Filmed Evaluation

Weekly Update 04/4/11

Today we have evaluated other groups videos and had our production evaluated. We were surprised about some of the high marks that we got. Some of the comments we were given were more than justified as we agreed with the faults mentioned.

Finished Horror Film

Weekly update 30/3/11

Tomorrow is the deadline so today we are finishing our editing. Our film is coming together, but is still not as good as we originally hoped for. But hopefully we will be okay.

Test Shot

 With make up

Without make up

As you can see, the make up we used is very minimal

Question 9 - What was your contribution to the process during the planning, production and post-production stages?

My contribution towards the planning of the film was to help think of the original plot in which we all threw our ideas together and came out with our story and the title with ‘Don’t Turn Around’ with was thought of by me. During the production we all took turns in directing and filming various shot types e.g. close ups and long shots. I also arranged the actor for our group on the date that Mart had scheduled as he sorted out our location. During the post production stage, I didn't have that much input on the editing, but mainly focussed on sorting the blog out and making sure that was up to date. James and I originally created a soundtrack but we decided not to use this one and another was created. I have had an input in putting sound onto the film which we have done very recently.

Question 4 - How does your media product represent particular social groups?

The horror genre typically represents a number of different social groups as all different types of people can like different things, but traditionally social groups that most view horror films would be people between the ages of 15-21, mostly male. This may be because people under the age of 15 may be too scared to watch these types of things and people older may not have enough time.

When filming, we used a male actor as we knew that males consumed the most horror films. The clothes that were used were not typical clothing for conventional horror films, as the clothing was very plain. Other mise-en-scene such as make up was also not used in a conventional horror film way as would be thought of, as we didn’t use things like dark black eyeliner, just very faint make up that wasn't noticeable.

As shown on the photos below, the make up we have used is not obvious at all and the actor we have used is male.