Evaluation Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

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Evaluation Question 3

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

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Preliminary Task

One of our tasks towards the start of of course was to create a preliminary short film sequence. In this we had to have someone walking into a room, having a conversation and then leaving.

We apologise for the characters sudden change of appearance however we were told this would not matter as the task was to see our camera work skills.

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Promotion

It was essential to promote our film to raise awareness and deliver our film to a wider audience. We did this through Social Media. 
Due to our film being of a low budget we used free ways of spreading our film online.
However if we were a high budget film we would use ideas including bus advertisements, TV adverts, trailers before Youtube clips and Newspapers

This is an example from Youtube of advertisement

Development of Storyboard

This is our final storyboard that we are going to use to help create the image that we want to make a reality during the filming process.

Above shows the difference from our initial story board and the final.

We went into a lot more detail and used it a lot throughout our filming process.

Feedback from Audience

http://animoto.com/play/DYwtBEnVgDfGipZbjYVlRg

This is a video that displays the various audience feedback sessions we had over the time of making our film opening! This was a massive help as it allowed us to get the opinions of our target market.

Further posts on Facebook

This has been a key aspect of our development as there must be an aspect of target market influence throughout. This is why we as Polaroid Productions felt so strongly about being on the social media sites to fully reach our target market

Final Storyboard

This is our final storyboard, which we intend to use throughout the filming process.

Early Facebook Posts

The early Facebook posts from our first filming session and horror make-up for our opening.

Initial narrative

This is our initial narrative:

1. We start with a black screen, fading into a girl looking round the car park with a torch. All you can see is a basic outline of a girl, holding keys also, the torch light is flashing round the screen.
2. She is running through this dimly lit car park, looking around her very scared as if something is chasing her. She runs to her car and struggles to fit the key in the lock, her hands are shaking and she is very scared.
3. A shot of her keys is shown as we see her drop her keys on the floor within her panic.They are under the car.
4. We then cut to a bathroom scene. We see a women in a bath (but do not see her face) and we see her painting her nails a dark red. There is a laptop on the loo, watching CCTV which is an online game.
5. We then cut back to the eerie car park and there is a shot looking under a car to see keys and her hand reaching for them. But then another hand reaches across and grabs her hand.
6. We then cut to the back to the bathroom scene and see the woman picking at her skin which makes it bleed- the blood drips down her arm and she watches it drip down into the water and spell out our title 'Immersed'.
7. It then cuts back to the car park to see a creepy smiling man looking at her from under the car.
8. It then cuts back to the bathroom where the woman is in her towel getting out of the bath, she goes to the laptop- it then zooms into one of the CCTV screens of a girl on the screen. On the CCTV screen we see the girl lying dead next to the car and her neck is bruised where she has been strangled to death.
9. After realising it is her lying dead in the car park (the audience does not yet know that it is her, apart from subtle hints throughout).
10. It cuts back where the girl in the bathroom is stressing out and switches the laptop off immediately. 
11.  In the suddenly black screen reflection we see her face and she is the girl from the car park and behind her is the same man from the underneath of the car.
12. The screen goes black and the credits role.

Possible title and slogan

We have looked at various different horrors on the market at the moment and from the past to see the types of names they normally use. This lead us to research short and snappy words that can have multiple meanings to create a mysterious preconception, which links well with our psychological horror theme.

Links to 'Immersed-How far is too far?'

Story and mood boarding

Within our lessons we have created an initial story board for our film opening. We also created a mood board. 

Potential Actors

Thinking of the actors to play the characters in our film opening is something we have thought a lot about as we want the acting to contrast the some of the convensions that are typically horror. This means that when we were brainstorming the potential actors we discussed the types of actors and what this could lead the audience to believe.

Inspiration

 

As a group we discussed the possible inspirations for our psychological horror film opening and this lead us to YouTube various movies we knew about and those which we had discovered due to the our research of horrors.

All of these films have aspects that we have taken into consideration in the planning of our film opening:

• The game aspect from Saw, which adds the unexpected twists and turns to the movie that is unique to the Saw franchise and this is what we liked.
• The addition of a separate scene in Scream in the opening, builds tension in the audience
• Inception on the other hand, makes you question everything that you have seen and this is something that we think would work well in a psychological horror.

Thinking of Titles for Our Film Opening

We have been thinking about titles of our film opening because we think it is important to add to the sequence without giving the story away.

Horror Prezi

Our Horror Prezi

This is our Prezi of our Horror genre as we have chose to do a psychological horror drama for our coursework film opening. Enjoy.

Montage of Actors Research (casting)

  

We went to a performance of some AS Theatre Studies Monologues and this allowed us to take into consideration the type of actors we would like to see, potentially in the film opening that we shall be making in the future. This montage shows some small snippets of the monologues by the Theatre Study students.

Genre research - Horror

We have chosen the genre of horror for our film opening coursework. To help us decide on the genre we did some research on horror films. Here are a few we've looked at. Enjoy.

This next one was us looking at the idea that something that is naturally not scary (answering the phone)happens and therefore makes an everyday action scary. Making it real for the audience.

Typical Sounds and Music in the Horror Genre

Typical sounds that are within the horror genre include:
-- high pitched screams
-- echoes
-- breathing 
-- sudden strings/ boom effects
-- piano base tunes

Also almost all of the movies we used to help understand the sounds used had a very ionic theme tune to add to the film opening. We intend to use the research of these sounds to add to the intensity of our film opening.

Evaluations of Three Film Openings

Video Of Film Openings

Below show the different posters for the three films and the evaluation/breakdown of the film openings.