Question 5

My film poster consisted of a gloomy hand reaching upwards, the hand was covered in dirt with a section of the dirt shaped into a love heart. These posters would be shown in places which would attract my target audience, so in a college or place where young adults socialise so maybe a bowling alley. I could also show my poster on a website what young adults use, for example. Lots of young adults use many social networking these days, so a page featuring my poster will surely attract my audience. These would be appropriate because they will always be seen by my target audience which was the plan. The heart inside the hand can show the romantic side of the film, but at second glance you can say it’s not a full heart and is covered in dirt. This could show that the story is about someone who wears their heart on the their sleeve and often has it trod on. The font of ‘disconnect’ is quite untidy and could be handwritten, this could go with the hand in the poster. Hands tend to write stuff, so having a handwriting font that looked untidy matched the hand. This gives house style and makes the poster look more realistic.
The black and whiteness of the poster also gives the hint that my film is going to be in black and white. It also gives the idea that the film maybe slightly disturbed as the contrast of black and white normally gives us that idea, it also can mean two things coming together, in our film that’s using two different genres to our advantage


At first, we was in a group of three. Me, Karis & Shanell and we instantly thought around the word or theme of losing someone or something, so we thought of many ways we could show this in our group. We thought of a character that we would expect to see in a film like this, foe example someone with dark hair. Has a gloomy look about them and looks slightly suspicious. So we made our character like this, unfortunately our first actor dropped out and we had to use a secondary actor that didn’t match the criteria as much as we wanted, but it still worked out fine. A convention of my genre was sudden tension. We created sudden tension when we used shots such as the mirror shots that gradually got closer and closer. This makes the audience want to watch more because they want to see the real side of our character and what he is like on the inside.
One effect we used which would attract out target audience was Ghosting. This is where the characters in the shot look like they have a counterpart ghost following them around. This adds tension because its eirey and looks disturbing which is a common feature in a film such as mine.
We wanted to make our audience feel sympathy for the character, so we often showed him isolated. For example a shot of him standing in a corridor on his own about to look into the classroom made us feel sorry for him because it was clear he didn’t want to enter the classroom for a reason you don’t find out till the end of the scene. Isolation is a theme that attracts my target audience, in such films as ‘Frozen’  by Adam Green. This film helped me see how I could show my character looking isolated.
Even though we was set to not have dialogue, we wouldn’t of used it anyway. We wanted to show him being isolated and being alone by not communicating with anyone unless it was via his mobile phone. This gives the audience the impression he hasn’t got any friends, and normally psychological thrillers contain a character that cannot keep a friendship and has something mentally wrong in them. The props we used in the living room/Ashley’s sleeping space showed that there was something wrong in where he lived, he was living in garbage amongst everyday objects such as a lamp and school clothes.
We started our opening with a glance of the mirror, this shows the audience it is something that’s going to be important in the rest of the film. This is a convention because there is normally a red herring in films like this that give away certain aspects of a film. The full first shot also shows the environment he lives in, which makes it absolutely clear that something is wrong in his social life for him to be sleeping on the sofa, this attracts the audience because they ask questions like, why is living on a sofa?
we used the shot of him walking to school on his own to also add to the idea of him being alone, normally a child of 13 years of age would walk with a friend of a parent to make sure they arrive safely, but Ashley didn’t which adds to the feeling of being alone.