Evaluation question 7

7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

I feel that I feel that I have learnt about how to make a horror film.  Before I was not entirely sure that I knew what our film would need to make it a proper horror film. For example I have learnt that we needed only a few shots of zombies to give the effect of the group running from lots of zombies. I have also learnt just how many times it takes to keep re-filming a scene again. We had to keep re-filming the scene where we run into the building because other people kept on getting in the way of the camera. At least two times we ran in when the camera wasn’t turned on. Also it surprised me that we had to film so much to make just two minutes of our film.  

I have also learnt how to decide what rating my film should finally be. Of course I learnt how to do this when researching what determines the age rating for a zombie film.  I have also refined my target audience for the horror genre.

I have also learnt how using different cameras angles help manipulate the effect on the  audience.   Though we never used an above shot it is interesting that this shot type gives the person in the scene an air of superiority and puts that person in charge within the scene. They have the power in the scene.  this can also be achieved using a low shot which we also did not use.  a long shot can give the audience the impression that the characters have a long distance to travel, that they are almost there but not quite.  These long shots were particularly effective in the corridor scenes and I think that they worked really well.

Some films fall into the horror genre, however there is a whole host of other films that come under the remit of other genres such as comedy, science fiction or romance.  The zombie sub genre is becoming increasingly popular and there are even television series now that are zombie specific such as 'The Walking dead'.    Zombies are people who have been infected by a disease or other pathogen and have died but are not actually dead but in between.  they have died but then become 'un dead'  who then  come back from the dead with a sudden thirst for blood.  Quite often they have a nasty habit of eating people.  Whenever and wherever they can get their hands on them that is.  Normally the only way to kill one is to chop of it's head (or what is left if it).

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