Audience

Our Thriller film, FIVE is targeted to a specific audience aged 15 years old to young adults (25-30 years old) The film is part of a super natural genre that the older generation may not enjoy, yet our target audience can believe and follow.

FIVE is rated as a 15. Any members of public younger than this age could be offended or extremely frightened by what they view. The forceful behaviour of Russell (our external actor) could be very influential to the younger audience. In the most dramatic circumstances, young children could start to believe that this behaviour and situation is how life is meant to be. Also expressing how 'children' should act. In all cases, Lou's personality is not true of reality. This behaviour could heavily influence younger children, damaging their up bringing or even psycholoically effect them. The film will be as realistic as possible, with accurate make-up, props and acting skills. This would only add to the realistic elements of the film that could once again effect childrens behaviour and beliefs.

We believe both genders would equally enjoy the film. However, the male population may prefer the topic of film because of the strong stereotype of men taking control. The manipulation and controlling behaviours of the Russell upon the Lou may discourage female members of the public to watch this film. This may now be perceived as discrimination towards the female population, but instead we are trying to produce a controversial and different plot to what has been produced in the film industry before us.

We would hope that our film would be shown globally. As long as the correct targeted audience and only members of the public who prefer graphic, fast moving scenes view our film. Otherwise the films reviews and reputation would be blown. I tihnk the film's audience is very particular, but if someone were to watch it that did not enjoy this type of theme and film they really would not enjoy it.

Overall, the film could have a strong fan base. It has great potential to sell successfully in the film industry.

Cast List

We chose teenagers so that our product would appeal to a young teenage audience. We also used an attractive middle aged man so that we would also be able to attract an older audience. We used a teenage girl as she represent innocence, and we wanted an attractive girl so it would appeal to male audiences.

Script

a) 1. INT. ITERROGATION ROOM. EVENING

b) An innocent 10 year-old girl, called LYDIA is sitting at a table. Suddenly she looks up and her eyes grow red and redder. She is being possessed. She is staring into space and she slowly picks up a pen and begins to draw frantically. Lydia’s face becomes pale and ghostly while she is drawing.


c) JOHN, a forty year old well built official from MI5 is sitting on the edge of the table looking over Lydia’s shoulder.

d) Lydia’s drawing begins to slow. There is a loud noise as she collapses on the table. Red begins to fade in her eyes and her face regains colour. John then slides out the drawing from under her and as he looks at the image his eyes flash red.


e) He walks over to a “mirror” fixed within one of the walls, and pushes the image against the screen. A deep masculine voice is heard over a tannoy system


THE GOVERNMENT
“So, 5 days, 5 places, 5 explosions?”

JOHN REPLIES
“Yep”.

Treatment

ACT ONE

In the interrogation room Lydia an innocent 10 year-old girl is sitting at a table. Suddenly she looks up and her eyes grow red and redder. She is being possessed. She is staring into space and she slowly picks up a pen and begins to draw frantically. Lydia’s face becomes pale and ghostly while she is drawing. John, a forty year old well built official from MI5 is sitting on the edge of the table looking over Lydia’s shoulder.
Lydia’s drawing begins to slow. There is a loud noise as she collapses on the table. Red begins to fade in her eyes and her face regains colour. John then slides out the drawing from under her and as he looks at the image his eyes flash red.
He walks over to a “mirror” fixed within one of the walls, and pushes the image against the screen. A deep masculine voice is heard over a tannoy system “So, 5 days, 5 place, 5 explosions?” John replies “Yep”.

ACT TWO

Behind the glass a group of people begin to rush quickly around, they are all in uniforms. John leaves the interrogation room and enters behind the glass. He says “Smith you and your team go to locations 1, 3 and 5, and Drew you and your team go to locations 2 and 4.” He says with confidence. The team leaves.

John is left alone behind the glass with his write hand man Bob, the room is silent and then through a speaker they hear Lydia’s weak and pathetic voice “You.” They turn and she is pointing towards Bob.

ACT THREE

Lydia picks up the pen and starts to draw again with the pen, but there is no paper, she is scratching into the table. John comes back into the room and knocks the table over so that you can see the image from behind the glass. It is another drawing of the pentagram, yet this time it has Bob’s initials in the centre. There is a crackle as the table starts to burn from the centre of the pentagram the fire builds in intensity.

Shots

Shot 1: CU of Lydia looking down and suddenly looks at the camera. (As she looks at the camera her iris’ turn red and her face pale.)

FADE TO BLACK

Shot 2: WS/OTS establishing the room with Lydia drawing and John, a Government Man on the desk, watching Lydia drawing.

ZOOMING

Shot 3: Zooming in to a MS of Lydia and John on the desk.

CUT TO

Shot 4: Montage Sequence

Shot 5: ECU of Lydia’s’ Hand frantically drawing.
Shot 6: Low Angle MS with Lydia’s face but focusing on John and his reactions.
Shot 7: MS of just Lydia staring into the camera. Eyes red face pale. But still drawing
Shot 8: ECU of Lydia’s red eyes and pale faces.
Shot 9: WS of the interrogation room.
Shot 10: ECU of Lydia’s hand frantically drawing (repeat of shot 5)
Shot 11: MS of Lydia staring into the camera, her eyes are no longer red, her skin is no longer pale, and she has stopped drawing. She is shaking looking scared, she drops the pen.

END OF MONTAGE

Shot 12: Low angle MS from in front of the table of John taking the piece of paper out from under Lydia, who is lying face down on it, and looking at it for a few seconds, as he looks at it his eyes turn red.

FADE TO BLACK

Shot 13: OTS from Lydia watching John walking towards the glass.

CUT TO

Shot 14: OTS from the government watching John walking towards them.

Shot 15: OTS from the government of John placing the paper on the glass. Through a Tannoy system. Government: “So 5 days, 5 places, 5 explosions?” John: “Yeah.”

FADE TO BLACK

Shot 16: ECU of Lydia’s eyes turning red and her face pale.

CUT TO

Shot 17: CU of the paper with Lydia’s Drawing burning from the middle out. END

Props & Costume List

Paranormal Productions
Props List	Provider
Table	School	School Source
Chair (Simon’s room)	School	School Source
Mirror/Perspex	School	School Source
Paper/Card	School	Art Department
Pencil	School	Art Department
Costumes
-- Black Suits	School	Drama Department
-- Jeans and Top	Lydia	Lydia
Make-up	Crew

We have chosen simplistic and naturalistic props firstly to save us money and because we thought it would be more effective and so that the audience would concentrate on the story and the action of the scene. All costumes are black or white. We are going to dress our interrogator in a black suit with a white shirt so that he looks like an official and the colours show good and evil. This could give the audience mixed messages about whether he is a 'good guy' or a 'bad guy'. We are going to dress the young girl in all black to represent her dark and mysterious character.

Storyboard

We had to create this storyboard to creat an accurate picture of what we wanted to produce. Creating this storyboard gave as a good outline of our product that we could follow. This allowed us to follow a structure and stick to our oringinal ideas.

Developed Thriller Film Idea

To help develop our idea further, we were asked to present our idea to two experienced media teachers. After much debating, criticism and new ideas our film had been changed quite dramatically-

FIVE-
A blind twelve year old girl name Lucinda has been held by the Government to help save the global phenomenon. Her in normality has been heavily influenced by the devil and her once disadvantage give by the devil has now become a unique gift that will save lives. She naturally starts to draw the pentagram that answers all questions. A governor sits over her observing and waiting. She finishes her drawing and the members of authority now are completely aware of what they must do…

The rest of the film goes as follows-
Immediately, a security is called and prepared for what may save or destroy the world. The five points of the pentagram show the five cities that will be blown up by the devil. The Government are forced to contact each city that is under threat. Inhabitants must evacuate their city and find a secure place to stay. Each police force are asked to stay in the city to prevent this colossus threat. Under twenty four hours from then, every police officer in all five cities are and the devil in still unknown.

Creating the storyboard

This week we began the process of creating our storyboard to assist us with visualising the sequcence and creating a logical order for shooting. Initially we finalised our idea and began to create specific shots to construct the sequence. The storyboard is a vital document as it provides a guide to the production crew and allows film makers to impose order on the specific technical aspects of the scene. Each storyboard page is detailed with the following technicalities-
Location
Shot/Movement
Sound
Lighting
Edit Transition
Timing

• Point of view – First tarot card is revealed with first credits.
• Extreme Close-up – Ryan’s hand drawing chalk line on the floor.
• Extreme Close-up – Dead woman’s face, with her eyes covered in a blindfold.
• Extreme Close-up – Ryan’s hand placing a candle, it then lights itself.
• Point of view – Second tarot card is revealed with next credits.
• Wide Shot – Amber peering round top of the stairs and starts to walk the first few stairs.
• Point of view – through handheld, Amber walking down the stairs and opens the door to the basement.
• Point of view – Third tarot card is revealed with next credits.
• Wide Shot - Basement, dark room with candle, bodies and a vague shape on the floor.
• Wide Shot – Candle in foreground and Amber entering in background, she hears heavy footsteps, and runs into the corner.
• Point of view – Fourth tarot card is revealed with next credits.
• Wide Shot – Silhouette of Ryan in doorway.
• Wide Shot – Candle in foreground and Ryan entering in background, he starts moving towards one of the bodies.
• Mid-shot (lower half of torso) – Face in foreground and heavy boots walking towards the head. They stop, and then Ryan bends down to face.
• Wide Shot – Ryan reaches towards the face of the body and in the background Amber crouching in corner she shuffles to make a noise, Ryan spins.
• Point of View – From Amber of Ryan spinning to look at her.
• Close-Up – Amber’s reaction to his spin.
• Point of view – Fifth tarot card is revealed with next credits.
• Extreme Close Up – Candle goes out.
• Extreme Close Up -> Wide Shot (Birds Eye View) – Reveal of pentagram.

We were to then finalise our ideas in a list of shots. These were to help us finalise the timings, actions etc for the storyboard. Eventually, we were to create our storyboard. We had to write in our ideas and details of each scene to accurately give an account of our clip. We had to draw in simple diagrams of each scene to prodce visual aid. This allowed the individual who came up with the idea to express themselves in what they imagined their idea to look like as well as allowing outsiders to visualise what the clip portrays.

Research of the Thriller film

To create our Thriller we had to research before hand for ideas, constructive advice and influence. Many sources were used including Google images, films that we had already studied, YouTube links and books that we had studied outside of the classroom. "Poison Study" by Maria V. Snyder was our main inspiration. Here are the following sources that we used to create and inspire our Thriller-

YouTube videos are very good sources. As well as visual aids it can inspire and help with audio. With in our film making, it is simple to film an action shot, but sound is normally always the hardest and most forgettable. It is hard to realistically create sounds and to create them to sync with your visual piece of work, especially ambient sound. Therefore, YouTube helps us to see how audio and visual action link together. This clip in particular influenced our route of rituals.



The book was our main influence, because this is were the bulk of the story comes from. We have developed it further, obviously, yet this is still a huge part of our story.

Preliminary

Synopsis of Thriller- FIVE

The stroy is set in 1963 in the American countryside. A 52 year old American man, Ryan, who needs to seek revenge of the murder of his wife. His wife, Suzy was a lot younger than him, she was 29 at the time of her murder, aslo an American. She was murdered by the wife of the man she had an affair with. Ryan was quite a spiritual man, not Christian, but Black Magic. He has as ritual that he wants to perform to regain his wife, and the only way it can work is if he uses victims that resemble his wife. It takes him a year to collect his four victims He chose them as they all had diffferent characteristics to his wife. His four vitctims were Ella, Estelle, Caroline and Harriot. Mean while, the daughter is witnessing all of these women being taken away and never seen again. On the fourth victim she plucks up the courage to go down to the basement were she has been told not to go, she then hears screams and other terrifying sounds. When the time comes for the fifth and final victim the ritual says it must be the family bloody of the man. Unfortunately Ryan has turned completely dilusional and the only person he then sees that has his family blood and reminds him of his wife is his only daughter. The ritual does not end up working because the daughter isn't actually his, his wife had an affair with the husband of the women who murdered her and the daughter was his and not Ryans.

Thriller Films

What is a Thriller?

Originally, it means "to pierce"

A thriller relies on intracacy of a plot to create fear, apprehension and suspense in the hearts and minds of the audience. It plays on our most basic worries bby drawing on most infanticle and therefore repressed thoughts. These thoughts can be voyeuristic (watching without the person knowing), sexual or violent.
The thriller acheives this by raising questions or Engima codes, the unkwn, in the mind of the audience. Most thrillers have universal themes at their core- the struggles over love, death or money. It is this struggle that often engages the audience. It is also done through a sense of delay. When something does happen there is a sense of relief from that tension.

In many ways the thriller genre is sadomasoclistic (enjoy other peopls discomfort), the audience enjoys watching the director cause pain and suffering to the characters. Our pleasure is derived from there discomfort because believing what happens, getting us emotionally involved and leaving us with gut-level feelings produces a great thriller.


This is an example of a supernatural sub-genre





This is an example of a spy sub-genre.


This is an example of a psychological sub-genre

Horror Films

Horror films are movies that strive to elicit the emotions of fear, horror and terror from viewers.

The contrast of colouring draws your attention, as well as all the main subjects placed central to the poster giving it a strong message.

This poster uses all four hot spots, the first two of which is the striking title. The poster is full of information and busy with a lot of action based subjects.

This simplistic photo consists of two subjects; the title and the photo. Creating a basic poster leaves more aprehension for the audience.

This is an extremely graphic poster that has been used to encourage the imagery of the film and the title "DEAD WOOD." Rules of thirds has been used, more so for the image and the title, these are placed here to draw the attention of the audience immediately.

Chosen Thriller Film

Storyline of FIVE

A man is taking revenge on the fact that his wife has been murdered. He is quite a spiritual man, not Christian but weird rituals. He has a ritual that he wants to perform, to regain his wife and the only way it can work is if he uses victims that resemble his wife. It takes him a year to collect his four victims. Meanwhile the daughter is witnessing all these women being taken away and then never seeing them again. On the fourth victim she plucks up the courage to go down to the basement where she has been told not to go, she then hears screams and other terrifying sounds. When the time comes for the fifth and final victim the ritual says it must be the family blood of the man. Unfortunately the man has turned completely delusional and the only person he then sees that has his family blood and reminds him of his wife is his only daughter. The ritual doesn’t end up working because the daughter isn’t actually his! His wife had an affair and the daughter was from that relationship, unbeknown to the man.

The opening sequence

I’d like to have three close ups of
The man’s hand, drawing the chalk circle.
The woman’s face, with a tatty blindfold on.
Bird’s eye view of the circle with the star inside.

She becomes curious, peers around the top of the stairs, she starts quietly walking down the stairs to the basement door. When she gets there she gently pushes the door and it swings open, she can’t see anything inside because it is so dark. She steps in, and sees pools of blood at each point of the star, except the top point. In the far corner there is a body. White tunic dress and a tatty bit of material around her eyes. There are heavy footsteps coming down the stairs, she runs and crouches in the corner. The steps stop by the door; there is a silhouette of the man in the doorway. The heartbeat of the girl can be heard and with each beat there is a flash of the circle with a girl lying at one of the points, and at the next heartbeat there is another girl at a different point. Without another sound the man is leaning over the girl. He lifts his arm holding a knife, and then there is a long scream.

My Thriller Idea

My idea of a thriller is about an innocent man being murdered one night out with his best...A man is dropped off at his house, in the early hours of the morning by his best friend, both whom are extremely drunk. He stumbles out of the car and starts to stroll to his fron door, but is oblivious of his surroundings and falls to his knees to throw up. He is feeling extremely light headed and intoxicated with alcohol. He is breathing deeply and puffing. With that second, you hear a stabbing through his spine. He is dead.
I targeted the film to young adults, those who are similar to this man, so they can relate.
If I were to publish this film, I would like Warp Films to fund the film. They are an English film company whom publish low budget films, but are popular in English cinematic productions.
The whole clip is filmed from his point of view, you never see his face the camera also moves with his every move. When he falls to the floor, so does the camera. When he struggles out of the camera, the camera follows this too. You hear him singing in the car, vomit and being stabbed through the spine. All of these things I think help to make the open scene a person one that alowes the audience to be in his situation, almost to feel his emotions and even his death.
This would be a simple scene in terms of props;
Hurtwood ground.
A parked car.
2 men/actors
Stabbing Sound effects.
Darkness.
Standard clothing.
A few sound effects would be used to produce full effect and a deep response;
Radio Music.
Short, mumbled conversation.
Door shutting.
Panting breath.
Vomiting.
Stabbing.
Foot steps.

Preliminary Task Evaluation

We started with grasping our location that we were able to film in. Our location was a small, ugly room. I felt this may have restricted our filming technique, all our filming wsa either close up that sdidn't show any of the mess or wide angles were we could move the camera round to a blank wall. The rooms only advantage was the blank canvases on the walls, the lack or paint and art allowed as to cmopletely concentrate on the acting and filming. Even though the room was not perfect, it did have the essentials; a door, blank walls and room for the camera and actresses to move around freely in. My task in the group was not the director nor the one that would sit back and give any ideas or not to get involved. I found myself discussing different ideas with my group members and sometimes disagreeing and trying to persuade them that my idea was better for our film. I tried to get involved that helped my other members but I did not want to be so overwelming that others didn't have a chance to give their own ideas. I accepted and lsitened to others ideas and helped them to develop their idea which could be filmed.
Our room consisted of two lights. We were able to move them around the camera, as well as the height and diretion of the light. This prevented out filming from being too dark or over exposed. These lights gave shadowing to both of our actresses. At first I wanted to remove these but I was told hsadwoing gives dramtic effect. As we progressed I started liking these shadows more and thought it gave a more realistic feel to the clip. All the lighting was quite hard and sharp becuase of the light bulbs, but once again this gave a sense of realism to the clip.
With reference to the filming, we correclty set up the camera and the tripod which we connected together and kept together throughout all filming. Within each scene, we changed the height of the tripod to give different views, but we never had to take the camera off of the tripod. Even when we shot low, we simply spread the tripod out and lowered it. The tripod really helped to keep the frame straight in every scene, and we made sure this was true by using the "bubble." This allowed every angle and shot to be straight and structured. As I said before, the lighting created very dark shadowing; for my group we found this a disadvantage when it came to the camera and ourselves. When we were all crowding round the camera and observing what wsa happening, we found our own shadows were disturbing the shot this meant only one of us could control the camera. Our angling at first was influenced by the storyboard that we were given and we filmed each scene to the appropriate angles. After, we had more time to add more angles and shots to our clip that later we could cut into our film. We started to bring in new ideas of different extreme close ups and wide shots. One idea was to film the actresses feet, that we could quickly cut in to increase the atmosphere. To do this, we loosened the screws of the lower part of the tripod and spread the feet to lower the angle shot. We also shot extreme close ups of the door handle and the quick motion of the actress exiting. This added dramatic effect that emphasizes the actions of the actresses and the scene. I was not completely aware of the 180 degree rule through out the prcess, but my other group members changed the camera angle to prevent breaking the 180 degree rule. Stephanie, whom recorded the action always said "Stand By, Rolling...Cut" This helped everyone in the room to keep quiet and aware of when we were filming and also allowed the actresses to completely concentrate on their scene.
Overall, our practical film making went well and though our group worked well together to share ideas and efficiently produce the short clip.

Editing

Introduction to practical skills

Account of my Practical Experiences

In the first week of studying Media Studies, we were introduced to Photoshop. As the weeks progressed, we were taught about still cameras. How they worked, the functions and tripod. A few weeks later we were taught about filming and technical terms. We learnt the basics of photography, as well as changing focus, ISO, exposure etc. We were then introduced to our blogs, how to create, personalise and expand them. Through out this process, analysis of short film clips and TV drama was incorporated in our syllabus.

We started with Photoshop. We were taught how to import photos and how to edit them. I found this quite helpful in relation to our assignments that we were to be appointed later on in the course; we were asked to create our own horror film poster, filled will imagination and unique formats. Filled with logos, slogans and directors names. In this case, Photoshop became very useful. I used this programme for all my different formatting and editing. I imported a photo, cut, cropped, edited it etc. Photoshop looks extremely confusing, but once you get to grips with it, it becomes very simple and efficient to use it. A very useful skill.

As our understanding of Photoshop progressed we moved onto still cameras. We were set an assignment to take a photograph of one another, which would eventually be posted onto our blogs. We could use our own imagination and desire to photograph one another in any area of the school, but one which portrayed our personalisties the most. I enjoyed this task because of the freedom we had to take our own personal photos as well as for others to grasp the art of photography, negative space and the rule of thirds.

After using still cameras we moved onto filming techniques. We had a lesson on the film camera, there is a lot to learn in filming, especially how to work the camera correctly to capture great clips. Like Photoshop and still cameras, filming is simple once you understand the processes. Learning vocabulary and basic camera shots helped me shoot clips in different angles and movements. We were eventually set an assignment in class to create a two minute short film clip. This task was to practice and learn camera shots; Extreme Wide Shot, Cut-In, Extreme Close-Up etc not plots, characters and acting skills. We did this in groups and after we watched one another’s. We critiqued each others short clips and recognised what we had done wrong or right. My group found we over exposed our shots from the sun. This was a good way to learn how to correct this, before our real two minute horror film that will be made later on in the year. This exercise also taught me that you must chose the correct scenery at the correct time of day. Our short clip was ruined by the sun, this at the time could not be corrected because of the nature of the day, but in future I know to either shoot internally or away from the sun light.

Finally, we have started to create our personal blogs. We started with an introduction to the blogs, set assignments, like this exact one and from there we have added to our blogs, to eventually produce a full blog with all of my work through out the year posted.

This photo was taken in Sardinia, in the Summer of 2009. This is very much an action shot that really captures the moment. The excitement and movement. This is a long shot that captures the whole body. It vaguely shows the surroundings of the room. Without explanation you can imagine this photo was taken on holiday, showing the happiness.

This photo was taken at Wireless Festival, in the Summer of 2009. It was taken from quite a high angle that captured the main expression of me, but also the person that is holding me up. THis is a good example showing the hot spots. The first, being me. Second, the logo "Wireless 2009" and the third being the other person in the photo. Unfortunately, the fourth hot spot is blocked by another member of publics head. This is a long shot for me, but a close up for my friend. The photo also captures both of our excitement as well as some of the scenery. It manages to capture all of the surroundings, allowing it to be pretty much self explanitory.

This photo of myself and my friend, Emelia was taken on a laptop. This prevented us from changing the angle or size. As well as this, zoom was impossible. Therefor, we had to move for the camera. The photo of us is a medium close up, only showing the shoulders and head. I am leaning over Emlia's shoulders, which gives a good angle to the photo rather than side to side. This shows a more friendly approach.

Image Production and Analysis- Deconstruction of “Ferocious Felines”

My idea of Ferocious Feline came from my own home. I was able to photograph the scene of the dark, ‘spooky’ woods as well as the cat eyes. I chose this layout and idea simply because I knew I had the resources to accomplish my idea.
I started working at home. With my camera I captured the woodland area. I still wasn’t certain what angle or shot type I wanted, so I took a variety of different shots. Some extreme wide shots, wide shots and mid shots. I wanted to make sure I had all the possibilities at hand so that when I came to my complete decision I could adapt my photos to my work. I then carried on with my photography. Once again I took many photos so that I had the best possible one. It was hard to get an extreme close up of a cat’s eye, but later on in my project I was able to edit these in Photoshop. After grouping my resources, I was able to move on and collaborate all of my ideas.
I uploaded all of my photos on a computer and sorted through what I could see that fitted my idea. All of which where paradigm’s that would eventually produce my final product, the syntagm. I chose a mid shot of the woodland and a wide shot of the cat. I then opened Photoshop and placed my woodland photo landscape onto the page. Following this, I opened my photo of the cat and started to crop and edit it. Firstly, I used the ‘lasso’ tool to cut out the eyes. The original photo had a lot surrounding it that I did not want. I had to pick out what I really wanted and what I knew would make a better poster. I copied the first set of eyes onto the background (woodland.) I scaled them down in proportion to the woodland. The eyes had to be a realistic size to produce a more emotive response as a horror film. Once I cropped and placed the first set of eyes into the background I then kept repeating this process to eventually produce many eyes. I scattered them around the area, high in the trees and low on the ground to make you feel they are staring at you from all angles. I then started to change the colours and effects of all of my photos now that I had laid it out correctly. I made all the cat eye’s different colours, but mainly orange and ruby red’s to really stand out. In contrast to this I changed the saturation of the background to make it black and white. The dominant colours are the cats’ eyes. This has made a dramatic effect. I titled my poster right in the centre at the top. Even though this is not one of the hot spots I think placing it directly above the syntagm helped describe the poster. I used smaller font for the directors and producers name, as well as the film company. I don’t think this information is the most important so I kept it small that can be read, but not that it takes over the poster. Lastly, I added the slogan “You’re in, their out.” I strapped this along the gate, which is one of the hot spots. This, then not only stands out because of its’ position but also the attraction of the contrasting colour of font (white on black)
In conclusion, I found producing this poster a good way of expanding my creativity skills and thinking out side of the box. I had to create an idea that had never been thought of before and present it correctly that portrays the horror film that I had in mind.

Introduction

Hello, I am Millie Freeman.
Media Studies has opened up my knowledge to films and the many varieties given for audiences. My favourite film of all time is most definately Forest Gump. Tom Hanks plays so many different roles, all with such enthusiasm and energy. A great film.
I started Media Studiesn three weeks ago and have enjoyed it so far! I expected to endure hours of filming and editing my own films. To my surprise, Media Studies is a comlpetely different subject to my first impressions. I enjoy Media Studies for the variety of learning resouces. Watchng clips of films and analysing them, adpating to the wonders of Photoshop and using a lot of technical equipment to learn about this subject. This keeps the lessons interesing and helps me to stay engaged.
Enjoy!