Question 7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Plan...

Question 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Question 5: How did you attract/ address your audience?

Question 4: Who would be the audience for your media product?

The Audience that I have chosen for my horror film is people who enjoy the genre of horror, especially those who particularly enjoy psychological horror films that involve young children. I chose to give my film the age restriction of ‘15’, and aim specifically at teenagers and young adults. I chose not to set the age restriction at '12', because the film is too scary for such a young audience. I then decided that if I were to increase the rating to '18' then a majority of my potential audience members would not be able to go and see the film, I also do not believe that it was graphic enough or scary enough to qualify for a rating of ‘18’. 

The specific type of people that I am targeting my film specifically towards would be males aged 15- 24 and women aged 24-3. These people may like films, such as 'insidious'

Question 3: What kind of media institution might distribute your film?

The institution will be an important factor as to whether the film will be successful and how much money it will make. A good institution will be recognisable to the audience and may draw in viewers thus increasing the profit of the film. However, I had to be realistic when choosing my institution, this is because my film is only small budget, so I needed to choose a relatively small institution to distribute my film.

I will use be using 'Filmdistrict' Film company to distribute my horror film, because it is small and welcomes small films it has also distributed relatively big budget, well known films, such as; insidious - a horror film that gave me the ideas for my horror film. As 'Filmdistrict' distributed insidious it may be well known to potential viewers, they may see the institution and link it to insidious, instantly having high expectations for my film and potentially making them more likely to watch it. Alongside Insidious 'Filmdistrict' has distributed a couple of other big films, these include; 'olympus' has fallen' and 'dead man down', both films of the horror genre.

To produce and make my film I would apply for a BFI Film Fund..

http://www.bfi.org.uk/film-industry/lottery-funding-development-production

This would mean that I would be able to re-film with a higher budget and therefore draw in more customers and gain a higher profit.

Question 2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Women are stereotypically represented as vulnerable, naive and powerless without men. Women are typically chosen as victims, as they are more dramatic, fit in with the damsel in distress idea and are feeble. This is seen as the man (husband/father) is out of town on a business trip and the woman is unable to look after her small child by herself. By using a female main character, especially a mother, I hope to attract more female viewers, as they may be able to relate to the mother.

A young female girl is used to represent the innocent nature of small children, especially little girls, it doesn't sound as though the girl was forced to leave the house and so represents them as naive and trusting of people that may not wish them well.

The family is middle class, this was a decision that was carefully made, as I wanted to show to the audience that although in real life it seems as though bad things only happen to the poor, middle class people are also affected. I wanted to show that no matter how much money you have you are never safe, you will never be secure, not even in your own house.

Question 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Planning:

Editing my film

This video describes how I edited my film clips and how I sequenced them together. I found final cut pro very difficult to operate, as I have no experience using the software or actually editing. I feel that due to my lack of experience with editing and short time period in which to edit my clips are not as finished and professional looking as they could do. 

Final film opening - Wheres Teddy?

Please watch my film opening in a small size, as the big size will show a blurry image:

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