The story board

we decided to do a story board of the key scenes of our film and the kind of camera work we would be using.

 

 

 

Production schedule:

Days	Task	Person in charge
Friday 206th 10.12	Cast meeting
Monday 29th .10.12	Filming	Daisy
Tuesday 30th .10.12	Filming	Daisy
Tuesday 7th - Tuesday 20th 11.12	editing	Mylene

Audience research 

 

 

Our target audience would be mostly female aged 16 to 24, based on the feed back we got from pitching our idea to different people...

-Jeremiah: ''Good film idea, looks inter resting. Might be hard to film but it might work.''

-Unknown: ''Compliated story, not sure how it's going to be shown in the trailer...''

-Somah: ''well thought plot- easy to understand.''

-unknown: ''the relationship between the characters sounds interesting, the religious idea sound clever... good sense of mystery and uncertainty.''

-Lee:'' location is goo, the killings are good, the story is very thought out. The could be a little bit like -...and she wakes up, it was all a dream..'''

-Irena: ''the story is very interesting from the plot, although it's been very influenced you managed to reach diversity thought unconventional characters trades and twist''

-Unknown: '' how will you show the years in the trailer?''

-Unknown: '' Safety issues of the filming on the motorway.. do you have a location? Recognised titles? you need to plan all you shots...''

generic conventions and iconography report

Narrative

The Synopsis



The Messenger

There are 4 girls on there way back from a party, when there driving down the road they see a girl close to there age hitch hiking on the edge of the road, because its dark and late the 4 girls decide to be good samaritans and allow the girl in the car, they drive for a while but they run out of petrol they break down next to a chruch, the hitch hiker suggests that they stay the night in the church because no recovery services will be running this late. The girls agree and enter the church, as the night goes on the hitch hiker suggest the girls play a truth or dare game to pass time. At first the girls are reluctent to tell there secrets to a girl they have just met but give in and say it will be a bit of fun. So the girls end up telling there darkest secrets to eachother but little do they know the hitch hiker they picked up is a fallen angel to do gods work and punish the girls for there sins. She uses there secrets to decide which way to kill them. One girl used to self harm so the fallen angel decides to kill her in that way. The twist is that the girl with the biggest secret doesnt die and escapes but everyone thinks she will be the most likely one to die because her secret is so sick and twisted but she escapes on to the road as a hitch hiker little does she know she has been possesed by the fallen angel, and when a group of boys pick her up the cycle continues.. 

The media language analysis of the house of wax trailer

•  this trailer is approxmatley 2 minuets long and i think that this is a good amount of time for the audience to get the feel of the movie because it doesnt give too much away but it gives the audience enough to go see it.
• there is about 70 different clips used in this trailer and i think the dirtector did this too show the tgood parts in the film in random order so the audience is confused and will want more. Each clip is changed with a transistion and most of them between each clip the sreen just goes blank but it works well becuase it changes in time with the sound track. I think this is a good method because it gives you a second sneak peak of the killer etc. Makes the viewer want more there for resulting them in seeing it.
• each clip is approxamatley a second long the longest one is 3 seconds, they probably did this to catch the audience attetion and keep them intrested.
• the logos that are included in this trailer are warner bros, from this the audience then knows that this film has potential to be good because warner brois is a well known film company.
• there is also other text that appears on the trailer which basically explains whats happening e.g. where its set "in a place not listed on any map" the graphoics they use on this text makes it look like the text is melting like wax so it relates to the the title of the film "house of wax". Also by saying "in a place not listed on any map" it shows that something bad is going to happen because there in a deserted place.

the trailer........    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnFKwVcM10

 poster analysis of "the shinning"

• The target audience of this film would be people who are intrested in horror fillms and this certain audience can idnetfy that this film would be horror/slasher effectivly because of this film poster, e.g. the character on the poster is holding a big axe, and through non verbal communication you can see that he is mental through his use of facial expression (he looks like he is doing an evil laugh)
• The posters anchorage text is the title of the film in big bold red letters this could connote the danger that is expected in this film. Its  also written in different cases e.g. THE SHiNNiNG this could connote the main characters mental stability in the film. 
• You can see who the dominant character is in this film poster my the way the characters are posistioned and how they are holding there weapons, you can clearly see that the woman is not going to be able to defend herself from the dominant character because she the way she is holding the kitchen knife, she looks like she has no powere where as with the male character he is confidently smashing through the door with an axe and he is taunting the female with a smile makes you feel uneasy because you cant tell how hes feeling by his emotions. Split personailty maybe?
• You dont know how to feel about these characters because the poster giuves you mixed emotions it makes you uneasy.
• You expect to see from this film poster you expect too see a slasher when you go top see the film because it shows the typical conventions of a slasher e.g. knives and axe's.