MEDIA GENRE

Genre E: Horror

The music has a slow beat and a low pitch. It creates a tense setting as it is very eerie, The mise en scene in the opening credits is the beautiful landscape and the lone car gliding down the road, this shot is a birds eye view shot that is slowly zooming into the car suggesting that the people in the car are the protagonists. The establishing and long shots in the scene also adds to the tension as we can see how vast and empty the landscape is, the tension is created because the car keeps going further into the landscape and there are no signs of civilisation; this gets the audience asking what where to happen if they got into trouble? The tension is futher enhanced by the music speeding up and the birds eye shot shows a thin road with thick plants and trees swallowing up the lonely car as if it is implying that the occupants are going to get caught up in something. When the scene starts and the establishing shot of the river comes on, the audience see the surface and the reflections of the hills and mountains around the river. However, we can't see 'beneath' the surface and this makes the audience contemplate about what couls actually happen. The opening scene establishes that there will be some sort of twist to the movie as it is to innocent to carry on the way that it is.

Genre D : Thriller/action

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - this has a soundtrack that has a very fast beat and a high pitch. It is very intimidating and along with the dark animated visuals and a series of close-ups and mid-shots that follow each other with quick succession the audience can interprete that this is going to be a film with a lot of action. The mise en scene aspect of the opening scene is very dark low key lighting. The opening scene has an element of confusion added to it by the really weird props added to the scene with the random key board and fire bird and there being no link between them. The low key lighting however shows that this film is going to be very action packed and cold in the way events unfold. 

Genre C: Action/fantasy

The music in this movie is loud and slow paced and melodious. We see a panning shot of the scene that introduces the audience to the theme of the movie. The visuals are of animated objects and a child's hands, here close ups and mid shots are used at low angles. They are in series and this gives us a view from a child's perspective. Mise en scene: high key lighting childish costumes on the toys and the location of the scene is in a bedroom. This automatically tells us that this movie is targeted towards the whole family. We can see it will be an adventure movie that will have a bad twist, but it will inevitably turn out to have a happy ending-movie genre conventions. With the opening credits we can see that this movie will be an adventure/comedy that is family friendly. 

Genre B:Horror/comedy

Here the movie zombieland uses heavy metal music with a voice over that is very creepy but in a way funny. The visuals are close-ups and long shots of  the chaotic world, this is especially illustrated when the first shot is upside down and tilted slightly to confuse the audience. As the scene progresses we see a lot of mid shots showing people doing everyday tasks, but with zombies attacking them, again infering that this movie will have comedy involved with it. The element of confusion is also boosted by the fact that most of the scenes are in slow motion but the heavy metal non-diegetic music is still playing. Also the way that rules of survival are listed and random hilarious visuals are played bahind them again enhances the comedy theme that the opening scene is trying to establish. It establishes comedy/horror genre due to the music and visual contradictions.

Genre A:Action/Western

The movie The Good the Bad and the Ugly is a western style film that has loud and slow paced music that is recorded on a harmonica. The animated visuals also add to the fact that this movie will be a western, with the cartoon horse and cowboy at this point the audience can start to think ahead and think about duals, chases on horses and shoot outs in bars. Then the font of the credits that appear over pictures of the scenes in the movie have a western cowboy theme to them. That again establishes that this movie will be a classic and that it will involve action. 

final product

Final product

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

What we have learnt

To begin with we learnt a lot from the mistakes in the pleminary task. Our pleminary task was really bad, but had signs of great potential. We were not very good with the camera shot, the acting was bad and the camera man had no idea of what he was doing. Once we finished the pleminary task we had learnt how to avoid these problems and how to actually create a piece that would impress not only the examiner but our class. As seen in the pictures below we had made some mistakes with the 180 degree rule, but also pulled off an excellent match-on-action shot. 

Our biggest problem however, was the camera shaking our camera man even with the tripod couldn't stop the camera from shaking, this was a massive problem this was something that couldn't happen in our actual task and thanfully with more practice and a shot we found very handy the POV. Also the pleminary task allowed us to find out new things about imovie like how to mute all sound in the movie and manipulate the visuals to look darker or brighter. The most important thing we learnt was how to piece together a movie that would make sense to the audience, by this I mean where a sequence of events are pieced together in a logical order. 

 

Another shot that again worked well for us and this was all thanks to the practice that we had when doing the pleminary task. Without that experience are movie wouldn't be very successful at all. Once we asked for a better tripod and managed to figure out how the camera worked and sorted out what mode the camera should be on, we finally had the confidence to go on and film our opening scene. 

our reaction video

How did you attract/address your audience?

 Audience

We wanted our movie to be an action/thriller that would surprise our audience. We wanted to target a young audience between 15-25 a large age gap, but we believed that this age group of people would want to watch our movie. Also females and males would both be up for watching our movie. We also did secondary research and found that many people between that age group liked the genre of our movie. We also believe that at the age mentioned above many people like doing things that give them a thrill. We also looked at movies that were massive successes such as The Dark Knight Rises and figured out what made the movie such a success. We also looked at Shutter Island and how the mysterious theme in the movie made it such a success. We had to avoid anything that wasn't serious enough in our movie we couldn't have our characters smiling sarcastically or anything of that nature. 

 

 

Here we have our directors cut of our movie. We explain what is occurring in each scene and it makes a more sense about what is occurring. One thing I realised is that our opening scene focused on 'surprising' the audience too much and might have  not made sense to them. However if we were to carry on with our movie it would have made sense to our audience as the narrative would have been similar to Shutter Island, but not as in depth ours would have a more blunt narrative but it would still give the audience an explanation of what is going on in our narrative

what type of media institution would distrubute our media product

The media institution we chose

The media institution we would have produce and distribute our media product is Cipher films. This is because the company isn't a massive Hollywood production company. Our movie would also not have a massive international release it would be a national UK release only. Cipher films is also known for releasing small independent releases such as Kidulthood and adULThood.  We would prefer if our movie was released through major cinemas such as Odeon. I would prefer Cipher films to distribute my media product as they have got experience with distributing action/thriller genres as seen it the example above with adULThood. Also the company is familiar with smaller national releases of movies and this would make it suitable for us.

Another company that could distribute our movie very well is Film4. This company is famous for many UK release only movies. the company has released movies such as; 12 Years A Slave, 127 Hours and The inbetweeners. These movies have been some of the best success stories. If we have the right company distributing our production we could make it a success. Film4 has had experience with selling almost every genre movie that is around whereas Cipher films hasn't got this experience. To conclude Film4 is also more established than Cipher films and this makes it a more desirable choice for us.

technologies during the process of constructing the opening scene

technologies during the process of constructing the opening scene

I see that the use of cut of dialogue gains more attention from the audience as it brings more confusion to the audience and they really want to know what happens therefore they carry on watching. At first, we had dialogue in and it just practically explained what happened so we thought we'd cut the dialogue to get the audiences attention.

We learnt that using a P.O.V shot of the person being tortured gets the audiences attention, because it makes you feel like the character, therefore we used it to make the audience feel like they are being tortured and they enjoyed it.