Question 2

How did you attract/ address you audience?

Our visual style is quite Film noir with the select use of the colour red and the high contrast look of the film, also the lack of identity provided in some of the shots by Red's face being covered, the music used also references this as it a classical piece which is quite slow and adds atmosphere. However there are more modern shot transitions such as the dissolve we use, reflects a more modern audience, our film is a lot like Sin city with regards to the cinematography style and the story line, so we would be appealing to the same sort of audience, which put together can attract both a younger (teen) and older (late twenties) audience by combining the use of both styles. The use of the two classing voices overlapped with the classical music, may also attract a

certain type of audience, as it makes the whole video appear

more elegant and mature, rather than out original plan to use

more modern and bold music with out dialogue, as our original

plan could have possibly alienated older audiences (above 25), as the music possibly wouldn't be their style, whereas Beethoven would be more towards older audiences and attract them to see the film seeing as a more mature movie, also the 18 certificate makes the film appear to older audiences.

Question 1

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

For the display of our character we have challenged conventions as you don't see every aspect of her personality, as of course there is so much of it but also because we didn't want to give away everything so soon, I couldn't find any examples of this, proving it's a

real challenge to conventions. The title are a development as, where the titles flicker in and out between shots, it is an unusual way of showing titles, although we got inspiration from the film Morvern Callar so it's not a development on it's own in out feed back we found everyone thought our titles were original and the best part of our opening this together with the dip to black makes it a development. The camera angles we use in our opening are a use of conventional use of camera angles as we don't have any particularly quirky or original angles in use. Some of the transitions we used when switching between shots are a challenge of conventions, we used a dissolve transitions between shots to fade one shot over another to make them seem more connected and intertwined to show the state of Red's mind, this represents the main character in Number 23, as he has two personalities however we aren't aware of both and evidently nor does he, this is like our character as she has a split personality, which she is also unaware of. However we have also developed on the character from Number 23 as in Number 23 they have used the same kind of character, however we have presented our's far more ambiguously as we have used less conventional eye contact shots.

Final (ish) changes

We have decided the uses Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata will dialogue lapsed over the top. The dialogue is as follows:

It wasn't like I understood what was happening, or that I wanted it to. It just did. Shut up. you don't just wake up one day with it, it grows, don't tell them, be quite, you can't stop me, leave me alone I hate you, I hate what you've done, you're weak, no, you're stupid, weak and no match for me. She grows, feeding on you like a parasite. Until one day, I take over, and that's just it, I'm in control, and there's nothing I can do, I'm just there, just like a, Bloodsucker, never going, to leave, here to stay, forever, and there's no stopping me I've plenty to get on with and first of all, priority number one, the king of all kings. Revenge.

The bit's in red will be read in a whispered harsh voice the whole monologue is to give the illusion Red is being taken over, by her evil self.

Developments

Since my last entry a lot of work has been done on the production. Our last showing was marked and we achieved: (Picture of Feedback sheet)

As we only achieved a level 3 for appropriate material, we decided to make it easier to understand for the audience by filming the start to the film beyond the titles. I therefore went out and filmed shots of Paige waking up in the woods looking dazed and confused and shots of her running away. This was to make it so the audience could see what she was going through and grasp more of the story line before the 2 minutes were over. The shot of her waking up has a varying focus as it's made to seem as if she is just waking up, so her eyes are trying to understand her surroundings. There are dip to white transitions as they are supposed to look like flash back, or dreams before she wakes up. I particularly like the shot where she turns to look at the camera then runs away, I used this shot to try and make it seem as if she is scared and vulnerable as she is running from us, the audience. After filming these shots the next day, I thought of the final presentation for the title, which was to scratch the title into a tree. I originally wanted to film the tree blank and then have RED walk past and the writing would suddenly appear as she left the shot, however carelessly I film the shot of the tree and then carved the title without noticing the writing was outside of the original shot framing therefore meaning the original shot of the tree wouldn't work. However Dan came up with the idea of blurring the shot so you couldn't see the writing on the tree, until RED walks past at which point he un-blurred the shot and made the title visible, which was very effective and I think it worked well to make the production seem more professional. To make these changes Dan and I spent 3 hours after school to get them finished.

The sound I originally put in the production seemed a little bland so I added a reverb over the top of my voice to make her seem more delusional. And we then changed the sound so RED's voice came from the right, and the Wolf's came from the left. This however became a problem when we came to show the production and there was no cross over, and one of the speakers was broken so the production didn't have half the affect. Therefore we added a crossover to make sure even if there were speaker difficulties it would work.

Development

On Thursday I stayed to do some of the audio and piece together the dialogue which was mine and Dan's voices for the two characters. I found it very difficult to put these together as none of the files were in the right order therefore it took a lot of effort to straighten them out. Also I'm not to skilled in premier I find I can only do the most basic things so in the next lesson we had, I got Dan to help with some of the editing. Together we then re-recorded some of the audio to a better quality and continued to put it all together.