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.

My Opening Sequence

 

 This Is our Establishing shot including our production company. We put it at the front as they would have been our primary funders if making the film for real.

 This shot shows the one of the Marque Names which is why Hes at the start.

This Shot is to show the title of the film as the boy at bus stop gets scared by his friends.

 

 This shot shows both the directors of the film. 












This image shows the tittle showing who the film has been shot by.














This image shows the titles for two of the charactors who are in our movie.














This image shows the title for the person who done the filming for the film.














We tried to put the titles in the order of importance. This is why the name Kadeem McFarlane follows the production company because I am supposed to be a marquee name so I would have demanded to be nearer to the front of the title sequence.

Opening Movie Credits

During one of our media lessons we spent some time doing research into the opening credits of two different films, vertigo and seven. When watching the opening credits I realised the cast are placed in specific places. For example the production company is placed at the beggening of the movie. Also the director is both at the start and near the of the onening sequence this reflects the directors importance in the making of the movie. We also spoke about the actors being placed at the start because they cost the most money but they may not have been in it the most.

This was for the movie Vertigo, which was filmed in the 50's. You can it an older movie because

they include the technical aspects of the movie making, for example they included technicolor. This is something you wouldn't see in  movies today.



1st Time Editing

Yesterday was my first time editing my movie. Editing the footage that my partner an I had wasn't a problem we were easily able to cut place the footage in the correct order with the good transitions, the problem was the footage that we had. When we were going over it we realised a few mistakes in the videos for example in one of the videos we could see one of the phones we was using for light in the shot. So we are going to redo that sscene. Filming was a lot more difficult than I thought it would be because our location was outside we had to race against sunlight before it too dark which it did so we had to sop film. Another difficulty was our ability to film because our location had a lot of trees and bushes zoo getting the camera in the right place difficult due to the tress and bushes getting in the way. So too o overcome this we are going to film in another location but still use the abandoned house in our current one.

Two More Ways I Would Market My Movie...

I had already posted how I would market my movie if provided with some money to do so. If I was given even more money to market my movie there are two things i would want to spend the money on:

I would want a website as it is a easy way to advertise the movie to the world without costing to much, because its a widely used  resource. My website would have various things for the user to download for free for example wallpapers of different characters and posters. The trailer would be on the website to show the audience what type of movie it and things the could expect to see, along with that I would want a featurette to show the actors opinions on the movie and what they like about it. A synopses will be on it too to let the audience know the background of the film.
A good website to look at is:

http://sherlockholmes2.warnerbros.com/app#about

Another thing I would spend my money is to advertise my movie on different TV channels. The way would do is by playing the trailer then show interviews with the actors. I would want interviews with different characters on different TV channels. I think this way of marketing is good because it allows the movie to be shown to variety of different audiences and the interviews about the movie would be about different aspects specific to the TV channel.

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