Evaluation Activity 2-Will Smith

How does your media product represent particular social groups?





The protagonist Will is murdered  just like Paul Allen for the Christian Bale film American psycho. They are both victims in a murder. They both have scared and confused expressions on their faces. 

Both are males in between the age regions of 15-30 and are well dressed. Will is wearing a smart parka coat while Christian Bale is wearing a shirt and tie. Both have a scared expression on their face.

Evaluation Activity 3-Will Smith

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









Our production company is mainly Graveside Productions. We chose this new film company as they were British and brought in positive input on how to improve the film.
Lionsgate have produced notable horror films. Lionsgate target the same audiences we are looking for in our film. Films like American Psycho, The Saw Films and The Cabin in the Woods are all movies we have taken inspiration from to the create the Woods By The Lake. Lionsgate have a strong budget and are notorious within the horror film community. Lionsgate can therefore distribute our film using their various links and using their budget. We are looking for a similar expenditure as what The Cabin in the Woods were allowed. We will be looking to double our budget to make roughly at least $60 million in box office which we think is a reasonable aim with Lionsgate being our distributors.

The Woods By The Lake Full Opening-Will Smith

Soundtrack Music-Will Smith

The music chosen for our films came from the website incompetech.com. Incompetech had a wide range of non-copyrighted free music and our group could therefore choose from different categories, in particular the 'horror' category.

The song we chose was called 'Darkest Child var A' by Kevin Macleod. We chose it as it built up tension for the opening sequence of the film and to the murder. We slowed down the audio speed from 100% to 85%, creating extra suspense.

We then used 'Gloom Horizon' towards the end of the opening as the song represents the mans footsteps creeping up on his victim.

Institution Research-Will Smith

As a group we unanimously decided that Lionsgate Films would be the suitable distributors for our film, The Woods by the Lake.

Lionsgate have distributed films such as:

The Twilight Saga

The Hunger Games

The Day After Tomorrow

The Cabin in the Woods, and the seven-part ‘Saw Franchise’ are particular reasons why we chose Lionsgate to be our film distributors. We took inspiration from these films to create The Woods by the Lake. This is the main reason for our decision in choosing Lionsgate.

Script-Will Smith

Although we had a scrip we allowed for a lot of improvisation. I believe this helps the actors, in the introduction, to change any unnatural things their characters might say etc. 

SCRIPT

Three boys walk into the woods, with a couple of different angle shots showing this. They appear to be talking and having a laugh.
A POV shot of the antagonist as he stalks the boys.
The three are sat down on a log discussing, and then Will says he needs the toilet.

WILL: (Improvisation, talking about football)
WILL:I need a piss.

Walks away and takes his scarf of throwing it to Matty.
While urinating the antagonist creeps behind him and Will hears leaves crackling.

WILL:What?

The antagonist taps Will on the back

WILL:Mate I'm doing a piss.

Turns around with an expression of shock and horror.

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There wasn't much speaking in the early parts of this film. A lot of improvisation was allowed to make the script and dialogue feel more natural to the viewers.

Time Management Schedule-Will Smith

For our film, time management was very important as during filming it was getting dark very quickly, this was due to us being in winter-time. An obstacle we had to overcome was the darkness and with limited days and times our group were available for filming, this made it even more difficult. By stretching filming over a two day span from after-school to the afternoon, before it got dark (from 2-4). We didn't film all the scenes in a particular chronological order. We started off with filming our establishing shots of the woods and our three main characters walking into it. This was a simple shot to film which we got in one take. A more challenging shot is the 'point of view' shot that our antagonist in the story, Kai Bingham had to film. He had to hold the camera level to his eyes and breath heavily while stalking the friends in the woods. This proved challenging as it took acting skill.