Evaluation Activity Task 3 - Commentary

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Evaluation Activity Task 5 - Youtube Annotation

How did you attract/address your audience?

We have annotated our opening sequence below identifying what we did to engage and attract the right audience to our genre:

Evaluation Activity Task 4

What would the audience be for your media product?

Target audience:

Our film certificate is a 15, therefore this allows us to reach a wider range of teenagers instead of just strictly Adults due to there may be being the occasional swearing and moderate sexual references.
Our target Audience is Teenagers and young adults who enjoy the Adrenalin rush processed from these horror genres...

A teenage boy interested in the horror genre, would typically listen to possibly indie-alternative music, or even rock, as horror is a very forward genre, not like a romance or comedy.

Evaluation Activity Task 7

Looking back at your preliminary Task (the continuity editing task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression of it to full product?

This is our first significant shot in our preliminary task. We chose to start of with a close up shot done by hand filming a mysterious character opening a door handle. we used the school camera to film this shot so the sound was not best quality. There is also non diegetic background music playing which is quiet and eerie this creates suspense.



We continued to film our main character from the back so it would create a sense of mystery and leave our audience wondering who this person is and what they are hiding. The idea of creating mystery was then later developed in creating and editing INHABITANT as our supernatural being is rarely revealed in the opening scene , the dark attic that the supernatural being lingers in connotes danger and mystery. We also used an effect called ''bad tv transition" which enabled us to create distortion in a significant shot in the attic when the camera pans to the right and the audience catch a quick glimpse of the ghostly figure the distortion effect quickly comes in interrupting the footage and making it unclear of what the audience can see therefore emphasising on the mystery of this supernatural being as we rarely get to see its front. We also improved our sound quality for INHABITANT as in addition to using our camera microphone  we also used a music recording microphone which enabled a sharper quality sound. However this was only shown through the beginning scenes in INHABITANT. This was achieved by dubbing over the original sound . We also progressed our filming technique by using a tripod to achieve still shots where as in our preliminary task the filming was quite shaky. We also used jump cuts effectively in INHABITANT as it made the cross cutting of scenes smoother and quicker also creating pace to our opening scene. Where as in our preliminary task we did not film enough frames for there to be slick cross cutting we also had very little knowledge of editing and creating jump cuts effectively. The first title shot in the beginning of our preliminary task is very plane and only lasts one second. We improved our use of titles in our film opening as we had more knowledge of editing the font so we used the clockwork effect on Adobe premier to create a a clockwise appearing font that is revealed slowly connoting mystery and lasting longer then the titles used in our first task.

Evaluation Activity Task 2

How is your media product represent particular social groups?

How is our Film opening used to represent social groups.

Teenagers and young adults are usually represented as Naive,reckless and quite unintelligent in horror films. For example in Nightmare on Elm street the teenagers where always seeking for danger instead of avoiding it for example they would follow the sound of the villains voice and they would keep everything a secret from adult figures like their parents in the films . In every single film of the nightmare on Elm street series the teenagers would always be involved in sexual activities.That is also usually when they would be killed by the Antagonist is usually right in the middle of them having or sex or right before or after. This would suggest to the audience that antagonists would usually target the reckless teenagers who are immoral.

Another example of a cliché representation of teenagers is seen in "It follows" which is one of the films which influenced us in making "INHABITANT" the teenagers in "it follows" are represented as reckless and dumb as the main character has sex with multiple people and they make stupid decisions like towards the end when they plan to take lots of electronic devices to a swimming pool and plug them in so that they can chuck it in the swimming pool when the antagonist jumps in the pool to attack the victim who is the main character. How ever there plan was very dangerous and risky and it ends up back firing and almost causing the main character to die. The girls in "it follows are also veru sexualised with their costumes being revealing as the main character is always wearing a swimming costume or she is seen in her famous sexy pink lingerie.
However in INHABITANT our two main characters who are two young adult girls. They are represented in ways which challenge but also conform to the general stereotype of Teenagers in horror movies.


"Lisa" is portrayed as fairly sensible due to her modest clothing and unpacking all the boxes whilst shown to encourage her partner Ellie to do so also. Lisa's clothing is very modest and casual, this subverts from the stereotype of girls being over sexualised in horror movies as her behaviour is seen as acceptable as her character is sensible and not the stereotypical "dumb", she is therefore challenging the usual representation of women.
However, Ellie is portrayed as quite silly and immature as she films and mocks her girlfriend "Lisa" whilst also shown to be flirting slightly. This conforms to the stereotype of teenagers being irresponsible and acting as sex symbols. Ellie's character also seems to lack common sense as she lingers in the attic despite the lights somehow turning off. The common sense would be to exit the attic, however she is shown to shout for Lisa, supposing it was her, and using her phone to guide the way. She is then attacked in the attic and as the audience we hear her falling dropping the camera and also screaming, this demonstrates Ellie as a vulnerable character. We chose to do this as it is conventional for horror films as girls are usually portrayed as vulnerable as there are many significant shots of girls running away and falling down with high angle shots so that the girls look vulnerable. Ellie conforms to the general stereotype of girls being victimized in horror films, we had the character Ellie pan the camera upwards in a low angle shot to reveal the supernatural being so that the ghostly figure looks overpowering and intimidating also creating the representation of vulnerable and weak for Ellie.

Evaluation Activity Task 6

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Paint.Net was used to mess around with several ideas for our font for "INHABITANT" by picking several types of fonts that conform to the horror genre. This was a simple step as it was pretty self explanatory technology, as we had knowledge and experience of this software. 

Firstly our Film consists of several types of Technology, that are used in order to achieve a smooth cut finished product. Over the past few months in approach to the final film, we progressed our skills with editing and the using of Technology, such as Adobe Premiere Pro, CANON 700D, Blogger, and lastly Paint.Net. 

The next technology used in our production was the CANON 700D, which was most probably the most important piece of our film, as this was the camera used to film the opening sequence. Although we had little experience in this camera, we quickly adjusted to its capabilities in order to achieve the best outlook we could possibly have with our little knowledge. This camera had a lens which enabled us to zoom and focus precisely, which was shown especially in the beginning in the packing scene. This shows our skills in camera work and movement, as we used a variation of stills and handheld. The use of these two techniques enabled an engagement with the audience as we are shown two sides to the story, one being the characters, as they "vlog" themselves, and also a "behind the scenes/film" outlook through the stills. This camera was also used when filming the Actor interviews, as we wanted a professional clean and slick finish, which would make the whole production look real, as opposed to a quickly edited and filmed video on an iPhone, however this would still be able to achieve a realistic shot, we decided to go all for it. However in this interview, we used an additional microphone which gave a crisp quality sound, which made the audience feel as if it was a real interview. Black out cuts were used to add in questions that were asked throughout the interview, this was achieved by Adobe Premier Pro CC 2015. 

The additional microphone was however used in our final film, but only in the beginning scene, as this consisted of dialogue. Looking back on this, we should have used it throughout the whole film, as our camera lacked pure sounding audio. This is something we can look into in our future productions. We did not use the microphone to an extent, as it was a lot of effort setting up, as this was a microphone used for recording music and instruments, plus it was hard getting the audio and dubbing over the original sound as the film consisted of several jump cuts. However, using an additional microphone was not so much needed, as the handheld parts of the films audio was dimmed down to conform to a home movie camcorder effect.

Secondly, we are introduced to the editing software "Adobe Premier Pro CC 2015" of which we had access to at my house on my laptop. I bought this software in order for us to professionally edit together our film, however also at home, other than just at school using their computers. This is shown off through our high use of editing and effects, which would allow the audience to see its progress on a professional software such as Adobe. We feel as we achieved this in our final production, as we can see this through different editing techniques that aren't achievable in such software such as "Windows Movie Maker". Editing, for me was on the easy side, as i have had several past experiences in editing, whether it be for my personal choices, or school purposes. I also learnt some knowledge in editing through my brother, as he was a past Media Student. I took this information, and taught Luiza, which helped us work together and edit the film, using the knowledge we both had, with also the additional YouTube tutorials when it came to special effects. 

Throughout this year, we developed our skills in Blogger, where we would weekly post blogs on our research, panning, and production...At the stat of this year, we had little knowledge, You will be able to see throughout our blogs, our knowledge in using these software has developed, which shows our learning and skill development throughout this course. 

Evaluation Activity Task 1

INHABITANT Analysis

In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (i.e. of film openings)

Inhabitant, a film produced and directed by myself and Luiza Paulielo, develops and challenges forms and conventions of real media products. This is introduced through several ways. Firstly, our film title conforms to the horror genre as "inhabitant" literally suggests a creature of somewhat occupying somewhere or something.

The opening to our film begins straight up with "found footage" this insinuated the plot of the story immediately as we associate found footage to lead to something out of the ordinary, this suggest that the film may be of the Horror or Thriller genre. It flows nicely with jump cuts, this infers that the footage is old.

This is the first significant shot to our opening sequence. This shot is shown effective due to it establishing the location, which is proven to be a home. Here we are shown the character of a young girl, this shows prevalence to the character which means that we will empathize and relate to this specific character. This shot is edited through adobe premier pro where we have cut the format of the video to express more of a found old footage effect. The use of VCR digital font conforms to the stereotypical found footage format. This is effective because it is more realistic and the audience can relate to this. We chose to begin with establishing the concept of "packing" in a home environment, which allows the audience to have a brief idea of what is going on. By colouring the video, we added a slight touch of a video camcorder, by lessening the vibrancy, and adding grain, by altering the RGB we were able to find the perfect tone to portray this effect. It is important to do this so that we enable the audience to immediately realise that this is video footage, despite the use of text in the corner.



Following the first shot, this is the second most important shot to our film. Here we are shown an extreme closeup of a box, to the audience, this wouldn't be a significant part of the film, however we then learn this is the reason and object into leading into the next scene. The "camcorder" lingers on the object by zooming in and out of the object, this identifies its significance, and brings the audience to focus on the box other than the dialogue. This is done to develop mystery and suspicion towards the prop. The close up also suggests how this box may be relevant to what happens next in the film, this foreshadows the events that occur in the attic throughout the film. We also repeated the editing process shown in the first shot to this one, as this is the same location and lighting.




This is our third significant shot of our opening to INHABITANT. This is a blacked out screen with the title of our institution. In this cross cut we decided to include our film institutions credits. We used bold white font to make our film institution stand out more. we also used clockwork effect to make our film institution appear slowly in a distorted way which links in with the tense distorted mood of our film.

This establishing mid shot shows the location of the scene, and also identifies the character behind the camera. The format has changed to widescreen due to it switching from found footage, to the film. This is effective because it shows the audience that this is in fact a movie due to its widescreen nature and still shots. This shot isn't the strongest, as it lacks quality and the image is tilted slightly as we had a problematic tripod. This is something we can grow on in the future. 

This is our 5th significant screen grab. Before this shot we had a blackout shot of our credits reading "in association with" then there is a quick jump cut that takes us back the scene and it is a shot of Ellie pulling down the metal stairs from the attic. We zoomed in the camera so that it is a close up shot of the metal stairs and we did a panning shot where the camera panned down the stairs as she pulled them down. The sharp sound of the metal stairs scraping was recorded and added on top of footage so that the sound was louder and in better quality. As this sound of the stairs scrapping added to the eerie mood. This shot is also effective as we see the characters face looking up into the attic with a curious expression indicating that this is the first time she is entering the attic making the audience wonder what the attic is like.

This is our sixth screen grab of our opening scene. It is  Black out shot that cuts in between the scenes of Ellie going up the attic. It included the title of the institution we have a synergy with. We chose to have the credits shots in between scenes so that they are used to cross cut from one shot to the other. This helped increase the pace of the scene by jumping from the scene to shots of the credits it would leave the audience on the edge of their seat.  We used block white font for our clockwork productions so that they stand out on the black background.

This is our seventh screen grab of our INHABITANT opening. It is a medium establishing shot of the attic the story is based around.In this shot we added a downloaded font with the time and date at the bottom corner so this suggests that filming is being done by hand by the main character at this point suggesting this is a home-made footage. This was effective as we were able to control the time and date and we chose a time in the evening so that it connotes danger as scary things usually happen at night time making this character more vulnerable. In this shot we can see a dim lit attic that is full of clutter such as old cardboard boxes and wood.the far end of the attic how ever is dark and this makes the audience curious as we cant clearly see what is in all of the attic.

This is our eighth screen grab from INHABITANT opening. It is a shot that is taken right after there is a black out in the attic as the lights have mysterious turned off. Our main character then used the torch on her phone as a source f light so that the camera can reveal what's in front of her. We decided to have a shot of the camera focused on a white box in front of the character while everything else in the attics surroundings is in darkness. This is an effective shot as it creates suspense as the light is only shinning on irrelevant objects making the audience fear what else is in the darkness. As the the character in this scene is made to feel vulnerable as she can only see a limited amount of what she shines her torch on. We also increased the time at the bottom corner of the shot to inform the audience that time is passing and that it is getting later into the night which connotes danger we did the by using VCR digital font that conformed to a typical handmade footage.





This is our ninth screen grab from INHABITANT. It is a medium shot that is filmed in the dark attic we used the torch on the characters phone as a source of light as she slowly panned to right with her torch, it created a tense atmosphere and then when the camera revealed a figure in white in the right hand side, we edited this shot so that it would have a glitching effect that causes distortion and indicates that there is bad connection. This editing was very effective in this shot as it makes the audience feel scared as they didn't clearly see what that figure was and it makes them wonder "what was that?" The distortion used in this shot also emphasises the realism of the hand made footage and suggests that the camera could stop filming at any moment leaving the audience tense to find out what happens to this character.

Evaluation Feedback

Eleanor - have a look at charlotteclarkg321.blogspot.com and evepattersong321.blogspot.com to see examples of a grade evaluations.  What questions have they asked of themselves and their work that you can?  Note the level of analysis in their very strong approaches.

 

In your responses to your final production make sure you are clearly referring to choices and outcomes in an evaluative way - make sure you are addressing the areas outlined by me below:

What did you do? Explain a transition or effect you opted for in the editing process.  What effect did you achieve?  Explain how the choice you made was intended to make the target audience think or feel.  How does this show progression in your use of skills? Explain how this is better than your AS production's outcomes by linking to what you did in your portfolio last year.

These choices are really important for you to reflect on to show you fully understand how you have developed your skills - and make sure you evaluate the comments made by the test audience (the class) using specialist terminology.

We do not have long until the deadline, Easter Monday, for this final stage of your portfolio - so make sure you are pushing yourself and achieving the marks your efforts this year deserve!

Class Feedback for our Film and Targets

Targets:

After watching our final film as a class, we were shown feedback, both good and to develop on. From the above video, we are shown that we need to work on. 

Target 1:
Develop the use of stills to create a more tense scenario.

Target 2:
Add more titles. for example, additional director and character names.

We had our media class watch the opening of our film INHABITANT and then give us feedback on it afterwards as it would be very useful since they are the age group of our target audience. Most of the feedback was very positive, they said that they liked the setting of the dark attic as it made them feel claustrophobic and vulnerable and Hannah said that setting our film in a home was a good idea as it made it more "personal" as the audience can "relate" to the setting. Also we got good feedback on the use of our jump cuts, and how we edited the scenes in the attic to create distortion. mos of them agreed that we achieved a successful build up to the climax at the end, we achieved this by having slow paced titles and having our character film insignificant objects in the attic and slowly pan the camera to the right with a torch to create tension. How ever we also got feedback giving us tips on how we could improve our film. Luke said we could include  more still shots in our film to create variety as most of the scene is done by hand to connote home footage. Also Shonam advised us that we should of included more credits informing the audience who stars in this film the producers, Directors and script writers and more, this was one of our faults as we only included a small amount of credits at the end of the scene and they lasted only a few seconds.

Presenting our Films Initial Ideas - G321

The Gallows - Opening scene analysis

This is one of the many movies that influenced the making of "Inhabitant". This influenced the making of our movie as the opening scene begins with camcorder footage, this ties in with ours. This emphasises the realism of something like this happening. They also used distortion and glitches which give the same effect of our film. The time and date is also shown in the corner of the screen, making the audience aware of it being home footage. We also used this effect, the font was VCR which added to the effect.

Inhabitant Bloopers

Editing Part 2

Due to our film being based on a home camcorder footage look, we downloaded effects that created a slight glitch and interference with the camera. This was used towards the part where the "inhabitant|" appears, this connotes the power of a supernatural being interfering with the frequencies of the camcorder. This effect was an "Bad TV Transition" which was then dubbed over with a non copyright glitch effect that emphasised the bad signals, this created tension towards the jump scare, as it emphasised the realism of the situation. We also developed a low battery image was flashed repeatedly across the screen, showing danger and connoting something to happen.

Editing

For our film, we used the software "adobe Premiere Pro cc" this enabled us to get the best editing out of our film. Prior to the making of "Inhabitant" we had little experience in editing. Therefore, we invested in some online editing tutorials. There are several channels dedicated to teaching their knowledge of online editing, specifically in the software we were using.

To achieve the home video footage, we cropped the sequence to a smaller format and added layers of effects to give it the old camcorder look. Some of the features we used were "Arithmetic" and "Noise", noise gave a slight tint of grain to the picture, whereas Arithmetic focused on enhancing the blue, red and green lines, which created an old TV Look.

The Woman in Black Opening Scene

In the opening scene of woman in black, we are first introduced to a close up shot of children playing with tea cups alongside some nondiegetic sound which portrays an eerie and slow feel, giving this scene a sinister mood. The camera then continues to cut to a long shot of the three little girls sitting around playing in this shot we are able to see what costume they are wearing which is old fashioned long dresses and by the looks of their toys being china dolls and old fashioned prams this tells the audience that this story is set in a different era long time ago. The use of the white dresses the girls are wearing connotes innocence and portrays them as the victims in this story. The next significant shot is a close up shot of the girls' facial expressions they are smiling at each other and the duration of this shot is dragged out making their actions seem slow, this causes tension and makes the audience anxious. The camera then cuts to a long shot still following the 180 rule and the camera films them form one side of the room, and at this moment the girls heads turn towards the direction of the camera as if they are looking right at the audience , they facial expressions change to serious and they stare intently at something the audience cant see, this makes the audience curious and connotes mystery. The Three girls then turn their heads in synchrony to look at the window which is made up of three squares. The camera then zooms in to the shot of the window as the music becomes louder highlighting the window as something dangerous. The children  then stand up together looking towards the window, as they stand up the camera then cuts to an extreme close up a girl who drops her tea cup on the floor. This then cuts to the smashing of the cup. This is an effective shot as it shows the audience that the girls are oblivious to their surroundings as they continue to stare into thin air in the direction of the window, this infers that something out of the ordinary will happen. The camera continues filming their feet. As they walk towards the window we see the tea cups smash beneath their feet as they walk over them, this suggests that they are in some sort of trance powered by a supernatural being or spirit and are unaware of what they are doing. The camera then switches to a medium shot on the other side of the window so we see the three girls walking up to window, their facial expressions are shown blank due to being in a trance. The camera cuts back to a long shot filming them from the back as the girls step towards the balcony and open the window. This builds up tension for the audience as it gives a feeling of them about to jump out. The girls then jump out of the window together, the music suddenly hits a high note which emphasises this scene. This is then quickly followed by  nondiegetic sound of a scream in a women's voice along with the dialogue  "my babies". The camera then cuts to an extreme close up of one of the china dolls face, this contrasts the horrific scene having an object like a childrens doll which initially is intended for children and to connote innocence and fun. This scene then ends with an over the shoulder shot of a figure in black veils standing in the corner of the room. The use of the black veil implies mystery and an eerie atmosphere as we can not identify who this is and the colour black suggests danger and fear  and evil, this being an object of fear to the audience, the scene then is faded out.

Horror Makeup Research

In this video the girl gives usher ideas on how to create easy scary costumes that can be done at home. This is very useful as it gives us an idea of what costume we could make for our abnormal Antagonist in our Film. We wanted to pursue a costume similar to the Girl in the Ring. She Is a young girl who was thrown in a Well and rotted away in The well she has out grown black hair that covers her face and she wears long white dress and her skin is made to look very pale and dirty because she never saw sunlight and starved in the well. This look is also quite easy to achieve, Since Luiza is going to be the one being the Antagonist in our Film, she has long dark hair which I can brush over my face and i can tease it to make it look untidy and tangled to get a badly groomed look, this conforms to the female antagonist look. We will also make use of white eye shadow and white baby powder to cover her face to make her skin seem pale making me look dead and Ghost like. We also intend on using a Night dress which is long and white to recreate a dress similar to The ring.

The Antagonist

                         
Most horror movies have their antagonist/supernatural villains as females as it usually goes with the story line of the film. Why do most people choose females over males for the villain? you might ask as women are traditionally  seen as more vulnerable and inferior to men this is usually represented in action movies. However in horror movies women are the best pick for being portrayed as the villain as we usually associate girls to be kind and non aggressive so when they are portrayed as evil ,murdering antagonists in the film it subverts from their stereotype. Which has more of an effect on the audience as they are shocked as to how a "girl" could scare even the toughest of men which emphasises the danger in the movie. Significantly, female villains are often portrayed as having a purpose far beyond senseless violence. Often, they are out for revenge, products of past male violence themselves. Therefore, an examination might well present us with an interesting portrayal of the Return of the Repressed and female victimisation. Female villains are represented in this way like in for example in "women in black" "The ring" "The grudge" "Carrie" and many  more.

INHABITANT - Horror Opening Scene G321

Inhabitant Storyboard Animatic

Actor Interview ( Luiza Paulielo - "Lisa")

Location analysis

This is the area we have intended to film in, it is a modest 2 floor house with a attic which will be a key location for our film. We think this is a suitable location as the opening of our story is based in a household and in a creepy attic with in the household. This location is also convenient for us as it is local as it is also Eleanor's Grandma's which requires no cost which is good for us due to our low budget. This location is also effective in creating a scary atmosphere as  typical modern horror movies are based in households at night for example"Paranormal activity,The conjuring". This way the story seems more personal to our audience as it suggests supernatural events like these can occur anywhere even in your home. 

Movie Title Research

These are the results of our questionnaire researching which movie title best appeals to our audience. As we can see the majority chose Inhabitant as the  most appealing title where as the other film title ideas got less than 50% of votes and one of our film title idea "Chained" didn't even get any! which means we definitely wont consider using that as our film title. 

Looking into a typical Horror Soundtrack...

The soundtrack used in this clip from "The Shining" focuses on portraying a typical horror theme, due to its suspenseful music. The music played consists of string instruments and woodwinds. The use of strings portray a screeching and eerie atmosphere which helps build up the suspense and terror. Cymbals are used when Andy turns the corner to a shock of two twins standing there, despite the hotel being empty. This builds up the tension rapidly. It begins with strings to let the audience know that this scene isn't a mellow calm scene, but one that shows the true horror of the movie. The brass and woodwinds are used when the flashes of the twins appear, this is because it helps develop a tense atmosphere, and utter shock due to their appearance. The instruments mimic Andy's breathing and restlessness. this is an additional portrayal of his emotions and thoughts.

Several horror soundtracks consist of these type of instruments, classical strings really help induce the portrayal of suspense and a build up of tension.

Foley

What is it?

We don't always notice Foley being used in the Media industry, however, in the horror genre, we do. It's the one thing that stands out to us and the one thing that helps emphasise the effect of what is going on in the scene.

How to use Foley:

Most sound effects are made in the most simple ways such as breaking bones which is normally done by using celery. But with blood, you can create this effect in many ways such as praying a water hose in your mouth or spraying water OUT of your mouth. Depending on the scene and genre, you can also adjust the pace of it to make it either seem like blood or a tap.

Font Practice Titles

   inhabitant

ɪnˈhabɪt(ə)nt/

noun

noun: inhabitant; plural noun: inhabitants

1. a person or animal that lives in or occupies a place.

   synonyms:

   resident, occupant, occupier, dweller, settler; More

   • US

     a person who fulfils the residential or legal requirements for being a member of a state or parish.

These are the film titles we intend our film to have "Inhabitant" this word suggests something or some one who lives in a place. This links in with the story plot of our film as there is supernatural being living with in the same household as the couple in this film.This title is effective in making our target audience curious as to who or what is living and where. The font of it will be bold in either black or white so that it catches the readers eye and as these two colors have very different connotations.  This is a practice of different fonts which connote the genre of horror .

Script for "Inhabitant"

Setting: Inside House where the story takes place.
(A young couple are unpacking boxes as they settle into their new house)
scene begins with hand shot footage suggesting it is a home movie as the shot has random movement.  .
Ellie (while moving the camera around) "Wait...how does this work again how do you focus on this camera...oh wait I got it"
cuts to a medium shot of Lisa (Ellie's partner) in a room kneeling in front of boxes.
Ellie"There she is! (laughs) say hi to the camera"
Lisa:(while laughing) "what are you doing with that?"
Ellie"Aww look at you unpacking you look beautiful "(laughs)
Lisa: (while holding up her index finger to the camera) "Day one moving into our new house!"
Ellie " we are moving in finally and just look at her shes so happy !"
Lisa "You know you should really be helping me unpack" (glares at Ellie disapprovingly)
Ellie "yeah yeah" "I'l help later"
Ellie "first lest admire this beauty" Says jokingly (Laughs)while coming closer to Lisa with the camera
Lisa:(picks up Green box by her side and stands up with it while looking directly at the camera smirking) "Babe this box goes up in the attic can you put it up there?" (extends green box towards the camera)
Ellie:"yeah sure.. let me just zoom into your pretty face"(laughs)
Lisa (while laughing pushes hand into camera lenses "Oh Stooooop"
Black out to show home video footage ending and pass of time.
camera cuts to a medium shot done by camera on a tripod to keep the camera steady, medium shot from behind Ellie standing looking up at the latch door of the Attic above her. Ellie picks up a long stick beside her with a hook at the end of it and extends it to the latch door of the attic above her.
Camera cuts to low angled shot from the side of Ellie as she opens the latch door and it swings down.
Ellie extends Stick to the attic and pulls down the metal stairs. (Sound of the layers of the metal stairs scrapping past each other is heard)
camera cuts back to a medium shot from behind Ellie as she grabs the camera beside her and puts the strap of it around her neck indicating that she is going to film the attic. Ellie cautiously climbs up the ladder. Camera shot switches to a hand filmed footage as the shot is quite shaky depending on the movements of the person filming , this suggest to the audience that Ellie is filming the attic by hand with her camera.  Cuts to a panning shot as the camera pans from left to right analyzing the dim lit attic, revealing boxes and blankets and cluttered objects.
Ellie:"so this is our new Attic then ?"
a light switch sound is heard as if some one had just switched the lights off and the light is turned off so that the camera sees pitch black darkness.
Ellie:"woah what? Hey! Lisa?.. what happened?"
Ellie:"SHIT!"
Camera is shaking about as if the character is moving their hands, camera then stills and focuses on a close up shot of Ellie's hand holding her Mobile phone in front of the camera, we see her turn on the torch setting on her mobile indicating to the audience that she is going to use the torch on her Mobile phone as a source of light so that she can see. This small source of light creates tension for the audience as you can only so much with a torch you are only revealed what ever direction you shine the torch to but not all of your surroundings is shown.
Camera then pans up along with the torch that Ellie holds up,
(Non diegetic incidental background music starts to play, the music is accelerating and eerie this creates tension in the scene and adds to the acceleration  indicating to the audience that the music is leading up to a climax making us feel scared for the character as something might happen to her)
Camera slowly pans to the right according to Ellie's movement of the torch.
Ellie:"What the hell?" shinning torch to the wall in the attic where a metal chain is hanging
(Volume of the background music increases and quickens to accelerate the scene)
Camera slowly pans to right where the torch shines on a Strange looking figure dressed in white in the corner of the shot. Shot lasts 1 second in total
Ellie(gasps) (while dropping camera to the floor)
Sound: rapid panting is heard from Ellie as well as tapping sounds on the floor of the attic suggesting that Ellie is feeling the floor for the camera and her torch.
Music accelerates and volume increases suggesting it is leading up to the climax quickly causing tension and suspense.
Ellie:"shit, shit!!"
Camera is picked up and quickly pans up along with the torch in a low angled shot of The strange figure suddenly pouncing at the camera lens. to create the "pop up" effect.
Sound:background music reaches the peek of its climax as the figure pops up in the shot to cause a greater impact.
Ellie:screams
Black out
Text along side the screen reads "Inhabitant" in BOLD font.

Institution Research

Institution in Film are companies that make or are associated with a production.

Parmount Pictures:

Paramount was founded in 1912. From then on, they proceeded to operate a film studio in Hollywood; "From the advent of motion pictures, to the emergence of television and onward through the digital revolution". Paramount stands as the longest running film studio, over a century old.

Paramount pictures have worked along with some of the biggest selling movies and televised programmes, along with several well known popular titles...

Film 4:

Film 4 is channel 4's television feature film division. They develop and co-finance channel 4 productions in film. They are a British company, who have been associated with some of the countries highest grossing films, such as 12 years a Slave, Suffragette, and Carol.  

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