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;