Creative Critical Reflection

Made byAribah Imtiaz

How does your product use or challenge the conventions and how does it represents social

groups or issues?

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Thriller

Romantic

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I wanted to do a film as per expectations of a large audience that what they want to see. I took a survey to understand that.

I selected my Apartment building while making of my AS portfolio and asked people of different age groups about what type of films they would like to see. I learned that people would like to see Romantic comedy on Social Issue.

There were less votes for Horror/Thriller. So this time I thought of making a movie on this genre which also involves a social issue.

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Horror + Social Issue, was my choice.

A few examples of Horror films that I had in mind and watched for an idea.

HorrorHorror films are unsettling films designed to frighten and panic, and cause dread and alarm. Such films invoke our hidden worst fears, often in a terrifying, shocking finale, while captivating and entertaining us at the same time in a cathartic experience.My film is about a girl, who was tortured my her mother since a very young age. She died at the age of fourteen and now lives in the house as a ghost and haunts the mother of every family who moves in, protecting the children of the family.

‘Revenge’I have named my film Revenge to describe it in a vague manner, basing the teenage girl’s revenge of her mother on other mothers.I think this will attract a larger audience as the name itself is catchy.

A horror genre usually attracts the teenagers and the young adults.

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Where as kids and old aged people would avoid to watch it.

Also, in my film I am indirectly showing my audience what reality really looks like and not every child is blessed with a perfect childhood.

But on the other hand, my movie also sends a message to the audience that you cannot judge every single person in the same way, like, what one must have done to you.

Conventions of a horror film are:

• Use of thunder and rain.• Blood splatter, shadows.• Ghost, creature or a murderer is must.• The ghost is most likely to be a female of any age.• Happy endings usually.• Horror scenes shot in dark or at night.• Isolated areas.• Exaggerated diegetic sound.

I have challenged the very common conventions of the Horror genre.- The house in my film is not in a isolated place, it is a very normal house and does not depict as being haunted.- Most of the horror and sudden scenes are shot in light or in daylight as I wanted to break the darkness convention.

Social IssueMy film highlights a social issue which is very common all over the world. In every other society’s parents; mother or father, are torturing their children because of various different reasons. Similarly, my film revolves around a dead girl who wants to take revenge of her own mother from every mother who moves in.

How do elements of your production work together to create a sense of branding?

I have created a sense of branding in my production through font style and color.

Font style that I have used to write the name of my film everywhere is Chiller and the colors I have used are, black, white and red.

• As we were asked to make a poster as an invite to a film festival, I have used the following logos:

• For the name of the movie I have used red Font color so that it’s catchy and it comes out in between the other text on the poster, which is in black and white.• As I have shown a ghosts shadow on the wall, I gave it a bit of a grey paint texture if you look closely.

• The picture I have take is a shadow of the ghost standing in front of the bed. I created the shadow by using my phone’s torch in darkness.

How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media

text?

USPThe unique selling point of my movie is its closeness to reality. It shows a normal life of the two; a mother and her daughter who move in a new house, which very unexpectedly is haunted by a teenage girl.The idea behind the girl’s story is pretty different, as I have not shown her childhood, but have explained hers through Zola’s childhood.

Distributor for My Movie

My film will be distributed by Aribah Productions and Infinity Pictures.

I will also use social networking sites to promote my movie, such as:•Facebook•YouTube•Instagram•Twitter•Netflix•IMDb

I will release my film’s soundtracks on iTunes.

And will also release my movie on DVD one month after the film festival.

My film has been selected for the Expo Film Festival.

Venue: Expo CenterDate: 30th May 2016Time: 3pm-9pm

REVENGE

How did you integrate technologies (software,

hardware and online) in this project?

Software

For converting

the videos I

have used AVS Video Converter.

To edit my film, I have used Windows Movie

Maker.

I used Adobe Photoshop CS6 to make the movie poster for my film.

HardwareThe camera I used to shoot is Nikon D5200.

In my film I have used the tripod in few scenes only, as I had to give a naturally creepy/horror effect which could only be done without a tripod.

OnlineAs I was asked to submit all assignments on blog. Therefore, I had to make one. My blog is on tumblr. It was fun maintaining a blog throughout the two years (AS and A2)!Here are a few screenshots of my blog.

The platform I used to display my film is vimeo.

To upload my CCR, I have used slide share.

WebsiteI used wix.com to create a website for my film.I am also promoting my film through the help of this website

Link to my website: http://aribah7.wix.com/therevenge

Media AssignmentsIn A2 we were given two video making assignments.In the first one we had to make an advertisement about any product or service.http://aribahimtiaz.tumblr.com/post/127961027041/school-project-advertisementhttp://aribahimtiaz.tumblr.com/post/127961468773/school-project-advertisement-2In the second one we had to make a news report package.http://aribahimtiaz.tumblr.com/post/134334465155/school-project-news-report-package

In the last I would specially like to thank my Media Sir who kept on pushing everyone to complete the project. His advises on every aspect of the movie and his critical review meant we are closer to our goal of achieving high marks.

The way he teaches us with a certain friendship meant that we should take care of his every observations and I did the same after his review.

Thank you