Question 7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

This is the first camera type shot that my group and I used, (low camera shot) it was not as effective towards the audience the way we planned however we understood why, when first recording we used random shot types that we thought looked okay without actually thinking properly, but now I believe we have progressed a lot as we now know what shot types to use and where to put them to have the correct effect on the audience the way we would have originally planned.

 

When recording we thought clearly about the shot types, we thought together that this would be an effective ‘shot reverse shot’ because it is allowing you to see both character’s faces and get a real drift of how they are feeling, instead of one, it is allowing the audience to feel more a part of the clip. From this I was able to progress a lot as I found news ways of using this to my advantage.

In this screen shot, it from the most recent film that my group and I recorded, the name we decided to call it was/is ‘White Eyed Possession’. This is where we believed that if we didn’t just use shot reverse shot but changed it up a bit with a reflection of the characters letting them see the expression without having to change the angle the camera is in.

With this shot we thought it was the most effective, it is at the end of our horror film where you see the true demonic demon coming through the character, the extreme close up got the effect we wanted however we could have improved with the non-diegetic sound that was used. We progressed a lot than before but we can still do better.

Question 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Whilst preparing and making my films with my fellow peers, I had to use a variety of technology to help me do so, the multiple types of technology are; YouTube, Prezi, Blogger,

Final Cut, Photoshop, Google and Survey Monkey.

Whilst preparing for the make of my horror film, I planned it out step by step on Prezi with my group, by using Mis en scene: costume, location, setting, props and lighting. Then wrote about the problems that might occur when trying to create the horror film with everything else we had planned out as we as getting feedback from our fellow peers on how to improve. This is one type of technology that was used in the process.

 

When first starting the course I had to create a blog, where I put up all the research and preparation, I had done in the making of the horror film and before, I would put links to the practice task we was asked to do such as 'Animatic or with photo's as well as short clips such as 'The Jelly Baby Experiment'.

YouTube was one of the most common technologies used throughout the entire  process, I uploaded all different types of filming that was used for practice when working out how to use the camera and multiple types of techniques for effect on an audience such as; 'Animatic, Preliminary Task and White Eyed Possession'.

 

When researching a good horror film we was asked to create a survey using Survey Monkey to ask people that we know a vary of questions on what they thought a good horror film was to helps us understand how to make our successful.

 
For Final Cut Pro, we used to for the hardest parts throughout the course we used it to edit our horror film and we used it to help put our animatic together whilst adding a voice over of Non-diegetic and Ambient sound. Another time it was used was when creating our first ever film shot of our Preliminary Task.

 

We used Google for many different thins one of the main things it was used for was to research Film Industry new and other things based around Film Industry. Also we used it for other types of research for the film and pictures.

Question 5: How did you attract/address your audience?

Click here to see our horror with a voice over explaining why we made certain decisions within our horror film to make it so successful. Giving reasons.

In my own personal opinion I believe that people as well as our target audience should go and view my horror film, this is because it is not you average, stereotypical horror film. Although it conforms the conventions of a horror film, it does try to challenge it, this decision was made so that the film could stand out amongst others.

For example I watch a previous film in the cinema's called Mama (2013 Andrés Muschietti) it is very typical as it is what you expect in horror a family is being tortured by something that is dead and trying to gain something that they are unable to gain so they cause havoc amongst the innocent whereas in our film the one who is causing havoc is someone you would not expect the innocent is causing mayhem towards those who have done wrong, sort of how God will judge us on judgement day. 

Mama: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Am7i7uM9r0

Another film that is sort of the same as our film that I believe was very successful was The Conjuring (2013 James Wan) The storyline is that a loving family move somewhere new and their house is being possessed however the twist is that the thing possessing the house takes over the most innocent one in the family and makes them cause the havoc towards others. This is different to our film but similar at the same time. I do believe that our film is more successful as horror films come into the industry one by one and take over the Box Office, it is our films turn to do so, especially with the storyline we have developed and put so much hard work into.

The Conjuring: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwyTiF2E3lw

The final example I am going to use is The Blair Witch Project, which is what actually inspired us to use to the hand held camera technique throughout our film however we decided to add camera angles instead of constantly holding the camera so it looked natural, like a found footage. The Blair Witch Project also done the same thing, I don't believe our horror film will be as successful as the Blair Witch however I do believe as good as it. 

The Blair Witch Project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_Hw4bAUj8A&safe=active

Question 4: Who would be the audience for your media product?

This is Zahara Lopez, she is 16 years and 10 months old, and live in Clapham Common, she dresses straight forward she does not try to impress she mostly dresses in things that are comfortable for her - Jumpers, jeans and skirts sometimes. She enjoys going shopping with her friends, going to parties and raving it as well as spending time with her boyfriend Luciano Myles.

She shops in all her favourite stores such as: H&M, River Island, New Look, TopShop, Risky, BooHoo.com and Primark.

Zahara enjoys many different types of film from a variety of genre's, such as: Hair Spray, Tormented, Mama, The Conjuring, Twilight Saga and White Chicks, all these films she enjoys to a certain extent she has loved watching them in the cinema and later on DVD and Blu-Ray, watching them with friends is what makes her love it even more. I believe that my horror film would appeal to Zahara as she is not a stereotypical girl that is afraid of horrors and tends to stick with romance, she comes out of her comfort zone to try multiple things, therefore if this film was to show at her local cinema it may appeal to her as it is similar to other films she has watched and had an interest in like, Paranormal Activities, Final Destination, Freddy vs. Jason etc...

White Chicks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xufGAX3AJo4
Tormented:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TehfdZ6khk

I believe that Zahara will find a grave interest in my film because of certain scenes that were included for example, the tenseness of the scene where the girl realises that she is changing and that something or someone is taking over her even though she is being naive and thinks there is nothing wrong with her.

There is a part within my film that I believe Zahara will enjoy, one of those parts is the suspense that is built up within the bathroom scene the way the girls eyes change you believe that she is going to go on a killing spree even though she doesn't, it would make Zahara as well as the audience believe that something terrible is about to happen, making them be on the edge of their seats and then we leaving them hanging allowing them to question what is going to happen next. This is exactly how Zahara perceives her horror films and this is why I believe Zahara will enjoy that specific part the most.

Her and her family tend to watch TV drama more than anything else when at home for example they watch: Eastenders and Hollyoaks, however when in her room and self evaluating she loves to catch up on her comedy shows such as: Family Guy, American Dad, The Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother, My Mad  Fat Diary, 2 Broke Girls, Cat Fish and Teen Mom season one - three.

Family Guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVgPCuZrPYc
2Broke Girls: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNV2BJ1HCL0
2Broke Girls: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2hcJ0qba-U

Zahara enjoys a wide range of music from pop to R'n'B, mostly songs that are in the top 40 charts on Viva, however she loves to stick with her culture of bashment and reggae.

Iggy Azalea - Fancy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-zpOMYRi0w
Vybz Kartel - Mamacita: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6wlNb4AgXQ
Kizomba: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGZ_ZzVE9d4

Question 3: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

'White Eyed Possession' is an low budget film with the British film industry, to be able to get recognition it would have to be distributed at a film festival such as the 'British Independent Film Festival'. It helps promote film-makers film to an appreciative audience helping them be recognised by others to help promote their film within the UK. If this did become a success which I do believe their may be a 50/50% chance that it might, then it would become mainstreamed and shown at multiple cinemas such as Odeon and Vue, within their smaller screening rooms just to be able to get small feedback from different people to see if they should show it to a larger group to make the film a

bigger success. After it has been screened at the cinema for about 2 weeks, it may be released on DVD and Blu-ray this al depends on how much a good profit the film got and what people thought about it. This would be sold at stores such as HMV however because of the century we are you are able to download and watch on laptops, or any social networking site possible. Also to be shown at local cinema's such as the Picture house in Clapham Common.

Our production company 'Galaxy Production' would seek to employ a good distributor such as 'Universal Pictures' or 'Warner Bros., who are both currently distributing 'Godzilla' and 'A Million Way To Die'.

Our product demonstrates that you don't need to stereotype and conform a horror film, you can challenge it and make it your own. The fact that you also don't need all the special effects to make a film successful, (for example 'The Blair witch Project'.) they also don't always make a film scary, it does help build tension and suspense but there is more to it. Our layout of our film and the script-writing as well as the use of camera work is able to prove this. I do believe that our film should be screened as it can be a huge success, even though it doesn't conform a horror film, it has a lot of value to appeal to a mass market.

I have researched the current films that are showing at Cineworld as that is a local cinema to me, they are only showing one horror film so I think it would be best to screen the film there as it would be able to capture a lot of people's attentions especially how majority of the films are comedy and they may want a change of genre. Apart from that Cineworld is the second most largest multiplex cinema chain within London, all the films that are screened there are spread world wide, helping our film be noticed by others.

However I wouldn't just branch my film to my local cinema's, branching out would be better so that I am attracting a wider audience, giving my film more knowledge to receive a bigger profit. however if I picked my local cinema it would branch to all their others cinema also allowing the film to be viewed worldwide.

Question 2: How does you media product represent particular social groups?

Within the horror film that my group and myself put together we didn’t really stereotype a specific social group of young teenager, this is because we didn’t want to conform the conventions of a horror film but we wanted to challenge it and see if the out come was a good choice. There are no similarities that can be traced back to any other film as majority of horror films that I have seen in my lifetime have all been stereotypical and have the dumb blonde, the girl who can do no wrong, a stupid macho boy who thinks he can not get killed and then the others that are like extra’s that no one cares about.

Question 1: In what way does you media products use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

The title of the film: when deciding on the title of the film opening, we wanted to be unique but have it simple as well, we wanted it to link to what our film would be about of the focus and cause of it all. for example 'Mama' which is a film based around issue /protagonist within the film itself, which is the reason as to why myself and the rest of my group came up with 'White eye possession' because that is the main issue within ours. It conforms the conventions of a horror film as it is what most horror films tend to do when making the films, simple but with an affect of mystery to it, making the audience become intrigued and want to see the film. This is like what a few films I have watched have done for example; Carrie, 300, The Blair Witch , Paranormal activated and many more...

 

Font and Style: We used a bit of simplicity but we also added an effect to it to make it look different let it look simple but special amongst others. This mirrors our horror film I believe the way the victim is a simple teenager like every other but then she become special when she receives white eyes that posses her at anytime. Simple but special. It does not conform but it challenge the conventions of a horror film as majority have red righting to signify there will be a lot of death allowing the red to mean blood, whereas ours is plan white on a plain black background. However the affect it has on our audience conforms as it still creates that spooky feeling that is needed which is exactly what we wanted to portray.

 

Setting and Location: From our researching and planning done before hand we found out that a lot of horror films are filmed in abandoned dark spooky places that have dark history behind them for example, 'The Conjuring, Insidious and Cabin in the woods. We didn't want to conform and be stereotypical we wanted to be different as to the reason we challenged the conventions of a horror film and based it within a bedroom. However the films that are set in a bedroom it is always the victim this time we switched it up it is the victims friend's house instead. This was to bring a sense of normality to scene. Having the victim being of such a young age and being at friends house shows the audience that no one is safe where every the go, making the audience feel a bit uncomfortable and scared.

 

Costume and Props: Costumes and props is one of the most essential things in a horror film we didn't want to challenge the convention just in case it made the film un-successful. So we decided to conform it and by doing that we conformed it by getting white contacts because when you think of a horror film you would expect to see something demonic or possessive. So that is exactly what we decided to just creating a different storyline that would never be expected. When thinking about the colour of what the contact should be we had to think a lot because colour plays a main part in a film as it adds affect to the things that are de-connotes. White is pure colour and so having them in someone that is demonic and possessed by the undead is really challenging the convention, well so I believe anyway.

 

Camerawork and Editing: Our film opening was handheld camera with only two camera techniques, this is because we was inspired by 'The Blair Witch' and ' Paranormal Activities' especially with how successful the films were and how much acknowledgement it received, We tried not to use edit as much so it looked like a found footage film that was left in that same house that was recorded. The only types of editing that were used were dissolve transitions and that was so it flowed nicely with the continuity.