Characters

In horror films the characters can vary. From props to people, all can be used to set an immense amount of tension. In films like "Chucky" a puppet is used to scare the audience and create tension.

Props

Props that are you used in these horror films tend to me quite phallic. For example the props in hell raiser are nails inserted into the mans head. This is linked to costume but is still known as a prop. These are used very well to present quite a scary and gory effect.

A gun prop could possibly be used in a film opening to help the audience suggest what kind of weapons and methods of killing would be used. it can also show that death might occur in the film and also the attribute of evilness. This is the same case for a knife. You can buy either of these props for quite cheap if you fine them in the right places.
These props ten to harm others or maybe kill. Props are a massive contributing factor to setting the mood of the film. This is why it is ideal for us to select the correct props and use them in the right way.

The Hypodermic Needle Model

• first attempt to explain how mass audiences might react to mass media
• models suggest that audiences make no attempt to process the data/information on that they receive or go out to find information.

The Two Step Flow

• The audience processes information more deeply as it is related to them through someone else that influences the taste in society at the same time.

Uses and Gratifications

• looks at audience as individuals
• we individually apply media tactics to target audiences. 

Camera Shots

The shot that we were thinking of using is this "wipe" shot. This is a shot that passes through an object (for example, a wall or celling). This makes it a bit different as it changes location and character through camera shots and angles. In this scene below me, the camera travels up through ceiling of the bus to go to another character on top of the bus. It passes through at a reasonably and steady pace. 

In this scene the camera is still but preparing to move for the Wipe shot.

Here the camera is moving up the environment to the next shot.

In this shot the camera is right in the middle of the environment that it is passing through.

It is now coming up through to the next character and showing a different environment on top of the bus.

And now here is the the new character and the new place that the camera as moved to.

This camera shot creates a really nice effect because of the effect that it creates even though it creates a simplistic look.

Extreme Close Up

I was thinking that there would be a fair amount of long shots and close ups so that there are a massive amount of contrasts in the shots. These close ups would be used to show the facial expressions that the characters are pulling or extreme close-ups to show specific parts of the body (for example a blood shot eye) an example of this would be from The Blair Witch Project.

Research On Horror Films

Examples of Horror Film:

A Nightmare on Elm Street - Freddy Krueger, an evil being from another world, stalks a group of teenagers and kills them through their dreams.

Saw - Two men are held hostage by a psychopath, who is set on teaching his victims the value of life by putting them into demented life or death games.

Friday the 13th - While trying to re-open a summer camp, a group of camp counselors are mysteriously murdered by a machete swinging slasher.

All of these films are very different but still have some common occurrences that they all share. Gore appears quite a lot in these films and the characters. A nightmare on elm street involves teenagers like a lot of the horror films they they produce. Saw involves a lot of gore and is mostly based around that. Saw Friday the 13th and A nightmare on Elm Street all involve groups of people instead of a singular human on the set. The victims are all killed in these films, but in very different ways. In a Nightmare on Elm Street

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Sub-genres of Horror:

Comedy-Horror

Comedy-Horror combines comedy with traditional horror movie themes and characters. Because of the subject matter, Comedy-Horror films can cross over into the Black Comedy sub-genre. Comedy-Horror films aim to scare the audience, but also provide comical outlets that let the audience laugh at their fear.

Examples: Beetlejuice, Zombieland, Shaun of the Dead.

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Teen-Horror

Teen-Horror is a sub-genre that revolves completely around a teenager or a group of teenagers. Typically, these movies have a large cast and a clear hero or heroine. Teen-Horror films often play upon traditional teenage issues, such as dating and prom, and turn them into suspenseful and thrilling situations.

Examples: I Know What You Did Last Summer, Scream, Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

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Monster-Horror

A Monster film is sub-genre of Horror that centers on a struggle between human beings and a monster(s). Often, the monster in the film has been created in an “experiment gone wrong.” The monster usually serves as a villain, and the film portrays a hero or heroine that ultimately saves the world from the monster. Although these movies commonly fall into the Horror genre, Monster films have a long tradition within Science-Fiction and Fantasy film as well.

Examples: Aliens, Godzilla, Creature from the Black Lagoon.

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Slasher

Slasher film is a sub-genre of Horror film that revolves around a psychopathic killer. This killer stalks and murders his victims in extremely violent and memorable ways. Though it centers on a specific killer, the violence is what sets Slasher films apart from other horror films. A Slasher film will devote more screen time to portray murder and mayhem than a traditional Horror film.

Examples: Halloween, My Bloody Valentine, Black Christmas.

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Supernatural-Horror

Supernatural-Horror film is a sub-genre that includes ghosts, demons, or other depictions of supernatural occurrences. Often, Supernatural-Horror films combine elements of religion into the plot. Common themes in Supernatural-Horror films include the afterlife, the devil, and demonic possession. Unlike Religious Thrillers, Supernatural-Horror films are not limited to specific religious elements and can contain more vivid and gruesome violence.

Examples: The Exorcist, The Ring, The Omen.

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Zombie-Horror

Zombie film is a sub-genre of Horror film that portrays mindless human beings who are raised from the dead. These films often include a Zombie invasion, and center around Zombies feasting on human flesh. The plot of a Zombie film then revolves around the struggle between the living, and the living-dead. Zombie film not only falls into the Horror genre, but Sci-Fi, Thriller, and Comedy as well.

Examples: Night of the Living Dead, Shaun of the Dead, 28 Days Later. 

Horror Mind Map

Un-Finished Question Answer

	Take a Break	Grazia
Terminology	Technological convergence – Facebook Newsletter Synergy - there synergy is Armani
Examples
Argument/structure
Your Experience
Technology/ current development
Audience

I agree with this statement to a certain extent. The reason i do is because of the mass production that big institutions like Bauer Media create. Whilst Bauer is an international company it can still target the particular audience for all of its magazines.  

Notes on Magazines

CLOSER

• £1.30
• 16 - 40
• high street fashion
• website and app
• recent technology used
• weekly circulation 539,991

MATCH

• published 1979
• young teenagers
• 7-19 years old
• readership - 46, 233 a lower compared to other magazines
• advertising online (footballing sites) 

SPIRIT AND DESTINY 

• ABC1 25-44 women
• under 25's to cynical 
• circulation - 46,580
• readership 121,108
• very social  
• spiritualism, books can be bought 

EMPIRE

• the biggest british film magazine 
• Bauer
• published by emap but then stole Bauer
• competitor total film
• Australia russia
• ABC1 16 - 64 
• in-depth reviews, competition, sponsors, Microsoft, sony 
• adverts in back pages and front

Q

• 25 + year old music buyer
• male and female
• monthly publish
• appeals to everyone
• interviews 
• promote books and CD's
• 77,000 - 64, 000 went down (readership)
• TV, radio, website. magazine
• 40 out 166 pages are adverts

Car magazine 

• aimed at car lovers 
• readership- 18.5% female-81.5% male 
• 15-55
• abc1+2
• advice on maintaining and repairing cars
• covers major car manufactures and models 
• technology- website. facebook+twitter+newsletter
• logo, cover star/story, features 

MORE 

• main personality (celebrity) gain interest
• 18-34 women C-B 
• new, talking points, style ideas. 
• adverts, clothing make-up and perfume
• 50 pages of beauty every month
• 42 mins per week reading
• twitter Facebook, instagram, tumblr, youtube
• technology 18-34 year old women
• circulation 106, 065
• newsletter and updates

HEAT

• launched 1999
• mobile apps, twitter, Facebook, newsletter
• ABC1 women, 16-35
• weekly newsletter or breaking new alerts
• 11th in all magazine sales in the UK, women it 4th
• £1.65 an issue
• 500,000 a week circulation
• cover-star
• updates recent popular TV programmes

Closer

• weekly circulation of 539,991
• relationships. celebrities, gossip, beauty and health 
• 15-34 year old women
• two cover stars- well known celebrities 
• main story's in a yellow box
• house style- yellow, pink and white 

FHM research

Demographics - 18-35 years C1, C2 and D
Readership figures 
Reach: It was read by 892,000 adults.
Percentage reach: It was read by 1.8% of the adult population.
Circulation figures
The latest figure represents a 20.6% year-on-year drop from 177,261, as the men’s market in general continues to freefall
Content - the content of this magazine involve "FHM's 100 sexiest women", relationship advice and girls girls girls. And some celebrity stories

Skins Extract Analysis

The scene in Maxi's flat really helps to show the disabilities that Tony carries. The camera angles and shots are a massive contribution to the portrayal of his state of mind. There are obviously a lot of shot reverse shots because there is a lot of conversation and use of facial expressions to set the mood. One of the shots that aids the effects of the disabilities is where the camera focus's on the food that tony is eating. The reason it does this is because his brain injuries are so severe that he has forgotten the correct way to eat his food. Also, the camera is mostly focused on tony's face, even when Maxi'x mum is talking to him; this allows us to monitor Tony's reactions to Maxis mum when he can't remember who she is or previous events that she recalls before Tonys accident. Also when Maxi cuts up Tony's dinner for him, the camera is really drawn to this too represent the disorder.

Discuss the ways in which media products are produced and distributed to audiences within a media area which you have studied.

The institution Bauer Media are the company who own Grazia and Take a Break. They help market the products massively for the weekly distribution that both the magazines put out. The audience that Grazia sell to is ABC1 women from 25 to 40 years, who are generally working women that take care of their appearance and have an interest in fashion and celebrity gossip.

Grazia produce there magazine stories in many different ways. The story's that they find may seem like some average celebrity of fashion gossip, but it would have actually taken a long time for the people to find the rights and to find the evidence to be able to produce the story that they find. The ways in which they do this is by sending workers around to different places around the world to find the most recent gossip about the interest of their viewers. They also go to massive fashion events around the world to find gossip about celebrities and the most recent fashion advice and lines. A lot of the time they rely on tip off's to present the stories to them, which seems to be a massive risk seeing as they have a weekly distributing deadline to meet. Grazia also seem to have some relationships with some quite famous fashion faces. They talk to Giorgio Armani an awful lot, he seems to present them with the information about his brand that they need to put in some of their articles, and in exchange he gets free advertising because the articles that they present are about his line of fashion.

Grazia distribute their magazine in a few different ways, on and offline. They obviously use the distribution chain which is That it goes to the publisher then down to the distributer, after this it goes to the whole saler, then to shops and the consumer. The other obvious option is to subscribe and then get it delivered right to your door

Grazia Notes

Grazia Notes 

• 42 people work there.
• they find their stories in other countries fashion shows. 
• Need for fashion.
• Giorgio Armani helps them out.
• They rely on tip offs for their stories. (people running around cities to try and find out celebrity and fashion tips).
• not always a story that comes up.
• need a lot of evidence to prove the story.
• certain issues with people on the front cover, presentable people.
• not always celebrity news.
• reflects how most modern women are.

What challenges/problems face Grazia in making of the magazine?

There are many problems that Grazia are faced with each production. One of these is the competitors that strive to be at the top of the market and ABC stats.  These competitors, like the Cosmopolitan or Vogue, really try to find the best contents to attract an audience. This audience is ABC1 women from 25 to 40 years, who are generally working women that take care of their appearance and have an interest in fashion and celebrity gossip This presents massive problems for big companies like Grazia because it means that they have to try even harder to find the best stories, and harder yet, try and gather some solid evidence to back it up. 

Finding stories is one thing, but trying to find the evidence is another. Grazia are faced with massive problem, dilemmas and difficulties of finding the evidence to back up these stories. Even if they they cant find one piece of evidence then they cannot publish it because a celebrity has the right to sue the magazine for putting across false information.

Ethnicity – what do OCR want you to talk about?

small content analysis of magazines. and question intro

Take a break

Human real life stories, useful articles, advertisement on bathing goods and skin care. Story’s from readers.

Real people

Similar interests, real story’s, reader submitted (like take a break)

Grazia

Fashion, celeb and celeb readers. Also advice.

Cosmopolitan

Celebrity focus, fashion, relationships, monthly, a lot of technical coverage.

Discuss the issue raised by an institution need to target specific audiences within a media industry, which you have studied. 

Grazia and Take a break have issues that can affect the business that they make. One of these issues that can make a massive effect is competition. There are different competitors for both magazines. One for Take a break is Woman’s Weekly who provide the same stories and content as Take a Break, this is a large issue that affects them massively. A competitor for Grazia would be Cosmopolitan, who are a celebrity and fashion focused magazine. They do have their differences but it is still a very similar magazine and can cause immense tension and pressure for Grazia.  

Grazia and Take a Break competitors

                 Publisher: Hearst Magazines





Publisher: Tom Smith

Publisher: Hearst Magazine

Further analysis of Hotel Babylon

The Extreme close up of Japanese businessman (Mr Matsui) in hotel Babylon.

is man is created as some sort of businessman that is quite a pervert that pays for sexual pleasures. The key lighting that is used in this shot is used very well as it bounces straight off his skin and shows quite a sweaty greasy texture. This infers that he may be getting a bit over exited due to these females taking their clothes off in front of him. The stereotype that is used in this episode is to show that Japanese businessmen are either perverts or pay for sexual pleasures.

Martin	Gianluca
He is larger	Fairly small in weight
A different colour skin (white)	He is tanned
He is fatter	Quite a short person
White clothing	Wearing black

 Martin and Gianluca argument

The argument between these two uses a range of techniques for stereotype and the how equal they both are in this potential fight. The binary opposition of this is vey useful to determine the stereotype of them. Martin is quite a weighty character that is much taller and has a much different skin colour; he is almost made to look quite pale and read. Gianluca is a lot smaller than martin but his mouth makes up for this. The shot reverse shots on them both are made as equal as each other. Martin is looked at straight on, even though he is taller. And Gianluca is Martins shoulder height but is still filmed straight on. This is to show equality and perhaps that they are both as bad as each other.

The two mangers walking along corridor

When these two walk down the corridor a sense of power and status. My first point is that they are much taller than most of these people walking up and down past them. Also all of these people are wearing these small white caps, which show the lowest status in the kitchen. Another point would be that they are wandering through this corridor doing nothing and having a chat, whereas everyone around them is running around keeping bus. 

Hotel Babylon Analysis

Hotel Babylon Analysis

Two reasonably young black men, ben Truman and Tell

Ben

Wearing a clean suit with a nice, neat and presentable haircut. Earrings in both ears, maybe to stereotype a typical homosexual person.

Tell

Chain around his neck (bling) tattoos on the body could represent street. Same goes with the hair, braided, died, stereotypical gangster style. Voice to represent area of living, perhaps east London.

They use the 180-degree rule obviously. The location is quite a classy place and by the sounds of Ben’s tone it sounds like it’s his kind of area and he almost belongs there. The Juxtaposition can determine the sexuality of Ben and can also stereotype Tell as some sort of gangster. When Ben looks down, it is clear that he is trying to hide his sexuality. Maybe this represents that he maybe is looking at Tell, or he Is looking to the floor just to try and hide any hints he gives away of his homosexuality. When they are discussing the party, Ben really does not present any facial expressions even though Tell has extreme enthusiasm through his voice.

Mine and Alex's Prelimb review

Casualty screenshot analysis

This is where we received a screen shot of a soap and we had to analyse it. We had to include sections from Mise-en-Scene and camera shots.

OCR media monarch review

Review of OCR media monarch programme

In the first screen shot Amy’s costume makes her look very young because it is very bright and vibrant compared to any other of the things on the set. Also the camera is going just above Paul’s son’s shoulder and slightly looking down on her which also gives a younger feel to the character Amy. Her posture is quite slanted to one side which is a stereotypical stance of the younger generation because of the attitude that the present to their elders.

Many of the older people in this scene have quite dark clothing which is a massive contrast to Amy’s clothing. For example the head teacher of the school is wearing quite an old fashioned suit and this is used very well to represent his age. Also the brandy glass that he gives to Paul is also stereotyped as quite an aged drink. The background of the head teacher scene is quite a dark browned wood and books around the room.

When Amy tries to work the car her facial expressions show massive confusion and concentration on how to work the gears and acceleration etc. This is a great representation of her age because it shows that she is not too familiar with the vehicle. Also you can hear her repeat the gears and foot pedals with her voice quietly; this could suggest that she is trying to remind herself of the mechanics to work the car.

Most of the older characters the camera angle is looking up at them, perhaps to suggest a slight over power and age representation.