Bedlam Productions

After watching The King Speech in one of my media lessons I was ask to to do research on one of the production companies involved with The Kings Speech. So I have listed some information about Bedlam Productions below:

-They started their operations in 2009.

-There were founded by two guys Siman Egan and Gareth Unwin

-They won Bafta and Academy Award nominations.

-Their based in Central London

-They mainly produce Tv Dramas and Documentaries, The King Speech was their fist big movie.

Evaluation Question 2

The characters from attack the block represent our social group because they are wearing standard cloths teenagers would may wear when out on the street for example hoodies and and hats, this is a stereotype to black youths in London which we have followed. This relation would appeal to young people who live in London because its the environment they live in and the characters in our films go through everyday events which youths in London would experience. The colours the characters in our film are wearing mainly, dark this helps to show the time of year as people wear dark cloths in the winter and helps to present the correcety mise-en-scene. A difference between the characters in my film compared to attack the block is: our characters are wearing their cloths like a normal teen however the characters in attack the block are dressed as vandals who are about to do some type of crime.

Instead of sticking to the stereo type of it being a group of girls who get attacked at the beginning of a horrror film our attacker is attacking a masculine group of young menwe have done this to show a group of men are jus as vulnerable as a group of women. One of our characters isn't as brave as the other two characters as he is spooked out by the story of the man and his house and doesn't want to go inside, this tends to happen quite frequently in horror films because the is usaully on person who thinks what they are doing is a bad idea but ends up following the others and dieing anyway. In attack the block as you can see from the picture on the left the character in the middle has the most power within the group because he is standing in the middle and throughout the film th other characters tend to follow his lead.

Evaluation Question 1

I think my media production relates to the normal horror movie conventions in a number of ways and we have developed different aspects to our film and made it our own.

For example in our short film the first scene had one of the charactors standing at the bus stop by himself listening to music, this is to show everything appears to be normal but little does he know its all about to  change. This has been shown in various horror films for example The first exorcist directed by William Friedkin. The girl appears to be normal at the begginging of the film but developed into a girl possessed by a demon.

The characters costumes are of tht of normal london teenagers, this is to show they are anware something is going to happen as they are on there way to someones house. This is done in all genres of movies not only horror for example in The Hills Have Eyes 2 the characters are wearing combat uniform this is because the characters are all i the army doing some training however in Halloween the characters are teenagers s they are wearing normal cloths they would were to college.

The film is set in London at a bus stop as the boys are waiting for bus. They then have to take a divertion through the park and into a forrest becuase one of the characters forgot there oyster card. When  the audience finds out the have to take a detour they will autimatically know somethign bad is going t happen becuase thing never go according in a horror film for example in Wrong Turn the characters take a wrong as it says in the tittle then they get attacked by hillbilly cannibals.

During our movie opening we were able to match the titles with the actors in the film, if this was a real film it would allow the audience to know who is playing the characters in the film. The font we used has a spooky appearance which is appropriate as  it is a horror film.

We didn't use much special effects in our movie opening. It is used once because on of the characters leaves his buss pass at home on his bed so to show this we took a shot of a bus pass on my bed and edited it to black and white to show its a past event he is remembering.