Individual Work

I analysed the openings of 5 horror films and 4 whole horror films. This analysis was very helpful as it gave me an idea of some of the key conventions that will be needed to create our opening. Most of the films had very similar conventions and have all helped me come up with some ideas for our narrative. All of my group will bring together their information from their analysis' and we will discuss what conventions have occurred the most.

Genre

After presenting our results our group moved on to the analysis of different horror/thriller films. We did this to find out if there were any noticeable similarities that occur often in this genre. We particularly looked at the openings of different films as we will be creating the opening of a horror film. In this process we also decided that we're going to focus on creating a more slasher/psychological type horror opening.

Preparation For Questionnaire Presentation

A couple of hours before the media lesson me, Sophie and Xenia met in the media room and carried on with our analysis of the questionnaire results, we will then present our results along with the analysis to the class in a powerpoint presentation. So far our results have shown us what to include in our opening. We have a rough idea of what people want to see in an opening and what they don't want to see.

This means that the target audience will get what they want out of the opening and feel the need to know what happens in the rest of the film.

Questionnaire Results

In our lesson we tallied our questionnaire results and put the results into graphs. We then began to analyse our results. Our results will give us more of an idea of what to include in our opening and how the audience will we react to some of the ideas we have so we know what to avoid including.

Beginning of Coursework

In todays media lesson we were given all the information for our AS media coursework and were told to start on it.

We formed our group of four which involves, Xenia Hawkey, Charlotte Maddocks and Sophie Powell. The coursework consists of creating a 2 minute film opening of any genre we decide.

We started by creating a mind map which included what we know about our chosen drama, horror/thriller. This meant looking at; the connotations, the types of props used, the typical convections of a horror/thriller movie, the types of characters that may appear within the genre, the types of settings that would be seen in a horror/thriller movie and what films we are aware of that belong to the genre.

After we did this we created a questionnaire to hand out that will help us find out what people liked about horror/thriller movies, their favorite horror film...etc.