Q7 Filmed Evaluation

Sam Russo Prezi Presentation Question 6

Technologies on Prezi

Evaluation Question 4

The audience for our media product would be males aged 18-29 according to our IMDB research http://bilborough619.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/sam-russo-demographic-for-phycological.html

We rated our film a 15 because the characters are drinking alcohol and that there is a threat that is killing general people. Here is a link to my BBFC research which shows you that most phycological horrors are rated a 15: http://bilborough619.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/bbfc-research.html

We wanted to attract the audiences aged 18-29 because people this age watch phycological horror. We thought by adding alcohol it would attract the audiences attention especially because they are aged 18-29 and they are in there university years and would be drinking alcohol regularly so by having this they could compare them to themselves. 

We also thought by having 2 young women as our main characters it would attract the the attention of young adults especially that the people who would see this film are aged 18-29. People would also be interested to see what will happen to the 2 female characters since they are both vulnerable and they are also drinking with makes them even more vulnerable and it would make them want to see what will happen next.

The soundtrack used at the start of the film engages the audience and puts them in the party spirit since the song is cheerful and loud. Then since the soundtrack suddenly changes into a dark spooky sound which straight away captures the audiences attention since they would be waiting for something scary to happen.

Overall i believe we have successfully apealed to our target audience and we have tried to create a realistic phycological genre. Despite the fact 18-29 is our main audience we would like to appeal to a larger target audience because more interest in our film would make it more successful.

Clip designed to reach my target audience

This picture is designed to reach the audiences attention. Since the main characters are two young women this will instantly grab young mens attention and it would make them want the to watch the film even more. In our IMDB research we saw that most people who watch a phycological horror are males aged 18-29 so by putting 2 females it would grab the males attention even more. Plus the way the two girls are acting in this picture drinking and going out for a party people watching this would feel more engaged since the majority of the males watching this are aged 18-29 and would probably be doing the same thing so this blends in with there life and grabs there attention. We have tried to represent the convention of female victims in horror since this is what our audience would be expecting and that the two girls are vulnerable.

Compare and contrast your production company logo with a competitor

There are many LIONS GATE logos out there all of them starting the same but then changing at the very end this how the logo is presented : 

 

LIONS GATE'S logo will always give you a hint on what the film is for example if the logo is red it would mean that it would be a horror film if the logo is very light colours like the video above it would be more of a calm movie.

This is the production company logo that we have made '666 Productions'

You can see straight away that this logo is not the same looking as the LIONS GATE logo but just by seeing this logo you would already know that this film would be a horror because this logo has dark red writing with a bloody background. You can relate this poster to the Red LIONS GATE logo since they both tell you that the film your about to watch is a horror.

Construction and Feedback

In many horror films out there they use female characters as victims this is because they are portrayed as weaker than males. When looking at social groups we can see that the ages of characters provide different representation. For example, teenagers are seen as trouble makers and are often associated with drink and drugs. Because of this we have chosen for our characters to be drinking and to be going out for a party as this fits conventions of social groups.

This picture is from the film 'Cabin In The Woods' In this picture you can also see a group of young adults having a party drinking alcohol. We have copied this representation of teenagers by using 2 females within the similar age groups and copying the stereotypes of this age by having them drink alcohol. We have used similar social representation

Analyse the representation in existing films from your sub-genre

Q1.This is a scene from the film 'Silent Hill' In this scene gender is represented by the characters being female. Having female characters in a horror will make it look more scary and more intresting for the audience to watch because there not very strong and they are inferior to the creatures trying to kill them. Also since the victim was a female it already gives you the idea that the females were not fit enough to escape and so one of them got caught and killed at you can see from the clip. Age is also represented by showing one of the women being very old and weak and a bit crazy this would be a sterio type in cases since people often decribe older people as 'crazy' and 'very weak'.

This clip is from the film 'The Shining' In this scene gender is represented by the jack trying to kill his wife wendy and by wendy fighting for her life and crying. This scene shows the jack trying to kill his wife wendy by trying to axe the door down this represents gender because hes a man and they show him as a strong person showing that he is more powerful to women and that he is in charge and he wont have nothing stopping him. This scene also shows wendy trying to fight for her life this represents gender because she is a female and she is much weaker that her husband jack. This scene shows that she is inferior than him and she hasnt got enough strengh to stop him so you see her crying showing that she knows that she is going to get killed and she wont be able to stop him.

How planning helped me understand social groups representation

First of all the two characters used in this film are girls where straght away sets the mood of the film because the person watching the film will automataclly be more engaged becuase he sees two vulnerable and weak girls ready to go out for a party. By using 2 girls males would be more intrested into watching the film plus by the two girls drinking alcohol it makes them even more vulnerable and this straght away gives us the hint that something is going to happen to them and they wont be able to protect themself. The story relates to the phycological sub-genre because you don't know what or who the threat is and why this threat is killing people in the general public.

BBFC Research

This is the film poster for Silent hill. BBFC rated this movie a 15 they say "it contains bloody horror and strang language" I agree on this because this movie is very violent especilly on the scene when one of the creatures rips all of this womans skin off. That scene is very bloody.

This is the film poster for Paranormal Activity 3 BBFC rated this film a 15. BBFC say "The use of strong language (for example, 'fuck') must be infrequent'. This film contains about ten uses of strong language and is therefore more appropriately placed at 15" This film also Contains threat, infrequent sex references & violence. I agree with this because you cant see the threat and this film is very violent especially the scene when the threat is dragging the baby by its feet.

This is the film poster for The Thing. BBFC rated this film a 18. BBFC says "The shape-shifting nature of the alien in the film is depicted through shots of bleeding heads, an alien head exploding out of a stomach" &"The film includes scenes of strong violence and gory horror" This film also contains Strong language and should deffenitly be rated an 18.

By looking at these films i agree that our film should was rated correctly and should stay a 15 since the majority of phycological horrors these days are 15 and also there is no strong language.

Advertisement Campaign

The places and websites my poster and trailer will appear are on Most viewed websites such as Youtube. On youtube people will see the trailer and they would tell other people about it therefor the word would spread around. My poster will also appear on facebook and Twitter since being a social networking people will see it and would want to go see it. The Trailer would come out a couple of weeks before the film actually releases since being an indepentend film company we havnt got enough money to let the trailer play for a long period of time. The film that will procced ofter our trailer is played would be big hollywood blockbusters such as Cabin In The Woods also being a horror and Prometheus again another horror.

Movie Poster for Static

This is the poster i made for our film 'Static' To make this poster i used Photoshop i made the poster all black to give it the effect it was at night and also i think having the static in the middle of the poster gives it a scary effect. I also thought if i added a scary frase in the poster 'You're Next' the audience would be more intrested into watch it. When people see the colour black the first thing people would think of is darkness and the unknown therfore this would atrract the audience even more to want to go this film.

Evaluation Q1

This is the logo of our film opening logo. This title develops horror conventions since its in red and black with a scary effect and with blood on the backgroud defiantly sowing that the films going to be a horror. You can compare this image with the image beneath (Twisted Pictures) by showing that they both give the effect of the film being a horror.
















This Picture inspires me because its simple but then it gets a scary affect with the barbed wire and changes it completely. This picture is developing horror conventions since it has a barbed wire going through the letters which gives it a scary effect. 

This is the Title of our film. This title is developing horror conventions since the whole image is quite dark and confusing since the audience wouldn't know what it would be about all they would see is a dark tv screen with scary shades and the word "Static" in a scary sketchy way this this shows that who ever would see this would definitely think this is a horror film. This can be compared to the image below (SILENT HILL) since they both come under the horror genre and there both have a scary affect which will attract the audience to go and see the film.

This is the title form the film "Silent Hill" This picture inspired me because the the words of this picture are all different and the font is quite scary what tops it off it that the background makes it look like its a old rusty which gives a hint of the location of the film and what it would be about. This is developing horror conventions since its visually scary and every single piece of the picture makes it look like a horror and would definitely attract the audience to go and see this horror.

This is a picture of our film we made. This picture is developing horror conventions since it has a dead person on frame this obviously tells you that the genre of this film is a horror . This can be compared with the image below(silent hill) by both of these images having a dead body in frame and both telling the audience that this is a horror film.

This is a picture is from the film "silent hill" This picture inspired me because it shows a dead body hanged up onto a fence in a pitch black room with many flesh wounds and i knew it would attract allot of audiences . This is visually scary just by looking at it. This picture is developing horror conventions since there is a dead body on the screen which gives the viewers a shocking affect.

This is a image of our film "static" showing the established characters. As we can see here there are 2 girls which are young and also being female there vulnerable This image comes under developing horror conversions since the 2 girls are vulnerable. This can be compared to the picture below (silent hill) because both pictures use two vulnerable girls.

This is a picture from the film"silent hill" this picture shows 2 girls looking scared once again vulnerable and gives he effect that someone is there trying t kill them also what they are wearing and the props used  look like they are defending themselfs from something scary. This comes under developing horror conventions since they both female and they look vulnerable.

This is a picture from our film 'Static' this picture establishes mise-en-scene.this picture also challenges the convention of my sub genere since it leads to the girls getting killed at the end and by looking at this picture you can see that the girls are drinking so the audience would asume that there going out for a party. 

This is a picture of the film 'silent hill' in this picture you can see the prop used at the start of the film. This picture establishes mise-en-scene.

This picture develops the conventions of horror because the sign used is old and spooky and as soon as you would see it you would know that the film is a horror

1. These 4 pictures are key images of the film we recorded called 'Staic' the top 2 images challenge the conventions of horror while the bottom 2 develops it.the top 2 challenge it becuse it leads to the killing and there getting ready to go out to a party and you yet wont expect the film being a horror. The bottom to develop conventions of horror by showing people dead these are the victims of the killer inside the tv anyone who will see this will know that this film i a horror.

These are the key imges from the film 'silent hill' these 4 pictures are developing horror conventions since you see people getting killed and weird creatures. By looking at these pictures you can clearly tell that this is a horror film.

feedback of STATIC

The feedback said that it was tecnicaly good but people didnt understand the story for the film but we had no time to make somthing to clarify it, also people didnt understand the title sequences but this is because of the format reduceing the quality.

Production companies associated with the films we have researched

Warner brothers are the production company of the film we have been reaserching "the shining


MGM (Metro Goldwyn Mayer) are the production company we researched that made the film "poltergeist" we got our idea of static from this film .

Universal pictures are the production company that produced the film "The Thing" 

Release dates for Static - Sam Russo

The day Static is going to be released in theaters is on the 10 of july 2012. We want to make the film look at its best so thats why its being released quite late so that we have time to work on it. We also thought since the film would be released in July all the students are on a holiday break so we would get more views since the film is rated a 15. Since we are an independent film company we can only have our film playing in theaters for 1 month so we have to release it on dvd fairly quickly. The day Static releases on dvd is 28th of august 2012, we thought this date would be perfect because everyone would still be on a holiday break and would be able to pick the film up. Also, we're not going to release it straight onto dvd as soon as Static has stopped showing in theatres because we want to advertise it so more people who didn't get a chance to watch it in theatres would be interested in buying it on DVD.

Media Production Companies 3

Blumhouse produced the film Paranormal Activity and also produced both the sequels to the film. Blumhouse are an independent company but the more popular the films got, the more links they got to bigger companies. One of these companies is Paramount.                                                There is more than one distributor that distributed this film in theaters and on dvd, here are some of them:         Paramount Pictures

DreamWorks SKG

Bazuca Films

Paramount Home Video

Media Production Companies 2

Hammer films produced a film called let me in. There was more than one distributers, these are some names of the companies that distributed this film in theaters and dvd worldwide -Exclusive Film Distribution

                                                                                                 -A-Film Distribution

                                                                                                 -Metropolitan Filmexport

                                                                                                 -Alliance Films

Media Production Companies 1

 The media company "black and blue films" produced the film "stalker" the company who distributed this film was "mediahouse films" they gave stalker a theatrical and dvd release.

Posters that inspired me

This poster of Land of the Dead has a corpse hand hanging on the fence, this clearly shows that the hands owner was trying to climb over and escape to the other side of the fence which gives it a creepy effect and people would be interested in seeing the film. The weather in the background is really dark and dull which gives the effect of bad things occuring. It also shows a group of zombies/infected people walking towards the fence as if they want to escape or find a victim to kill. This poster inspired me because I thought the hand in the middle was a good thing to use because we could fade the color and put it behind the name title "static" so it would look quite creepy and scary and thats what we want the public to feel when the poster is presented to them. Also the poster is very dark and gives a creepy effect which makes me want to see the film to see what's happening and that's what I want our film poster to do.

The film poster "The hand" is in black and white and shows a gripped hand and it gives the effect that someone is getting dragged from behind. This inspired me because it looks like it's reaching out to the audience ready to grab them. I thought we could use a similar image and post it next to our title so it will give the similar effect. The shade of colour in the hand looks like it shows images such as a girl standing with her back towards us on the middle finger and on the thumb it looks like a womans face screaming. This might give us hints on what is to happen in the film and to show the audience it's a horror film as theres a woman screaming. This inspired me because the image is quite plain but it shows a lot of information when looked closely.

Sam Russo Demographic for phycological horrors

                    The demographic for most psychological horrors are males aged 18-29 as these are the main demographic I found from the research I made on imdb. Due to this reserch I think it would be a good idea to rate our film a 15 since we will get a lot of viewers.