Friday 27 April 2012
Media Evaluation, Questions 4 and 3
Question 4: How did you attract/address your audience?
Question 3: Who would be the audience for your media product?
Additionally to this question, we also put a link onto Tumblr for people to watch our film and answer some questions. Tumblr is a social media site, where people reblog pictures, videos, sounds and also write blog post on everyday life to how they are feeling.
This image above is my Tumblr page.
Wednesday 25 April 2012
Media Evaluation,Question 6:In what ways does your Media Product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real Media Products?
At the start of
this project we researched different film genres for our Opening Two Minute
Film before starting the filming process, also looking at the conventions of the different genres. For
example, Chick-flicks would have high
key (lighting), with usually a young attractive man falling in
love with a geeky unpopular girl, with problems along the way.
We looked at other
genres such as Action which uses fast
paced editing, with lots of action and crane
camera movement shots to entice the audience. From looking at Action genre, we watched many horror
genres,
films that included The Women in
Black, which uses non-diegetic classical music to create
tension and suspense for the audience. As much as a Horror Opening would be
interesting many people have done it from previous years and many had similar
plotlines, so we decided against this. However from our research into horror
genre, we wanted to challenge the audiences mind, make them be an active
audience.
After much discussion we decided to chose a Psychological
Thriller genre for our own film.
Psychological Thrillers traits examples;
- - A main victim.
- - Classical music to create tension.
- - Editing throughout the film to create a story,
which creates enigma for the audience, leaving them guessing what will
happen next.
- - The fonts are stereotypically in white on a black screen.
- - Stereotypically the main character or
‘victim’ has a true illness or mental
disability which makes she/he do unlikely things.
Two great examples
of Psychological Thriller’s are Jonathan Demme ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ and Christopher Nolan’s ‘Memento’.
When filming our
Opening Two Minutes we stuck with these conventions of psychological thriller
genre by having the main character with a true
illness or mental disability, classical music as well as diegetic
sounds
of heavy breathing, which creates enigma by not showing the audience who this
character is, as she is left in the ‘dark’. In addition to this, our audience
feedback questionnaire was successful as the audience had liked the heavy
breathing, as they thought it tied in well with our psychological thriller
genre, which shows that sticking to the conventions worked well.
However, in our
film we wanted to be more creative and different, so that we didn’t just stick
to traditional and stereotypical traits found in psychological thrillers. For
example, our film was set in modern day similar to The Black Swan, also using a woman as the murderer of her
own child, which is uncommon as men are stereotypically murderers. Apart from
this we stuck to old classical music, Johannes Brahms, Lullaby as it connected well the women in the film; due to
the close connect with her child.
Finally we looked
at the conventions of the opening sequence, to create a film that was accurate
and realistic, the conventions included;
-Heavy breathing of
unknown character
- Introduction of
Production Company, London Films Productions
- A
HJA Film
- Title
of Film; Kate’s Silence
- Shots
of location with introduction to key characters (The Silence of the Lambs)
-
Shots of a house, uncertainty on the audience to where they are being lead to
-
See some parts of the character (Opening
of Black Swan)
- Classical
music to create tension (Black Swan
and The Silence of the Lambs)
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