anamatic

This is our attempt of an anamatic we need more pictures for this as we changed most of the shots that are in this have beemn changed in a variety of ways also the anamatic only lasts 0.47 seconds where as we now know that our final footage last 1 minute 54 seconds this is because we have changed lots and changed in various ways

Evaluatation 7

Looking back at your preliminary task (the continuity editing task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

Evalutation 6 - What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

These two picture are of out group the left has Ana, Hannah and myself in and on the left has Zoe, Hannah and myself in too. We are holding the tripod and camera in which we used to film our task

This is the camera on its own that we used


This is a tripod we used this to put the camera on as it helps to get steady shots.

 This is my bed. My bed was used in the film when Ana was asleep before we entered the dream sequence

 

 

 

 

 

These two pictures are of drawing that Hannah drew for us to use in her scene of the creator 

 

 

 

 

 

youtube played a big part in our film as that is where we uploaded everything on to and uploaded our film online making it viewable to anyone. its also allowed us to look at other peoples opening 2 minutes and get opening two minutes from opening scene of a film.

what we learnt on youtube:

we learnt how to create and use a youtube account

• how to upload video on to youtube and make them visible to everyone
• we also learnt how to make and add speech bubbles and annotations to a video online

We used Blogger to do our main production of our coursework. On blogger we had to produce a online diary where we had to complete various tasks and record various things down such as research and planning , filming diarys so our teachers could see what we have been up to while filming , and our evaluation tasks. on blogger we had to upload many different photos, videos and slideshows and found various ways of doing this

what i have learnt from blogger :

• On blogger we have learnt how to do a detail analysis of a media works from the production of our film to the research and planning of our film.
• Also we learnt how to make a accurate detailed dairy of the work we have done at each stage of the production.

we used adobe premiere elements to do all our editing of both our preliminary task and our final film. at first we found Adobe very confusing to use as it was rather technical but by the end of both films we have got to grips with it and have learnt many different things from it heres just some:

• We learnt how to upload our footage from the camera to the computer through Adobe.
• We also learnt how to cut the frames where we wanted to and fix them together with another frame
• Also leant how to slipt digoulouge and footage apart from each other when the sound was not need
• how to fix the contrast and brightness of a frame to what you want
• we also playedaround with the audio levels of our music as we found it was to high pitch and needed it softer so we mangered to do that .
• we also learnt how to use tranisitions to make the shot play smoothly into each other .

evaluation 5-How did you attract/address your audience?

This is an annotated youtube copy of our final piece in this we say what links our opening 2 minutes to other opening scence of the same genre the genre we chose was phycological thriller/horror we firstly aimed to do a horror but as our ideas came it turned more into this.

Evalutation 4- Who would be the audience for your media product?

This is a picture of our target audience which is mainly made of male with taking up 55% of the overall figure whereas females  is 45%. These statistics are taken from figures such as The Grudge a film with a  horror genre that has a similar style as ours in regards of Zoe one of our main characters. our audience profile has an ages range of 17 years to middle aged, which is dominantly male. This may be because of stereotypes which say  chick flicks are typically feminine whereas Horror/action is typically masculine. Horror is a genre which attracts a wide audience. In terms of shopping and music i feel that this is dependent on the gender to what they wear and listen to as many different types of people enjoy horrors

In terms of clothes i think my group have imagined our typical audience to dress in normal clothes from shops such as primark or top man for the male (in his 20's) and for a female of the same age range i can imagine them to shop in the same kind of shops and new look and places of a similar type. s for the music side i can imagine  them to listen to  again dependent on both age and gender .For  males (17-25) i feel that the genre of  music  that they will listen to will be rap/urban/ chart music with artists such as Eminem/Tinie Tempah as these are typically male. For the upper age range (25-40) i feel the music will perhaps be either more older music such as Micheal Jackson. For  the earlier age range of females the music will usually be chart/ Pop/Rnb with artists such as Rhianna/Adele/ although mainly chart music would suit this target audience.For the upper range music may be outdated again with maybe the same type as the older men e.g. west life/take that  Another assumption is that hard core horror genre lovers will listen to rock music such as My chemical Romance with Music channels such as Kerrang and Mtv Rock. The younger audience will essentially listen to music on  MTV /Kiss/4 Music. The older audience may listen to Channels such as Magic

In terms of our film it effectively attracts its target audience as it contains many horror stereotypes which  include the following:

•  an innocent girl who posesses purity with such good characteristaion that the audience knows that she will either die or become possessed
• The monster who strikes slyly but some how always seems to be just out of the picture.
• lastly  eerie suspending music that gets you through all the jumps and jolts from start to finish.

Evaluation 3

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

evaluation 2 - How does your media product represent particular social groups?

For this task i have chosen to look at Zoe's character from when she first properly appears in the dream sequence,i am going to look at the similarities and differences of her character and a character from the grudge as i feel they can be comparable both are representable for a typical horror genre character.i personally think that this is the most comparable character to Zoe because ....

•  They both stalk their victims in an animistic manner

• both have a lost  look in their eyes when on screen displaying their animal side to them

•  Both have  extremely dark hair which contrast against their very pale skin, this can give a sense of undead 

•  Unlike the grudge in the opening two minutes of our film you do get to see Zoe's character start following her victim through the dream sequence 

In terms of costume they both wore different types of clothing but they had similarities,  the grudge wore ragged normal clothes( to display poverty and uncleanness) whereas Zoe wore a cape to go against traditional horror norms, which gave our own little twist on the story. The cape proved to be very useful as it highlights her movements as well as hiding Zoe's body, camouflaging her so that she can watch Ana from a distant with out being noticed also the cape kind of gave Zoe's character  a sense of wildness (Especially since it was windy when we filmed it, allowing certain shots to contrast against the stillness of the other shots.)
 In The Grudge the character uses slow, sly movements , which allows the increase of  tension as well as making the audience feel uneasy which is the type of effect we wanted for Zoe. However for Zoe's character we tried to use her facial expressions to make the audience feel uneasy we done this by having close up of her face but we also used elements of slow movement for this to . As for Roles of the two characters their aim is very similar to find the prey...and killing it! This is meant to make the audience feel uncomfortable as it is a Horror/Fantasy film.

evalutation 1- in what ways does your media product use,develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

After going though our final piece  i have selected nine  frames which i am going to look at and compare to our objectives from the start of the filming process. Our aim was to create a realistic opening to a horror film but i personally think that it turnt in to more of physiological thriller /horror.
Frame 1.

For this shot we used a black background and white writing just as the opening shot of our film we had it silent and the words slowly faded on and was on the screen for a couple of seconds then had it fade out again we thought this was successful as it added an effect of a horror type film as we used a black screen which contrasted with the white writing.Throughout the film we chose titles stating who was starring in it, we chose to have small white writing that alternated on the side it was within the screen we chose them to be small as we didn't want them to be distracted from the action that would be shown on the screen.  

Frame2.

 The location within this scene is meant to be unknown as it adds mystery to the scene just like Hannah's character is.However the scene was filmed in my dining room, we made the scene by making the room dark we done this by shutting the curtains and using the dimming switch we have and putting it on the lowest setting possible for the camera to still be able to see Hannah and the easel and the pencils(which are the props we used).This is used by Hannah "The Creator" as she sketches out the scene. we used the camera to create an over the shoulder shot of Hannah then to zoom in on the drawing this shot was hard to get as we had to keep the camera steady and get the right shot we were going for. Hannah's character is introduced in a way most evil characters are shown, with out a view of there face. The costume for Hannah's character was a checked black shirt with a grey waistcoat this gave her the artist look about her as well as the dark clothing makes her blend into the background

Frame 3.

Within this shot it uses the Rule of thirds this was done unintentionally but i think it is a good thing as it draws the audience to Ana's character which is what the scene is all about.This scene was also filmed at my house but in my bedroom this is because we want to make it look like Ana is in bed so in the film it is made to look like her bedroom  Ana is made to look uneasy within this scene as if she is having night mares. the lighting within the scene was achieved by closing curtains but it was still to sunny in the room so we used towels to block out the sunlight through the windows we also shut the door. In order for the camera to see Ana we used the dimmer lights to add a bit of light so the camera would work and because it was a dimmer switch we still was able to achieve the effect of nighttime. Ana's character is introduced to be see as innocent and meaning full to the opening of this film.

Frame 4.

This shot is filmed in a school field where the grass is rather long and seems wild this is the effect that was wanted as it maybe adds the touch of Zoe's character with in the scene.The focus within the scene is on the character as well as the setting i feel the setting is important for the scenes as is adds the idea of maybe it being a dream. Ana is positioned in the center of the shot so the audience are meant to sympathise with her as she is vulnerable and worried.The next shot from this is a pan around Ana's character with almost a shaky effect to it this is made to look like it is Zoe's character circling Ana.This shot has been edited to black and white just like all the other dream scene shots have this is to show a contrast between the dream scene and Ana in bed. In this scene Ana is wearing her pyjamas to remind the audience that she is still in a dream.

Frame 5.

This scene is filmed in the same school field as frame 4 this is the first time we see Zoe's character but we do not see her face this is typical for a horror film that the villain is not shown within the first showing of these types of characters.In these first scene of the dream scenes Zoe is wearing a green cap but because we have played with the effects and have changed the contrasts of the colouring to make it look like a dark day. we also cut the cape so it looked like it had been dragged and ripped along the mud and in the dirt. we also done it on a day where it was windy out side so the cape court the wind which added effect to what we wanted
 

Frame 6.

This shot is once again set in the same field as the previous but we found little patches of very long grass so we made good use of this provided us with many different shots that could of been used. In terms of the costumes we used the same green cape was used and with the hood up for Mis-on-scene. the type of shot used was a mid shot /close up this is because Zoe was very low to the ground we used these shots as this is the first time Zoe's face is shown . The frame just like a couple of the others uses the rule of thirds this is essential as it shows the most important thing which is Zoe's face and we want the attention to be on her

Frame 7.

The location for this frame  the same field as the rest but in a slightly more shorter grass than the previous ones and there more leaves around this is made to look as if Zoe's character has travelled for some distance. within the scene Zoe is wearing old brown boots that have fur on them this could maybe be animals fur ? making Zoe's character look slightly barbaric. Before this shot there was a shot of the camera tracking Zoe's footsteps and then we see her stamp on the sticks and a piece fly off this is shot from a low angle which makes Zoe's character look powerful,this was  hard to film even using a tripod,as we wanted to track her but so it from a low angle we had to re film this many times to get the smoothness of it.This shot of the tracking and Zoe stamping on the sticks ends when the stick fly off this could show how powerful and Barbaric Zoe's character is  

Frame 8.

This shot is filmed from a low angle to show the power Zoe has it is a mid shot of the character in a tree this works very well with in the our film as the next shot is of Ana's Character at the bottom of a tree resting on it looks worried and scared so maybe Zoe is at the top of that tree although these to shots where filmed at different locations you cant see the top of the tree Ana is leaning against so it could be the case. Zoe is wearing the green cape again for match on action and mis-on-scene also she is wearing the same boots for this purpose to. she is wearing plan black tights shorts and a top this could suggest maybe that she is a normal person but is bad just within the dreams ?
Frame 9.

This frame is taken from the last shot of our opening 2 minutes which is of Ana desperately trying to run away from what is coming after her although she doesn't know what it is just yet ! i personally think this shot shows the location of the field we filmed in very well as you have it in the distances although our main focus is of Ana the field is still in the background the following shot of this is of ana half way across the field which is a long shot of her and the field . Ana is wearing the same Pyjamas as she has been throughout the opening this is for continuity editing also for match on action this frame is shot as a mid shot/close up this is so we can see the background also so we can see the expression and worry on Ana's face

Puppet Strings final film