Credits Reseach

Credits research

 

 

Credits are used at the start of the film to tell you who is staring in the film who it is directed by and the title of the film.

 

 

 

 

 

In this opening credits its starts with showing the production company used to create the film. Non diegetic music of creepy airy sounds are used to represent the genre of the film and create tension and keep the audience interested so they will want to continue watching. The colour that are used are blacks and greys again representing the genre, and blacks and grey connate darkness, showing darkness and that dark things will happen during this film. The text flickers almost like a flickering light in a spooky old haunted house, the effects of splatted blooded in the background is spooky and again showing there will be blood in this film and representing the genre.

 

 

 

Audience Theories

Audience Theories

 

 

The hypodermic needle theory is a stages of a communication theory which suggests that media messages are injected into the brains of a uninterested audience. It suggest that we are all the same and we all respond to media messages in the same way.

 

 

 

 

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The Effects model

 

The media effect theory is how media can effect the society and how society can effect the media. Some negative implications of this theory are when people do "copy cat murders" For instance if someone gets too hooked in a film and copy's it and kills people in that style as the film will influence the viewer in a very bad way. 

An audience tends to see the audience as passive and sees how exposure to particular aspect of media content can effect the behaviour of the audience.

 

 

 

 

 

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Two step-flow model

 

The two flow model can be simplified by two steps, the first step is the opinion leaders will get information for a media source. The second step is the opinion leads will then pass on the information as well as there interpretation to others such as family and friends. The opinion  leaders will be influenced and pay close attention to the mass media and the messages. The influentials are not really informed by the media and will look up to opinion leaders.

 

 

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The uses and gratification theory

 

 

The uses and gratification theory is an approach to understanding why and how people seek out specific media to satisfy specific needs. An audience approach to understanding mass communication is UTG. It focuses on the consumer or audience rather than the actual message itself. it focuses on the question "What do people do with media?" instead of "What  is the media doing to people?"

It assumes people are taking an role in interpreting in there own life's. it suggests the uses and gratification theory has to fulfil one of these when choosing a media...

1. Identity

2. Educate

3. Entertain

         4. Social interaction

 

Blumer and Katz extended this theory and published there own in 1974. Stating that individuals would use a media text for these reasons:

Diversion - escape from everyday problems and routine.

Personal Relationships - using the media for emotional and other interaction, eg) substituting soap operas for family life

Personal Identity - finding yourself reflected in texts, learning behaviour and values from texts

Surveillance - Information which could be useful for living eg) weather reports, financial news, holiday bargains

 

 

 

 

 

 

Font for our film title

Font title for our film


We chose this font for the title of our film because it fits in with the genre of the film which is horror. The reason the font looks scary is because its big and bold and messy it looks almost as if it has been wrote in blood.

We have changed the colours round for our film title because we wanted the background to be dark so it could convey the genre of horror.
 

Location Shots

Location Shots

 

 

 

These images we have taken above are pictures of the house that we are using when we are filming also shots of the location. We have chose this location because we wanted to create a setting of normality for the start of our film.

 

 

These are images of the road leading up to my house where we will film at the beginning of our opening sequence where the step dad is driving to the house.

Narratives

Narratives

Tvethan Todorov made narrative theory simpler, But this allowed a more complex reading of film text with his theory of Equilibrium and Disequilibrium. He split this into Five different stages....

1. The state of equilibrium- This stage is where everything is as it should be between the powers of any kind. Where equally of importance or effect exists among the various parts of any complex unity.
2. Disequilibrium- a disruption of that order by event.
3. A recognition that the disorder has occurred.
4. An attempt to repair the damage of the disruption.
5. A return or restoration of a new equilibrium at the end of the narrative.
Goffman's character theory
Goffman character theory implies that there are 4 types of broad characters in any media or production..

1. The protagonist (leading character)
2. The deuteragonist (secondary character)
3. The bit player (minor character whose specific background the audience is not aware of)
4. The fool (a character that uses humor to convey messages)

Propp's character theory
Vladimir Propp made a  character theory for looking through media texts and productions, he came up with the idea that there are always 7 different character types in all the tales he had analysed, these 7 different character types can be used in any media. They are:

1. The villain (struggles against the hero)
2. The donor (prepares the hero or gives the hero some magical object)
3. The (magical) helper (helps the hero in the quest)
4. The princess (person the hero marries, often sought for during the narrative)
5. The false hero (perceived as good character in beginning but emerges as evil)
6. The dispatcher (character who makes the lack known and sends the hero off)
7. The hero [AKA victim/seeker/paladin/winner, reacts to the donor, weds the princess

Narrative Structure in our film

Narrative structure in our film 

 

 

 

The target audience for our film is 18-25 year olds. In order to keep the audience of our film hooked and entertained we must help them escape their everyday life and routine-diversion/ Blumer and Katz theory.

 

Our film will follow the narrative structure anticipated by Todorov:

 

* An equilibrium- a sense of normality (the step-dad's first arrival).

* The disruption- The equilibrium gets destroyed becoming the disequilibrium(when the two daughters are murdered and the mother is left distraught).

* Attempts to repair- (when the mother goes Insane she believes killing herself is the only option to solve the problem).

* Restoration- a sense of normality is restored becoming a new equilibrium- (when the mother kills herself to be with her children).

Characters and Casting ideas

Story Board

Our Story board for our opening scene

 

 

 

 

 

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