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The document discusses how a media product uses conventions of the horror/thriller genre. It chose this genre after audience research found it would be popular. Horror conventions included isolated locations, disguises/weapons as props, a killer and victim, and non-diegetic sound. For thrillers, it added suspense/mystery to keep the audience engaged. The film employed these by leaving the mystery of why the stalker kidnapped the girl. It also took inspiration from openings of films like Candyman and Psycho to inform its own opening sequence.
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Evaluation - Question 1
The student discusses how their short film incorporates conventions of the horror/thriller genre. They chose this genre after audience research found it popular. Their film includes typical horror elements like an isolated setting, weapons, a killer and victim. It also keeps the audience in suspense like a thriller. They were inspired by openings of films like Candyman and Psycho. The student developed their sequence to match these films by shooting on dreary days in isolated locations to create a dark, helpless atmosphere.
Evaluation - Question 1
The document discusses how the media product of a short film uses conventions of the horror/thriller genre. It describes researching audience preferences and choosing this genre. Common horror elements include isolated settings, disguises/weapons as props, a killer and victim, and sound to create tension. The short film leaves the mystery of why the stalker kidnaps the girl. It also describes watching other film openings like Candyman and Psycho for inspiration and developing the short film to match these genres through gloomy outdoor weather and isolated shooting locations to convey helplessness.
Pitch
Vernon is obsessed with a girl and stalks her, keeping photos and objects from her in a shrine. He breaks into her house repeatedly, scaring her and trapping her. Though he doesn't harm her, his actions drive the girl mad with fear. Unable to escape Vernon's obsession, the girl ends up killing herself. The film ends with Vernon dead in her room so he can be with her. The opening sequence shows Vernon's point of view as he looks through photos of the girl and checks his knife before leaving his home, which contains a large shrine to her. Extreme close-ups, tilted angles, and ominous music are used to convey Vernon's obsession and create an unsettling tone.
How did (media theory) research impact our ideas?
The document discusses how media theory influenced the development of a trailer for a supernatural film. It summarizes that the trailer uses Todorov's narrative theory of equilibrium disruption and realization to tell the story of a woman whose anxieties worsen after taking illegal medication. Binary oppositions of known vs unknown and darkness vs light are also used. The trailer sticks to horror genre conventions like an isolated forest setting and uses sound to create suspense. It features both a female villain and false victim based on Jeremy Tunstall's character roles. Mulvey's male gaze theory is applied using point-of-view shots to objectify female characters and broaden the male audience. The target audience is under 25s of both genders, with females
Horror genre presenation
The document discusses genre conventions in horror films based on research. It finds that horror genres conventionally show violence and death to create fear in viewers. It also usually includes protagonists and antagonists. Research showed effective horror trailers do not include too many spoilers and do not often show the antagonist to build tension. Mise-en-scene conventions include weapons that connote violence. Camerawork often uses close-ups to show emotion and create tension. Sound design, like non-diegetic noises, builds suspense. The target audience for horror is identified as males and females aged 16-25, especially students. A survey found they prefer horror to be scary with slasher and comedy-horror genres most popular
Presentation1
The document analyzes the target audience of the film "American Honey" based on its trailer. It finds that the target audience is primarily ages 18-24 and 15-40 based on the title and poster. The main character portrayed in the trailer exhibits traits of an explorer, struggler, and reformer that different audiences can relate to, drawing in viewers with those psychographic mindsets. Demographics like the cast, director, and tagline are used to attract younger generations to the film. Overall, the analysis determines how the trailer appeals to and identifies its target audience.
Question 5
The document discusses how the video attracts and addresses its audience through various elements of suspense. It uses:
1) Mention of drugs to pique interest in a taboo topic.
2) A character in despair without context to make viewers question what happened.
3) An eerie score and stings that build an unsettling atmosphere and suspense.
4) A slowly revealed dead body with open eyes, leaving the cause of death unknown.
5) A motif with a character's hoodie to hint at a plot twist, engaging viewers in piecing together the narrative. These suspenseful techniques aim to captivate the target 15+ audience with a thriller format.
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The document discusses how the media product "The Revenge" uses conventions of the thriller genre. It provides examples of how the film creates emotional effects, builds suspense around an unknown character to make the audience question who they are and their motives, and includes a McGuffin in the form of a CD that drives the plot but is ultimately less important than the character relationships and mystery. These conventions were inspired by films like Psycho and North by Northwest.
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Evaluation - Question 1
The student discusses how their short film incorporates conventions of the horror/thriller genre. They chose this genre after audience research found it popular. Their film includes typical horror elements like an isolated setting, weapons, a killer and victim. It also keeps the audience in suspense like a thriller. They were inspired by openings of films like Candyman and Psycho. The student developed their sequence to match these films by shooting on dreary days in isolated locations to create a dark, helpless atmosphere.
Evaluation - Question 1
The document discusses how the media product of a short film uses conventions of the horror/thriller genre. It describes researching audience preferences and choosing this genre. Common horror elements include isolated settings, disguises/weapons as props, a killer and victim, and sound to create tension. The short film leaves the mystery of why the stalker kidnaps the girl. It also describes watching other film openings like Candyman and Psycho for inspiration and developing the short film to match these genres through gloomy outdoor weather and isolated shooting locations to convey helplessness.
Pitch
Vernon is obsessed with a girl and stalks her, keeping photos and objects from her in a shrine. He breaks into her house repeatedly, scaring her and trapping her. Though he doesn't harm her, his actions drive the girl mad with fear. Unable to escape Vernon's obsession, the girl ends up killing herself. The film ends with Vernon dead in her room so he can be with her. The opening sequence shows Vernon's point of view as he looks through photos of the girl and checks his knife before leaving his home, which contains a large shrine to her. Extreme close-ups, tilted angles, and ominous music are used to convey Vernon's obsession and create an unsettling tone.
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The document discusses how media theory influenced the development of a trailer for a supernatural film. It summarizes that the trailer uses Todorov's narrative theory of equilibrium disruption and realization to tell the story of a woman whose anxieties worsen after taking illegal medication. Binary oppositions of known vs unknown and darkness vs light are also used. The trailer sticks to horror genre conventions like an isolated forest setting and uses sound to create suspense. It features both a female villain and false victim based on Jeremy Tunstall's character roles. Mulvey's male gaze theory is applied using point-of-view shots to objectify female characters and broaden the male audience. The target audience is under 25s of both genders, with females
Horror genre presenation
The document discusses genre conventions in horror films based on research. It finds that horror genres conventionally show violence and death to create fear in viewers. It also usually includes protagonists and antagonists. Research showed effective horror trailers do not include too many spoilers and do not often show the antagonist to build tension. Mise-en-scene conventions include weapons that connote violence. Camerawork often uses close-ups to show emotion and create tension. Sound design, like non-diegetic noises, builds suspense. The target audience for horror is identified as males and females aged 16-25, especially students. A survey found they prefer horror to be scary with slasher and comedy-horror genres most popular
Presentation1
The document analyzes the target audience of the film "American Honey" based on its trailer. It finds that the target audience is primarily ages 18-24 and 15-40 based on the title and poster. The main character portrayed in the trailer exhibits traits of an explorer, struggler, and reformer that different audiences can relate to, drawing in viewers with those psychographic mindsets. Demographics like the cast, director, and tagline are used to attract younger generations to the film. Overall, the analysis determines how the trailer appeals to and identifies its target audience.
Question 5
The document discusses how the video attracts and addresses its audience through various elements of suspense. It uses:
1) Mention of drugs to pique interest in a taboo topic.
2) A character in despair without context to make viewers question what happened.
3) An eerie score and stings that build an unsettling atmosphere and suspense.
4) A slowly revealed dead body with open eyes, leaving the cause of death unknown.
5) A motif with a character's hoodie to hint at a plot twist, engaging viewers in piecing together the narrative. These suspenseful techniques aim to captivate the target 15+ audience with a thriller format.
Evaluation 1
The document discusses how the media product "The Revenge" uses conventions of the thriller genre. It provides examples of how the film creates emotional effects, builds suspense around an unknown character to make the audience question who they are and their motives, and includes a McGuffin in the form of a CD that drives the plot but is ultimately less important than the character relationships and mystery. These conventions were inspired by films like Psycho and North by Northwest.
Audience responses
The group presented their film title sequence and story to the class and received feedback. Suggestions for improvement included shortening the title sequence to under 3 minutes and giving hints about the time of day without revealing too much. The death scene could also be made more intense by showing shadows to focus the audience's attention without being too graphic.
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Treatment goodnight
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Questionnaire results
The questionnaire results from 50 respondents aged 16-25 found that orchestral music and natural sounds were most popular for a horror film opening sequence. Respondents also preferred the intense facial expression from Psycho and dark, low key lighting to build tension and suspense. Extreme close-ups that showed detail and emotion engagement were favored as well. Most respondents said they preferred black and white horror films to color to focus on the action and create suspense. The most popular colors of black and red may be incorporated if filming in color.
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Question 5
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Question 1 - Theory
The document discusses how the media product challenges some conventions while developing others:
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- The main protagonists were women rather than dominant men, which could challenge or develop Mulvey's theory of passive women depending on interpretation.
- It followed the first stage of Tzvetan Todorov's narrative theory to present a happy start and make the little girl protagonist relatable to female audiences according to Mulvey's female narcissism theory.
Mums questionnaire
A 43-year-old woman named Mandie Wales provided feedback on the opening scene of a horror film. She listed her expectations for a horror film including darkness, woodsy settings, eerie music, serious faces, and sudden appearances of mysterious objects and people. She felt the opening scene met all of her expectations through its use of darkness in the woods, scary music, a masked face appearing suddenly, silence during flash photos, and a door slamming with sound effects. She believes the intended audience is those over 15 years old of both genders and would be satisfied watching the full-length film if it continued the gripping storyline and scary conventions established in the opening scene.
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Evaluation - Question 5
The document discusses how the filmmakers attracted their target media audience of teenagers. Through research, they found that making the short film as realistic as possible would appeal to a wide audience. To do this, they crafted a relatable plot involving a common teenage fear of being followed. They also used a cast close in age to the target demographic and had them dress and act authentically. Most of the filming took place in a tube station to mirror the everyday experiences of teenagers using public transit. Close-ups and point-of-view shots were used to make the audience feel the characters' emotions and tension first-hand.
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Audience responses
The group presented their film title sequence and story to the class and received feedback. Suggestions for improvement included shortening the title sequence to under 3 minutes and giving hints about the time of day without revealing too much. The death scene could also be made more intense by showing shadows to focus the audience's attention without being too graphic.
Film opening title sequence presentation
The document discusses the opening title sequence for a supernatural/paranormal horror film. It will depict a serial killer who continues killing from beyond the grave in dark forest settings. The visuals and lighting will make the horror genre clear and suspenseful. The target audience is teenagers and young adults interested in the genre. The credits will be static and dramatic like those in American Horror Story and Supernatural to fit the chilling tone.
Uses and Gratifications t
Uses and Gratification Theory proposes that individuals actively select media to fulfill personal needs and preferences. Elihu Katz introduced the theory in 1974, finding that people use media to their advantage based on individual purposes. The document then discusses several gratifications or benefits people may seek from media, including surveillance or safety, escapism from problems, personal identity through character comparison, social interaction from shared experiences, recognition of genres, satisfying curiosity, social empathy, and entertainment through escape, relaxation, time-filling, and emotional release.
Uses and Gratifications Theory
Uses and Gratification Theory proposes that individuals actively select media to fulfill personal needs and preferences. Elihu Katz introduced the theory in 1974, finding that people use media to their advantage based on individual purposes. The document then discusses several gratifications or benefits people may seek from media, including surveillance or safety, escapism from problems, personal identity or comparison to characters, personal relationships through shared experiences, recognition of genres, being informed, social interaction, entertainment, and filling time.
How does your media product represent particular social
The document discusses how the media product represents certain social groups. Specifically:
- It uses a blonde female as the main victim, following the horror genre convention of the "stupid" blonde girl stereotype who walks into danger. However, it subverts expectations by having her seemingly escape the killer only to be killed later via a jump scare.
- It avoids the stereotype of having a normal male lead that survives, instead keeping the group small. But it follows the convention of someone going off alone to increase tension.
- It uses a teenage actress for the victim, as teenagers are seen as troublemakers who go where they shouldn't, making the victim's actions seem deliberate and relatable to teenage audiences
Treatment goodnight
This document outlines a proposed 3-5 minute short horror film called "Goodnight". It would follow a couple on a date where the girl, Steph, feels like she is being followed on her walk home. Shaky camera movements and close-ups would be used to build tension as Steph suspects someone is watching her. The film would subvert expectations with a surprise twist at the end when Steph reaches her home. Primary and secondary research was conducted on psychological horror conventions to inform the production.
Questionnaire results
The questionnaire results from 50 respondents aged 16-25 found that orchestral music and natural sounds were most popular for a horror film opening sequence. Respondents also preferred the intense facial expression from Psycho and dark, low key lighting to build tension and suspense. Extreme close-ups that showed detail and emotion engagement were favored as well. Most respondents said they preferred black and white horror films to color to focus on the action and create suspense. The most popular colors of black and red may be incorporated if filming in color.
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Question 5
The document discusses how the filmmakers addressed their target audience in the opening sequence of their horror film. They chose to partner with Blumhouse Productions as their distributor because Blumhouse specializes in similar horror films that already have an established audience. Using a child as the first antagonist was meant to intrigue audiences by subverting expectations, as was including chase scenes shot with handheld cameras to create tension. The film spans different eras to allow modern audiences to relate to characters and settings. A female antagonist challenges gender stereotypes and makes the film stand out from most horror films that feature male antagonists.
Evaluation Question 2- Cat
The document discusses how the media product represents social groups. It summarizes that the main character, Tony, is a young outcast trying to escape from the superior majority group, similar to characters in other films. Tony is played by George because he looks like what the filmmakers pictured a minority character to look like. Scenes with the government were filmed to appear more tense and intimidating compared to scenes at school. The document also discusses theories of representation in media, including using clues, mystery, and flashbacks to involve the audience in decoding the codes.
Concepts 2
This document provides information about the movie "Pied Piper". It will be a werewolf sub-genre film targeting teenagers and college/university students. The main inspiration is Twilight, showing changes to the protagonist Piper after being bitten by a parasite. The film will explore themes of revenge and social norms. It will use dark clothing, fake blood, and props to present scary and fearful characters. The synopsis outlines Piper's backstory and her transformation into a killer after being attacked and bitten in the psychiatric hospital.
Afghanistan after us documentary 3
This document discusses various aspects of self-reflective documentaries such as criticisms that they fall into empty narcissism. It also lists topics covered in a documentary about a person's experiences in Afghanistan such as war, emotions, death, the Taliban, US policy, and the population. Additionally, it analyzes aspects of the documentary's narrative structure, camera shots, colors, sounds, and potential sources of footage. Key questions raised include sources of Taliban arms and funding and chances of local forces against the Taliban.
Question 1 - Theory
The document discusses how the media product challenges some conventions while developing others:
- It did not feature a hero character as is typical, to leave the ending ambiguous and make the audience curious.
- The main protagonists were women rather than dominant men, which could challenge or develop Mulvey's theory of passive women depending on interpretation.
- It followed the first stage of Tzvetan Todorov's narrative theory to present a happy start and make the little girl protagonist relatable to female audiences according to Mulvey's female narcissism theory.
Mums questionnaire
A 43-year-old woman named Mandie Wales provided feedback on the opening scene of a horror film. She listed her expectations for a horror film including darkness, woodsy settings, eerie music, serious faces, and sudden appearances of mysterious objects and people. She felt the opening scene met all of her expectations through its use of darkness in the woods, scary music, a masked face appearing suddenly, silence during flash photos, and a door slamming with sound effects. She believes the intended audience is those over 15 years old of both genders and would be satisfied watching the full-length film if it continued the gripping storyline and scary conventions established in the opening scene.
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The document discusses the forms and conventions used in the opening of thriller films. It analyzes how the student media project both conformed to and challenged these conventions through elements like narrative, mise-en-scene, camera work, editing, sound, and titles. Key ways the project developed conventions included subverting expectations by revealing the apparent victim was actually the killer. Audience feedback found this twist to be an interesting surprise, though some felt confused.
Yas main task
The document discusses conventions used in thriller genres for camera work, lighting, sound, and editing. It also discusses using color connotations and symbolism in costuming. The group created a horror/thriller opening by researching these techniques from film trailers. They storyboarded locations, characters, and planned camera angles and movements to develop suspense and mystery without revealing details of the plot.
Evaluation questions
The document discusses how a student film opening uses conventions of horror film openings. It examines five conventions used: 1) a secluded location to make characters vulnerable; 2) mis-en-scene elements like fake blood and tools to imply danger; 3) ominous sounds to build tension; 4) a fake scare to startle the audience; and 5) implying planned killing rather than showing it to intrigue viewers. The opening challenges conventions by changing the timing of death while effectively using researched conventions to create a pleasing horror film introduction.
Emily s
The document provides information about the filmmaking techniques used in a student media project. It discusses various shots, editing techniques, and conventions employed. Specifically, it summarizes:
1) Various camera shots like close-ups, mid shots, and high angles were used to portray emotion and make the characters seem vulnerable.
2) Editing techniques like match cuts and silhouettes created mystery and suspense. Non-diegetic music also helped build tension.
3) Storyboarding and mindmapping were utilized in the planning process to develop the narrative and visual style.
Evaluation: Question 1
In what way does your media product use,develop and challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Media evaluation
In what ways does your media product does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media texts
Question 1
1) The document evaluates how the author's media product uses and challenges conventions of the horror genre. While keeping some conventions like stereotypical characters and lighting, the product introduces new elements like having a young girl as the murderer and having no survivors.
2) Music is used differently by varying the tempo throughout instead of maintaining panic. Captions are limited to just the title to focus on visuals.
3) Cinematography uses techniques like handheld cameras and POV shots similar to films like Cloverfield and Blair Witch Project. Some familiar elements are kept to help audiences recognize the genre.
Assignment 16 draft two planning
This document contains planning details for an assignment involving a short film. It includes a timeline of story events, proposed shots, inspiration from real films involving themes of stalking and manipulation, conventions of the psychological thriller genre, descriptions of target audiences, proposed locations, and details of the main characters and their costumes. The story involves a character stalking and filming another character through social media and in public without their consent.
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Evaluation 1
- 1. Evaluation: Question 1 Phoebe Thomas
- 2. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? Part 1 – Our chosen genre. The genre we chose to use as the theme of our short film was Horror/Thriller. This is because after completing the audience research task, we found that this would be one of the most popular genres for our target audience. The horror/thriller genre itself had codes and conventions associated with it such as for the horror parts, the film to be set in abandoned or isolated locations, for props to include items to disguise identity and weapons, for the characters to include a killer and a victim and there to be a frequent use of non-diagetic sound to set the mood and create tension. For the thriller the conventions are quite similar with the addition of needing to keep the audience on the edge of their seats in suspense and mystery, to leave them begging to find out why. The way we included this in our film is that we left the mystery of why the guy was stalking the girl and what actually would happen to her next after he kidnaps her with the chloroform cloth.
- 3. Question 1 Continued… Part 2 – Inspiration from other opening sequences. We watched many opening sequences for inspiration in making our own short film, we decided to watch horror/thriller film openings and look at films that were similar to what we wanted our final film to be like. Film openings that we watched included; Candyman (1992), Psycho (1960),