Question 3 Production company logos

 The typeface of this text has been selected too represent wounds and blood, this would tell the audience that the production team perhaps, specialises in horror films. This is symbolised by the colour of the font being red. The background being a gothic castle portrays the classic idea of a haunting and old horrors.
The main text has been displayed in the middle of the page, which is over lapping the image in the background. This draws the audiences attention to the writing first and then the image behind. It is instantly establishing the theme of horror and definitely setting the tone for an old style horror film to follow such as 'Dracula' or 'Frankenstein'. This logo isn't very good for modern horrors.

 This logo is very simplistic and almost sophisticated. The font being in a formal golden font imply to the audience that the film has been made by a high-end production company. The black background with the simple writing and logo be easily memorable. The complex golden shape above the text is very iconic and would be recognisable to many audiences as 'Legendary Pictures' because of the logo above.
This is image, like the other is displayed in the centre so it grabs the attention of the viewers. This logo doesn't really strike out as establishing any theme in particular, this logo is almost given as a general logo as this company obviously wouldn't just specify in one theme such as comedy or horror. But the sophistication and bold theme of this logo sets the right tone as I believe as a viewer the film to follow will be very well made and very professional.

This logo is very striking and appealing to the viewer. The typeface used is quite regular and casual but not perfectly proportioned or all equal height unlike the above photo, colour used is quite regular grey and almost brown for the barbed wire wrapping the text. This keeps it very simple and down to earth, the black background helps the logo stand out much more as it wouldn't stand out very well with a coloured background. The spike in the middle is very iconic as it very big and eye catching for the audience, the way the barbed wire is wrapped and twisted around the title fits with the actual name of the title 'Twisted Pictures'. Composition is used very well as the barbed wire and spike are both placed very well and instantly stand out and becoming instantly recognisable as 'Twisted Pictures'. The theme of this logo instantly lets the viewer know that the coming feature is most definitely going to be a horror film and brings quite a dark, eerie mood to the viewer.


This logo is very striking and bold, this is because of many aspects such as the typeface. The typeface is very big, bold and square, it stands out to the audience it is almost very serious as a font. Like 'Legendary Pictures' it is quite a sophisticated and smart title. This makes the viewer instantly recognise 'Lionsgate' to be a big company and for the following feature to be very well made. Mainly the colours used are dark reds, orange and grey. The dark red could be representing that the following feature is going to be a horror as red is used for blood and evil a lot in horror films, the dark corners also suggest that the following feature may be quite dark and mysterious. The layout is simple as the title is big and bold in the middle surrounded by dark red clouds, this makes the title very iconic as almost straightaway the logo is recognisable without even properly reading the text. The logo establishes the scary horror theme and the stone coloured text suggests the realism and seriousness of the company and sets quite a mysterious tone almost making the audience wonder what the coming feature is going to be like.

This is our film production company logo, we took inspiration from the Twister Pictures logo. This is because both production companies release the same genre of films. Twisted Pictures being famous for producing the SAW films.
The background for our logo is completely black, showing conveying a fear of unknowing and uncertainty. The name of our company is in capital letters in the same way the other posters have. The font is a smudged and distorted, which could represent desperation and disregard.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

The victim here is a white american female aged probably late 20s, by the looks of her appearance and home she is most probably working class possibly middle class. She is represented being very anxious and quite scared, due to this she can't sleep and wakes. The threat however is quite a tall long haired white male who looks around 30/40 years old, he is wearing quite dark clothing and is probably working class. He is represented as very short tempered when he sees the woman he suddenly becomes quite angry which scares the woman. This follows a lot of stereotypes and the dominant ideology that males are the dominant gender and are more controlling over women therefore they scare women very easily.

The victim in this scene is a white young boy aged roughly around 10, he is represented as quite scared and worried again probably because he is younger. Strange things are happening around what looks like his home and he is very anxiously exploring to try and find the source of the strange sounds. He is almost quite brave as he explores the house and confronts the threat. This challenges many stereotypes as most people will believe young boys to be easily scared and not to confront threats head on or try and find the problem. The threat is a white girl roughly aged the same as the boy who is represented looking very sad and ill, she doesn't look that threatening as most stereotypical psychological threats. This challenges stereotypes and also the fact that the girl is now the threat and the boy is the victim is challenging the stereotype from the previous video.

How has your planning evidenced your understanding of social groups representation?

We chose the male actor because he seemed to fit the part. As he looks quite old and mature, because of his facial hair, he's an English white slim character which fits the stereotypes of most psychological horror couples. 

The female actress also fits the part as she looks the right age to suit the male actor and looks very mature. She is also slim and white English which suits the stereotypes of psychological horrors again. 

The story of a new couple moving into a new house trying to start a life fits our actors appropriately. There seems to be strange behaviour in the neighbor hood, and weird happening from inside the house too. This fits with the conventions of modern psychological horror films as most of them seem to be young couples being haunted because of their house of their family.

Our target audience is mainly 15-25 year olds as they match the age of the victims so it will reference to them and their lifestyle much more than for example a 70 year old man watching the film. People who will watch this will probably be working class couples that are interest in horror films.

Previous Student Work Inspiration

What I have learned from watching this students piece:

We spotted that the storyline is slightly similar to ours as the house is the threat so we took inspiration from this. This film uses many different angles and works with the house a lot better than our first shoot, they also allow more time and slower shots so it's not as jumpy and fast paced which creates more tension. We should take this into account on our next shoot by taking more time in shots and also frame better, the continuity is good in this clip and flows well. Also we should use a lot more space that we have in our location as in this film they use the location's space to work the shots.

Title Sequence Shooting Locations

Shot 1 - Dirty Bedroom - (Try individual bedrooms and compare)
Shot 2 - Misty foggy tree's strange shadow figure - (Long Eaton)
Shot 3 - Church graveyard - (Long Eaton)
Shot 4 - Hooded figure stood near house (Paige's house)
Shot 5 - White noise on tv in room (Try individual rooms)
Shot 6 - Broken Doll/Toy - (Paige's house)
Shot 7 - Tap dripping (Paige's house)
Shot 8 - Cracked family photo (Kyle's house)
Shot 9 - Man stood on edge of building (Notts)

Skills Recap

Fear is created in this video clip in many ways such as

Shot reverse shots are used to put yourself in the characters shoes and to show what they're looking at and then there facial expression. This works well to create fear because the easiest way to scare the viewers is to put them in the characters point of view.

The position of the tripod is changed throughout the clip such as when she reaches the top of the stairs the tripod is lowered to the floor to indicate the water leaking out of the room and so you can see the character getting closer to the camera.

Shot length is varied throughout the clip such as some parts are long lengths and then some shots don't last very long at all. The shots are dragged out to create tension and for the audience to be scared as to what is going to happen next.

Shot type

Shot angle

Colour

Lighting

Question 3

These posters of previous psychological horror films all convey the same themes. The dark colours (black red and grey) seem to be surrounding and encasing the subject of the poster. The character on the poster are all vulnerable women, there facial expressions are scared and worried. This shows the audience how the film will unfold and who will be being haunted.
The composition of the image just takes up one area of the space, for example The Others poster takes up the left hand side and An American Haunting at the bottom. It could suggest that there is something perhaps sinister and unseen in the empty spaces. This has inspired our poster to use the same themes.
However, in other posters its the threat thats having attention drawn to it. The Shrooms poster for example is foregrounding the threat, whilst The Orphanage has it in the background.