Thursday, 9 May 2013
Welcome
Welcome to my blog, this is all the work from my AS course and on here you will find all of the work leading up to my final piece of work at the end of the year.
Saturday, 4 May 2013
BN: Final Cut
This is the finished and fully edited version of our final cut of the slasher opening.
Evaluation Question 1
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real products?
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
An example that our film opening was based on was that of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre which was a film by Tobe Hooper in 1974 we think our film opening shows some aspects of this because of the stages of equilibrium, which is the theory of Todarov where by it starts with a dis-equilibrium and then goes back in time to the equilibrium, and we feel that we have done this with our slasher film
opening.
Next we also had an idea of some of the story line in our slasher film to go by what some of the Halloween by Wes Craven in 1996 Film was about, where by in the stalking scene Barthes theory of narrative enigma is used to build up tension and mystery of who the killer actually is and we have used this technique in our slasher opening. Also the titles and opening credit is were based on the titles and credits of the Halloween film
Also the final films we looked at were Mad House and A Noghtmare on Elm Street because the idea we were going for fitted in with these examples and they could relate to these films due to narrative enigma and the scenes of the sexual activity and the intertextality with the title and A NightMare on Elm Street and Black Nightmare also with the mad house opening it shows the main idea of the dark rooms in the film and compares well with our film
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?An example that our film opening was based on was that of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre which was a film by Tobe Hooper in 1974 we think our film opening shows some aspects of this because of the stages of equilibrium, which is the theory of Todarov where by it starts with a dis-equilibrium and then goes back in time to the equilibrium, and we feel that we have done this with our slasher film
opening.
Next we also had an idea of some of the story line in our slasher film to go by what some of the Halloween by Wes Craven in 1996 Film was about, where by in the stalking scene Barthes theory of narrative enigma is used to build up tension and mystery of who the killer actually is and we have used this technique in our slasher opening. Also the titles and opening credit is were based on the titles and credits of the Halloween film
Also the final films we looked at were Mad House and A Noghtmare on Elm Street because the idea we were going for fitted in with these examples and they could relate to these films due to narrative enigma and the scenes of the sexual activity and the intertextality with the title and A NightMare on Elm Street and Black Nightmare also with the mad house opening it shows the main idea of the dark rooms in the film and compares well with our film
Evaluation Question 2
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
All of the actors and actresses viewed in our opening scene are aged 16 - 17. We wanted to make our killer seem a lot older aged about 30 so that this would help our secondary audience which is people aged in there 20's. This helped us allow our film appeal to a larger audience.
The characters in our film are all from West Yorkshire and have Yorkshire accents, this is not a very commonly known accent this means that people from other countries such as America, some parts of Europe and even parts of England would not understand what is been said. Therefor we would not aim our target audience to be Americans. Despite the Yorkshire accents the movie is a slasher film which commonly many people are not overly fussed about the accents in which the characters speak nor the location in which the film is made as they are only interested in the gore and the thrill they gain from the movie.
Characters that are viewed in our opening scene
The first characters that are viewed in the opening scene of out film are, the final girl, the scream queen, the jock and the killer at certain points. The final girl in our film is the classic stereotype of the final girl with brunette hair and wearing clothes that signifies she is a rather nerdy person who is intellectual and has a very small social life. At the beginning of our film she is seen getting out of a car and carrying her studying books in her arms down the road. The next character that we show in our opening scene is the scream queen, she is typically blonde and busty and sexually active, in the opening scene she is seen exiting the car with the final girl and her boyfriend (the jock). Finally the last character that we view in the opening scene is the killer, we only view him a couple of times throughout the opening scene cutting back and forth between shots. He is your typical killer with a certain weapon which is relevant to his history or his profession. I have connoted my characters as the stereotypical characters you would imagine to find in a slasher movie.
The final girl in our film we based around Laurie Strode who was the final girl in the classic Halloween.
The scream queen in our film opening is based on the classic stereotypical scream queen from all slasher genre's. She represents the stereotypical scream queen as she is blonde and busty. She also represents the role well as when she gets out of the car she walks inside the house with her boyfreind ( the jock ) and we see further into the opening scene the pair of them going into the bedrom and shutting the curtains bhind them to connote the fact they are a partaking in sexual activity.
Finally the killer in our film opening is based on many classic slasher movies such as Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Halloween where both the killers are wearing masks to hide there identity. We also included this in our film to build narrative enigma until the end of the film where the killer is finally revealed. He wears a black mask to hide his identity and his common choice of weapon is a meat cleaver. The reason for this is due to the fact that we linked our killer to have had a past as a butcher who over years psychological obssesion with a certain teenage girl becomes a killer.
All of the actors and actresses viewed in our opening scene are aged 16 - 17. We wanted to make our killer seem a lot older aged about 30 so that this would help our secondary audience which is people aged in there 20's. This helped us allow our film appeal to a larger audience.
The characters in our film are all from West Yorkshire and have Yorkshire accents, this is not a very commonly known accent this means that people from other countries such as America, some parts of Europe and even parts of England would not understand what is been said. Therefor we would not aim our target audience to be Americans. Despite the Yorkshire accents the movie is a slasher film which commonly many people are not overly fussed about the accents in which the characters speak nor the location in which the film is made as they are only interested in the gore and the thrill they gain from the movie.
Characters that are viewed in our opening scene
The first characters that are viewed in the opening scene of out film are, the final girl, the scream queen, the jock and the killer at certain points. The final girl in our film is the classic stereotype of the final girl with brunette hair and wearing clothes that signifies she is a rather nerdy person who is intellectual and has a very small social life. At the beginning of our film she is seen getting out of a car and carrying her studying books in her arms down the road. The next character that we show in our opening scene is the scream queen, she is typically blonde and busty and sexually active, in the opening scene she is seen exiting the car with the final girl and her boyfriend (the jock). Finally the last character that we view in the opening scene is the killer, we only view him a couple of times throughout the opening scene cutting back and forth between shots. He is your typical killer with a certain weapon which is relevant to his history or his profession. I have connoted my characters as the stereotypical characters you would imagine to find in a slasher movie.
Final Girl
The final girl in our film we based around Laurie Strode who was the final girl in the classic Halloween.
She represents the stereotypical final girl carrying her study books as she is getting out of the car and is wearing her school clothes with her skirt rather low to connote that she is rather intellectual and has a minimum social life.
Scream Queen
The scream queen in our film opening is based on the classic stereotypical scream queen from all slasher genre's. She represents the stereotypical scream queen as she is blonde and busty. She also represents the role well as when she gets out of the car she walks inside the house with her boyfreind ( the jock ) and we see further into the opening scene the pair of them going into the bedrom and shutting the curtains bhind them to connote the fact they are a partaking in sexual activity.Killer
Finally the killer in our film opening is based on many classic slasher movies such as Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Halloween where both the killers are wearing masks to hide there identity. We also included this in our film to build narrative enigma until the end of the film where the killer is finally revealed. He wears a black mask to hide his identity and his common choice of weapon is a meat cleaver. The reason for this is due to the fact that we linked our killer to have had a past as a butcher who over years psychological obssesion with a certain teenage girl becomes a killer.Q3 Distribution
What kind of media institutions might distribute your media product and why?
The 7 Slasher films that i looked at in previous posts have all had a certain set target audience in mind, this being a teenage to young adult age range. This signifies that the genre Slasher tends to be a more complicated and heavy genre to follow from the slashing of the characters to the choice or way of killing the characters. This is where I feel our slasher film could be a good idea for the slasher genre and would be a success.
Distributing films come from the major film company's such as Warner Brothers or Universal Studio's However they are american businesses, in the UK or England alone the major film companies are WARP Films and Working Title Films, looking at some of the films which have been produced by these producing companies are low budget indie films such as Donkey Punch and This is England also Dead Man's Shoes which shows. Due to not much funding and being based in the UK we for our slasher film would choose either WARP or Working Title to distribute it.
These companies then distribute the films into the cinema's and onto the Television which can then be viewed by the public and then get put onto DVD by the distributors. The distributors are also responsible for the advertisement and commercialism this is why the big money companies (the big 6) are good for this and the higher budget films which is maybe not the best thing for our film as we don't have the funding. So baring this in mind the English film companies such as WARP, Working Title and an even more low budget indie film company would be Optimum Releasing would be a good choice for a company to distribute our slasher film.
The 7 Slasher films that i looked at in previous posts have all had a certain set target audience in mind, this being a teenage to young adult age range. This signifies that the genre Slasher tends to be a more complicated and heavy genre to follow from the slashing of the characters to the choice or way of killing the characters. This is where I feel our slasher film could be a good idea for the slasher genre and would be a success.
Distributing films come from the major film company's such as Warner Brothers or Universal Studio's However they are american businesses, in the UK or England alone the major film companies are WARP Films and Working Title Films, looking at some of the films which have been produced by these producing companies are low budget indie films such as Donkey Punch and This is England also Dead Man's Shoes which shows. Due to not much funding and being based in the UK we for our slasher film would choose either WARP or Working Title to distribute it.
These companies then distribute the films into the cinema's and onto the Television which can then be viewed by the public and then get put onto DVD by the distributors. The distributors are also responsible for the advertisement and commercialism this is why the big money companies (the big 6) are good for this and the higher budget films which is maybe not the best thing for our film as we don't have the funding. So baring this in mind the English film companies such as WARP, Working Title and an even more low budget indie film company would be Optimum Releasing would be a good choice for a company to distribute our slasher film.
Evaluation Q4
Who would be the audience for your media product ?
Core Audience
Additional Wider Audience
There would be an audience of which would possibly watch this and the age range that we have set for this would be the younger teens aged from 12-15 and the older mid twenty's from about 21-26 which shows that our film opening would make more money when marketisation is brought into context. Also this age range makes the target audience more flexible and less pressure is put on to make us fit one certain range alone
Audiences Who it Wont Appeal to
The audiences who the film opening might not appeal to is that of the middle aged range for example from ages 30-50 and then the elderly from the ages of 60-80 this would be because it wont be a sort of film that they will like or might not want to watch, Also the young people from the age of 0-11 due to it being too violent for them and too gory also it might be too hard to follow the plot for them
Core Audience
The core target audience we have aimed our slasher film at is the age range of about 15-21. We have done this because it is a wide audience and we ourselves would watch the film and we feel that it is the sort of thing that this age range watches more often than not, and that the majority of films that are watched by this age range in the cinema or on DVD are the slasher or horror or hybrid genre films.
Additional Wider AudienceThere would be an audience of which would possibly watch this and the age range that we have set for this would be the younger teens aged from 12-15 and the older mid twenty's from about 21-26 which shows that our film opening would make more money when marketisation is brought into context. Also this age range makes the target audience more flexible and less pressure is put on to make us fit one certain range alone
Audiences Who it Wont Appeal to
The audiences who the film opening might not appeal to is that of the middle aged range for example from ages 30-50 and then the elderly from the ages of 60-80 this would be because it wont be a sort of film that they will like or might not want to watch, Also the young people from the age of 0-11 due to it being too violent for them and too gory also it might be too hard to follow the plot for them
Evaluation Q5
How did you attract your Audience?
The ways in which we addressed the audience and made the slasher film appealing and worth while to watch was that we aimed it at a certain specific target group which was from the age group of 15-24 and we chose this group because we felt that it would benefit the films marketisation. We feel that our film opening interacts with the audience through the various different mise-en-scene aspects and the effects with editing and sound to emphasis the clips on screen.
Facebook
We used various different techniques to address them, one of the ways was through Facebook, use used this to promote the viewings of our slasher opening though the many hundreds of our friends on the social networking site. This was a good and key way to show people the work that we had done and to get feedback from our close friends and to then get their ideas on how to make better adaptations to make the film opening look more aesthetically pleasing.
Another way we achieved the audience influence and interaction was via Youtube and posting the videos on there, this was the main way we got our audience feedback where by when the videos got posted then people commented on the videos with their thoughts and ideas for us on how to again make improvements and to give positives to the good parts of the film opening.
Casting, Setting
The casting that were used in our film opening were of a similar age to the ones that we aimed our film opening at, this means that the audience can relate to the characters in terms of feelings and actions as to what they do in the film opening, Also the setting was an element which made the audience relate due to it being set in the north of england where most of the friends on Facebook and Youtube will know of and can tell that it is set in the local area which will make it appeal to them, Also when considering our target audience the age range for that will understand more if the characters are of a similar age.
Male Gaze and Theories
The theory of the Male Gaze was that of Laura Mulvey and that was focussed on how the girls body just becomes objectified in the slasher film and how it was only there for the film to appeal to men only because of the women wearing revealing clothes, however in ours we could not use nudity and lots of sex appeal so we had our scream queen dressed up in skinny jeans. Also another theory which was shown in our film opening was the theory of Levi Strauss which was the theory of Binary Opposites where by the scream queen and the final girl were opposites with what they did and how they acted and what they looked like. Also the theory of Bathes and Narrative enigma was used in our film opening too which brought out a better out look for the film opening.
The ways in which we addressed the audience and made the slasher film appealing and worth while to watch was that we aimed it at a certain specific target group which was from the age group of 15-24 and we chose this group because we felt that it would benefit the films marketisation. We feel that our film opening interacts with the audience through the various different mise-en-scene aspects and the effects with editing and sound to emphasis the clips on screen.
We used various different techniques to address them, one of the ways was through Facebook, use used this to promote the viewings of our slasher opening though the many hundreds of our friends on the social networking site. This was a good and key way to show people the work that we had done and to get feedback from our close friends and to then get their ideas on how to make better adaptations to make the film opening look more aesthetically pleasing.
Youtube
Casting, Setting
The casting that were used in our film opening were of a similar age to the ones that we aimed our film opening at, this means that the audience can relate to the characters in terms of feelings and actions as to what they do in the film opening, Also the setting was an element which made the audience relate due to it being set in the north of england where most of the friends on Facebook and Youtube will know of and can tell that it is set in the local area which will make it appeal to them, Also when considering our target audience the age range for that will understand more if the characters are of a similar age.
Male Gaze and Theories
The theory of the Male Gaze was that of Laura Mulvey and that was focussed on how the girls body just becomes objectified in the slasher film and how it was only there for the film to appeal to men only because of the women wearing revealing clothes, however in ours we could not use nudity and lots of sex appeal so we had our scream queen dressed up in skinny jeans. Also another theory which was shown in our film opening was the theory of Levi Strauss which was the theory of Binary Opposites where by the scream queen and the final girl were opposites with what they did and how they acted and what they looked like. Also the theory of Bathes and Narrative enigma was used in our film opening too which brought out a better out look for the film opening.
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