Evaluation Part 4 - Unfinished

In what ways does your media product use develop of challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

A horror is an unsettling film, which is designed to frighten and panic the audience, as well as causing dread, and alarm, invoking everyone’s hidden and worst fears. Along with captivating the audience, entertaining them in a cathartic experience, often concluding in a terrifying shocking finale.
Horrors set out to create fear in their audiences, this can be through nightmares, the vulnerability of the viewer, revulsions, the terror of the unknown, a loss of identity, dear of sexuality and alienation.

There is always a lead character, that often results as the survivor in the film; the killer of the monster often has a trademark characteristics in the way that he kills or challenges the characters, for example the type of person that he kills or terrorizes, a weapon that he uses to kill them, or a way in which he plays with peoples minds. Horrors/ thrillers are usually good against evil, with two characters complicating. The outcome is the good person always survives, defeating the “bad guy”.

I personally don’t think that our film/ opening sequence does not challenge all of the conventions or a thriller/ horror; we have a main character, and a “villain” as such, who has his signature ways of tormenting his “victim”.  

Narrative

Follows a plot

Goodwins theory

Camera angels

has a wide range of different shots, both close up and long shot, but to a point where you don’t know what is hiding around the corner, behind doors, or the camera (the shadow at the end) the use of hand held so that it looks like it is through the eyes of someone else, not being able to see the boys face to council his identity, camera angels of the pictures of the wall – panning around the room. Still shots from both a close up and long distance.

Continuity and editing;
 the use of slowing shots down – why this was done; the darkness, the use of quick cuts,

Sound and music;
As individuals we researched into the type of music that we would be using for our opening, we thought that it would be best to look at the music that has been used for other openings of horror/thriller films, after looking at many different types, we decided that we would focus more on the music that was created for the remake of the Omen, and base the music that we would be making ourselves around this.

The music that we ,made for our opening does not challenge the forms and conventions of horror films as it sets the mood and creates an eerie feel, drawing in the audience.

Mise-en-scene / expression (lighting and colour)
darkness at the beginning; dullness through out the house, the shadow

Typography;

Iconography;
the images and symbolic representations that are traditionally associated with a person or a subject;

Indexical/ iconic/ abstract signs;
the drawings that the young boy had done and put up on the wall, the teddy bears.

The children – the director and the codes and convetions that he uses – its not what you can see, its what you can see.

Codes and conventions of thriller films

Other films that are similar 

Evaluation Part 3

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

As a group we thought that Universal would be the best institution to distribute our film because they have been distributing films for years, which range from many different genres as well as new thriller/ horrors which are different from the normal slasher.  As well as this we have chosen Universal as they are a well known mainstream company which have a big success when releasing films, as well attracting people to pay to watch our film. 

Evaluation Part 2

Who would be the audience for your product?

The target audience for Walking with the dead is both young males and females from the ages of 15 – 25, who come from all different back grounds and cultures.

We researched into the psychographics of different age groups and this was the one that best suited our audiences;

Age: 15-24 year olds

Gender: male/female

Race: N/A

Sexuality: N/A

ABC: C2-E

Marital Status: N/A

Geographical region(s): Worldwide, but mainly English speaking countries.

Media Interests: They are likely to be interested in things outside of the mainstream, including less famous musicians( or even unsigned acts), small chain supermarkets such as the co-op. They are likely to read the SUN newspaper, as it is aimed at the people at the bottom of the food chain. It is also the newspaper that most teenagers read, if they read one at all. They are likely to listen to a radio station such as Radio One, as it provides them with a mixture of music, not just mainstream pop/R&B.

Psychographics: Explorers – they are likely to enjoy the thrill of the genre of my film. They are generally younger people – students.
Together we researched into who would be the best target audience by looking into the film certificates from other thriller films as well as asking friends and family what they thought of our concept for a film and whether or not they would be interest to see it, and applied this to what we had previously researched and used the two together to decide who would be our target audience. 

Evaluation Part 1

Brief

As a group, we have been working to the brief of creating the titles for an opening of a new fiction film. The titles have to been between 90 seconds and 2 minutes.

Our opening title sequence set the scene and the main character “Harry” although you never see his face or his whole body as once as we wanted to conceal his identity to keep the audience wondering who this boy is.  As well as setting the scene and the character we wanted to set an eerie mood and show that our film is a horror and that “Harry” is not your not your normal child without giving too much away.

The main genre of our title sequence is Thriller/ Paranormal with a sub genre of realist/documentative along with being a psychological thriller.