Progression Plan.

What needs to be done?	By when?	How to achieve, how long will it take?
Research and Planning	16th December	Keep posting and adding too it – research different theorists ect.
All draft images and filming	23rd December	Couple of full on intense days, travelling about, and trying out different things.
Actualimages and filming	6th January	Couple of full on intense days, travelling about, and trying out different things – acting upon the drafts and making them better.
Editing finished	13th January	Couple of full on intense days, editing the clips and adding them together – still updating the blog.
Ancillary task magazine	20th January	Do the research and then draft and hopefully create actual one.
Ancillary task Film poster	27th January	Do the research and then draft and hopefully create actual one.
Evaluation	13th February	Write and finish evaluation.
Any improvements	Deadline	Leaving myself time to do improvements to get the best mark possible- use all time possible up until the final deadline.

Horror Genre Questionnaire Results.

Further information given by questionnaire:

Which films would you consider scary?

• 100 feet
• The Strangers
• Pulse
• Unborn
• The Orphanage
• Scream
• Dream House
• Insideious
• Triangle
• Red State

What would improve the film, with a bigger budget?

• Better sound effects
• Better effects
• Better quality
• Better camera work
• Better acting
• Better writers

What locations are best for horror films?

• Everyday places
• Public Toilets
• Walking along roads

What Props/ Costumes/ Characters make a horror film?

• Darkness
• Young Children
• Demons
• Aliens
• Masked people
• People in fancy dress - not knowing who they are.
• Knives
• Good make up - effect

Horror Comedy?

 One of the best examples of a horror comedy would be the 'Scary movie' films. Although some  may argue that they don't count as a horror at all because they are in fact parody's of several other action or horror films all put into one film. For example in the very first scary movie film, the story includes parody's from Scream, I know what you did last summer, The Sixth Sense, The Usual Suspects and The Matrix.



An example of how they made a series of serious  story lines comical is the scene you see in the  trailer were you see a character throwing many  objects down stairs towards an enemy. In a serious  version of a horror film, the character would not  push her nan down the stairs to protect herself.

Annabel and I did have the idea of creating a horror comedy trailer, but we would be to very specific when it came to our target audiences sense of humour. There also is not a lot of horror comedy's in the film business that we can use information and inspiration from.

London Media Conference.

A handful of Ryde academy students had the chance to visit London university of education for a Media conference. It was deeply inspiring and gave a huge amount of information regarding different parts of the media. From the chat with media degree students to the amazing talk from the famous director Garth Jennings.

There was plenty of useful advice for our exam and coursework, which was the perfect timing as when we visited we were at the beginning of our research and planning for our A2 project.

Pete Fraser showed a few examples of what do to and what not to do during your filming. Including how to solve problems if they go wrong, for example if your dancers don't turn up. We were given tips on small things you can do to improve your grade. He pointed out a few when showing some weak and some more stronger pieces of work, we got to vote for what grade they were given and some were very different to what you would have thought. It just goes to show that our grade won't improve if we like the our piece of work more, you really have to keep focused on your target audience.
The picture above was taken with television news presenter Babita Sharma who along with Paul Lewis spoke about their career in television, I found both sides very interesting.


During the lunch break we had the choice to stay put and listen to a talk from current media studies students from universitys each in different years. They all took a different course in Media so it was interesting to hear about all types of Study included in the Media.