Part 5- How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Camera, Angle, shot movement and Position

The opening of our sequence focuses on one young man. We wanted him to be the focus of our social group, this is hy we have a close up of his face. We wanted him to bring in the young crowds. We also wanted to show what young kids could achieve by theirselves. We also used because it strikes a bigger impact of fear into the audiences eye and makes them think about what is there.

Sound

We created our own music for the sequence and that worked really well. It was a slow sound that worked well with the long scened we used. It gives the sequence tension and makes it scary. It fits in perfectly with the scene, making it work really well. This could also help with young social groups that are into music and sound. As we created our own, it could inspire them to want to do similar work.

Editing

In this seqeunce, we have a mixture of different cuts. This helps keep the young majority of audience indulged as they like fast paced action. This is why we used a mixture of cuts. Longer taking cuts, build up the tension and keep the audience guessing. Quick cuts keep the audience on the edge of their seats.

Part 4- In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?



Narrative

In our opening sequence, we establish the narrative of the story from the beginning. This is because we used text to help the audience understand what has happened so far. In doing so, this helps the audience have an idea of what to expect. We got the idea of this from other films that have done the same. These films included Terminator Salvation and Bladerunner. These were both effective when used.

Genre

Our sequence is not meant to give a lot away, but you can still see the horror genre that we have chosen. This is shown by the music that's played over the top. It gives the sequence an eary and edgy feel. This is typical in a horror sequence. Music like this used in horror films such as The Shining. This was really effective as it made a simple looking sequence scary. We also used a scary type of text. This works well as it suits the sequence. This overall creates an effective horror opening sequence.

Camera, Angle, Shot movement and Position

We used many long shots in our sequence. These shots help show setting. These shots were also a good way to help introduce characters to the scene. We used tight shots to help create a sense of understanding in the audience. This helped create the tension needed to give the film a scary feel.

Continuity and Editing

 There were many cuts throughout our sequence. We used long scenes to help create tension. We didn't want to use many quick cuts, as it would ruin the long eary feel we wanted to create. Overall, it worked really well.

Sound

We created our own music for the sequence and that worked really well. It was a slow sound that worked well with the long scened we used. It gives the sequence tension and makes it scary. It fits in perfectly with the scene, making it work really well.

Mise-en -Scene

When we look at the mise-en-scene, there's a lot to talk about about. We gave the actors very casual clothes to wear. This shows that they are average, normal day, kids. Also shows us that this zombie outbreak was unexpected. We used different props throughout our opening title, guns and a fake hand. The fake hand was used in many scenes. This helped as an indicator to show that the area is dangerous. This goes for the guns as well. The lighting in this sequence varies. This is because scenes are in and outside. What helps is that the outside is quite gloomy. This is because it had been raining and the sky weren't as bright.

Typography

The text we used throughout was effective. This is because it has a broken effect. This suits the sequence as our film is violent. The title is different as it is blood red. This suiting the film as zombies are drawn to blood. Also the effect on it gives the sequence an edgy feel.

Part 3- What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

The media institution we wanted to distribute our film was Columbia pictures. We chose these because they have released many horror films in recent years. One of the films was Zombieland. Other horror films by Columbia include The Grudge and 30 Days of Night.

Part 2- Who would be the audience for your product?

The audience that we are aiming for is 15-21. These ages were chosen as horror films are mainly aimed at these particular age groups. We did not have a specific gender for our film. This is because we know girls and boys are into zombie films. Also with the young the characters, young people could relate to them. We would also like to the reach the zombie fans and people who enjoy zombie games. This would be a film that they would enjoy. We would hope that our film would be just as good as other hit zombie films. For example: Dawn of the Dead, 28 Days later and the recent comedy hit Zombieland.  These films were a hit with the similar age groups we have chosen.

Evaluation of Deadline

Part 1- Brief

The brief of this project was to create an opening sequence to a film that we had to create.

In this opening sequence, a virus has accidentally been released into the air by the military.  This has left most of the population to die and a handful left to struggle in survival. The problem is that those who died came back to life, as flesh eating zombies. Our film focuses on 4 young teenagers and their desperate attempt to get to safety. They get held up in what they thought was an abandoned. The sub genre for our film is horror. This is the main genre represented with zombie films. This genre is also popular is the present time with many horror films being released.

Final Version of production

Feedback from teacher.

We had good feedback from Miss whittaker. There are some things that she thought would help improve our opening sequence. We've decided to do what she said and we believe it could improve it. We had two clips of writing to explain the story, but this gave the opening sequence a trailer like feel. We decided to delete them and it now looks more like a film. We have also moved the text around and it looks more effective in the corner of the screen, not in the middle. We now have a bit more time to make other original parts better by making them a little bit longer.