Six Locations for our Main Task

Chosen Locations

These locations were chosen as they all have many different aspects that would fit well with our genre, horror.

- Shot Over forest

We chose Shot Over as a location as it adds a sense of lonesome and has a common horror theme to it but in contrast also gives room for possible stalker scenarios.

- South Park park

By choosing South Park, it would give us the opportunity to use both the park and a lightly forested area which would give us many good ideas that we could work with. For example, we could use the park and add a twist that links back with our character past childhood.

- Cowley car park

We decided that a car park would be a great place to create the sense of lonesome and so gives room for us to use a scenario that introduces someone who is following our main character. This location would also have a dark environment at any time of the day and so timing and re-filming on different days would not be a factor we would have to worry about.

- Klodianas house

Choosing this set gives us the opportunity to relate to our audience due to use being able to show our character in a familiar scenario. We also thought that this would be a good location to choose since it is easily accessible and factors such as weather would not effect us.

- Rosalines attic

We decided upon this set to be a possibility due to the effects it would give such as dark lighting and tight space, adding the sense of claustrophobia. It is also a good place to create a scene of our character hiding from someone, so therefore using a compact, secretive place would be great when adding to the sequence. 

- School corridor 

The reason for choosing a school corridor as a possible location for our task is because we felt it would fit well with both our main character and our target audience, since we are aiming at young adults.

Film Pitch and Feedback

   
"After facing her worst nightmare, 18 year old Anna Smith is convinced she is being followed, little does she know the game is within herself"

Feedback Transcript:

Rose: "How will this film appear to your target audience?"

Klodiana: "Our film has got good connections with our target audience because we have decided to aim it at young females and ad being young females like ourselves we know how to connect with them"

Rose: "What type of audience will you have for this film?"

Klodiana: "Girls aged 16-24 years of age, basically young adults"

Rose: "What sub genre is this film and how will your film fit this sub genre?"

Klodiana: "Our sub genre is physiological Horror and our film fits our sub genre because it shows the mental side of our character. We have studied carefully the conventions used in psychological horror so that we are confident with presenting psychological techniques.

When obtaining critical feedback on our pitch, we decided to ask a male individual, of the same age, their view on it so that we was able to confirm that we had chosen the correct audience for our task. The critique we received included him explaining his confusion on "the game is within herself". He explained that he thought that the film would be predictable, being able to assume the character will die in the end. We also asked if he would watch the film, his answer being no due to its predictable nature.  

We then decided on focusing on our actual target audience and interviewed a female audience who also said that she thought the pitch was confusing, but that was what made the film appealing, raising questions as to what might happen. We also asked her if she would go and watch the film, her answer being yes because she thinks that we haven't given much away but enough to tempt our target audience.

Sub Genre Parody

What was the purpose of your sub genre task?

Our sub genre parody task was designed to show that we understood the conventions of our sub genre - psychological horror - and that we were able to mock these conventions.

What are the main conventions of your sub genre, and how have you parodied them in this film?

The main conventions used in a psychological horror include factors such as:

 - An insane person

 - Usually being set in a hospital

 - Know to consist of someone convincing someone else of their insanity

 - Narrative speech

We tried to include most, if not all of these in our sub genre film so that we had the best possible chance  of showing our understanding of the task in hand and had a higher chance of fulfilling the comical aspect of it.

What have you learnt about filming and editing as a result of creating this sub genre parody?

Throughout the process of filming and editing our sub genre parody I have learnt how to re-create at make into a parody an already existing clip of a film. This means it was also possible for me to pick up the main points in making a short film effective in its aim to create humour. It required me to research further into what psychological horror is and the elements they use to bring certain points into relevance, something that helps me determine what I can use in my main task. Lastly, in editing, this task allowed me to become knowledgeable in covering and adding a voiceover from an existing clip into our task which we had to time accurately to work with our movie.


This is the trailer to the original film, After.Life, that we used to base our parody on (the first 0:20 seconds):

Main Task Target Audience

For our main task we have chosen our target audience to range from teenagers to young adults - 16-24 years of age. The reason for this is because of the sub genre in which we decided to base our main task on. To accompany this age range we have also decided that our product will be aimed at the female gender since our main character is also female, meaning our audience will be more able to relate to our content in the video. The marital status that will be more suited to our task would expect the audience to be either single or in a relationship. These people would preferable have subtle or no jobs due to them still being full time students and because of this, and their age range, they will not have children. The area in which our target would be mostly set towards is in metropolitan towns such as London. Finally, the things that our audience would usually spend their money on would include technology, clothing and going out with friends - e.g.. cinemas.