Question 4 - Who would be your audience for your media project?

Due to the thriller/horror genre my main target audience is young/middle aged males. This is because of the thriller kind of feel. Also this may also be aimed at the same age women because of the chick flick feel in it too, although the genre isn’t a chick flick aspects of the film fall into that category such as the ‘dumb blonde’ and stereotyped character. This therefore means my film will get a wider audience.

I Think they type of people who would come to watch this film would be the people who would usually go to see a film that would be on edge and rather mainstream. I don’t think this movie would fit people of a younger age as it may be complicated for them with all that is going on. Also there would be an age limit of 12 maybe 15 which would create a barrier for younger views. Id set this age limit on it as I feel that’s what would be suitable. I believe this movie will be most popular in the UK and America where there are main ‘blockbusters’ and would be shown in as many cinemas as possible.

What kind of media institustion might distribute your media product and why?

I would aim to get my movie into and distributed by a mainstream company such as universal studios. The target audience would be for people who watch main stream films and that would maybe look to see what these mainstream companies are working with. In order for my film to get the audience I want I need to and getting my film to be seen by many people as possible I need it to go through a bug main stream company. Looking into my research companies such as fox and Sony did a great job in 2006 getting their films into the top 20 films of the year. Even though this statistic is a little out dated the results still kind of lay in the same form.

 

 

 

 

 

The genre of my film fits into the mainstream band best as it would be a Hollywood fit kind of film. I would aim for the film to be seen as a ‘blockbuster’ as the mainstream films have the biggest audience. Escapism is one of their main reasons to go to the cinema and they successfully draw people in due to trailers mainly the genre of the story.

 

The marketing elements would be

-          Genre

-          Attached talent (director / cast)

-          Identifiable audience

-          Date

-          Quantity

Question 2 - how does your media product reprent particular social groups

Each of my characters represent different kinds of people. Beginning with the character male character who is not named in the opening scene, he is a mysterious character whom no one knows anything about the age of the man and the way he is dressed and p-resents himself with broad shoulders walking tall places him as an important person who can come across as intimidating and scary. Small things such as the way he walks and his facial expressions help portray this look and feel to the character, the3 way he doesn’t speak means he is being purely judged by the way he looks.

Secondly there is Jess who is the typical blonde stereotype who come across as rather ditsy a in her own world. In most of the horrors I watched such as cabin in the woods there is one of these stereotyped blondes so I went along with the same idea, this may help set the feel of the genre. Although this is the character I directed to go and look around for ‘something to eat’ so this is kind of going against her stereotype of a scared fragile little blonde girl but straight away as she sees the figure at the door her scream and running fits her usual  stereo type falls back into place.

Next there is Katie who comes across as confident teenage girl. She is the ‘cocky’ character who comes across as not being scared, usually you would find another character like this in a horror/thriller who ends up becoming the target just like in the film scary movie which is a mick take of the film scream. This brings an element of comedy into my film which would be uncovered as the film carries on.

The final character Lauren is a worried and panicked teenage girl. She is the opposite to the character Katie and is the one who panics the most. These characters are represented like many teenagers in society today, you usually come across a couple of friends that completely contradict one another in their appearance and behaviours. This gives the film more of a chic flick feel that changes the genre slightly having these characters may lead to a rider range of people as a target audience.

 

 

 

 

Question 1 - in what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventiohns of real media products

 

Rough Cut 1

Changes made when filming

I made some small changes to the scenes and characters whilst filming. The main difference I did was the costume, I felt them being in clothes made it look as if they had been out for the evening or day meaning the male may have been following them or watching the house while they were gone helping the mise-en-scene. Another thing I changes was the characters personalities, especially the character Katie’ she had a very bold personality who came across and the ‘tough’ and ‘cocky’.

New Script

Phone is ringing; hand reaches over to pick it up

Katie – Hello

Man – Hello, is there a parent or guardian there I could possibly talk to?

Katie – No sorry they won’t be back for the rest of the week

The man just hangs up and there is a cut to three different girls looking beaten up and messy

Girl one – I was home alone

Girl two – I was home alone

Girl three – I was home alone

Cut to a dark street with a tall man walking down it towards a house, he pauses and looks over at the house staring for a while.

Cut to girls bedroom setting, Lauren and Jess sat on the bed playing with phones and painting nails not speaking waiting for Katie to return to the room after phone call.

Katie returns to room

Lauren – Who was that?

Katie – just some sales person I think

Jess – have you heard the rumours about that guy?

Lauren – the one that attacked those girls?

Katie – oh that’s just a load of shit

Lauren – I don’t think it is my mum even saw something in the news paper

Jess  - we’re probably worrying about nothing

Katie – agreed anyway I’m starving let’s get something to eat

Jess – I’ll go have a look

Jess runs down stairs with all the lights already on straight into the kitchen, looking through different cupboards she walks towards the glass doors where she sees a figure outline of a male

Jess – Lauren Lauren! There’s someone there I swear! At the doors!

Frantically running up the stairs and tripping over Emily enters the bed room again.

Katie – Laughing it’s probably that guy

Katie tries making a joke out the situation not believing what jess has said

Lauren – I’ll go have a look!

Walking down the stairs to the kitchen, she doesn’t see the male standing about a meter away from her there’s a cut to the door handle and a loud slam of the door slamming cutting to the reaction from Jess and katie