Evaluation Question 2: How Does Your Media Product Represent Particular Social Groups?

In our opening title sequence, it is very clear from the start that there is only one character/actress in the sequence. She is an attractive young female who's very seductive with the way in which she moves. From this the young girl can hook and invite the audience to go through a journey with journey with her in a mysterious and disturbing manner. The views on the sequence and the ideas that it gives are that women are sexual objects and gives the sense of over powerness as there are no men. That women in their right mind should be desired. The young girl is dressed in very bold and expressive clothing.
The white dress that she wears suggests the purity of her youth and I think expresses her naivety and being easily influenced (possessed). The other dress represents her childhood and proves that she is still intouch with it due to the contemporary patterned style.
Even though the actress is acting very seductivly and sexual her facial expressions counteract with her body language. This contradicts the illusion of her being vain and flirtatious. This then I think challenges the ideas, values and beliefs that all women are seductive and alluring towards the opposite sex.
Our actress had the common ideology of a typical dumb blonde and unable to think for herself, with her blonde hair and nice features. This suggests that women are easily influenced and naive which indicates them as to being the victim all the time. In some shots the Ideology of the typical dumb blonde is challenged as she is portrayed as strong in some shots. The two moods of feeling strong and then weak and possessed, suggests a hidden side to her.
Our actress seems to be quite content with being my herself, however the audience may see her as being alone a lot and secluded, however not so much of an Emo. Through-out our title sequence the viewers can see a lot of visual anger and anxiety. The shots we have produced of the deformed and tortured baby, mirror the unhappy and and tortured childhood she may have had. She is presented as very troubled through the ideology she presents and can come acrosss to most people someone they can relate to on different levels of emotion.

Evaluation Question 1 - In what ways does your Media Production use, develope and challenge forms and conventions of real Media Products?

The final outcome of our film was designed andexpected to be professional, a product that could sucessfully progress into Mainstream Film Industry.

I researched the standard format of a horror genre's opening title's and found we were well established thoughout the whole film industry into the context of a standard horror opening. A definate impact was recognised from our own experiences of horror films dur to our own personal preference. My group and I had an idea for a stalker like film which we though was appropriate to the horror film climate the resources we used were (e.g. Scream, One Hour Photo, and Fatal Attraction)
However due to the investigation and integraty of the downhill of recent popluar releases lacking this theme, my group and I therefore decided to change our ideas towards a more supernatural/paranormal direction with the realeses of 'Drag Me To Hell' 'The Unborn' and 'Nightmare on Elm Street 2010' The plot of these new releases all have the supernatural/paranormal element we want to maintain and include in our premise.

At this point we were inticed and the introduction of the 'Cursed' element was reinforced as a more tandemic route which we thought suited to our premise.

'Hitchcock' inspired us with the ides of a continuous shot for our opening title, such as 'Rope' and 'Touch of Evil' Both films give the notion of a continuous shot taking place which also places the action in realtime.
Our final outcome of our premise was built upon a one shot constant focus on a singular figure. W e wanted this to build tension with the continuation of one constant shot much like 'Rope' and 'Touch of Evil'
It's very easy with our premise to produce an agressive opening title from due to the sucession of shots and jump cuts that are being used, and thid could have formed a premise much like 'Dawn of the Dead'
With our shots, we've managed to sway away from aggression which could have easily happened when we interelated our shots together.

Textual Analysis of 'Suspiria' 1977

The film 'Suspiria' came to my attention when i did some research through horror music. The non-diegetic use of the voice over is in tandem with a percussionist, which gives it the dream like effect and the music is a visage to the narrative format which creates a fairytale facade to this film. The odd framing choices can be simultaneously linked with the constant lullaby we hear. The camera is clearly decending from a crane which gives the audience a sense of authority because of the posision the camera is in, to give them the sense of freedom and space due to the smooth pan across the screen. However the framing of the people on the screen is some what awkward due to the really high cutoff which is below their shoulders.

Textual Analysis of Candyman Opening Titles. Main Task

'Candyman' is a 1992 horror film which is based on the idea of re-constituted urbanlegends and their realization in a contemporary reality.
The of the first things that cuaght my eye about the opening titles was the use of one continuous shot. Instead of using quick cuts and fades to empathise tension, the films reality is of the constant pace of the tracking of the camera
is a reasonable device to build its own tension through the constant tracking and being coupled with a dramatic change.

The icongraphy of the slow car moving is suggested although we are not even in a car the longvity of the grey mass which is laid out in front of us is very duanting, maybe more so to being an English audience due to the volume of the road presented. Suggestivly and subconsciously a road will represent a journey taken. The journey the audience are forced along in 'Candyman' is elegant and undeniably a metaphor for the effortless motion and strength of a character we are going to be introduced to. The tunnel, brige and water bellow and the complexity of the road junction, creat imagery of a tunnel with illumination of learning something
the fall form a tunnel, the bridge and its water bellow and the complex road junctions. The imagery of a tunnel is the illumination in learning something but in compensative use with the water's meaning of death and the imagery of a heart of cardio-vascular system the ideas of flesh and being form.

Something that caught my eye was the use of sound which can be presumed to be diagetic or non diegetic. There is a male voice which can be heard that could correspond to a sound inside a vehical or maybe an additional exterior sound to the scene. From teh scene we have established there are no characters so far being introsuced so it should be taken as a non-diegetic sound coupled with music. We then are presented with a combination of the stactic radio and gothic cathedral-esque eitha with a chior or organ. This gives it a dark era which is relative to the folkore premise and the story like realism of the film.

The Cursed Main Task

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After a lot deliberation John decided that the other music in which he composed was too drama based, so he decided on chaninging the structure and re-wrote the music to a completley different song. We are all now very pleased with the new piece and how it fits effeciantly with our opening title sequence.

Samara Song - The Ring Main Task

Contemporary horror films which have inspired myself and my group members is 'The Ring'. The main theme in the film is sung by a small child, who actually is a dead girl. John who composed our music thought that the happy use of lyrics in juxtaposition to the atonal melody which then gradually descends, and is recapitulated in a circular fashion provoked him into wanting to use the similar technique, however to traslate it onto the the instrumentation and its playing. I think John thought critically and efficiantly. He produced an amazing piece and the inspiration he recieved from 'The Ring' i think helped and motivated him very much.
In our piece there are a lot of rise and fall intonations which reflect and compliment our music a lot. John though it would be best to included a female vocal to reflect our premise, but however using that would seem as a predictable device.

Our music Main Task

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This is the music which John composed for our opening title sequence. After comparing the footage to a gothic horror film like that of Hammer Productions he decided that more drama was needed in our soundtrack. 'The Horror of Dracular' has a full orchestural score and also 'The phantom of the Opera'. We thought the use of strings and the voice was truly revalent and also created a lucious cocophony on dissonance untouched in John's original composition. Although we though there is no real use of dissonance in these examples, the idea is more contemporary and the mixed frequencies produced, created a scream like timbre to all the instruments.