Tadiwa's A2 media

As part of the planning stage, I made a screenplay and storyboard as a way to combine my final ideas. I looked at examples of  film storyboards and screenplays to get an initial idea of how to make one similar to the one's used. Here they are below: Storyboard: This is my storyboard, it contains rough sketches of what each scene of my short will look like. I have also included small descriptions of what sound will be included, the camera angle and what occurs in the scene. And in some of the panels, I have included an arrow which shows what action the camera would do in that scene and which direction it will be, such as pan towards the door or zoom in. Screenplay: This is my screenplay. As you can see, it is in a similar format to an actual screenplay, but because this is only a short film, the screenplay will only have a few pages. I have used the same font and size for it and I have made sure that I included when the scene cuts, when a character speaks and a descri...

Transcript: After many hours of research and planning. I've finally managed to come up with a final idea. Here is a quick synopsis of my film: Girl plays with toys. Mysterious unknown being watches the girl play Girl checks it out But! It runs away into hiding And girl goes back to play [ Not with a balloon ] THE LIGHT BULB MOVES!!! AND THERE'S NOISES GIRL GETS SUSPICIOUS [ So she goes and checks again ] THEN SHE CHASES THE BEING whilst it's still under the bed And then, It hides back into the gap under the bed and the girl waits for it. It then reappears and the girl wants to play with it. It does so and then it goes away for the final time. It comes back, but it escapes and the girl confronts it as it hides on her bed. The being goes towards her and the scene cuts to black. The last scene consists of the light swinging and a zoom in of the gap. THE END 

Like all forms of media, horror films do influence the audience, whether that's good or bad depends on one's mental state and their personality. There are 6 main effects of horror films, and they are followed: Imitation : Many films, including horror, has been known to take significant effect on society. Films have been known to ferment actions such as general violence, murder and even hate towards a certain group, and this idea is backed up by the cases of "copycats", people who are inspired by a film character and act regarding that character. In 1999, two high students murdered twelve other students and one teacher at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado. The massacre ended with both perpetrators committing suicide. It has been confirmed that both students were fans of Natural Born Killers. Prior to the massacre, they had used the initials 'NBK' as their code and made many references to the film. Catharsis: Catharsis is "the p...

This is a preliminary poster that I have made in class, in which I looked at the conventions of a successful horror poster and have applied them to a 'faux' poster where we had to come up with a word and make a horror poster using that word as a prompt.  What I love about this poster is how simple it is, in which the main image is simply an unnaturally coloured eye, it goes with the title seeing as vision is associated with eyes. Also, the unnatural colour of the eye can be associated with the horror genre because of how surreal it looks and how the "unnatural" is a major trope to the genre. Furthermore, the colours are contrasting seeing as white is the lightest tone and purple is a fairly dark colour, by the two colours contrasting each other, the main focus will be towards the purple iris. However, white is not a conventional colour for a horror poster, whereas black is known to be the most used due to the connotations with the colour, in which black repres...

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Media text, whether it is horror or romance, are open to multiple readings. Horror films are considered to be deliberately ambiguous in which the audience who watches them are more likely to misunderstand the whole plot (such as Babadook or The shining..)   Stuart Hall, a cultural theorist and a professor of sociology, looks at the role of audience in the interpretation of media texts by different social groups. Hall came up with a model suggesting 4 ways in which we may read a media text: Preferred/dominant: This is when the audience will prefer to read the text (in our case, a horror film), in the way the producer has intended them to. So that the meaning is clear, natural and transparent to do so. Oppositional: This is when there is a disagreement with the ideology/film from the genuine idea, so they reject the reading. Negotiated: This looks at how the audience would work out the meaning of the film with the concepts that they disagree with or they don't unde...