The Evaluation

The Evaluation

INTRO

In my horror movie my role was getting the right props and costumes, being the only left alive in the horror movie, editor. My background work was looking at other horror movies and take some ideas. I went on YouTube and saw videos on how to edit videos and make them better.

MAIN BIT

Horror genre makes the audience feel scared and this brings out primal fear. The conventions for my movie will be serial killer, blood, people fighting to survive, one man left. We looked at films like paranormal activity because the survivors can’t see the serial killer and he kills some of the survivors when the others have no idea of what’s going on. We also looked at ‘Scary Movie’ and got ideas from there because the victims know there is someone who wants to kill them and they have to do something to survive. I planned my design by talking to my crew and decide what to do before we start filming. We first did the scene without filming and then decide if it’s good enough for the film. We filmed each scene in different angles so we can add bits of each of the scenes in the films. At the beginning we were struggling to film because we didn’t have enough people with us but later on we got help from another group and they were in some of our scenes and they helped us with the filming. Overall the filming wasn’t really bad at all. Me and my group needed to work on getting the right costumes. We needed a lot of different costumes for different characters which would have made the film better because we were wearing our school uniform when filming and it could have looked better if we had scary costumes on. Some of the problems with the editing were that the scenes were a bit too long and we needed them in our scene so we couldn’t edit them.  Another problem with the editing was getting the right sounds for the scenes, we couldn’t think of good horror sounds to put in our film. We decided to search on YouTube and on iMovie sound effects for good sound tracks to put on our film.  We found some horror movies on YouTube which 7we thought would be good if we put them in our film.

CONCLUSION

The film is about two people who go to try and find survivors and survive. Some people manage to escape but others breathe their last! Overall I think the film went quite alright but we could have made it better if we had more members in our group. Our favourite shot was when the serial killer looked at the camera and then at the victims because it makes the audience feel like he is actually looking at them and that he will kill the victims. We tried braking horror conventions by making it a bit of comedy too like ‘Scary Movie’ but we couldn’t make it funny enough for our audience so we stuck with what we were doing. The social group was teenagers and they were represented as victims because they don’t usually have a lot of power and this is suitable for the target audience because they feel like they are in the victims position. We also used a teenager as the serial killer because it created a sinister effect amongst our audience because it would be hard to believe that another school mate could do that to someone else. My target audience was teenagers and I thought my film was successful reaching them because the social group was based on teenagers and therefore the target audience could imagine themselves as the survivors which will make them feel sorry for the victims. The main lessons I will take away for any future film making projects are filming the scene from different angles which would make it better for the audience to see what’s going on from different camera angles. Also even if I do a trailer I should film a lot of scenes to see which ones are the best to put in the trailer. Also one important thing before you start filming is planning and knowing what your film is about before you start filming otherwise it would look like a mess