How did/would we attract the audience

The way in which we hope to capture the audience is from the creation of atmosphere created by music, which was called Spitfire by The Prodigy. The camera angles, which included crane shots, close ups, and quick snappy shots, and the black and white contrast that was sudden when the music kicked in may be another technique in which we may capture the audiences attention. I also find that our opening is more like a trailer at times because its very quick with short shots and doesn't give too much away.

How does our media product represent particular social groups and who would the directed audience be?

Social Groups that we represented was the twenty-first century teenage individuals that drink, we wanted this group as people can relate to same situations, so our film can either make awareness or just be a hard hitting opening. I also believe that we used this social group because it would be easier for us to play a similar age character of ourselves. The reason for why it would be hard hitting is that the story of the opening is a possible situation in today's society.

The audience that we are directing to is one who likes thriller/horrors genre's, this is mainly people of late teenagers (15+) and onwards, but its also depending on those who like this style. But the pleasure we are trying to provide is one that is hard hitting as the characters are young, what is being shown is a possibility to reality, and so this is more likely to draw them in. I am pretty confident that we have succeeded this as ours could be a portrayal of reality, and because of the black and white contrast colour and the fast paced speed in the woods, it is most likely to be successful.

Three film openings

The three film openings that i watched were:






The Hole






The Blair Witch Project







Shrooms




All three of these films helped us in there own way, but the best one for us was The Hole as it didn't give away much, it was based in the woods, not much speech and a great build of tension and atmosphere. Yes the other three were based in the woods, but it didn't have that magic that The Hole did with the main character struggling to run out of the woods as if she has been drugged and attacked, and with posters and leaflets of the four characters including her which were infact posters explaing they were missing, this instantly would draw the audiences attention, and that's the magic we wanted.

So we wanted the first person view and jerked camera shots. e.g. The actors holding the camera whilst running. from The Blair Witch Project, the gore and panning camera shots through the tree's and other woodland shrubery from Shrooms, and the atmospheric scenery from The Hole.

Evaluation for Preliminary task

I was happy with the outcome as were the others, or atleast i hope they were considering it was our first task of this course and on filming. I believe there was no errors as such in this task, we included all of the criteria, everything went to plan as we were based in a small dark room, everytime we shot the same scene we made sure everything was in place. I would say that the only problem that did occur at times was not the continuity but ourselves, as being good friends and being that we like to have a laugh, at times we did find ourselves to be distracted.

I remember having a conversation with Sam and Jack, and Sam brung up the Hitchcock cliche of a swinging lamp, but one it was the time limit we had, and two the room we were using didn't have a swinging lamp so the school would probably would not let us place a new light into the room. So knowing we wanted a cliche involved, we wanted atleast on of the characters in an over the top Chicago accent and a typical dark smokey room. The costume was perfect as me and Jack have that sort of style naturally and was able to provide the clothes ourselves.

Idea for preliminary task

Our first idea was to do something in black and white, basically a film noir so that the two colours have a contrast, so with this idea in mind what genre would fit it. All three of us, me, Jack and Sam then decided we wanted an American 1930's/40's gangster noir film. But we had a limit. It had to be thirty seconds long, use of shot reverse shot, and a 180 degree rotation, and finally a match on action. We also wanted one of the characters to be a sort of bent cop, so we had a set in mind. so our idea consisted of on being tied up, the other smoking, and both on each side of a table in this dark smokey room, with the camera at the end of the table most of the time so we can see both characters facial reactions. We also decided not to have much speech as we believe it will create tension.