evaluation task 1

The title of our film is called delirium insanity; this was a name we were partially inspired by horror movies, and shows, which involved a psychotic stalker and a child or teenager losing their mind over constantly getting stalked by the psycho. The font we used for this title “forest films” was a simple yet effective font which could be used predominantly for horror films, the colour is white and it works well, as well as that the letter and styling isn’t anything too bold.

The setting location for our trailer was predominantly in the oxshott scout huts during the night-time. We felt this was a good location because it was easy and efficient to travel to in comparison to somewhere like London, where it would be harder, but also it would be easier and we felt like we could get a great amount of footage. The night was perfect to adhere to our horror genre, adding to the eeriness and further entices the audience.

we used a few costumes and props for our trailer, this was so that it would further increase the effectiveness of our trailer and make it more interesting for our target audience, we used a horse mask and a “blood”, stricken t-shirt with rips everywhere, this was to make it seem more realistic and adding to the fear factor, the audience would be more scared by this, and entice them further. We had wanted originally to use a hockey mask but we had to make do with the horse mask.

Our trailer obviously quite clearly suggests that it is a horror genre movie, the fact that our trailer is almost always has a dark element to it and is set in the night for the most part suggests it, but also the dark, dingy, eerie music goes well with this to further connote this, it suggests danger and spookiness, and gives an almost ambient aura towards the target audience,. Also the main antagonist is a psycho in a horse mask that also humorously connotes it.

Although unfortunately you can’t see the shot very well, due to the dark lighting, we see the characters being introduced in the trailer first through the main protagonist, who is quietly walking in the dark, dingy forest by himself, the antagonist is then introduced straight after in the form of a “psycho” stalker, who is quite clearly after our protagonist, this series of events happens very quick, this adds to the effectiveness, because the audience would be enticed and want to see more of the trailer.

we included a lot of camera work and editing in our trailer, while most of it was match-on-action, we included a lot of fast-paced shots for example this in particular details, the main antagonist being kicked by the protagonist, this forces him to stumble back, the shot itself is very fast and happens for only 2 split seconds, the lighting is also dark, it is simple yet effective.

 

Within the trailer our story is vague and short, it mainly talks about a teenager who is walking through the forest on his own, without any help or assistance, this is when the main antagonist finds him, and this is a psychotic stalker with a horse mask, who wants to either murder or kidnap him. The story is set up fast-paced within the trailer as we felt in a horror genre trailer if there was not much story then it would further interest and entice the audience.

The title and font style of the credits in our movie was simple yet effective, we first made the font colour white, then added the red font style colour, this makes it more creepy because it connotes blood, and violence both of which are common and prevalent in typical horror genre movies. We made the font style not too bold either so that it would further be easy to spot, and play with the audience’s mind of what is about to take place, and the events of our movie.

Within our trailer we didn’t add much special effect; the only ones which were obvious were the quick match-on-action shots, and the fast paced cuts. This was mainly because we felt it might make it too flashy and not good for a horror movie. And or it could reduce the realism of our trailer.

evaluation task 4

Evaluation task 4

while in our as media studies filming project, we decided to do a action film, during our a2 media studies film project we decided to do something a bit more challenging, therefore we opted to do a horror movie. This would prove more challenging than last year because we didn't have access to many props that would inevitably be needed in a horror movie, to make it look realistic and effective. another choice we made was that we decided to set the location for our trailer in the oxshott scout huts, this was a interesting choice, because although we used the same location last year, we didn't use it to the full extent and effectiveness that we did this time, for example last year in our trailer there was a scene where it went from being in the morning to night time all of a sudden, we decided not to make such a mistake the second time around, therefore it was all night-time in our most recent trailer. 

a effect/transition we opted for was during the process was to make our footage a series of quick-snap shots, and to make the cuts really quick, so for example we would have one scene where the protagonist is walking in the dark forest, all of a sudden it cuts to the antagonist with the horse mask right behind him, it had to be quick, because in real life movie directors and producers spend millions on advertising their movies. so we opted for it to be quick and effective, this was a simple yet great effect, because it added to the eeriness of the trailer therefore making it adhere to the horror genre much more.

This effect was intended to make the target audience be enticed by the trailer, this would play on their emotions and add a enigma, so that the audience would be left confused, puzzled and wanting to find out more about the trailer/movie therefore adding to the psychological effect, so they would actually want to watch it on the big screen. the audience would have these emotions and we would use them to the full extent as much as we could, to ensure our trailer would have as much views and success as we could possibly achieve. this showed progression of skills also because during our first year we weren't entirely sure about how to use the lighting to its full advantage, so we didn't really use it very well, during our second trailer however, we used it more effectively enhancing it at certain points and making it darker to adhere once again to the horror genre better and more effectively.

overall it was better than our production last year because last year we didn't take advantage of the sound, editing, lighting and camera angles very well, in certain scenes the sound didn't even make sense and was peculiar. in our more recent one we made sure the sound, lighting and editing all fitted in well with the genre, our intention and generally made sure it was better.

evaluation task 3

Audience Feedback:
Most of the people feedback, was people talking about certain criticisms, or positive moments within our trailer, one notable criticism was that our trailer was a bit too short and dark, as our trailer was only 52 seconds, so therefore we could have made this much longer by around 1 min and 20 seconds or so fourth. Also our trailer was considered to be too dark, however this in part was because our trailer is a horror movie trailer, therefore we had to make it dark and eerie so that it could fit in with the actual genre of the movie trailer. therefore we did this on purpose for its intended look, so that we could make the trailer as effective as possible.

Another general criticism of our trailer is that we didn't really include any dialogue, this perhaps was a mistake on our part, however we also weren't sure if dialogue was really necessary for a trailer of our genre, as perhaps the sound effects and eeriness wouldn't be as effective. However supposedly we could have included some phrases from some of the actors in our film, this would have made it better according to the audience feedback. dialogue however in my opinion would be better for trailers of comedy or more family-fun genre, however we still; could have added it, it just would have made more sense for it to be in a film of comedic humour.

some positive points of our film was that the audience seemed to adhere to the dark nature of our trailer, they liked the dark colour and bloodiness of the font, this was our intention so this was well received. they also thought that they music in the background fit in well with our horror/genre type trailer, as well as that they thought it added effectiveness and eeriness to it. another positive point was that it entices the audience effectively, however then it comes back to the fact that our trailer was too short, therefore all the positives were sort of overpowered by the negatives.

the audience didn't really mention anything else apart from the aforementioned points above, they could have talked and criticised about our different camera shots, angles our location among others, I guess this was because our trailer was fairly short.

Digital technology*

AS coursework reflection:

digital technology:
we used different technologies at different stages during our research, planning and evaluation, this includes such as you tube, blogger, adobe Photoshop, adobe premier elements and Microsoft publisher. we used YouTube to upload the videos such as the audience feedback, the analysis, our actual final trailer as well as various outtakes we had to cut from the final trailer. we used blogger, to actually write up the posts about our entire journey, and the final trailer was instilled in blogger. Also we put the outtakes within blogger as well as our planning and research, that all had to be put within blogger. we used adobe Photoshop to make our magazine cover, although this could have been done on publisher as well, this was done at A2, while in as we didn't create the magazine cover or the poster. there are better effects on Photoshop, and we made it look better by using Photoshop. and adobe premier elements was used for our actual film, we had to film the different scenes and use it to edit it and edit out certain stuff, such as shots, scenes and the music.

we used equipment such as digital camera which was used for recording the actual footage we would use for our trailer. we also used a computer to upload the footage onto, and then edit out any scenes or shots we didn't need and compile it so that it became a whole trailer. The pros and cons of the software and hardware involved were the fact that adobe Photoshop, was quite difficult and complicated to use for people not used to that sort of software, publisher however was much easier to use, although perhaps not as impressive, it still was good enough. the hardware was good/decent to film with, the camera had fairly easy functions to use with, however the camera was shaky at times and so we used a tripod to rectify this issue in A2, in our as production however the filming could have been improved by more lighting however and in our footage there was a scene, where it went from light to dark, this made the filming less professional and not as good quality as our a2, the software such as adobe premier elements was also quite complicated to use with, as only one of our group really knew how to properly utilize it, so perhaps our film trailer overall was not as efficient, in our A2 however we had a much better idea how to use it therefore we edited and put together the trailer much better during A2.

audience film feedback

Audience Film Feedback:

Film: Delirium insanity

Delirium Insanity: