Question 3: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Question 4

4. Who would be the audience for your media product?


From previous planning for our opening, we chose a 12A certificate. We agreed on this because our target audience is for teenagers however we want as many people as possible to watch it so we had to choose a low age rating. A 12A rating was attainable because our film didn't contain anything too graphic to force it to have a higher rating. Although it does show some violence it is nowhere near enough to boost it to a 15. Based on a survey we found that the largest audience willing to pay to go and watch a horror film in the cinema is between 13 and 18 so this helped us to chose what our main target audience will be.

To make sure that our film is successful to our target audience we had to have our main character to have the personality of a stereotypical teenage boy. This is to make sure that our main character connects with most of the people watching and, therefore, can relate to the film. Our second media convention was that we had our film is that we set the film in an abandoned farm house. This also helps the target audience relate to the characters and their situation as teenagers are often seen as hanging out away from society and getting up to no good. Also after collecting more information from a survey, we gathered that more boys than girls would go to watch therefore our characters were male to get maximum connection between our audience and our film.

Question 5

Question 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of construction this project?

Question 7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Planning: Mise en scene 2

In our filming for a new horror opening me made some changes. We decided to try and make the main character seem as 'teenagery' as possible. We decided to do this by sitting him in a room that looks like the typical teenagers room and filmed him playing FIFA 15. We also game him a can of energy drink to give extra effect. The choice of clothing was also very important. To make the teenager character believable he wore slim jeans and a Brooklyn t-shirt.

We kept the killers clothing the same. This was just a normal pair of jeans and a black hoodie. We felt this was appropriate because it seems very basic while also still keeping a sense of anonymity with his hood up.

The main character is also seen using an iPhone 4. This is the typical phone for a teenager. Also playing FIFA in his room is another stereotypical thing for a 16 year old to be doing.

Mise en scene is possibly the most important thing in films in general to make it more believable while also telling the audience what personality each character has without them even having to say a word.

Construction: Successful Re-Filming

After we re-filmed we did another rough edit and here is how it turned out:




We decided to put together a rough edit putting together our clips to give us a rough idea of how our movie opening will turn out.

The biggest problem with our initial filming was the dialogue throughout because you could not hear the actors without there being wind or background noise such as cars which do not help with the idea of the location being secluded.

We made sure to check our camera before we started this time to ensure that the camera lens did not have any dirt on it as last time we did not check until we had already done some of the shots.

This rough edit, I would say, is much better than the initial filming because it has absolutely no dialogue which means we can put some non-diegetic sound over the top to give the opening a better feel overall. We tried to also add more camera shots, angles and movements throughout the opening.

This time we really excelled in representing the stereotype of a teenager through the use of him playing on a game console at the start, the can of energy drink and overall a great representation of a  stereotypical teenager.

We found that instead of actually seeing the killer we went for a storyline where you don't see the killer at all other than their hand, this gives a feeling of uncertainty and really makes the audience wonder who the killer is and what he looks like.

Now that we are happy with our rough edit we will continue to cut it down to as good as possible with the clips, adding in sound and also titles over the top.