Planning : Target Audience Feedback

We have made a survey on survey monkey and here are the results that we got. I would say that in the survey we had some mixed answers and a few people from different ages. We need some target audience feedback so others can say where we need to improve and how we can make our opening better.

Planning : From Initial Ideas To A 60 Second Pitch

The process for our 60 second pitch the processed we used was initial ideas,  where we wrote a load of ideas on a piece of paper for suggestions that we could possibly use for our 60 second pitch. These are the ideas we had for the pitch.

Then after that we came up with our idea of a boy who wants gets revenge on people who used to bully him. We then wrote a little script that we could improvise off for our pitch



This is our whole classes 60 second pitch. You can find our pitch at 4:31in the video.

Research : The Importance Of Sound In Horror

The purpose of a horror films is to scare its viewer and the director will do this in all different ways. Scenes in horror films can usually be graphic and may contain images that are meant to scare you and the movie coincidently keeps our attention so we do no miss a thing. The can not only set the tone and how the events are  going to unfold but it never distracts the visuals from the experiences.

The reason that people get scared during horror films is the music and sound effects that help create tension. If these audio features were not used during horror films, they would simply not be as scary. If you were to turn the volume down when you are watching a horror film you would realise the significance of well-composed music and sound effects that help create a truly terrifying experience. 

Music plays a key role in a horror film because it immediately sets the tone. It also helps the director to set the mood of the scene and film. There is many ways to build up if something is going to happen here is some examples. A long eerie musical build-up suggests that a big event is just around the corner. A rapid sequence might suggest stress or panic, making the audience feel anxious. Music may progressively build to signify that a dramatic event is about to happen or it may be upbeat to lighten the mood. Music is the biggest contributor to getting the viewer’s adrenaline pumping. The viewer can feel scared before any events transpire based on how effectively and artistically music is being played in the background. A horror film with no music or the wrong music can not scare the viewer at all in-fact it could even make it funny or just boring to watch. 

Research : The Importance Of Opening Titles

I went on to a website called ‘Art of the title’ and watched the opening scene of a movie called se7en. This opening scene included credits and pictures. What i learnt from doing this is that there are more credits than what I thought, I was thinking that there would be about 10 max but actually there was around 40-50. I was really surprised when I found out how many there were.

 The first thing I done was watch the credits of the film Se7en and every time a credit came up I paused it and wrote down what it said and what time it was on.

 Second I looked at the credits again but looked to say how the Typography was used such as fonts, size and colour etc was different in each of the credits.

 Third  I looked visual elements of the opening credits, I looked at the opening scene again and wrote down everything i saw like the credits but this time for the pictures.

Fourth I looked at the elements of sound, I watched the opening scene again but looked away from the screen so I couldn’t see it then I noted down everything that I heard.

Research Essay: Codes And Convention Of Exiting Horror Films

Red = Editing
Green = sound
yellow = Mise en scene
Codes are signs which have meanings behind them and they can be in two different categories. These are technical and symbolic codes. The technical codes is the way in which equipment is used to tell a story. This can also be done by the way it is edited and the diegetic or non diegetic sound. The Symbolic codes are seen through mise-en-scene, it is what can be seen if we really look into whats behind it. These codes are usually seen through the mise en scene, for example, a characters decisions or actions will show you what the character is like and how they are feeling, their clothing and how much they wear can be decoded to help us better understand what type of person they are and certain props have suggestions or connotations which can have a common meaning interpreted by the audience.

A Convention is something that you will tend to see in all horror movies and certain ways of doing something; some examples of this is: falling over when running away, a phone having no signal and no battery, in a car and it either has no fuel or its broke down, you get close to a safe enclosure then something happens which will stop you. This is how Codes and Conventions are used in Media Studies: They are used together in any genre. It is not enough to discuss a technical code used such as camera work and saying how it is conventionally used in a genre.

Wrong Turn

Two people are in the middle of no where a boy and a girl. In the remote forest the female and the male are rock climbing on a cliff. The male reaches the top and prepares to help the female, the male went out of eye sight from the female and then she witnesses his sudden murder. Someone begins to pull the female up the cliff so she processed to cut the rope and falls to the ground. Then she then attempts to escape to her car but trips over a piece of barbed wire before being pulled back into the woods, screaming, by one of the three cannibalistic mutant mountain men. When the female is rock climbing with the male she has a lot of flesh on display. The diegetic sound  in this movie was simply things just like the sound of the  moving wire or a hook starting to break , although the non-diegetic sound really gave the film a sense a of danger as the tempo of the music starting to pick up rapidly and increased in volume to build tension. Moving onto the symbolic codes; the mise en scene used shows the female being slightly underdressed which will make the audience relate a bit more, blood on the body to show it was a vicious attack and a vehicle being used as a prop to show the safety. The main conventions found in this is a secluded location and a person running through trees and ends up falling over.

Dead Mary

A female is sitting in her car by herself  waiting for the boy to return with fuel for the car. The sign is swinging making a noise which indicates that danger is near is danger is about to happen. The atmosphere then becomes heavy as she is there on her own in the car and then the female keeps looking around as she is in the middle of no where, She then looks out of the car to see if anyone is approaching, She then starts to sit back and relax and wait, she soon checks her phone to find out that she has no signal on her phone so she holds it up to try and get signal but she cant so if she's in danger she wont be able to get hold of anyone. The female now looks in the glove box to see if anything is in there and just so have it there is a flare gun so they can shoot that if they need to. The male soon arrives with petrol so they can start the car and drive off to their destination.  When the female is sitting their in the car for the man to return she has a lot of flesh on display.

Dead Wood

Dead Wood starts with a male running through a bunch of bushes and trees that ends up being faced with a jump where he has to decide does he just or does he not as a creature is chasing him, then cuts to his friend shouting his name as he’s gone missing from the girl. The male then decides to just and makes it most of they way then he starts to fall down as he try to pull himself up, the male then spits out blood and then falls down a cliff and dies. The Women comes out of the tent and looks around to see if she can find the male but there is no hope as he is nowhere to be seen. The female comes out of the tent she has a lot of skin on display, The diegetic sounds used in this movie were the branches snapping, leaves rustling and possibly the bird’s twerping which gave the audience the sense of nature which could be interpreted as safety but intact they are in the middle of no where, no one will be able to see them or even hear them so they will be in danger if anything happens.

Research : Analysing Codes and Conventions In Existing Teen Horror Films

1) wrong turn

2) Dead Mary

3) Dead Wood

Research: Codes and Conventions Of Horror Films

Codes:

Codes are signs which have meanings behind them and they can be in two different categories. These are technical and symbolic codes. The technical codes is the way in which equipment is used to tell a story. This can also be done by the way it is edited and the diegetic or non diegetic sound. The Symbolic codes are seen through mise-en-scene, it is what can be seen if we really look into whats behind it. This can be shown by a characters actions, it can show how they are feeling or what the character is wearing shows what type of person they are.

Conventions:

Conventions generally are certain ways of doing something. There are general conventions like the use of interviewee quotes in a print article, but they are also genre specific. For example horror films have the same conventions are were two characters are in the middle of nowhere and cant escape or get help as they're in danger

This is how Codes and Conventions are used in Media Studies: They are used together in any genre. It is not enough to discuss a technical code used such as camera work and saying how it is conventionally used in a genre.

For example, the technical code of lighting is used in some way in all film genres. It is a convention of the horror genre that side and back lighting is used to create mystery and suspense.