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

Having a young cast will appeal to our target audience. This is because this age range of our target audience is around 15-25. This will make it easier to relate to some characters.

This is a typical creepy looking stance. It will appeal to our audience because it makes it more obvious who the main villain is in this film.

This scene will appeal to our target audience because it explains slightly why the guy has been following the girl around. It also helps to build suspense for the rest of the film and what is going to happen next. This will make our audience want to carry on watching.

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

Johnny Fricnon
Age:19
Location: England
Likes: English, Science, Baked Alaska Ben&Jerry's ice cream, Italian Food
Dislikes: Going to Uni, living at home
Hobbies: Plays the ukulele, in a band, reads a lot
What films they like: Star Wars, Abduction, Transit, The Grind, Lord Of The Rings, Sweeny Todd
What TV programs they watch: Doctor Who, Silent Witness, CSI, Lost, Harpers Island
What music they listen to: Indie and Rock genre music.

Our film would appeal to this kind of audience because they watch a lot of things that are to do with crime. It will also interest this audience because our film would mainly feature dis-equilibrium and the things that this person watches also has a lot of heavy dis-equilibrium involved in them.

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

Our production company was independent. This means that it wasn't made by a well known company. A company that would distribute our film could probably be After Dark Films the reason for this is that a lot of the films that are distributed by this company are from the crime or horror genre. This would be a fitting company for this film to be distributed from. We can also use YouTube to show trailers and clips that are from our film.
An existing film that is similar to ours would be Abduction. This film was made in 2011 and was distributed by After Dark Films. The film is similar to ours because it is about a person that has been abducted. The way ours differs from this film is that the person involved doesn't know that he had been kidnapped when he was a child whereas, in our film the person that has been abducted was old enough and in a situation in which they know what is going on.
The money for our film would probably come from some government grants from The UK Film Council, paid product placement and another possible way of getting funding for our film would be to get a private investor but this would be one of the more difficult to gain. (All ways of funding films can be found on my blog post about the production and distribution of our film)
The people that we included in our titles were our two actors Chris Hartshorne and Shannon Marie. Their role in the title sequence was to portray our characters. I was the next person that was involved in our title sequence. My role was to edit the title sequence together. The person that next came onto the screen was Suzanna Owens. Her role was to record the camera shots. The final person involved in our title sequence was Lucy Matthews. Her role was to direct the title sequence. This included telling Chris and Shannon what to do and plan out the scenes before they were shot so she knew what she wanted to do in each section.

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

A social group that is represented in this film is youth.




We have represented a young girl in this film to be into doing shopping. This has also been done in a slightly different way in Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging. We used the mise-en-scene in the location to create this representation by filming in a clothes shop. By doing this we wanted to follow a typical stereotype to show a norm in something that isn't really normal. In comparison to the example on the left from Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging it shows the same sort of thing. Both members of the cast are involved in shopping or hanging around in a shopping area. This shows that the representation that we used is quite a common one.

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

The font we used for the title of our film was big and bold. This is because it stands out and is quite intimidating. To start with it was just white on a black screen but then we changed the colour to blue and added a sweeping light effect to make it seem more intense. This is quite similar to the title for the crime film Sket. The bold writing has probably been used to show a hard edge where as ours is creating tension.

The font of our titles is quite a sharp looking one. We 

chose to use this so that it would show that something was wrong pretty much straight away. We started off with just Times New Roman but then changed it by stretching it and giving it a slight outline this gave it a little bit more of a creepy element. We also added our titles onto the film rather then have them on black screens like our title.
A film that used a similar font to this for the titles is Coraline although it has been used to convey something quite different and is a lot more delicate looking then the font that was used for our titles.

The location we used for our title sequence was a shop. This is because it was a good place to show the stalker hiding and taking photos. We had to gain permission to film here though.

The costumes that we chose to make our cast wear was just normal modern day clothing. This is because our film was going to be set in this time period.
This is similar to many films of the kidnap/stalker sub-genre of crime.

In this scene we used artificial lighting. This is because we only wanted to have light on one side of the face. This created more tension because you can only see part of an expression.

We wanted to show the personalities of our characters by what they were doing rather then what they said. This scene shows the stalker sneaking into the female toilets which shows he is determined to
get what he wanted and he is also slightly creepy.






This angle is a low angle shot. It is also slightly canted. This shows that something is wrong and it is a common genre convention in most crime films.We challenged the conventions slightly by not making it as obvious as most other films of this genre.

We used a fade to white to show the fact that the stalker had drugged the girl. This adds to the tension because you know that she has passed out and it leaves the audience wondering whats happening.

This still shows that our genre is a sub-genre of crime because of the fake blood on her hand. This is because there is often a lot of violence shown in crime films. We challenged this by not actually showing the violence in our title sequence but it suggests that there has been a struggle between the two people. 

Our Title Sequence

Week By Week Diary

Friday 24th February.


This week we have done a lot of work on mainly the script and trying to figure out who is going to be in our title sequence. We have also done work on our storyboard.

Friday 2nd March.


This week in media we continued to do work on our storyboard and find a cast. At the moment we have a very rough idea of who is going to be in it. I finished the script today and we have printed off some copies to  the people who might be in the title sequence. We also looked for locations to film in (blog post on the location)

Friday 9th March.


This week we finalized our cast (blog post on the casting), we also did all of our filming. When we came to start editing it all together we found out that we hadn't stuck to the 180 degree rule because of the placement of some of the props in the mafia dons office and we also realized that we hadn't stuck to the brief throughout most of our filming because we hadn't used a tripod. We now have to re-shoot our whole title sequence.

Friday 16th March.


This week we haven't done much. This is because we haven't been able to organize when our cast is free again. On Thursday we had a group meeting and made a new plan of when, where and who we would be filming. Due to unavailability and illness quite a lot of our cast has had to be changed. We're hoping that by the end of Monday all our filming will be done and we'll have the next couple of weeks to edit our footage and complete the task.

Friday 23rd March.

This week we progressed quite fast. Finding that we hadn't got access to our actors and the planned filming on the Friday before hadn't been done, we decided to change our idea. We decided to make our title sequence a lot simpler, we did this by changing our chosen genre. We chose to do a film that was about with kidnapping. To start this we chose a new location which was a shopping centre and a shop. We had to get permission to film here but that was easy to get. We also used the photography studio on a low key background for the final scene. We created a new storyboard for our title sequence within about an hour. We decided that we weren't going to include any dialogue so we didn't create a new script. All of our filming was done within a day, this was because the people who we had cast for the two characters were only both  available on one day of the week. We told them to dress in normal clothes because we were setting it in a modern day town. The only main props we used in the filming of this was a DSLR Camera, a cloth, a chair, fake blood and some black duct tape. After we had finished our filming we decided to start editing on Thursday. We did this by cutting all the parts of our film we wanted and put them into an order that made sense. By the end of this week we had made a lot of progress and I am happy that we have got this far in our title sequence now. We need to add soundtrack and effects to our edit next week and then we will be finished.


Friday 30th March.

This week we completed our film title sequence. We added some special effects to our film to give it a blue/green tinge and the soundtrack underneath that runs throughout creates tension, we also used sound effects to create the shopping atmosphere and to hear the footsteps that are being made more clearly. We also took a microphone out and tried to record our own sound but our attempt wasn't very successful so we just used sound effects that weren't copyrighted.