feedback interview with target audience

 This is a video I done to get feedback from my target audience on how they thought my film was going. This is christel blanchard who is the target audience, 18 years old. We asked her what she liked about it, what she thought we needed to improve on and if she thought it was suitable for the target audience. The things she thought we could improve on was speeding things up, changing the order of things, from this we then reviewed our film again and adjusted these things and it looked a lot better. We found this excersise really important and helpful as it meant we could continue to improve our film finding out exactly what our real life target audience thought. I am glad some of the things that was said in this film, the positive things as it meant I could reassure myself the film in general made sense because I had watched it so many times!! also we gathered a few more ideas we could possibly add like adding a twist on to it that the news reporter was actually the killer and by doing our film so early it means we have a lot of time to add if needed as our film at the minute is only 3:30 seconds long so we do have time and room for improvement and criticism.

intertextuality

Within my film there are a lot of references to previous existing horror films like slasher, we used a split screen in which we were inspired by the 1976 film 'Carrie'. We liked this as we thought it gave it an extra traditional twist, a thing you see a lot in horror films. We edited this on through the MAC using final cut pro and we also added a hazy affect on to it. The music that we used resembles 99% of horror films, its a mix of 'tiptoe in the tulips' and a innocent lullaby sound in which contrasted together to come across as an unnerving sweet tune. The fact that in our horror film we use a mask that is already in a thriller film, V for vendetta shows we have took inspiration from existing films I liked the creepy mysterious mask from that film and thought it would look better than the ultimate original scream mask. overall horror films are obviously influenced by films such as psycho, Halloween etc. 

 

Castings

Another person that auditioned was Christel Blanchard, who auditioned for the role of the killer/stalker. We liked how in character christel would be even though she had a mask on which was what we needed. She had a lot of enthusiasm which we liked and seemed passionate towards the role so we gave it to her. We were excited to start filming with her.
She also auditioned for the role of the news reporter however she was suited to the stalker/killer character rather than the news reporter as she wasn't great at remembering a log script.


















The first person that auditioned for the role of the stalker/killer was charlotte bowers. However after the audition we didn't feel like she was suitable for the role as she was very shy and not very confident. Also we needed the stalker to have an aggressive manor about them and she seemed too sweet and kind about it so we didn't give her the role.

This is one of our casting members, her name is Jessica bates and she is applying for the role of the teenage girl that is being stalked. We needed someone quite young and just to look like your average teenage girl like jess does. We liked her because she would get in to character and take it seriously and really fulfil the role. Jessica also applied for the role of the killer/stalker however we decided that se would be more suited for the role of the teenage girl as we needed someone a bit taller and broader to do it so the mask would stay on.

call sheets

Short film analysis

Exsisting films - analysis

Here I done another analysis of an existing film I am going to take ideas from. This is the original first Halloween out, directed by John Carpenter. One of my favourite things about this opening is that it is all from the killers perspective, so we as the audience follow the killer round building up tension so we don't know what the killer is going to do. I am going to do this in my film and I am going to use a mask within my film. I will then add an effect on the mac which make it look like the audience are seeing the stalker from the stalkers point of view. I think this is effective and will make it look professional. Again I like the screeching sound that is used in this, it seems to be common in old horror films I think I will use a sound similar to this when I do sound for my film. I think the film is very dark at the beginning but this builds up tension, I will try and film mine when it is dark as possible to create a mystery, if not I will use filters and effects on the mac t make it look darker and scarier. 

Exsisting films - carrie

Here I have began to find conventions from previous famous directors and adapt things that I can use in my short film. Here is the original Carrie director is Brian De Palma. I decided to use this as an existing text because I like a few of the unusual techniques he uses that aren't really used anymore. Here are a few examples, I like the affect of the split screen idea to show two different things coming together or two different scenes. I will use this in my short film so I can show what the stalker is doing and what the girl he is stalking is doing. Along with copying that technique I am also going to include the red hazey filter that is used throughout the whole of this scene. I think this effect is clever and I think it can be used professionally to connote certain thing but also to be a bit unusual. I will use this affect on a close up of the killer/stalker face, when he has just killed the girl, I think this will work and we will really emphasise the red of the blood on the knife.