Evaluation activity - Who would be the target audience for your film product?

Name: Garion Hayman
Age: 26
Occupation: Art teacher
Fave music: Punk
Fave T.v Program: Shamless
Fave movie genre: Horror
Fave Director: Steven Spielberg
Fave Movie: The Goonies
Fave Actor: Kate Beckinsale
How often do you go to the cinema: Once a month
Recent viewings at the cinema: Underworld 3D
2D/3D preference: 2D

Garion would enjoy watching our horror film as it's his favourite genre. As our film is aimed at over 18's he is in the ideal age group for our film.










Name: Jasmine Bridger
Age: 17
Occupation: Student
Fave music: Pop
Fave TV program: Ghost Whisperer
Fave movie genre: Horror / thriller
Fave director: Steven Spielberg
Fave movie: Woman in Black
Fave actor: Daniel Radcliffe
How often do you go to the cinema: Once a month
Recent viewings at cinema: Woman in Black
2D / 3D preference: 2D

Jasmine is a media student and so she will want to watch the film as part of that; and would therefore lend a critical viewing approach. Her favourite genre is horror, so this is exactly her type of film.




Name: Bekky Kirkup
Age: 17
Occupation: Student / Healthcare Assistant
Fave music: Alternative and rock
Fave TV program: Friends
Fave movie genre: Thriller
Fave director: Tim Burton
Fave movie: Inception
Fave actor: Johnny Depp
How often do you go to the cinema: Every 3 months
Recent viewing at cinema: Woman in Black
2D / 3D preference: 2D

Bekky is a media student and so would want to watch the film as part of that; and would therefore lend a critical viewing approach. Her favourite genre of thriller, favourite director, and most recently viewed film at the cinema hint that she would enjoy a horror film.




Name: Mr. Thornton
Age: 27
Occupation: Media teacher
Fave music: Grunge and Punk
Fave TV program: Screenwipe
Fave movie genre: Drama
Fave director: Shane Meadows
Fave movie: Robin Hood Prince of Thieves
Fave actor: Leonardo DiCaprio
How often do you go to the cinema: Every 6 weeks
Recent viewing at cinema: The Descendants
2D / 3D preference: 2D

Mr. Thornton is a media teacher and so he would want to be updated with recent films, whether or not they are his favourite genre. This is not to say he would neccesarily enjoy our film; he would lend a critical approach to viewing it. However his age range is ideal and his music preference hints that he could enjoy it. Horror is basically drama with gore and silly scares anyway.

Evaluation activity - Dom similarities/differences with other media representations of teenagers

This post is about our character Dom and his similarities / differences with other media representations of teenagers.




Dom vs Scream's Randy

Similarities:
. Witty
. Makes light of a situation knows how to brighten a mood
. The 'nice' character
. Manages to avoid killer until a good way through the film (Randy died in the sequel)
. The nerd a friend of one of the main characters




Dom vs High School Musical's Chad

Similarities:
. The main guy's best friend (secondary character)

Differences:
. More realistic appearance of a teen than Chad
. Not 'the cool' guy
. Less focus on 'masculine' activities (e.g. basketball)

Evaluation activity - Danielle similarities/differences with other media representations of teenagers

This post is about our character Danielle and her similarities / differences with other media representations of teenagers.




Danielle vs Scream's Tatum

Similarities:
. Sluttish in the way they dress
. Drinks a lot of alcohol
. Is romantic with boyfriend in the film and is evry close to him
. Dresses revealingly wants to appeal to the male gender(example - for her boyfriend)
. Goes somewhere alone where she gets killed

Differences:
. Danielle's boyfriend gets killed
. Tatum's boyfriend is the killer





Danielle vs High School Musical's Gabriella

Similarities:
. The main girl character
. Girlfriend of the main guy character

Differences:
. Much more sluttish
. Gabriella is 'perfect' stereotpical girl who is innocent . Danielle is a more realistic representation
. Focuses on the bad points of teens rather than the good

Evaluation activity - How does your media product represent particular social groups?

This post is about our character Mark and similarities / differences with other media representations of teenagers.



Mark vs Scream's Stu

Similarities:
. They are both one of the main characters
. Lost in the 90s ( The way he acts and dresses etc)
. Always cracking jokes and is up for a laugh
. Has a girlfriend in the film that he is close to
. Very sure of himself and knows what he is good at ( Sonny's line ...'Get in' )

Differences:
. Stu turned out to be the killer
. Mark is a good guy who dies.





Mark vs High School Musical's Troy

Similarities:
. One of the main guy characters
. The 'cool' kid

Differences:
. Mark dresses more how the average teen would
. Troy is more 'Barbie doll Ken' good looks
. Mark shows you don't have to be the sporty type to be cool (dismisses the 'jock' stereotype)

Screen shots

Our film starts with a two-shot with Mark in the background and in the left third of the shot. Dom is in the foreground and based more to the right third but his hands in the middle third to symbolise that he is sweeping the floor but has stopped to continue his conversation with Mark. We used the 180 degree rule and made sure that we never filmed on the right side of the hall. The door was our imaginary line so we knew that we couldn't cross it. Our opening shot shows the setting clearly as you see a good view of the hall. This gives the audience an understanding that the guys have just had a party and our clearing up it lets the audience know the surrounding area. As Dom has the very first line in our film we had him more in the foreground as he introduces the time, place and previous events that have gone on. ' Why am i helping clean up your party'.

The next shot is of Danielle who enters in the left third through the door we saw in the first shot. This creates mystery as although she is in the foreground it is blurred and you can only just make out the wine bottle she is holding. This gives the audience an image that carry's on during the film that she is a drinker. As the background is clear you can see the guys play fighting in the background continuing their bickering in the action before. This shot creates mystery for the audience as they can't tell who the character is and what signifficance she has to the scene and film.





The next shot goes back to a similar two-shot like before but the characters Mark and Dom are more in a close-up view. This shows the audeince their reaction to Danielle coming in and Mark is more in the foreground to show dominance and suggests that he is more involved with Danielle then Dom. By the close up of the characters you can tell that they are puzzled as to why Danielle is still at the party drinking.




This shot is a point of view shot from the character Mark, this shows Danielle's full outfit from her crop top to the ugg boots. This is also a long shot as you can see the whole of Danielle entering and this is the first time you see her fully. The audience can now see that she is a stereotypical representation of a teenage girl at a party.






Again another two-shot of Mark and Dom but this time at a slight angle than the previous shots. We did this shot so that Dom can pick up the tray and we could still see Mark in the shot. This was a much better and smoother shot then having to pan the camera only slightly. This shot also captures Dom playfully hitting Mark in the arm.





Dom then transitions from the foreground to the background as he walks past Danielle. This allows us to show his exit, whilst also showing Danielle's attitude towards him. It is obvious they are not keen on each other since Dom doesn't acknowledge her, and she gives him evils as he passes. She also stays still as he passes, showing her dominance. She only moves once he has gone.






Danielle moves into a two shot with Mark, showing both of their facial expressions. Their closeness hints that they are boyfriend and girlfriend, which is confirmed when they kiss. Notice that we have not once shown the wall behind the camera, because it would be obstructing the 180 degree rule.




We then used an over the shoulder shot to show Danielle saying "Meet me in the bathroom". Since she has all the screen time in this shot, with none of the focus on Mark, it shows her dominance. As she turns around in this shot she picks up the wine, keeping up the drunk image, and walks away very confidently.





For the same reasons as above, the shot of her walking away also has her in the foreground. In this shot she stumbles slightly, showing that she is definitely not sobre. Mark is left to pick up the brooms. We had to ensure that throughout all these scenes the brooms were in the same position they dropped them in at the begining to keep continuity.






Danielle stumbles into the bathroom, and as she opens the door it is clear to the audience that is where she has gone due to the tap and mirror. We decided at this point to introduce the killer, but not fully. Similar to how we introduced Danielle, we had the clown move into the right third as an over the shoulder shot. This makes it seem as though he is stalking Danielle.






At this point we chose to change back to Mark, since the audience would be expecting to see what happens to Danielle. It leaves them wondering. We had him walk into the shot from the right, to show he is coming from having picked up the brooms in the middle of the room, and places them to the left of the shot. We took this opportunity to include a comedic "yes!" expressing his pleasure at Danielle's invitation.




Finally you see the clown peeking round the corner of the door, which comes as a surprise since the audience are expecting the clown to have gone after Danielle, not Mark. Mark is in the foreground, but is blurred and facing away from the camera, showing that he is most certainly not the most dominant character in this shot.





This is a point of view shot from the clown looking at Mark. This view makes Mark look vulnerable since he is on his own in a large room. It is also one of those moments where the audience is screaming at the characters not to go any closer. Mark, like most victims in horror films, is completely stupid.




This is a walking point of view shot from Mark, which emphasises his stupidity. Who would go any closer to that thing?!?!




We used this camera shot to show Danielle drinking whilst waiting for Mark to come into the bathroom, little does she know that the killer is after Mark.

In this shot we had the camera showing the Knife as if the killer was stabbing Mark and blood splatting everywhere. This was to give the audience the indication of the killing without actually showing the footage leaving it to the audience to imagine it.

We revealed Marks body like this because it shows the audience what the clown has just done and the haha by him shows that the clown is heartless.


Danielle is in the foreground with the clown slowly creepy up behind. We did this shot as it is a turn around moment where the audience are like she is gunna die next. This shot shows that Danielle thinks that the figure behind her is Mark when in fact it is the killer.




This is a point of view shot of Danielle, which is blurred to show how drunk she is. To do this we used an effect called ghosting, and we moved the camera around as if her eyes were trying to focus.

With the clown in the foreground it shows the demand that he has to kill others and the dominance that he has. Danielle is shown as vulnerable and portrays a lack of control from being drunk.

The close up of the bottle of wine highlights that the thing Danielle clinged onto so tightly during the rest of the film is now the thing killing her. It's kind of an irony; paying for your sins. She drinks underage and so this is what she gets.




This isn't so much of a close up as the others, because we wanted to show all the details, from the blood to the empty bottle. It's quite a shocking image and we thought it turned out really well.

Finished filming and now Editing

We finished filming on the 15th of January and we are now editing the two minutes. On the filming day everything went to plan we knew what shots we were taking and what the scene should look like. We filmed every scene twice at different angles so that when it came to editing we could see what angle best suited the scene. We filmed on two days so that the time of day was right for each scene on the saturday we filmed the party/ death scenes as it was in the evening, on the sunday we filmed the morning scenes however due to having too much footage these clips will be in the deleted scenes.

Unfortunately i was ill with a chest infection on the first day of editing so Bekky was left to start it. However Bekky texted me at certain points throughout to let me know what she had done and how long it was. We are still editing the film now but have almost finished so we are on track. We have added the music and made sure that it is exactly 2 minutes, the title is inlcuded in the right font colour and style. Once we have completely finished editing we are going to put some deleted scenes on the blog and behind the scenes action, we are also including interviews with the actors.