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

This is our production logo, we designed a few on photoshop but this was the one we chose for our final piece. We picked the leaf logo because its quite odd and ghostly looking, we also picked quite a simple font as we thought it would be more effective, and look more professional. It was not the favourite from the public but the most important people we asked (teachers) said it was the best to use.

This scene is of my feet running, we wanted to give the impression that the character is scared and make it seem like she is running away from something, we made it quite obvious she is panicking and breathing heavily so it connotes that she has been running for a while.

 'Psychotic Pictures' is what we decided to call our film company, this clip shows that it is this company that is presenting the film. We decided on this name because 'Psychotic' is a disorder which we thought it would be quite edgy as horror movies can sometimes get you thinking 'mess with your head'. I think the font we chose was a good choice becasue its quite edgy and it looks like a good font to use for our film genre.

This is another scene of myself running past the camera, this time we filmed more of my body running instead of just my feet, this is so we can slowly show the audience who the person is that is running and in a way to build up tension.

We decided to call the production name 'Chiller Entertainment' this is because it is quite dark and creepy, plus when we filmed our movie it was extremely cold as we had predicted! We used the same font as the 'Psychotic Pictures presents' scene as we thought it would look a bit silly and un-professional if we kept changing the fonts, plus in most films they would use the same font.

This scene is of myself again spinning around in a panic while the camera circles around her to show that she is in a large open field in the middle of no-where. This helps connote again that she is vulnerable and needs help.

This scene is a point of view shot, from the eyes of the creature that is chasing the character, she doesnt notice at first but then a twig snaps and she sees something hiding in the hedge and she runs away. The camera doesn't change to a different shot straight away to make it look as if the creature is thinking whether to follow her or to hide somewhere else to stalk her.

This is a scene to show that she is still running away from the creature from the last scene and maybe still has a sporting chance of getting away as there doesn't seem to be anything gaining on her heels.

This scene is where the creature catches up to the character as she falls and trys to get away from it, but fails! This is to show that the creature is very fast and impossible to get away from. This is to make the creature much scarier. 

We did the 3 still shots which get closer to the body to build up tension, and show that she looks quite lifeless.

This scene was to show that the creature has killed the girl as she lays there with blood on her neck and mouth to show how she died.

There is an extreme close up of her eyes which she suddenly opens them to the special effects music, this is to make the audience jump. We did this so the film has a twist and to make the audience want to see more .

Then finally the name of our film, 'Innocence'

we chose this name becasue the creature that is chasing the character is actually a fallen angel that has turned evil, so we thought angels are supposed to be sweet and innocent so we wanted our movie name to have a subliminal message. We used this font because it looks handwritten and we think it looks quite effective. We were going to go for an extreme old fashion writing but it was difficult to read and so we decided against it and went for this simplier one.



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

Our project doesn't really represent any social groups in the first 2 minutes, but it does show that young teenage girls can be vulnerable even if they don't look like it. We wanted the actress to look very vulnerable and that is why we placed her in a white dress to give the subliminable message that she is a good character in this movie and that she doesn't have much to defend herself. If the movie would have carried on then it would have represented all the different social groups that go to a school and challenged the idea that because you might be known as 'popular' that doesn't mean you are nasty or bully people.  

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

This would be a blockbuster quality film and that would mean it went out in the usual cinema outlets.We would want our project to be distributed through Warner Bros Distributors. This is because they have a lot of experience and are one of the Big Six. They have distributed many big hits for example Sherlock Holmes and The Matrix. This is why we would want them to distribute our product.

Evaluation - Who would be the audience for your media product?

 

This video contains footage of myself asking a few people if they like horror movies.

The audience for our media product would be teenagers and adults aged 15+. They must like horrors as that is our film genre. We looked on the internet movie data base to find some statistics and ratings for rescent audiences to films of our genre and we found that the ratings were usually above 5 stars out of 10 which would mean that people do generally enjoy horror films.

here are some screen shots of some fairly rescent films we found the ratings for:

Evaluation - How did you attract/address your audience?

We did a lot of research before hand to ensure we knew exactly what our audience wanted. We decided it would be 15+ people as we know that they are more likely to like horror movies and to not be affected by them psychologically. We decided we wanted to ask people what they thought of our project and here is a few of the comments that came from Mary asking the target audience.

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

I have learnt a great deal about constructing a product like this and about all the technologies that helped me do it. We used a variety of technologies from tripods to Apple macs and photoshop to microsoft office. A project of this kind has been a very educational time and I have realised just the amount of work it requires to get the finished result. Myself and my partner have worked extremely hard to get this far and it has not been easy. At the beginnning we really did have problems from ideas not being possible and fall outs in the team. The team ended up splitting into twos quite quickly and I must say it was a great decision. Mary and I have really learnt so much more and feel working as a two we got much more of a job and therefore got to explore the technologies more. 

Evaluation - Look back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the final product?

I feel I have learnt a great deal more since the preliminary task. My editing skills on the Macs I think have improved the greatest but also my knowledge of making a project like this. It is a great deal more work that it seems at first thought.