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

I had never properly worked in moving image before so this was a whole new experience for me when it came to the editing, i learn't a lot of different editing styles from watching so many other horror films, how to build up tension by using colour and music together. For this production i used Sony Vegas Pro 8.0, garage band and adobe photoshop. i used Sony Vegas for my main editing, for things like colour correction, which i tried out so many different effects to create the one i wanted, transitions, the fade outs. My favourite effect i used though was the white noise at the end of the intro, it took me around an hour to create this effect because there isn't a preset for this exam, so every flicker i had to program into the effect, each change in the effect is a different picture i had to create, there is around 50 different pictures to create a three second clip. the sound to go along with it was a pain to get hold of, i searched for so long trying to download it off of websites but it just wasn't the right sound, i finally found it on one of the schools hidden folders, i also had to convert it to allow me to use it in Sony Vegas. I used adobe photoshop to create my texts, but because i have a lot of experience with this program it didn't take me long at all to create the fonts.

It was fun learning how to create different effects with different shots with the handheld camera, i had never used a handheld camera for a project like this before so it was interesting seeing what type of shots i could create. i experimented with a lot of different shots but decided to stick with the POV because it was my favorite. It was hard to create a POV shot that didn't get boring after about 5 seconds of watching it, so i always tried to add movement into my shots, for example, looking down at my feet to see the tempo of my walk.

The program i had never used before was GarageBand, this is a music mixing program which allows the user to create songs, i had to use a lot of different presets to create the mood i wanted, i had happy cheerful music for the colour parts and a dark grimey style music for the grim colours.

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

My film is aimed at the smaller, more intelligent fans of the horror genre, i would use a company like Hammer Film Productions, reason being is that they are a legendary british horror film company, so if an audience found out that the film is in partnership with them, the audience would know it is going to be a good film.

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How does your media product represent particular social groups?

In my final product the only type of people i represent are people with schizophrenia, i tried to represent these by using the two different colour corrections from the different POV shots. i used handheld camera shots to show their shakey personalities. Also at the very end of the film i used and effect to split the title in half, this was to represent the split personality of the character.

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How did you attract/address your audience?

The more sophisticated end of the horror genre fans prefer the more psychological style films, this is because they like to think about how the film works rather than just, killer, pretty girl, girl dies, end of film. i tried to attract this type of audience by making the intro to my film really hard to understand, also by making the end of the film, the start. I achieved this by using two different POV shots for the intro, this adds an enigma code because the audience has no idea what is happening.

Still no luck...

tried uploading again last night but with no luck, i think its because my finished product is such a large file because of all the effects i added onto it. so maybe blogger.com has an upload size limit or something like that, if i cant get it to upload anytime soon it looks like i'll have to burn it to a disk.

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'Who would be the audience for you media product?'

My main target audience for this film is people who love films were they have to piece bits of it together to understand it, the people who like to talk about the film after they come out of the cinema and are still trying to figure out what just happened. The gender is not important, as long as they are interested in the creepy eerie side of films, or people who want to see their first psychological horror movie would be interested in this.

People who want to go see this film would usually go with a group of friends or with their boyfriend/girlfriend this is because people dont tend to go watch horror movies on their on compared to things like superhero films.

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


My audience for this film would be people who are interested in the psychological/horror genre and also people who are curious as to what the genre holds. Some of my inspiration for this project are the films: Gothika, the butterfly effect and the intro of se7en. The reason for Gothika inspired me was because of the storyline, it has such an in depth creepy storyline which keeps the viewer watching until the end. The butterfly effect made me realise you can start a film off with the ending just like 'American Beauty' and 'Sunset Boulevard'. Using this technique changes the whole way the audience watches the film because as the films goes on they try and piece together how the ending is going to come about. Then onto the masterpiece that is the intro to 'se7en' it has some of the most creative editing techniques used to create such an eerie feel from the very start.