Tuesday, 4 January 2011
Evaluation Question 1
Wednesday, 29 December 2010
Evaluation Question 2
Script used:
In our film we have used a young teenage girl to be the murderous stalker, using a girl made the theme of jealousy more believable as I think that girls commonly get more jealous than boys, there is examples of this in the media with the teen pop star Justin Bieber and the so called ‘Bieber fever’. Therefore we displayed her obsession to the extent she wants to kill all the females Chris has been in contact with. Our film complies with the male gaze theory to the extent we use high angle shots on Katie making her look vulnerable. However, we do not make the camera see Katie as a sexual object which is the main aim in Laura Mulvey’s male gaze theory. This is because she is a young girl and because she is the antagonist.
The representation of men in our film implies that young men are innocent and oblivious, as Chris has split up with Katie and he does not realise how much he has upset her. Also in the opening we do not have a reaction shot implying what Chris is thinking about the murder, then having the close up of shot with Katie saying ‘You’re next baby’ makes him look vulnerable because the audience do not see if he is aware or not.
The use of age in our film displays how attached teenagers can get, for example some teenagers get extremely obsessed with celebrities but we used an ex-boyfriend so that the audience can relate with the horror film. We did this because Denis McQuail explains in his theory of Uses and Gratifications that one of the audiences needs is to be able to identify with the characters. Also in the horror genre when the audience can relate with the characters they will be more scared. However, we have made it clear that not all female teenagers are obsessed with someone because Annie and the other females are not obsessive and controlling.
As the main part is the female and for once in a horror film she is the antagonist I think this would encourage more females to see the film as it would not worry them as it’s more intriguing to watch an unusual storyline.
Tuesday, 28 December 2010
Evaluation Question 3
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Monday, 27 December 2010
Sunday, 19 December 2010
Saturday, 18 December 2010
Evaluation Question 6
1. The cameras we used were quite good, the film quality was good if the light in the room was good, for example if the room was bright the quality would be excellent but we found when we filmed in a room with the light off we could see the complete contrast in the shot. Also when filming we felt pressured to finish the shots outside before it got dark because we knew that the camera would not pick this up. However, this put a good sort of pressure on us, and made us face the true reality of what professional film makers have to think about when filming at certain times.
3. If we had more time, we would had more time to create the opening we would have made the music ourselves with mixers and instruments such as a piano. However, we found brilliant music and sound effects on the Mac. We used three different types of drone to play over all of the clips for the length of the opening; this worked very well as there was a constant flow of music with more volume at points of tension. Also, we used sound effects off the Mac such as the heart beat and the ambient sound effect for the flash back. These both created certain emotions for each part of the opening. For example, the flash back can be interpreted as a dream therefore this calm ambient sound makes the audience realise the different tempo and therefore understand that this is what sets Katie’s jealousy off. Also the heart beat builds tension and connotes panic.
4. We uploaded our film to Youtube from the Mac which took the maximum of 5 minutes so the process was extremely quick. Youtube is fantastic for all different types of audiences to watch our film. Also we can allow anybody to comment on our film which is great for feedback. Also it is a good website to be able to compare the rough cut to the final as when you have one up you can click on the side bar and watch the other so it is easy to access both.6. Another free website I used was Scribd, Scribd is a website which you become a member of then can upload any document in the correct format so that you can then view it online. I usually used Scribd to upload my work from Microsoft Word so that you can just embed the document onto the blog and read the document that way. Scribd makes most documents look neater and better presented on the blog. However, sometimes when uploading documents with lots of images it pushes all the images together so the document is overlapped and unreadable, usually I just needed to PDF the document then upload it to stop it from doing this.
7. Although work cannot be displayed on social networking sites it is easy to talk to each other when both online. Facebook is great for this; also we can upload our film onto it and get people to comment and like the film so we know if it has reached our target audience and if we can improve it.
8. As a group I think we worked really well, we communicated well and told each other our ideas and took into consideration everyone’s ideas. Working together editing was a lot easier than I thought as we all sat around and decided what music worked well and what transitions we liked and it all fit together really well. We have all had equal amounts of work updates on the blog. Also the technologies used helped us communicate when not together and make our film look professional.