Evaluation Question 1- In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of a real media product?

Our film is recognisable as a real film opening sequence because the first clip the audience see's is the 'UK production Council' titles therefore the audience immediately are clear they are watching a film.

Our sequence includes introducing titles, time and date setting, a production company and evidence of a story line/plot. All these elements represent gender in either residual or emergent ways. 

As all films include an opening title for the production company the audience automatically know because of this title they are about to see a film, depending on who the production company is usually determines the genre and target audience of the film, for example 'Disney' is for children and the genre is typically comedy cartoons. As you can see the colours used indicate these conventions. 

 

The genre of our film is recognisable because we used similar colours and fonts for the titles in our opening credits as another leading horror film: 'Dawn of the Dead'. The bold titles

As you can see our titles have qualities the majority of people associate with horror/thriller themes. Therefore our audience is informed of the genre of our film.

We have challenged the convention of continuity editing by including jump cuts. Mainstream Hollywood films all include continuity editing and as our target audience is a slightly lower grade compared to Mainstream we decided to make our sequence different. 

This is a screen shot from a series of jump cuts which inspired us to include them in our own sequence from the film Stardust.

Final Product

This is our final two minute opening sequence of a horror film.

Update

We have decided to use everyday clothing for costumes to give an apocalyptic feel to it. It also tells the audience when this film is set, the clothes are currently fashionable therefore the film is very modern.

Update

We have decided to change parts of the film, during the editing process we have found that the clips don't fit together as well as we'd hoped. We will show these new clips to our focus group before editing to ensure the clips are suited for our target audience.

Filming Update

We have had to re-film certain clips as some problems occurred such as lens caps in the way or other people in the background. Whilst re-filming we were particularly careful about the angles we used and made sure the lens cap was tucked away.

Audience Research Update

We uploaded all the clips we have filmed in a video with the music, unedited and showed to to our focus group and asked for feedback. This really helped us move forward and gave us confidence with editing.

Sequence Editing

This video demonstrates the clips in the process of editing.

Planning: Filming

We are using myself and Oli Chance for the characters in the film as we are all on the same free's in college thus we have more time. The locations we are using are mostly in college, rooms such as the photography studio as it is dark with plain backgrounds, also the hallway as it has plain flooring.
Shot list for filming tomorrow:
Match on action walk through door.
Running through corridor.
Zoom in on Oli in the corner.
Record screaming sounds in the woods outside.

Planning: Filming

We are using myself and Oli Chance for the characters in the film as we are all on the same free's in college thus we have more time. The locations we are using are mostly in college, rooms such as the photography studio as it is dark with plain backgrounds, also the hallway as it has plain flooring.
Shot list for filming tomorrow:
Match on action walk through door.
Running through corridor.
Zoom in on Oli in the corner.
Record screaming sounds in the woods outside.

Audience research: Animation

Update

Unfortunately one of our group has dropped out. This means that all the work is left up to me and Dan now and Luke will no longer be taking part.