Q7 Evaluation

Q2 Evaluation

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Q6 Evaluation

Q5 Evaluation

Q5) How did you address/attract your audience?

I feel that we have successfully appealed/targeted our audience to the best of our abilities. I feel that as we have targeted our audience during the production of our film, this gave us an advantage when wanting to attract them to watch the actual film. We sent out various questionnaires through social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, asking them for feedback and for them to send the message on to who ever they felt would be attracted to our film. We also posted our final product on YouTube, as this is where nearly all videos are viewed.

Here are a couple of examples of the types of questions asked in our questionnaire. As shown by our feedback the results from the questionnaires handed out to our work colleges and students on our media class.

These results show how as we predicted our film was a 15. our peers are also in the same agre category as us (16-17) and so can relate to the character they are watching on screen.

This question asked what our audience though of the camera shots used in our film production. Positive responses such as 'Loved it' and 'fab' shows clearly how the intended camera shots worked successfully within our psychological horror  as we were unsure if they would understand are clever and twisted plot which was clever shown through some intelligent camera shots.

When originally researching into the psychological horror genre we found out what shots were common or typical of the psychological horror genre, and we included as many of these shots as we could.

One of the most stressful parts of our media production is knowing if our audience understood the story line. So we set a question on our questionnaire to see if are audience did. As shown we got the perfect response, as out films ending was left partly ambiguous, we would understand if parta were misred, or rather 'left to their own interpretations' such as Danny Boyle films.

To further attract out target audience we included a clothing range that would appeal to other peers our age.

To see a full outfit analysis and description of Saul (Lucas) please click here. 

To see a full description and analysis of Jodie outfit (Amy) please click here.

To see a full description and analysis of Becca's (Charlotte's) outfit please click here.

To see a full description and analysis of Annie's (Violets) outfit please click here.



I feel that if were wanted to appeal or address to our audience more then we should have included more contextual shots in out film such as perhaps the friends around a fire to establish their groups friendship, before all the violence plays out. Additionally I feel some more shots that are commonly used is psychological horror genres would have made the film more appealing to our audience as they might have become more frightened, which is what our film wanted to achieve.

Q4 Evaluation

Q4 Who would be the audience for your media product?

The target audience for our film production was the typical teenager, from the age range of 15-20. We feel this was a suitable target audience for our film as our actors in it were also teenagers them selves, and that this would interest our audience, as they could relate to what the characters are doing and what they say. After consulting our team and peers within our class we decided that our film should be rated as a 15 by the BBFC. We decided that we needed more opinions on our films certificate rating, so we asked other people on our media course our age, and people on the street. who were from a range of ages.

Here show our findings.

As shown our finding matched our prediction showing around 2\3 thirds of the people asked thought that our film fitted in the age category 15-20.







We felt more research needed to be done before we finalised our findings. Here show another group of people we asked what they though our film was aimed at.

This did throw us of balance slightly as nearly half the people we asked though our film should be within te 18+ category which does show that our film did fit into the psychological horror genre as it was seen as scary, however these finding and the one above show that overall people thought our film fitted best into the 15 BBFC.

We decided to make a few changes to our film to make sure that out film was definitely in the right category. Some blood and gore were taken out of out film.

We know that our target audience of teenagers are most likely to watch our film. We also feel that people who love going to the cinema to see horror films would also be likely to watch out psychological horror film. Some audiences feel that as our film is not mainstream or produced by a conglomerate company our film shall have some more traditional psychological horror features ( as lacks in special effects ). I feel this my make them likely to come and watch our production if released.

Heritage shall also be a factor persuading people to come and watch our film. Although we intended and succeeded  that our film should not include and regional idiolect, we feel that due to the location of our film being set in South Yorkshire, the people from around the area may come and see the film.

Click here to see a full analysis of our data from out questionnaires.

Q3 Evaluation

Q1 Evaluation

Q1) In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

We chose our film to be in the psychological horror genre, as the protocol and elements are easy to replicate with are armature equipment. The characters in our psychological horror were mysterious, gothic and rather frightening to look at. We also wanted our characters to be presented as emotionally unstable which would be shown during the course of the film. This was achieved as planned. Our film was planned to take place in a woods near to a member of our group’s house. This way if any shots needed re-shooting we could easily travel there and correct them.



Elements of the psychological horror genre were replicated in our film. Blood and Gore, amongst mentally disturbed characters with weapons were all included in order to emphasize our genre. As far as Narrative is concerned, out film is set in non-linear narrative form, in order to further emphasize our psychological horror genre. 

We were able to represent our psychological horror genre through camera techniques. Flash backs were used to represent Violet’s (Annie’s) mental state, as she reminiscences the events in the woods. An extremely out of focus tracking shot of Rebecca is also used in our film. Extreme close ups of Annie’s face enables our audience to observe Annie’s heavy use of makeup. Bruises, cuts and grazes, and a bloody face. A point of view shot was used to show how Annie’s violent personality as she interrogates Amy (Jodie).

Close up of Violet (Annie)








Continuity and editing were key in the finalization of our film. Our film varied throughout, fast pace and slow, in order to display the crucial elements of action, against the slow paced speech which allows our audience to concentrate on. The majority of our film is verisimilitude, however sections such as at the ultimate scene, where eerie echoey voices suggest all the chaos and violence is not over. Cut and jump shots graphically match a heart beat sound effect for a dramatic effect. Match on action shots such as when Saul (Lucas) shoves Violet against a wall were also used to create drama. 

I believe sound was the most important feature within our film. The overriding voice mails which violet listens to whilst she reminiscences the events that occurred in the woods. We made these using the voice recording equipment. Other diagetic audio such as speech and the crunch of leaves as we step on them were also included in our film. Non diagetic sounds such as the overriding horror sound effects give our films a more sinister atmosphere. 

The characters in our films all wore some type of make up. Annie was most heavily made up, as the was the dominant protagonist, whereas Saul only has some fake blood on his face to show how Annie had attacked him. Becca and Jodie had moderate make-up, suggesting they are just normal teenagers. Click here for a link to our costume research and action. We did not use alot of props during the production of out film. A small knife was the only prop used. 

Our typography was not as impoirtant as some other elements in our film. the texts were in a black and white font, connoting good, and evil, which is relevant to our story line. The size of the texts were average, as we did not want them to stand out as much as the clip it was placed over.