Target Audience Description

The point in having a "Target Audience" is so that you know the group of people for whom you are making a film for. This is in order for your film to communicate effectively and succeed at a box office. A "Target Audience" is primarily  defined by Gender and Age Range.

The results of the pie charts show a number of answers depending on the persons age and personal opinion. The target audience was mainly aimed at young students, this means teenagers between the age of 15-20. Many of the questions' results were very distinctive in terms of their answers.

When looking at the answers for "What do you like most about teen movies" the majority of answers were "School" this is because the majority of the age group themselves are in College and they admire the setting of the genre seeing as they are teenagers themselves. When assessing each of the answers to each question, it is obvious that due to the age group, the majority of one answer is higher than another in terms of how many people chose that answer. 

Pie Chart Results

The Following pie chart shows the results for "What do you like most about teen movies?"

The following Pie chart shows the results for "which stars would you expect to see in thriller/horror movie?"

The following pie chart shows the results for "Where do you live?"

The following pie chart shows results for "What is your preferred way of watching movies?"

The following pie chart shows results for "Which stars would you expect to see in a teen movie?"

The following pie chart shows results for "How do you mostly obtain the movies that you watch?"

The following pie chart shows results for "What's your ethnic background?"

The following pie chart shows results for "What is your favourite movie genre?"

The following pie chart shows the results for "How old are you?"

The following pie chart shows the results for "Gender"

The following pie chart shows the results for "What do you most enjoy about horror films?"

The following pie chart shows the results for "What would you rate on a scale of 1-3 going to the cinema compared to watching a movie at home on TV?"

Camera: Movements

Camera movements includes ~

• The Pan
• The Tilt
• Tracking (Dolly Cam)
• The Crane
• Handheld
• SteadyCam

                                         

Panning is a method whereby the camera moves horizontally to the left or right. With this technique, you are able to follow a specific type of movement or track an object.

A Tilt shot is very similar to panning, the only difference is it moves vertically.Tilt shots are often used to show the vertical significance of something in particular. For example, being at the bottom of a building and wanting to get the full shot of it, however as it is too big to fit into the frame, a tilt is essential.

Tracking shots are widely used in the industry of Hollywood. A tracking shot includes the use of dollies to drag the camera around a scene. 

The Crane is like a substance for a camera to shoot from, the most obvious uses are to view actors from above or to move up and away from them.

Handheld shots serve to create a more "home-made" or dramatic feel to a shot. although it delivers a cameras freedom in terms of movement, it also delivers a jerky and unstable shot. Camera shake is used to convey a sense of realism.

The Steadicam develops the moving shot further and allows a smooth and clear movement of single shots covering a number of perspectives over an area of uneven terrain or in small confined spaces.

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Camera: Angles

There are four types of angles in Media, these are:

• Low angle
• High angle
• Extreme High angle
• Canted angle



Spider-Man2 ~ Low angle shot

This is a "Low angle". A low angle is when the subject of the shot is photographed from below. This makes the subject look strong and powerful because the subject is bigger.



2012 ~ High angle shot

This is a "High angle". A high angle is a shot in which the subject is photographed from the above. This makes the subject look vulnerable and weak.



28 Days Later ~ Extreme High angle shot

This is an "Extreme High angle". This is recalled as a Birds eye view. This makes it look as if we are directly above the subject or the object.



Ghost ~ A canted angle shot

This is a "Canted angle". A canted angle is a camera shot rilted to one side so the horizon is on a slant. This is also recalled as a "dutch angle" or a "dutch tilt" This shot is usually used to illustrate and suggest imbalance, transition and instability

Title sequence analyses

The Following clip shows the Title Sequence analyses for "The Pink Panther 2"

In the Pink Panther, it has an animated title sequence which is also set to the theme music whereby it features the character of the pink panther himself. The Panther was then designed for the purpose and subject of its own series of animated cartoons. The pink large diamond is the center plot of the story, and is therefore included in the title sequence. The title sequence interests its audience as it gives us clues to what might be expected in the film. These clues include examples such as, the setting of the film which is shown on the map, and the subject of the story which is the panther who is being tracked down by the detective.

Title Sequence Analyses- Pink Panther, The Movie

The Two minute sequence

The climax of our story will be one of the chains towards the beginning. The action takes place straight away and the audience will question themselves in regards to what has taken place before the scene and what has caused this intense moment in the story. The atmosphere of the story will have a stressful and intense feel to it which will also highlight the inexplicable nature of the sequence. This will also establish that the genre of the story is a thriller.

We will include a flashback of what has caused the bunch of teenagers to escape and moments before that.   

The flashback will begin with an introduction to some of the main characters at a party, one of the characters decides that it is time for him to go home whereas three more charcters are introduced to the audience when those specific three also decide that they should go home. Once they all walk together, one of the characters finishes off his cigarette and throws it into a random house’s window unaware of what he has done and is about to cause. They all walk away laughing and sniggering at one-another. The final scene of the two minute scene is an extreme close up of the cigarette.

Initial Story Idea

The idea we have is in the direction of a Teen-Thriller.
The story starts with intoxicated teenagers, they are not fully conscious of what they are doing and about to do and are out, just for a good time. One person in the group is done with the cigarette and unknowingly throws the smouldering used cigarette into a window of a house. They walk off to continue with their night. The cigarette that is thrown into the house lights the carpet, and the carpet goes on to light other objects in the house until the whole house goes into flames.
The next morning they find in all the local papers that a mysterious fire has caused a house to be burnt down. They know it was them, however they collectively choose to ignore it and move on. He sustains severe burs to his hands and arms and minor ones to the facial area.
The group are unaware of what they have done. The man of the house also is unaware of who caused the incident and looks into seeking revenge.
Two Months later, someone knows what the teenagers have done and this "someone" is the man who was in the house at the time of the fire, yet he escaped the fire before anyone knew he was in there. The Group decide to take a holiday. A road trip to Cornwall having completely forgotten
what has happened, they begin to receive death threats from owner of the house, however they are unaware of the fact that it is the owner of the house. After a numerous amount of letters being sent to them, a series of events start to take place which are consequences about to be faced due to the house fire they set. As time progresses they try to save each another from the random and anonymous attacks. They start to link up the clues in the letters with the house fire that they caused. A member of the group suggest the idea that the letters and the fact that they burnt down the house are linked together. They start to worry and panic about the situation that they are in. Later that day the man kidnaps one from the gang and uses his phone to message all of the others telling them that they have to meet him urgently in a room. The gang does so and as soon as they open the door they see their friend tied up on a chair getting doused flammable liquid all over him/her.
One of the gang members runs in to save him/her but he gets knocked out by the man.
The others decide that they could take him but as soon as they take one step the man pulls out a gun and tells them to freeze, the man then ties up all the remaining teenagers to chairs but realizes that there is a missing chair for the knocked out teen, so he decides to leave him on the floor and pours petrol all over him.
He then comes back to the first person he tied up and decides to light each teen individually, he lights up the first one but as soon as he turns around he realizes that the knocked out teen has gotten up but it's too late, before he can react the teen tackles him on the floor and knocks him out with a lamp. He saves everyone in time but one of them is badly injured. The story ends with the medics putting the injured teen in the back of the ambulance and the man getting handcuffed by the police.

Camera: Shot Types

There are Five different types of camera shots. The following shots consist of, Extreme Long shot, Long shot, Medium shot, Close-up and Extreme Close-up.


This following still is an Extreme Long shot. An Extreme Long shot is used at the beginning of a scene to establish the space of where the scene is taking place and if it has any relevance in connoting how the location has a connection with the story, if not it can be used to make character look isolated and lonely.

The Hangover- Part One

The following still is a Long shot. A Long shot is used to stress the Surroundings/Environment or setting of a scene as well as a characters position in it.

Pirates of the Caribbean- At World's End

The following still is a Medium shot. A shot that frames actors, normally from the waist upwards. The medium shot can be used to focus attention on an interaction between two or more actors, such as a struggle, debate, or tense/embracing moment.

The Beast- 1996

The following still is a Close-up. A Close-up is designed to focus our attention on the actors expressions which encourages recognition/identification. A Close-up can also be used to emphasise the significance of a certain object, or to direct the audiences attention to another element in the film or scene.

Conventions of a Horror film

When watching a horror film, there are many conventions one would notice.
These conventions include:

• Narrative
•  Mise-En-Scene
• Sound
• Camera
• Editing

Narrative -

• Young people are partying and having fun in a private house/ house of some kind
• Group of young people are made up of the typical stereotypes for a teen movie
•  Partying will envolve around illegal things such as drugs, sex, etc...
• An expectation of one girl is to just hang around and do nothing else
• In the middle or at the end of the party, it is likely that the psycho/horrific character will appear and start to kill them usually in a chronological order of who's been more bad
• The face of the character is never seen, it is always covered with some sort of prop or their face is disfigured
• The teenagers will plan on escaping, however they will all lose eachother and the killer will begin to capture one by one
• The girl/boy who did nothing will survive until the end, this is after being put through a lot of suffering. She is likely the main character and will or won't kill the psycho

Mise En Scene -

• Low Key lighting
• Suburban Location
• Young/Teenage sense of fashion
•  Axe/Knife as weaponry. Notice how it is very rare to have a gun

Editing -

• Continuity 

Examples - 

Friday 13th - This is one of the narrative conventions showing one of the teens captured and is about to be brutally murdered.

Friday 13th - The killer is in Low key lighting/ suburban location, his identification is hidden, and he uses an axe for a horror tool.

Scream 4

Conventions of a Teen Movie

Narrative:

When watching Teen Movies, there are many conventions a viewer would expect.

Teen movies are usually about teenagers passing through a significant phase in life. This consists of growing up in some way or another. Stereotypically these problems revolve around drugs, sex and alcohol, relationships and parental issues. Usually, At the beginning of the film the character/s introduced will be the main one involved in these problems. We also learn about their personality and type of behaviour where we connect with the "common stereotypes" mentioned above. The story-line at the beginning will sometimes account for what they need to learn. By the end of the storyline, they would have learnt that what they were trying to achieve in the beginning is very unessential due to the corrupt consequences they lead to. Many teen movies are about learning to get along with each other as the storyline might concern the changes between people. In a teen movie, there might be clichéd characters. This means that there will be one character who has  an aspiration in

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becoming someone else. For example, an unpopular "Geeky kid"-----------> the very popular baseball captain who is dating the best looking girl in college - a.k.a the girl of the "unpopular kids" dreams.

Mise-En-Scene

The movie is most likely always set in a school building, their costumes are very young looking, and they go after the "trendy" look. However, the costumes are worn to suit the best of each ones characteristics. The teachers are usually badly dressed and there is a lot of high-key lighting/naturalistic lighting. 

Examples - 

Mean Girls - The popular "plastic" girls walking in the school corridor.

                                                                               

She's the Man. - Typical "geek" talking to the good looking "lab partner"

She's the man - The typical "Jock"

                  

Mise En Scene Key Elements - Lighting

There are three types of lighting

• Low-Key Lighting 
• High-Key Lighting
• Naturalistic

Low Key-Lighting

GoodFellas-1990

The Low-Key lighting of this specific still shot connotes the sense of being in a club/bar. It also shows the mood of the background which collaborates with their sinister characters in a sinister place.

High-Key Lighting

Napoleon Dynamite-2004

Mise En Scene Key Elements - Props

The use of props in a film or TV series are responsibble for the formation, process and maintanance the term 'props' refers to several items which are transferable, which tends to be visible on any specific scene in a film. These range of objects include:

• Dressing props~ the furniture, flooring etc... These are used to dress sets
• Hand props~ this includes items which are carried or used in a film
• Hero props~ Objects which are essential to the action in a particular scene
• Mechanical props~ These may move or light up

 In this scene, Ben Stiller uses a prop where he is trying to ellectricute himself to tone his muscles. This conveys the Genre of the film as a comedy. The  painting behind him also gives a sense of irony and connotes a comical side to the movie. In this case, the props are telling us something about the character himself.

Mise En Scene Key Elements - Location

Off-location means shooting a particular scene or film on an artificially built area. Shooting a film off-location can be taken advantage of more than shooting on-location as the director of a film is able to take more control over what he wants placed in a particular scene.

There is a tendancy to shoot off location in most TV series like "Friends" Here, we know that the director of the series has chosen all the props and furnishings in order to make this look like a kitchen. He has placed these in specific areas dependant on  the way he wants the scene to be presented. Again just like on-location, the genre of the series can be connoted through shooting off location.