Final Film Opening

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Evaluation Question 6

Evaluation Question 5

Evaluation Question 4

  Who would be the audience for your media product?

The target audience for my film would be teenagers between the ages of 13-18. This is because my film opening is similar to the film 'Twilight', which is also aimed towards teenagers. Vampires are hugely popular in cinema at the moment with this age group, and is evident with its grossing of $35.7 million on its opening day, and reinforced by its later sequel, Breaking Dawn Part 2 grossing $829 dollars worldwide, and becoming the 34th highest-grossing film of all time.

 

The age rating of my film is a 12A, not only so my target audience is able to see it, but because I believe that younger children may enjoy watching my film. Since it has no killing in the opening that we filmed, it is suitable for the younger children, and would attract them as it is similar to some films that are already out, but it is also something different, and since my opening is non-violent and both challenges and conforms conventions of other films, it would open the younger audience to other films, such as The Woman In Black, which is another thriller which is a 12A.

 

My film is aimed at females. This is due, once again, to the Twilight saga, which had a large female audience and was mostly females that went to see these films, as we have learned from our feedback, where a couple of the females that answered the questionairres listed Twilight as their favourite film.

 

The uses and grafications theory is a theory that the audience actively seeks out media to satisfy specific needs. These specific needs are divided into four categories: diversion, which is where the audience uses media as a way to escape from everyday life; personal relationships which is where the media product gives the audience an opportunity to become part of a social group; personal identity where the audience may find something about themselves through these media products; and personal surveillance which is where they find about the world around them through media. Our audience would probably come under the diversion and personal relationships needs.

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Evaluation Question 2

Evaluation Question 1

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

My film is a thriller/horror inspired by films such as Twilight and Underworld. These opening sequences have many similarities to mine, for example, Underworld is a dark film, and there is a sense of danger, much like ours. Also, in Underworld, there is a mixture of digetic and non-digetic sound, and although there isn’t as much of a mixture in mine, there is still both of them. The weather in these films always seems to be quite dull/miserable, and is reflective of the mood of the film, and ours uses this convention and conforms to it, as it is an overcast day. The setting of these films that inspired ours is similar to ours, for example, Twilight is set in a wooded area and so is ours, and this is fairly typical in a thriller/horror movie. Another example of a thriller/horror that is set in a forest is Friday The 13^th; the opening scene is set in a forest. The music is usually contrapuntal in these films, and so is ours, the editing is based around the music that we used. Ambient sounds are also often used, as it gives the film a sense of realism, and at the end of my opening scene, there is ambient sound used to add tension and make it seem more real.

Furthermore, my film develops typical conventions of a thriller, as our main actor is a female. Although she is made to seem vulnerable, as is typical in a horror/thriller, it is not typical for a female to be the main protagonist. I used quite modern music in the opening, which compared to films such as Underworld, is fairly different. Usually in these kind of films, the music is heavily classical instruments and is in the expressionist style.

However, my film challenges conventions by using high-key lighting in places, and there are some bright colours in here and there. The colours in thriller/horrors are usually dark colours, unlike ours where we have some bright greens in it. Also, my film is a 12A, which is unlike most of these kinds of films which are usually 15s or 18s, like Saw, which is an 18.