Zoe's Evaluation

Question one

Question two

Question three

Question six

Jodie's Evaluation

Question one

Question two

Question three

Question six

Marco's Evaluation

Question one

Question two

Question three

Question six

Group Evaluation

Question 4&5

Question 7

Our productions

Anamatic

Wilderness woods reccie

Preliminary task

Final opening sequence

JR - Evaluation Question 6

Group 4 Evaluation Question Six

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Q2) How does your media product represent particular social groups?






The social groups that are apparent in our media product are teenage girls that palpably appeal to the teenage social group. However, our aim because of the psychological horror genre was that it would appeal to up to 25 years old making who most regularly out of the population watch horror films.







We decided to choose psychological in contrast to other types of horror such as Slasher because we could manipulate the age restrictions for a wider range of viewers similarly to the Ring. The clear advantage of this is that a wider target audience can be marketed at and consequently the possibility of creating profits increases. Nevertheless, this also heavily relies upon good narrative and manipulation of angles to make the film scary and attract a wide range of audiences.

The opening sequence conforms to the traditional gender roles and shows the girl protagonist as it points to her being weak and vulnerable. This allows the audience to empathize with and allows the social group to correspond with the characters.

This was shown in our opening sequence firstly by the way showing how she was affected by the curse. This was achieved through a time compression combined simultaneously with a POV shot that allowed the audience to feel the suffering of the protagonist.

















The next shot gives a strong impact as the silence is gradually cut by the sound of the twinkle of the music that again reinforces the traditional gender role of the innocent and vulnerable girl. All these parts of the Mise-en-scene including having the socks on the floor Inadvertedly suggest the vulnerability and protection that the protagonist needs. Consequently, this clearly conforms to the psychological horror ideologies that show the need of protection.




Nevertheless, some iconic psychological horrors try and confront these macro and ideological discourses by completely switching them. This can be seen in grudge 2 where the wife kills the man with the pan after being criticized. The silence and is then followed by the tweet of tranquil birds that are used by the director to ironically to provoke darker thoughts and challenge preconception that women are weaker then men.

EVALUATION - Group post Question 4&5

Evaluation - Audience Findings on Prezi

JR - Evaluation Question 3

Once a production is completed by writer and director the next stage of the process is to find a distributor for marketing and selling their product to the different parts of the release process. This is a key part of the process and is vitally important to a successful film.

Our media product would be distributed by a independent distribution company for exhibition in art house cinema's as it is a low budget film with a small/specialised target audience. This is because our film is to suit a niche market as it is based around the same convention of Japanese films. Our film would possible be distributed by a company such as Caravan Film a Independent British Film Production Company.

The likelihood of an industrial company such as 20^th Century Fox distributing our product is very small because it is a small budgeted film, they promote film to which bring a large income to them and distribute to multiplexes such as Cineworld.

Group 4 - Evaluation Question 7

Our interview of how we learnt from our preliminary task, through the progression from the start to the finish of our full product.

Marco - The director
Zoe - T4 Presenter
Jodie - Camera/Editing

JR - Evaluation Question 2

Our social group that we tried to represent in our product was teenage girl which means our key target audience ranged from teenager to 30 years old for the genre of Horror.

We chose to use the Psychological Horror out of the sub-horror genre as it has less gore and special effects needed to make the fear fact needed in this genre possible. Also the age restriction of our audience research lead to us appealing to this target audience as we promoted our idea to 16-18 year olds. Our opening conformed to the convention of stereotypical roles in this genre of films, showing a girl as the protagonist being weak and innocent to society. We used a few key shots to place the audience with the lead role, POV shots were used to show her emotions and how the fun atmosphere changes to fear and suspense. The audience becomes involved in the leads emotions and thus feel sympathy for her and conform to her side.

In the following shots, we see the everyday activity of a teenage girl so which represents the stereotypical teenage ideologies, messy rooms, morning activities. The music we used didn't represent the age group as it was a twinkle chimes which you would feel not to be heard by teenagers, we did these as the convention of a horror film was the scary slow music.

We used the villain as a male role, but in some films we researched this was different and the gender roles were exchanged, with the female being the villain and the male being seen as defenceless and afraid of the female. This was seen in the Japanese Horror of The Scissors Massacre (Kotaro Terauchi, 2008) where the female is the killer.