Harry's Foundation Portfolio
Wednesday 2 May 2012
Saturday 24 March 2012
1-In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Our film opening "visitpors" was inspired from several psychological thriller
films, prior to filming our opening we looked at a few examples to gain
knowledge as to how suspense can be created.
During our planning myself and James Looked at the opening
for seven, we attempted to copy the style of credits create suspense and enigma
as to what is going to happen next.
The style of the text from seven was used in our opening 'visitors' to encage the audiunce and to try and create a feeling of mystery.
Our film opening visitors took inspiration from the Donnie Darko bathroom scene- in which donnie is talking to a large rabbit but seems confused at what he see's similarly thus co insides
with our end scene of amber using Non verbal communication to convey a look of confusion expressed using facial expression.
The masked Charecter from the stragers was used to help the audince question the enigma of the film.
Similarly we copied the style of the masked charecter from the 'The strangers' as it helped convey mystery as to why he is following the female charecter in 'visitors' and makes the audiunce question if he is physically real, or if he only can be seen be the female charecter as a dillusion.
The scene in strangers in which loud non digetic sound can be heard before the appearce of the masked charecter.
Friday 23 March 2012
2-Evaluation questions-How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Our media product represents a number of particular
social groups, particularly representing females as our main character for the
film. It also represents youth in general, the use of just two characters one
male and one female identifies both sides of gender alongside representing
general stereotypes. The male character (although has no dialogue) seems
strictly dominant in our film and is obviously more in control of the scene
(however being a possible hallucination), whereas, the female character is
portrayed quite stereotypically vulnerable in our film – this further represents
females. The fact that our character is meant to be aged between 15-17, outlines
the realism of paranoia/anxiety that is
not typically seen in society (especially not for a teenage girl).
Thursday 22 March 2012
3-What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
Due to the psychological content of our film opening,
vertigo would best suit the distributor of our media text.
A similar film distributed by vertigo is Outcast, the film synopsis is similar
to our story line in “visited”, When
Mary (Kate Dickie) and her teenage son, Fergal (Niall Bruton), move to yet
another new home, it soon becomes clear they are hiding from someone or something,
terrified of being found, Our film “visited” has a similar story line in which
a young character if suffering from delusions and is confused between thought
and reality, although the audience is unaware of this until later on in the
film.
Warp films would be unsuitable for distributing our film as
the psychological thriller genre is not a typical genre they would produce,
warp films instead produce’s more British style films. We selected vertigo as
it has released a greater number of thriller films in comparison to other
independent film companies.
Wednesday 21 March 2012
4-Evaluation questions-Who would be the audience for your media product?
Our target audience for our media product is
targeted towards youth in general, but particularly teen females – this is who
we’d expect to watch our film as our main character is a female protagonist, and
is dominant in screen time. However our film could possibly also appeal to
horror/thriller fans as the construction of the film has been represented as a
very dark sense for the film constructed by using dark sound, low key lighting
and the use of James (male character) – all contribute towards the psychological
horror/thriller essence represented in film. We gained this idea from previous
films we’ve studied for example the strangers; we got the idea of James and the
mask from this movie, as we thought this would fit into our psychological
thriller as was certified 15, and was basically designed for a teenage audience,
which was our target audience. Our use of a female protagonist was also based on
silence of the lambs in which a strong female character was represented, however
we thought we’d twist it to have quite a vulnerable character.
Monday 19 March 2012
5-How did you attract/address your audience?
How did you attract/address your audience?
We tried to attract our target audience, which is
predominately teenagers, by typically using two teen characters in cast, in the
film the main female character is supposed to be the age of a teenager,
therefore by using amber as our main character it should help more towards
engaging our target audience and helps the audience identify and compare with
the character on screen. As our audience is mainly teenagers, the film is more
relatable to the viewer. Also with the use of James as a mysterious hooded
character represented as a possible hallucinations is further use of addressing
our audience; our film is set to outline characteristics such as
hallucination, paranoia and anxiety, quite uncommonly represented in the media.
Therefore by including scenes like ambers non- verbal communication in response
to the mysterious figure is a technique we tried/ used which we thought was key
in helping to attract an audience.
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