Final Main-Brief, Inside!

Sorry about the quality however, sadly it was lost during exporting.

Mini-Brief Final Cut

This is the final cut of our mini-brief, watch below:

Evaluation Question 7

The SlideShare answering the final evaluation question:

Evaluation Question 7 from esme roberts

Evaluation Question 6

For this question, I decided to answer it with the online website called Moovly!
Click the link below:

EvaluationQuestions 5&4

For question 4&5, I  decided to answer the question in a "chat show" video way, hope you enjoy!

Evaluation Question 3

For question 3 I answer it in a SlideShare, here is the result:

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

Question 2

Evaluation question 2- How does your media product represent social media groups?

Question 1

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


For question number one of my evaluation that is shown above, I decided to answer it in a podcast way, listen below!






https://soundcloud.com/esme-roberts/podcast-media-coursework

Sign in sheet

This is a list of some of the times we came in to do some editing! Every single time is not on there, due to us completely forgetting to put our names down and it doesn't include the time in lessons we had. However, if one of us had a free and the other person didn't, me or Izzy would still come in and try to develop the main-brief, even if it was just watching it over and making notes, it still helped us to develop the ending product

Main-Brief Progress

In the Easter holidays, me and Izzy decided to come into school and do some editing for Inside! We come in on Tuesday and Thursdays, where we made some finishing touches and fully finished the credits that weren't developed enough.
 Due to neither of us having an Apple computing system at home, we couldn't edit outside of school, therefore we tried to get as much done before we broke up from school. Whenever both me and Izzy had a free in school, we would dedicate that to editing some of our footage, this allowed us to get a lot done in the time we had.

Final Storyboard

Due to our ideas changing to allow the opening to look effective, we decided to make the changes and then re-write a story board after we had finished filming. This allowed us to know what to do and what editing techniques to use while editing. For example, the jump cuts that are in the opening were confirmed by the finished story-board.
The change from the original story-board to the updated one, allows me to see the changes we made and how it has improved the piece on a whole.

Opening Credits Research

I decided to research the film The Infidel, a Revolver Entertainment Film, to study the opening credits. This gave me an idea about how to interoperate credits into the opening of our main brief. Even though the genre is a comedy, I felt that these credits would help me in making the decision of making the credits be labelled in the horror genre, therefore making it almost opposite to some of the elements within these credits.


Colour
The credits change from a deep red font on the background, to a light blue font when the characters appear on the screen. The companies names are said first clearly on a plain background. However, it is clear to see the other fonts when the characters on screen, because they appear in unusual places so therefore catch the eye of the audience.


We decided to use the colours red and white for our opening. This is because, white has connotations of innocence, therefore the colour white symbolises the young child who becomes possessed. The colour red connotes evil and danger, which represents the paranormal thing that possesses her. The two colours are contrasting which depicts the storyline to the audience. We interoperated the idea of unusual placing for the credits in our piece, so that it became interested and allowed the audience to concentrate.


Speed
The credits last for a long time in this particular opening sequence. The full set of credits finished at around 4 minutes 38 seconds, on the directors names. The credits are shown at the beginning of the film so that it isn't distracting throughout the rest of the film.


When watching the credits of The Infidel, I notices that the credits took quite long and I became quite bored. Therefore for our piece, the credits almost fly in and don't stay on the screen for very long, so that the audience do no get bored but excited to see the film start.

Changes!

Before putting the finished product of our horror opening named Inside, there have been changes that you should know about:

• We didn't use the establishing shot of the park. This is because, the actors couldn't get to the setting in time therefore it was too time consuming for the youngest actress age only 14 as she had other commitments. Therefore, the establishing shot is now of the house outside at night time. There is subtle view of the little girl who moves away from the window, this suggests that something is going to happen to do with the little girl in the film.

• We also didn't use the male actor in the piece, this is because he couldn't attend the filming day. Instead of the shot in the park with the mum, dad and daughter, we decided to cut straight to the scene of the mum reading the daughter straight to the  bed time story scene.

• The most obvious change is that there is know longer a possessive doll! This is because, when filming the doll we had, the result ended up being quite funny, which is obviously not what we wanted to achieve. Therefore instead, we decided to changed the storyline to the little girl becoming possessed by a paranormal being that haunts the house. This allowed the possession to no have to be visible which was easier to achieve the scary effect.  

Filming finished!

Finally finished! Today me and Izzy finished all our filming today, we decided to begin filming when it appeared to be dark so that we received the scary aspect of the horror genre. We didn't have many problems, apart from a lack of focus at the beginning and also some of the shots were harder to take than others. For example, the shot under the bed was hard to take and took numerous takes. Also, the CCTV angle shot was harder than expected because we had to place the tripod and camera on top of a stool, which called the film to be unstable at some points. Therefore we had to re-film that a few times.

Pod-Cast Time!

During our previous lessons, me and Izzy received some feedback on our main brief so far. We then translated and explained the feedback in a Pod Cast form.

Horror Genre

Horror
A film that depicts the viewers emotions, worst fears, terror of the unknown, disgust and nightmares. The horror genre is a genre that often feature scenes throughout the film that scare the viewer with the use of macabre and also that of the supernatural. The genre also overlaps with many other genre’s such as fantasy, science fiction and thriller. Most plots of horror films involve an evil force, event, or personage commonly of supernatural origin into the everyday world. Elements that feature in horror films are often torture, gore, ghosts, demonic forces, supernatural organisms and serial killers.


Example
Halloween (1978)
Director- John Carpenter
Release date: October 25, 1978
On Halloween 1963, the small town of Haddonfield is shocked when six-year-old Michael Myers returns from trick-or-treating and for some unknown reason stabs his older sister to death with a big kitchen knife and is found by his parents staring into space with the bloody knife in his hand. Sent to a mental institution, Michael spends the next 15 years just sitting, still staring into space despite the best efforts of his Doctor, Dr. Samuel Loomis. Now, on October 30th 1978, something triggers Michael off and during a storm manages to steal a car from Dr. Loomis and Nurse Marion (who was coming to take Michael to a court to keep him locked up) and goes back to Haddonfield where he steals a white mask. There, Laurie Stode, Michael's younger sister, finds that Michael is stalking her during the day (at school, at her home etc - but she doesn't know who he is.) As Dr. Loomis arrives and with the Sheriff frantically looks for Michael he doesn't know that Laurie is baby-sitting Lindsey and Tommy and that Laurie's friends Annie, Lynda and Bob are disappearing one by one.


This horror film set the conventions of horror films as it made significant use of first-person camera perspectives, unexceptional settings, and female heroines, all of which now define the horror film genre and are used in frequent other horror films.


This example of a horror film and the research of the horror genre allowed me to explore different ideas, when thinking of the storyline for our main-brief. The fact that Halloween contains a family in danger, made me think about using the concept of a nuclear family as it highlights that the horror that is in the film can happen to anyone, this makes it more scary and realistic.

Different camera angle revision

Camera Angles

The term camera angle means slightly different things to different people but it always refers to the way a shot is composed. Some people use it to include all camera shot types, others use it to specifically mean the angle between the camera and the subject. We will concentrate on the literal interpretation of camera angles, that is, the angle of the camera relative to the subject.

Eye-Level

This is the most common view, being the real-world angle that we are all used to. It shows subjects as we would expect to see them in real life. It is a fairly neutral shot.

High Angle

A high angle shows the subject from above, i.e. the camera is angled down towards the subject. This has the effect of diminishing the subject, making them appear less powerful, less significant or even submissive.

Low Angle

This shows the subject from below, giving them the impression of being more powerful or dominant.

Bird's Eye

The scene is shown from directly above. This is a completely different and somewhat unnatural point of view which can be used for dramatic effect or for showing a different spatial perspective.
In drama it can be used to show the positions and motions of different characters and objects, enabling the viewer to see things the characters can't.
The bird's-eye view is also very useful in sports, documentaries, etc.

Slanted

Also known as a dutch tilt, this is where the camera is purposely tilted to one side so the horizon is on an angle. This creates an interesting and dramatic effect. Famous examples include Carol Reed's The Third Man, Orson Welles' Citizen Kane and the Batman series.
Dutch tilts are also popular in MTV-style video production, where unusual angles and lots of camera movement play a big part.




When filming for our horror opening, we included the high angle shots because we wanted to portray a sense of CCTV when watching the mum and daughter. The use of the CCTV effects allows the audience to feel as if someone or something is watching the innocent family, which adds to the genre being horror.

Research behind our character profiles

When deciding on our characters and who were going to be the actors, we concentrated on the whole concept of the main brief and who would suit which character best. We chose a traditional mother, father and daughter to be the characters in our mini brief. This is because, the fact that they're an average traditional family adds to the scary concept to the mini brief. We know this because it the audience can relate to the characters which allows the audience to feel as if the situation could easily happen to them.


Due to the fact that the mum and dad of the mini brief are supposed to be happily in love, we decided to ask two people in our year who were in a happy relationship. This would allow the performance of being in love to be performed more naturally due to the true emotion, rather than two strangers trying to act as if they're in love. We also chose Izzy's little sister to be the little girl in our min brief. This I because she is only young and would portray an innocent young girl.

Character Profile!