Final Export Of Unknown

Official Radio Trailer for 'Unknown'

Official Poster for 'Unknown'

Evaluation Question Four

Question 4 from Peapod3

Question 3

Question 3
To begin with we had to decide on a story line and for this we each had to write a couple of narratives and decide which we found would be good to do and in the end chose mine. We wanted our film to appeal to a younger audience we felt this would be easier to produce as we all fit into that age category ourselves. From our feedback we found that we had achieved this from people response and how 100% of people responded back saying that they felt it was aimed towards 15-25. The main genre of our film was thriller/horror with a comedic value everyone who replied to the questionnaire agreed with the genre again something that we decided to go by after I wrote the storyline for the film.  We wanted to keep the film as simple as possible so then it would be as easy as possible. The majority of people we asked had agreed that the storyline of our film was easy to follow and kept well to the genre. Originally we said that the age rating would be 15 however because there is no use of strong violence or any gore seen in the film majority of the people said that the film should be a 12/12A. For this reason alone, our film is now an age 12/12A rating.

On a scale of one to five one been bad five being excellent we asked the audience if they found our film good the majority of people replied with excellent. Something we are ask really pleased with and are happy that people enjoy our film.

Question 2

Film

For our short film our main goal was to make people feel tense while watching it. We wanted to create an illusion of horror. The knocking sound that is repetitive throughout the whole of it is another main focus of the film and we wanted the audience to question what it is, to try and guess. However beside the horror our genre being horror comedy we decided to have the knocking as something comedic therefore the knocking is in fact a pizza delivery man. At the very end however the film includes knocking again this allowing our viewers to question what it is now, whether it be the pizza man knocking next door or something else. Giving them an option to put their own interpretation onto it.

Poster

For our poster we mainly wanted to cause suspense and make people question what it is that is unknown. The colouring on our poster the yellow stained marks indicates impurity and the black background indicates the unseen, you are unaware you are ironically ‘unknown’ of your surroundings. A close up shot of the girl looking worried in her facial expression shows fear and gives that notice that whatever she is hearing or seeing is not something pleasant.

The title we wanted to be something Bold with a colour you would class as danger. The letters underneath in my opinion show some kind of echo as though she is listening the sounds with her face glaring past them. With the star ratings we thought it would be a good idea to include them to help try and sell our film make it look more professional but get more people interested knowing it has being rated highly. As well as why we added the credits to again make it look more professional, and making it look more appealing.

Radio Trailer

The radio trailer links in well with the film as we also wanted this to hold suspense and question. This links with our film as we took the sound effects used throughout in our radio trailer and added them together. We recorded it with a zoom recorder which records in high

definition so it allows our trailer to sound professional. With a small amount of dialogue also taken from the film.

The music for out trailer is the same music we feature in the film, this helped to create suspense so we wanted to add it in our trailer as well. For voice over I took a small script and read it in a clear voice we didn’t want anything else just a simple tone to help not distract from the music and sounds behind.

Real poster productions

 The poster from women in black has the main focus on the main character with the women in black lingering at the back showing how she’s watching him. Whereas he is oblivious that she is behind him. The colouring of the poster is misty blue showing a fairy-tale type of storyline and ghostly presence. It’s very common for the main character to be the main part of the poster and for slight clues in it as well such as the women and the house further back showing something will more than likely take part in the house. 

Question 1

1. In what ways does the media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

In my opinion I believe that I observed the conventions and continuity to a certain extent. We made sure our film came across as very porfessional looking by using a still camera placing it on a tripod and making sure our shots were clear. We wanted our film to have a clear storyline and very easy to follow and I believe we accomplished that by having a simple storyline to follow but it still holding true to the genre that we chose to do.

I believe that we have stuck well with the genre of our film with a very straight forward narration of a young girl home alone in the dark hearing unusual noises. This instantly gives indication to a horror and thriller style film. By firstly showing a young girl in her home in bed it sets the scene to show that its more than likely night time then leading the earie sound affects to help create that chilling feeling and suspense. Throughout the film we have short clips of a POV shot from outside indicating the idea of someone else is there and watching this gives clues to something is going to happen.

However, our film is not pure horror we wanted to add elements of comedy throughout, the girl picks up a ukulele for her weapon to protect herself obviously that’s something that would not really save a person’s life we also have the elements of the cat and how the person knocking on the door was in fact a pizza delivery man. Our film took inspiration from many films with the knocking as a lot of horror films have unusual noises especially in the film our main audience pleasure is purely entertainment we want to make the audience feel on edge but become enlightened from the comedy of what the noise actually is. You could also take moral of the story to not everything is as it seems to be you may be in fear but sometimes in the end it isn’t as bad as it seems. Richard Dyer had a theory of entertainment. One of those theories is intensity we have a lot of close up shots of her face clearly showing her expressions and most of the time her expressions are of fear and worry.

Before creating the film we did a lot of research to take inspiration from one of which was ‘physcho’ from the harsh sound affect famously used in the shower scene it also inspired us for our film poster the use of colour was taken from the one we saw of his the yellow to show slight impurity where as to using just pure white.

Feedback from our Second Audience Questionnaire

Audience Feedback Questionnaire for the Final Film

Radio Trailer Script

Here is the script for the voice over that will feature in our Radio Trailer. The Voice over will be done by Millie England

The Process of Making our Film Poster

To begin with, we started off with a black background and then we decided to insert an image of our main character with eerie (green/yellow) lighting. This looks effective as it looks as if the main character is surrounded by darkness and this gives off a sense of vulnerability and this is common for the horror genre. Also, after this image was placed, we changed the hue and the saturation of the image to give it more of an impact. This makes the colours a lot more eerie and helps submerge the character into the darkness of the black background. The saturation of her face also gives it a slightly vintage look which works well for the horror genre.

Next we decided to insert the film title. Originally the font we chose was black and obviously this wouldn't work with this poster as it wouldn't be visible so using Adobe Illustrator we image traced the font. This helped make the font a lot more solid and easier to work with as it was extremely difficult to get rid of the white background that came with the font. We then expanded the font and used the live paint bucket tool to change the colour of the font from black to red. This really compliments the dark colours used within the poster and this choice of colour makes it obvious to the audience what kind of film they are going to watch. We used red as it is a convention of horror films.

Then we began to incorporate general elements of a film poster. We decided to use the 'Steel Tongs' font to add generic information about the film including roles and who performed each role. We decided to use this font in grey as we felt that using white would contrast the black background and this would have taken the eerie feel away from the poster so we decided to go for grey font.

After that, we decided to add a tag line to our poster. The words "Knock Knock" link to our film as the main character can hear a knocking noise coming from somewhere in the house. The colour of the font here looks really effective as it is similar to the colour in the photograph of the protagonist and also looks slightly dis-coloured, connoting to the audience that there is something strange going on.

Finally, we added some final details to the poster and these included elements such as the age certificate of the film, the production logo and also reviews from film magazines and websites. This helped make the poster look a lot more professional and ultimately create a better composition, making it easier for the eyes of the audience.

 

Horror Film Soundtrack

Theme Songs by Bands and Singers

The remake of Fright Night made in 2011 has Hugo's cover of  Jay-Z's 99 Problems as it's theme song heard at the end of the film.

The Lost Boys film from 1987 has the theme song Cry Little Sister written by Gerard McMann and Michael Mainieri and was performed by McMann.

Stephen King's 1986 film Maximum Overdrive has the AC/DC song Who Made Who as it's theme song.

Horror Film Soundtrack

John Murphy 

John Murphy is an English film composer who first gained recognition from working on the Guy Richie film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. He als composed the scores for 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, Sunshine and the remake of The Last House On The Left. "In The House, In A Heartbeat" from 28 Days Later and "Adagio In D Minor" have since been used in many adverts, TV shows and film trailers. Murphy's music seems to be the in the eye of the storm as his music is a calming force in a chaotic situation.