Friday 23 October 2009
Friday 3 April 2009
Evaluation
Our group had aims from the beginning of producing the movie. Overall we thought we worked well as a group, if we were to do it again we would of organised our schedule much better. We had alot of re shooting to do which wasted precious time.
If we were to distribute our media product we would probably think warp X would be the institution that would represent us in the right way. We are a low budget, British company. Producing slasher movies. Obviously the movie would have to be to high standard and we would need some money to be able to invest in using these companies, so to get publicity we would put the movie on youtube and myspace for example.
We used codes and conventions from other movies to help our ideas to expand, for instance our protagonist in our movie is a counter type and showed a strong, powerful, independent woman. We were inspired my movies such as Scream, Halloween and The unborn and used inter-textual links from these movies, for example using a dutch angle which we thought worked well in scream, its a signifier of death or something bad about to happen.
Our target audience would be 15 to 24 female and males. After finishing our coursework, i would still stick with this target audience due to the nature of the movie. Our film also represents the middle class this is shown through characters accents and materials, although the accents are northern accents we still think the movie would appeal to a large british audience because of the standard of movie. All characters are heterosexual which is most likely going to appeal to a heterosexual audience. Because our audience is both male and female we believe that our movie has the 'male gaze theory' which means the female cast would attract men to watching the movie, espicaially the final girl as she is strong yet still attractive.
The movie is a fast passed slasher, with screaming girls and great gory material. These factors are what are going to catch the audiences eye and grab them to watch this terrifying movie. The social groups in which we have represented are teenage groups, this is due to our young cast.
I have learnt many different things during the process of making this movie. The two technical aspects of making the movie which i have heightened my level of knowledge on, are garageband, where i found sounds adjusted them and made them fit to my movie and Imovie, this was very easy and fun to use. I would say the thing i have got the most knowledge and help from is the group i am in, we worked well together and when someone was stuck we helped each other which is a great quality to have.
The main thing i struggled with in the preliminary task was transitions and making the movie flow. I thinking our transitions in our movie work well and if we hadn't of done a preliminary task then we would have struggled. The preliminary task helped us show what sources we had to use, when we did the real thing we used the basic things but then we also found new things such as sound levels on our heartbeat. Another problem we had in the preliminary task was our shots and what they conveyed, by planning better for our clip each shot had a meaning behind it.
Overall myself and the group have enjoyed making our media product and have learnt a lot from it for the future media experinces we have.
If we were to distribute our media product we would probably think warp X would be the institution that would represent us in the right way. We are a low budget, British company. Producing slasher movies. Obviously the movie would have to be to high standard and we would need some money to be able to invest in using these companies, so to get publicity we would put the movie on youtube and myspace for example.
We used codes and conventions from other movies to help our ideas to expand, for instance our protagonist in our movie is a counter type and showed a strong, powerful, independent woman. We were inspired my movies such as Scream, Halloween and The unborn and used inter-textual links from these movies, for example using a dutch angle which we thought worked well in scream, its a signifier of death or something bad about to happen.
Our target audience would be 15 to 24 female and males. After finishing our coursework, i would still stick with this target audience due to the nature of the movie. Our film also represents the middle class this is shown through characters accents and materials, although the accents are northern accents we still think the movie would appeal to a large british audience because of the standard of movie. All characters are heterosexual which is most likely going to appeal to a heterosexual audience. Because our audience is both male and female we believe that our movie has the 'male gaze theory' which means the female cast would attract men to watching the movie, espicaially the final girl as she is strong yet still attractive.
The movie is a fast passed slasher, with screaming girls and great gory material. These factors are what are going to catch the audiences eye and grab them to watch this terrifying movie. The social groups in which we have represented are teenage groups, this is due to our young cast.
I have learnt many different things during the process of making this movie. The two technical aspects of making the movie which i have heightened my level of knowledge on, are garageband, where i found sounds adjusted them and made them fit to my movie and Imovie, this was very easy and fun to use. I would say the thing i have got the most knowledge and help from is the group i am in, we worked well together and when someone was stuck we helped each other which is a great quality to have.
The main thing i struggled with in the preliminary task was transitions and making the movie flow. I thinking our transitions in our movie work well and if we hadn't of done a preliminary task then we would have struggled. The preliminary task helped us show what sources we had to use, when we did the real thing we used the basic things but then we also found new things such as sound levels on our heartbeat. Another problem we had in the preliminary task was our shots and what they conveyed, by planning better for our clip each shot had a meaning behind it.
Overall myself and the group have enjoyed making our media product and have learnt a lot from it for the future media experinces we have.
Thursday 2 April 2009
Genre Research and Intertextual Links
One of the greatest slasher films was psycho (1960, Alfred Hitchcock). This straightforward film has developed over many years to from a new form of slasher genre with the use of intertexaulity, pastiche, parody and hybrid genres. Richard Malby stated that “genres are flexible”. This reflects the genres theory as genres are not static but dynamic allowing the combination of other genes called hybrid films, which are becoming more popularly used with texts.
Some elements get passed along to the next slasher films from psycho such as:
- suspense and shock narrative enigma
- Phallic object being the knife(Mulvey's theory)- further used in slasher genres
- The scream by the victim
- Isolated area
Scream 1996. 13 seconds of a long note, non digetic music creates tension for audience and connects with there heart.
Text on screen including company fits with genre. Red letters dripping like blood.
Blue tint in shot, horror theme, coldness and supernatural.
Popcorn is used metaphorically to show the tension in the scene and when it pops something is going to happen. At the same time the audience will also have a representation of popcorn of watching a movie.
Stereotypical blonde most likely going to die.
Watches a scary movie, we used this in our piece, its inter textual, we thought it would be good o the character seemed worked up and conscious of things around her.
Knives are a signifier. We used this as an inter textual link also in our piece.
Halloween 1978.
Sharp serif font, red connects with genre. Blood violence danger and threat,
Screaming girl, shows shes vunrable. Stereotypical blonde most likely going to die.
Not expensive because mosh horrors are low budget.
A slow dutch angle shot is used to show that something is not right and there is going to action soon.
Blue tint is also used in this.
Some elements get passed along to the next slasher films from psycho such as:
- suspense and shock narrative enigma
- Phallic object being the knife(Mulvey's theory)- further used in slasher genres
- The scream by the victim
- Isolated area
Scream 1996. 13 seconds of a long note, non digetic music creates tension for audience and connects with there heart.
Text on screen including company fits with genre. Red letters dripping like blood.
Blue tint in shot, horror theme, coldness and supernatural.
Popcorn is used metaphorically to show the tension in the scene and when it pops something is going to happen. At the same time the audience will also have a representation of popcorn of watching a movie.
Stereotypical blonde most likely going to die.
Watches a scary movie, we used this in our piece, its inter textual, we thought it would be good o the character seemed worked up and conscious of things around her.
Knives are a signifier. We used this as an inter textual link also in our piece.
Halloween 1978.
Sharp serif font, red connects with genre. Blood violence danger and threat,
Screaming girl, shows shes vunrable. Stereotypical blonde most likely going to die.
Not expensive because mosh horrors are low budget.
A slow dutch angle shot is used to show that something is not right and there is going to action soon.
Blue tint is also used in this.
Wednesday 1 April 2009
Sound and Music.
We chose to compose some music on garageband, we wanted it to fit with the genre and make the audiences heartbeat speed up with anxiety. We thought it worked well with its repetitive beat.
We also wanted a sound effect of someone breathing, however when the cameraman tried to make the noise it was too quiet (a boom mike would be appropriate here) we did use any we found because they didn't fit correctly to the peice
We got a heartbeat sound effect of a copyright free website.
A problem we did have with sound was the wind in the background which people commented on in feedback time
Here are some websites were very helpful.
www.akmmusic.co.uk
www.numdigital.com
www.freeplaymusic.com
www.audiojungle.net
We also wanted a sound effect of someone breathing, however when the cameraman tried to make the noise it was too quiet (a boom mike would be appropriate here) we did use any we found because they didn't fit correctly to the peice
We got a heartbeat sound effect of a copyright free website.
A problem we did have with sound was the wind in the background which people commented on in feedback time
Here are some websites were very helpful.
www.akmmusic.co.uk
www.numdigital.com
www.freeplaymusic.com
www.audiojungle.net
Tuesday 31 March 2009
Microdrama and Narrative Theory
The Task:
To create a microdrama which included Todorov's narrative theory.
The Theory:
Todorov's narrative theory include-
1. A state of equilibrium at the outset
2. A disruption of the equilibrium by some action
3. An recognition that there has been a disruption
4. An attempt to repair the disruption
5. A reinstatement of the equilibrium
Tuesday 17 March 2009
Target Audience & BBFC
The British Board of Film Classification is an independent, non-governmental body, which has classified cinema films since it was set up in 1912, and videos since the passing of the Video Recordings Act in 1984. The BBFC helped us to classify our production. We chose to classify it as a 15 for several reasons, Including inappropriate language for a younger audience. There is also a strong level of violence, imitable techniques and a large amount or horror.
Overall our main target audience would be aged from 15 to 24 because of the teenage cast, the nature of the film and also children would find it too scary to watch and language may be inappropriate.
Its mainly aimed at woman although males might enjoy it too.
C1, C2 and DE is our target audience. This is due to the casting, most the characters are middle class.
The actors have northern accents so it would mainly appeal to the north of England but the south would also enjoy i because there not stereotypical northern people. Theres is evidence of movies doing extremly well even when filmed in the north of England. For example This is England and Fully Monty. It wouldn't appeal to people abroad because they cant relate to it. Although all our characters are Caucasian it doesn't mean it wont appeal to a non-Caucasian as other movies have reached a wide audience when used one ethnicity aswel as this the narrative and young cast will appeal to multi-ethnic audiences.
The audience we would appeal to would most likely enjoy films such as Scream, The ring and Halloween, The unborn.
The psychographic profile of a person who would watch my movie would enjoy reading the tabloids and would enjoy a jumpy slasher and having a good time. For example students.
The two teenage girls appeal to audience because they can relate the young female audience in which we are trying to target. Our final girl would make it more appealing for women because its showing the modern woman, being powerful and standing up against frightening events. There mostly likely going to be afraid of the genre. They two characters watch a movie which is a stereotypical thing for teenagers to do on a Friday night. There would narrative enigma so the audience need to be able to look deeper into the movie and try and work our the plot. The male gaze theory was founded by Laura Mulvey, she had an objection of women being seen as objects it changed women's perceptions of themselves and makes them think of themselves as objects The film we made did include the male gaze because all the characters are heterosexual. Males tend to look at the body or girls and not at talent, also men enjoy action too and our movie has scary events that occur. We also did this to reach wider audience. Be we have a binary opostion, as our final girl, which feminists would like so there is mix of stereotpyes.
Overall our main target audience would be aged from 15 to 24 because of the teenage cast, the nature of the film and also children would find it too scary to watch and language may be inappropriate.
Its mainly aimed at woman although males might enjoy it too.
C1, C2 and DE is our target audience. This is due to the casting, most the characters are middle class.
The actors have northern accents so it would mainly appeal to the north of England but the south would also enjoy i because there not stereotypical northern people. Theres is evidence of movies doing extremly well even when filmed in the north of England. For example This is England and Fully Monty. It wouldn't appeal to people abroad because they cant relate to it. Although all our characters are Caucasian it doesn't mean it wont appeal to a non-Caucasian as other movies have reached a wide audience when used one ethnicity aswel as this the narrative and young cast will appeal to multi-ethnic audiences.
The audience we would appeal to would most likely enjoy films such as Scream, The ring and Halloween, The unborn.
The psychographic profile of a person who would watch my movie would enjoy reading the tabloids and would enjoy a jumpy slasher and having a good time. For example students.
The two teenage girls appeal to audience because they can relate the young female audience in which we are trying to target. Our final girl would make it more appealing for women because its showing the modern woman, being powerful and standing up against frightening events. There mostly likely going to be afraid of the genre. They two characters watch a movie which is a stereotypical thing for teenagers to do on a Friday night. There would narrative enigma so the audience need to be able to look deeper into the movie and try and work our the plot. The male gaze theory was founded by Laura Mulvey, she had an objection of women being seen as objects it changed women's perceptions of themselves and makes them think of themselves as objects The film we made did include the male gaze because all the characters are heterosexual. Males tend to look at the body or girls and not at talent, also men enjoy action too and our movie has scary events that occur. We also did this to reach wider audience. Be we have a binary opostion, as our final girl, which feminists would like so there is mix of stereotpyes.
Thursday 26 February 2009
Feedback etc adding notes, images and video.
We showed our finished media product to the class then we got a chance to amend any criticims they had and take on board the postitives.
Ben Garvey 17 - I like the twist at the end. Liked the POV of like someone is watching her spoooooky.
George Kneedham 16 - Fab Fab Fab, music works well even though Ive heard it all day
Georgina Cooke 16 - Lighting good in the living room, helps with the genre. Blurry makes it seem like a dream.
Lucy Heathcote 17 - Would like some more tension building music when girl walks home.
The audience agreed that we were targeting the correct audience, young actors, editing and the middle class accents where all put across well.
- As the cast were women that were shown, it was commented that the beginning could be signified as being a chick flick which we didn't intend on doing, we would of we shot it again to get across our idea and genre.
- The dark lighting of the outside shots were effective and worked well with the narrative
- The narrative enigma at the end pf the film was said to be a 'good unexpected twist'
- The jerky camera style while following the 'final girl' made it more believable
- When the camera was following the girl it was effective and built tension how there was no sound yet you could still hear the footsteps. It felt like someone was following her and was good for our narrative.
- However comments were made that the wind was picked up by the microphone which gave unwanted ambient sound.
Ben Garvey 17 - I like the twist at the end. Liked the POV of like someone is watching her spoooooky.
George Kneedham 16 - Fab Fab Fab, music works well even though Ive heard it all day
Georgina Cooke 16 - Lighting good in the living room, helps with the genre. Blurry makes it seem like a dream.
Lucy Heathcote 17 - Would like some more tension building music when girl walks home.
The audience agreed that we were targeting the correct audience, young actors, editing and the middle class accents where all put across well.
- As the cast were women that were shown, it was commented that the beginning could be signified as being a chick flick which we didn't intend on doing, we would of we shot it again to get across our idea and genre.
- The dark lighting of the outside shots were effective and worked well with the narrative
- The narrative enigma at the end pf the film was said to be a 'good unexpected twist'
- The jerky camera style while following the 'final girl' made it more believable
- When the camera was following the girl it was effective and built tension how there was no sound yet you could still hear the footsteps. It felt like someone was following her and was good for our narrative.
- However comments were made that the wind was picked up by the microphone which gave unwanted ambient sound.
Rought cut/s
The lighting in the room wasn't what we wanted, it looked too red. The recording was too long and when we tried re shooting it, it worked much better.
We had to do this shot several times because you could hear the footsteps of the person filming and the breathing was too loud although we did want to hear it abit to create tension for the audience. The shot was also extremly blury and the camera was also jilting and the picture quality wasn't as high quality as me wanted.
The shot is very shakey and the zoom went too fast to the window and looked unrealistic, we also wanted it more at a canted angle.
The group
This is our promotion for our movie. We chose a dark picture with red writing to signify blood.
We started our prilimanry task with 5 people but then we realised their wasn't a chance for everyone to use the camera. So we then decided to go in a group of three and we also had a german exchange who joined us.
This was great because we can callaborate together and put all idea's together.
We had some fun making a logo. We called the company OMG MEDIA because of the age of the group in which we are and also because we produced a slasher movie which will hopefully get the OMG (oh my god) effect.
We started our prilimanry task with 5 people but then we realised their wasn't a chance for everyone to use the camera. So we then decided to go in a group of three and we also had a german exchange who joined us.
This was great because we can callaborate together and put all idea's together.
We had some fun making a logo. We called the company OMG MEDIA because of the age of the group in which we are and also because we produced a slasher movie which will hopefully get the OMG (oh my god) effect.
Cinematography
All the shots we used were for a reason.
We show the logo with music playing in the background to set the scene, it then show who has directed and produced the movie, then our promotion poster.
The film starts with a shot of the house, its dark and mysterious. It then goes into a shot in the house with the two girls which is a visual bridge. This made you feel like someone was watching them from outside.
From the beginning of the clip we were trying to show the vulnerability or characters by using a high angle. Also watching a scary movie was setting the theme and is a signifier.
Then when the mother comes into the room she has a knife with her which is another signifier.
The two girls, one who is dressed in fun flirty clothes and the other in conservative clothes runs outside its shot at a dutch angle to show her vulnerability and how something bad is about the happen.
The picture and title in red and sharp sheriff signifies blood so the audience are getting a hint of the genre already.
We then chose to do a shot of the house to set the scene and show the time. It was also an inter textual link to Halloween. It then zooms in as if someone is trying to look for the people inside the house.
You then get a two shot of the girls watching a scary movie which also helps set the genre. This has an inter textual link to scream because she also says shes going to watch a scary movie.
You then get a shot of the reaction of the two girls you also get to see the mum in this shot entering the scene.
After that you get an over shoulder the shot from the mothers point of view, the knife is also in this shot to signify death.
Then shot from where to television is so you can see everyone in the room.
We then use the 180 degree rule this is show the conversation between the mum and friend of the daughters.
A Point of view shot from the mum is used to show when girl leaves house, match on action is taken place here.
We then use a long shot, to show the girl walking into the dark rural area. Slow motion effect is used at this point.
A point of view from the killers view is then used as if he was watching the girl, the point of view shot is used again to show the killer following the girl we see the hand at this point which gives narrative enigma
A mid shot of the girl is then used to show her reaction. another mid shot is then used to show the girl waking up from her nightmares this showed how scared she was It then goes to a black where a heartbeat starts to play then the music which we started with plays.
The transitions which we chose to you are very slow and subtle, invisible editing this is because we wanted it to be realistic
We show the logo with music playing in the background to set the scene, it then show who has directed and produced the movie, then our promotion poster.
The film starts with a shot of the house, its dark and mysterious. It then goes into a shot in the house with the two girls which is a visual bridge. This made you feel like someone was watching them from outside.
From the beginning of the clip we were trying to show the vulnerability or characters by using a high angle. Also watching a scary movie was setting the theme and is a signifier.
Then when the mother comes into the room she has a knife with her which is another signifier.
The two girls, one who is dressed in fun flirty clothes and the other in conservative clothes runs outside its shot at a dutch angle to show her vulnerability and how something bad is about the happen.
The picture and title in red and sharp sheriff signifies blood so the audience are getting a hint of the genre already.
We then chose to do a shot of the house to set the scene and show the time. It was also an inter textual link to Halloween. It then zooms in as if someone is trying to look for the people inside the house.
You then get a two shot of the girls watching a scary movie which also helps set the genre. This has an inter textual link to scream because she also says shes going to watch a scary movie.
You then get a shot of the reaction of the two girls you also get to see the mum in this shot entering the scene.
After that you get an over shoulder the shot from the mothers point of view, the knife is also in this shot to signify death.
Then shot from where to television is so you can see everyone in the room.
We then use the 180 degree rule this is show the conversation between the mum and friend of the daughters.
A Point of view shot from the mum is used to show when girl leaves house, match on action is taken place here.
We then use a long shot, to show the girl walking into the dark rural area. Slow motion effect is used at this point.
A point of view from the killers view is then used as if he was watching the girl, the point of view shot is used again to show the killer following the girl we see the hand at this point which gives narrative enigma
A mid shot of the girl is then used to show her reaction. another mid shot is then used to show the girl waking up from her nightmares this showed how scared she was It then goes to a black where a heartbeat starts to play then the music which we started with plays.
The transitions which we chose to you are very slow and subtle, invisible editing this is because we wanted it to be realistic
Software
Our group used Imovie HD which we uploaded and edited our clips. We got to have some practice before the real task was set, this made it easy to use when it came to the coursework.
There was also a tutorial which helped us to learning the basics of Imovie.
You can put in transitions, swap scenes around, cut scenes, add music and add themes which is everything we needed
Equipment
We used a Cannon MV920 Digital Video Camera.
Powerful Canon 25x zoom lens
High resolution 800k pixel CCD and DiG!C DV for outstanding image quality
Stylish and compact, designed for simple operation
2.7" Widescreen LCD and Real Widescreen recording for breathtaking playback
Microphone input connection
It also had night vision which was needed for our piece.
We also had to use a tripod called 'Fujifilm Finepix A900'. It was fantastic for creating a still image, moving the camera to different angles. We need to use high angles many times in our clip so the adjusting height of the tripod was extremely handy.
Street Lighting helped us with recording on our first location it had no lighting, which made it extremely hard to record. So the second option was better.
We used a Cannon IXUS 8015 digital camera to capture our location.
Locations
We have two different locations to pick from.
The aim for the location was for it be in woody, remote area. With Dim street lighting and mysterious element to it.
The lounge in the house would have no light because they are watching a movie, the flashes from the film make it scarier.
The forest would help set the scene and make the audience tense because they do not no what would be around the corner, it would also help show the location and how its not set in london or an inner city.
We chose the second location because the first one had no lighting at all and would be hard to film.
We also used my house which is inter textual with Halloween because they use a shot of a house then zoom in, it helps set the tone.
Casting
There are two teenage girls, both brown haired the main girl is a counter type as she is dressed in normal conservative clothing. We used a intertextual link from the unborn, the female final girl in this movie conquers the horror that surrounds her, she is very attractive yet very intelligent.
The friend in our project is dressed is fun and flirty clothes which gives the audience the idea that she may get killed as she is the weaker character. She is like the character from Cabin fever who is the first to die, she is very flirtatious and vulnerable
The mum is stereotypical she's cooking also wearing conservative clothes
The killer would be dressed in black to make it scarier for the audience and he would be much taller than the girl to show power.
Production schedule
We have given enough time to discuss idea's but also enough time to shoot the clip and have time also to go back and make ammends if anything goes wrong during the course of the production.
We wanted time to have a total run through recording, we used our storyboard, we then realised we needed to make some alterations so we had to redo or storyboard and re schedule
Production Plan
We wanted time to have a total run through recording, we used our storyboard, we then realised we needed to make some alterations so we had to redo or storyboard and re schedule
Production Plan
Publish at Scribd or explore others:
Storyboard
Prelim Task
Intro introduces stereotypes and music sets genre and target audience. We had a German exchange student who was one of our stereotypes we had planned to put her in German clothes and music but we realised after we didn't have time, which we have learned from. We also had another stereotype of a northern cleaner. Planning the scenes before hand helped us although when it came to editing the match on action didn't make sense. So we had to go back and add a clip in so it flowed. In future we need to plan in more detail and work it out. Although we did do a storyboard i dont think we realised how much detail we would actually need.
We needed the transaction to be clear and subtle. We also learnt that working in a group of four people wasn't as easy as we would have expected because there were so many different ideas and opinions it took double the time, also everyone getting a go at filming. We hadn't taken into account the lighting because it puts shadows on people faces which made it unclear to the audience.
Working in a large group made us realise that it wasn't that easy because their were so many different ideas to be heard that no one got a chance to express themselves. Everyone wanted a turn at filming and acting and their wasn't the chance to give everyone a turn.
Initial group idea
Teenage Horror.
15 certificate.
Target audience : Teenagers to 25.
Plot. Girl aged around 16 walking home from a friends house after watching a scary movie. The mother of her friend offers her a lift home, she declines because she only lives two minutes away. She sets off alone, its dark and remote evening. She starts to hear things like leaves rustling and the wind. She works herself up to think someone is behind her, when she turns around nobody i there. The audience See's a hand but the girl doesn't as she walks on. It then goes to a shot of her in bed where she is waking up realising she was dreaming.
If they movie carried on the plot would be that what she dreams would happen.
My initial ideas
Rating: 15
My initial idea was to have a stereotypical blonde girl walking home from a party over the countryside wooded area. She hears panting so she starts to walk faster, when she looks behind there's nothing there. She tries to phone a friend but her battery goes. There is an old creepy man standing in the bush's then an extreme close up on him then he would have some dialogue.
Codes and conventions of film openings.
In our movie we want the audience to be aware what the genre of our movie is straight away. There needs to be a narrative enigma to keep them engaged and on edge for what is going to happen next.
Horrors have many codes and conventions which include, the final girl is usually brown haired and intelligent. The first girl is stereotypically blonde, less intelligent and sexually available. She is the girl who is most likely going to die first.
Signifiers of the genre include blue tint and sharp sherif font used in the titles, there would normally be a signifier too like in scream where to girl says she's going to watch a scary movie. Horror movies tend to target there audience to a middle class audience. Which has similarities to romcom although sometimes they appeal to a higher class also. Codes and conventions of romcoms are as the following the music tends to be fun or romantic music for example on Bridget Jones Diary she sings All by myself - Celine Dion which although is a very romantic song they turn it to comedy. Voice overs are also another convention, used in love actually and Bridget Jones Diary, usually spoken by the main character. There is a large contrast in conventions for horror and romcom as you can see.
Horrors have many codes and conventions which include, the final girl is usually brown haired and intelligent. The first girl is stereotypically blonde, less intelligent and sexually available. She is the girl who is most likely going to die first.
Signifiers of the genre include blue tint and sharp sherif font used in the titles, there would normally be a signifier too like in scream where to girl says she's going to watch a scary movie. Horror movies tend to target there audience to a middle class audience. Which has similarities to romcom although sometimes they appeal to a higher class also. Codes and conventions of romcoms are as the following the music tends to be fun or romantic music for example on Bridget Jones Diary she sings All by myself - Celine Dion which although is a very romantic song they turn it to comedy. Voice overs are also another convention, used in love actually and Bridget Jones Diary, usually spoken by the main character. There is a large contrast in conventions for horror and romcom as you can see.
COURSEWORK TASK
Preliminary exercise: Continuity involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.
Main task: the titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of two minutes.
All video and audio material must be original, produced by the candidate, with the exception f music or audio effects from a copyright-free source.
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