Media Presentation

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The Unbeknown

Ketchup all the way. Preliminary.

Video answering parts of question 1 and 4

 2nd and 3rd time of seeing chloe's character, adding tension



This is the point of view shot used for main character's eye shots

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 How we used cross disolve to make chloe appear.

Question 6.

Here is a picture of my sister, who is the my target audience for my film. She is 22 years old, currently studying optometry at university. She enjoys watching films with her house mates, both of which are girls. She therefore likes a occasional ROM-com to watch with her friends but prefers the horror films.

The kind of things she likes are horror/thriller films that have a concluding ending, indie/rock music (things that build up towards the end) The places that she shops are topshop, new look and river island, She shops there because they have a huge range of clothes for different occasions. Her favourite t.v programme is prison break and vampire diaries. This because she likes the dark, strange side of these programmes and also likes intense action. 

Question 5, With Video

Question 1

In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

(I was going to make a video of me saying this, but unfortunantly i have got a old and a sore throat at the minute, so you wouldnt be able to understand what i'm saying."

Naming our film

If i had one regret about my whole media project it would be not allocationg enough time to name our film with a clever title. However, i do like the title of our film, as it does what we wanted it to do, which is not to give too much away to the audience about our plot. When Becky and I came up with "The Unbeknown" we thought it fitted in well to our media product. I think this because to the audience what's happening is unknown, as all the action that is taking place is happening in our main character's head, therefore its unknown. And the other being that we see is also unknown as the audeince are unaware of that the chracter is to the main character.

This is like many horror films, as they focus on one thing from the entire film, for example "The Shining" thats aimed at the powers that the boys has with the other man and "The Ring" is aimed at both the telephone ringing and the ring from the top of the whell where Samara lives. This therefore isnt giving too much away about what the film includes. 

Title of my film. Using text.

The way that we added the title "The Unbeknown" onto our film was by using the 'Titles' tool on Imovie selection. The font we used was a basic times new roman, we used this font as we wanted our title to look simple and effective, as in our preliminary we thought it looked tacky. The way our title comes onto the screen over a plain black back ground and with white font i think resembles "The Shining" titles and credits, this is because they're both simple yet affective. This is mainly due to the fact that they have a "donging" sound going on once the title appears. If i was able to apply this sound effect on to the film without it looking too over done, i would of, but i think keeping the title the way it is with the non-diagetic sounds underneath. 

     

The colours we chose for the title were a plain black background and white font is because we wanted to grab the audience's attention - making it clear that "The Unbeknown" is the title of our film opening. As there is nothing else happening in the back ground of our film it makes sure that the audience aren't going to get distracted by anything else shown on the screen.

Originally we wanted to put the title at the end of our film opening, but because our opening could have been seen as a short film we decided against it. Also we noticed that a lot of people were putting their titles at the end of their film openings, so we liked the idea of doing our differently. 

Setting and location

The location we did all the filming was at my house, there are many reasons for picking my house; it's close to school, meaning that there would be no trouble for getting to my house after school when we were doing our filming, the actors we used lived close, so their would be no problem for them getting to and from my house and finally as my house is tucked away behind towering trees, from a distance and in the dark my house does look a bit scary, even though we didn't want my house to be scary as we wanted the story and action to be the scary part. This is because we didn't want the location to be the "normal" scary house setting, because we wanted to show that schizophrenia, which our main character was suffering with can affect anyone.

Most of the action look place in the house, mainly the hall way and kitchen. However, when filming i discovered that the rooms i was filming in were far too dark for the camera to pick up anything. The way that i worked around this was by making sure that as many lights were on as possible, without loosing the night time effect. 

The inspiration we got for our location was from the film "The Ring" this is because the location in which "The Ring" takes place in is an every day home, this links to what we wanted the audience to link to about schizophrenia but also that they could relate it to their own homes.    

     

Props and Costumes

As i have already mentioned, "The Ring" was a huge inspiration to how we wanted our imaginary friend to look and resemble their character of Samara, as Samara looks really scary in the costume she's in. Her costume and make up consists of; a worn and torn white knighty, bruised skin with a pale dead completion and hair covering her face. The reason we wanted our imaginary friend to look like this is because the tension that the audience get from not being able to see her face and also because of the fact that her characteristics are like a little girl. 

The way we achieved this look on Chloe Smith, who played the role of the imaginary friend is by dressing her in a blood, mud stained top with rips all over it, including ripped tights, covering her legs in mud and her hands, putting pale face paint over her face and body with some bruises on her arms and face and dead looking eyes. With her hair we put Olive oil and flour in, this is because we wanted her hair to look greasy and dirty. We then pulled her hair across her face. The end result was very rewarding as many people have commented on the make up and costume we used on both of our characters.

The main prop I'm going to focus on is the pill box that our main character uses when she needs to take her pills but discovers that she has ran out. The label on the pill box says "Resperidone. Antipsychotic medication." Which i researched for schizophrenia medication. This prop was very useful in indicating to the audience what the character's illness is. This is very different to any other film opening, as usually they reveal the main character's illness at the end of the film to build up a climax. An example of a film that does this is "Mad House" when the main character who the audience thinks works in the mental hospital at the end turns out to be mentally ill and thought all of it up.

Story line and how it opens up the film

The way that we started the film opening is the same way as most films start, with the main character walking/ running towards the camera, this instantly makes the audience think about where that character is going and what they're doing. It also allows the audience to take in the character's surroundings and build an instant relationship with that character. A horror film i cant link this to is "The Fourth Kind" opening as it allows the audience to take in everything within the shot, including the mise en scene of that shot. 

     

Genre

The genre of our film opening is a horror/thriller. I think the opening makes the audience instantly aware of this due to the slow pace and music used through out the opening. The slow pace and music adds tension into the opening but also the surroundings add to the thriller side of the film, although we didn't want and intend them to a lot of the feed back i got was "Wow your location looks really scary, especially the house!" so in a way it was good as it added even more tension to the opening. Another way the audience would know that the genre is horror/thriller is by the lighting used as its dark and ery, mainly due to me doing that on purpose during the editing stage by lowering the contrast. 

The action taking place within the first few seconds also has the audience will make a connotation with the main character holding her head that something isn't right with her and then the figure of another girl slowly appearing behind her indicates that its all in her head adding tension as there is no indication of what is going to happen next because its all in her mind and her own thoughts.