Evaluation-Who would be the audience for your media product?

From the media production we have produced, the typical audience for this would be mainly teenages aged 15 and above.
The reasons for this is because it is teenagers that are acting in the production. Also, the film is about a boy that cheats on his girlfriend, so teenagers 15 and above would like to watch and be a suitable view for our film. They would be interested because they'd like to find out what happens in a cheaters film. The film production is for anyone above the ages of 15, however the main attraction for the audiences is teenagers from 15. This would be the typical audience for the film.

This is a teenage girl, she is called Chloe Berry, she is 17 years old and I and my group think she is the typical kind of audience for our film project.

Chloe is a girl who keeps up in the latest trends, shops at the latest fashion stores such as New Look, River Island and Topshop. She enjoys listening to a varied range of music, anything from Rock to Pop music.

She enjoys her social life with her friends, she enjoys going swimming, bowling, cinema and when she goes to the cinema she goes to watch horror films, she usually watches the latest horror film out. She likes films like 'Scream', 'Saw' and 'Paranormal Activity', she went to see the recent Paranormal Activity 2. As she likes Scream and some of these other choices of films, I am sure she would really like the film project we have produced as she is very much in to watching horror films and ours fits in to this genre that she likes.

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

A media institution is a company that will distribute someone's film. Universal, Working Title, Warp and 20th Century Fox are all examples of companies around.

The studio/company I think my film production would fit into would be Warp. I think it would fit into Warp because the film we have produced is not a high budget and it is a very low budget film. Therefore it would fit best with the Warp Studio. Also I would recommend our film production to be in the Warp company because the film we have produced is a little gritty. It's not going to be the most successful film therefore it would fit into one of the lower companies, however, companies like Universal, where they are far more successful and they make their films out more world wide to the public and therefore they have bigger success, however they can afford to do this, therefore they can spend more money on their films and publish it to a wider range, therefore this is why big film companies make better films, which leads to more profit, therefore our film production would not be as successful in this company. Theres not enough effects to make the film of high standards etc. So therefore, I would choose Warp Studio other than any other studio company.

Examples of Warp Films

• Four Lions
• This Is England
• Hush
• Paradise Lost
• Submarine

These 5 films are all Warp Films, out of these 5 films I have only heard of two of them (Four Lions, This Is England) the others I haven't heard of. This goes to show that these kind of films from this company are not big named films and not everyone knows about them, they are typical standard films and don't really bring in any great profit, some may do so, some might equal the budget they spent on making the film. Warp isn't the best of companies and this is why I think our film production(Infidelity) would fit into this film industry company.

Evaluation- How does your media product represent particular social groups?

In this production, the genre is horror and the main story line in the film is the fact that a boy has cheated on his girlfriend. So what was decided to do is a typical cheating based horror. As most young people are most commonly known to cheat. This film is casted by 17-19 year olds. Therefore, this must attract teenagers of this age to watch the opening of this film we have produced.
This film is to help show that being a teenager is just like the adult life, even though they are still young, they have to deal with adult situations at a young age, is this showing that teenagers are growing up too fast and are having to make decisions early on in life. However, there is no importance shown to this as they are still young.
Melissa who plays the killer, doesn't like cheats, therefore she fits into the part of the killer. Also, Laura has experienced being cheated on, therefore it makes it easier for her to understand her part in the film, a lot easier to play. From the actors/actresses who played the parts, having them having the same views and similarities to this storyline,it helps play the parts correct.
Also in this production, it is a girl that gets cheated on by her boyfriend and her heart is broken, this is a typical thing to real life that the boy has cheated on his girlfriend. It is more likely a boy to cheat than a girl. Therefore we have made a girl be cheated on in our film production.

In horror/slasher movies you intend to start the film with a typical girl at the start, for example 'Scream' a 'Real' media institution has at the beginning of the film a girl is home alone, also the girl is a teenager. 'Scream' represents teenage girls to be useless and clumsy, whereas in our production, we wanted the girl not to be this and we wanted her to be the opposite from this where she can be able to defend herself. 'Scream' itself was released in 1996 whereas to our film production it is released in 2011, from then to now we wanted to show that women can go from being clumsy and defenceless in a horror film, to being able to defend themselves and be a lot stronger. 

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

The title of the film is introduced at the end of the footage we have put together. The font of the writing of the title is made to show some kind of conotation to the horror genre which our film product represents. Many horror films have the title in their film with font that has some kind of connotation to the genre horror.

Setting/Location

The main setting/location of the film is in the Forrest. The reason why this location was chosen is because it creates the atmosphere as the forrest can be seen as creepy etc. This helps build the tension as you are watching the film and it indicates to the audience that something could happen. There could of been other locations used to help fit into the genre that we are obtaining. However, the Forrest is something not commonly used for horror films and therefore it gives the audience a different prospective of what horror films can be made like.

Costumes and Props

Every film has costumes and porps, therefore this is a typical media convention. In our product, you can see that there is a 'cheatboard' this is what is used to show that Melissa (The girl that gets cheated on) has been stalking her ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend. Also, their is knifes used, this shows some of the conotations and mise-en-scene, this shows weapons, typical weapons that appear in a horror film. The actors are dressed in casual clothes. They are dressed in casual clothes to show that they are just normal casual people, like a real life person. This isn't really a costume, its just the casual day look, however, still acts as a costume.

Camerawork and editing

In this product we have made a few different range of shots, close-ups, mid-shots etc. When editing the footage, we fade some of the shots into other shots, this creates the effects and also shows our editing techniques. Shots like these are used in a real film, so we took some ideas when watching films on our research and decided to use them to make it affective. The fading shots shows the use of our editing and also you can see the the different range of shots used throughout the film. (will be posted on as a later date)

Story and How the opening sets it up

In the film production, it is about where a girl gets cheated on by her boyfriend and then the girl that gets cheated on, she stalks her ex-boyfriend(the one that cheated on her) and his girlfriend, then the girl goes on to kill the new girlfriend to get revenge. The opening sets this up as it begins with the cheatboard, this shows all the stalking the girl has done to her ex-boyfriend and new girlfriend, then it goes to shots of her getting ready to go out and find them, so therefore, the cheatboard shows who the main characters are throughout the opening.

Genre and How the opening suggests it

The genre of the film production we have made is horror. In the opening of the film, you can tell that the genre is horror, as the music of the film is a creepy music and is a conotation to the genre horror. Also in the film opening, you see knifes, this is a typical prop in a horror film and therefore suggests that the film has something to do with horror.

How characters are introduced

In the film production all the characters are introduced seemingly. At the beginning of theproduction, the new girlfriend and the ex-boyfriend are introduced on the cheatboard, this is because they are the main characters to the beginning, then seconds after they are introduced, so is the girl that got cheated on. All the characters are introduced fairly quick to the film, this is so the audience can get quick views of every character in the production.

Special Fx

We didn't really use any special fx. We made the whole film in black and white, which is just an effect. Green screen can help to make special fx, but we didn't really have any real good effects in our final production. Special fx effects would be most commonly used in scifi and action films etc.

Editing-Coming to an end.

From all the footage that has been captured, we have finally edited the footage and alsmost completed our final project. Here is some more edited footage:

This is Melissa-(Killer) Here, you can see on the left is the non-edited shot of her putting the lipstick on, however to the right of that is the final edited shot of it, it is in black in white, this is to create the tension. Also in this shot, it is a close up to show the gender of the girl and also, whilst this shot is playing in the film, as she is putting on the lipstick, it is in slow motion, this builds the tension and creates the atmosphere.

Here is another screen grab from the editing we have done. On the left of the picture is the first shot of the dead body, however on the right side of the picture is the edited shot and is the final piece that will be included in the film. As you can see it is in black and white, this is throughout all the film and keeps tension going all the way. As you can see, the word 'Destroyed' is in the background of the dead body, this shows that the word represents what the dead body is, its destroyed, the girl is dead and this goes along with the conventions of the shot.

Filming/Editing.

Here is some of the footage from the middle of the fil. Before and after editing, as you can see we have changed the colour to black and white and shortened the clips. We have done this to create a tension building effect.

Equipment.

These are pictures to show the equipment we have been using througout our Media Coursework Project.

This is the keyboard we use to help edit pieces of footage we have filmed. This is different to a normal keyboard and it is our first time experiencing one of these kinds.

This is the computer we have been using to edit all the footage we have filmed. All our project is on this compuer and it has been our first time using these, so we have no experience at all. It takes time to get used to, but we manage in the end to get used to it.

This is the camcorder we used to film all of our footage with for the opening to the film we are making.

Storyboard

Storyboards

This is storyboard one. It describes the initial setting of the house.

This is the second storyboard. This is where she is placing and choosing what weapon she shall put in her bag.

This is the third storyboard. This shows the shot of the boy with his new girlfriend, also shows a weapon with blood. (future shot)

This is the fourth shot and you see the ex-girlfriend walking and seeing her ex-boyfriend with his new girlfriend.

This is the fifth storyboard. You see the ex-girlfriend destroying the shine and scribbling on the new girlfriends face with red lip stick.

This is the sixth storyboard.As you can vaguely see it says 'extrashots which we need to include' therefore we have placed some establishing shots and the extra narrative of the hospital which branches off.  

This is the final storyboard. It shows some close-up shots of the shrine and also the title of the film.

Storyboard-The making of them





This is a template of the storyboards that was used to create the real storyboards.
The box is where the picture would be drawn and this would show a brief outline of what the shot will look like.
The lines are there so we can write up the explanation of the shot and also the use of mise-en-scene used in the shot.
Also, the little square is for the shot number.


Once the storyboard has been put together, it is more than likely that the storyboard will fit exact to the film we produce.

Final Plot

As I joined this group later on throughout the project, this is the final plot idea they have decided to gone with.

They agreed to initially go with Idea A. However, when they realised to do this, it was far to complex and complicated therefore they tweeked the main idea and decided to change the initial idea.

This is how the film will be overall: There is a girl and boy that used to be a couple, the boy cheated on the girl and now has a new girlfriend. The 'ex' girlfriend therefore went and stalked her ex boyfriend with his new girlfriend, taking pictures etc of them and therefore from this made a collage of them and therefore from this, plans to plot to go out and kill them.

Idea C.

Idea C


Visual Style: Happy Times, Extremely bright and colourful, Scared and tormented, becomes black and white, dark, dull and gloomy.


Characters: Leah, Katie and Stacey, these two friends have been best friends from young age.


Location: Flashbacks in various settings: Shopping, at school, eating out, one of their birthdays etc. Rest of setting, in one of the friends houses and then leads in to a forrest. 


Narrative: Three girls head off to the forrest, excited about camping. Get there, sort tent, get food and alcohol ready, by this time its darkish. Start telling stories with torch. Noises start to occur outside, the suspense starts to build. One of the girls gets out the tent thinking its one of the boyfriends, this girl doesn't return. Then...cuts to dead body, blood etc everywhere, then ends with another girl getting dragged out of tent.

Idea B.

Idea B

Characters: Best Friends (2 of them) 1. Hannah-Laura 2. Jade-Melissa Also a murderer- Played by a man.

Location: In a bedroom, a laptop in there to. Park or woods where the murderer will be (She doesn't know this)

Narrative: Girls browsing internet, chatting about girl stuff......Boys and also looking at ones they know from the internet......Jade, has been talkng to boy, however, she doesn't know him....He looks hot, therefore keeps talking and then askis best friend Hannah for advice.....She encourages Jade to go meet him....So she does....Shes on her way there, theres a guy, picture is different from as seen before, he murders her....He gets her phone and as Jade waits at home, she recieves a text from Hannah's phone saying come meet us, he's brought a friend.

Idea A

Idea A
Visual Style: Happy Times, in Colour. Bad Times, in Black and White and eerie.

Characters:Myra, physcho killer. (Laura Whitaker)
Lucy, lady cheat,seductive. (Melissa Little)
Tony, Cheating boyfriend. (Arron Cawtherley)
Jennifer, Naive, housewife. (Hayley Ried)

Location:Nicole's House + (The Delph Fields)- Nightime
Towneley Park, Daytime.

Narrative:Tony and jennifer are portraying all the signs of a happy couple, in love and optomistic. They have been out for a lovely day, come and ate a romantic meal. Tony gets a text (from Lucy) message from another girl. FLASH to Myra ( pictures of tony on picture board, with cheat in red writing written across. Tony goes out to go and meet Lucy, pretending to walk the dog. FLASH to Myra, who is following a girl, (Lucy) with evil look in her eye. FLASH to Myra's house and pictures of Lucy and Tony together with giant "X"'s through. CUT forward, Lucy dead in forrest. Myra Follwing Tony, shows Murder scene. While cutting back to Jennifer at home, waiting drinking red wine. Myra goes and knocks on Jennifers door, She answers and drops glass of wine. END.

Ideas.

Once I had changed to a different group, they had already came up with 3 rough ideas on what they were going to do. They are ranked in the order of the favourite and the one which we are probably going to attempt, idea A being the best. However these ideas are not set in stone and we will probably develop, change or elaborate on them when drawing up story boards and even in film production.  I shall post the ideas as separate blogs therefore you have a clearer view on each idea.

Group Change

Throughout my AS Meida Coursework, I have now changed groups and joined someone elses group.
They emerged an idea before I joined and the idea is:

Visual Style:
Happy Times, in Colour. Bad Times, in Black and White and eerie.

Characters:
Myra, physcho killer. (Melissa Little)
Lucy, lady cheat,seductive. (Laura Whittaker)
Tony, Cheating  boyfriend. (Joey Moore)


Location:
Nicole's House + (The Delph Fields)- Nightime
Towneley Park, Daytime.

From this idea, they have already filmed all the footage needed. Also, they have already started to edit the footaged gathered, therefore I will have missed out on some valuable information and lose certain pieces of information to add to my blog.