Evaluation Activity 4 - target audience

I believe that our target audience would look like this, and would be interested in horror films.
They look like they would also be interested in sci/fi films too, so that's why i believe that they would like our film as its more crime than it is horror as we don't involve any blood or gore in our film, so they might like the fact you have to try and work out what has happened to both girls. As their tastes would appear to be in crime, they might watch TV dramas like 'The Killing' which involve murders on a day to day basis, however the TV series bases the programme on the investigation and finding about the crime itself. It has the element of horror involved in it, but not to the extent where its scary as such its mainly used to build up tension and creates the sense of suspicion, which is what we tried to relate in our film so that's why i believe this audience would enjoy our film as ours isn't scary or gory.

This type of audience would shop in places such as HMV, Game and skate shops. The reason for this is because they seem like they would be into their music, which would be either heavy metal or rock just from the way they dress and look. Also in game i think they would play Xbox quite a lot on games such as Grand Theft Auto and Call Of Duty which both show elements of violence in them and shooting and theft which all relate to crime scenes as you can kill people, the heavy metal and rock music could also link to this as its very loud and can be seen as aggressive. This would make them want to watch our film as it ends on a Cliff hanger so it makes you want to carry on watching it to see what happened and as they like the crime and investigations they would want to try and work our what happened. The only problem that may occur is that they play games involving shooting and killing however our two minutes opening doesn't show any of that, so that might be the only thing putting them off, however there is nothing to say that, that wouldn't happen later on in the film once they find the missing girl so that might entice them to watch.

Evaluation Activity 2

 I have chosen to use one of our main characters, Georgia, to be compared to the girl out of the horror film ' scream' . There are many similarities that both these characters share, such as their hair colour being typically blond a convention of a horror film as blonde's are normally stereotyped with being easy victims as there are 'stupid' and 'dumb' both of them are also pretty which is another convention as a pretty female is normally used as a victim to attract different audiences and to show they are weak and more vulnerable. The facial expressions both express some kind of shock, which makes them link in well with horror films and something bad has clearly happened. This is shown in different ways though as the girl from scream is on the phone to her attacker and therefore they might have said something to her that has scared her as she is reaching for the door handle, where she could possibly be locking the door or going out to see/do what the attacker has told her to do. Georgia, however, looked shocked and scared in a different way as she seems to be focused on one thing and has more of a panic expression than scared. Another way to link these together is the fact their mouths are open suggesting they could be about to scream and the fact the girls eyes in scream are closed could indicate that she has just seen something out the window too.

Both of the girls are wearing similar clothing, which is casual as you can see earlier on in the film. This means that they obviously both didn't realise anything would happen as they are just in normal everyday clothes either on their way home from somewhere or just having a night in, so they link together as it shows in both situations they were not expecting this. Both these girls also play the same role in the films as they are both the victims which relates them, and that something 'unexpected' happens to them.

Evaluation- Story and how the opening sets it up (frame 8)

Our oppening of our two actors set up our story line as it shows them happily talking and just casually walking as if nothing bad is expected to happen. This shot sets it up nicely as the sun is out and the setting looks bright and quite pretty, compared to the woods were it is dark and gloomy. Our story line starts off with just two innocent girls supposedly walking back home on their way back from school, as this shot clearly shows this happening. From this oppening shot the audience wouldnt suspect any thing horrible or unexpected to happen.

However the music at the start is quite slow and quite and sounds creepy which gives it away but leaves the auidence guessing as to what could happen. As the film goes on you can start guessing the plot to our film and the setting turns cold and sinister compared to this shot. This shot also seems reasonably open compared to the woods where its compact with trees, which makes it seem creppier as you dont know what is behind or within them. They are also walking over a bridge, and you cant see what is at the otherside, so it sets up our story well as the auidence wont know they are about to go into the woods, as it looks like they are just walking on a normal path.

Evaluation -Special Effects (frame 7)

We used special effects with sound on this frame, when the figure walks past the music suddenly sharpens and get creppier and louder. This was effective as it would grab the audiences attention and by the way the music sounded they knew that the figure shouldnt be there and that something would happen. This special effect wasnt visual unlike the ending, but compared to the background music it was diffent and was used as a special effect.

At the end we used a blurred and faded effect on Georgias face to show the emotion on her face and emphise the fact she is scared and panicking about the situation. When we edited this shot we made the flashback effect in time with her breathing so it made it more effective. This didnt go as well as we had hoped as some of it isnt in time. The effect of thisalso makes it look a bit creepy and the fact she is so scared now could mean something has just happened to her or is about to. The length of the shot is 5 seconds which is one of our longest shots, this creates tension and leaves the audience in suspense as they dont know what has happened.

Evaluation 1- camera work and editing (frame 6)

we used this close up shot to emphasise why our actor stopped and to show that she is more vulnerable as she is now at a low angle. The reason as to why we took some close ups was because they are the conventions of a horror film to show emotion and to build up tension. We rushed our film and therefore didn't use as many close up shots as we would of liked and we didn't exactly use them in the correct way as we can see any emotion through this shot. we mainly used this shot to show the focus on the shoe and that their attention is on tieing her lace and not on what might be going on around them. We knew when we put our film together that we should of used more close ups, although our close up at the end of Georgia before the scream shows the emotion on her face as if she has seen something,so we thought that close up shot worked well.

We tried to use a variety of shot types, so this is why we used an over the shoulder shot so we could see both characters and also get the main prop/object of our film in too. We thought it would look better if we had half of my head and shoulder in the shot as it made it more effective,because when we tried it without it didn't look as good as we couldn't see who Georgia was looking at, so that's why we showed half of my head and shoulder in the shot.

When we edited our film we used white writing and a basic font,to show who was in our film, produced, filmed and directed it. The reason we chose white was so it showed up on ever shot, clearly. We faded them in and out so that they flowed with the film and we made them last longer on the screen then we originally did so that it gives the audience chance to read it and so they show over a couple of shot. We chose to make the writing come up in the bottom right hand corner so that it wasn't in the way of any of the filming and so it looked neater. When we did our research we also found that quite a lot of films did that too.

The Unexpected Improved