A2 MEDIA STUDIES- EVALUATION Melody Berkery- Sithole
Jan 12, 2015
A2 MEDIA STUDIES-EVALUATION
Melody Berkery-Sithole
In What Ways Does Your Media Product, Use, Develop Or
Challenge Forms And Conventions Of Real Media
Products?
SYNOPSIS
• Travelling circus comes to town• Ringmaster is in charge of everything, drugs
his performers (like the clown) and orders them to kidnap and murder circus visitors and town folk
• People go missing in the towns• Circus then leaves mysteriously, never gets
found out
This movie was made in 1981. Against her father's
orders, teenager Amy visits a sleazy
travelling fun fair with her new boyfriend Buzz, her best friend Liz, and Liz's irresponsible boyfriend,
Richie. The story concerns these four teenagers that
are trapped in a dark ride and stalked by a
deformed killer.
Directed by Tobe Hooper
Film made in 1961. A plastic surgeon wanted by the police after an operation goes hideously
wrong. However, believing himself to have brilliant abilities as a surgeon, he and his
assistants evade capture and escape to the Continent. There he befriends a circus owner
on whose deformed daughter Nicole he operates.
He manipulates his way into running the circus, taking it over when the owner dies in a "freak accident." A decade later, he is running an internationally successful circus, which he
uses as a front for his surgical exploits. He befriends deformed women and transforms them for his "Temple of Beauty". However,
when they threaten to leave, they meet with mysterious accidents.
Directed by Sidney Hayers
2012 Film. This plot concerns a birthday clown returning from
the dead to exact revenge upon a
group of children who contributed
to his death.
Directed by Conor McMahon
Codes and Conventions of Characters
InsaneDeformed
EvilWild
DruggedScary Version of Clown
Costume
CLOWN
Codes and Conventions of Characters
Directed by Conor McMahon
Directed by Stephen King
Codes and Conventions of Characters
Secretive SuspiciousAbsentControlling Everything Behind The ScenesOlder Man
RINGMASTER
Directed by James Wan
TRAILER
C O N V E N T I O N S1.Starts with uplifting music/ circus music2.Colourful costume and setting3.Quick shots4.Running victim5.Screams6.Changing to darker music7.Diegetic sounds with soundtrack8.Introduced circus setting at the beginning
C H A L L E N G E S1.No dialogue2.Slow motion3.No graphic images
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BMoQQ7OsX5M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYW3NyAPuMI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjpvHBndhNM
http://vimeo.com/65466184
An art film (also known as art movie, specialty film, art house film, or in the collective sense as art cinema) is the result of filmmaking which is typically an independent
film aimed at a niche market rather than a mass market audience. An art film is "intended to be a serious artistic work, often experimental and not designed for mass appeal"; they
are "made primarily for aesthetic reasons rather than commercial profit" and they contain "unconventional or highly symbolic content."
ART HOUSE STYLE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL0lNGXoP8EDirected by Robert Clouse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qMsmdQ2oTN4
Example Music Video - Close Enemies
POSTER
C O N V E N T I O N S1.Rule of thirds, using head shot of character2.Dark background3.Actors names4.Strap line5.Billing box6.Title
C H A L L E N G E S1.Ratings2.Masked Face
Directed by Alexandre Aja
Directed by James Watkins
C O N V E N T I O N S1.Matches style of poster (image, font, colour scheme)2.Embedded Trailer3.Social bookmarking (Media Convergence)4.Navigational Menu
C H A L L E N G E S1.No border around trailer2.Face of character on website3.No DVDs available4.No iTunes button5.No release date
WEBSITE
Directed by Paul Solet
Directed by James Watkins
How Effective Is The Combination Of Your Main
Product And Ancillary Texts?
T O N E
F O N T
I M A G E
What Have You Learned From Audience Feedback?
V O X P O P Q U E S T I O N S What is your favorite horror film and why?
What is your worst fear? What do you like about horror films?
What do you dislike about horror films? What would you like/expect to see in a horror?
What’s your favorite horror film character? What trailer have you seen recently that you thought was
particularly effective? (Any genre) How do you feel about clowns?
What is the most terrifying film you have ever seen and why was it so terrifying?
What props do you think of when told a film’s genre is ‘horror’?
What kind of story line do you look for/enjoy in a horror film?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ulGnEKNcOn0
•I learned that the audience were very hard to please.
•Some of them didn’t watch or like any horror films.
•The older audience proffered classic old horror films.
•They were very into the classic conventions of horror films.
•Most weren't scared of clowns.
Media Students FeedbackI received a different perspective as the audience was a younger
generation and knew more about media conventions and codes.
FEEDBACK ON ROUGH CUT OF CIRQUE
1.Our peers thought that our establishing shots were too light and un-threatening so they suggested that we grade the images so that they are darker and build on the idea
that the trailer is for a horror.
2.They said they thought the clown (the killer) is introduced to early on in the trailer and they think it would be better if
he was introduced near the end to create shock, but our best visual shots had the clown in and we really like using
the spinning tunnel at the beginning as we find it quite chilling so we discussed it and because of the abstract art house aspects we wanted we decided to keep that shot at
the beginning.
3.They said that they liked how the fast shots were edited but they think that we should use more of a variation between
slow and fast. Perhaps a slow cut of the hands round the door in slow motion and then a quick shot of the clowns head close
up, this would create building tension then shock.
4.They liked the titles that had been used but they thought we
should explain more of the story with them, maybe use
reviews as titles or a newspaper cutting with
something like “mysterious deaths at local circus”
How Did You Use New Media
Technologies In The Construction And
Research, Planning And Evaluation
Stages?
CONSTRUCTION
FINAL CUT PRO
IMOVIE
CONSTRUCTION
MOTIONPHOTOSHOP
CONSTRUCTION
CONSTRUCTION
CONSTRUCTION
RESEARCH AND PLANNING
RESEARCH AND PLANNING
RESEARCH AND PLANNING
WINDOWS MOVIE MAKER
RESEARCH AND PLANNING
IMOVIE
RESEARCH AND PLANNING
RESEARCH AND PLANNING AND PRODUCTION
PRODUCTION
PRODUCTION
AUDIO NETWORK
WHAT I LIKED MOST ABOUT MAKING THE
TRAILER
WHAT I DISLIKED ABOUT MAKING THE TRAILER
THANK YOU FOR LISTENING!
I HOPE YOU LIKED OUR TRAILER!!