film analysis

Preliminary Task

Our film idea

I am working on a film which we have called Viktim which will fall into the horror genre. I am working on this with Jaymie Ebrada and Mark Taylor.

Plot:
The story begins with a family at a graveyard mourning a loss of someone close to them. They all seem to be upset by the events except a girl stood at the back. We then go foward in time to the same girl at the party we do this by zooming in on her eye then zooming back out to change the scene. We then find ourselves at a party with the same girl she then talks to another girl and says  ' its been two years since he passed away ' then the girl offers to take her home. The two girls

Evaluation Activity 7

Looking back at your preliminary task (the continuity editing task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product ?

Evaluation Activity 6

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

We used these cameras to filmboth are preliminary task and the opening 2 mins of Victim. The camera itself was very useful in it being portable and easy to use. We found that the best thing to do whilst filming with these was to run over the take by about 3 seconds to avoind the clicking sound from stopping the scene. The tripod was very helpful as it was sturdy, easily adjustable and was also very simple to attach the camera too. The legs were easy to use meaning we could adjust the positioning of the camera with realtive ease and control.

We used windows movie maker to edit and create our film. We only began to use this software after we found it difficult to do waht we wanted too on premiere elements, also with the adobe sofware our film kept crashing which obviously made it diffucult. However we had none of these issues with movie maker as it was all simple and easy to use.

Evaluation Activity 5

How did you attract/address your audience ?

To find our target audience we sent out a questionaire around to our friends in order to find out which films are target audience enjoys. A vast majority of people enjoyed horrors and from that we decided that we would make a horror film. I looked into some horror film openings and found that in most opening scenes they introduce the main charactor and villain in order to set up the whole film.

To attract the audience we start of with the 2 girls running from the mysterious figure gripping them and building tension. Our opening is very much similar to that of A Nightmare On Elm Street where the girl runs and almost gets caught but wakes up just in time and realises its only a dream. This was a good horror opening so uded it order to attract and draw in the audience from an early stage.

In this version of the opening 2 mins we have added notes onto the end to expalin how we attracted our audience.

Evaluation Activity 4

Who would be the audience for your media product ?

AGE	16-23
gENDER	male
OCCUPATION	Student
FAVOURITE COLOUR	Black
FAVOURITE MUSIC GENRE	Heavy metal/ rock
FAVOURITE FOOD	Fast Food
FAVOURITE FILMS	Paranormal Activity Blair witch project
FAVOURITE ACTOR
FAVOURITE ACTRESS	Drew Barrymore
Favourite Clothes	lether jacket, boots and rock t shirts

 This would be our typical audience member for this kind of horror film. As they are around the same age as myself it can be easily realted to in terms of what they want from a film e.g less talking more action. We have chosen the target gender as male as even though females might still want to see the film we felt that the males would be more willing to watch horror films. We have also chosen a very stereotypical look onto a typical horror fan with a more gothic look being shown. The people that would enjoy this film would be those who would have viewed other horrors such as blair witch project and paranormal activity as there in for as much as fright in them as there are in victim. We have looked into the horror actors and decided that drew barrymore for her role in scream would be one of the people horror fans would reccomend for her performance. She also can bring about similar comparisons to our main actor Amelia Woodhouse.