Prop List

When recording the scenes in school we will be using everyday items, this will consist of things like laptops, phones, headphones, books. This will let the audience see that they are normal people and for the audience to also be able to relate to the lifestyle of the characters in the trailer. When the characters are in school you will be able to see that they have a specific role in that school and also that a lot of the pupils are dependent on technology,

Technology will be a key part of our film so it is a significant prop in our trailer

When recording in Nathans room and outside of the school environment, the characters will be using similar props as they would be in school like phones, headphones but as well as different items like cigarettes, lighters and some may be in cars, this shows there everyday lifestyle and how they act outside of school.

Nathans bedroom will be shown in our trailer, when recording this technology will be scene throughout the clip including computer/laptops, games console and TV. There will be gaming posters on the wall as well. This is to show Nathans enclosed lifestyle and how he just lives in his room playing video games, this will let the audience see that he is not a popular boy and alienates himself from others by living in and being obsessed with his virtual world. 

When Nathan is killing off his victims the props will be things like Knives, baseball bats, rope and the mask he will be wearing, the mask will be important as it is hiding his identity, and giving him a more sinister look. This will make him seem like more of a serial killer and not like a 'normal' person.

Location List

A list of locations we will use to film our scenes that will feature in our trailer.

House - To film Nathan in his own home, to see what he is like when he his by him self and not being watched by bullies. It will mainly be in Nathans room that we will be filming but we will sometimes venture out. This is where Nathan will start his social media terror. It will also be where he is playing his violent video games that give him ideas on how to kill his school bullies

Park - some of the murder scenes will be taking place in the park. We will just be filming the build up to the murder as we don't want to give away any spoilers. The park is a spooky environment witch suits our horror genre very well. If the lighting is right in the park, it will be the perfect location for our murder scenes.

School - The place Nathan will be filmed getting bullied by Scott. This is quite a stereotypical place to film bullying and that is why it is a great place to film it. The audience will expect bullying to take place at a school, the surprise will be how Nathan turns from being a nice young school boy to a serial killer.

Inside Of Car - This is how Nathan gets around. He is seen a lot in his car listening to strange mysterious music.

Audience Feedback- Plot

These are videos of me asking my ideal audience what they thought about the plot I have created. I did this so I had a better understand on what to do and what not to do when producing the finishing plot to create my film. I found this very useful as they gave their honest opinion on the film, which allowed me to rethink different aspects of the film such as how the news of Rob's death should be given to Elle and how the characters should be portrayed.

Key Scenes

The first key scene will be Nathan being bullied by a bully called Scott and all of Scott’s posse.

This emphasizes the fact that Nathan gets bullied on a daily basis. This scene will take place at a

school in the daytime. This scene shows us how much of an outcast Nathan is and how much

everyone looks up to Scott. It gives the audience the comparison of Scott and Nathan. Scott’s

group of friends is immediately seen as the antagonist. At this stage the audience will feel sorry

for Nathan as they don’t know his true character yet. We get to know the characters.

Nathan discovers social media and realises he can hide behind a screen to threaten his bullies. He

realises he can do this on an anonymous account. This part of the film will show his obsession with

destruction and killing, which shows a darker side of Nathan leaving the audience to question him.

In this scene Nathan starts to terrorise his bullies through social networking, this will show his

metal collapse and he is so caught up in his mission to get back at the people who are ruining his

life. These scenes will be filmed in Nathans bedroom, this will let the audience see how he hide

behind the screen when trying to attack them, we want the audience to sympathize with Nathan

in his situation but also be confused and be put off him slightly.

As his terrorising goes on he decides he must kill all of his enemies, making a kill list from there

accounts on social media, finding out were they will be and where they live he hunts them down

and kills them all. Using various places like parks, school and their own homes he finds them

murdering them in gruesome ways.

After killing his bullies off one by one, Nathan is followed home by the police. Nathan starts to

panic. This leads Nathan to killing himself in front of his terrified mother. The sirens will be

flashing through the window as Nathan kills himself which will add to the mood of the room at the

time. The screen will finish with a black screen. This will leave the audience feeling scared when

they walk out of the cinema meaning they will tell their friends about how scary the film was

which will make their friends want to see it aswell.

Audience Theorists

Utopian Solutions

Dyers utopian theory, refers to the way in which Dyers see’s audiences consuming media products with a clear set of pleasures to draw from it, and the use of this media consumption is a form of escapism from audiences real lives. Dyers view is that reality is negative and unfullfilling, whilst the mediated world becomes a hopeful one in which to escape.
Dyer suggested that there were 3 reasons why audiences choose to consume media; social tension, inadequacy or absence, and these 3 reasons are are generated by reality. The consumption of media / entertainment, provides audiences with a ‘utopian solution.’ In his theory, this is how he believes entertainment works, because it responds to a need generated by society.

Below is a utopian solution chart, illustrating what Dyer would view as the tension and solution.

The Hypodermic Needle Model

Dating from the 1920s, this theory was the first attempt to explain how mass audiences might react to mass media. It is a crude model (see picture) and suggests that audiences passively receive the information transmitted via a media text, without any attempt on their part to process or challenge the data. Don't forget that this theory was developed in an age when the mass media were still fairly new - radio and cinema were less than two decades old. Governments had just discovered the power of advertising to communicate a message, and produced propaganda to try and sway populaces to their way of thinking. This was particularly rampant in Europe during the First World War and its aftermath.

Basically, the Hypodermic Needle Model suggests that the information from a text passes into the mass consciouness of the audience unmediated, ie the experience, intelligence and opinion of an individual are not relevant to the reception of the text. This theory suggests that, as an audience, we are manipulated by the creators of media texts, and that our behaviour and thinking might be easily changed by media-makers. It assumes that the audience are passive and heterogenous. This theory is still quoted during moral panics by parents, politicians and pressure groups, and is used to explain why certain groups in society should not be exposed to certain media texts (comics in the 1950s, rap music in the 2000s), for fear that they will watch or read sexual or violent behaviour and will then act them out themselves.

 Uses & Gratifications

During the 1960s, as the first generation to grow up with television became grown ups, it became increasingly apparent to media theorists that audiences made choices about what they did when consuming texts. Far from being a passive mass, audiences were made up of individuals who actively consumed texts for different reasons and in different ways. In 1948 Lasswell suggested that media texts had the following functions for individuals and society:

• surveillance
• correlation
• entertainment
• cultural transmission

Researchers Blulmer and Katz expanded this theory and published their own in 1974, stating that individuals might choose and use a text for the following purposes (ie uses and gratifications):

• Diversion - escape from everyday problems and routine.
• Personal Relationships - using the media for emotional and other interaction, eg) substituting soap operas for family life
• Personal Identity - finding yourself reflected in texts, learning behaviour and values from texts
• Surveillance - Information which could be useful for living eg) weather reports, financial news, holiday bargains

David Buckingham

His theory was categorized in a social process like Gunther's theory. His findings offer evidence that children progressively acquire a discourse of genre.His research focuses on children's and young people interactions with electronic media and media education.
Buckingham related the development of genre to the complex issue of ever changing identity. He argues "genre is not simply given by the culture it is a constant process of negotiation and change."Buckingham cautions that it would be a mistake to regard the dates as a demo station of audiences pre-existing cognate understanding since he stresses that categorization is a social process as well as a cognitive one.

Narrative Theorists

These are the four narrative theorist, Todorov, Propp, Levi-Strauss and Barthes. They all had different theories about films that and the narrative. Each one of all then apply to every film in one way or another.

Continuity Editing- final project

Story board- Continuity Editing

Media Studies- Plot

Initial Film Names

• Commota (Shook)
• Formidulosus (Scary)
• Fubar (Messed Up)
• Devestatum (Wasted)
• SlashTag
• Media Murderer
• Social Slasher

Initial Plot Ideas

Idea 1) - 5 Characters - 3 Male - 2 Female - 5 friends round someones house, having fun, drinking and taking drugs. Paranormal events start to occur. They don't know if its the drugs hitting them or if is real. Most likely to be filmed from a POV angle. This means the audience feel as if they are there. (Paranormal Horror)

Idea 2) - 5 main characters - Big party of people - After a spooky Halloween party, 5 of the people from the party go back to a mates house. They have a few drinks and are having fun, then one of the 5 gets an Ouigi bored out of the closet. Things start to go seriously wrong. (Paranormal Horror)

Idea 3) -Two Main characters - lots of background characters - A boy who sees his home as his only safe place from all the bully's at his school gets a social media account. This means he gets bullied even when he is at home. Boy then goes to seek revenge on people who have bullied him all these years. (Slasher Horror)

Idea 4) - 6 Characters - 3 Female - 3 Male - 6 friends go camping in a big forest in Canada. The friends decide to go for a walk in the forest, They get split up and one of them gets bitten by a spider. This leaves them possessed and goes after there friends 1 by 1.

Character Profile- Videos

Film Treatment

Treatment for Movie Trailer Production
Production Company Name: WWP Studios	Production Team Members Josh Jack Max
Title of Production: Ideas SlashTag Social Slasher Media Murderer	Genre: Slasher Horror
Synopsis Nathan goes to school everyday knowing he’s going to be bullied by Scott. He thinks he can get away from it all when he gets home from school but then turns to social networking. Turning violent, he decides to end all of the bullying.
Detailed Narrative Outline Nathan was an average, quiet, lonely student. Nathan gets bullied everyday by people at school. Being a quiet and strange child, he had no social life and spent most of his time playing video games, especially enjoying the killing side of games. The constant bullying at school drives Nathan to the limit causing him to want to kill his classmates. discovering social media, he uses certain websites to hide behind his computer terrorizing his bullies, threatening them and their families, the account is unknown and nobody knows who is doing this. Creating a death list, he uses the networks torment them and then eventually hunt them down and kill them. Killing off the main bullies, he them becomes obsessed with killing people and then turns to kill family. this doesn't turn out to be as easy as he first thought, his family find out its him and they try to do something about it. but they find out too late and before they know it, they've been killed.
Intentional Target Audience 15-25 Social Economic groups: C1, C2, D, E	Key Characters Nathan Scott
Mise-en-Scene Lighting Natural daylight and lights at night Costumes Scott: Snapback, Jeans, Parker Coat, Trainers Nathan: Glasses, Shirt, Cargo Trousers, Smart shoes, Greasy Hair	Locations School Garden Park Bedroom House

Character Profiles

Representation- Paranormal Activity

Plot

Nathan was an average, quiet,lonely student. Nathan gets bullied everyday by people at school. Being a quiet and strange child, he had no social life and spent most of his time playing video games, especially enjoying the killing side of games.

The constant bullying at school drives Nathan to the limit causing him to want to kill his classmates. discovering social media, he uses certain websites to hide behind his computer terrorizing his bullies, threatening them and their families,the account is unknown and nobody knows who is doing this. Creating a death list,he uses the networks torment them and then eventually hunt them down and kill them.

Killing off the main bullies, he them becomes obsessed with killing people and then turns to kill family. this doesn't turn out to be as easy as he first thought, his family find out its him and they try to do something about it. but they find out too late and before they know it, they've been killed.

Character Profiles