A2

This year i am in year 13, i shall be making a music video (A2)

Evaluation 3

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


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(Please click on this link if my presentation doesn't work on here)

Evaluation 6

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?



Analysis of an opening sequence from amilou

I made a presentation on what i've learnt about the technologies, from the process of construting the opening sequence. This powerpoint gives you information about the main technologies we used whilst making the video.

Evaluation 4

What would be the audience for your media product?

Evaulation 4. by amylawrence15 on GoAnimate

Before the interview i spoke to Joe to get to know more about him, to understand what he does, what stuff he likes and what he is into, my interview is with a 18 year old male that studies Pyschology, Biology, Maths and History. Joe explained that he is into the latest fashion and shops at Topman, Republic, River Island and many more shops, he into sports and is apart of the popular group at school. Joe is a good representation of a member for our target audience.

Q) Hello. Whats your name and how old are you?

A) My name is Joe and im 18 years old

Q) What type of movies are you into and why?

A) I really like horror movies like Friday the 13th, Saw, Grudge, Silence of the lambs and the Ring. I like films like this as they grab your attention and you can get very involved.

Q) If a horror film was to be released in the cinema today would you go and watch it?

A) Depends to be honest, i would watch it if it had good ratings and had a really good trailer and if my friends wanted to go. So yeah probably would.

Q) What type of music do you listen to?

A) I am very into Dubstep music and i also like recent chart music

The target audience we would want to watch our film is aged from 15-42, this is due to the film being an horror genre and not many people enjoy watching horror's but when you're between that age you want to be spooked out and watch films that send shivers down your spine. The tension is also an advantage as the film is very tension building but also by there being tension more people will be interested and into the film. The only concern is by the film being a horror the rating may be an 18 so unfortunately under 18's wont be able to watch it in the cinema's or buy it from a shop to watch it. The audience would have an better connection with the film if they studied science's or medical related, this is due to the film being called 'Animus' and not many people know what Animus means only a small population would know if they did study medical. The audience may be into documentary type programmes which can be very interesting on certain subjects about murderer's, science related, real experiences, history and many more. This can really help our film be more interesting by certain people.

Evaluation 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups? 

For my media product, I chose specific ways to address particular social groups to represent such as:

Gender - looking at the main role of the male

Age – both different ages involved, so you can see both older and younger



Our male character on the (Left) and Jason from friday the 13th on the (Right)



The male was the main part in the opening sequence as it was all revolved around him, you will see that when watching the sequence. I decided on keeping the stereotypical male murderer and not giving too much away. The sequenced never showed the males face and it was a secret identity which would keep the audience on their feet. By keeping the audience on their feet I kept the murderer in all black clothing and face would be down for most of the shots.

 Our murderer has been compared to Jason from the film 'Friday the 13th', our character doesnt look like Jason but is to believe there is many key similarities with both characters. One way that suggests this is Jason kills his victims in a very personal way, by using a unusual weapon to kill people which was a machete. This shows the murders that go on throughout the film are very brutual, compared to our murderer this suggests their killings are very similar as he kills people with a pole. When comparing both characters there is a few similarities such as mentally unstable, identity is kept hidden, both memorable killings. Jason uses a mask to keep his identity hidden but allows for his body to be seen whereas our character tries to keep his identity hidden and allows for a little light on his face but doesnt give too much away. 



 





Evaluation 7

 Our opening sequence was so much better compared to the preliminary task for example, we used very simple shots in the preliminary task and then we was quite adventurous with our opening sequence. we wanted our shots to stand more in the opening sequence and this is because we want to get top marks for the movie. There was a few shots in the opening sequence which stood out for example we had an low angle shot from under the bed which acted like the audience was underneath the bed, experiencing they was more apart of the movie. This shot is very unusual, its not something you would experience in every film. Whereas, for the preliminary task we used an every day shot you would see more often, this is the slight high angle that showed the character had power over the other character, this showed we could use different types of shots to show the power between both characters. This time round the framing, shots and story board was much better.  

As you can see in the two pictures above, they both have titles in the movies. The preliminary task titles wasn't really thought about and was just added into the movie. Where as, in the opening sequence the titles have been thought about and they was their not to take away too much attention. The titles are rather bland in both video's but in contrast they are much better in the opening sequence. We wanted to link the titles to the feeling of the movie at that time, for example after the death in 'Animus' the title was hand written and was messy to show that something isn't right.  

There was a massive improvement in the editing, from the preliminary task to the opening sequence. In the preliminary task the editing wasn't very well done. For example, when using the shot reverse shot in the preliminary task, the shot wasn't very accurate and the door didn't shut completely, then we had to use a sound effect to act as it did, it was very untidy and there was a lot of error's. In contrast to the opening sequence we made sure we was on top of the editing and everything was very accurate. We had a shot of the foot coming to the ground which took a long time to shoot due to getting it correct with the angle, we used a shot reverse shot on this. This went from him walking to you seeing the bottom of his foot to then him splashing in a puddle. It worked very well and was very clear, compared to the preliminary task. The editing was very easy flowing and made a lot of sense in the opening sequence, we thought of different idea's to help us with the shooting.

In the preliminary task there was a lot of error's made, so in the opening sequence we made sure all of the tiny error's was made up for and everything was more accurate.

Evaluation 5

How did you attract/address your audience?

 

 

Our opening sequence has been annotated on how we have attracted/addressed the audience,  we have mentioned various of things in here such as why we have add this certain font in, why the screaming is heard in this sequence.

The music wasn't mentioned in this sequence, will need uploading onto this video. We used the piano music across when the victim was getting murdered as it brought a sort of different tension to what you would normally expect, you could hear the screaming underneath the piano piece. This is very different to what a horror genre film would use, this is because in a horror movie you would expect, beat, slow/fast music with gradually increased with tension but instead we have a very lovely flowing piece of music which made you feel more guilty when she was being killed. This showed us that she was being murdered but also gave us a sign that no one could hear her or help her and she was just a hopeless victim.