Sunday, 8 May 2011
Thursday, 5 May 2011
Wednesday, 4 May 2011
Evaluation Activity 4
Who would be the audience for your media product?
Our potential target audience is those who are within the age range of the rating of our film, which is 15 so within the age range of 15-30 is the audience we're looking towards to view our media product, Twelve.
Name: Kevin Wilberforce
Age: 18
He is a big film fan and likes genres related to crime and psychology. He enjoys films such as Phone booth, Silence of the lambs and Fight club, which are all considered as sub-genre films, making them psychological thrillers, which links in with our film as it leads onto an enigma. Kevin is a student with a part time job and has quite a good social life, as well as being the right target age for our film. He could relate to the film as the film is almost a mind game which he could possibly relate to after a night out. He likes quite heavy music and shops in places like All Saints.
We believe our film to be viewed by more of a male audience due to its violence and brutal behaivour. So get a fair view, we decided to research a girl as well as a boy for our film, Twelve.
Name: Georgina Shick
The main reason I chose these two individuals is simply because they are both in the target age range of our audience, 15-30. With their differences in genres, we can establish who is more likely to see our film, Twelve.
Our potential target audience is those who are within the age range of the rating of our film, which is 15 so within the age range of 15-30 is the audience we're looking towards to view our media product, Twelve.
Age: 18
He is a big film fan and likes genres related to crime and psychology. He enjoys films such as Phone booth, Silence of the lambs and Fight club, which are all considered as sub-genre films, making them psychological thrillers, which links in with our film as it leads onto an enigma. Kevin is a student with a part time job and has quite a good social life, as well as being the right target age for our film. He could relate to the film as the film is almost a mind game which he could possibly relate to after a night out. He likes quite heavy music and shops in places like All Saints.
We believe our film to be viewed by more of a male audience due to its violence and brutal behaivour. So get a fair view, we decided to research a girl as well as a boy for our film, Twelve.
Name: Georgina ShickAge: 19
She enjoys films with the genre as thriller, her favourite films are Taken, Se7en, and Cape fear. She is currently a student with a part time job like Kevin. She has an ok social life as well as being in the target range of our target audience. She likes music which is in the charts and shops is shops such as topshop and primark.
The main reason I chose these two individuals is simply because they are both in the target age range of our audience, 15-30. With their differences in genres, we can establish who is more likely to see our film, Twelve.
Tuesday, 3 May 2011
Monday, 2 May 2011
Evaluation Activity 2
We decided to base our main protagonist played by George on Edward Norton's character in the film Fight Club. This is because they both had several simlilaralities, not just on how they look but on their personalities and the problems they face. They both are common people who have normal life's and jobs which is shown through the plain casual clothes they each wear. We made sure that George wore plain clothes to get this across to the audience that he is just a normal person. The whole idea of this is to show how he would change throughout the film and shows how his mental problems would affect him.
In fight club Edward Norton's character meets someone called Tyler Durden played by Brad Pitt who he quickly befriends. He almost sees him as a role modal and an escape from his boring everyday life. Tyler plays a big part on Edward Norton, changing totally who he is. They both set up a fight club, but things start to get out of hand and they fallout. Tyler starts doing things which Edward's Norton's character doesn't agree with. In the end it turns out that Tyler is actually apart of Edward's character and is actually just a figment of his imagination. Tyler is actually his dark personality taking over which he is not aware of. We thought this was a great twist and tried to incorporate it into our own character in our film.
Many of Edward Norton's mannerisms influenced us when we were thinking of characters for our film, and this film and character gave us many ideas on how to make the audience feel uneasy and make them ask many questions about the particular character. This was because we wanted to create several enigmas and wanted our audience to question everything about the opening, especially our character and the strange problem he has. As normal as our character looks, he is very unique because of these blackouts he seems to get at the time twelve. Our character does horrific things in these blackouts he seems to get and has no control over and no recall of what has happened when he wakes back up. He then has the question in his head of why he is doing this and has to do something before this happens again.
The difference between the two characters is that our character is aware of his mental illness, while Edward Norton's character isn't. This was so we could develop on our character more to show how he is affected throughout the film. This is key to a film, as we found from our research, because it helps engage the audience as it makes them actually care about the character and what happens to them.
In fight club Edward Norton's character meets someone called Tyler Durden played by Brad Pitt who he quickly befriends. He almost sees him as a role modal and an escape from his boring everyday life. Tyler plays a big part on Edward Norton, changing totally who he is. They both set up a fight club, but things start to get out of hand and they fallout. Tyler starts doing things which Edward's Norton's character doesn't agree with. In the end it turns out that Tyler is actually apart of Edward's character and is actually just a figment of his imagination. Tyler is actually his dark personality taking over which he is not aware of. We thought this was a great twist and tried to incorporate it into our own character in our film.
Many of Edward Norton's mannerisms influenced us when we were thinking of characters for our film, and this film and character gave us many ideas on how to make the audience feel uneasy and make them ask many questions about the particular character. This was because we wanted to create several enigmas and wanted our audience to question everything about the opening, especially our character and the strange problem he has. As normal as our character looks, he is very unique because of these blackouts he seems to get at the time twelve. Our character does horrific things in these blackouts he seems to get and has no control over and no recall of what has happened when he wakes back up. He then has the question in his head of why he is doing this and has to do something before this happens again.
The difference between the two characters is that our character is aware of his mental illness, while Edward Norton's character isn't. This was so we could develop on our character more to show how he is affected throughout the film. This is key to a film, as we found from our research, because it helps engage the audience as it makes them actually care about the character and what happens to them.
Sunday, 1 May 2011
Evaluation Activity 1
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products ?
The title of the film
The title of our media production is twelve, this is because there is an ongoing theme throughout the media production of the main character looking back at his watch as the time draws ever nearer to twelve o clock where he begins to get flashbacks of the terrible crimes in which he has committed. The title twelve goes along with the theme that the film is a race against time thriller, this can be compared with other thrillers where there is a race against time such as "Taken" and "Phone Booth" from this you can see that the title goes against the conventions of the normal titles that thrillers are given, as there are few thrillers that are given titles that are just a number, normally the title is based around the setting of the thriller or the main action that takes place in the thriller.
The setting/location of the film
The majority of the media production was filmed in a derelict building in a field in Ongar. The derelict building has obviously been worn and torn and it already had alot of mise en scene inside it, such as graffiti and broken roof beams and smashed up bricks. This was why it was a very good location because it fits in with the codes and conventions of a thriller and made the whole feeling of the film a lot more intense and scary to watch.
Costumes and Props
Costumes and props were an extremely important part of our media production and took a lot of perfecting, at first we decided upon a plain costume which was just a white shirt/t-shirt with blue jeans, and we were using red acrylic paint as a prop for blood. However we found that this costume did not suit the codes and conventions of a thriller and that the red acrylic paints looked extremely fake as a substitute for blood, therefore we decided upon changing the costume to a more gangster like look, with dark jeans and a dark smart jacket, also we decided not to use the acrylic paints as blood. We also found out that props were very important to use in order to make the thriller more scary so when filming in the derelict building we made our own Polaroid photos out of laminated paper and put them onto a washing line with pegs, this gave a very good effect and made the thriller a lot more scary and intense in this scene.
This is a picture of the final costume.
This is a picture of the props we used as polaroid photos on a washing line.
Camera work and Editing
Throughout out media production we used a lot of very innovative shots in order to enhance the professionalism of our thriller. Because we decided upon re-shooting after our first day of filming, we decided to make a very detailed storyboard with a lot of very different yet effective shots.
This is a picture of Christian taking a low angle shot of me.
This is the result of the low angle shot.
This is a picture of Christian taking a very innovative shot between the feet of Charlie.
This is the result of the shot between Charlie's feet.
Title font and Style
The title of our thriller is twelve, this is because the thriller is a race against time thriller and throughout the thriller there is a consistent reference back to the characters watch in order to check the time which is drawing ever closer to twelve o clock. The font of our title is very stereotypical of that of a thriller, there is a dark background and then large bold writing which has a slight blur to it in order to give it a tense and scary effect.
Here is the picture of our opening sequence, this is the font of our title.
Genre and how the opening suggests It
Obviously the genre of our production is a thriller, however it is extremely important that you get this across in the opening few seconds of the production in order to make sure that you capture your audience and that they know what genre they are watching. In our thriller we done this by having the opening scene of our thriller in a dark woodland alley, this is the stereotypical setting for a thriller, a dark place with bushes and trees overhead. This meant that as soon as viewers watched our production they new straight away that it was a thriller.
This is a picture of the setting in the opening scene that really establishes what the genre of the production is.
By George Hick
The title of our media production is twelve, this is because there is an ongoing theme throughout the media production of the main character looking back at his watch as the time draws ever nearer to twelve o clock where he begins to get flashbacks of the terrible crimes in which he has committed. The title twelve goes along with the theme that the film is a race against time thriller, this can be compared with other thrillers where there is a race against time such as "Taken" and "Phone Booth" from this you can see that the title goes against the conventions of the normal titles that thrillers are given, as there are few thrillers that are given titles that are just a number, normally the title is based around the setting of the thriller or the main action that takes place in the thriller.
The setting/location of the film
The majority of the media production was filmed in a derelict building in a field in Ongar. The derelict building has obviously been worn and torn and it already had alot of mise en scene inside it, such as graffiti and broken roof beams and smashed up bricks. This was why it was a very good location because it fits in with the codes and conventions of a thriller and made the whole feeling of the film a lot more intense and scary to watch.Costumes and Props
Costumes and props were an extremely important part of our media production and took a lot of perfecting, at first we decided upon a plain costume which was just a white shirt/t-shirt with blue jeans, and we were using red acrylic paint as a prop for blood. However we found that this costume did not suit the codes and conventions of a thriller and that the red acrylic paints looked extremely fake as a substitute for blood, therefore we decided upon changing the costume to a more gangster like look, with dark jeans and a dark smart jacket, also we decided not to use the acrylic paints as blood. We also found out that props were very important to use in order to make the thriller more scary so when filming in the derelict building we made our own Polaroid photos out of laminated paper and put them onto a washing line with pegs, this gave a very good effect and made the thriller a lot more scary and intense in this scene.
This is a picture of the final costume.
This is a picture of the props we used as polaroid photos on a washing line.
Camera work and Editing
Throughout out media production we used a lot of very innovative shots in order to enhance the professionalism of our thriller. Because we decided upon re-shooting after our first day of filming, we decided to make a very detailed storyboard with a lot of very different yet effective shots.
This is a picture of Christian taking a low angle shot of me.
This is the result of the low angle shot.
Title font and Style
The title of our thriller is twelve, this is because the thriller is a race against time thriller and throughout the thriller there is a consistent reference back to the characters watch in order to check the time which is drawing ever closer to twelve o clock. The font of our title is very stereotypical of that of a thriller, there is a dark background and then large bold writing which has a slight blur to it in order to give it a tense and scary effect.
Here is the picture of our opening sequence, this is the font of our title.
Genre and how the opening suggests It
Obviously the genre of our production is a thriller, however it is extremely important that you get this across in the opening few seconds of the production in order to make sure that you capture your audience and that they know what genre they are watching. In our thriller we done this by having the opening scene of our thriller in a dark woodland alley, this is the stereotypical setting for a thriller, a dark place with bushes and trees overhead. This meant that as soon as viewers watched our production they new straight away that it was a thriller.
This is a picture of the setting in the opening scene that really establishes what the genre of the production is.
By George Hick
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