Production & Evaluation

This is our completed film.

We wanted to make sure that our film kept to the horror codes and conventions that we saw earlier when studying other texts. Our film uses slow high pitched music which I feel sets a good scene to the film. The music used on other horror films is similar to this so we felt it kept to the horror codes and conventions. When selecting the appropriate typography we chose to use a black background and a red text. This is what is used in many of the horror films we have seen before and I feel that it fits in well with the overall film. The characters we used are young girls because this fits a stereotype created that women are vulnerable and using younger girls makes them very vulnerable. We had planned to use just one girl but we made slight changes to the script so that we could take hold of the opportunity presented to us. We kept the camera on the tripod for most of the film because we wanted to keep the film smooth and not too jerky. When the girls enter the room they are playing with dolls which they are controlling and we wanted to give the effect that the killer was like a ‘puppet master’. The film then fades out to give the effect that time has passed. There a couple of cuts where we see a point-of-view shot from the killer in the wardrobe. We used match on action which we had learned to do in our preliminary task. We then use an effect of cross-cutting which creates distortion and confusion like there is alot of action happening quickly. We used this for the exact purpose of what it is and also we saw an effective use of cross cutting in one of the films we watched in our research. We later used an earthquake effect which gives confusion again to the audience. We used a short film within our film which one of the girls watch which shows the killer. We obviously had to film this short film ourselves which was quiet easy to do. We found a good  location which we felt fitted the horror codes and conventions because it was dark and it seemed quite scary. We filmed at our location and after seeing what it looked like we were unhappy with some of the filming and there were also many errors with people getting in the shots that weren’t supposed to be. We filmed it again and we made certain changes to the script and we got the final result. 

 

I feel that any production would be distributed by any production company because it is a product that is like many horror films that have been released. I feel that we have addressed our audience well and an audience that would be interested are 15+ and either genders. We screened our film to people of 15+ and the feedback we got was fantastic. All of the audience thought that it was scary and that it was a quality product. From the feedback we received we were told that we should change the opening credits because they interfered with what was happening in the film. The survey results we got back rated the film highly with not too many things that we needed to change. We took the information on board and adjusted our film. 

When producing this media I learned many things when using the new technologies involved in creating it. I learned how to use the editing program because it is different to the one we used in our preliminary task. We decided that the older version of the editing program was better and offered us more in terms of effects.

The type of institution to distribute my film would be any organization that has experience in distributing horror films. I feel that a distribution company that would distribute our film would also have experience in working with low budget production companies. 

This is our questionnaire and results after we had a viewing of our film.

 

Overall I think that our product is a quality product and it works with the horror codes and conventions. I feel that the opening 2 minutes sets up a interesting start to a film. I thought that as a group we worked together well and everyone expressed their opinion on everything.