CCR presentation task 1 .pdf
- 1. CCR Task 1: ‘How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues’ By: Freya Childs
- 2. What is the genre of film and examples of key iconography • The genre of the opening title sequence that my group made was a Super Natural thriller about a witch. This film is similar to other horror movies as its dark, scary and violent. Examples of key iconography: Kayako Saeki = Monstor introduced This genre of horror film has different colours than normal horror films. This is because they are greens, blues and greys. This is because it’s a ghost like atmosphere.
- 3. Other films to compare possessed to 1) Come play Director:Jacob Chase Year: 28th October 2020 2) Slumber Director: Jonathan Hopkins Year: 15th December 2017 3) Thelma Director: Joachlm Trier Year: 2017
- 4. Characters In Horror movies the most common characters that the audience would expect to see are Monsters, Murderers, Victims, someone trying to counter the suspect like police or inspectors. The costume of a character can help represent what kind of person they are. A monster will have a scary face, bold makeup and worn-down clothing, a victim will look innocent and vulnerable and the inspector will look perfectional in a suit or uniform.
- 5. Pictures to represent characters (scream) • Victim unexpectedly being killed • Knife that the villain uses to kill • Killer is unknown hidden behind a mask • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beToTslH 17s
- 6. Characters from Possessed (my Film) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMPSQpNJ5p8
- 7. Narrative (Scenes/storyline) In horror films the story line usually consists of someone being killed by the main murder and could even go on to kill even more people. In My horror film the witch is being tortured and burnt at the stake and she possesses a young girl. • Creating tension for the audience and curiosity of what will happen next • The location might be set in a house, the woods, bridge or dark alley way and this creates a gloomy atpmoshere so the audience may feel more scared due to the time and place
- 8. Tone/ Atmosphere/ intended audience response • Scary • Suspense (could also be done through the music) • In possessed the most amount of tension is when the villagers were walking towards the witch with fire and she was tied up un-able to escape • The lighting is normally dark or at night, bad weather and a scary atmosphere • The sound could be of screams, footsteps, cracking of branches, gun shots
- 9. Camera: movement/ angles Point of view: • This is commonly used in horror films to make the audience feel as if they can identify with the victim as if they were in the same situation • It also is a way of limiting the information to the audience about what is going to happen which is intended to put them on edge and in the same shoes as the victim and makes appear more scary
- 10. Suspense clip from possessed
- 11. Font, colour and animation/ how it connects to themes • Super-natural horror films use colours like blue, green and grey to introduce a ghostly atmosphere • The font may be slowly transitioning to add to the spooky feel although in possessed we did not do this so if we were to do the titles again this is something to think of
- 12. Other films gohst like title transition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6nTJMdrGVU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNkrHiqxJR8
- 13. Orders of titles follows institutional conventions of the form • Titles are often placed into order to show the importance of the title • The titles are also placed into contracts so are suspected to be placed in order
- 14. Have you challenged any conventions • Possessed is quite similar to other super natural horror films due to the types of editing, characters, location, lighting • I think the reason why we have not challenged many conventions is because we know by sticking to the expected genre the audicne will understand and like as they will be wanting to be scared or feel on edge • Although, I do feel like this film has its own original aspect due to the story line of the film with the witch being tortured and then possessing a young girl and the different locations were cleaver too with the church and burning at the stake
- 15. How Host challenged the convention • Host is a different type of horror film that was the first ever horror movie to be shot over zoom • This created a massive buzz and allowed the audience to get exciting and to stay interested as its something new and not expected allowing it to stand out from other horror films
- 16. Steve Neal genre theory • Steve says that films of a certain genre should be similar to other film in that genre due to the audience expecting to see certain aspects in the film. This is a tried and tested formula and can create a safty net for the company as they know it’s successful • Although, Steve also believes that the films should have a sense of individuality so that their film can be differentiated from others so that their audience don’t become bored and disintereseted
- 17. Social groups/ issues being presented • Social groups and issues can be presented through the conflict between the two binary oppositions 1) Witch and the villager’s – The witch has no power when the villagers are walking towards her with flames as she's under threat and tied up unable to escape where-as the villagers have power and control 2) Choir girls at church and the evil spirit – the Choir girls are innocent and holy where-as the spirit is violent and invasive 3) The witch and the torture – The witch is struggling and terrified where as the torture is powerful and un-sympathetic
- 18. Look how you have represented these through • Camera – the camera focuses on the cros which represents the critianity and wne it tilts down to the choir girls to show they are holy and religious • Sound – sound can show how the witch was very terrified as you can hear her pertrafying screams. When the witch possesses the girl throughout you can hear evil whispering • Editing – the fast editing in the torture scene shows how the witch was being thrown around and had no way of excaping • Mise-en-sense – the Cast that we chose fitted to the role like the choir girls they looked innocent and young as they did not hae heavy makeup or piercing
- 19. Chior girls
- 20. Theories Mulvey – Possessed was not shown through a male perspective and instead shown through a female perspective. Mulvey said that he felt women were viewed as passive objects for male desire. This could be shown as the witch had little control when she was being tourcjered by a male. Straus – There is binary opposition through the contrast of the living and the dead and the juxtaposition of evil and good
- 21. Adhered or Subverted stereotypes • Possessed follows the stereotypes of girls being innocent and good to the play role and to have a boy or a naughty girl in the role would not fit what we were looking for which follow stereotypes and this is due to the time that we shot this in • Traditional values of the choir leader which is very old fashioned