Frass up opening two minutes

Soundtrack

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This sound track that we used for our filming experience was intriguing and engaging to our audience. This is because the dramatic music allows our movie to fulfill the aspects that come from a horror genre. Our scary movie forms the audience to feel tense in the first place, in which this soundtracks adds to the tension and eerie feeling forming our movie to fulfill the horror genre. This soundtrack is similar to tracks used in movies such as the conjuring and the ring, therefore our movie is trying to give of the same scary atmosphere to our audience.

Opening two minutes

Frass up

The opening credits show PAV Productions with an eerie smoke blowing behind it. The eerie smoke could foreshadow the type of genre of the movie. The next credit shows a hallway with the movie title 'Frass up', this title in flickering red. The colour shows the audience that bloody scenes are likely to happen during the upcoming movie. The dimming of the light in the hallway could suggest that the lighting in the movie could represent the suspense and add eeriness. The dark and sinister music in the background helps both credits to foreshadow the upcoming horror genre.

The first cut of our movie shows a scary scene from a hollywood movie. This cut foreshadows the upcoming events which are gonna happen in our movie. It then shows Jackson and Joe talking about the movie and how it isn't scary. This shows to the audience that they are naive about the upcoming scene's. It then shows jackson walking down stairs and closing the front door which was left open. This shows the character has no idea what is happening, this create a realistic atmosphere as they have no clue about the upcoming events. After this it shows a mysterious character walking and staring at joe, who is naive about him, looking at his phone. The shot of the 'evil' character only shows his legs creeping around. This makes a mysterious atmosphere as no one knows who he is. The next shot shows the evil character looking at joe, with the camera angle making it seem were watching the movie 'through his eyes'. This makes the movie seem more realistic. The next couple shots are with the same camera angle to make the movie seem more realistic to the audience. Throughout all these scenes, there is a sinister music in the background. This music only plays when the evil character is in the shot. This creates a sinister atmosphere whenever the evil character is around. Throughout these scenes jackson has been downstairs getting drinks. This creates a realistic atmosphere as he is naive of what is going on. When Jackson comes back upstairs to the room he finds Joe dead on the sofa. As this happens the sinister music comes on again. This shows the audience that the evil character is coming, and a sinister scene is ahead.

Preliminary Task and Evaluation

We decided to make a further preliminary task that linked closely to the brief of having two characters interact.

In the clip you can see talk characters walking through a door followed by a match on action when one of the character opened the door. Then there is a shot reverse shot, over the shoulder shot to show the conversation between the two characters.

We had problems with the sound when filming the clip. You can hear the conversation between the characters after they have walked through the door. however, you cannot hear the conversation before the characters walk through the door. Therefore, we will experiment with filming and the sound for our final film.

The issue with the film and sound may be due to the fact that we filmed it on an iphone. For our final film we will film it on a Song HD camera so that the film footage and sound is of a high standard.

Some of the film is a bit faded and distorted so again we hope that this will be resolved by using the Sony HD camera.

We used Adobe Premiere Pro to edit the film. We dragged the footage in to the timeline, cut the clips and add a cross dissolve transition. It was interesting to experiment with Adobe but we plan to use many more features, tools and effects for our final film. This film was a taster of what is to come for our final film Frass Up.

Evaluation 3

Evaluation 3

Director’s opinions and view on key features of our opening:

In our production company we have a company name of PAV productions, this is due to there being a deeper meaning to the cooperation group of this movie, in which PAV is a connect name to a social group of the creators of the film. Furthermore P.A.V stands for photograph audio visual, this is because these are the main aspects that we focus on when creating a film. The logo of P.A.V productions is shown below. We created this logo because it has features of being cool and trendy, in which this is unique and engaging. Therefore in connection to our film production the features of our logo represents our movies made, also the logo represents are Production Company to be extremely unique.

An independent film production company is responsible for finding a script, financing, Actors, Directors, and Writers, usually in that order. Ideally you start with at least one, if not all three. Therefore a production company is responsible for the process and set up of a film engaging in any aspect about the making of a film, in which it is all up to them to create the film and put people in specific roles to create the film.

A film distributor is responsible for the marketing of a film. The distribution company is usually different from the production company. In our film we have used the distributor from the movie Hush as we engage in the same sort of audience as them. Therefore in this case we have used the distributor of Netflix. This is because Netflix has the same sort of audience as our movie wants.

The money from our film will come from the distributor as we will get a certain amount of money from allowing our film to be shown on Netflix. In are opening titles we have various people named, identify the major actors and crew, while the closing credits list an extensive cast and production crew. This is to allow other films to be able to find out who was in the film and who created the film, as they may be a good person to create there film.

Our film is similar to the movie hush and don’t hang up. Both these movies had a distributor of Odeon and Netflix earning their money by being shown threw the cinema and on a app. They was produced by blumhouse productions, Blumhouse Productions is an American film and television production company, founded by Jason Blum. Blumhouse is mostly known for producing low-budget horror movies, such as the Paranormal Activity, Insidious and The Purge franchises. This production company is closely linked to our horror movie as we are producing a low budget horror movie.

Evaluation 2

Evaluation 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

In our movie we have a set of particular social groups to engage an audience similar to the social groups of the actors. Likewise we have picked a specific social group of 2 friends that are extremely close, this therefore attracts an audience of the similar friendships groups as they can relate to this social group.

In our film we have chosen a specific relationship of two teenaged boys that are best friends. This type of social group has been influenced by the movie ‘don’t hang up’ in which the social group of two teenagers that are best friends engages an audience similar to the type of actors in the movie. Therefore in this case our audience will engage an audience of teenaged boys due to them being able to relate to the people in the movie.

In our movie we have specific similarities and differences to the movie ‘don’t hang up’ to create the same sort of atmosphere, using the best aspects of characters and not using the bad aspects that we do not want to see in our movie.

Firstly we have similarities of the same appearances as we have two decent looking boys in both movie, in which this will engage the audience to draw a connection to the boys due to their appearance. Likewise we also had a similar dress sense to the movie ‘don’t hang up’ in the sense that our dress sense was causal teenaged boys clothing allowing the audience to feel comfortable watching these actors as they feel like they are the same social group as them. Another similarity was the roles they both played as they are best mates that get along well and have a genuine close relationship.

On the other hand we had one difference to the movie ‘don’t hang up’ in the roles they played because one of the actors in the movie ‘don’t hang up’ went against his friend in the movie forming there to be hatred between the two, therefore we didn’t use this as we want our audience to really feel a connection with our actors and not feel hatred towards either of them. 

Stereotypes

We used specific stereotypes so that teenagers can relate to the actors in the opening two minutes. We chose the actors to talk like teenagers using slang which they could understand and also again relate to, this will make the audience more interested in the film overall and will enjoy it more.

The outfits we chose to wear were tracksuits which were fashionable so that the public view the characters as relatable teenagers. We used brands which are very well know and very fashionable to show that teenagers like to always wear good quality clothes. Also the haircuts are fashionable as well which again represents they like looking good all the time; these are conventional stereotypes of teenagers and the audience would recognise these. Also, these stereotypes would attract our target audience of teenager girls and boys because they can identify with these characters and this could make them want to watch the film and it would create tension for them as they may think this event could happen to them.