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This document outlines plans for creating the opening scene of a new horror film that is 2 minutes long. It will target audiences 15 years and older and feature psychological elements that may be difficult for younger viewers to understand. Close-up shots and dim lighting will be used to build mystery and elicit scared and anxious reactions from viewers about what will happen, intriguing them to watch more of the film. The scene will take place in a bedroom that is dressed differently to show the main character as both a child and adult.
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The document discusses conventions used in film openings and how to represent social groups and issues. It outlines some typical conventions like establishing shots, close-ups and tracking shots. It also discusses representing working class families and police brutality in openings. Examples from the film "Spittaz" are provided that show conventions like distributor idents and title fonts to portray a professional and familiar feel aimed at younger audiences. The opening plays upon ideas of oppression and problems with police through use of siren sound effects and characters hurriedly leaving an area.
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The document provides details about a 2-minute film opening project for an AS Level Media Studies course. It discusses how the film challenges conventions by telling a story about prosopagnosia (face blindness) and Stockholm syndrome. It describes the opening scene's structure, shots, lighting, and representation of unheard social issues. It then discusses how the film would engage audiences, be distributed online, and how the production skills of the student team developed throughout making the project. The student used various hardware, software, and online tools in creating the film.
Evaluation final
The document provides an evaluation of Arif Uddin's opening sequence for a horror film called "The Lost Silence." It discusses the title, setting, costumes, props, camera work, editing, title font/style, story, and how it establishes the horror genre. It also reflects on what was learned from the process and how it impacted production decisions. The evaluator aimed to slowly build tension and fool the audience into thinking it wasn't a horror at first. Key lessons were around planning costumes better to develop characters, and spending more time on editing to improve the final product and better convey the genre.
Question 5
When casting actors for their film, the filmmakers considered the demographics of their target audience, who were under 35, and cast actors of a similar social class. This included casting a 16-year-old to play the mother and a 5-year-old to play her child. Throughout the film opening, they use conventions like low-key lighting and a slow editing pace to attract audiences to the genre of psychological horror. They also included a role reversal with strong female characters and no male figures to appeal to audiences who wanted to see this. The plot of a child going missing in an abandoned house engages audiences through mystery while differing from other films through its lack of male characters.
Commentary script for Evaluation
The document discusses research done for a student horror film project. It analyzes conventions used in well-known horror films like "Scream" to understand how to build tension. Top conventions studied included using unsettling sounds that build over time, isolating characters, and having a naive protagonist. Feedback on a draft was received, noting strong research but room to improve lighting and adding more to the film poster.
Question 1
This document analyzes the conventions used in the opening sequences of psychological horror films and compares them to the student's own media production. It finds that the student's opening followed several conventions, such as introducing the distribution companies, using a dramatic title design in white text on black, limited camera movement, establishing shots, and unsettling non-diegetic music. However, the student also challenged some conventions by having their first scene in daylight rather than low light, using more midshots rather than just close-ups, and minimizing issues with diegetic sound editing. The analysis found the student both effectively utilized common horror film techniques but also developed elements of their own to surprise the audience.
Question 1
The document discusses how the student's media product uses and develops conventions of real films while also challenging some conventions. It summarizes how the film title, costumes, editing, genres of psychological thriller, characters in conflict, lighting, and ambiguous ending both utilize and expand typical conventions. The film poster includes standard features but centers the protagonist's image, and the radio trailer employs a loud narrator and impactful sounds effects to draw the audience in through auditory senses alone.
Powerpoint treatment
The film will be a psychological thriller distributed widely in theaters and on home video/streaming platforms. It will focus on a possessed young girl and her father who murdered the girl's mother. The opening scene will set up an ordinary family in their home to contrast with the supernatural elements that will create unease. Filming will take place at an old house location using available light and a handheld shooting style.
Teaser Trailer
The document discusses conventions of psychological horror films and provides an example for a teaser trailer idea focusing on school bullying. Key elements of psychological horror include isolated everyday settings, vulnerable main characters, normal clothing and props, dim lighting and eerie music. An example film referenced is "The Woman in Black". The proposed teaser trailer would focus on a boy who "snaps" after constant ridicule, capturing a popular girl at school in a dark room to create tension and intrigue for the target teen audience. Inspiration would also be drawn from the low-budget film "Buried" for its use of lighting, atmosphere and sound.
Evaluation question 5
1) The document discusses the target audience and research done for a student horror/thriller film opening sequence.
2) The target audience is males and females aged 12 and above, as the film contains mild horror elements but no disturbing content.
3) Research included understanding BBFC film classification guidelines and surveying the target age range about their horror film expectations. Suggestions from the survey like scary music, characters, and lighting were incorporated into the final production.
EVALUATION - Question 1 - In what ways does your film opening use, develop or...
The document discusses how the film opening uses conventions of the thriller genre in its use of sound, color, editing, text, lighting, mise-en-scene, and setting. It explores how the opening incorporates slow building music, low key lighting, minimal credits, props to convey plot points, and costumes to represent character nature. While following many conventions, it also challenges some like using simpler credits and starting with high key lighting then shifting to low key. The conclusion is that the opening successfully uses thriller conventions but also makes some original choices.
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Where It All Began - AS Level Media Studies - Critical Analysis
Where It All Began - AS Level Media Studies - Critical Analysis
EVALUATION - Question 1 - In what ways does your film opening use, develop or...
EVALUATION - Question 1 - In what ways does your film opening use, develop or...
Treatment
- 1. Product We are creating an opening of a brand new horror film and it has to be 2 minutes long.
- 2. Target audience Our target audience is 15 years+ because it may have psychological issues that they may not understand. It applies to male and female as both genders watch horrors. We wanted them to respond a bit scared and anxious to what happened but also intrigued into what is going to happen further on in the film, therefore want to watch more.
- 3. Media Languages Camera work - We will be using a lot of close up shots to show emotion on the boy/mans face. Also a birds eye view will be used to show the audience a clear shot of what the children are doing. Editing - Lighting - We are going to have the lighting quite dim and dark to give a mysterious mood and atmosphere. Sound- Non-digetic sound will be the music over the top and sound effects such as when it zooms into his eye. Digetic sound will be dialogue and natural sounds effects. Mise-en-scene - There will be one setting which will be the bedroom but as there is a difference between time the room will be dressed differently so it shows the audience from when he was a child to an adult.
- 5. Representations In horror films there are usually women involved as, as an audience we usually feel sympathy for a woman as to a man, also women tend to scream so that adds to the effect of being scared. However, we are going against all stereotypical types in our opening scene and using males. This was because we wanted to see how audiences would react to a male victim/main character and to add affect to the film.