Main Task

Preliminary Task

Un-used Scene

Question 1 - Media Conventions

All 3 in the group are fans of horror films, in our main task i think we combined all of our knowledge on the things we saw in horror films, techniques and mis en scene and put together a piece of film which includes most of the elements a horror needs.
Our movie began simple however throughout i personally believe it picked up pace, the techniques and filming done came together after a lot of hard work.
At the beginning of the P.O.V shot it shows the person looking around however this quickly turns into the character running, stumbling and then falling, the way the film picks up speed and then slows back down.
When planning we had scenes planned which we thought may break the 180 degree rule however when it came to executing it, the rooms we chose where small and darkened out, so in the end we weren't going to break the rule.
Horror movies now are differ heavily from what they used to be, lots of old horror films tend to focus more on eeriness and mystery, however many horrors these days are very fast paced and loud. in our main piece we added a bit of both, the eeriness and the quietness in the dark and then the bang of the chairs flying, the pace with the P.O.V scene, so all in all i feel we developed conventions and used many different techniques and pieced them together well.

Question 2 - Stereotypes of an Asian Man

In this question we are looking at the stereotypes of an asian man in media, due to attacks on America and London in the general media there are harsh stereotypes on asian men, I personally have seen enough of this as i am a British born Pakistani, Extremists, Terrorists and association with such groups are now in the narrow minds of many citizens who beleive we are all of the same kind. Personally i despise people where involved in the attacks on America and London, due to them many think of us the same, stereotypes that we are all extreme, that we all are in favour of the damage and precious lives that where taken.
In 2011 a movie was released called My Name is Khan, this movie i personally beleive did alot for muslims as it was a movie made on the events of 9/11 and involved the hardships of a muslim living in the United States and how he strived even at times of hardship to help others.

This movie included the attitudes of people before and after the events of 9/11, the dramatic difference and a muslims reaction towards people even after he was treated like he was dirt.
Films like this show how muslims asian men do not all fit under the hasty stereotype in many minds.
in our piece of film we don't touch on any of this as its an opening to a horror, i personally feel it shows  a complete different side to asians teenagers, we have not created a piece that when spoken of people would think its of us to have created. The one link between our main piece and My Name is Khan is in the movie, the main actor, Sharukh Khan has autism, many people in the film mistake this and this he has something wrong with him, the difference is in our main piece the possession the character is under is not fully explained.

Question 3 - Distribution of out Final Piece

When we began planning for our media piece, we first intended to create an action opening involving crime yet to execute that would be very difficult and some of the props needed would be very hard to get ahold of and prepare, we settled on horror because we felt that if we filmed a horror opening we could include all the various camera angles and be doing something a bit different.
This film would appeal to people who clearly, enjoy horror films. There are two types of horror films, the type that include more gore and things that make people cringe and scared but the type we aimed for is phycologically twisted, the type of horror where the supernatural happenings are never fully described, when i go to cinema to watch a horror these are the horrors i prefer, if you cant handle them they can mess with your head for a long time after so id advise against it.

Movie distribution companies take on the responsibility of releasing film to either cinemas of for home viewing, a distribution company can either do this directly or indirectly, if they own the cinema/theatre then they may do it through that. Movie distribution is a very expensive and taxing process, some even say that the distribution part of a new film is harder than making the movie itself. Having big people involved, big company names backing a movie helps securing a good deal with distribution of a film as this is a very expensive cost.

The names listed below are distributors of many genres including horror, Tales from the dark side, Friday the 13th, these are horror films released by Paramount, Chamber of horrors, Little shop of horrors are horror films released by Warner Brother, Season of the witch and The rite are horror films released by Columbia pictures.
Friday the 13th is a really good film in my opinion and therefore if i was to chose one of the distributing companies below to distribute the film we made i would chose Paramount Pictures distribution.
Some of the big names in distribution in the are :

• Paramount Pictures
• Warner Brothers 
• Columbia Pictures

Question 4 - Video Interviews

These are our film interviews were we were asking people generally about themselves but also about the type of film they may be interested in, the general questions at the beginning where to get a hint as to what they may like and then we asked them about horror so we could get their thoughts on it and get a better idea of who we are aiming at with out main task.

Both candidates number 2 and 3 i think would would not jus watch horror but appreciate horror as they both love film and don't just watch a film but really break it down and appreciate each aspect of it, i could tell this by the way they answered the questions within the interview.