How did you use Media technologies in the contruction,research,planning and evaluation stages?

When we started to construct our magazine and poster, we mainly used the internet to look and compare existing products to our own to see what we had to do and what we could of challenged.

We made sure that we used the time we had effectively to make sure that our magazine and poster looked like real life products. We took pictures at the studio whilst filming and planned to use some of the pictures as our main images, but unfortunately, we was not able to recover the images so we decided to take other pictures to replace the ones we had lost.

What we did was, we set up the lights and made sure that we had used the make-up needed on our character. We also made sure that our character had the correct costume to make our magazine/poster effective. We knew that most magazine/poster images were usually medium close-ups or close-ups, and through this, we knew what shots we needed, which made it easier for us to take the pictures that were needed. We took several pictures to make sure we had a range to choose from when deciding on our final images. We also took a range of pictures to make sure that we did not have many pictures that were out of focus.

We used the Photoshop software to create both our magazine and poster. This software is familiar, because it was used during our AS coursework. We also used the website ‘dafont.com’ to download font that we thought that could be effective for our masthead. We downloaded several fonts and examined which font would suite our theme. We eventually decided on one font, which would be the same through both media texts.

Character Profile

 Character Profile

Protagonist- Acted by Ripley

The protagonist is a female character, she is 16years old. She is a quiet school girl with a soft spoken voice. Her homework reflects her vulnerability and her lack of confidence. This draws the antagonists attention, just like what an ordinary teacher would do, confrontation takes place and she finds her next victim.  

Antagonist- Acted by Titlope

The antagonist is also a female charachter and she is 27 years old. She suffers from bipolar disorder, yet no one knows about it. The protagonists consistant poor homework stresses the antagonist and pushes her to attack the victim thinking that the torture will change the quality of the protagonists homework. 

Target Audience

Summary of Audience Research

Our target audience is both male and female individuals, mainly teenagers. This is because most horror movie viewers are of the younger generation. This could be because, the characters in horror films of nowadays are usually teenagers. A typical example of a film that has used teen characters is 'Scream' and other movies, such as, 'The Hole','Valentine'. These films have targeted teenagers; they have done this by using teenage characters to attract them.

We have tried to target a niche market; young black teenagers, and we have tried to do this by using a Black Female as the main character in our teaser trailer, and made sure we featured her in both the magazine front cover and the movie poster. We expect horror fanatics to be included in our target audience and hope our trailer and movie poster attracts different individuals that are intreseted in different horror sub genres, especially phsycological horror.

Our expected age range for our target audience starts from the age 16-25, however, we would also like to be able to attract people of an older age who has an interest in the horror genre.