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Thursday 13 March 2014
Wednesday 5 March 2014
AS Evaluation Question 1 - In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Most thriller films the general conventions are mainly through creating different effects for the audience using things such as iconography, mis-en-scene, costumes, characters and many more. They also need to include the three main things that all thrillers need to include to help build the tension and keep the audience engaged within the film; they are - Suspense, Shock and Surprise.
The most typical generic conventions to a thriller would be that a young blonde girl gets innocently murdered or tortured by the killer. We have seen this happen in many films such as, Saw, Paranormal Activity, Drag me to Hell, Physco and the Human Centipede. These were all very successful thriller films as there genre was very relatable for the audience. It made you think that bad things are always going to happen, when for example in Paranormal Activity when the clip slows down and the low key lighting occurs you know you have to prepare yourself for the worse; it as us at the edge of our seat.
Our thriller we compared it to Scream. This is because we have shown the murder weapon as being a knife with the hidden identity of the murderer like in Scream. The genre of the film is to scare people into thinking somebody is behind them and to warn people that wherever they may go something might happen, and this is what we had to make sure we included in our thriller.
We had many different conventions that we used in our opening scene of a thriller and we included these so that we could make our thriller as typically like one as possible, so that the audience will be enticed and intrigued to watch it. One of the first conventions used was iconography. The iconography used that was conventional to a thriller was a large knife. This is conventional to a thriller film as it would be your typical weapon used to murder innocent victims, and in our case the young boy. We know that this is typical to your thriller film as we see knifes used as murder weapons in films such as Scream and Saw. The knife adds tension and suspense as the audience do not know whether the knife is going to be used or whether it will be for threat.
Another convention we used in our thriller was low key lighting. The low key lighting we used purposely to create chialoscuro, this is used for creating shadows. This is conventional to a thriller genre as the low key lighting creates dark, eary and dark atmosphere which makes the audience feel tension within the film, and this therefore entices them to watch the film as they want to know what is going on. We have used this in our thriller so that we can make the thriller more conventional, as this would therefore be part of the cinematography elements of our thriller. This would also be stereotypical of a thriller as the characters can be more scared (whilst making the audience more scared) due to the low key lighting reducing how much they can see.
In thriller films, there usuqally is an antagonist and a protagonist; this can be two charcters or just one, and this can make the charcter have an unstabke emotional state resolving in the actions of them. In the thriler
In all thriller films, there is usually always a protagonist and an antagonist; whether this is two separate characters or simply one, such as in a psychological thriller where it is a battle between the characters mental and emotional state. In thrillers, the victim is stereotypically always a female who is oblivious to what is going on or is too gullible to do anything about it. It is important for the audience to relate to the victim so they will feel sorry for her, and so will feel the full effect of all the scenes. The victim therefore needs to be believable, and this can be achieved through certain aspects of mise-en-scene.
Conventions of a thriller that we used?
Low key lighting
tEENAGED CHARCTER VICTIM
setting
costume
Most thriller films the general conventions are mainly through creating different effects for the audience using things such as iconography, mis-en-scene, costumes, characters and many more. They also need to include the three main things that all thrillers need to include to help build the tension and keep the audience engaged within the film; they are - Suspense, Shock and Surprise.
The most typical generic conventions to a thriller would be that a young blonde girl gets innocently murdered or tortured by the killer. We have seen this happen in many films such as, Saw, Paranormal Activity, Drag me to Hell, Physco and the Human Centipede. These were all very successful thriller films as there genre was very relatable for the audience. It made you think that bad things are always going to happen, when for example in Paranormal Activity when the clip slows down and the low key lighting occurs you know you have to prepare yourself for the worse; it as us at the edge of our seat.
Our thriller we compared it to Scream. This is because we have shown the murder weapon as being a knife with the hidden identity of the murderer like in Scream. The genre of the film is to scare people into thinking somebody is behind them and to warn people that wherever they may go something might happen, and this is what we had to make sure we included in our thriller.
We had many different conventions that we used in our opening scene of a thriller and we included these so that we could make our thriller as typically like one as possible, so that the audience will be enticed and intrigued to watch it. One of the first conventions used was iconography. The iconography used that was conventional to a thriller was a large knife. This is conventional to a thriller film as it would be your typical weapon used to murder innocent victims, and in our case the young boy. We know that this is typical to your thriller film as we see knifes used as murder weapons in films such as Scream and Saw. The knife adds tension and suspense as the audience do not know whether the knife is going to be used or whether it will be for threat.
Another convention we used in our thriller was low key lighting. The low key lighting we used purposely to create chialoscuro, this is used for creating shadows. This is conventional to a thriller genre as the low key lighting creates dark, eary and dark atmosphere which makes the audience feel tension within the film, and this therefore entices them to watch the film as they want to know what is going on. We have used this in our thriller so that we can make the thriller more conventional, as this would therefore be part of the cinematography elements of our thriller. This would also be stereotypical of a thriller as the characters can be more scared (whilst making the audience more scared) due to the low key lighting reducing how much they can see.
In thriller films, there usuqally is an antagonist and a protagonist; this can be two charcters or just one, and this can make the charcter have an unstabke emotional state resolving in the actions of them. In the thriler
In all thriller films, there is usually always a protagonist and an antagonist; whether this is two separate characters or simply one, such as in a psychological thriller where it is a battle between the characters mental and emotional state. In thrillers, the victim is stereotypically always a female who is oblivious to what is going on or is too gullible to do anything about it. It is important for the audience to relate to the victim so they will feel sorry for her, and so will feel the full effect of all the scenes. The victim therefore needs to be believable, and this can be achieved through certain aspects of mise-en-scene.
Conventions of a thriller that we used?
Low key lighting
tEENAGED CHARCTER VICTIM
setting
costume
Evaluation As Question 2 - How does your media product represent
The main characters in our film included a young teen couple who were together in the young boys home. The young teen had a previous boyfriend whom in which she ended the relationship with to be with the boy. Unfortunately, the ex boyfriend took it the wrong way and wanted his revenge, as he is a very possessive and overpowering boy he ends up convincing the girl by force to help in murdering her current boyfriend. We included the young girl as she was pretty, young and innocent and this is what we have seen throughout the entire analysis of different films.
We twisted the usual story line in which we made sure the young girl wasn't murdered and that in fact she is made to killer her own boyfriend, but in our opening scene we do not actually see this and we are led to believe it is her when it could be the murderer himself. This obviously added a effect to the audience where we left them in suspense. We included the young boyfriend as we believed that there obviously had to be a victim but not necessarily a young female. He was the initial victim so that the story could be a mystery as the young girl goes missing after the murder takes place, and he is how the plot continues after the opening scene. We finally have the ex boyfriend who is the murderer. We made sure his identity is hidden as it is never revealed until the end but we made sure we see some sort of action from him in the opening scene. This added the suspense to the scene as we as the audience we cannot see the identity of the murderer so it remains a mystery which therefore intrigues the audience to continue watching the film and find out who the murderer actually is.
Gender isn't represented in a stereotypical way as we see the boy for once in the vulnerable position instead of the young brunette. This makes her look powerful as she is the one who kills her boyfriend, but vulnerable as well as she is made to by her fierce ex boyfriend.
Our characters would appeal to the audience as they are realistic. Some people could of had bad relationships which have haunted them to this day, and they could see the terrible outcomes of sick and twisted mind corrupt another relationship. They would also appeal to the audience as they rating of our film is a 15 so the audience would be teenagers themselves and it would engage them more to see young teens like themselves on screen to make them more scared as they may think it could happen to them.
The audience would be able to build a relationship with the audience as the characters are realtable to the audiences age. We have purposly done this so that we culd make the audience feel more relatable to the charcters.
how would audience build a relationship with the charcters.
We twisted the usual story line in which we made sure the young girl wasn't murdered and that in fact she is made to killer her own boyfriend, but in our opening scene we do not actually see this and we are led to believe it is her when it could be the murderer himself. This obviously added a effect to the audience where we left them in suspense. We included the young boyfriend as we believed that there obviously had to be a victim but not necessarily a young female. He was the initial victim so that the story could be a mystery as the young girl goes missing after the murder takes place, and he is how the plot continues after the opening scene. We finally have the ex boyfriend who is the murderer. We made sure his identity is hidden as it is never revealed until the end but we made sure we see some sort of action from him in the opening scene. This added the suspense to the scene as we as the audience we cannot see the identity of the murderer so it remains a mystery which therefore intrigues the audience to continue watching the film and find out who the murderer actually is.
Gender isn't represented in a stereotypical way as we see the boy for once in the vulnerable position instead of the young brunette. This makes her look powerful as she is the one who kills her boyfriend, but vulnerable as well as she is made to by her fierce ex boyfriend.
Our characters would appeal to the audience as they are realistic. Some people could of had bad relationships which have haunted them to this day, and they could see the terrible outcomes of sick and twisted mind corrupt another relationship. They would also appeal to the audience as they rating of our film is a 15 so the audience would be teenagers themselves and it would engage them more to see young teens like themselves on screen to make them more scared as they may think it could happen to them.
The audience would be able to build a relationship with the audience as the characters are realtable to the audiences age. We have purposly done this so that we culd make the audience feel more relatable to the charcters.
how would audience build a relationship with the charcters.
Thursday 13 February 2014
Wednesday 12 February 2014
Evaluation AS 3 - What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
I believe that there are many different film companies that I personally think would be best suited to distribute our media product. Although, despite this there is one particular film company that I believe would be best to ditricbute our thriller. This company is Dimension Films. I have chosen this company as it has distributed many different thriller films, including one of the best, and well known films of all time 'Scream'.
This company has had many successful screenings with Scream and I have chosen this company due to the fact our storyline is very much like Scream. This is because we ave similar characters like the vulnerable girls, the physcotic murders (usually the boyfriend who wants revenge).
Within the four films they produced they only had a total of US $119 million and had a total box office total of $604,281,850 dollars.
A media institution is important to consider when distributing our thriller because without it, there wouldn’t be such a strong opportunity to allow our thriller to be successful because it wouldn’t be known. A big part of a thrillers success is due to the company that distributed it because if it is a known company with good products, people are more willing to sit and watch it, where as if it is a less known, less successful company then not a lot of people would go to see it as there wouldn’t be such strong advertisement and promotion around it. I therefore conclude that I would like Dimension films to produce my film as I believe it is very conventional of a thriller like my own and had a very successful large and popular audience range
Media istitution is someone who distributes a film
Evaluation AS 4
When my group and I were creating our opening sequence we took into consideration that the scenes used needed to be appropriate to our target audience. Having a target audience allowed us to know and concentrate on what levels of features we can include in our opening sequence so that it’s not too extreme for our slightly younger audience. We needed to be careful of the amount of profanities, gore and violence used as too much of it wouldn't be appropriate for our target audience and perhaps ending up to be too much for the audience and resulting into a 'flop' of a film. We made our target audience the certificate of 15 and older because we felt that it would welcome a large variety of age’s to watch our thriller and entertain them at the same time. As our story was very much indicated at the events teenagers go through we believed it was appropriate to cater for them
For example where we have included someone some graphic scenes of the young boy killed and having blood all over him, scenes of torture where the girl is being chased by the murderer and forced to help him kill her own boyfriend; therefore we felt at 15, teenagers would be able to handle a great deal more without being to frightened and disturbed and would be able to cope with the more scenes like this.
Our main focus for the audience in our opening scene was for them to feel engaged and throughout the opening sequence as Charlotte and I included many of the strong elements to hold their attention in order to gain their positive liking towards our work. For example, we have included charters that we relatale to the audience, so we used the young vulnerable innocent girl and she was conventional to a thriller as she looked as if she was the one who was going to be killed. Unlikely she engaged the audience as she was so relatable to the audiences and your typical girls personality and this made everyone feel as like the film itself was real. It made them feel sympathetic towards the character as they were so relatable to people in the audience and again this made them more engaged with the opening sequence.
Another element that has helped us develop a relationship with the audience is the use of this diagetic sound. It really emphasises the characters panic and fear, this makes the audience tense and feel sorry for our character and desperate to help. Due to these elements, I believe that our audience would find a connection and relationship with my characters and therefore our opening.
Explain how your thriller film appeals to an audience (narrative, characters. soundtrack, camera etc)
Evaluation AS 5 - How did you attract/address your audience?
We attracted our audience by introducing many different ideas that they could of possibly wanted to hear and see within our thriller or a typical thriller film. As part of finding out what I could include in my opening sequence, I had to explore ways of which to attract the audience and how I would go about doing so. In order to help me, I looked at the work of successful thrillers of the same target audience as ours and took inspiration. I also made many different questionnaires and this helped with our research and this helped us cater for the specific public and find out what people of certain ages wanted in a thriller, therefore helping us decide on a final opening sequence.
From the questionnaires and the research from the other films I looked out I found that the concept of gore and murder was very high and popular with the audiences and the film industry. The conventional killing weapon was a knife so we decided to include this into our thriller. I also found out we could possibly use profanities and alot of gore. By looking at successful thrillers and taking inspiration from them, I was able to generate unique ideas and as a result of it I came up with ideas that I felt would attract the audience that I wanted. I was able to do so by adding young characters around the age of 15-18, therefore making them a big part of my thriller as the audience that I want to attract were young teenagers. This made the audience get attracted to our thriller, as we took into consideration their opinions ad their age and they felt that they could relate to the characters, this was an advantage a they then were able to get more engaged with the thriller.
I created a questionnaire which helped towards get the audiences opinion so I could adapt it into my opening sequence and therefore it would be more successful, as if the audience have their say in what goes into it, they will be more willing to want to watch it and then tell their friends about it. This means I would gain more views, which leads to more people talking about my final product so that we can achieve what a good reaction from our audience. The more views I had on my blog, the more likely I was appealing to the audiences of my age and that they showed an interest in my final opening sequence. Around 20% of people thought that the thing they wanted to see most in a thriller was suspense, and by adding thing such as low key lighting and realistic characters, then this would of attracted the audience as they felt like the thriller was real and that they were part of the film.
Researching through the age certificates and the BBFC allowed me to get a clear understanding of the do’s and don’ts of which I could include into my opening sequence that my group and I were working on. This therefore determined whether the final product was successful or not. The BBFC gave us examples of the appropriate age certificate for our film, and the successful films of around the 15-18 certificate, and when analysing them we saw what the public though by its profits and this obviously meant a successful thriller film.
I also attracted the audience by the iconography we used and this included a knife as part of the iconography and I got this idea from scream 2. I used a knife as I felt this was a widely used weapon that was conventional to a thriller and would portray fear and tension to most of my audience. By gathering this primary and secondary it helped to assist my group and me with an outline as to what targets I need to meet in order to gather our audience and attract them into watching my final product so it is then successful.
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