Profile of my target audience; April

This is April and she is 17years old

• April listens to RnB and Hip hop, she also likes a bit of Pop Rock

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6y_4_b6RS8   R Kelly ignition remix is her favourite song

• April usually goes out with her friends on the weekend, maybe to the park or to a shopping centre. When she isn't with her friends, she loves hanging around with her family as she has a big family consisting of her mum and dad, her 2 older brothers and 2 younger sisters, this as you can imagine keeps her very busy in the house.
• April loves Cookie Crisp cereal but hardly gets any as her brothers always finish the box before she gets a chance to have any. This gets on her nerves as she has loved Cookie Crisp since she was younger.                                                                                
• April always takes the bus or train as she is always going all around London to meet up with her friends or go to college. She hopes to start driving after college as she doesn't want to rely on public transport as it is not always reliable.
• April lives in Norwood south London in a 4 bedroom house with her mum, dad, 2 smaller sisters and one older brother. The eldest brother has his own flat in Camden.
• April's favourite drink is Oasis as she loves  it in summer when she feels really hot!

• April's favourite TV shows are Big Bang show, One on One, My wife and kids, keeping up with the Kardashians 90210 and so many more. Mostly she prefers American TV shows.
• April's favourite vegetable is carrots as they do not taste of anything and they can be eaten with anything like dips or just good old Sunday meal with the family.
• April loves playing tennis and volleyball. She can never miss Wimbledon when it comes on and she loves Andy Murry.
• April's ideal partner would be a nice light hearted man who knows how to make her laugh and also is into sport. She want her man to be caring and be family orientated as she loves her family and he has to be accepted by her family before things can get too serious. She also loves a guy with good eyes and a nice body!
• She goes on Holiday to Florida in America a lot as she has family there, sometimes she goes by herself and sometimes with her family. She enjoys going to Florida as it is hot and the people there are friendly while there is so many different things to do like roller skating or going on the beach and the most obvious one, Disney Land Florida!
• April loves trying different sorts of food from all around the world, she loves Chinese and Latin foods when she has enough money, but when she doesn't, her and her friends normally go to Pizza Hut or Nandos after a hard day of window shopping. 

Lady Marmalade - Christina Aguilera, lil Kim, Mya and Pink

2002 Interscope Records: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQa7SvVCdZk&safe=active

 

This Music video showcased women from different areas of music, Pop, RnB, Hip Hop, Soft Rock. This video was released, it was surprising as it was racy and showed a lot of skin, it can be argued that they were encouraging women to show more skin and be seen as sexual objects, however, I believe that it empowered women as the rapper wasn't a stereotypical man and the there was no men in this video just showcasing women and their achievements as all these women struggled to get to where they are as the music industry is dominated by men so to have a video like this released shows how far women have come in the music industry, it also shows that different types of artists can combine and work on a song that appeals to different audiences.

This song was also a remix of the original by the girl group Labelle from the 90s. It is sang in French too which shows how diverse the music industry is aswell and that music reaches out to many different types of people around the world no matter the language it is sang in. Even though I didn't understand what they were saying, I still sang it, and also the appeal was all the artists in the video and how glamorous they looked, as a child i didn't see it as sexual, i just saw it as cool.

Q6 what have learnt about technology from the process of contructing this product?

• The first ever piece of technology that I used was 'Blogspot'  which is a blog.This is where I  published information on production companies, summarys, clips, evaluation questions and frames used to showcase what me and my class have been studying. Blogging has helped me a lot with learning how to share and discuss my newly found knowledge and also my interest in media as a whole.
• The second technology was 'Youtube' , this helped me gain sources such as clips and videos to help illustrate my ideas and thoughts with ideas on my scary movie opening.You tube has helped not just me but my whole class to learn how to use such technology such as photo shop.
• Premiere Pro helped me as it was to me the first and most important technology that I used in the whole course as it helped me edit my Horror movie opening and i learnt how to use all the extra tools provided which helped my horror movie more interesting.
• Photo shop is helpful when trying to make our production company logo as it makes it look More professional and helps the movie opening look as realistic as possible. I learnt how to crop the pictures, save them as a gif so that it could be viewed on my horror movie opening.

Q.7Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

 From doing these practice tasks, I learnt a lot, especially when we were give specific things we  needed to include in our tasks. We had activities such as making sure we had the right camera angles to suit the mood of what we had learnt and also make sure we knew how to use these shots correctly. An example is from the first ever filming task I did with one group, the mistake we made was doing an over the shoulder shot but the character's hair was in the way, so from then on, I knew that every time we I do an over the shoulder shot, I should make sure that it is correct before displaying it to an audience. From the prelim tasks, I also learnt how to edit my work properly, at first me and my group did not use the facilities that were offered on Premiere Pro but when we got comfortable and started doing more practice, we eventually got comfortable with putting in effects, making the film go faster/slower, putting the volume up and down etc...
As we can see, my filming skills developed, this picture board shows different shots from my horror movie opening BabyScissors. The prelim tasks helped me develop different styles and different ways in shooting. By the time we had done all the practice filming, when it came to the real shooting of the movie opening, I felt confident that I knew what I was doing, I knew how to use the camera and how to shoot great shots to create a scary effect as it was a horror movie opening!

Shot type used in each picture:

Prelim task: Over the shoulder, Close-up, Two-shot and long shot.

BabyScissors: Long shot, High angle shot, close up and mid shot/split screen

VOD: Video on demand

Short for Video-on-Demand, an umbrella term for a wide set of technologies and companies whose common goal is to enable individuals to select videos from a central server for viewing on a television or computer screen. VoD can be used for entertainment (ordering movies transmitted digitally), education (viewing training videos), and videoconferencing (enhancing presentations with video clips). Although VoD is being used somewhat in all these areas, it is not yet widely implemented. VoD's biggest obstacle is the lack of a network infrastructure that can handle the large amounts of data required by video
This would pose as an issue to the film industry as they will be losing out on money, people might not go to the cinema, they might not buy DVDs because they can watch the movie online.

Q5 - How did you attract/address your audience?

 This is me and my partners horror movie opening with the commentry

QUESTION 1: BabyScissors frames

• The first and seventh frame represents what the opening is about, it shows a jar full of blood and hair, this shows how the killer is very disturbed. Me and my partner's convention was props. Our audience would like this because in horror movies there is always gore and they like the shock factor.
• The second frame shows the killer and the victim. This frame showcases the dramatic effect the scene will have on the audience because the victim's drink is spiked  and she suddenly falls unconscious.
• The third frame shows the victim and the killer walking into the living room, it gives the horror movie audience a sense of danger and excites them, also leaves them guessing what is going to happen
• The forth frame shows the killer looking through the door hole, excited to see his new victim, the audience would like this scene as it shows a bit of his crazy personality. This also shows the camera work and editing to make it as realistic as possible, we got this convention from the film Attack the block
• The fifth frame shows the title of the movie and also the killer in the window, waiting for his victim's arrival, this would scare the audience as he has this whole meeting planned.
•  The eighth and ninth frame shows the two characters, firstly in a a split screen to show the craziness of the killer and the innocence of the victim and then the killer waiting for the victim to collapse in the ninth. 
• The seventh frame was inspired by the movie Saw because of the Gore (blood and hair)