How our film appeals to a modern audience

We chose the gothic horror genre beause it combines the use of fantasy, romance and horror which appeals to modern audiences. The top 3 films [IMDB] in box office this week begining 26/04/10 are  "How to Train Your Dragon" which is a family fantasy adventure our film contains elements of fantasy by including vampires. The next film is "The Back-Up Plan which is a Rom Com our film contains elements of romance between the vampire and her boyfriend. The next film is "Date Night" which is described by IMDB as a thriller, comedy, romance which again our film includes elements of. A recent film of the month  is "Twilight: New Moon" which is a gothic horror fantasy romance and made $142,839,137  on the opening weekend. [NEW MOON IMDB]  So as you can see my genre appeals to modern audiences. Ashes to Ashes series 3 is renowned for using lots of polysemy andf narrative enigma. Episode 4 featured the protaganist having visions of herself in a coffin it signified serialism by using serial lighting much like we did in the forrset scene. The blue filter in ours was originally supposed to signify night but it signified more a dream which it was. The red lighting in our coffin scene is intended to confuse the audience and create polysemy as to the setting of reality and create narrative enigma as to the outcome of the protaganist. Red also signifies blood, passion and love issues which surround our prtaganist while blue signifies the cold, saddness and horror.

Rough Cut 2

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media product?
We have a female villain which is countertypical she is blonde to challenge the conventions and suprise the audience.The story is based on vampires therefore the use of a coffin, forrest, blood and romance is stereptypical of the gothic horror genre genre.However more countertypically it is centred around teenage romance which is more in lign with modern movies such as Twilight and True Blood. We added the blue to this to signify nightime.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?
We countertypically have a female protaganist and villain who is violent yet stereotypically romantic. All the actors are young which is stereotypical as a lot of mischief occurs. The actors are all able and white which is stereotypical due to avaialability of disabled or black actors we also fail to represent homosexuals. Countertypically although this is a british film it doesn't show the idillic middle class view of british people.

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
Hammer Horror used Universal but in moder times they would be too expensive so I would use a cheap distributer such as the one Warp X use optimum releasing as the audience will be uk based.
Who would be the audience for your media product?
13-25 UK based both male and female and working class.

How did you attract/address your audience?

Using a young cast to attract a young audience. Adding romance to gain female interest with horror aand fantasy apealing the male audience. The use of Britain not in the idilistic view that films such as Bridget Jones diary are in signifies the film is intended for a smal local UK based audience. We signified the prefered reading by putting the clips in order.

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

We changed the purple
to

It was difficult because we had to use the unedited original footage in order to change the colouring.

The sound needs inproving perhas re- recording to get it all the same level. Camera's look best on a fixed tripod rather than moving them or trying to track them. We don't have enough coffin clips this scene may need re-shooting. The voiceover needs improving to provide more anchorage . The tripod didn't need the muffler on and the original diagetic sound was better the scream will need re-recording.

Soundtrack

I have chosen the following soundtrack for Rouch Cut 2 because it disettles the audience yet to begin with is slow pace with long drawn out notes to get the audience off guard therefore shock them more. The use of windinstruments reflects the birdsong in the forrest just as in Titanic the music reflects the engine sounds of the ship. The music speeds up to increase the pace of the chase though in the first draft of it it was too pacy over the coffin scene which is meant to be slow. So for the second draft of it I slowed it down here to create a further climax for the titles. The guitar appeals to a modern audience and reflects the boystrous contetypical representation of a female vampire lead. This music came frome smaples in Adobe Sound Booth their website [LINK] states

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I chose not to include the music in rough cut 3 and the final cut because it is a grey area. I made the next soundtrack using cubase and a proffesional musician to create the most fitting music. The difficulty came in editng the music as one yet to still fit the footage. The music invlovels obeos, violins and tamberins choosing wind instruments to reflect the sounds of the forrest. I added an organ at home as an intertextual link to gothic horror. I used the faders in
Imovie to make the music less disjointed and make it climax at points throughout the production.

Raw Footage

We have a female villain which is countertypical she is blonde to challenge the conventions and suprise the audience.



The story is based on vampires therefore the use of a coffin, forrest, blood and romance is stereptypical of the gothic horror genre genre.

However more countertypically it is centred around teenage romance which is more in lign with modern movies such as Twilight and True Blood.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?
We countertypically have a female protaganist and villain who is violent yet stereotypically romantic. All the actors are young which is stereotypical as a lot of mischief occurs. The actors are all able and white which is stereotypical due to avaialability of disabled or black actors we also fail to represent homosexuals. Countertypically although this is a british film it doesn't show the idillic middle class view of british people.

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
Hammer Horror used Universal but in moder times they would be too expensive so I would use a cheap distributer such as the one Warp X use optimum releasing as the audience will be uk based.

Who would be the audience for your media product?
13-25 UK based both male and female and working class.

How did you attract/address your audience?
Using a young cast to attract a young audience. Adding romance to gain female interest with horror aand fantasy apealing the male audience. The use of Britain not in the idilistic view that films suchas Bridget Jones diary are in signifies the film is intended for a smal local UK based audience. We signified the prefered reading by putting the clips in order.

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
The sound needs inproving perhas re- recording to get it all the same level. Camera's look best on a fixed tripod rather than moving them or trying to track them. We don't have enough coffin clips this scene may need re-shooting.

Rough Cut

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

We have a female villain which is countertypical she is blonde to challenge the conventions and suprise the audience.The story is based on vampires therefore the use of a coffin, forrest, blood and romance is stereptypical of the gothic horror genre genre.However more countertypically it is centred around teenage romance which is more in lign with modern movies such as Twilight and True Blood. We added the blue to this to signify nightime.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

We countertypically have a female protaganist and villain who is violent yet stereotypically romantic. All the actors are young which is stereotypical as a lot of mischief occurs. The actors are all able and white which is stereotypical due to avaialability of disabled or black actors we also fail to represent homosexuals. Countertypically although this is a british film it doesn't show the idillic middle class view of british people.

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Hammer Horror used Universal but in moder times they would be too expensive so I would use a cheap distributer such as the one Warp X use optimum releasing as the audience will be uk based.

Who would be the audience for your media product?

13-25 UK based both male and female and working class.How did you attract/address your audience?

Using a young cast to attract a young audience. Adding romance to gain female interest with horror aand fantasy apealing the male audience. The use of Britain not in the idilistic view that films such as Bridget Jones diary are in signifies the film is intended for a smal local UK based audience. We signified the prefered reading by putting the clips in order.

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

The purple is too purple. The sound needs inproving perhas re- recording to get it all the same level. Camera's look best on a fixed tripod rather than moving them or trying to track them. We don't have enough coffin clips this scene may need re-shooting. It needs a voicover to provide anchorage. The tripod didn't need the muffler on and the original diagetic sound was better the scream will need re-recording.

Narrative Explanation