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AS Media Studies
Film Opening
Evaluation
Dream Stalker!
By Chelsea JayLink: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ljzkwf3CnRo
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Camera angles and shots:I would say getting the right camera angles and shots is very important when making a film
opening as it creates the desired emotion and reaction. In my groups film opening Dream
Stalker we used a variety of different camera shots which included, ground shot, over the
shoulder shot, medium shot and long shot. The camera angles we mainly used include ground
level and eye level. More than likely every film would contain these camera angles and shots.
Ground Sot Over the shoulderand Long Shot
Medium Shot
Close up shot
To show facial
expression.
We thought it was very important to get the
different types of shots in our film opening. We
thought it was important because we wanted
our film opening to look exciting and want
people to watch it. But if we kept to the same
camera angle and shot all the way through it
wouldn't give off the right atmosphere wewanted.
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge
forms and conventions of real media products?
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Costumes and props-- In our film opening Dream Stalker we decided our costumes and props were
going to be simple and casual because we wanted to make our film opening
look realistic and not over exaggerated. We decided that the stalker should
wear a piece of clothing with a hood to portray his evil character. As for the
teenage girl, we decided that she should wear casual clothes like she would at
home as we wanted our film opening to look realistic. When it comes to props,
we didnt really use any as we felt we didnt need to. The only prop we decidedthat was going to be necessary was a plastic knife for the end of the dream and
the end of the film opening. The showing of the news report was burnt on to
DVD and played on the television to make it look more realistic to the audience
that the teenage girl was actually watching the news. Siobhan who was the
news reporter was dressed in formal clothes to portray that she was an
important person on television.
The stalker in a
jumper to portray his
evil character.
News reporter is wearing
formal clothing to show she is
an important person.
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge
forms and conventions of real media products?
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I would definitely say that the finished media product that myself and my group created did fit its
genre. The chosen genre of my groups finished product is horror and I strongly believe that we
successfully managed to show that the horror genre was apart of our film opening We tried to
make it obvious to the audience that it was a horror genre by using dark lightning and close up
camera angles and shots which would create an atmosphere for the audience.
The horror genre is philosophy of literature which was intended to frighten the audience. Horror
can be either supernatural or non-supernatural. You can find out more about horror genre here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror_fiction
The use of music:One of the main conventions of horror genre has to the music, it has to have a reason and the
reason for our piece was to fill the audience with suspense and terror in order for the purpose to
be fulfilled and for the audience to want to carry on watching the rest of our film opening. I think
we successfully accomplished our purpose as the music does exactly what we wanted it to. We
were very interested in a soundtrack called Abducted which we used throughout our filmopening and you can view that here :
http://www.freeplaymusic.com/search/category_search.php?t=v&i=1502
Setting and Location-
The location is the most important part of a film opening as the setting sets the seen and the mood
for the audience, we wanted to film it out side of school because we felt it wouldn't be as realistic as
it could be. So with permission we filmed inside Scotts Nan's house. Filming it inside a house gives
of the realistic feel to the audience. I would defiantly say that we successfully chose the right settingand location which worked well with our film opening.
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge
forms and conventions of real media products?
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Our Storyline-
Myself and my group made two different film openings. The first one we thought didnt have astoryline which the audience would understand because we didn't really understand it ourselves.
After editing the first draft of When The Clock Strikes 12 we decided to change the storyline and
do something completely different. We then took into consideration that we didn't have a lot of
time as we only had a few days to come up with a new story line, film it and edit it. However we
decided to do a horror genre. We thought doing a horror genre would be easier then doing a
hybrid horror comedy genre what we done for When the clock strikes 12
The story line for our film is about a teenage girl being stalked. She saw the stalker in her dream but
thought nothing of it as it was only a dream, when she woke up from the bad dream she went to
make herself a drink and watches the news. Which is when it all starts to happen...There is a serial
killer on the loose not far from where she lives. The teenage girl didn't seem scared at all until there
was a phone call and a bang on the door!
I would defiantly say that our film opening Dream Stalker is quite similar to the movie scream. Iwould say they are similar because they both include one girl in a house getting a phone call with
the stalker on the other end frightening the victim, coming into contact with the killer also we both
end up getting killed. Here is the link below to my groups film opening and the scream opening.
Scream film opening link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBDKeoDea2I&feature=related
Dream Stalker Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ljzkwf3CnRo
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge
forms and conventions of real media products?
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How does your media product present particular social groups?
In our media product the characters include two females one portray the teenage victim and
one playing the news reporter there also was two males one playing the serial killer and the
other was the camera man. I believe that our film opening doesn't show a lot about social
groups. I think this because in our film a teenage girl gets killed which seems to be a commontheme in horrors. For example in the film scream a teenage girl gets stalked and harassed by
getting phone calls and wont leave her alone and she ends up getting killed.
I would also say our film opening is similar to sorority row and prom night I would say these
films are similar because they all contain teenage social group and the audiences are mainly
15 and above.
Siobhan who is playing the
news reporter.
Chelsea playing the
teenage victim
Rhys who plays the serial
killer
Characters: Links:
Scream:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scream_(film)
Sorority Row:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorority_Row
Prom Night:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prom_Night_(2008_film)
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What is the audience and age rating for your film opening?
I think that the suitable audience for our horror film openingDream Stalker would be a 15+ rating. I think this because it
contains stalkers, killers and deaths. I wouldn't recommend an
under 15 to watch a horror because it might frighten them or
influence them in the wrong way.
For example if a 10 year old was to watch this film opening they
might think it is a good idea and influence them to go out andstalk someone as shown in the film opening.
I believe that our film opening would attract mature audience
like young adults and older adults.
Classification guidelines: http://www.bbfc.co.uk/classification/guidelines/15 -2/
As quoted on the classification guidelines No one younger than 15 may see a 15 film in a
cinema. No one younger than 15 may rent or buy a 15 rated video work.
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What kind of media institution might distribute your media
product and why?
I have looked at the film company behind different films similar to our film opening genre. I
have done this in order to come to a conclusion to which institution our film opening
Dream stalker may belong to. I think that film companies like dimension films, new line
cinema, universal and many more other companies produce their own horror films which
has roughly the same story line as ours.
All of these companies produce horror films for example scream Sorority Row and prom
night. I believe that these institution companies would produce our film opening because
each of the companies have produced films which I think has a similar story line to ours.
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How did you attract/address your audience?
I think that we attracted our audience at the start of our film opening by the choice of music we used. I
think this worked well because the music we used creates tension and is quite scary. It was helpful to
use music which builds up tension at the start so it draws the audience in to makes them want to watchthe rest to find out what happens. We addressed the viewer as if they was in the room with the
characters. We successfully done this by including over the shoulder shots and medium shots, following
the actors about all adds up to the affect. We also used shots from the killers point of view to help
create the right atmosphere for the audience. These are shown below.
Shot from the killers point of view. Using this camera shot tells
the audience straight away that there is someone watching
her. We thought this was important to include shots from the
killers point of view.
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What have you learnt about technologies from the process of
constructing this product?
All of the groups were very lucky because we all had access to some very usefulequipment. We had access to HD Cameras and Tripod, Apple Macs and Final Cut
editing soft wear. Without having these we wouldn't have been able to do as well as
we did with them. Before making the film opening we had chance to go on the
Apple Macs and learn how to use the final cut soft wear. Final cut was relatively easy
to use and very straight forward because I have used it before. However If we did get
stuck on we used YouTube which would explain to us how to do certain things. I
thought that editing a film opening would be quick and easy to do. I have learnt thatthis isn't the case, it takes time and effort to get it right.
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Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you
have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
Together as a group we wanted our preliminary task to be
different and stand out and make people laugh. We also
thought it would be a good practise as in our first film opening
we was doing a horror comedy. We thought of it as a trial for
our actual opening. For this reason we thought we would do
something completely different to our opening. I think this
helped us a lot and defiantly gave us a greater understanding
on different camera angles and shots we could use in our film
opening. Here is an example of a match on action shot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laUPi7MPOSQ
I think that planning out and following simple rules of filming
such as the 180 degree rule really helped and changed the
way the opening looks as it made it look better. These shots are
what we learnt helped us out a lot when filming our opening
we made sure that incorporated them. All films use the 180
degree for example in the film mean girls they use the 180
degree rule to maintain the left/right relationship to each other
when having a conversation. The 180 degree rule was very
important that we included this because the 180 degree rule
states that two characters or other elements are in the same
scene. The 180 degree rule should also be used when two
people are having a conversation and should always maintainthe left/right relationship to each other.
We were given a guideline on
what our preliminary task shouldinclude which where
Match on action shot
Shot reverse shot
The 180 rule
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