Evaluation Question 5

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learned from this to the end project?

I think that i have learned a lot more about the film making process and how much time and care it must take to shoot a full length feature film, or even an episode from a Tv show. I have learnt techniques for filming, through simply improvising when we couldn't get the desired shots. This project helped me to discover how useful i can be with a simple hand-held camera, when shooting a film. It has been a very enjoyable process, excluding the pressure, and i can't wait to begin another project.

Evaluation Question 4

How did you attract and address your audience?

Evaluation Question 3

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Our film is targeted towards the 15-25 age range, much like the target audience of The Hunger Games and How I Live Now, the inspirations for our film. It is set towards both genders, as thriller and action are no longer confined to just the one. The strong female lead will appeal to women more and the action will appeal mostly towards men.
We decided to research into our target audience and asked them a few questions about our chosen genre, we asked them the following questions:
-What narrative would you expect from a dystopian or post-apocalyptic film?
-What type of Characters would you expect from this genre?
-What props would be involved/ used?
-What is your favourite film in this genre?
-What locations do you think should be used?

Here are two of the results we've collected:

  

Evaluation - Question 2

What kind of media institution would distribute your product and why?
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We decided as a pair that Film 4 as one our representing distribution companies. They are a highly successful British company, some of their more successful projects include How I Live Now, a film that inspired our own, and 12 Years a Slave. How I Live Now also links these two companies, as it was distributed by one of Lionsgate's companies, Momentum.

We also considered that Lionsgate would be a suitable company to distribute our product. They are an independent production company and mainly produce films in the horror, Sci-Fi genre, which is where our film fits in as it's a Post-apocalyptic Thriller. Some of Lionsgate's other works include The Hunger Games, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Daybreakers.

Another one of the companies we used for our film was Color Force. A small, independent american company owned by Nina Jacobsen, who coincidently, is the producer of The Hunger Games.

Evaluation: Question 1

In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

I have chosen 5 shots from our film opening as an example of how we have represented the themes of post-apocalypse and dystopia, and which shots have been inspired by other films that follow the same/similar  themes.

This is a shot from the opening sequence. It starts off with a news broadcast and the sounds of sirens and people screaming and panicking in the streets to build up tension and create a troubling atmosphere. The broadcast vaguely explains the situation, but not completely. This is to leave a sense of mystery for the audience while we follow the survivors in their attempt to escape the fallout.

This shot displays the survivors running in fear from a currently unknown enemy. In the sequence, it flashes by to add to the chaotic and tense atmosphere, building it up to get the audience hooked to this sudden burst of action in the first few minutes of the film; much like Resident Evil: Afterlife. Our narrative isnt linear, we've mixed the order of the events to show the middle at the beginning to keep the audience watching for the cause of this panic.

This shot was inspired by the last scene in both Avatar and Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1. The scenes in which Jake and Bella both awake in their new forms to find themselves completely changed and ready to live their new lives in freedom. Our version of this shot mirrors that effect. Our character wakes to find the world around her has completely changed. There is no freedom here, she has fallen into a race for survival, where everyone has descended back to their primal instincts and it's every man or woman for themselves. Society has broken down.

 Kayleigh designed this shot on Photoshop. The main title hanging on the screen, surrounded by the ash of our fallen country. This is to portray the dust settling from the attacks, only the rebuild is not going to be so easy as the survivors need to first regroup and fight back against the enemy. The shots leading up to this were full of chaos and action, much like the attacks, this shot shows the calm and quiet in the aftermath.

This is the final shot of the opening sequence. It flashes by so quickly to get our hearts racing while we watch as the girl reacts in fear to a cause unknown to the audience. Again, this hooks the audience as they are clueless as to what could've made her react in such a way, and so they keep watching, following the girl's story and learning what really happened, as she discovers the truth behind the attacks.