In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
My Horror film "November 23rd" goes against and also matches the stereotypes of other horror film openings. Our story line and characters followed the themes of the two films "The Ring" and "Paranormal Activity" Both Films were used as examples for our own film for example, the little girl from The Ring was used as our starting point for our scary character. The costume and make up was used also. Also from Paranormal Activity we used the point of view camera angle for the second half of the horror opening. Using this camera technique it made the footage seem more realistic.
Form
For direction or examples we looked at existing Horror Film openings found here
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=as+media+horror+opening+&sm=3
- For music/sound we used the website freesound.org , the website allowed us to find a range of different sounds to help build the effect of our film.
- We made the characters very clear
- We used our production company logo (Bullet Proof Productions)
- There was very little dialogue but this helped to piece together a more clear film opening, due to the fact that there was very little words it made the audience pay closer attention to the film.
- Traditionally we put the tittle of the film at the end
- We used the different tittles on screen to introduce the director and actors (without obstructing something on screen)
-Showed clear themes throughout
By using the traditional theme of putting the tittle at the end we conformed to the typical horror film opening this just allows us to be safe when making our film we know that by using this technique the audience or a majority of the audience will be pleased by what they have seen.
When receiving feedback from the audience we often were told that the sequence and pace at which we showed all the tittle was really effective, there was positive feedback on the use of tittles.
Genre
Our genre is horror/thriller. For research we looked at different horror film openings (successful ones). We watched films such as "The Blaire witch project", "Insidious", "Scary movie" and "Halloween" etc.
(picture of one ^)
When watching these different openings I noticed a constant repetition but still major differences in all of them and that was the structure in which they opened and the sound used. Some used high pitch frequency to build up tension a film that was particularly good at this was Insidious.
The things usually shown in the opening to do with the genre are the colours, so red is a common colour used in horror, if red is not used then dark colours are used to represent the evil in the ghosts or killers. Something else that is common is that the identity of the killer is not shown straight away, this is also a tradition in horror/thriller and keeps the suspense high.
When filming our film all of the research used was valuable and helped us by leaving guidelines of where all the successful movies both failed and succeeded. In our film we pushed the boundaries by going against well known traditions in horror such as the female being the first to be hurt, by doing this we hoped to catch the eye of the audience by showing them something different. Apart from a few challenged stereotypes we played it safe by sticking to all the other conventions of horror.
Style
In class we watched several examples of horror film openings and their styles were very different even though they all had the same horror conventions, mostly set in dark places with clear signs of danger and scary music. We all conformed to the typical horror film stereotype.
We used the films The Ring and Paranormal Activity as examples and mimicked the camera and horror style of both films in order to make it a believable horror film opening. What is different about the horror films that have been produced by big name companies is that it is based in the united kingdom so we have British actors and actresses.
Our film has a range of camera angles that imitate the style of paranormal activity because it has handheld filming and keeping the bad guy in disguise but also showing the camera from their point of view. Point of view shot is another camera style that is used; I could list all the camera angles used but the range is too wide but that is something very successful that we did, we managed to use a good amount of different angles although the last 40 seconds of the film is point of view.
Style
In class we watched several examples of horror film openings and their styles were very different even though they all had the same horror conventions, mostly set in dark places with clear signs of danger and scary music. We all conformed to the typical horror film stereotype.
We used the films The Ring and Paranormal Activity as examples and mimicked the camera and horror style of both films in order to make it a believable horror film opening. What is different about the horror films that have been produced by big name companies is that it is based in the united kingdom so we have British actors and actresses.
Our film has a range of camera angles that imitate the style of paranormal activity because it has handheld filming and keeping the bad guy in disguise but also showing the camera from their point of view. Point of view shot is another camera style that is used; I could list all the camera angles used but the range is too wide but that is something very successful that we did, we managed to use a good amount of different angles although the last 40 seconds of the film is point of view.
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