FINAL OPENING

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

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

What kind of media institution would distribute our media product and why?

Who would be the audience for our media product?

How did you attract/address your audience?

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

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Evaluation Question 7

Test Audience Feedback

Once our team had created the first part of our film, we then asked our class to view it and fill out a sheet of what they thought the genre was and what was successful and the improvements we should consider.

Everyone said our opening falls into thriller/horror genre which is what we were aiming for. 

Here are the criticisms in which we have worked on to try and improve our opening: 

Editing

When Emily enters the house, we made the filming have a blurry effect. This demonstrated the eeriness and uneasiness of the house and the unfamiliar surroundings. It also demonstrated her vulnerability as she is in an uncertain place that has a dark atmosphere about it. 

Music Changes

Our group originally wanted to play classical music over the top of the beginning section of our opening. However, after experimenting and researching into different horror opening and horror music, we decided that an industrial mixtures of high and low tones would make the scene more atmospheric and scary. We made more music on the Music computers at school and this went well as it gives the opening a more eerie approach and makes it scarier.  

Call Sheet

Actor Changes

Due to the unavailability of Gavin Bruce (Dad) and Thierry Zimmerman (Emily) we had to adjust our story and make changes to the actors. Colette Redgrave (Mum) is now a single mum and that was the reason for the move. Our group thinks this is a better decision anyway because it makes the actress more vulnerable to what is going to happen later on in the film. Our new actress for Emily is called Abigail Hulme, a student from Weald who fits the character description perfectly! 

Company Logo- Cutting Edge Productions

Health and Safety

Filming Equipment

For filming we chose to use a Cannon DSLR this was down to many reason which I will now explain: the canon has a swivelling vari-angle LCD screens make it easier to compose shots at awkward angles and improves handling when shooting movies. it’s with movie recording that this system excels, offering smooth, continuous autofocus. 

Opening Inspiration

These are a few of the many film examples that carry the same theme and atmosphere that we are intending to create in our opening scene of Hextall Court.

Clown Mask

Music ideas for the Opening

Logo Designs

Age Certificate for our film

We chose our film to be rated 15 because the content involved within the plot is unsuitable for persons age 14 and under. This is because there is sustained or detailed infliction of pain or injury. There is also continuous violence and possessive characteristics during the whole film and so our coursework group thought it would be best to certify the film as a 15. 

Production Company Name Ideas

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Head Shots of Colette and Sophie (other actors)

 Colette Redgrave- Mother

Sophie Palmer- Jessica (sister)

Head shots of Thierry Zimmerman (Emily)

Location shots of the house

The location we have chosen is Hextall Court in East Peckham. We have used this house because it is big and old, giving a good opening to the beginning of the opening credits. We will put an effect on the house so it will look old fashioned.

Costume designs

Shooting Script

Hextall Court Storyboard

Script for "Hextall Court" Opening Scene

FINAL STORYBOARD

Expectations of a Psychological Horror

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Iconic Sounds related to Horror Genre

David Cronenberg

Narratives- Psychological Horror

Casting Auditions

During a lunchtime sessions, the year 12 Theatre students had an opportunity to perform a monologue to the media studies to see whether they were fit for the roles of being in one of their openings. This was a good opportunity for us to see potential actors/actresses for our opening. They all performed psychological extracts and this allowed us to see the theatre students in the right way which is suited to our opening. 

Final Narrative

My coursework group is: Annie Cocker, Jess Chappenden, Alex Thompson & Sophie Palmer

We chose the Clown narrative because we thought it would be most effective to our target audience. The film would be a psychological horror and they give the audience adrenalin and fear which makes the film remember-able.
We also considered the fact that it would be easier for us to create a scary opening than a teen drama. This is because a psychological horror fits more of a wider target audience and there would be a lot of aspects of the teen drama that would have been hard to create a exhilarating opening.  

Todorov's Narrative Theory

Inglorious Basterds Film Opening Analysis

Evaluation of Preliminary Task

Narrative Ideas for Film

Narrative involving a girl getting possessed by a Clown Mask

Narrative involving a teenage boy's struggle to sort out his dying girlfriends mistakes

Preliminary Exercise- Annie, Sophie, Jess and Alex

Storyboard- Preliminary Task

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