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.