Evaluation

How did you research into genre contribute to your production work?

After changing our idea from the basketball trailer we research and analysed different horror trailers we decided that was the genre we were going to go for. We chose this genre because unlike the basketball er trailer it was more practical for use with easy access to different locations and better resources. We had reliable actors that were willing to star in the trailer and a selection of houses that we had permission to film in. A lot of horror films are set in houses like the Paranormal Activity films which is what we based our film on. As well as researching into different horror trailers we then researched some of the conventions and characteristics of different horror trailers. We looked in Piranha 3D, and by doing this it helped with a number of things in our final piece. For example the music in our trailer was based on what we had noticed in other horror trailers and the common themes within the music. This helped us a lot and as a result we were very pleased with the way our soundtrack turned out. As well as researching different trailers we looked at different poster to help us with making our own film poster and we did the same when researching into magazine covers. This helped use with different kinds on text we could use and different colour combinations. And what kind of information a poster contains e.g release date, certificate, tag line, actors names.

How did research into audience contribute to your production work?
Firstly we decided that our trailer would be aimed forwards 18-25 years old's as we feel our trailer is something late teenagers to young adults would find appealing. The main thing that our audience research helped us with was the age classification. After reading and analysing the different age classifications and guidelines and the BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) we decided that we would rate our trailer an 18. We felt this was the correct certificate due to violence and bad language. Being in this age bracket we could do we found was appealing to use and our classmates could give use there feedback as well and we had a good understanding and perspective to what the audience like. Having the main characters in this age bracket was also very usful because we could come up with ideas that we all found scary and jumpy knowing it would have the same impact on the rest of our audience. audience researched helped use with the promotional side as well. knowing what time to advertise your trailer on television and where to advertise your posters is something we needed to consider. We thought that playing our trailer in the evening at around 9 as younger kids go to bed and its at this point that swearing is allowed on television. For our audience 9-11 is when programmes aimed at there age group are shown and also when films of a 15 + certificates are televised. We though that putting poster up at bus stops would be a good spot because a lot of people in our target audience get the bus if they cant drive to e.g get to and from work, go out etc. Another good place would be in high streets where a lot of younger people go shopping.

How did you research into institutions and regulation of media influence your production work.

http://www.bbfc.co.uk/classification/guidelines/18-2
How did your research into institutions and regulation of the media influence your production work?

Miss Elliot

My film poster isn't showing when i try to copy and paste in in the blog post. Don't really know what I can do about it!

Final Piece

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taSosdGD_5A

Questionnaire

Me and my project partner created a questionnaire for some people and friends to fill in after watching our trailer. We made sure they were all 18 and over so we could get a genuine reaction from our target audience. We managed to get a group of around 10 friends and then a few class mates for this, in the end we got about 20 questionnaires completed. By getting them to fill out the questionnaire we hoped to get some positive feedback but also some ways in which they think we can improve the trailer. This way we can make some improvements and then show it to them a second time so we can get the best possible.

Some of the feedback that we received was really good. They liked the music and said it really suited the tone of the trailer and that some of the sounds and effects made it quite a lot scarier than without music. They said it was easy to work out the plot and though it had a good storyline. However they did point out a few areas for improvement. They said that there were to many title screens and to try and reduce the amount, also change what some of them said. They thought there should be a change at the end after the telephone tone  and we should add a short snappy clip that will make the audience jump.

So to conclude we though this was a worth while piece of research. We were able to make some good improvements to our final edit and got a good response from our target audience. Pretty much everyone said they would go and see the film after seeing the trailer except for a few exceptions, but that was only because they aren't horror fans. The picture to the left is some of the answered questionnaires.

Storyboard

Representation

Characters 
The characters in our trailer are like any other stereotypical middle class teenagers. This is shown by what kind of cloths they are wearing and for the most part its jeans, hoodies and trainers which is what you would associate with teenagers. By dressing characters in everyday casual clothing it makes the audience feel as if this could happen to anyone maybe even themselves and putting themselves in that situation which adds realism to the trailer. Throughout the trailer bad language is used by the characters and they use language that may represent the younger generation which is why our trailer would be much more appealing to the 18-25 age bracket rather than older people. In the trailer there (excluding Ashes Spirt) 2 guys and 1 girl (Guy, Sam and Erin.) You will notice in the trailer that its Guy who goes to see what the problem is, he takes on the role of the brave macho man which is character that most teenage films contain. The other boy Sam (Myself) stays with the girls to make sure she remains safe. This then leaves the girl who is stereotypically the scared and vulnerable female character that constantly screams and panics.

Mise en scene
We filmed the trailer a middle class house as thats how we represented the characters, a big posh house wasn't the look we wanted. And we also used a middle class first car in the car crash scene which was suitable for new driver. Once again a posh car wouldn't have represented the characters in the right way. We used the night vision affect for all of the the video camera sections which we felt gave the film a creepy and spooky feel to it.  this builds up the suspense and anything could happen at any given moment.

Sound
We used a mixture of diegetic and non-diegetic sound throughout the trailer. The diegetic sound came from things like doors slamming shut, load thuds and bangs and the sound of the television static. These are all sounds you represent with horror films. We used some non diegetic sounds like the sound of a telephone beeping was added in and we used different sounds effects when cutting into a title screen. We made our own music on garage band and the music runs all the way through the trailer. We added a lot of sound effects and lots of different sounds so that it gave the trailer a good pace and also builds up the tension as suspense because we used a variety of different sounds with different contrasts. most sounds you would hear in a house hold

Props 
The main prop obviously being the hand held video camera which is used throughout the whole trailer. In the living room scene with the the flashing lights we put a lot of alcohol out on the table which represents a typical group of teenagers. We used a pet cat for one of the clips which will make the audience think that something may happen to it at some point.

Film classification four our trailer

After looking at some of the content of our media trailer we accessed what certificate our trailer could be given. Due to frequent  bad language throughout and some quite violent scenes we decided to rate our trailer an 18. Some of these scene's can be a little frightening for anyone under the age of 18. We went for the 18 over the 15 because there is a lot of bad language but it also allows us to push the boundaries to the limit.