Main Task evaluation

For the two-minute opening of a film our final version was to have a horror and for the location to be filmed at my house.

The story line was to have a ghost haunt a house and for the footage to be clips of what would happen in the film.

The equipment we used for this task was just a simple cam-corder/ camera and so it was easy to manage but we could of improved the footage by using a tripod.
We tried to include many shots, we included high, meduim and low shot and also a over the shoulder shot. We used close-ups and paning as well and shot reverse shot. For example when I filmed the high shot my aim was for the focus to be on the hands of the ghost (the actress) and to seem scary to audience and then I decided to slowly move the camera to focus on the face and body of the character with a medium shot, as the footage was meant to focus on the dynamics of the body and the make-up.

The costume, props and makeup turned out to work very well but it was time consuming and took about an hour to create the look of the character. I decided to give the character bruises, cuts and dark eyes to represent a dead person. In one clip I put a lot of make-up all over her arms to appear as blood and even though we did not have the most suitable make-up to use I managed to use what we had and improvise by using kitchen ingredients. I decided to have the actress wear a black dress because we did not want bright colours as it would set the wrong mood and gave her black riped tights to create the effect. We did not use props because it was unnessary because we used the background/ scene as it had plenty of detail anyway.

Health and safety is important when filming because when filming the film group is liable for any health and safety problems with the actors/ actresses or even themselves. We checked health and safety problems, for example before putting make-up on the actress I asked if she was allergic to any ingredients or products.

Our aim from the audience was to make them antispate what will happen in the film and the make the audience feel uncomfortable, nervous and scared. Hopefully we achieved at least one of these aims.

Managing human resources was simple, I asked a friend outside my media class to act in the film and because our film was edited ,and we were using music and sound effects throughout the two minute footage, I decided to give her directions while filming on how to move and she followed the directions easily.

Overall the main task finished perfectly except we should of discussed problems that could happen before filming because our original version/ idea did not work. Also re-filming a film is very time consuming and in the real film industry is costs a lot of money to film one film, let alone changing it. That is something we could improve on.

The audience aimed at for our film “The House” is aimed at teenagers/ adults (15′s and over) because of the genre and it is aimed at people who are horror fans of films like The Ring and supernatural films. Children would not be in the target audience (TA) because the horror genre may be too intense for them and their guardians may not want their children to watch it.

We attracted our audience by having a realistic shot of the house, we created this by using a jolting camera movement and the red title “The House” should automatically attract the audience because of the colour. Red immediatly implies it is a horror film because the colour red represents blood. The music we used in the opening titles was from the film The Ring and should create and eerie feeling for the audience because its an anticipating eerie sound and when our actress appears we wanted them to be intrigued about the film but also nervous. We created this by having different shots and moving from one shot to another because we wanted them to know it was a horror and give some detail of the film but we didn’t want to reveal too much.

The media institution that would distribute our media product would be Pinewood Studios because they have produced films of the same genre because they have a variety of films. They have produced the famous horror The Shining and most recently The Wolfman (even though it does not seem like a horror it is classed as a horror) and they have done sci-fi horrors such as Aliens. This media institution might distritbute our product because it is a British Film and Pinewood Studios is a British Film Institution. What makes this film a British Film is that it was filmed in Britain and the actress in the film was from the UK.