Mariya Sabir AS Media Studies

Q: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?  Preliminary Task Preparation: We created a storyboard and a script as pat of our plan for the preliminary task, this helped us picture the way we wanted the scenes to look like and gave us guidance on what to do for each scene. We followed our storyboard consistently and found it to be very helpful and saved a lot of time when filming. We also made a shot list and a treatment to note down the ideas that we had and help structures it all. Editing: When it came to editing our preliminary task, everything didn't go to as planned as we didn't really consider much of the editing we needed to do because of the shots we used. It was the first time we both had used the editing software so it took some time for us to get used to as we were still learning how to use Adobe Premiere Pro. Filming: We had spent some days staying after school to get so...

Q: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product? The Internet I used the internet throughout for our prelim task and main task mainly for research and when finding background music for our main task. Using the BFI Statistical Yearbook site, I gathered statistical information such as facts and figures to help gather research in relation to our choice of genre and our target audience. I also used Wikipedia to research existing horror/thriller films to get an understanding of what type of conventions a popular horror film has and their elements as well as looking at different distribution companies.  Camera We used the CANON 500D to film our film opening. The camera was quite lightweight meaning it was easy to hold for long periods of time as our shots were hand-held. I learnt how to handle the camera, which settings were the correct ones to choose and other important elements. This helped throughout the process because a...

Q: How did you attract/address your audience? Below shows some feedback we had received from my focus group. We needed to know what people from the age bracket we had selected to be the target audience, liked and dislike about our film opening. We asked them a few questions to gather some realistic feedback.

How does your media product represent particular social groups? Many horror movies have a rating of either 15 or 18, due to the graphic content such as blood, gore, sexual themes etc. Our target audience is teens but does not include any references to blood, gore or sexual themes. One way our media product represents social groups is through mise-en-scene. The actors are usually on their mobile phones where it is teens stereotypically for teens to be quite anti-social and always texting or communicating on their smartphones. Also, the setting shows a young social group as in an alley you wouldn't tend to find adults unless they are walking through whereas teens use this type of place to get up to trouble and all sorts. The setting is important as it creates a narrative and creates enigma such as the audience wondering "Why are they there", "What are they doing there" and to think a bad event is about to happen. The clothes work by the actors are casual, ty...

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Q: Describe the planning process and what was involved: For the planning process of our Preliminary, I and Olivia made a film treatment which briefly explains the task planning and published on our blogs. Such elements of the film treatment were things such as character, synopsis, camera shots etc.  Q: How did the planning benefit you? Planning did help whilst filming as what props was needed for that specific scene, camera shots and other important elements from using the storyboard which we had created together. The dialogue was well implemented because Olivia and I produced a script for the characters to study from so that they knew what actions they had to perform and what they had needed to say. In conclusion, planning made a successful outcome as it was a good source of guidance. 

Working Title Olivia and I chose to name the title as 'Unknown' reason being why we chose this as our title because the 'stalker' which is shown following Liv,  contacts Liv through text message and as the message appears as 'Unknown'. Genre The chosen genre for our film opening is horror/thriller. Having done some research we concluded that horror and thriller is a very top rated genre in relation to films and are very successful - as shown in the BFI Statistical Yearbook research.  Central Theme Our film will be in relation to the themes of social media stalking and vulnerability.  Synopsis A young girl and a group of friends receive strange messages and images from an unknown number. The girls don't take the messages into much consideration so they ignore the situation. The mystery continues and leads up to all 4 girls going missing one by one. Pitch Our film will be rated 15 because we think this is the suitable age rat...

Olivia and I began filming footage pieces for our film opening titled the "UKNOWN" on the 22nd January and had completed all filming by the 24th January. We then began editing the next following day on the 25th using iMac computers and using the editing software called Adobe Premiere Pro and had finished editing on the 27th.  Firstly, we had transferred all of our footage that we gathered on to the iMac where we then chose selectively which clips to keep and which to delete so it makes the editing stage a lot easier.   After selecting all the clips we wanted, we saved some footage elsewhere in case if needed. We did this just in case once all of our editings were completed and the storyline had something missing we could include those clips or use snippets of those extra clips. We then put the clips into the desired order on the Adobe Premiere Pro timeline. We then made some edits to the clips such as cutting to shorten the clips, adding fonts and colours for our credits...

Horror/ Thriller Thriller is a broad genre of literature, film and television, having numerous subgenres. Thriller will often include elements of science fiction, mystery or horror. A thriller must incite to the audience strong emotions, suspense and tension. Horror is a genre of fiction which is envisioned to frighten or scare the audience. The main effects of a horror are to make people jump, feel nervous or on edge by something that is about to happen or already happened. A horror movie cannot be successful if it does not encourage fear into the audience and use a lot of it throughout the movie. Horror/ Thriller Film Associated Production Producers & Developers Warner Brothers Blumhouse Screen Gems Productions Company Logo Advertisements Company logo advertisements are usually shown at the beginning of film's, for example, the Blumhouse productions logo advertisement, the logo shows a dark corner of a room with one single light on the ceilin...

FADE IN: BLACK SCREEN WHITE TEXT DISSOLVE TO: EXT. ALLEYWAY - DAY (LIV, 17 years old in a distinctive bright red jacket stands in the alleyway on her phone)  LIV: Yeah that's what I said. Yeah. what are we doing about all these lesson trips? Oh, hang on I'm getting another call. Hello? (Echo of her answering the phone) LIV: Hello? UNKNOWN: (Growls) DISSOLVE TO: EXT. ALLEYWAY - DAY (LIV walking down the alleyway, the camera follows her and then views her from a bush to the left) DISSOLVE TO: BLACK SCREEN, BIRDS TWEETING, SOUND OF FOOTSTEPS CUT TO: INT. CLASSROOM - DAY (LIV sitting at a desk using a computer) LIV: 4 of us that's 25 quid well done Liv. Maths. Or there's like bigger ones. (Phone message notification sound) MAZ: Who is it? LIV: I dunno I keep getting weird messages from some unknown person. (LIV takes camera and focuses on her phone) LIV: It’s just a bit odd I don't know who that is. your friends look nice and your friend's jacket is nice. MAZ:  ...

Name : Amaan Age : 16 Gender : Male Occupation (if applicable) : Student Subjects being studied (if applicable) :  Business Studies, Geography, ICT Favourite film(s) from the specified genre : ·                      Paranormal activity ·                      Insidious Reasons the specified genre appeals to you : "I like horror/ thriller films because I tend to find other genres quite boring and with horror there is a lot that goes and builds on" What you expect from the opening of a film from the specified genre :  "The lighting being quite dark, setting quite interesting and maybe creepy" Name : Maryam Age : 16 Gender : Female Occupation (if applicable) : Studen...

First plan  Working title: Abandoned Initial Storyline: Our idea was to start with a glimpse at the end of the film in the beginning and have the entire thing filmed on a handheld camera 1. Establishing Shot - an abandoned old people's home. 2. Medium Long Shot - A group of local teenagers are breaking in ahead of the character carrying the camera. 3. Medium Close-up - It then cuts to 3 girls who were with the big group previously, now on the stairs calling to the boys. The camera focuses on two of the 3 girls, the 3rd girl obviously filming. 4. Low Angle, Long Shot - Someone walks across the landing at the top of the stairs and heads into a room. Thinking it's one of their friends they follow him into the dark room, illuminated only by the single window with a streetlight directly opposite. 5. Medium Shot - The figure stands to face the window motionless as one of the girls approaches him and places a hand on his shoulder ready to turn him round, the figure then turns, r...

Film opening: Link Synopsis The woman in black is a 2012 drama/ horror film, directed by James Watkins and written by Susan Hill, Jane Goldman. The film stars Danielle Radcliffe who plays the character Arthur Kipps as a lawyer, who was recently widowed and upset from the loss of his wife when he travels to a remote village to put a departed person's bizarre affairs in order. Sooner after his arrival, it becomes clearer to him the villagers are hiding an abhorrent secret. Arthur discovers his client's house is haunted by a spirit of a woman who is looking for someone or something she has lost and from her presence no one including the children is safe. Producers The film was produced by Richard Jackson, Simon Oakes, Brian Oliver. The film involved many production companies including, Hammer Film Productions, Cross Creek Productions, Exclusive Media, UK Film Council, Film i Väst.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woman_in_Black_(2012_film) Distrib...

Film Opening Film Opening Link Synopsis: The Conjuring 2 is a 2016 American Horror film, directed by James Wan and written by Carey Hayes, Chad Hayes, Wan and David Leslie Johnson. The Conjuring 2 is part of the sequel to the 2013 film 'The Conjuring' and is the second instalment in The Conjuring film series and the third in the franchise. Patrick Wilson & Vera Farmiga play the role of Ed and Lorraine Warren as paranormal investigators and authors. The Warrens travel to Britain to help the Hodgson family, who experience supernatural activity at their council house. The Conjuring 2 was released in North America on June 10, 2016. The film overall received positive reviews from critics and has grossed over $320 million worldwide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conjuring_2 Producers: Ed Warren The film deals with the case of the 'Enfield Poltergeist', which took place in Enfield, London from 1977 to 1979, it involved the supposed hauntin...

BFI Statistical Yearbook – Genre Information In order to amass quantitative data on the Comedy genre, we have referred to the BFI’s 2014 Statistical Yearbook as it is far beyond the scope of any survey that we could ever hope to conduct. In the BFI’s own words, ‘The Statistical Yearbook presents in one place all the available statistics on UK film and the UK film industry.’ Analysis As we can see from this survey the Thriller genre was quite successful in 2014: The Thriller genre grossed £58.5 million, accounting for only 5.6% of total box office. However, it did surpass other big genres such as family, horror and adventure. There were 71 Thriller releases in 2014 making up 10.0% of the total releases in 2014. Gone Girl was the second highest '18' rated classified film in 2014.  Significance Thriller films were quite successful with the British public in 2014. This shows that there is demand an...