A2 MEDIA STUDIES-

EVALUATION

Melody Berkery-Sithole

In What Ways Does Your Media Product,

Use, Develop Or Challenge Forms And Conventions Of Real

Media Products?

SYNOPSIS

• Travelling circus comes to town• Ringmaster is in charge of everything,

drugs his performers (like the clown) and orders them to kidnap and murder circus visitors and town folk

• People go missing in the towns• Circus then leaves mysteriously, never

gets found out

This movie was made in 1981.

Against her father's orders, teenager Amy visits a sleazy travelling fun

fair with her new boyfriend Buzz, her best friend Liz, and Liz's irresponsible

boyfriend, Richie. The story concerns these four teenagers

that are trapped in a dark ride and

stalked by a deformed killer.

Directed by Tobe Hooper

Film made in 1961. A plastic surgeon wanted by the

police after an operation goes hideously wrong.

However, believing himself to have brilliant abilities as

a surgeon, he and his assistants evade capture

and escape to the Continent. There he

befriends a circus owner on whose deformed daughter

Nicole he operates.He manipulates his way into running the circus, taking it over when the owner dies in a "freak accident." A decade

later, he is running an internationally successful circus, which he uses as a

front for his surgical exploits. He befriends deformed women and

transforms them for his "Temple of Beauty". However, when they

threaten to leave, they meet with mysterious

accidents.

Directed by Sidney Hayers

2012 Film. This plot

concerns a birthday

clown returning

from the dead to exact

revenge upon a group of

children who contributed to

his death. 

Directed by Conor McMahon

Codes and Conventions of

CharactersInsane

DeformedEvilWild

DruggedScary Version of Clown Costume

CLOWN

Codes and Conventions of

Characters

Directed by Conor McMahon

Directed by Stephen King

Codes and Conventions of

CharactersSecretive SuspiciousAbsentControlling Everything Behind The ScenesOlder Man

RINGMASTER

Directed by James Wan

TRAILER

C O N V E N T I O N S1.Starts with uplifting music/ circus music2.Colourful costume and setting3.Quick shots4.Running victim5.Screams6.Changing to darker music7.Diegetic sounds with soundtrack8.Introduced circus setting at the beginning

C H A L L E N G E S1.No dialogue2.Slow motion3.No graphic images

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BMoQQ7OsX5M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYW3NyAPuMI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjpvHBndhNM

http://vimeo.com/65466184

An art film (also known as art movie, specialty film, art house film, or in the collective sense as art cinema) is the result of filmmaking which is typically an independent film aimed at a niche market rather

than a mass market audience. An art film is "intended to be a serious artistic work, often experimental and

not designed for mass appeal"; they are "made primarily for aesthetic reasons rather than commercial

profit"  and they contain "unconventional or highly symbolic content."

ART HOUSE STYLE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL0lNGXoP8EDirected by Robert Clouse

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qMsmdQ2oTN4

Example Music Video - Close Enemies

POSTER

C O N V E N T I O N S1.Rule of thirds, using head shot of character2.Dark background3.Actors names4.Strap line5.Billing box6.Title

C H A L L E N G E S1.Ratings2.Masked Face

Directed by Alexandre Aja

Directed by James Watkins

C O N V E N T I O N S1.Matches style of poster (image, font, colour scheme)2.Embedded Trailer3.Social bookmarking (Media Convergence)4.Navigational Menu

C H A L L E N G E S1.No border around trailer2.Face of character on website3.No DVDs available4.No iTunes button5.No release date

WEBSITE

Directed by Paul Solet

Directed by James Watkins

How Effective Is The Combination Of Your

Main Product And Ancillary Texts?

T O N E

F O N T

I M A G E

What Have You Learned From

Audience Feedback?

V O X  P O P  Q U E S T I O N S        What is your favorite horror film and why?

        What is your worst fear?        What do you like about horror films?

        What do you dislike about horror films?        What would you like/expect to see in a horror?

        What’s your favorite horror film character?        What trailer have you seen recently that you thought was

particularly effective? (Any genre)        How do you feel about clowns?

        What is the most terrifying film you have ever seen and why was it so terrifying?

        What props do you think of when told a film’s genre is ‘horror’?

        What kind of story line do you look for/enjoy in a horror film?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ulGnEKNcOn0

•I learned that the audience were very hard to please.

•Some of them didn’t watch or like any horror films.

•The older audience proffered classic old horror films.

•They were very into the classic conventions of horror films.

•Most weren't scared of clowns.

Media Students FeedbackI received a different perspective as the audience

was a younger generation and knew more about media conventions and codes.

FEEDBACK ON ROUGH CUT OF CIRQUE

1.Our peers thought that our establishing shots were too light and un-threatening so they suggested that we grade the images so that they are darker and build on the

idea that the trailer is for a horror.

2.They said they thought the clown (the killer) is introduced to early on in the trailer and they think it would be better if he was introduced near

the end to create shock, but our best visual shots had the clown in and we really like using the spinning tunnel at the beginning as we find it quite

chilling so we discussed it and because of the abstract art house aspects we wanted we decided to keep that shot at the beginning.

3.They said that they liked how the fast shots were edited but they think

that we should use more of a variation between slow and fast. Perhaps a slow cut of the hands round the door in slow

motion and then a quick shot of the clowns head close up, this would

create building tension then shock.

4.They liked the titles that had been used but they thought we

should explain more of the story with them, maybe use

reviews as titles or a newspaper cutting with

something like “mysterious deaths at local circus”

 

How Did You Use New Media

Technologies In The Construction And

Research, Planning And Evaluation

Stages?

CONSTRUCTION

FINAL CUT PRO

IMOVIE

CONSTRUCTION

MOTIONPHOTOSHOP

CONSTRUCTION

CONSTRUCTION

CONSTRUCTION

RESEARCH AND PLANNING

RESEARCH AND PLANNING

RESEARCH AND PLANNING

WINDOWS MOVIE MAKER

RESEARCH AND PLANNING

IMOVIE

RESEARCH AND PLANNING

RESEARCH AND PLANNING AND PRODUCTION

PRODUCTION

PRODUCTION

AUDIO NETWORK

WHAT I LIKED MOST ABOUT MAKING THE

TRAILER

WHAT I DISLIKED ABOUT MAKING THE TRAILER

THANK YOU FOR LISTENING!

I HOPE YOU LIKED OUR TRAILER!!