This document summarizes the learning process and technological skills acquired from creating a horror film media product. It discusses learning about different camera shots and edits to set the scene and build atmosphere. It also highlights learning the importance of everyone contributing to the filming and editing stages. The document reflects on learning more about scripting, visualizing scenes, and deeply analyzing films through the preliminary task and final evaluation. Overall, it emphasizes the many technical and creative aspects of filmmaking that were learned from the preliminary stage through to completing the media product.

1. Question1
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge
forms and conventions of real media products?
For our media product, after watching many different thriller genre
films we decided to follow most of the conventions to make our film
just as successful as the other films. We follows things such as some
shots to keep basic elements of a horror movie and using other
movies is how to shoot horror film, allow people to watch after more
terrifying atmosphere. And we according watching other films got
some footage tips. However we decided to develop film of media
products by in the evening the boy had been lying on the bed and he
fell asleep made a very long dream. Then it tells the story of this
dream. A boy like read a book under a tree, then a series of terrorist
happened, until he woke up from a dream. Then when he got up he
found that’s not only a dream. Everything is real.
By doing this we hoped to get a message across to our target
audience. After seeing other thriller film, we also challenged a lot of
new content of this movie and shots, Inside portray a lot of
expression, action and voice, such as the character’s facial
expression,

2. fear of fear action, and saw the ghost of terror
screams. All are in order to render the film’s
atmosphere of terror. After shooting hopefully we can
try to do better, seize the audience’s eyes.
For this film sound, we used some horrible sound, then
we were recording together, in second part of this film,
we recording voice of pant and for this film the last part
we recording a sentence ‘that’s not only a dream’ . We
shot this movie before, we watched a lot of thriller
movie, with a lot of skill. Next time we can shot better
to let the audience feel horror, improve how to shot and
any about film.

3. Question 2
How does your media product represent particular social
groups?
For our film, it is not very fearsome, so except people who is
under 12 and elder people, others are all can watch this film.
There are many people would like to watch horror film,
especially teenagers, because most of them want to try
something exciting, and when they are watching horror films
they will absolutely feel excited, that is why they want to watch
horror film. Another is adult, especially males, because they are
not afraid of it.
For the clothing style, the actress wearied a white dress,
because there is a ghost in a Japanese thriller wearied a white
dress, and we think is very fearful, so we borrowed a white
dress from performance teacher. And the ghost in the Japanese
thriller also had very long hire in front of her face, so we also
borrowed a fake hair from performance teacher. And the actor
wearied normal clothes, just like a student.
There are no dialogues in our film, because there are only two
people in our film, ghost and a boy.

4. We shot at two places, first is behind our college,
there is a forest in the park, it is a good place to shoot
horror film, quiet and a little bit gruesome, especially
at cloudy day, and we put some sound effects in the
film, it would ghastlier in forest when you watch the
film. Second is a host family of my friend, we shot in
his room, because he is the photographer of our film
and his home is near to the park.
The way of represent things of us is let everything
happens in a dream. When the boy wakes up,
audience might think this is only a dream, it is not
going to happen in real life, but things happened after
he wakes up can change their thoughts, the blood
appear on a piece of paper, is same as the dream, so

5. Question 3
What kind of media institutions might distribute your
media product and why?
Just like now, after their a-whole-day work or boring
homework, people like to do or watch something exciting,
and watch thriller and horror films is a good way to enjoy
their life. Thriller and horror films are not like affectional
films, romantic and happiness, watch thrillers is another way
to relief stress.
There are some big film companies which distributed many
thriller and horror films. First is Lions Gate Films, this
company has distributed many thriller and horror films, two
of the master works are series of Saw and Hostel, they are
very famous in the world, this company is willing to distribute
thriller and horror film. The second company also has any
thrillers, Universal. I think most of people have watched
Jaws, it is a very famous and successful thriller film which is
distributed by Universal. And series of The Mummy,
although it is not as famous as Jaws, but it is also pretty

6. Then, two very famous and successful film
companies in the world, 20th Century Fox and Warner
Bros Pictures, they also distribute some thriller and
horror films. There is another series which is
distributed by Screen Gems called Resident Evil,
there is a Chinese lady in Resident Evil Retribution,
so it will attract many audiences of Asia especially
China.
For our horror film, I want to choose Lions Gate Films,
I have two main reasons. First, this company has
distributed many thriller and horror films, people all
know this, and those horror and thriller films are pretty
successful. Second, it’s not a very big company, if we
let this company distribute our film, we don’t need too
much money, the funds must be cheaper than choose
20th Century Fox and Warner Bros Pictures.

7. Question 4
Who would be the audience for your media product?
I think most audiences of our media product are teenagers and
adults, many people feel scared when they are watching a
thriller, that is what they want, if the thrillers are not scared,
they would not watch them.
I think most people who want to watch film like ours might be
between 14 and 30, especially those people who is in middle
school, college and university.
In my audience research, most of teenagers that I have asked
are enjoy watching thrillers, somebody even doesn’t afraid of
thrillers, they think watch thriller is a very interesting thing, and
they are also don’t afraid watch thrillers by themselves, that is
the most unbelievable thing for me. And for mid-aged people,
some of them don’t afraid of watch thrillers, but they don’t like
to watch them. Certainly, there are also some people afraid of
watch them. At last, most of elder people don’t like watching
thrillers, they are not interested in them.

8. Question 5
How did you attract/address your audience?
First of all, the audience may be attracted to our film
because its something happen in everyday life, murders are
commonly on the news. And our actors are all teenagers,
and most of audience of this film would be teenagers, the
age is same, so they will probably want to watch this film, it
is more attractive for them. Our film is a little bit like a very
famous thriller from Japanese, the modeling of the actress
is same as ours, that is another point that people would like
to watch our film. In addition to this, our film is not so
horrific, people who over 40 years old can also watch it.
Nowadays, many people think watch thriller films is a kind
of way to relief stress, when they feel unhappy or
something let them depressed, they would choose this way
to relax. To the contrary, somebody wants watch thriller
films because they are pretty happy, when they watch

9. Question 6
What have you learnt about technologies from the
process of constructing this product?
At the beginning of the movie, use the long shot for terror
environment. After that I use the effect of moving the lens
back and forth technology, in order to better watch horror
surrounding environment, but I didn’t have anything with
wheels. In this movie, I use lots of camera shot type, at the
beginning, reflects the lens slowly closer to the protagonist,
I use close up shots. And then I use the overlooking the
technology, shoot people down from above. The feature
characters and paper. I use the medium shot taking people
reading under the tree, use features describe the character
again see blood fear of expression. When the blood
dripping onto the paper, I use the high angle shot. In the
second part, when the character saw the ghost, he was
starting running, and for this part I use camera bracket, the
camera bracket was lying on the ground, I use the low
angle, then while with the character. When I shoot about
running I use the hand held, the camera followed

10. And then I took a close up the ghost, I use the extreme
close up, conversion angle and lens. The close up ghost
hand. Finally wrote character fall scenes, the camera
lens the ghost hand, I use extreme close up, and use
medium shot character fall in floor. After wake up from
dream, I use medium shot, character woke up from
dream scene. Taking character afraid of the face, the
most main is the throat choking. This is extreme close
up. At the back of the film, I use lots of medium shot.
The last feature part of the door is open, shoot from the
outside to the inside, when the camera into the room,
gradually reduce the distance with character. After that,
over the shoulder shot, from the side of the shoulder to
the paper on the desk, the angle of the reference profile
shot, close the distance. For these technology, when I
was in the classroom, sometimes I will ask teacher and
then I will remember it. Second I can ask someone
people like techniques for photography or study about
this. I used Canon eos6d Camera lens sigma 12-24.

11. Question 7
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel
you might have learnt in the progression from it to the full
product?
From the preliminary task to the main coursework we have
learnt many things. Firstly we learnt about varied camera shots
and edits. We learnt that these can help us to keep the movie
looking as thriller and let people feel the atmosphere is very
afraid, and to help show representation of the characters and
any about thriller films on scene. For example the significance
of establishing shots really make it easier to help the audience
understand what time of day it is like in our establishing shot is
a panning of some trees and there it some thriller scene. Such
as changes in the environment and the mobile, sound changed,
like some trees sound , horror character voice and so there are
a lot. We think this will make the audience feel the process of
watching a movie, can truly feel the canter and the contents of
the film, can really feel the horror and the terrible truth. We will
learnt more things from other films or from teacher, and shoot

12. Another thing that we learnt is that everyone with the
group needs to take part in the filming and editing
stages of the film so there we can imagine a more script,
imagine feeling more pictures, eve more detailed
content of the film.
Overall from the preliminary task we learnt a lot from all
aspects, from the beginning of the mission to the final
evaluation, after so mush, so our first movie and think
about film content. Analysis of the film in front of a lot of
writing, more in-depth understanding of the movie and
learnt more in-depth of how to writing about analysis.
Learnt how to make a movie, sound, action, character,
atmosphere , shoot, and how to use camera, we are
learnt a lot of things from preliminary task until now. We
will learnt many from different ways, we believe we can
also shoot more good movies.