1. Question1
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms
and conventions of real media products?
For our media product, after watching many different thriller genre films we
decided to follow most of the conventions to make our film just as successful
as the other films. We follows things such as some shots to keep basic
elements of a horror movie and using other movies is how to shoot horror film,
allow people to watch after more terrifying atmosphere. And we according
watching other films got some footage tips. However we decided to develop
film of media products by in the evening the boy had been lying on the bed
and he fell asleep made a very long dream. Then it tells the story of this dream.
A boy like read a book under a tree, then a series of terrorist happened, until
he woke up from a dream. Then when he got up he found that’s not only a
dream. Everything is real.
By doing this we hoped to get a message across to our target audience. After
seeing other thriller film, we also challenged a lot of new content of this
movie and shots, Inside portray a lot of expression, action and voice, such as
the character’s facial expression, fear of fear action, and saw the ghost of
terror screams. All are in order to render the film’s atmosphere of terror. After
shooting hopefully we can try to do better, seize the audience’s eyes. For this
2. film sound, we used some horrible sound, then we recording together, in
second part of this film, we recording voice of pant and for this film the last
part we recording a sentence ‘that’s not only a dream’ . We shot this movie
before, we watched a lot of thriller movie, with a lot of skill. Next time we
can shot better to let the audience feel horror, improve how to shot and any
about film.
Question2
How does your media product representparticular socialgroups?
For our film, it is not very fearsome, so except people who is under 12
and elder people, others are all can watch this film. There are many
people would like to watch horror film, especially teenagers, because
most of them want to try something exciting, and when they are watching
horror films they will absolutely feel excited, that is why they want to
watch horror film. Another is adult, especially males, because they are not
afraid of it.
For the clothing style, the actress wearied a white dress, because there is a
ghost in a Japanese thriller wearied a white dress, and we think is very
fearful, so we borrowed a white dress from performance teacher. And the
ghost in the Japanese thriller also had very long hire in front of her face,
3. so we also borrowed a fake hair from performance teacher. And the actor
wearied normal clothes, just like a student.
There are no dialogues in our film, because there are only two people in
our film, ghost and a boy.
We shot at two places, first is behind our college, there is a forest in the
park, it is a good place to shoot horror film, quiet and a little bit gruesome,
especially at cloudy day, and we put some sound effects in the film, it
would ghastlier in forest when you watch the film. Second is a host
family of my friend, we shot in his room, because he is the photographer
of our film and his home is near to the park.
The way of represent things of us is let everything happens in a dream.
When the boy wakes up, audience might think this is only a dream, it is
not going to happen in real life, but things happened after he wakes up
can change their thoughts, the blood appear on a piece of paper, is same
as the dream, so people probably know what happened next.
Question3
What kind of media institutions might distribute your media product
and why?
4. Just like now, after their a-whole-day work or boring homework, people
like to do or watch something exciting, and watch thriller and horror
films is a good way to enjoy their life. Thriller and horror films are not
like affectional films, romantic and happiness, watch thrillers is another
way to relief stress.
There are some big film companies which distributed many thriller and
horror films. First is Lions Gate Films, this company has distributed
many thriller and horror films, two of the master works are series of Saw
and Hostel, they are very famous in the world, this company is willing to
distribute thriller and horror film. The second company also has any
thrillers, Universal. I think most of people have watched Jaws, it is a very
famous and successful thriller film which is distributed by Universal. And
series of The Mummy, although it is not as famous as Jaws, but it is also
pretty successful for thriller. Then, two very famous and successful film
companies in the world, 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros Pictures, they
also distribute some thriller and horror films. There is another series
which is distributed by Screen Gems called Resident Evil, there is a
Chinese lady in Resident Evil Retribution, so it will attract many
audiences of Asia especially China.
For our horror film, I want to choose Lions Gate Films, I have two main
5. reasons. First, this company has distributed many thriller and horror films,
people all know this, and those horror and thriller films are pretty
successful. Second, it’s not a very big company, if we let this company
distribute our film, we don’t need too much money, the funds must be
cheaper than choose20th Century Foxand Warner Bros Pictures.
Question4
Who would be the audience for your media product?
I think most audiences of our media product are teenagers and adults,
many people feel scared when they are watching a thriller, that is what
they want, if the thrillers are not scared, they would not watch them.
I think most people who want to watch film like ours might be between
14 and 30, especially those people who is in middle school, college and
university.
In my audience research, most of teenagers that I have asked are enjoy
watching thrillers, somebody even doesn’t afraid of thrillers, they think
watch thriller is a very interesting thing, and they are also don’t afraid
watch thrillers by themselves, that is the most unbelievable thing for me.
And for mid-aged people, some of them don’t afraid of watch thrillers,
6. but they don’t like to watch them. Certainly, there are also some people
afraid of watch them. At last, most of elder people don’t like watching
thriller, they are not interested in them.
Question5
How did you attract/address your audience?
First of all, our actors are all teenagers, and most of audience of this film
would be teenagers, the age is same, so they will probably want to watch
this film, it is more attractive for them. Our film is a little bit like a very
famous thriller from Japanese, the modeling of the actress is same as ours,
that is another point that people would like to watch our film. In addition
to this, our film is not so horrific, people who over 40 years old can also
watch it. Nowadays, many people think watch thriller films is a kind of
way to relief stress, when they feel unhappy or something let them
depressed, they would choose this way to relax. To the contrary,
somebody wants watch thriller films because they are pretty happy, when
they watch thriller films they would feel nervous and they can shout
happily, especially with their best friends and boy/girlfriend.
Question6
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing
7. this product?
At the beginning of the movie, use the long shot for terror environment. After
that I use the effect of moving the lens back and forth technology, in order to
better watch horror surrounding environment, but I didn’t have anything with
wheels. In this movie, I use lots of camera shot type, at the beginning, reflects
the lens slowly closer to the protagonist, I use close up shots. And then I use the
overlooking the technology, shoot people down from above. The feature
characters and paper. I use the medium shot taking people reading under the tree,
use features describe the character again see blood fear of expression. When the
blood dripping onto the paper, I use the high angle shot. In the second part,
when the character saw the ghost, he was starting running, and for this part I use
camera bracket, the camera bracket was lying on the ground, I use the low angle,
then while with the character. When I shoot about running I use the hand held,
the camera followed character, this part I didn’t use camera bracket. And then I
took a close up the ghost, I use the extreme close up, conversion angle and lens.
The close up ghost hand. Finally wrote character fall scenes, the camera lens the
ghost hand, I use extreme close up, and use medium shot character fall in floor.
After wake up from dream, I use medium shot, character woke up from dream
scene. Taking character afraid of the face, the most main is the throat choking.
This is extreme close up. At the back of the film, I use lots of medium shot. The
last feature part of the door is open, shoot from the outside to the inside, when
8. the camera into the room, gradually reduce the distance with character. After
that, over the shoulder shot, from the side of the shoulder to the paper on the
desk, the angle of the reference profile shot, close the distance. For these
technology, when I was in the classroom, sometimes I will ask teacher and then
I will remember it. Second I can ask someone people like techniques for
photography or study about this. I used Canon eos6d Camera lens sigma 12-24.
Question ７
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you might have
learnt in the progressionfromit to the full product?
From the preliminary task to the main coursework we have learnt many things.
Firstly we learnt about varied camera shots and edits. We learnt that these can
help us to keep the movie looking as thriller and let people feel the atmosphere
is very afraid, and to help show representation of the characters and any about
thriller films on scene. For example the significance of establishing shots really
make it easier to help the audience understand what time of day it is like in our
establishing shot is a panning of some trees and there it some thriller scene.
Such as changes in the environment and the mobile, sound changed, like some
trees sound , horror character voice and so there are a lot. We think this will
make the audience feel the process of watching a movie, can truly feel the
canter and the contents of the film, can really feel the horror and the terrible
9. truth. We will learnt more things from other films or from teacher, and shoot
more and more good voice.
Another thing that we learnt is that everyone with the group needs to take part
in the filming and editing stages of the film so there we can imagine a more
script, imagine feeling more pictures, eve more detailed content of the film.
Overall from the preliminary task we learnt a lot from all aspects, from the
beginning of the mission to the final evaluation, after so mush, so our first
movie and think about film content. Analysis of the film in front of a lot of
writing, more in-depth understanding of the movie and learnt more in-depth of
how to writing about analysis. Learnt how to make a movie, sound, action,
character, atmosphere , shoot, and how to use camera, we are learnt a lot of
things from preliminary task until now. We will learnt many from different ways,
we believe we can also shootmore good movies.
