Woodland Avenue ~ Final Cut and Finished Piece

Evaluation Activity 1 - "In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?"

Evaluation Task 2 - "How does your media product represent particular social groups?"

Evaluation Activity 3 - "What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?"

Evaluation Activity 4 - "Who would be the audience for your media product?"

Evaluation Activity 5 - "How did you attract/address your audience?"

Evaluation Task 6 - "What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?"

Evaluation Activity 7 Part 1 - "Looking back at your preliminary task (the continuity editing task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?"

Evaluation Task 7 Part 2

Evaluation Task 7 Part 3

Evaluation Task 7 Part 4

Demographic/Psychographic Profiling

Marketing Poster Review

Poster Influences

audience feedback

The people that we showed our project to explained how it was a effective opening to a thriller. They explained how it produced a range of questions such as ''what happens next?'' and ''whats the significance in the writing in the sink?'' We intended this to be our idea,to create questions in the audience.

Assessing other blogs.

I assessed Jess Downard and Amy Rashbrook's blog, and found both positive and negative parts about it.

All the work appeared to be top class and in a lot of detail, and there seemed to be some order to what was going on the blog.

However, I personally feel that the organisation and aesthetics of the page have much to be desired;

• The title is in Comic Sans. I feel that Comic Sans is far too childish for this project and should be changed to something much more appropriate.
• The font of the posts are inconsistent, and one of the fonts is almost illegible. I know this is me being picky but I feel it should be changed to something clearer, or as the same as the other font which is much easier to read.
• Most of the YouTube videos are put on there as links rather than embedded into the post, which I personally find frustrating. When at school, these videos are extremely hard to watch, but there is no issue with embedded videos.
• The final piece of work is not at the top of the blog, and I don't think I saw it on their either.

Storyboard

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This is the basic story we had planned, but we took out the florist and the wedding ring part, to save time and also because those two parts were no longer possible to do.

Props

 In our media project, we only used 3 or so props, as we felt like it was all that was necessary.

The first prop we used was this pipe. We felt the pipe was the best weapon to use as it's a improvised, non-professional weapon, showing the malicious nature of the attack. Using a bludgeon shows the violent and destructive nature of the act, as using a blunt object shows that the aim is blood and pain.

We used this Guy Fawkes mask from V For Vendetta for our 2nd prop. We felt the attacker needed a mask to remain anonymous, as people often fear what they don't know or understand. We used the Guy Fawkes specifically due to its history. For years, its been used on the internet to 'troll' and scare people, often done by young people. It was also used on New Years Day 2013 in London by young adults, they fired fireworks at the houses of parliament in protest. This history it has associated with youth violence makes it the perfect mask for our 'hoodie horror'.

This is the last set of props we used. It is a shocking image for most, clearly with a large heart and some writing, which at further inspection reads "your girlfriend always had the biggest heart." This is an extremely striking image, and is the first imagine in the film to say that something's really wrong. It helps set the tone and the helps the audience sympathize with the character, who's just found out about his girlfriend's demise.

Changes to our project.

Since our project idea was born, our idea has changed very little. We originally planned to have the main character wear head phones on his way to the house, however, we decided to change this as the act didn't show up on camera at all. We also planned to have a note from the girlfriend, but decided against this as it was pointless and wasted time. We also shot a 'torture scene', but in the end we decided not to use the footage, for two reasons;

• It made the film look like just another torture porn film, we were looking to make something serious.
• The acting and script was abysmal, making that footage comical.

Music

This song is not copyrighted because it is a live version of the song 'Nine In The Afternoon'. We used this song because it is happy and uplifting and it works well with our thriller opening. The upbeat tone leads the audience into a false sense of happiness and makes them think the film has a happy tone, when actually it is very gritty and scary. 

Script

After a discussing our film and it's plot at length, we decided that a script was not nessessary, and would in fact hinder our work. We felt that a script, or anything we would write, would have made the film less serious for the audience. We did film one shot, which had the line "You better be filming this", but during editing we decicded that the shot woiuld have seeemed comical, and it was not imortant to the plot at all.

Editing Diary - Final Day

Horror/Thriller Questionnaire & Results

We asked our Media class a few questions about what they look for in a Horror/Thriller film, we asked them;

1)    What kind of monster/antagonist scares you the most

2)    What’s your favourite Horror film?

3)    What’s your favourite Thriller film?

4)    Do masks scare you? Which one is the scariest?

5)    Do you think horror/ thriller films should have some kind of romantic aspect to it?

6)    Do you often sympathise with characters in horror/thriller films?

7)    How much gore do you like/are you able to withstand?

These are the answers we got;

 

Practicing the makeup (contains some swearing)

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Walkthrough of the main character's route

Bloopers 4 - The River Part 2 (This Time, It's Personal) and Michael The Guinea Pig

Bloopers 3 - The Road Back

Bloopers 2 - Keys

Bloopers 1 - The River Part 1

First draft of poster (picture)

These are the two poster locations we have chosen to photograph. We asked the class what location they prefered, and 7/11 said they prefered the one on the right. We will use this picture as we too feel that it is the better picture. We will retake and edit the retaken picture. 

health and saftey risk assesment of opening

Exterior filming (long shot)

risk	What could happen	Who could be harmed	Resolution
Kerb	Trip up or down kerb	Anyone	Make sure you don’t fall over
Doors	Walk into door	Anyone	Make sure door is held open
Road	Hit by a car	Anyone	Look out for cars before we cross the road
Rain	Slip over	Anyone	Avoid puddles
Snow	Fall over	Anyone	Wear suitable shoes

Interior filming (range of shots)

risk	What could happen	Who could be harmed	Resolution
Blood or liquid on floor	Slipping	Anyone	Dry area thoroughly
Doors	Walk into door	Anyone	Make sure door is held open

Our influences for the thriller opening (Michael pocock)

One of our main influences is the use of masks to hide identity to create a intimidating character. we used the v for vendetta mask as our main antagonist.  

TThe reason why we chose to use this mask is due to using recent news as a stimulus. on the 6th November 2013 a group of public demonstrators fired fireworks at Buckingham Palace, while the Queen was having a meeting with presidents of different countries. Another reason why we used this mask is because it is based on Guy Fawkes,one of the most well known terrorists in English history.

Another of our influences is Eden lake we use emotion of a man and his love for a woman in our opening for our thriller and this is a key example of the relationship we want to express through our opening we reference a key scene in our opening in Eden lake, Michael fassbender opens a ring box to show that he wants to propose we will use a ring as a prop to evoke emotion towards the protagonist as he realises that his girlfriend to be fiance has been brutally murdered.

another influence we used is in the 'sink sequence' where we use a lot of blood this is influenced by johhny depps death in nightmare on elm street where a lot of blood is used

 

1st draft of the poster

This is a basic draft made on computer of our poster. This will be drawn, adapted, changed, improved, photographed and edited.

BBFC Rating (Harvey Kennedy)

 I believe that the opening to our thriller alone may be a 12a/15. Our opening has no swearing, sexual references, violence or nudity, but it does contain gore. There is a real heart in a sink which the viewer may not expect, making the rating dwell on the 12a/15 border. The guidelines I found on the BBFC website were helpful in deciding the rating, but weren't clear enough to give us a definitive rating. I think that if we were to complete the story and make a full film it would possibly be a 15, or more likely an 18.

 

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Scenario ideas for plot

This is our map of ideas we had of what we could do, obviously, we had some rather awful ideas! We settled on the 'heart in the sink' idea, on the bottom left.

names for our thriller mind map

This is our diagram we used to choose the name for our thriller.

We decided on "Woodland Avenue" as it is the street that our thriller is going to be shot on. We also took inspiration froim the 'Nightmare On Elm Street' series for our title.

thriller moodboard and codes and conventions

This is our thriller moodboard, we focused mainly on horror thrillers for this moodboard. The reason we used horror thriller pictures is because we are heavily influenced by them and plan to make our thriller in the genre.
 The usual codes and conventions of a horror thriller:

• In a horror thriller there is always a internal/external threat, somthing for the characters to either defeat or be defeated by. e.g. The Thing (1982)
• There is usually a love interest of some kind. e.g.Eden Lake (2008)
• There is usually a final girl who is more intellegant compared to the other females in the film.  She is the last surviving character. She seems to be boyish in character and usually has brown hair. e.g. Denise Wllis,House of 1000 corpses (2003)
• There is usually a 'dark house' senario where the setting is in a isolated area/house where the mail horror occurs e.g. woman in black.

Comparison of the two logos



New production company logo
good points;
 better quality
looks professional
uses genuine image
fits in with thriller
uses space well
image ties in well with the name
uses colour contrast well



 

Original production company logo
good points;
its a good starting idea
very simple
bad points;
not of a good quality
too basic
unprofessional
looks fake
uses too much space
the photoshop job is awful and uncentred
 

The Hollow Bodies logo

This is our new and improved logo for our Media Production company, Hollow Bodies Media.