Evaluation: Question 7

Evaluation: Question 6

This is a voice recording we did for question 6 of our evaluation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJqmRzUVYAk

This is done by Aaron

Evaluation: Question 5

This is our groups question 5 for the evaluation within this question we had to look at our audience research that we did before we started our thriller, and we had to explain why we chose that specific target audience.

All the work was done by Angus (Me)

Q5) how did you attract/address your audience?

Before we did are film we carried out research in the form of a questionnaire, this questionnaire consisted of questions about what people would like to see in a thriller opening. The questions were open questions and we only got qualitative data back as this is information from speak and not numerical data. Within our questionnaires, we found a pattern of information arising out of it; this is that people like thrillers and more specifically horror thrillers (7 out of 8 people), so with this information in hand we decided to cater to the audiences needs and produced a horror thriller or at least the opening.

Also with the information gained out of the questionnaire we found out that all the people we question that they would like to see either 2/3 characters at the beginning of the thriller, we also satisfied our viewers by having two boys  ( Angus and Nathan ) walking with one bad character         ( Aaron). This information that we acquired was very helpful in meeting our viewer’s demands, and helped us make a better thriller then we could have achieved before this also made us think about what we wanted in the thriller and helped us construct our opening better.

Here you can clearly see that there are two main characters that are good or protagonist characters. This would apply to our research as we are doing the things are viewers demand this could increase are views for the film as we have listened to our viewers and made certain and specific changes to cater for our viewers.

The research would also apply for the other characters as our viewers wanted to see a bad person or antagonist at the start of the film so we put one in, also adding another character would allow our group to have 3 characters which would apply to the research for the number of characters we would have in our thriller. These would be two examples of how we have listened to our viewers.

Our group feels that targeting a specific audience is very important as we feel that we would want a certain group of people to watch the thriller, and that is what we are catering for and feel them would enjoy the thriller the most. As we have put so much time and effort into targeting the certain audience teens we feel that hopefully most teens would go to see the film and enjoy the feature. Targeting a specific audience is also easier to do as trying to please a mass market is very hard, the benefits of having a certain audience could be that other people outside the intended target group may watch the thriller as well.

 

Evaluation: Question 4

This is the youtube link of our video of question 4:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAa1qnFdDE4

This work was done by Aaron and Nathan

Evaluation: Question 3

For Q3 of the evaluation we have to find out the different companies that could produce and distribute films and decide which one we wanted to produce our film, for this i did a pixton comic strip to show two people talking about who we would have, also i did a IMdb document about our film

All the work was done by Angus (me)

 This is some information on the different companies that could produce and distribute our film

We would be produced by Bigtalk productions; they are a London based British film company and they have produced big movies like attack the block and Shaun of the dead. This would be a great company to produce our thriller as they are British and will already have a large fan base so this will interest people in our movie.

Our movie would also be distributed by universal pictures, they are a American based company but have a company in the united kingdom. Universal pictures have distributed many big movies names such as despicable me and little fockers.

 

This comic strip is talking about who would produce our film and why this would be?

 


Also this is the link to the IMdb document about our film 'Dispensable'

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxhKCrZ-rVegSExHVzhzUll4SDQ/edit?usp=sharing

 

Evaluation: Question 2

This is our groups question number 2 for the evaluation, the question tells the audience about which groups we chose to show in our film, how we  showed them and what stereotypes we were using.

All this work was done by Angus (me)

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

 

Our media group chose the audience of teenagers as our age rating was a 12. We thought that it would be easier to have an audience of teenagers as we are teens so we know what others would like. We showed in our media thriller the certain teenager group we were catering for by having stereotypical clothing on like jeans, trainers and fashionable hats that teenagers and younger people would wear. This would connote that we are teenagers and the audience is teens as older people would not wear as it would be seen cool and in fashion by younger people but not older.

 

 

Also we used colours to connote who was the central antagonist and who was the central protagonist by using colours of clothing. For the central antagonist (bad guy) we used black clothing to show that this certain person was dark and evil. On the other hand, the central protagonist (good guy) was clothed in bright colours to make him stand out and show he is good. In our thriller film this is easily viewable and there is a big contrast between the two characters.

We changed the actions of the characters because the antagonist is doing suspicious things like walking in the trees, writing weird letters and looking over dead bodies. Then the protagonist and his friend are walking normally through the woods. This would lead the viewers to think that the antagonist is different and the bad guy in the thriller because of the difference in actions by the two characters.

We also used all male characters within the thriller; this is because stereotypically males are stronger and more violent so we used a male as the main antagonist to show strength and power. On the other hand we used to males as innocent schoolboys and unaware of the antagonists presence. This is another contrast in the use of characters as we have one male who is powerful and has dominance also is killer and may kill again? And two young innocent schoolboys, this makes the thriller interesting and worth watching because of these contrast.

We choose to represent these things in the way in which we did because it is what we felt have to be done and what we would have liked to see. Like the different actions of the characters, in a thriller opening you would not see a antagonist (bad guy) helping a man with his shopping so our thriller is no different because we have the antagonist doing weird and suspicious things to make him look odd and different to the other main characters. This is the same with colour as we want the bad guy to be wearing black to signify that he is dangerous and bad, we have done this because you would not see a antagonist in white or blue that connotes purity and weakness. 

We used stereotypes by the certain location, the location is in a woods and this could be linked to teens as they may be in the wood to do bad things like drugs, etc. In our thriller we broke this stereotypical location because the two good characters are just having a conversation and walking home from school this could be a good thing because it would show that the two good characters are in fact good because they are not doing anything in the woods.

We are trying to give the impression at first sight, which are the good characters in the thriller and who is the antagonist is. This is done by the use of the location, clothing and the use of actions. I think that in the opening it is very clear who are the main characters and you could possibly get some background on the characters. Also we could be breaking some stereotypes for people which would be a good thing.

 

Evaluation: Question 1

Created with Padlet

This work is done by Sam (me)

 

Final Thriller film

This is our opening 2 minutes of a thriller:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UBZfCkOUto&list=UUht5fxUjha19_XNfG0mi2EA

Final Storyboards

These are the final storyboards:

This is drawn by Sam (me) and the group cam up with the idea

Media Horror Script Final

The horror thriller starts off in the woods with two school boys walking home; the killer is not far away from them and can be seen in different shots dragging a dead body through the woods into a ditch. After this the killer catches a glimpse of the school boys walking through the woods. The last thing in this short horror opening is the two school boys walking out of the woods, with the central antagonist being quite clearly seen in the background.

Throughout this trailer we will include very quick flashing pictures. The pictures will be up for approximately 0.5 seconds till 1 second. This gives the audience who are watching it a short time to see it, as we are hoping to tell part of the plot through pictures. The pictures will consist of the central antagonist doing various things, e.g. dragging a body away. We are also going to include pictures of his hands and feet that we will filter into black and white.  The actual recorded footage on the other hand will be the two school boys walking through the woods on their way home. This is when the pictures will flash up between some lines that they say. We are hoping to include at least 15 – 30 different pictures.

We are starting with an establishing shot of the woods to set the scene. We then transition from this to a long shot of the two school boys walking towards the camera. We then switch to a tracking shot of the boys walking. We could also use some pictures of the antagonist to use as transitions to various shots of the boys.  Credits will also be appearing on the ground and various trees at the side as the boys are walking down. It is also possible that we could use some dark eerie music to signify that something bad is going to happen. We have also tried to use typical teenage stereotypes as we have included an Xbox in the dialogue. One of the things Nathan says is “Have you seen Sam recently?” this shows that the dead body that can be seen being dragged is Sam’s. 

 

Notes

·         Sam could also be dressed as a school boy

·         The two school boys could be talking about a missing person at their school possibly a friend

·         Could say something like “Why did the school say we should walk home in pairs?”

·         The killer could be targeting school boys

 

Script
Nathan: Hey, good day?
Angus: Yeah not bad, had media last, you?
(The camera follows Aaron who is dragging a body away)
(We see Nathan and Angus talking still)
Nathan: Yeah it was alright. Have you seen Sam recently?
Angus: No, not since Tuesday
(We see Aaron wipe his hands together, when he spots Nathan and Angus.)
(Aaron is seen possibly rolling Sam’s body into a ditch)
Nathan: Weird. So what you doing when you get in?
Angus: Probably go on the Xbox, and do my business homework.
Nathan: Ahhh. When do we have maths tomorrow?
Angus: I think its period 2.

Nathan and Aarons work