1. MEDIA COURSEWORK DIARY By Sara-Jayne Keen

10. STORYBOARD 27 SECONDS

16. PICTURE OF LAUREN EDITING taken from my phone.

23. CHARACTER PROFILE, STORY LINE, LOCATION AND TITLE. ‘ COME DIE WITH ME’ LOCATION: AYLESBURY- ST. MARYS CHURCH – GRAVEYARD AND AROUND THE AREA Our clip is about an orphan girl named Sarah who is possessed by her parents ghosts. This is because she killed them. They were moving away because the daughter who is quite a rebel got into trouble. With all of the rushing around the car crashed and Sarah was to blame. She was the only one to survive so her parents seek revenge. The name of our character Is Sarah, age 15. she is a school girl/ rebel and has now became an orphan. She has became fragile and is bullied and tormented occasionally.

24. SHOOTING SCHEDULE, PROP LIST AND ROLES ROLES Lauren is filming for the task and I am acting. I am also In charge of Mise en scéne/ props. Lauren is editing. PROP LIST: Locket (necklace) White Shirt Dress Tights Scissors Fake Blood SHOOTING SCHEDULE: 28/02/2011 02/03/2011 EDITING/ FINAL TOUCHES: 07/03/2011

25. RESEARCH Lauren and I thought we should get some inspiration for our clip. We found a few old films such as ‘Carry on screaming’. We also found recent films such as ‘Scary Movie’ which is the same sort of genre. Our research found that the horror genre has a sort of sub-genre which is ‘tongue n cheek’ horror. This is a sort of spoof of horror movies. This sub genre we researched means that certain films in the horror genre over the years have become so ridiculous and dramatic that it’s comical. We found that this genre is especially built up with the different sound effects in the film.

28. RESEARCH Over exaggerated expressions Typical horror signifiers Hilarious yet dramatic/scary (what we’re aiming for) Film titles are not serious for example ‘Wrong Turn’ isn’t a funny film, just horror, whereas these film titles are seen as quite light hearted.

30. STORYBOARD 1 minute 23.5 seconds

37. PICTURE OF ME EDITING taken from my phone.

39. OUR QUESTIONNAIRE Our first question was to make sure that the audience understood our film, regarding the storyline. This is because we didn’t want the audience to be confused. Secondly we asked the audience how many horror films they had seen. This is again to make sure the audience understood our film and saw the genre aspects of horror within our product. Our third question was to see any continuity errors were spotted. We felt as if was crucial to put in our questionnaire as we didn’t pay as much attention with this aspect in our Preliminary task. We then asked about our target audience to see peoples opinion on our film and the age group it’s directed at. We didn’t include dialogue within our product to create tension. We decided to put this question in to see if people agreed. Our next question was chosen as we wanted to know if our product attracted our audience. We wanted overall star ratings of our film to see if it was good or bad as a low budget film. We again asked if our product had the correct genre signifiers. Our last question was peoples opinion on our shot types to make sure we included a variety and expressed our knowledge.

41. RESULTS Does our film make sense? How many horror films have you seen? Are there any continuity errors that you noticed?

42. RESULTS What audience do you think our film is aimed at and why? Would you watch the rest of our film? If yes then why? Do you think we should’ve included dialogue? If yes then why? What star rating would you give our product? “ Builds tension” “ Effective” “ Funny” “ Funny” “ To see who Sarah is!” “ Young actor”

43. RESULTS Does it follow the conventions of a horror/comedy, if so what conventions? On a scale of 1-10 (1 being the least) how would you rate our range of shot types/angles? What film would you compare our film to and why? “ Funny” “ Over dramatic” “ Gruesome” “ Funny side of Scary Movie” “ Fifth Sense Scary Side”

48. EVALUATION

50. TECHNOLOGIES USED. Tripod used to put the camera on, for steady and smooth movement. HD Camera (High Definition) Used for filming. High Quality and simple to use. Minibook Laptop Used to edit our coursework on iMac Used to edit our filming with and used to upload to YouTube This is the software we used on the iMac to edit with. This is my phone which I used to take pictures with and email them to the minibook. Blackberry 9700

55. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product? How did you attract/address your audience? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm99S69S2to&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL