Foundation Portfolio Evaluation Questions.

(Shamaan) Introduction 1: What did you make, who did you work with and where did the original idea come from ?

                    We are making a psychological horror film. For this we have watched a selection of horror films, for example; Strangers, paranormal activity, silent hills, vacancy, the grudge etc.

We chose this image as it highlights one of the effects that a psychological horror film possess. We also tried to follow these conventions in our horror film.

Here you can see that a book is falling with supernatural influences, however the audience is aware of this but the young female is oblivious.  This builds tension and conforms to the conventions of a psychological horror film.

We have also had a look at the target audience for these films and how techniques from other psychological films could be  applied. To get inspiration for our film we watched some previous clips from the year above us, this helped us get some ideas. 

In our group there was: Sham, Milla, Billy and Nas. Over all the relationship of our group has been ok, we haven't had any problems so far and we all turned up, and participated in the filming. 

Here are the links off YouTube of films which has helped us with idea's for our film:

Paranormal Activity:

Strangers:

(Camilla) No.2: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

                       A psychological Film usually does not show the threat as it is supernatural causing an eerie effect which plays on the audiences' mind. It also consists of dramatic music to build tension at key moments but silence is important as it adds effect.  By watching a number of films (films listed above) it has helped us be able to apply these effects to try and create a typical physiological film, this is important as it broadens our knowledge for what is needed in the film, for instance abnormal movement and spooky sounds. We did not really challenge these conventions as we thought it would be more effective and scary if we kept the threat hidden and have supernatural qualities, we also made the main character a female as they are shown as a stereotypical character by appearing as the victim.

In our  film we also use eerie non digetic sound to show that something abnormal is about to happen. 

No.4 How does your media product represent particular social groups?

                    
In our film we have the female as the main character as they are usually portrayed in horror films as being naive and vulnerable making her a stereotypical character. Our threat is supernatural which is typically used in psychological horror films and we show this by unexplainable movement of objects and camera angles. We chose to film inside a library as it is a "normal" environment yet unusual for a horror film however it matched with the victims characteristics as she is shy and knowledgeable. In order to show these stereotypical points of the female character we positioned her character as the victim and gave her props such as glasses and books to portray her as "geeky" girl.

Here our images to support our points:

Here, this image from the grudge reveals how the victim is portrayed as being the stereotypical, blonde female who is vulnerable and weak 

In the mise en scene it is clear to see that the girl is highly intelligent due to using the props such as books glasses stereotypical costume. E.g. blazer and scarf. The fact that the young girl is also on her own shows her vulnerability and loneliness making her a key victim.

first shoot rushes

We think so far that this section is good. This is our main section and the continuity, frames and mise-en-scene is effective. We have used a range of shots but all of our group have agreed that we need to include more close ups in the rest of our scenes.  This scene is very clear, focused and has good composition and we will try our hardest to continue this throughout.
Although we had to wake up really early to shoot this section of our film, everybody made the effort to come on time and due to this, this scene managed to be successful. We all worked together to get the special effects to make it scary:
we had the book pushed out but made sure that the audience couldn't see figure in the shot. this added effect because it makes the audience curious and grips the audience as they want to discover more. when the book gets pulled away we also use a shot from the supernatural perspective which adds effect and plays on the audiences minds.
Even though we didn't use all our shots in the end and from the story board, we made sure we experimented on different angles so we could choose from a variety.

we are currently working on the indigetic sound so that it build on tension and so far this is also going well.

Hope you enjoy :)
(Sham Billy Nas & Milla)  x

First shoot.

this is our first piece of work that we have edited so far. we have spoken to our peers and they said that they really thought our composition was good, we thought this was one of our best shots.

Title Design Sheet and 20 Second Titles

         The 20 second titles reveal our original ideas for the film however we decided to change the voice of the news reader to the thoughts of the woman as it shows that the woman is mentally unstable. Also we decided against the montage as it is more effective to show the behavior of the woman before the events occurred.

Health and Safety Sheet

180 Degree Rule

Make Up Design sheet and Shot/Character Design Sheet