Evaluation 7: Looking back at your preliminary task (the continuity editing task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

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Evaluation 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Evaluation 6 Technology

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Evaluation 5: How did you attract/address your audience?

Evaluation 4: Who would be the audience for your media product?

Evaluation 3: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Evaluation 2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

The main character from my film is Jacob. The most similar character i could think of is Alice from the first Resident Evil Film. They're both main characters, and take a leadership form. In that sense they're very similar.They're both in more casual wear than proper military uniformand they both act in the same way and have similar parts in the film. The main difference is that Alice is female.

Evaluation 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

My film uses lots of typical conventions of a horror genre film.
I used black and white for my film, to give it a horror effect that older horror films used. The lack of colour can create a sinister and spooky effect, making things even scarier.
To add to this i lowered the brightness of my film, making it even darker, which is also a common convention used in horror films. Darkness represents the evil and fright of the film.
However, at the same time i'm challenging that convention, as you can blatently tell that its sunny in the film as there are a few times where there is sun flare on the camera.

With the titles, i stuck to conventions of using black and white, or even blood red. I got the ideas for titles from other horrow films such as 'Let the right one in' and 'Resident Evil: Afterlife'

I also tried to follow horror conventions with characters, costumes and setting.

Problems with Filming

Whilst trying to film both my draft and final two minute film, i faced a huge amount of problems, and had to try and find solutions to each one.
My biggest problem was trying to get people together to actually get the filming done. Because i had asked my friends to do it, we had to try and do it in free periods or after school, but unfortunately because exams are drawing close and some people not living in lutterworth, this proved difficult to accomplish. For my draft i had to make do with only 2 of my friends helping me in school during a media lesson, and for the final i had to make do with 1 friend and an adult and film it after school in a matter of 1 hour.
Other problems included getting a location to film. I had to use the school for my draft as the place i wanted to use was currently filled with cars and i wouldn't have time to return at a later time when the area was cleared. I couldn't use the location for my final either so i had to use a park insted, so i had to be careful not to record images of the park as it would ruin the effect.
Another problem came with the editing stage. Firstly my Adobe Premiere Elements kept crashing every so often because my laptop was running on minimum requirements so i had to save reguarly. Then when i tried using a 'invisible cloak effect', the effect also madde part of my character disappear, making it look poorer quality. Then i had to much footage recorded. I had to cut 5 mins down to 2, so most clips were shortened so some of them don't exaclty fit together like they would've done if we were allowed more time.

Final Film Intro - Darkness Incarnate

Music

I've done some searching for some uncopyrighted horror music for my film and i found this website that prvodies 'Royalty Free Music' and found a large selection of music that i could use
http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/index.html?genre=Horror

Here's a list of the different songs i've chosen to choose between
- Bump in the night
- Chase Pulse
- Decay
- One of Them
- Redletter
- Right Behind You
- The Dread
- The House of Leaves
- Very Low Note

Trying different effects with Adobe Premiere Elements

These are both different effects that i went and learnt how to create after seeing other videos online of these effects. I thought that trying out different effects would help build up my experience with editing software, and would allow further creativity. I'm now looking at incorperating these effects into my film.