Q2 of evaluation for media coursework

1. Evaluation Q2
How effective is the
combination of your main
product and the ancillary
texts?

2. What were you trying to achieve in your main production?
Was this also reflected in the two advertising products?
Our aim was to produce a good short film that scared the audience and
particularly make them fearful of stalkers. We also wanted to provoke
emotion from them with the death of each character. We wanted to
create a teen horror that could be identified by the codes and
conventions within the film, but we also wanted to go against some of
the conventions in order to create a new, original horror film.
We aimed to persuade potential audiences to watch the film through a
radio trailer and film poster, we used the same technique of conforming
to parts of the genre when creating our poster but also going against
what is expected in some aspects.

3. Film Poster
We used the collage of images
that the villain creates as the
background of our poster as this
gives the audience clues as to
what the film is about, but could
be interpreted in different ways
which means that they will be
interested to watch the film and
find out what actually happens.
The audience could interpret that
the images are stills from the film
itself which is a common
technique used in rom-com film
posters, however when they view
the film they will realise that it is
actually a collage of pictures that
the killer has taken of the girls
when he stalks them. We created
the look of a blood splatter to
confirm to the audience that it is a
horror film and so they can expect
blood in the film.
By creating a poster that doesn’t
give much away we have
achieved our aim of persuading
the audience to watch the film as
they are eager, after seeing this
poster, to find out what it is about
and what happens.

4. The sorority row film poster has
similarities to ours in that it uses a
sort of collage of images of the female
characters that are in the film, they
also look as if they have been taken
by someone watching them as the
images on ours do.
The edges have also been darkened
on this poster the same as ours has
which gives a dark, disturbing look to
the poster and suggests this about
the film.
The slight use of red in the poster
infers blood and death. We also use
the blood splatters on our poster to do
this, however ours is more obvious.

5. Radio Trailer
Link to radio trailer -
We have used typical sounds in our radio trailer that are expected from a horror
film radio trailer such as deep bass booms and tension building sounds. We also
used dialogue and sounds straight from our film such as the sound of the knife
scraping along the wall and the phone ringing.
At 0.33 seconds into the film we included a slight pause between the tension
sound and the 'found you' dialogue which adds to the suspense.
By creating a dramatic, suspenseful radio trailer, along with the poster it will give
the audience an insight into what the film is about and make them excited to
watch the film. The conventions such as loud booms, scraping knifes and
dramatic pauses also show the audience what genre of film it is without them
seeing the poster or film itself, which is key in helping them to decide whether or
not to watch it.
The radio trailer for Halloween uses a voiceover and sounds from the film
including a knife scrape very similar to ours.
Link to Halloween radio trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp4fzH52HXQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHXgVlUlXg4