EVALUATION
We developed and challenged forms and conventions using mainly media products when producing our film. Firstly, we did this by designing a logo on a piece of plain paper, we then looked at the logo and went on the computer to re-design the idea, we made it into a better circle and changed the colours and boldness of the lines. We also came up with the film name 'Euphoria' which challenges the genre as it means joy, whereas a typical horror film would have a frightening name. We decided to use great contrast by adding a very bold, white font against a black background to emphasize the sinister angle, by using this graphology we attract attention to the title which allows the audience to think about the meaning as well as introduce them to the film. To show the names of the people included in the making of this film we used a simple white font so that the main title stands out more and is the main focus.
The geographical location that we decided to use was quite close to our houses and school so that we could re-film any mistakes easily. We decided to film in a forest as our survey said that a lot of people are scared of being alone in a desolate forest at night, and so we used this to effectively scare the viewers. The costumes we used were quite effective as we used a stereotypical costume for the clown- bright red wig, bright red nose, white face, bow tie etc. By using these conventions we will scare the audience more as the clown appears as just a normal clown that entertains children at circus’. We allowed the clown to hold a noose which was an important convention for our film- we used it as the main weapon that ended up killing the young girl. The young girl wore natural coloured clothing, and also had natural blond hair to make her seem pure and innocent which makes the audience more shocked when they find out that she is mentally unstable.
We edited the footage to show match on action shots to display the chase scene between the young girl and the clown, although the clown is not chasing her, she feels like she is and so using this shot we emphasize how she is running fast and wants to get away from what she is seeing. We had to edit a lot of footage as it was too long or did not flow well, for example when the young girl screamed, the actor- Jade, did not scream long enough and so we had to lenghern the duration of the shot so that it looks like she screams for longer. Also, in some shots the actors smiled accidently, or looked into the camera at times they shouldn’t have and so we had to crop this out to make it look more professional. We used a tripod to capture steady shots and clear panning which was quite effective but we also used handheld camera on areas like the chase.
The story is about a young girl that is situated in a mental hospital- this is because on our questionnaire the results came up quite high with our target audience to be scared of horror films set in a mental hospital. The young girl escapes from the institute and is mentally unstable so she can see things that are not there- this is quite obviously a horror but could be mistaken as a thriller. The opening shows that the girl has escaped from the hospital as we include close up shots of her files with explanations of her mental instabilities, the audience also know that she has escaped because the shot cuts strait to a chase. The young girl is introduced in a photograph when the camera goes to a close up shot of her files, wheras the clown is introduced in the very beginning through the title sequence when it cuts to quite cuts of him to scare the viewers. We didn’t use many special effects but we did decide to change the contrast and brightness of certain shots to make the clown appear brighter and the forest appear darker.
