EVALUATION

Alexander Grigoryev

At the beginning of this project me and my group members made a research on films on same genre as ours which is horror. We also found out that our film is more horror slasher movie because it has psychotic masked killer who kills teenagers in forest, and some films with similar storyline as ours (Friday 13th, Saw etc.) also were slashers so we decided that our film is going to be this genre. Horror films are made to scare people, usually trying to do something unexpected and unpredictable for the audience to happen. We tried to stay with usual color schemes for horror films (dark red, black) and it also gives a clue for the audience what kind of film is that. Our film is unusual because in the beginning we show a dream sequence of killer killing friends of main character (Tom) which will happen further on film. We've put titles in the beginning about dreams and last line said "Do you really want them to come true" saying audience that this dream is much more important than just a dream.

 Our film is non-linear because of the dream sequence at the beginning that is repeated again at the end of the film, as it is a nightmare that comes true and predicts what is going to happen later on in the camp out in forest. The dream at the beginning of the film creates tension and shows that it is important part of the film, to make it more clear to the audience we have used some credits and subtitles e.g. at the beginning there is ‘We all have dreams’.

We used red for all titles to stay with style of the film. When I was making film title I made a red mist kind of representing the mist in the forest but at the same time it coloured as blood so it showing death and danger.

Also when I was making our production company logo i wanted to show what kind of films we're doing so it's red and because it called "Russian Roulette Productions" I used an image of the revolver.

 

All the way throughout the opening sequence we used non-diagetic music and sounds. In the dream sequence we used music which builds tension and make it scarier. Then we used a sound of Tom waking up like a drum showing that he woke up after this dream scared.

I relied on Tom to edit the film and we all were helping him as well. We put a lot of work in putting it all together and trying to make film go smooth and look as professional as possible with material we had. Here's an example of our timeline:

We have used different types of shots throughout the sequence to show importance of characters. Most of all we showed Tom giving a clue that he's the main character and that he's going to live in the end. For killer we used low-angle shots to show that he's in power of the rest of characters. We've finished the dream on Conrad "jumping out" on Tom with the knife. Even in this scene we showed Conrad in position of power (low-angle shot, Conrad is above Tom in shot). We made Conrad to look as scary as we can. We used a mask and dark clothes to show that he's a "villain".

  

Our film is about typical UK teenagers just living their lives and don't care about anything but parties and fun. They're going to camp in forest. They're having partying, having fun and getting drunk so it was easier for killer to scare them and kill them.

I was in control of most parts of making our film. I've created logo for our company and our film title, created a storyline for our hole film and was deciding who is going to do what. I was helping all of my group members doing their part. For example when Tom was editing I gave him main idea on how to do it, then I was checking from time to time the process and helping him and deciding what to do best.

Our film could be distributed by both, British low budget companies like Warp or American big budget companies like TimeWarner because our media product is similar to some big productions e.g. "Friday the 13th" or "Nightmare on Elm street" which had a big audience and were really successful and also it is filmed in Britain which would be good for the audience in Britain. Big budget companies would

help us to make the film look more professional and maybe change some parts of our film to make it better and get bigger audience.

The audience for our film would be people aged 15 - 38, but mainly targeted at younger audience because this film is about teenagers and also younger audiences enjoys horrors more than older audiences. Obviously main audience would be British because this film is made in UK.

Technology we used was pretty simple but useful. Camera was small so it wasn't hard to take it anywhere we want, but its quality and the thing that it's a tape camera made it much harder to make our film. We also used zoom recorder to get better sounds and dialogues. And we used Final Cut Express to edit our film which was very useful software. We used Facebook for a questionnaire we created on Google about our film, and we also put it on our blog. We got a lot of people to answer the questionnaire to get what people think about whole film.