Question 5 - How did you attract/address your audience?

This is a podcast for question 5. I was asked a few question based upon research  had previously done in my research and planning and feedback i was given based upon the audience who watched it.

Question 4 - Who would be the audience for your media product?

Based on my textual analysis, I decide to focus my film on teenage males and the horror genre. This is because based on the results i received, it appeared to be the most common, meaning i could focus on a bigger audience rather than. This is because based on all the research we did, we found that middle class, male teenagers are the ones who most commonly watch horrors and get the best experience. Many of my target audience would already be a fan of horror films and most likely adrenaline junkies. I chose to focus mainly on these as they would mostly receive the biggest effect of a horror film. They would get the most thrill compared to older people and as it's a horror, the age rating would be higher and so many teenagers would be egar to watch one. This allowed me to focus on what would gain their interest and cause them to view it. Based on my textual analysis I was able to see how old they were and do research as to what stereotypical males of that age would do. I had also looked into what the stereotypes of horror were especially character wise. This helped me in the filming side as my target audience would not only be interested in the genre and storyline, but they might also be able to relate to the characters through there rebellious and troublesome side, as many teenage males would try to show off and want to be rebellious as it was redeemed as being 'cool'

Question 3 - What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Question 3 what kind of media institution from charlie1901

Question 2 - How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Question 2 from charlie1901

Question 1 - In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge form and conventions of real media products?

Facade opening scene

Production

After days of filming, I put together a rough version of the opening scene. I noticed whilst watching this that i missed a few shots from my preliminary, such as, match on action. I also noticed that some of the shots are fairly similar. In addition, due to issues with not having a tripod on some days some of the shots are shaky. However, from watching a few times, the opening does keep continuity and follows through each shot. 

Due to this being the first rough cut for this, I will be making additional improvements. There is still no production company, title, and credits displayed but will need to be edited in.

Production Company completed

Production Company Trial

I am currently in the production stage of using after effects to make a production company logo. I have chosen a simple design but will be animated. The design shown above is the still version of what i am currently creating and i will soon be posting the updated version. The updated version will have sound and "Filmlion Entertainment" will draw itself out. For the sound I was trying to find either a copyright version of chalk on a black board of the give the writing effect, if not i will make my own foley sound. 

Filming day 4

We started filming again as prior to my opening scene research, we looked at a few more opening scenes and what they have done compared to us in order to engage with their audience. We noticed that there was quite a lot missing and what we did, didn't make much sense. Due to our recent post "production update" we did filming again for another rough cut and we want to compare the new one to other opening scenes and our first rough cuts, to see how it has developed and if there is anything missing which we can add in on our final version.

Title production

This is the first edit for the title production. I chose the name facade as its definition is "a deceptive outward appearance". This links strongly with the story line of my film, due to it being about someone with multiple personalities. However, this is just the beginning of my title as i will need to improve it more with sound and possibly experiment more with colours and effects in order to add to the horror genre. 

Production Update

After a group discussion, we decided that we needed to change our opening scene. We wanted to keep our idea, but after watching our rough cuts back, we noticed that it doesn't really show our initial idea or set the story line very well. In addition, it is very cliché in the way of the weapon we used being a knife, stereotypical characters and a clown. We are going to spend some time together today planning how we could make it better and draw up a new storyboard, we then intend to re-film a new rough cut on Tuesday and do a finalised version on Thursday.

Filming Day 3

During the 3rd day of filming i decided to do very similar shots, however, this time i used a different car as stated before. We reshoot every single shot from before as we broke continuity and the 180 degree rule. However, we made a rough cut and the footage we received from this shooting will be used for another one as we decided to use a bigger variety of shots. There was a problem with filming due to not having a tripod so having to hand hold the camera mad our shots more shaky, but we worked our way around it. In addition to this, one of the main characters we needed (clown) wasn't able to help out so another brother had to step in. Overall, the filming today was successful and we got quite a lot done in a amount of time.

Creating Foley sounds

After previous research into Foley artists, i decided to have a go at trying to make some sounds which could add a greater effect to our production company and may also be used in our opening scene. I went around our school (Nene Park Academy) in search of equipment 

Filming Day 2

I decided that i would like to redo some of the footage from last night. I thought about the type of car we used which was an old, pale purple Suzuki, i thought using a red car would be better due to red implying danger which would fit the image more. This was an easy part to film as there was only a rough section which would need to be redone. We went back to the same location and re shot the little part where you could see the colour and type of car as the interior looked pretty much the same and would help with the continuity.