Our final task was paramount to the success of me and my group because it provides a demonstration of the skills I have learnt and the different skills I have utilised during the few months that I have been studying AS level media.
Personally, I found the final task one of the hardest and most stressful parts of the coursework and there would be things I would change if I had the chance to complete the final task again. However I now will explain the problems we faced as a group and how we finally overcame them, producing the final task that we were all pleased and proud of. Firstly I began planning our final task and began concentrating on the questionnaire results to discover the most popular genre of film and who their favourite director was. These questions in particular were helpful during the planning of the final task because they told me what genre of film and director was popular and therefore this meant if we wanted our final task to be well-liked, we could choose the most popular genre and replicate the shooting style and ideas of that particular director. I found the most popular genre was horror and this one of the major reasons I chose to use horror as a major theme in my final task, however it also helped that I am interested in the horror genre and have watched a vast range of horror films, so I thought my vast knowledge on the horror genre would assist the chances of my groups final task being successful. After choosing the genre of film, I analysed several film openings and 3 entire horror films, so we had thorough knowledge on what a typical horror film should look like. It also gave me a chance to refresh my knowledge on horror films and gave me some good ideas to utilise in the final task. During analysis I noticed how some horror films, such as ‘Jeepers Creepers’, use a certain technique to confuse and disorientate viewers so that when the villain is introduced this increases the fear factor for the viewers.
‘Jeepers Creepers’ opening began in an extremely bright and at first analysis, picturesque landscape. This contrasts with most horror films because a frequently used convention in horror films is dark lighting and isolated, sordid settings. I realised the benefits of opening the film in the unconventional way because it makes your film original and also disorientates viewers as it is not what they anticipate, so me and my group decided to also use this technique after our title sequences to also disorientate viewers. Another idea I got from the evaluation of the films was a masked villain; all of the films I evaluated used this common convention of the horror genre and I noticed it was extremely effective. This convention was effective because it adds an element of mystery to the drama and keeps audience members guessing who the villain is, therefore engaging them, which is why we also used this convention in our final piece. After analysing films, me and my group concentrated on the planning of our sequence and exchanged ideas, discussing the codes and conventions used in horror films and which were effective and which were not. My group finally came up with an idea which we all agreed and were happy with and we chose this idea for several reasons. Firstly a big part of the initial idea was the location; we decided to have the location in a school because it is a location which is relatable to the audience, and therefore this makes it scarier for audience members, also it meant I had a safe and secure place to film in, rather then a potentially hazardous one, so we could follow the briefing of our final piece. Finally it allowed us to film at any time, rather then us setting out to a particular location which would take up crucial time – it was extremely convenient and allowed us more editing and planning time. As our idea was in a school we decided to
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