Question 1

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

For our media product, after watching many different thriller genre films we decided to follow most of the conventions to make our film just as successful as the other films. We follows things such as some shots to keep basic elements of a horror movie and using other movies is how to shoot horror film, allow people to watch after more terrifying atmosphere. And we according watching other films got some footage tips. However we decided to develop film of media products by in the evening the boy had been lying on the bed and he fell asleep made a very long dream. Then it tells the story of this dream. A boy like read a book under a tree, then a series of terrorist happened, until he woke up from a dream. Then when he got up he found that’s not only a dream. Everything is real.

By doing this we hoped to get a message across to our target audience. After seeing other thriller film, we also challenged a lot of new content of this movie and shots, Inside portray a lot of expression, action and voice, such as the character’s facial expression,

• fear of fear action, and saw the ghost of terror

screams. All are in order to render the film’s

atmosphere of terror. After shooting hopefully we can

try to do better, seize the audience’s eyes.

• For this film sound, we used some horrible sound, then

we were recording together, in second part of this

film, we recording voice of pant and for this film the

last part we recording a sentence ‘that’s not only a

dream’ . We shot this movie before, we watched a lot

of thriller movie, with a lot of skill. Next time we can

shot better to let the audience feel horror, improve

how to shot and any about film.

Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

For our film, it is not very fearsome, so except people who is under 12 and

elder people, others are all can watch this film. There are many people would

like to watch horror film, especially teenagers, because most of them want to

try something exciting, and when they are watching horror films they will

absolutely feel excited, that is why they want to watch horror film. Another is

adult, especially males, because they are not afraid of it.

For the clothing style, the actress wearied a white dress, because there is a

ghost in a Japanese thriller wearied a white dress, and we think is very fearful,

so we borrowed a white dress from performance teacher. And the ghost in the

Japanese thriller also had very long hire in front of her face, so we also

borrowed a fake hair from performance teacher. And the actor wearied normal

clothes, just like a student.

There are no dialogues in our film, because there are only two people in our

film, ghost and a boy.

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• We shot at two places, first is behind our college, there is a

forest in the park, it is a good place to shoot horror film, quiet

and a little bit gruesome, especially at cloudy day, and we put

some sound effects in the film, it would ghastlier in forest

when you watch the film. Second is a host family of my friend,

we shot in his room, because he is the photographer of our

film and his home is near to the park.

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• The way of represent things of us is let everything happens in

a dream. When the boy wakes up, audience might think this is

only a dream, it is not going to happen in real life, but things

happened after he wakes up can change their thoughts, the

blood appear on a piece of paper, is same as the dream, so

people probably know what happened next.

• Question 3

• What kind of media institutions might distribute your media product

and why?

• Just like now, after their a-whole-day work or boring homework, people like to

do or watch something exciting, and watch thriller and horror films is a good

way to enjoy their life. Thriller and horror films are not like affectional films,

romantic and happiness, watch thrillers is another way to relief stress.

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• There are some big film companies which distributed many thriller and horror

films. First is Lions Gate Films, this company has distributed many thriller and

horror films, two of the master works are series of Saw and Hostel, they are

very famous in the world, this company is willing to distribute thriller and

horror film. The second company also has any thrillers, Universal. I think

most of people have watched Jaws, it is a very famous and successful thriller

film which is distributed by Universal. And series of The Mummy, although it

is not as famous as Jaws, but it is also pretty successful for thriller.

• Then, two very famous and successful film companies in the

world, 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros Pictures, they also

distribute some thriller and horror films. There is another

series which is distributed by Screen Gems called Resident

Evil, there is a Chinese lady in Resident Evil Retribution, so it

will attract many audiences of Asia especially China.

• For our horror film, I want to choose Lions Gate Films, I have

two main reasons. First, this company has distributed many

thriller and horror films, people all know this, and those

horror and thriller films are pretty successful. Second, it’s not

a very big company, if we let this company distribute our

film, we don’t need too much money, the funds must be

cheaper than choose 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros

Pictures.

• Question 4

• Who would be the audience for your media product?

• I think most audiences of our media product are teenagers and adults,

many people feel scared when they are watching a thriller, that is what

they want, if the thrillers are not scared, they would not watch them.

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• I think most people who want to watch film like ours might be between 14

and 30, especially those people who is in middle school, college and

university.

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• In my audience research, most of teenagers that I have asked are enjoy

watching thrillers, somebody even doesn’t afraid of thrillers, they think

watch thriller is a very interesting thing, and they are also don’t afraid

watch thrillers by themselves, that is the most unbelievable thing for me.

And for mid-aged people, some of them don’t afraid of watch thrillers, but

they don’t like to watch them. Certainly, there are also some people afraid

of watch them. At last, most of elder people don’t like watching thrillers,

they are not interested in them.

• Question 5

• How did you attract/address your audience?

• First of all, the audience may be attracted to our film because its

something happen in everyday life, murders are commonly on the

news. And our actors are all teenagers, and most of audience of this

film would be teenagers, the age is same, so they will probably want

to watch this film, it is more attractive for them. Our film is a little bit

like a very famous thriller from Japanese, the modeling of the actress

is same as ours, that is another point that people would like to watch

our film. In addition to this, our film is not so horrific, people who over

40 years old can also watch it. Nowadays, many people think watch

thriller films is a kind of way to relief stress, when they feel unhappy

or something let them depressed, they would choose this way to

relax. To the contrary, somebody wants watch thriller films because

they are pretty happy, when they watch thriller films they would feel

nervous and they can shout happily, especially with their best friends

and boy/girlfriend.

• Question 6

• What have you learnt about technologies from the process of

constructing this product?

At the beginning of the movie, use the long shot for terror environment.

After that I use the effect of moving the lens back and forth technology, in

order to better watch horror surrounding environment, but I didn’t have

anything with wheels. In this movie, I use lots of camera shot type, at the

beginning, reflects the lens slowly closer to the protagonist, I use close up

shots. And then I use the overlooking the technology, shoot people down

from above. The feature characters and paper. I use the medium shot

taking people reading under the tree, use features describe the character

again see blood fear of expression. When the blood dripping onto the

paper, I use the high angle shot. In the second part, when the character

saw the ghost, he was starting running, and for this part I use camera

bracket, the camera bracket was lying on the ground, I use the low angle,

then while with the character. When I shoot about running I use the hand

held, the camera followed character, this part I didn’t use camera bracket.

• And then I took a close up the ghost, I use the extreme close up,

conversion angle and lens. The close up ghost hand. Finally wrote

character fall scenes, the camera lens the ghost hand, I use extreme

close up, and use medium shot character fall in floor. After wake up

from dream, I use medium shot, character woke up from dream

scene. Taking character afraid of the face, the most main is the throat

choking. This is extreme close up. At the back of the film, I use lots of

medium shot. The last feature part of the door is open, shoot from the

outside to the inside, when the camera into the room, gradually

reduce the distance with character. After that, over the shoulder shot,

from the side of the shoulder to the paper on the desk, the angle of

the reference profile shot, close the distance. For these technology,

when I was in the classroom, sometimes I will ask teacher and then I

will remember it. Second I can ask someone people like techniques

for photography or study about this. I used Canon eos6d Camera lens

sigma 12-24.

• Question 7

• Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you might

have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

From the preliminary task to the main coursework we have learnt many things.

Firstly we learnt about varied camera shots and edits. We learnt that these can

help us to keep the movie looking as thriller and let people feel the

atmosphere is very afraid, and to help show representation of the characters

and any about thriller films on scene. For example the significance of

establishing shots really make it easier to help the audience understand what

time of day it is like in our establishing shot is a panning of some trees and

there it some thriller scene. Such as changes in the environment and the

mobile, sound changed, like some trees sound , horror character voice and so

there are a lot. We think this will make the audience feel the process of

watching a movie, can truly feel the canter and the contents of the film, can

really feel the horror and the terrible truth. We will learnt more things from

other films or from teacher, and shoot more and more good voice.

• Another thing that we learnt is that everyone with the group

needs to take part in the filming and editing stages of the film

so there we can imagine a more script, imagine feeling more

pictures, eve more detailed content of the film.

Overall from the preliminary task we learnt a lot from all

aspects, from the beginning of the mission to the final

evaluation, after so mush, so our first movie and think about

film content. Analysis of the film in front of a lot of writing,

more in-depth understanding of the movie and learnt more in-

depth of how to writing about analysis. Learnt how to make a

movie, sound, action, character, atmosphere , shoot, and how

to use camera, we are learnt a lot of things from preliminary

task until now. We will learnt many from different ways, we

believe we can also shoot more good movies.