Wednesday 7 October 2009

Target Audience

Me and my group have decided to make a horror film trailor for this project and we have also decided on the target audience. It will be aimed at people in their late teens and older. It will be mainly for males (since its probably not something you would take your girlfriend to see but if thats your idea of romance then thats fine)but females will see this also (hopefully).

Friday 18 September 2009


Crab: The camera moves sideways, like a crab does.



Pan: The camera stays in the same spot but pivots left or right.



Tilt: The camera stays in the same spot but tilts up or down.



Dolly: Also known as tracking, the camera moves backwards or forwards.



Boom: The camera moves vertically.

Textual Analysis

Textual analysis is the process of breaking down a text into its various elements and studying them to analyse how meaning is created. when analysing moving image media (such as film or television) er must examine the following areas:

Camera work (shots, angles, movements)
Editing (hows shots have been put together)
Sound (both digetic and non-digetic)
Special effects (if there are any)
Mise-en-scene (costume, make-up, facial expression, props, setting, performance and lighting)

XLS: Extra long shot/wide shot/establishing shot
LS: Long shot
MLS: Medium long shot
MS: Mid shot
MCU: Medium close up
BCU: Big close up
ECU: Extreme close up
P.O.V. Shot: Camera shoots from a characters P.O.V.(Point of view)
Over-the-shoulder shot: Camerashoots over a character's shoulder.

Low: Camera looking up at subject, making it look bigger.
Eye-level: Camera is pointed directly at subject.
High: Camera is looking down on subject, making it look smaller.
Worm's eye: Extreme low angle, camera is very low, looking up.
Canted: Camera is tilted to make subject look slanted.
Bird's eye: Extreme high angle, looking straight down.

Thursday 2 July 2009

The Rough Side Of The Law

The rough side of the law is my tv drama also created by Mamun Choudhury and Jason Marsh (ish).
It is a cop drama set in 1980's Manchester and will air every wednesday at 9pm due to the use of stronge language and violence. There are a few main characters that consist of a stereotypical group of people e.g a joker, a serious one, a sexy girl, a hard man ect.
It is a serious program but there is an element of comedy and happiness so its not just a mum and dad thing to watch. There will be eight episodes in a series with a two part episode in there. The rough side of the law will be on BBC 2 (if they want it of course).