Jon samuroff AS Media

Here is the finished version of the opening of my horror film, Accursed.

Just from the picture above, it should be clear to see my leap of progress from preliminary to final piece. As the preliminary task was...

1) MS Paint - An image editor, paint was key to the success of this blog. Although basic, it fit my needs perfectly....

I would attract my audience in a number of ways. Firstly, i would create an informative, but eye-catching poster advertising my film. This...

As previously established, my target audience is both males and females, aged 15 - 35. By researching on http://www.IMDB.com  , I conclude...

The primary agenda of the distributor is to convince the exhibitor to rent, or "book", each film. To this end the distributor usua...

In the opening sequence, the only group represented are middle class teenage boys. He is dressed in jeans, t-shirt and a cardigan(?), a look...

In the creation of a horror film, I tried to stick as closely to the codes and conventions of existing horror products. This was aided by my...

AS Media coursework: audience feedback Here's a presentation containing all my audience feedback. Generally, respon...

This is my preliminary task that I filmed before undergoing the main task. This was before i had any real experience in filming and editing,...

Now that filming has finished, of course editing began. I thought that if I edited at home, it would be easier as I could work in the t...

Filming is now done, with all of it being successfully shot in one night like I planned. For the "special effects", Bovril (a trul...

This is a shooting schedule I devised to ensure that filming goes as smoothly as possible, without any mistakes. I have given myself ...

(open in new tab and zoom in to enlarge) Also, for some annoying reason, the bottom three panels have been cut off. .

Before I storyboard, I'm going to quickly outline shot by shot what will happen in the opening to my film. Establishing shot of the...

My target audience are people aged 15 - 35, both male and female. These are the type of people that would most likely go to watch horror ...

AS media pitch This was the pitch i presented to the class. It covers the basic ideas of my film, with everything going into mo...

This mood board shows all the different themes and moods of my film. These include fear, tension, religion and of course, possession. 

The location of my film will be an ordinary, but nice looking house. This is because although the film deals with themes of possession, it i...

To find out what people look for in a horror film, i composed a questionnaire (crudely seen above) and handed it out to people ...

This film belongs to the "slasher horror" genre. This is evident to anyone who has any prior knowledge about the film, as the f...

Today, a film specialist came in to talk to us about effective film making. We arranged ourselves into groups and we all got given a camcord...

My chosen sub-genre is "possession". Perhaps the most well known example of this is the 1973 film "The Exorcist". Films ...

Here is an example of some typical fonts you would expect to find in a horror film. In accordance to the genre, they are quite sinister ...

Today, we learnt about genres and sub-genres, and the boundaries and conventions that apply to these. Genre is a strategy used by film produ...

Opens with an institutional logo (New Line Cinema) in red and black, which are commonly used colours in horror. First shots shows a chara...