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Wednesday 19 October 2011
Questionnaire Results & Figures
After conducting a questionnaire on key aspects of horror genre's for our film trailer, i decided to record the most important questions in bar charts as we as a group believe will help us create and develop our film trailer.
Monday 17 October 2011
Questionnaire
Here me and my group have conducted a questionnaire in order to help us create our film trailer. the questionnaire should help us with what to put in to our film trailer and what not to put in to it.
Wednesday 12 October 2011
Production Meeting
We held our first detailed production meeting today. We discussed some key points in making our production. Here are some things we discussed;1) Genre
-We discussed the various sub genres of horror such as ghosts, torture, gore, santanism, serial killers and zombies. These sub genres can be seen in contemporary successful horror movies today. For example; Saw contains
the sub genre of gore and torture on the other hand The Last Exorcism deals with satanism and paranormal activity. Our group has made a final decision that we are going to create a trailer within the sub genre of serial killer and satanism.
2) Plot Ideas
- We discussed a range of possible narratives within this sub genre and came to a conclusion after researching and brain storming ideas. Our plot contains an introverted child getting bullied at a high school by "the popular group". As times pass, the child who was once getting bullied see's a darker side to life and believes in satanism of which he is commanded to sin and seek revenge. We think the stereotypical representations will fit naturally within the horror genre containing typical conventions. This is only a microcosm of which would b
e a 90minute film, therefore we believe it gives us enough material to make a dramatic trailer.3) Character Ideas
- As with many of the horror films we researched we will be using stereotypical character types. Using Vladimir Propp's character groupings we will create some of the following stock characters: The Villain, The hero and the princess.
The modern stereotypical Hollywood princess is of a white ethnicity, blonde or brunette, late teens, and physically attractive.
The modern stereotpical Hollywood hero is also of a white ethnicity, tall, athletic and strong of a similar age group.
Our villain will be an introvert character, very innocent at a young age. In our production we will challenge the stereotypical conventions of a villain
4) Mise En Scene
- For the Mise En Scene we researched via looking at contemporary trailers of typical conventions and stereotypes. Stereotypes were elicited out of things such as location, gender, characters, props and lighting. Usual props we saw were props that helped the people get into the predicament such as broken mobile phones/cars and we also saw many props in terms of weapons.
We decided to create a short movie of us creating a brainstorm of some things that we may include in our trailer...
Tuesday 27 September 2011
Monday 26 September 2011
Conventions Of A Horror
Watching a hand full of Horror film trailers i noticed repetitive conventions with the trailers i watched.
.Film Companies involved are all put at the beginning of the opening sequence of the trailer
. A dialogue is always spoken at the beginning by the character or character involved.
. Deep dark noises are always made when scenes change along with screams and shouting from the characters/ actors involved.
. The scenes are all cut very quickly and are pacey, with camera angles always being close up or mid close up to show and portray the feelings of the actors, on just how scary the ordeal/situation they're in.
.Females
.The actors are always sweaty and of rough looking clothes to show what they have been through.
. Dim orchestral back line music is always playing over the trailer to represent the seriousness of the film.
. The camera movement always zooms in or around the scene. and panning occurs frequently within the trailers.
. The film trailer always starts of happy Then gets darker towards the ending of the sequence.
. Females in most horror stories are always the weaker target unless the female is the main character, in then which she is the surviving character that defeats the evil scenario/ordeal.
. Gore and blood are a common theme to see, or a substance that is revolting.
. There is always a group or couple that are linked in some way.
. The plot is always revenge, lesson learnt, or pure evil & Death.
. Horror Films always offer Social Interaction and Entertainment to there target audience.
.Film Companies involved are all put at the beginning of the opening sequence of the trailer
. A dialogue is always spoken at the beginning by the character or character involved.
. Deep dark noises are always made when scenes change along with screams and shouting from the characters/ actors involved.
. The scenes are all cut very quickly and are pacey, with camera angles always being close up or mid close up to show and portray the feelings of the actors, on just how scary the ordeal/situation they're in.
.Females
.The actors are always sweaty and of rough looking clothes to show what they have been through.
. Dim orchestral back line music is always playing over the trailer to represent the seriousness of the film.
. The camera movement always zooms in or around the scene. and panning occurs frequently within the trailers.
. The film trailer always starts of happy Then gets darker towards the ending of the sequence.
. Females in most horror stories are always the weaker target unless the female is the main character, in then which she is the surviving character that defeats the evil scenario/ordeal.
. Gore and blood are a common theme to see, or a substance that is revolting.
. There is always a group or couple that are linked in some way.
. The plot is always revenge, lesson learnt, or pure evil & Death.
. Horror Films always offer Social Interaction and Entertainment to there target audience.
Audienece Theory
The target audience at which things are aimed at are very selective about what to watch and consume as there media intake. there are many reasons and within this post i shall try to explore those reasons in greater depth with 2 of the many theories created around them.
The first theory i will be talking about is the Blumer and Kats theory, this is the target audience making an active decision in to what media they decide to consume in order to meet there specific needs. Media can INFORM & EDUCATE, meaning what it says it gives information and helps give understanding in to a certain topic or subject.
IDENTIFICATION: This is when the target audience can relate to the piece of media because they have either been through the situation or can relate through some similarity.
ENTERTAINMENT: This makes the target audience feel something or react in a certain towards the piece of media.
SOCIAL INTERACTION: This gives the target audience the ability to talk to others about the piece of media he consumed.
ESCAPE: This is a piece of media that offers the target audience a reason to relax and forget about the troubles there real life has and almost live the life the character within the piece of media has.
There is also a different approach to Media intake going by the theory of Richard Dyers' Utopian Solution's Theory. This having 3 main reasons for consuming the media. These are called Inadequacy, These are isolation, Confusion and Boredom to these 3 reasons there are answers these answers are Community, Clarity and Excitement. This theory is very simple and easy to understand with the table involved.
The first theory i will be talking about is the Blumer and Kats theory, this is the target audience making an active decision in to what media they decide to consume in order to meet there specific needs. Media can INFORM & EDUCATE, meaning what it says it gives information and helps give understanding in to a certain topic or subject.
IDENTIFICATION: This is when the target audience can relate to the piece of media because they have either been through the situation or can relate through some similarity.
ENTERTAINMENT: This makes the target audience feel something or react in a certain towards the piece of media.
SOCIAL INTERACTION: This gives the target audience the ability to talk to others about the piece of media he consumed.
ESCAPE: This is a piece of media that offers the target audience a reason to relax and forget about the troubles there real life has and almost live the life the character within the piece of media has.
There is also a different approach to Media intake going by the theory of Richard Dyers' Utopian Solution's Theory. This having 3 main reasons for consuming the media. These are called Inadequacy, These are isolation, Confusion and Boredom to these 3 reasons there are answers these answers are Community, Clarity and Excitement. This theory is very simple and easy to understand with the table involved.
Thursday 22 September 2011
Textual Analysis Of Saw III
Saw III is a 2006 Canadian-American horror film directed by Darren Lynn Bousman from a screenplay by Leigh Whannell and story by James Wan and Whannell.The story follows Jeff after his son is hit and killed by a car; he is put in a series of tests by Jigsaw in order try and let go of his vengeance on the man that killed him. Meanwhile a bed-ridden John Kramer has ordered his apprentice Amanda Young to kidnap a doctor named Lynn, in order to keep him alive for one final test before he dies of cancer. Saw III also contains additional back-story about the two antagonists.
The connotation's within this film subject to props being used is mainly mechanical machinery and metal. From these props, the location can be told of that the movie is filmed within a set up factory, the film is about teaching
people who are in really fortunate positions in life but abusing there privileges, an evil life threatening lesson. The people within this film are all American and middle aged within their 40's and 30's, the majority of them Caucasian with one black American gentleman. There is an even mix of Male and female characters/actors,which is very different for horror films because, groups within horror films are either friends or couples of some sort that know each other, were as within this film, none of them are of each other knowledge or recollection.
The iconography within this trailer is very typical to the horror film genre. Sharp contraptions, with fierce metal killing blades, Rough Beat up clothing for the ordeal's the characters have endured, sweating and hard body struggle and lastly dark rusty surroundings.
The camera shots being used in the film trailer are that of typical horror film Genre with many hard Close ups and Mid Close Ups, to portray and make exemplar the fear and terror that is occurring within the film. Something different with camera shot's in the sense that a lot of the shots are made from behind as well as from the front, almost like and over the shoulder shot. This is to show what the actor/character is looking at, almost trying to subjectively film. Within this film Zooms are used quite frequently to get a deeper insight in to the situation that is going on in the film. A lot of pans are used, The camera panning around the room as the characters are put in situations with objects to help them out. The camera Does a full 360 spin of the room catching all of those items.
The preferred reading of the Film Trailer is that, the target audience would hate to be stuck in some of the situation's or ordeal's that the characters/actors are being placed in. This film Trailer creates fear and panic, the concept of the film being to teach those who are fortunate but abusing there fortune a hard lesson. By this The trailer will make it's target audience reconsider just exactly how there living there lives and also whether what happened to the actors could happen to them in real life.
The audience Gratifications and pl
easures offered would be those of a typical horror film/trailer Entertainment, making the audience feel something towards the movie/Trailer. Social Interaction in the case that the viewer will go of to friends and converse about the film and lastly some viewers maybe able to identify with the film, as though they've been in a life changing situation which has made them see things a lot more clearer and in a better prospect.
The different groups represented are office and manual worker's, parent's, predominantly Father's and doctor's. all of these character's/actors are all represented as some type of bad person, that being the reason there in the situation there in within the film trailer.
The pace of the shots are very quick jumping form scene to scene in the trailer. the way the shots merge in to each other is very quick as if a door is being shut with a door back noise added in to the cuts. they have used special camera effects like CCTV, giving the viewer the whole view of the room from a camera in the top corner of the room. the montage is made up of a lot of machinery and mechanical objects and because in reality stopping mechanical ite
ms and objects is physically impossible unless another mechanical object is used to turn it of it is impossible' This creates the fear and tense atmosphere of whether or not the person is making it out alive or not.
The genre of this film is Horror, with the sub genre being Thriller and Murder. A lot of lives and bodies were claimed in this film to show the gruesome and horrid detail they've gone in to, to scare there audience.
The connotation's within this film subject to props being used is mainly mechanical machinery and metal. From these props, the location can be told of that the movie is filmed within a set up factory, the film is about teaching
people who are in really fortunate positions in life but abusing there privileges, an evil life threatening lesson. The people within this film are all American and middle aged within their 40's and 30's, the majority of them Caucasian with one black American gentleman. There is an even mix of Male and female characters/actors,which is very different for horror films because, groups within horror films are either friends or couples of some sort that know each other, were as within this film, none of them are of each other knowledge or recollection.The iconography within this trailer is very typical to the horror film genre. Sharp contraptions, with fierce metal killing blades, Rough Beat up clothing for the ordeal's the characters have endured, sweating and hard body struggle and lastly dark rusty surroundings.
The camera shots being used in the film trailer are that of typical horror film Genre with many hard Close ups and Mid Close Ups, to portray and make exemplar the fear and terror that is occurring within the film. Something different with camera shot's in the sense that a lot of the shots are made from behind as well as from the front, almost like and over the shoulder shot. This is to show what the actor/character is looking at, almost trying to subjectively film. Within this film Zooms are used quite frequently to get a deeper insight in to the situation that is going on in the film. A lot of pans are used, The camera panning around the room as the characters are put in situations with objects to help them out. The camera Does a full 360 spin of the room catching all of those items.
The preferred reading of the Film Trailer is that, the target audience would hate to be stuck in some of the situation's or ordeal's that the characters/actors are being placed in. This film Trailer creates fear and panic, the concept of the film being to teach those who are fortunate but abusing there fortune a hard lesson. By this The trailer will make it's target audience reconsider just exactly how there living there lives and also whether what happened to the actors could happen to them in real life.
The audience Gratifications and pl
easures offered would be those of a typical horror film/trailer Entertainment, making the audience feel something towards the movie/Trailer. Social Interaction in the case that the viewer will go of to friends and converse about the film and lastly some viewers maybe able to identify with the film, as though they've been in a life changing situation which has made them see things a lot more clearer and in a better prospect.The different groups represented are office and manual worker's, parent's, predominantly Father's and doctor's. all of these character's/actors are all represented as some type of bad person, that being the reason there in the situation there in within the film trailer.
The pace of the shots are very quick jumping form scene to scene in the trailer. the way the shots merge in to each other is very quick as if a door is being shut with a door back noise added in to the cuts. they have used special camera effects like CCTV, giving the viewer the whole view of the room from a camera in the top corner of the room. the montage is made up of a lot of machinery and mechanical objects and because in reality stopping mechanical ite
ms and objects is physically impossible unless another mechanical object is used to turn it of it is impossible' This creates the fear and tense atmosphere of whether or not the person is making it out alive or not.The genre of this film is Horror, with the sub genre being Thriller and Murder. A lot of lives and bodies were claimed in this film to show the gruesome and horrid detail they've gone in to, to scare there audience.
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