips of fellow classmates who are interested in the psychological horror genre, aged 16 and 17 they both fit the target audience perfectly.
Credit to Billy Christensen.
Credit to Billy Christensen.
Monday, 27 February 2012
Friday, 24 February 2012
Font type ideas
Here i have put together a few different font type ideas for our opening credits. We have decided to use gothic design to stick to genre conventions, the use of the of a gothic design in the opening credits will also help to establish the genre, even before any footage is shown.
Credit to Billy Christensen.
Thursday, 23 February 2012
Thursday, 9 February 2012
Monday, 30 January 2012
Target Audience
Our target audience for the psychological horror genre is both Males and Females between the age 16-25. The typical young person between this age visits the cinemas more than any other other age group, it seems they prefer the cinematic experience of Horror and the collective thrill they get from the big screens with their friends.
Credit to Billy Christensen.
Our target audience for the psychological horror genre is both Males and Females between the age 16-25. The typical young person between this age visits the cinemas more than any other other age group, it seems they prefer the cinematic experience of Horror and the collective thrill they get from the big screens with their friends.
Credit to Billy Christensen.
Thursday, 26 January 2012
Survey + Survey Analysis
Survey
Survey + PowerPoint by Billy Christensen.
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Assesment Criteria- Time Management
Credit to Billy Christensen.
Wednesday, 25 January 2012
Training Day Trailer- Textual Analysis
Traning day
Words by Jordan Barclay
PowerPoint by Billy Christensen.
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Monday, 23 January 2012
Wednesday, 18 January 2012
Monday, 16 January 2012
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