Question 1 Evaluation

Question 1 Evaluation

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

Question 2 Evaluation

how does your media product represent particular social groups?

"The Hanging" is the title of our opening to a horror film. Its starts off with the 3 girls walking home from school, one of the characters being a jock and the other 2 just casual American school girls. They walk down the alleyway that leads into the dark woods which is joint onto the school. The 2 casual girls leave the jock to walk into the woods by her. After these girls are separated from the jock we cut into the woods where we see the jock character by her in the opening woods. Creating the tension and the atmosphere from the setting and from the soundtrack that has been played underneath the whole opening scene. When the jock is walking through the woods we see two different sides of this characters personality. One being the stereotypical hard kind of American jock, and the other being a vulnerable side who is paranoid of someone watching her in the woods. We see this through the use of characterization of this character. As the walk goes on through the woods we see camera angles showing points of view from the killers eyes, we see iconography that has been used suggesting as to what his weapon is and how we as an audience can identify it. We see the killer stalking the jock character and the jock character becoming a lot more worried and paranoid and hiding, suddenly there's a scream and the attention goes back to the 2 girls walking home showing them as either one of the final girls. The camera goes back to the woods slowly panning up the jocks body to show danger-ling feet then blood dripping. 

Our media product "The Hanging" represents different social groups in certain ways. One way we have done this by is by using the idea of stereotypes in horror films. A massive influence towards are characters and characterization was the horror film "Scream" by "Wes Craven" having watching the film a couple of times I could easily pick out different stereotypes for each character and how their costumes and characterization presents there characteristics. These characters in the film "Scream" have been stereotyped deliberately for the audience’s purpose. 

For starters, in the film "Scream" they play a lot along the lines of the dialogue and the costumes they're wearing to show what kind of character they are playing. This influenced our film to do the same thing. For instance one of our characters played by Ericka Yabut was given the stereotype of the jock. Usually when you see a jock you automatically think American football, someone well-built usually played by guys. However we didn't want to portray the jock character as a tough character which it could have been, there for we challenged this stereotype of social groups by using a girl to play the jock. The reason for this is because usually jocks are played by boys but in our film we purposely used a girl because a killer would have more a chance at killing the jock and also girls are viewed as vulnerable and fragile compared to boys.  The jock as a girl creates this image of innocence however because of the costumes she is wearing it brings out a more harder strong look on her, but this is then twisted again as we see through the characterization of the character once she is in the woods. 

First opening scene Jessie in "A Nightmare on Elm Street

Jessie Becoming a little bit paranoid about the deaths.

Jessie's final scene - death scene. 

However I feel that our jock stereotype character goes along well with one of the characters from the new version of “A Nightmare on Elm Street” which is the boy at the start of the opening called “Jessie”. He starts off as a hard jock type character that boss’s his friends about. Again his style of costume brings this out by what he’s wearing, also the looks and characterization gives off an unwelcoming vibe too. However in comparison to the way we produced the stereotype of the jock we portrayed her as a nice welcoming friendly character who likes to have banter between her friends. Which gives off this image of innocence yet again and it shows that we played against the stereotype. The reason that this certain character “Jessie” From “A Nightmare on Elm Street” relates to our character is because in some way they go off track. They build these big images around each other then suddenly they play against it and become paranoid and start to over think every situation which is what our jock does in our opening to a horror film. The idea of becoming to paranoid will lead to a death.

The video relates to our short opening due to the fact of how you see the change from the characters mood. This is something we used well with our jock character. This character in the "A Nightmare on Elm Street" influenced our character "Ericka the Jock" because of the way he is paranoid and then suddenly overcomes that and then becomes paranoid again. This happened a lot in our opening.

(below is a link to Jessie's Death)

We used stereotypes with all of our characters in the best way we could someone them being a lot clearer to see than others.

What stereotypes have we used,

• 3 girls - The reason for this is because girls are shown as a vulnerable weak character compared to bigger built men. Mostly in horror films it tends to be the girls that men go after to kill at the start. - Halloween, 
• Chloe - Represented as the final girl, "watch out for the boogie man" - only line sums up her character, arrogant, sarcastic... However played against these horror film stereotypes and becomes the final girl challenged the stereotype 
• Erica - Represented as the mysterious one... Tricks the audience into thinking she might be the final girl but really it's not. Challenged the stereotype
• Ericka - Played the victim. Stereotyped as a jock. She's the girl jock we did this purposely done to show the eye candy for then men; she's judged by the way she dresses in basketball wears a baseball uniform. That implies she is some kind of cheerleader or represented as sports characters. She changes her ways when in the woods and becomes this paranoid, scared jock (usually doesn't happen, usually a jock is pointed out to be cool and stay strong and not be scared of anything)
•  Influence of the characters stereotypes were from the horror films scream, how they were represented was through their use of dialogue and their costumes - influence of this was "Halloween" and "A Nightmare on Elm Street."

For the other 2 girls in the opening scene Erica and Chloe they had a different outlook on the social groups. Our influences for these 2 girls were just random character stereotypes from other horror movies such as “Halloween”. We portrayed these 2 different characters 1 being arrogant and sarcastic the other being the mysterious one. Usually the mysterious one leads to being the final girl and the sarcastic/arrogant one usually ends up dying somewhere along the story line  We didn't like this idea as a group and decided to trick the audience into thinking that. However we knew that we wanted to twist it around so that the arrogant character becomes the final girl. The arrogant character was played by me. This character was influenced as the stereotype of Laurie from the movie “Halloween” arrogant, quirky and bright. Our props and costumes were also influenced by this character such as carrying the folders and books to show that there is some sign of education. Laurie’s costume in this one scene is jeans, purple top and glasses. Wearing glasses as a character shows that your smart, now in some cases it could show that Laurie knows how to deal with the killer and will get away from him. We didn't want to use glasses for any of our characters because we felt like it would give the twist away to the audience about these 2 characters.  Also from this particular scene we liked the idea of involving the script by saying “Boogie Man” to show the arrogant cocky side to the character. 

- Below is a link to a clip of the scene with Laurie and her friends walking home from school. This scene influenced  a lot towards our horror opening, it shows the different styles of costumes used for each character and there personality also when listing to the dialogue carefully it shows what kind of character these are playing which is something we also took into consideration when working on the script.

Halloween - Michael Watches Girls Walk Home

The 3 girls in our short opening are around the age of 16/17. The reason for this is because if the killer sees the girls as younger people it shows the girls as vulnerable and fragile. In most horror films the age of the group of teenagers are around the age of 16-18. The reason we decided to go with 3 school girls is because it creates the feeling of innocence for each of these characters. Which makes the death of the school girls a lot more tragic and realistic/haunting to watch because most deaths now days are at the same age. The Killer we wanted older because it gives that horrible feeling of being disgusted when you watch the opening. This is the reaction we wanted. 

Halloween 2007 Movie

Our own opening (comparing the similarities) 

So how does our media product represent particular social groups?

Well, we stereotyped all of the characters in the opening. One more than the others. Also we played against some of them by twisting them into something the audience think they might have been but in reality their not. We chose certain age ranges which were related to the school aspects, and created different images/characterization for each personality of the character. 

Question 3 Evaluation

Question 4 Evaluation

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Overall the audience for our outcome to a teen horror film opening would be mainly "British Ethnicity  due to the all "British Cast". Also due to the fact that because we are low budget that means only people local would probably be able to see this. We aimed the target audience at  15 - 18. This was because most of the Cast were around this age and its also when you have members of the cast playing these ages you need it to relate to how old school pupils/students would be. For instance the 3 girls we see at the start of the film were all aged at 16 - 17. Which links in with the education age too and also shows some relatable aspects to our target audience of the teenagers. We chose to go with certain stereotypes that would bring the school/teenage audience drawn to watching our opening to a horror film. Usually if there's some kind of teenager school cast most teens will watch it and become immediately connected to these characters on screen because they can relate to them in some way. In Question 5 to the evaluation from the interview given by Kate it gives a better showing as to what kind of audience we are looking for and what kind of target audience our opening to a horror film was aimed at. 

Question 5 Evaluation

How did you attract and address your audience?

Before we made the opening to a horror movie we had to go through stages of planning and research. This included a questionnaire giving details of certain aspects the audience would like to see in a horror opening. This questionnaire helped a lot towards the making to a horror opening it gave us a basic outline as to what things were to be needed in the horror opening and what kind of setting and cast the audience would like to see. From the questionnaire results we found that most of the target audience wanted to see certain things within our opening to a teen horror film. These things included:

• ·         A female as the final girl 

• ·         The stereotypes 

• ·         School setting 

• ·         A woods

These are just a few of the things we took into consideration when making the opening to a horror film. I've added a picture below of the kind of questions we asked the audience in the questionnaire to get there view point of the kind of horror film they wanted to watch and what kind of things they wanted involved in this opening. 

Questionnaire Form. 

Going back to the questionnaire results these results had a massive impact towards the making of the film. Without these results we would have never had the right opening to a horror film that this particular kind of audience would want to see. We decided to make it as relatable as possible with the audience therefore this meant we had to use:

• ·         The most obvious stereotypes you get within a high school for each characters

• ·         The school atmosphere and setting 

• ·         3 characters at the start there for later on we can add more into this group of friends and kill them off 

• ·         A mysterious killer which will have the creepy caretaker look 

• ·         The kind of costumes that these school kids would wear

Being teenagers ourselves we already knew certain things we wanted to see within our horror opening which was good because we had an idea of what other members of our target audience wanted to see. Also because we vary in age within our group to the same age we wanted our target audience it was a lot easier to put our own ideas across because usually teenagers look for certain things within a horror film which was something we took on board.
Overall the audience that we wanted to draw attention to we're from the ages of 15 and on wards. We show this through the different uses of mis en scene. We were influenced from the big major horror films to select our kind of cast for our opening to a horror film which made us pick the audience too. Mainly our casting and stereotypes were the main part which could link in and have a sense of connection with the audience. Once I uploaded the video of our opening to horror film to You Tube I decided to give it a couple of weeks for the views to go up I then decided to look at the statistics of the video and saw what age and gender of the audience had been watching our opening. This is what our statistics looked like: 

Statistics from You Tube on "The Hanging" 

As you can see from our views of the You Tube video the top viewers were female aged from 13 and upwards. This good because this is close to wear we wanted to get our audience. The only reason it's at the age rate of 13 is because you cannot set the age rate on You Tube unless you get permission from the company or become a You Tube partner. Therefore this shows closely if this was to be shown in the cinema that we would defiantly attract the teenagers in watching this as the age rate would have to be 15. Again this shows that the genders that have watched the film are mostly females. This is probably due to the fact that in the first opening scene there are mainly female actors and 1 male actor as the killer. 

Most Views

From these print screen shots of the statistics of the opening to a horror film it suggest that we have aimed our opening to a horror film toward the right kind of target audience because this is kind of the right age rate we were going for. Also the fact that the ages are between 13 - 34 years is brilliant because some of the older people viewing this say in the mid 20's early 30's could be studying at university which can still link towards our characters from the setting of the horror film. 

This is a video filmed, edited and interviewed by another member of our group called Erica Hall. As a group we decided to film someone watching a screening of our opening to a horror film to get their reaction and do a 1 on 1 interview asking questions about the interview. I decided to link in the video (like the other group members did for this evaluation). One thing I liked about this interview would be the way that we get to see Kate (the audience) reaction to the opening, which is good because this is the kind of reaction we were going for. We asked relatable questions like what her name and how old she is which is 16. As we can see from Kate's view of the horror opening she liked it and though that the atmosphere and setting linked in well with the final kill and the soundtrack built the tension throughout. This is something in our group that we wanted to hear from the audience.

Overall from the Interview and the statistics from the You Tube video you can see the kind of audience we attracted from the gender to the ages. Also from the You Tube video of the interview we got to see a reaction to the opening scene and the reaction we got was something that we wanted from the planning process. I think overall from the reaction it shows how our research and planning went into finding the right target audience for our film and how it was successful in how it ended. 

Question 6 Evaluation

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Throughout the research process of making a horror opening I've improved my use of technologies and certain software to make the opening to a horror film look a professional standard. The websites and software that I have learnt to use and gain more confidence with are Blogger, YouTube, Adobe Premier Pro, Garage Band, Movie Maker, iMovie and Scribd. All of these technical websites have helped me since the start of the project. Some of these websites I had a basic understand more than other, the other websites were completely new to me which means I had to learn how to use them however I became confident over the process of the research period and I became full aware on how I could use these sites. 

Garage Band apple app.

Garage Band
The technologies of the website have helped make our opening to a horror film become more realistic and look professional. One of the websites I focused on a lot due to having to make the soundtrack would be Garage Band. Garage Band is an app that I downloaded on my iPad for this project. It lets you create your own backing tracks and lets you record the way you would in a professional studio. Its limited compared to an actual studio however by using this app I have learnt and taught myself how to create the right soundtrack for the opening to a horror film. I have never used garage band until this project. What made me download this particular app software would be the reviews I've heard from it. I've heard it's a professional easy way to create backtracks and songs without paying a lot of money to go into a studio. Things I've learnt about this app would be how to navigate around the app, how to cut and loop songs. Change the pitch and tempo and how to make one instrument become louder than the others. I've decided that the best way to tell you my own personal experience would be to record what I think about the app and to film how I navigate around this app showing you the things I've learnt along the way: Because the reviews said that it's a professional way of creating these soundtracks and backing tracks I wanted to use it in our opening to a horror film to give it a little bit more of a professional feel. 

iMovie apple app.

YouTube & iMovie & Windows Live Movie Maker
Websites I have used and have also become a lot more confident with are websites such as YouTube. YouTube is an online site which allows you to upload short video footage. It's another form of blogging which I will compare with Blogger in some way. Blogger is more of the writing side of a blog whereas YouTube allows you to be creative by making videos and show the world. I've become more aware of how to use YouTube since I have uploaded my preliminary task to it and my actually horror opening. YouTube is easy to navigate and is quick and simple to use if you are wanting to upload videos to the internet quickly. Since participating in my media lessons i have been uploading videos to my own personal YouTube channel as well as my media YouTube Channel. I've grown confident in saying I understand fully how to use this site now knowing how to edit your own videos through YouTube and how to annotate them and link them from one video to another with hyperlinks which allows you to interact through the video. I've chosen again to show you how I navigate around YouTube by showing you a short video with a overlap of a voice over informing you what I have learnt and how this has helped me towards my project. Linking YouTube into editing and uploading another software I used was called iMovie. All of the video footage that I have imported to this evaluation has all been edited by myself using my iPad camera and an iPad app called iMovie. iMovie is a quick way that allows you to import video footage, backing music and photos to a video that you are creating. You can cut and edit the sound out of the footage and use voice overs  Which is what I've done in all of the following videos above. Above is just a print screen showing how I use iMovie  how I've become confident in using iMovie and have improved using it, I really like this app because its a professional quick easy way to edit and upload videos to YouTube. Ever since participating in media lessons I've recently been adding personal videos to YouTube as said above, and this is how I edit most of my videos. Popular You Tubers online such as "Shane Dawson, Smosh, PointlessBlogTv" use this editing software to also make their videos look professional online. Having saying that when these You Tubers make parody's spoofs of songs they also use Garage Band. I also used Windows Movie Maker which also helped me too; Its a lot like iMovie but just not as good it has less options to choose from.

How I use You Tube and how it has helped me.

Windows Live Movie Maker

Blogger
Again another website I am also confident in using now would be Blogger. I have been using Blogger to update my progress and research of the making to the horror opening. At first i found Blogger difficult to use but recently I've been using Blogger to update rather than Microsoft Word and using Scribd to upload it to my Blog. What I liked about this technology is that it's easy to navigate through your blogger by the hyperlinks on the sidebar. Its professional looking and quick and easy to navigate around. At first Blogger confused me but now I've understood how to use it. I can add pictures to my work and video clips through YouTube onto my work which has helped me. Blogger helped a lot through our research and planning process because it was easy to look and start at the beginning of what we have done and we could just upload to the Blog whenever we change our ideas or whenever we wanted to update on what had to be done next. It helped me through different stages of the research process. 

How i used Blogger and how it helped me.

Blogger - Hyperlink Bar on my Blog

Tripods Vs Handhelds
One thing that we did use was accessories that come with the video cameras such as tripods. Tripods Vs Handhelds. In our short opening to a horror film we have used Tripods and hand-helds. Both give a different outlook on the footage. Such as running scenes were done with hand helds and long shot angles/establishing were done with the tripods. In our opening we wanted to portray a certain character in each angle. Such as handhelds for when the stalker was walking towards the Jock, this gives a more realistic look to the opening. I liked the way we used tripods in our opening because it stayed in focus a lot more and it gives it more of a professional look because it's still and not moving or shaking. With hand held cameras i liked the fact that it shakes sometime because it can show the character emotions of the Jock being scared about something, also it adds dramatic impact too. 

Adobe Premier Pro
Something that was a big impact towards our film would be the software Adobe Premier Pro. Adobe Premier Pro is an editing software allowing you to encode and input footage and soundtracks in the timeline task bar. Adobe Premier Pro allows you to combine your footage together to make short videos or short films. For our preliminary and final outcome to an opening to a teen horror movie in my group we all used Adobe Premier Pro to edit the footage. We learnt how to cut and add in effects to overlay the top of the video making the footage darker, I learnt how to input a soundtrack into the video and how to change the fade ins and outs to the soundtrack so it gradually builds up the tension throughout the opening scene. In a similar way I also figured out how to change the sound in the footage, Sometimes it needed to be louder than the other footage therefore i knew how to do that. Also in our horror opening we had titles. This is something we learnt from using Adobe Premier Pro. We got to change the transitions if we wanted them to fade in and out or scroll up and then go across and change the colour of these titles too. There were no difficult problems in the editing process in our opening to a horror film, it just took time to get used to and navigate around because it was all new to me however I feel a lot more confident in using Adobe Premier Pro now. Adobe Premier Pro gave myself and the group a better feeling of how to use a more professional editing software. 

Overall I didn't have many problems using the technology that were given to us. The video cameras were easy to use, the tripods were easy to set up, The websites that helped towards the research and planning process were complicated at first however the more I went on them and tried to figure out how to use them it become a lot more easier. I think I'm confident with these certain websites now and I have improved alot since the start of the year with working on these sites too. What I've learnt about technologies is how they are used in the making of different films and how they are used in certain ways to create the right look for a horror films. I've learnt that without the software the movies that we see on cinema screens wouldn't be as professional or good in anyway. This suggests that technologies and software's play an important role towards the media industry in making a professional movie. 

Question 7 Evaluation

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Looking back at the preliminary task I have progressed a lot. The first time I got to use the cameras were for the use of the preliminary task since then I have improved in my use and understanding of how a camera works. Watching back the video of the preliminary task I can see that the cutting is good and that the camera angles we used were different throughout. Sometimes on the prelim art task the camera would be unfocused and not in a good quality which is poor for the audience to watch. Also some of the cutting that had been done to the preliminary task the cutting was to quick losing some of the dialogue throughout the scene. In the preliminary task we had to include over the shoulder shots and someone walking in and out of the door and taking a seat. 

Below is a link the preliminary task and the actual horror opening we have filmed. The reason I have input these videos into this evaluation is so you can see how different they are. Comparing these videos  it shows how much are video footage has improved over the recent weeks. 

The preliminary Task

 The Horror Opening - "The Hanging"

 Comparing the preliminary task to the actual horror opening clip you can see straight away that we have improved a lot. For instance the camera angles are still not shaky due to the tripod we had been using. Our footage is now in good quality and focused making it easier for the audience to see the picture in a clearer quality. We have took into consideration the different camera angles we have used writhing the opening. Comparing this to our preliminary our camera angles weren't creative and just straight forward over the shoulder shots and long shots. In the opening to the horror film you can see different used such as point of view shots, establishing shots and close ups. 

When we get into the woods we have changed from tripod to hand held, in our preliminary task we constantly used hand held which made some of the camera angles shaky, however in our opening someone of the hand held camera angles aren't shaky this is due to improvement from the preliminary task. What I liked about our preliminary task is that when watching it back some of the angles that were shaky brought to the decision of using a hand held in the woods when filming our opening. This was due to the fact of showing fear and nervousness throughout the camera angle. This is something we wanted to show in one of our characters!

In the editing process to each of these short videos we see different use, for instance in the preliminary there isn't any sound except form the sound of the dialogue used. However in the opening to a horror film there's a little bit of sound from the dialogue. Something we had to take into consideration is the camera angles and where the characters were standing in order to be heard through the mic. This meant sometimes the characters had to be louder and then we could edit this in the editing process on adobe premiere pro. In the editing process we added certain things to our opening to our horror film such as effects of a black layer to darken the footage, also we had to import a soundtrack now comparing this to our preliminary task all we had were basic clips. You can see as well how we have improved through our preliminary task to the opening to a horror by our editing. Such as becoming a lot more confident in changing certain aspects of the opening to make it a lot more chilling. Due to the cutting in our preliminary take as said above sometimes it was cut to quick so you could barely make out some of the speech. However other than that the cutting on the preliminary task was done to a good standard and it had a constant flow throughout with no stops or little messy cuts at all. In the final outcome to our horror opening we can see that the editing is a lot more smoother and slick, the different editing is cut to a good standard and has improved a lot the edits with the sound track also fades in well at certain points gradually getting louder and building up tension which is something we wanted in our final outcome. 

 Frame 1

From this frame we can see the use of a phone or mobile. Something that i realized when we look at this frame more closely is you can see the reflection of the camera on the screen of the phone. One thing that is good about this frame is from the rest of the other frames this is the only frame that has been focused in good quality. We could take this in the opening to a horror film and use it as a stalking technique of say the jock reading her text and then becoming a little bit more scared and turning around. This is something to take into account if we were to keep on filming for an actual film. However watching back our opening to a horror movie i would say just about the whole video was in good quality and focused well too.

Frame 2

Something that I took down into my notes when watching this back would be how the cutting here is off time with the flow of the footage. This means it's a little bit jumpy and a little bit of a slow start. What we wanted was a little bit more flow to keep the consistency up. However comparing this to our actual opening to a horror film I think our editing was a lot better and we never cut at a late time it had a consistent flow throughout which was really good because it gave the opening a bit more of a professional outlook. 

Frame 3 and 4

From both of these frames we see Erica walking through a door. This is something that was needed in the preliminary task and useful because if we had something to do with walking into a room in our opening to a horror film it was easy to edit and a great way to show us how to cut something at one point then at another point.

If you watch carefully at Erica walking through the door she waits for about 1 second then walks. This shows again because only it's our first try at the editing process here that it's not been cut at the right point. This is something that has improved a lot in the actual opening to a horror film footage because when watching this back it is flowing constantly. 

Frame 5 and 6
From these 2 shots we see "Over the Shoulder Shots". This is something that we liked in our preliminary task and wanted to use in our film however there was never an appropriate point to it. There wasn't a lot of dialogue in the opening scene however in the group we said if we were to carry on filming we would of used a couple of over the shoulder shots because there easy and show a good use of editing skills. However what I've noticed again is when Erica goes to speak we hear about 1 second of what she is saying and then it cuts. Which is again shows that the cutting was done to quick. However in the opening to a horror film we improved a lot by cutting to soon you could hear the dialogue which was in the film clear and it ran smoothly alongside the soundtrack that had been composed. 

Frame 7

On this clip we see that the footage isn't in focus which is something worked a lot on in our horror opening because we wanted the best quality you could get for the opening scene. However another point about this clip would be that because for this whole preliminary task we were using a hand held camera which meant it caused some scenes to shake a lot. Including this one where the camera slowly followed where I was going, The footage is very shaky which is what drove us for our opening to a horror film to use a tripod for most of the footage walking towards the woods then to use a hand held when we got into the woods to present as the stalker following the jock. Also the shakiness of the camera represents the breathing of the stalker/killer in the opening to a horror film it also represents the nervousness of the jocks character.

Frame 8

From this frame we see a middle shot of Erica and myself. Showing the different camera angles of who has the higher status over who. For instance Erica was higher than myself when she walked in thinking that i wouldn't suss out her game then when they were talking they were on the same level and then when i got up it showed by the camera angles that I had a higher status. This is something that we wanted to work on a lot more in the opening to a horror film, We liked showing different camera angles to show different interpretations of each character. This is what we did in the horror opening. We used this a lot in the opening especially in the woods scenes with the jock and the killer. 

Frame 9

In this frame again right at the end of the scene we cut to early at the point where I walk out of the door. It would be a lot better to see myself storm of out of the shot then cut because it would have been more appropriate. Again this is something we kept a clear eye on when editing for the horror opening. 

I think from looking back at the preliminary and comparing it to the horror opening the only thing that were not so good in the preliminary would of been the cutting and the quality of the footage. This is something that we took into consideration alot to get the outcome of the opening to a horror film and from looking back at the opening to a horror film we improved a lot on these different aspects. Overall from looking at the preliminary task, which was our first time looking at the camera and working with it, comparing it with the horror film opening you can see how much we have improved as a group towards the final outcome of the video footage. Certain areas we have improved on more than others. The titles fading in out and the clean smooth cutting and the fades in and out for the soundtrack are all well edited to create our final outcome of the horror opening, I think without the preliminary task we wouldn't of had the general basic understanding of how to edit the opening. Also without the preliminary task being set I don't think our final outcome would of been very successful. This is due to the fact we have learnt everything we needed to know in our preliminary task and on the way we can develop our skills a lot more in creating and editing a opening to a teen horror movie. 

The Hanging

From all my previous blog posts and research...

This is the finish product to our short opening to a horror film..

Introducing...

The Hanging

Enjoy.

Film by:

Chloe Watret

Erica Hall

Caitlin Browne

Roles and Responsibilities

This is a table of the roles and responsibilities within the group. These are task that had to be done in order to start or make the opening to a horror film. Some of these roles and responsibilities were shared roles which means they were either done in a pair or as the whole group. Above in the table you will find what every member within the group did to help produce the final outcome to a teen horror opening. As you can see my responsibilities included the following: Making a soundtrack, Props, Editing the soundtrack and any other aspects including sounds or music, getting my own costume, the jocks costume (with the other members)  and the killers costume. Making the script (with the others) coming up with the casting and uploading the final outcome to You Tube and advertising this over Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr for the target audience.