Evaluation-Broadcast of the Damned

Sabrina Siddiqi

Media Studies

Evaluation

Rating

We decided to rate our trailer/movie at a 15, these are the requirements, and we believe we have kept our trailer and the storyline to the requirements below:

- No one younger than 15 may see a ‘15’ film in a cinema. No one younger than 15 may rent or buy a ‘15’ rated video work.

- must not endorse discriminatory language or behaviour.

- Drug taking may be shown but the film as a whole must not promote or encourage drug misuse.

- Strong threat and menace are permitted unless sadistic or sexualised.

- Dangerous behaviour.

- There may be frequent use of strong language.

- Nudity may be allowed in a sexual context but without strong detail. There are no constraints on nudity in a non-sexual or educational context.

- Sexual activity may be portrayed without strong detail.

- Violence may be strong but should not dwell on the infliction of pain or injury.

Theorists

Mulvey

Mulvey argues that in normal Hollywood films in particular women are simply represented to provide visual pleasure to men, and the audience is constructed in a manner where they are all expected to by men. This male gaze is voyeuristic.

Trodorov

Trodorov believed that there are 5 stages to compose a narrative structure:

1.State of equilibrium- everything is the way it should be

2.A disruption- by a unexpected event

3.A recognition that the disruption occurred

4.An attempt to repair the problem

5.A return to a New equilibrium- back to the way it should be or better

Tzvetan Trodov believed everything went along like a cycle.

Propp

Vladimir Propp decided there were 7 broad character types in the 100 tales he analysed, which could be applied to other films:

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.Her father

6.The dispatcher (character who makes the lack known and sends the hero off)

7.The hero or victim/seeker hero, reacts to the donor, weds the princess

Paul Wells

What have you learnt from your audience feedback?

storyline

fonts

colours

changes

favourite horror films

age & sex

Fanatasy or real

Fear of the unknown

Sound tracks

Place you watch the film

Have more emphasis on darkness

Give away a bit more in trailer

Music sets the mood

Quick clips

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

Camera Angles

Laura Mulvey

Male Gaze

Voyerism

Psycho

Icons

blood/gore

darkness

human realism

Music & Sound

young music

breathing/pacing

hip hop rap

halloween horror

Characters

Innnoncent girls turning evil,

Teenagers,

Final Girl

Mise-en-scene

Issolated places - car crash

Camera lighting- dark

Alone- one person in every shot

Chase- from what

How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

Colour- green

Image- same actor

Font- Title

Sign- Anarchy

How did you use new media technology in the constrution and research, planning and evaluation stage?

Construction

ZamZar

DaFont

PowerPoint

Excel

Adobe PhotoShop

Adobe PremirePro

Blackberry Phones

Digital Camera SLR

Not too much use of red

Trodorov's Theory

Research

Male Gaze

Anarchy:

A state of disorder due to absence or nonrecognition of authority

Evaluation

Prezi

Blogger

YouTube

FaceBook

Twitter

SlideShare

New layers

Cropping image

Blending

Air Brushing

Flare

Adding texts

Editing

Blend

Fade to Blacks

Brightness/Contrast

Video effects- trasition

Audio- Layers

Twitter

Facebook

YouTube

SlideShare

Target Audience

Questions

Survey Monkey

Magazine

BBM

storyboard

Pre-screening

Younger years-target audience

magazine

poster