Evaluation 4

WHO WOULD BE THE AUDIENCE FOR YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT?


For my Opening Sequence my target audience would be teenagers. My Film is about a girl getting stalked by a boy and things like this happen in real life, so it could related to teenage girls. It can also relate teenage boys because it can show how people get angry and frustrated by relationships such as the one i have shown in my opening sequence. I wanted to make a film that is relevant and does happen in the real world.

Name: Hannah Batley
Age: 15
Music: All types
TV programmes: Skins, Shameless, Inbetweeners, The Hills etc.  
Film: Scary, Comedy, Romantic 
Enjoys: Dancing, parties and just chilling.


I asked. Did the film relate to her?
Yes, it did relate to me. Nothing like this has ever happened to me before but it just shows that you have to be careful with who you talk to and what you put on the internet, such as facebook, formspring and twitter.

Evaluation 3

Evaluation - Question 2

HOW DOES YOUR MEDIA REPRESENT KEY SOCIAL GROUPS


 My Opening Sequence







 When a Stranger Calls




For this part of my evaluation I am comparing the main character in my film Lily Budd to one of the characters in a film similar to mine "When a Stranger Calls". They are both similar especially in this picture because they are getting stalked by a man who has lost his temper and is frustrated. 


Lilys character in my opening sequence is just a normal girl who goes out comes home and is relaxed and chilled. She is the main character in the film because it is based around a girl and a phone and we do not actually ever see the man talking until the end of the opening sequence. You see lily a lot in the film just like the girl in When a stranger calls. They are similar in the way they dress with the costumes being normal up to date trend in the fashion. This is showing that the film is current and still relevant in what can and does happen in real life. I was trying to send a message in my opening sequence that you should be careful who you talk to and who you know because you don't know how dangerous some people can be which is what When a Stranger Calls is trying to say aswell.


The similarities between both girls in the film are that they are both around the same age and they both start of being confident but as soon as trouble comes they start to panic as a young girl would in real life. The appearance of them comes over as they are panicking with a lot of close up screen shots which lets us see a glimpse of their reactions and pulls the audience into the film more feeling like they should do something, it also makes it quite jumpy and one edge. 


They story of When a Stranger calls is different but has the same moral because it is about a girl who travels to a house far away to babysit two children whereas mine is about lily coming home from school and being home alone. Then the stories beginning to come similar when the phone starts ringing and the men getting into the house. 


Overall I think the two Characters are near enough in the same situation and is a perfect similarity to my Opening Sequence. 

EVALUATION - question 1

OPENING SEQUENCE
SCREENSHOTS










the title of the film - forgot will stalk 
I chose the name forgot will stalk because of story line of my opening sequence. The story is of a boy that liked a girl a lot but she would never notice him or talk to other boys and it started to make him angry. So he started to get her to notice him when he kept calling on unknown and making her wonder and stop to think someone keeps calling. He waited till she was home alone and would then find a way into the house after keep harassing her and kill. 


setting & location 
The setting and the location of the film was important in the film because it had to be set in a house to make sure the effect was there of a stalker coming to the girls home. I wanted to make sure that there was things in there which would of been normal in a house like a tv, sofa, stairs etc to make it looks as the girl was just sitting at home relaxing watching tv. I filmed it during the day but really should of maybe filmed it as it was getting dark so that there was more of an effect because things tend to be scarier when it is darker. I was based my opening sequence on a film that is a similar story line to it "when a stranger calls". I wanted it to be in a normal house so that it looked more real because most horror films are all set in normal places which makes it more tense because it starts become more real and like real life. 






     SHOTS OF THE SETTING 

WHEN A STRANGER CALLS - 2006 REMAKE

costumes & props 

The was not many costumes used because only two people were in the film. The girl that was the main part was dressed in casual clothes as though she had come in from college or a day out with a jumper and trousers on. The stalker at the end part of the opening sequence was dressed in all back so that there was no identity given about the person and all you saw was some dressed in black. 

There was many props used in the sequence and one of the most important one was the mobile phone which is important because it is the key of the whole film. Also i used things like remotes, tv etc.

It was thought about and considered in what everyone should be wearing and what props should be used to make the film make more sense because there was some footage that was lost so i had to play around with it to make it make sense. The use of the props helped with this.



camerawork and editing 
The opening sequence was filmed on a normal camera and not much camerawork was done whilst actually actually filming the film. The camerawork and editing is a very important to making the film stand out and keep the audience interested and obviously without the camera you have no film.  To get the best camera angles and shots I watched different horror films to see what way they filmed there films. In my film i used a lot of Close up shots. Long shots, full shots, medium shots and some continuity shots to get the best angles to make the film look scarier. Having all these shots helped to make more film more effective example when the phone was ringing it had a close up shot with a strobe effect making it more tense. On my video I used cuts and added a voiceover, this was to add an effect and keep the opening sequence flowing this was done on Adobe Premiere Pro.






EDITING SHOTS






title, font & style 
I used a plain and simple font on my opening sequence because I did not want to take the attention of the footage and I feel that some exaggerated fonts make horror films look gimmicky. I also kept it the same font from the beginning to keep it professional so that it looks like it is still the same film. I think it has worked well and has made it more effected. By using a simple font it makes it look more modern and an up to date film rather than using older fonts that can date it.


story and how the opening sets up 
My film was about a boy that wanted to see this girl who he really liked. The girl was never interested and was meeting other boys. He was a confused person and is not really all there and feels when he doesn't get something he wants he can turn nasty. When the girl is home alone and all on her own he decides to go to her house and stalk her. The story is based around the phone because it keeps ringing and is the centre and moral of the film.

Film Opening

SHOT LIST

1. Close up - television fuzzing out 
2. Medium shot - girl puts in the aerial
3. Wide shot - television turns loud whilst the girl jumps 
4. Close up - hand turning down the volume 
5. Wide shot - of the girl sitting watching television 
6. Close up - phone ringing upstairs - rings a few times
7. Medium shot - girl goes to get up - phone stops ringing 
8. Close up - Television fuzzes out again 
9. Close up - aerial on the floor
10. Extreme close up - girls eyes looking scared 
11. Medium shot - as she goes to put aerial in the phone starts ring again 
12. Following shot - of the girl running up stairs 
13. Medium shot - she enters the room 
14. Close up - goes to answer - call ends
15. Extreme close up - of the face turning round quick after hearing a loud noise 
16. Close up - of the door handle and she opening it 
17. Close up - phone begins to ring again 
18. Medium shot - of her face being confused and worried
19. Long shot - goes to answer the phone 
20. Wide shot - of picking up the phone which says unknown caller and then the door slams
21. Long shot - of the corridor and all the doors begin to shut one after the other 
22. Close up - sitting in the corner worried and scared 
23. Wide shot - getting up and shutting the blinds 
24. Close up - phone starts calling 
25. Medium shot - answering the call 
26. Close up - listening to the call 
27. Two shots - of the girl and the person stalking behind her 
28. Close up - Man putting hands on the girls shoulder 
29. Close up - of the girls face looking and then goes to a black screen

THE END 


Asset list 
The things that I will be using are;


1. Phone
2. Sofa
3. Television and components 
4. Bedroom
5. House
6. Blinds


7. Girl 
8. Figure girl/boy 


9. Camera 
10. Tape
11. Tripod 
12. Charger 


The girl In the film will need to wear casual clothing and the figure will be dressed in all black. 




Final..

Prelim Task

PRELIM IDEA

For this task we decided to film a boy and girl that had to go to a detention, the boy did not really care but the girl was the geek who doesn't usually get a detention and was trying to concentrate on her reading. We filmed this in one of the head the teachers offices because we feel it felt like an office where a detention would be held. It started off with the boy (me) walking down the corridor to the room, then opening the door sitting down talking to lily. Then lily was concentrating on reading and didnt want to talk. There was no teacher and because tom didn't care he decided to walk out of the detention because the teacher was absent. In the Video we had to include match on action shot, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule. When we was filming we didn't realise the effort you have to make to get the right shot, whereas normally you would just take shots from the front or to an angle, but getting the shots right and correct was harder and feel that we made a good effort. We had already made a Storyboard and the script as you can see from the pictures above this helped us for the positioning of where we had the chairs, and the camera angle for different shots like the opening of the door etc. Before we took the final shots we had made some practice ones to make sure we was getting it right and that the final one would work. We then imported the video to our computer and made cuts and edits so that it then became a continuos piece of work.  I think that the Prelim task has worked and happy with what we did, it is all good practice for when we make our 2 minute long film opening.

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REMAKE

I chose to remake the opening title of the 1999 American hit drama Arlington Road directed by Mark Pellington because it was a remake that I feel was a challenge to set myself because of the amount of different filming techniques that were used with the camera shots and angles. Most of the film was made up of different special/computerised effects that enabled me to work with the Premier Pro and get used to working with different tools when making my own film. 

When we took into consideration on how to film the remake we thought it was good to take time and keep watching the original Arlington Road on www.artofthetitle.com to make sure we could do the best to remake the different angles and shots that were used. The shots that were taken were mostly of fences, bridges, cars, people, some buildings, people on bikes, stop signs anything to do with outside and near a road as Arlington Road was about a car crash. If we were to just film fences and grass it would have been a very boring opening title, so like the Original we added fonts, titles and lots of effects.