ASSESSMENT OF FIRST SHOOT

In my opinion I think that the majority of our shots are steady. However there are a few shots that are a bit wobbly so on the re shoot we are going to focus more on the steadiness of the shots. We also didn't get the lighting perfect, and the there are certain shots where the continuity wasn't correct. So on our re shoot we are going to definitely making them our priority. We will watch them back and analysis them throughly until there is not continuity errors and no need to re shoot. We also need to be careful with the 30 degree rule and the 180 line rule but we will use the correct measurements and perhaps a dolly to fix this problem. However we are happy with the camera positioning and angles, we think it works really well.

Teachers comments 

• Need more reverse shots included.
• Need more of a build up
• Let him walk in and out of frame, don't follow him with the camera
• Need more of a reaction/expression
• Steady camera
• POV Shot
• More narrative
• More camera angles

Katie Bee- Reflective evaluation Q6

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

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Skills recap

Shot reverse shot: This is used in order to show what they are looking at and there reaction without this we would become bored and the film would fall flat. 

Position of Tripod: The tripod changes levels to create suspense and fear. For example when she is going up the stairs the tripod is almost ground level to create fear and it is not natural. Also without the changes we would become bored and not scared.

Shot length: When different shot  lengths are used, it creates the feeling of anticipation and fear. By varying them this also makes us more engaged. For example, when the character is looking around in fear, this is because we know that something is going to happen so the shot length is held for 7 seconds to cause suspense. Where as when the  character is being possessed the shot only lasts for a second, which then makes us feel very scared as we don't know exactly what's happening and don't have a clear understanding on the situation. 

Shot Angle: Through out this clip we see a range of different shot angles being used. We see low angles being used when she is walking up the stairs, which gives the impression that she is heading towards trouble, with something being at the end of the walk. A high angle is used to show the girls vulnerability, we will use a canted angle as this is distorted and strange, like a typical horror movie.

Lighting: The lighting is dim throughout, shadowing is used to create and atmosphere, as we can not see what is being shadowed.  Also buy having no direct lighting being shown in the shot, this creates a feeling of fear. The shot stars off with just the lighting being shown, which automatically creates a feeling of suspense and fear for when the character enters. 

Colour: The main colouring of this film is black and grey's. As it is daunting and again adds to the dark and mysterious atmosphere. However the character is wearing white as this shows her innocence and vulnerability. 

Katie Bee- Reflective Evaluation Q3

 What kind of media instituation might distribute your media product and why?

Distribution means how you get a film promoted and how it gets into a cinema. This includes advertising and marketing, selling posters and memorabilia to gain media attention. Without distribution many films would not even be recognized or even make the money they do. Distribution is vital and a film would not succeed without this. 
Hammer Production:

Hammer productions is an independent production company based in London.

There most recent film is the critically aclaimed "The women in black" starring Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter). This film was highly publiscied trailers shown many months before release. There were several sneak peak TV shows and many interviews. However it was not fully known by many people until a few weeks prior to the release. This is most likely to it being an independant production company and they do not have the funding. This is most certainly the well known film by this production company and has given them a name.

Other films produced by Hammer productions are:

• Let me in
• The resident
• Beyond the rave
• To the devil a daughter  

This is The women in black trailer this is one of the ways it was distributed, this trailer was shown in cinema late 2011 to create excitement. Other ways in which this film was distributed was : 

Radio

Cinema

Social networking 

Youtube

All of these are seen by many audiences over all age and race. However I felt the main advertising point was the fact it starred Daniel Radcliffe who is globally known as Harry Potter. This would create a huge inherited audience and therefore distribution was important to sell this film as it being an independent production the money isn't there. 

 Liongate:


Lionsgate productions is a majourly world wide brand based in America. It makes films worth millions of Dollars and usually have some A list celebrites star in them.

One of there most popular films when released was the Twilight saga . The first Twilight cost $37 million and there are no A list actors in there they only became them after the film. Whereas let me in cost $20 million. This is signifcantly less.


Other films made by lionsgate

• All saws
• Kick ass
• From paris with love  

Other ways in which this film was distributed was : 

Radio

Cinema

Social networking 

Youtube

However this is similar to The women in black advertising but Twilight was in a much larger scale due to the fact they have more money. The special effects attracted audiences and also the young attractive characters. 

The clear difference between these two production companies is the fact Lionsgate is worldwide so therefore more money is funded into there productions and they can afford high prolife actors, special effects and more film time. Although both companies attract different audiences and are successful in there own way.

When thinking of distributing our film we have thought of several ideas. We would create a film poster and put them up in cinemas, shops, billboards, colleges and schools. This would show a large audience of people. We would have radio announcements and around 6 months before realize a film trailer on youtube and on several mainstream websites so the film is recognized. Also I would like to put the film trailer in cinema adverts for the appropriate classification and this would be perfect for our target audience to see. This however would be if we had a lot of money and we must think more realistically with having no money. 


With no money we have decided a few ways in which we can promote our film, our main chance at advertising our media to horror film lovers is a film festival. I researched into Nottingham's films festivals and I found BANG! short film festival and mayhem film festival. These are all local "platforms" in which all age groups and all types of films directors can enter there own work to be shown to an audience. This would be great for us to gain some feed back and see if our original target audience and idea has worked. Also it will let us be known in the directing world and we could possibly pick up some tips. 

This is an example of a short film entered in the Mayhem film festival in Nottingham. As we can clearly see this film does not have any money in the budget and if it does it would be very minimal. I feel being able to showcase a short film in a film festival locally is a great way to gain publicity. Also we felt this too could be ourselves in the near future if we wished to enter a festival. This is an easier way for an independent film company to reach out and be seen. 

This is an example of students who have entered there work in Nottingham's bang film festival. We could be in there position and we can see how much entering themselves into a local festival has really boosted there careers and confidence. They do not have all the special effects and high tech camera and this is what we are like , so we feel privileged to have such a welcoming festival in Nottingham.

We created a poster for our film and our inspiration was the paranormal activity poster as this created a haunting element. We wanted to not give to much away and this will add to the films suspense and fear.
This is our posyer and we feel it fits perfectly for our ghost sub genre and we would be happy to post this around.

As you can see this is our main focus of inspiration and we feel very proud to be not exactly the same but a quite high standard. We felt proud of the lettering and how the image compliments this.

Katie Bee- Reflective Evaluation Q5

How did you attract/address audience :

Black swan:
                                                                                                                                                       

Certificate: 15
Why: Mild violence, mild language and senses a sexual nature

This allows me to understand what is appropiate and what is not when doing our film.

I feel this is certificated perfectly as anyone younger than 15 would possibly be disturbed and quite scared as it is a dark, daunting film. By seeing what is appropriate allowed us to refine our ideas for our own film.






Drag me to hell: 

Cetificate: 15
Why: Mild violence, graphic images of gore, mild language.

This allows me to understand what is appropiate and what is not when doing our film.

This being in the horror genre helped us very much and we realized what makes a 15 horror film so successful. We established what worked for our film through this film and that we are on the right track in it being a 15.




127 Hours:

Certificate:15
Why:Little language, no violence, grapic/disturbing scenes.

This allows me to understand what is appropiate and what is not when doing our film.

Although this is not in the horror film section it was still a 15 an gave us more of an ides what we can include and that 15 films are very popular among society.



The shawshank Redemption:

Certificate: 15
Why: Strong language, scenes of a violent nature, Strong threat and menace are permitted unless sadistic or sexualised.


 This allows me to understand what is appropiate and what is not when doing our film.

The scenes of violence and the inappropriate allowed to see what was perfect for a 15, although our film does not include any of these if we had chosen to we would follow this films examples.


 Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind:

Certificate: 15


 Why: Strong language, nudity within sexual context but without strong detail.


This allows me to understand what is appropiate and what is not when doing our film.

The confusing and intellectual concepts of this film allowed us to understand that we can have some complex and adventurous story line plots but we deiced against anything to complex as this is not common in the horror film conventions.





 We first looked into which sub genre we found the most frightening and we discovered the element of the supernatural and ghosts were our calling. We then went into researching previous films I watched Dark water and Rebecca watched What lies beneath. We found the main element of these films is a young ghost child whom usually haunts a house in whic the used to live or something terrible happened to them and they want to haunt or kill the houses inhabitants. We decieded this would atract many people as we all live in a house or falt and this too could happen to us thats why we feel the fear we do. So we wanted to use this element of a young ghost girl haunting a house. Our audience will we feel like the fact we have changed the traditional ghost will expand our audience to a broader range of people. This will engage them into watching a traditional ghost film with a twist. We feel they are looking to see a big element of suspense and we provide that by not giving away the entire plot and ghost girl straight away. They will enjoy that it could be seen as realistic and they will feel it could happen to them as its in a house and they will be of a similar age to them self's so they will want to feel it could be them next. This is how we targeted a specific age of 15-18 year olds because they as I stated before can related to the characters age and how closely suited there environment is to there own.

The location is perfect as it is in a modern home and the use of props are barbie dolls and a light. The house will engage the audience as we all live in a house or flat and can imagine it being them there in the bed. The props are globally known products and some people see dolls as scary and haunting and the traditional use of a light flicker on and off entices the audience because they wanna see what is lurking in the shadows.

We felt our casting was perfect and challenges the original idea of a main protagonist being a female. By having a male who looks in his early 20's allows teenager and above relate ad it opens up a new view to the audience of a males perspective of being haunted. The threat is kept traditional by having a young ghost girl of the age of 10, we felt this will keep our audience comfortable with this as it hasn't changed the entire generic conventions completely. I feel both these attributes will engage the audience as it is traditional but a new idea too and they will want to see how this works and they can relate.

My title sequence engages the audience because it is a slight sense of foreshadowing to what our film contains and it sets the mood and scene as we want them to feel uncomfortable and have a sense of fear through the suspense. The images

When looking on IMDB we found the films the this sub genre are always a 15 due to there content. Mild violence, no-little gore and mild language. Also we looked into the ghost's usual apperance and found they are often very pale, with dark matted hair, black eyes with bleeding lips. We aspire to something similar and hope our look can be noticed as a ghost genre. Also we will attract a younger audience because with the other key element usually being a 20-30 year old being haunted we have used a male actor whom looks much older and can act older too. This allows the audience to feel some what connected to them but doesnt haved the element of living on there own. This adds to the audiences expierence of suspense and the element of the unknown. However by using a  male this once again as stated before breaks the stereotype mould and this will attract new audience of perhaps more males as they want to se how a male will react to this and also will be a new exciting idea as no one has been this happen before.

Our lighting will be dim and this was seen in the film Dark water. The reason for this is that it is human nature to fear what is lurking in the shadows and we are desperate to find if there is any danger, in our film we only use a single weak light which will provide a dim, low key light and this creates an idea we are almost blind but cannot see the danger before us. Music will be quite simple and slow perfeebly on the piano as this offers a low key and is quite daunting. The setting is a singular room and this is very similar to Dark water as the threat appears in the bedroom and this is identical to our film. In our bedrooms we feel safe and this will make the audience feel uneasy and perhaos no longer safe in there place of peace. We felt this was a very good idea as our audience will most likely be afraid after seeing this and want to move rooms!. We include dolls in which are sometimes a generic convetion as dolls are seen to be myterious and can look very realistic. As there expression never changes we feel like we are being watched and this adds to our films illusion.



Overall we attract our audience by following the typical generic conventions of a ghost sub genre but we do break a few sterotypes along the way making it unique and original.

Our titles worked very well as we used building blocks as this is child like as we wanted people to feel it could happen to them and that we feel it builds suspense.

This is from our titles and as I stated beforehand this is the building blocks and I felt the use of colour really stands out and adds to our film. We liked the lighting as it was dim enough to suggest we were hiding something or keeping something a secret and this added fear. 

Our music really does add to our final film as we used garage band to create simple sounds which add a whole new feeling to the film. I felt without the music we don't see the suspense building up for our audience. I music was quite chilling as it almost sounded like a whisper or the wind talking to them and trying to tell you off the dangers before you. This therefore engages our audience as the music gives them a hint for what's in store but they do not know what this is. 

Our feedback from our final film was over all good because they audience realized it was from a ghost sub genre. they thought the music could have had more of a range of sound but they commented that our lighting, location and cast were perfect and added to the films success. I feel our response to this feed back was good and although if thee was a bad comment you felt quite disappointed it was constructive criticism and we knew what if we did do it again we would know what to do. 

 

Here is my wordle of what our feedback concluded too, this allowed us to undertand what was good and was bad. We wrote down what we needed to improve and therefore tried to do this in our final film.