part 2 of foundation portfolio questions 5, 6 & 9 Sophie

How did you attract your audience?

As the target audience of most horror films are typically teenagers we decided that we also would use this audience. We did research and decided the film we would take inspiration from would be ‘let the right one in’ we used actors of a similar age to are audience group. We decided that we would use an urban setting with a simple task taking place (walking home from work) making it realistic to something are audience would do on a daily basis. We decided that if our film was to be certified we would class it as a 15. This is a broad certificate making sure that people of the right age category are able to view are film and so it is not over categorised (18) so that the majority of our target audience are unable to view it or under categorised (12) were the content of the film is either not suitable for that rating or the content of the film isn’t scary enough to intrigue a teenage audience.

 It was reviewed by fifteen students within my class. Out of sixty, the film scored an average of 55.4, the lowest score being 40 and the highest being 55. Our feedback from our film was generally quite positive saying ‘good soundtrack, fitted well to the context’ ‘good editing’  ‘location was realistic and a good choice’ however we did too get criticisms of the film being ‘too dark’ and ‘lack of continuity when running’ some people thought we should have had ‘longer titles’ and that the struggle between the girl and vampire was ‘unrealistic’.

When filming we needed to consider how our target audience would view our film, we made it so our film was easily accessible to our target market we did this in a number of ways:

Actors- in our film we used actors that would also be the age group of our target audience, doing this make the audience feel vulnerable and compassionate towards the victim as they have a shared common interest.

Music- in our film we have also used music that is relevant for contemporary teenage audiences. Of course we would make this music and because of the contrast in noise

test shot of how we wanted are victim to look

Mise- en-scene- we set the scene in a rundown estate with a girl walking home this is also relatable to the audience as most of them watching would have also experienced something similar to this in their daily life, antagonist who is also the vampire is also modern in appearance and wears modern clothes suggesting that he blends into the crowd easily.

Coat vampire was wearing to blend in 

what kind of media institution would distribute your film?

Many British horror films such as “28 days later” by Danny Boyle are much like the style of filming we aspire the beginning of our horror film to be like, this is because it is very fast moving and uses a range of camera angles sometimes breaking the 180° rule. The film “28 days later” was produced by The British Film Council and DNA films; it was distributed worldwide by 20^th Century Fox.  Our film relates to “28 days later as we also use an urban setting for our film. There is also a lack of people in the opening which is also similar to our film as the main protagonist thinks she’s alone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H-T7RPvt2k

The jobs I did in my media group were filming, cutting film, editing film and adding titles and transferring the music to put that onto the film. In planning I did storyboarding, make up design, the film pitch the recce sheet and finding the actors to be in our film. I have also done evaluation questions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,6 & 9.