Frass up practice titles

"Frass Up" shows a scary sinister hallway which creates a best atmosphere for the audience and put the audience in the horror mindset to get ready to watch the film. The flickering light gives threatening eerie tone to the film.    We created these titles on Adobe After Effects using an image from Google and lighting effects. We also added titles using the fonts on the software and we chose red to match PAV productions and link to the codes and conventions of the horror genre. 

The first clip is of our production company and we made the production company titles. 

PAV stands for Production Audio Visuals; we chose this name because it clearly links to how films are created. Also, the abbreviation is quite catchy and professional. PAV productions is a small production company, similar to Metro who created Hot Tub Time Machine which was a small but successful film. We want our film to target an English audience but it would be great if through social media and Netflix we could target a global audience.  

The smoke effect gives of the sense of horror for the audience as smoke is used to give an eerie atmosphere for the audience and as it is the first thing they will watch it will set the mood and sense for the rest of the scene; smoke connotes death

Evaluation 5

Evaluation 5

Evaluation 1

The second clip which is the title of the film "Frass Up" shows a scary sinister hallway which creates a best atmosphere for the audience and put the audience in the horror mindset to get ready to watch the film. The flickering light gives threatening eerie tone to the film.    

The first clip gives of the sense of horror for the audience as smoke is used to give an eerie atmosphere for the audience and as it is the first thing they will watch it will set the mood and sense for the rest of the scene; smoke connotes death.      

The horror film foreshadows the horror events which are going to happen in the film and also creates realism for the audience as teenagers often watch horror films with their friends.

The storyline is about how the two boys are watching a horror film and what happens is they become the horror film and they eventually find out it's not just them town in the house. 

This a low angle shot of our villain. Low angle shots stereotypically show power, so the audience will understand that this is the villain who is going to attack the boys. Also, it is clear through his costume that he is the villain as he is wearing dark clothing and a mask. Furthermore, by the audience only seeing his eyes creates tension as they may also fear the villain.

These are the two main protagonists, they are wearing recognisable clothing - tracksuits, which the audience would relate to and may find attractive according to the Female Gaze theory. The low key lighting is effective and shows that it is night time and this sets the scene. Night time is a typical time of night that horror films are set so instantly the audience would recognise it is a horror film. 

The characters are introduced straight from the opening scene when the credits come up saying the name and that the is a medium short of Joe and Jackson then later on the killer is shown on camera which is Shea and his name is shown.

Overall film analysis:

The title of the film is called Frass Up. The film was located in Shea's house and the costumes we chose to wear was tracksuit to relate to what the characters were like and that they were just typical teenagers. Also the props we used was just two glass of water, a tv controller and a knife. We decided to do different camera shots and angles to make the film for exciting for the people who watch it and to get higher marks. We used bloody colour font to give the it a horror feel before the audience even watch the film. 

The genre of film is horror/thriller it's suggested in the film as tension is built for example when Jackson comes down and the door is open.  The special effects shown are to do with  editing and the crossover from each scene to the next and music at the beginning. Also we used Adobe After Effects to create smoke for our production title. This was an effective use of technology, which relates to typical horror opening where special effects are used to create enigma codes. 

       

Evaluation 8

Evaluation 8

What targets will you set yourself for G324 next year – when you will make a trailer?

Next year, are group will need to make a lot of change’s which include; lighting, sounds and editing. To improve our lighting we will invest in new lighting equipment that’ll will give us low key and high key lighting. Furthermore, this will enhance the other microelements within our film, to increase our overall mark.  

To improve our sound we will need to add more non-diegetic and diegetic sounds. We will experiment with different types sound such as non-diegetic and diegetic sound. We could research free sound effects and could potentially layer different types of sound. This would create a chilling atmosphere and could create more enigma codes.

In order to help us develop our editing skills, we should watch more online tutorials, where we could learn about different effect transitions. These transactions will include layering sound, adjusting colour and enhancing it. These effects will help us create a better atmosphere for the audience. We will experiment with Adobe after Effects and try to create different movies title and experiment colour effects on the movie.  

Also, next year we would like to improve our time management. This is because we left our filming to the last minute. This was bad because it meant that we had to rush the filming and therefore only filmed each scene only once or twice. 

Evaluation 4

Evaluation 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Our target audience for our movie would be teenagers ageing from 15-18+. We decided to choose this age group because this age group would relate the most with our actors and movie. Also, this age group has disposable money probably from their parents, so therefore this may lead to lots of teenager viewers watching our film and therefore leads to more profit. If this movie was aimed at a lower age group, the audience wouldn’t relate to the actors or the movie as much. This is because in our film we have three teenage protagonists and there are tradition teenage stereotypes. They have hoodie and tracksuits and recognisable fashion and clothing; which the teenage audience will realise.

Our movie is focused on the male gender because the stereotype of males tend to like action/horror movie. We aimed it at the male target audience because if we aimed it at the female gender we may get lower viewers because they may not want to be scared. This is because the stereotype of females is that they tend to like comical movies; such as Rom/Coms and Comedy’s. Our movie is horror based so therefore we would get more viewers if we aimed it at the male gender. However the film may still appeal to the female target audience because they might be attracted to the male actors.

Teenagers would be our main target audience as they could relate with the actors. The audience would relate to the actors as they would be the same age, wear the same cloths and also would be doing the same stuff as the actors. For example teenagers would wear tracksuits when lounging round a friend’s house. Relating to the audience would make the movie more intense and more realistic as they feel it could happen to them at any time. 

Evaluation 7

Evaluation 7
What have we learnt since we’ve done our preliminary task?

Since our preliminary task we’ve learnt that it takes a lot more time and editing to make the film look good. We’ve also learnt a lot more about adobe premiere pro as well, using the transactions and adding cool effects to make our final product look as good as it can. Another thing that we learnt is that when you are trying to perform different camera angles it’s harder to get a still professional shot when you’re trying to do the 180 degree rule and match-on-action. Also when we were editing we found out how to make title screens, this helped a lot when it came to our final film because it made our film look more professional.This all helped due to we can put all of these camera angles we used from the preliminary task into the opening two minutes of what film we decided to make. We also learned from all the angles what effect it gives to the audience members and how they feel when watching the actors; we are going to use the camera angles to represent to the audience relationship between the actors for example if it is a still shot directly looking at the actors walking then they are equal and on the same level rather than if there is a shot over the shoulder of one actor looking down on another actor then it represents power.     

evaluation 6

Evaluation 6

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

Firstly, whilst filming, we were getting used to using the camera, using the tripod with the camera was good because we got some still shots which makes the filming look professional.

Next, we used the technology provided at school, on the computers we had access to adobe premiere pro. We used this to put our film together and make our title screen/director screen.

Then, we used YouTube to add sound, for example, we were getting little clips of eerie music which adds a scary effect and puts the viewer on the edge of there seat.