Evaluation.

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

Our film is a horror genre, we can tell this mainly through facial expressions, eye contact, music and the mood of the scenes as to dialogue. Although, screams and heavy breathing is involved in this genre alot.
In our opening sequence, we used heaving breathing from Ross as he is having a bad dream and carried that on over the titles, also we used soft but eary and creepy music over the backgroud to add effect to the mood and atmosphere. Also, we used shots of Georgia looking round frightened so show that something was happening that wasn't positive.
Horror films are mainly aimed at a larger target audience but some people choose not to because they are too scared; we captured our target audiences' attention by the heaving breathing. Young people or children are usually related to horror films as they connect to the spiritual side of things, so that's why we decided to used young people.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

It represents different social groups by the particular target audience that would be attracted to it. In horror films women are usually involved, as an audience we usually feel sympathy for a woman as to a man, also women tend to scream so that adds to the effect of being scared. However, we went against all stereotypical types in our opening scene by using mainly males. This is because we wanted to see how audiences would react to a male victim/character and to add effect to the film. Horror films usually involve children especially in the spiritual sense and seeing as ours is about haunting, we thought it would be suitable to use children.




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

We chose 'Lionsgate' because horror films such as 'Saw 5' have been distributed by them too.
In horror films there are usually women involved as, as an audience we usually feel sympathy for a woman as to a man, also women tend to scream so that adds to the effect of being scared. However, we are going against all stereotypical types in our opening scene and using males. This was because we wanted to see how audiences would react to a male victim/main character and to add affect to the film.




Who would be the audience for your media product?

Our target audience is 15 years+ because it may have psychological issues that they may not understand. It applies to male and female as both genders watch horrors.
We wanted them to respond a bit scared and anxious to what happened but also intrigued into what is going to happen further on in the film, therefore want to watch more.

How did you attract/address your audience?

We attracted our audience by making the opening a bit jumpy and mysterious to make them want to watch more and find out what is going to happen. I think the music adds to it as it gives a creepy atmosphere and adds suspence in certain places.

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

I have learn't that it is good to make sure everything is filmed exactly right before editing certain parts because we found ourselves re-shooting alot of times because things were too short or long. Another thing I realised was to have a back up plan just incase as some people you can not always rely on.

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

I feel I have learn't not to rush into ideas and make sure we have everything planned out before filming as we came across several things that resulted in us re-filming. Also, I would make sure I have reliable and dedicated people in our team because when people don't turn up to filming schedules and so on, it lets us down. I have learn't

Feedback.

Molly Baxter "Really liked it because you can tell what genre it is, loved the effect with the eye and set the atmosphere"

Jessica Wright "Liked the eye effect and the music added to the mood"

Gemma Banham "Really liked it and I thought I was watching a real film"

Miss Whittaker "Was always a good idea and the re-shoot has made it as effective and eerie as it should be"

Order of titles

Main star Daniel Pye and Ross Wood
Other actors/actresses Georgia Covil, Alex Flynn and Luke Francis
Casting by Stacey Craig
Costume designer Jessica Wright
Music by Nancy Campopiano
Co-producer Adam Matthew
Film editor Robyn Lidsey
Production designer Sarah Minett
Executive producer Sam Middlemiss
Produced by Camilla Price
Written and directed by Laura Deborde

Treatment

Treatment: The Unseen

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Shots we used:

Shot 1-Black screen, Lionsgate logo and sounds of Ross having a bad dream.

Shot 2- Close up- Ross tossing and turning, having bad dream.

Shot 3- Black screen, Tormented pictures logo and sounds of Ross and having a bad dream.

Shot 4- Close up- Ross tossing and turning, having bad dream.

Shot 5-Black screen, title 'The Unseen' and sounds of Ross having a bad dream again.

Shot 6-Close up- Ross tossing and turning, having bad dream then fades into next shot.

Shot 7-Birds eye view-kids playing ouji board.

Shot 8-Birds eye view-candles going out.

Shot 9-360 degree shot-circling the kids playing ouji board

Shot 10-mid shot-rocking horse.

Shot 11-mid shot-alex putting ouji board in cupboard

Shot 12- long shot-dan staring at cupboard

Shot 13- close up into extreme close up-zooming into Dan's eye

Shot 14-extreme close up into close up-zooming out of Ross' eye.

Shot 15-over the shoulder into extreme close up-Ross looking at cupboard then zooms into cupboard.

We were going to shoot in Luke's bedroom to start off with but we thought his parents room would be more suitable beacuse it was plain and easy to adjust according to the jump in time periods. The whole opening was in one room.

Diary

18th January- Me, Georgia Covill and Luke Francis went to Luke's house (the set) to film the first half of our opening. Ross, one of our actors came along too. This was successful as we did use some of the clips.

25th January- Me, Georgia, Luke and Rob McDonald went back to Luke's house to film the second half. Dan also was with us as one of our actors. This was unsuccessful as once start editing we realised we needed to re-film as the clips were not long enough.

1st February- Me, Georgia, Luke and Rob went to re-film 2 shots as they were the shots that wasn't long enough.

8th February- This time Rob wasn't in school so we had to re-film the whole thing with me, Georgia, Luke, Dan and Alex stood in for Rob for us. However, this turned out a good thing as it was better this time than before.

Other changes me made...
Apart from shooting we changed other things such as the ouji board. We was going to make a real one but because of suspicious troubles we used a piece of carboard and a glass to represent it. Also, we were going to use Luke's younger sister and friends to play the children but in the end we couldn't find the same time schuedule for all of us to we used ourselves instead. We improvised on costumes as they dressed down to look more like children, plus the scenes were changed around alot during the different shootings we did.

The top left hand picture is off the shot were we had all the candles being blown out symoultaniously. This was one of the hardest shots we made because after trying there was always one candle still lit . we are happy with our final shot.
The one underneath is off the juegy board filming wich was most of the film. After the filming we edited all the dream shots so that they flickered and was in black and white , just so that it was different to thesleeping shots so that you could tell the difference.







This is were we filmed our first scene of the man ( ross wood ) having a nightmare in his bed.for this shot we used the birds eye view angle so that we could zoom into the ross' face