Camera Angles / Shot Types

Overall, there are eleven main camera angles/shot types. In this post I will present the shot types and explain their impact and importance.

Production Meeting Notes

Here, my group met up to discuss characters, location, props, equipment etc to finalise our ideas for our movie opening.

Analysis of Existing Products

Horror Film Conventions

Conventions used in horror films from Tenkin

As our findings of conventions have signaled we have agreed that it is important to use our research and apply it to our final product of our opening. We have listed a few areas in which we may want our own film to take place such as deserted roads, parks, dark houses and alleyways. Our narrative is still undecided however we have agreed that our film will involve an protagonist and antagonist. We have also decided that our character types will most possibly involve a feminine character as they’re most commonly used to portray victims in horror films. We have all come to a conclusion that our horror film must have some elements of iconography present in our final product, one idea was to use POV shots to help emulate the fear and panic the victim feeling or the rush and pleasure the killer is feeling. This will be done to help provide the users with a more of an immersive experience rather than it being all third perspective camera shots.

Market Research

Market research from kierajaffas

Our market research was to give a basic knowledge of successful blockbuster horror films which generated a fairly high amount. This included the directors who oversaw the movie and the date to which it came out. It was also done to provide us with an accurate idea of the various types of horror films done in the recent years which we will consider whether to conform to or subvert at the next meeting.

Typical Audience Profile

As our audience were categorised in the ‘explorers’ and ‘social climbers’ area we decided that in order for our horror film opening to facilitate their need unique perspectives must be shown to provide and immersive experience. This might be done through the use of camera shots or lack of non-diegetic sounds/ music at certain moments, as this idea has not been fully discussed it is relative new area.

Survey Results

Taking the advice of our audience research findings, we all agreed that we should produce a Thriller/ Horror film opening as it seemed to be favourable with our target audience. After some lengthy discussion we decided to scrap the insanity idea which we initially believed to be our goal for this horror opening. This was because although many people from our survey had watched Insidious, we were concerned as we did not wish to rehash that sort of film as it has been recycled constantly recently during the past decade.

Target Audience Research Questionnaire

Media survey from jovinie_carter

Research : Response to Brief

We have been given the task of creating a two minute opening of a movie. The genre of the movie and the storyline is entirely up to us. We have decided to create a horror film opening because we feel it is an exciting genre that would appeal to our target audience.

Preliminary Task

This is the preliminary for our media coursework. We were given a script and had to create a storyline for it. Our storyline was: Jovinie was pressuring and bullying me into stealing the test results for an exam we both had. It was more original than our original ideas such as: drugs in school or beating somebody up etc. It was the most original storyline we could think of with us restricted to our school.