Wednesday, 18 December 2013

Prop Research

In Orphan Esther uses a hammer to kill one of the charcters. As seen here:


A hammer is usually seen as being something distuctive. Usually used in building. Using it to kill someone as a prop gives you that sense of danger and brutal death. The hammer is seen as being more scary as you see it alone in shots from low angles making it seem more intimidating and controlling. Becuase the hammer is seen as a distructive object it suggests that she is destroying her.

In the final scene Ester tries killing of more characters. In this scene a knife and gun is used.



The knife is again shown in its own shot from a low angle as if its the point of view that the person who is being attacked can see. The knife has blood on again producing more fear to the audience; because one the colour red suggests danger and it being blood gives the feeling that someone has been stabbed by it.


Sunday, 15 December 2013

Questionnaire

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1fQbrdl8wH3yZh98L2kYtxzD1FZDNfzZ4WofbeVXPY1Y/viewform

Storyboarding Maddison

We have done an initial storyboard for our horror opening sequence 'Maddison'. Here is an animatic of the storyboard with the music we plan to use.





Horror Genre





Media Institutions

A media institution is an established, and often profit based organization, that deals in the creation and distribution of advertising, entertainment and information services. It helps in gathering information, and perceptions about different groups of people and their originality.






These are all examples of conglomerates. Conglomerates are the combination of two or more companies of different types, usually involving a parents company and subsidiaries.




Cross Media ownership is when one company owns media outlets from different types of media. For example News Corporation owns tv companies such as Sky.


Companies are merging together and there our some criticisms to this such as:



  • media conglomerates dominate media industry
  • accused of being  bias in news reporting
  • globalisation of popular culture
  • reduces diversity in ownership & production
  • reduces competition between companies 


Saturday, 14 December 2013

Developing Ideas Photos of Maddison

To show some refinement to our ideas and to support our pitch I took some pre-production photos of Maddison.