Evaluation – Activity 4

Question: Who would be the audience for you media product?

Evaluation - Activity 3

Question: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
 

We have decided to base our distribution institution as "Warner Bros" This is because it is an American media company that makes film, television and music entertainment. As one of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank, California. Warner Bros.

We focused on using this institution as well because going back to when we was planning and suggesting which films our film would be based around, was the Idea of linking it in with the "Conjuring" and this was a film that was distributed by the institution of Warner Bros. This is a well know company for most of its films, for example: looking at the success of the series films of Harry Potters and the Dark Knight. However, when looking at the horror films that they have done such as The Conjuring, The Shining, The Exorcist, The Reaping and many other different films we decided this would be an excellent choice.

When watching the intro to this institution we can also see that it has the old paper brown kind of colour to it, when suggests the idea of being old until it shows the logo which is in the sky, which could represent the new modern era of the company. Therefore, because our opening is based around the idea of being in the past using the flashback and present day scenes the intro would represent this by showing this olden day look to a more newer modern appearance it shows the relevance to our opening to the film. 

Therefore, because this institution is a well known major film studio we decided that this would be the best way for "HUNTED" to be distributed and represented by which how much relevance the introduction has with the theme of our horror.

Evaluation - Activity 2

Question: How does you media product represent particular social groups?

 

Elle Burton - The Little Girl

 

Elle is the little girl within the opening to our film. So she is portraying this little girl who is unknown the audience until the end of the opening. However we wanted her to mostly portray this innocent little girl and we did this by adding white clothing such as her jumper, scarf, some bits within her coat and her socks. Majority of her shouted out innocence to the audience this also helps to identify this as she is carrying a teddy bear and many young children would do this. We made sure when doing this during filming we would use her natural skin colour, instead of applying any foundation or make-up as we wanted to represent her as being this ghost, so we decided to use her naturally within the film to portray this to the audience. The little girl would come under the audience of Group E, this is because she is only a little girl who is a student and unemployed because of her age, and we wanted to relate this to the audience.

 

Tyler Long - The unknown male

 

 

Tyler plays the main character of the unknown male within the film (The Silhouette). We wanted him to all being in black as this adds the idea of him being unknown and bases him round the area of mystery and darkness. Within his character he is wearing a suit/tie which is showing him to the audience as powerful, business type of person, however the audience doesn't know his true identity until the end of the opening to the film. We would therefore base the Silhouette character around the Group A and Group C1. This is because of how he is seen as this well paid business man within the suit that he is wearing and how near the end we find his true identity he would come under as C1 because he could possibly be seen like a bank clerk or middle management even know as parent at end the little girl's daddy.

 

Comparisons:

 

When looking at the little girl who is in the film "The Conjuring" which our film is based around we can see that she also has short hair, showing this venerability and she is also holding a teddy bear like our character is. Therefore, this is demonstrating that because we wanted to base our opening around the film of the Conjuring we wanted to base our little girl character around her with the features such as the hair and props. However, we decided to use white clothing with our character to add in more innocence of a child, therefore or character was based around this type to link in with our social groups. 

 

 

As we can see looking at this comparison we have the idea of a little girl with a business man who is her dad. This image is linked in with our opening as at the end of the opening the audience find out that the man following the girl throughout the flashbacks and the present day is in fact her dad as she shouts out at the end "DADDY NO!" this image shown in comparison to ours shows that our silhouette character is dressed within a business suit, however ours in more dressed darkly to give that mystery that is needed for our opening. So the reason why Tyler (Silhouette) would be the social group for Group A and C1 because of how he is business, well paid man to the audience at the start and at the end we see him as this employed parent who has a suit that could be connected with being a bank clerk and this comparison clearly shows how we have constructed our character with the example image next to it that we used for the ideas of his character's creation.

 

 

Evaluation – Activity 1

Question: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

 

 

 

Our Final Edit – “HUNTED”

Here is the final edit of our horror opening - "HUNTED" after many weeks and months of filming and editing, the opening is finally finished so hope that you enjoy our creation...

ArchAngels Production Presents...

"HUNTED"

Editing Screenshots – “HUNTED”

Here is the screenshots of us editing our Horror Opening "HUNTED" with using Premiere Pro CS6...

"Further Images showing us as a group around the computer editing shall be put on here soon..."

Our Filming Pictures

(Behind the Lens)

On Saturday 7th February 2015, we stared to film the beginning of our horror opening "HUNTED" We started to film this around 3:00pm in the afternoon and packed up filming by at least 5:30pm, continuing with the rest of our filming to a later date (Flashback Scenes). 

We were filming amongst the church and graveyard, located in Tydd St Giles, with the crew: Jack Fowler (Me), Kayleigh Norris, Daina Mitchell, including our actors Elle Burton as the little girl and Tyler Long as the Silhouette.

This was a day of filming and the image below show to you what we did that day to begin filming for our horror opening...

*More photos should be updated when we film the rest; to a later date, including an edited outtake video as well to show the performances we made when filming...*