Coding Schedule: Rec.

1.What time of the day is it during the first 2minutes of the film? It was during the Night.
2.Where is the setting, inside or outside and what location? It was set inside, in a fire station.
3.What genre is the setting? (Date, Year - Victorian) It is present tense.
4.How many characters are there? There are 2 characters.
5.What social classes are used? Middle class is used as there is a fireman and a TV presenter.
6.What is the age group of the characters? They are adults.
7.What gender types are used? Female and Male are used.
8.What background sounds are there? There is a fire engine sound in the background.
9.What lighting techniques are used? There are general building lights.
10.What editing techniques are used? There are no editing techniques used.
11.What forms of composition are there? (Framing, Deep Focus, Shallow Focus, Focus Pull). Shallow focus and focus pull is used.
12.What type of camera angles is used? (High, Low angle) Low angle is used.
13.What type of Camera shots is used? (Master, Close-Up, Two Shot, Over the Shoulder)? The two-shot is used.
14.What type of Camera movement is used? (Pan, Track, Crane, Hand-Held) Hand-held camera movement is used.
15.What types of costumes are used? The fireman outfit and everyday clothes are used.
16.What type of makeup is used? Natural face make-up is used.
17.What type of dialogue is used? Spanish talking is used.
18.How much dialogue is used? Dialogue is used all the through the first 2 minutes of the film.
19.What forms of props are used? Fireman outfit is used.
20.What events occur during the 2minutes of the introduction? Interviewing the firemen occurs during the first 2 minutes of the film.
21.How long does the title last? There are no titles in the first 2 minutes of the film.

Coding Schedule: Resident Evil

1.What time of the day is it during the first 2minutes of the film? There is no set time of the day it is unkown.
2.Where is the setting, inside or outside and what location? Inside a science lab.
3.What genre is the setting? (Date, Year - Victorian) It is set in the future.
4.How many characters are there? There is on emain charcter shown.
5.What social classes are used? There is middle/ high class used as he is a scientist.
6.What is the age group of the characters?  The age of the scientist is unkown but possibly middle aged.
7.What gender types are used? Male.
8.What background sounds are there? There is the narator talking and a background track.
9.What lighting techniques are used? there is lighting from the ceiling.
10.What editing techniques are used? Fading is used.
11.What forms of composition are there? Framing and deep focus are used.
12.What type of camera angles is used? There was no set angle used.
13.What type of Camera shots is used? There is master shot used on the scientist.
14.What type of Camera movement is used? Zoomin gin on the scientist.
15.What types of costumes are used? A scientist chemical costume is used.
16.What type of makeup is used? you do not see the scientist face so no makeup is used.
17.What type of dialogue is used? The narrator's voice.
18.How much dialogue is used? Dialogue is used for 1 minute and a half during the first 2 minutes.
19.What forms of props are used? scientist/ chemical suit and test tubes.
20.What events occur during the 2minutes of the introduction? title and a scientist working with chemicals.
21.How long does the title last? The title lasts for 1 minute 20 seconds.

Coding Schedule: Doomsday.

1.What time of the day is it during the first 2minutes of the film? It is set during the night.
2.Where is the setting, inside or outside and what location? Outside, on a road.
3.What genre is the setting? (Date, Year - Victorian) in the future, 2033.
4.How many characters are there? 2 Main characters, little girl and mother.
5.What social classes are used? Lower to Middle class is used.
6.What is the age group of the characters? Young adults and children.
7.What gender types are used? Female and Male.
8.What background sounds are there? There is the narrator talking, screaming, you can also hear a chresendo of the background music, car horns, helicopter car brakes.
9.What lighting techniques are used? There are spotlights from the helicopter highlighting the road and certain people.
10.What editing techniques are used? There is fading, and black and white title screen,slide transctions.
11.What forms of composition are there? There is framing on the little girl through the cars door. Shallow focus, and focus pull.
12.What type of camera angles is used? High angle and Low angle is used.
13.What type of Camera shots is used? The master shot is used and the two shot is used on the woman and child.
14.What type of Camera movement is used? Track and crane is used.
15.What types of costumes are used? Army outfits and zombie costumes and used as well as casual clothes and toxic suits.
16.What type of makeup is used? zombie makeup and makeup to make eyes look tired.
17.What type of dialogue is used? Screaming yelling and narrator talking.
18.How much dialogue is used? Constant talking from narrator.
19.What forms of props are used? Cars, Guns, Army trucks.
20.What events occur during the 2minutes of the introduction? Road block, title.
21.How long does the title last? 1 minute 15 seconds.

Coding Schedule: Doom.

1.What time of the day is it during the first 2minutes of the film (Morning, Day, Evening, Night) Neither night or or day as it is set in space. 
2.Where is the setting, inside or outside and what location? It is set in a space station on mars.
3.What genre is the setting? (Date, Year - Victorian) It is set in the future.
4.How many characters are there? There are 4 charcters.
5.What social classes are used? Middle to High classes are used - subject specialists.
6.What is the age group of the characters? There are adults and an older adult.
7.What gender types are used? Male and Female's are used.
8.What background sounds are there? Narrator is telling the story, There are monster/ alien noises.
9.What lighting techniques are used? Spot light on character's feet as they are running.
10.What editing techniques are used? Slow motion i used as the charcter's get dragged away.
11.What forms of composition are there? Framing is used on the old man's face as he closes the stels doors.
12.What type of camera angles is used? Low angle is used on the characters as they are running.
13.What type of Camera shots is used? It uses over the shoulder shot as the old man is looking at the woman running towards him.
14.What type of Camera movement is used? Track and pan is used to follow the characters as they are running.
15.What types of costumes are used? Everyday outfits are used as well as a science lab coat on the old man.
16.What type of makeup is used? A pale face is used on the old man to show fear.
17.What type of dialogue is used? Screaming and Shouting is used by the characters.
18.How much dialogue is used? Dialogue is used throughout the first 2 minutes of the film.
19.What forms of props are used? A science lab coat is used.
20.What events occur during the 2minutes of the introduction? Screaming, running and the woman looses her arm.
21.How long does the title last? The title last for 1 minute.

Coding schedule.

The coding schedule signisfies the main information of the film introduction; what happens, how long it lasts, what type of setting it has, what gender types are used along with other information. The use of this information is it enables us to see what makes a good introduction to a zombie film, therefore by answering these questions for four different types of zombie films it allows us to see what we need to put in our introduction in order for it to match the zombie criteria and to make the viewers understand what type of film it is going to be just by watching the first 2 minutes of the introduction.

1.What time of the day is it during the first 2minutes of the film?
2.Where is the setting, inside or outside and what location?
3.What genre is the setting? (Date, Year - Victorian)
4.How many characters are there?
5.What social classes are used?
6.What is the age group of the characters?
7.What gender types are used?
8.What background sounds are there?
9.What lighting techniques are used?
10.What editing techniques are used?
11.What forms of composition are there? (Framing, Deep Focus, Shallow Focus, Focus Pull).
12.What type of camera angles is used? (High, Low angle)
13.What type of Camera shots is used? (Master, Close-Up, Two Shot, Over the Shoulder)?
14.What type of Camera movement is used? (Pan, Track, Crane, Hand-Held)
15.What types of costumes are used?
16.What type of makeup is used?
17.What type of dialogue is used?
18.How much dialogue is used?
19.What forms of props are used?
20.What events occur during the 2minutes of the introduction?
21.How long does the title last?

Introduction Questionaire.

The questionaire enables us to get information on what people think makes a good introduction to a zombie film. This allows us to add these details into our introduction so it meets the expectations of a zombie introduction. We asked a series of questions that we believed would allow us to gain relevant information that would make our introduction appeal to the target audience. It also allowed us to find information we had not thought of putting into our introduction and then decided whether or not it would fit into our introduction and possibly make it better.

We are creating an introduction to a horror film, based around a zombie plague that slowly devours a small town in the UK. Within this introduction we are going to be using various camera shots and angles. The Duration of this clip will be 2minutes long and will always obey the 180-degree rule.

1-       Do you like the theme of a Zombie breakout as a Horror movie?

2-       With a large selection of other Zombie movies out there, do you think that ours will be as successful as them?

3-      Do you like the title of the film and do you think it is relevant?

4-      Is the location good for the introduction?

5-      Is the overall idea of the film good? Would the introduction make you want to see it?

6-      Do the characters fit the idea of the film?

7-      Is the reason behind the infection endearing?

8-      What age rating would you rate the film?

9-      Would you recommend this film to a friend?

10-   Would you prefer a Zombie Horror or a Monster?

Evaluation of questionaire.

By evaluating our questionaires it enabled us to gain the information and see how many people thought the same thing (if any) this allowed us to see what people thought about our ideas and if they believed they would work or not.

After asking 10 different people and giving them our questionnaire, we collected all of the data and created a series of tables to display our results. We asked equal amount of boys and girls for our findings to make the data fair.

The table above shows the results to the question, ‘Do you like the theme of a Zombie breakout as a Horror movie’ from the table we now know that 9/10 people like the theme of a Zombie breakout, however a zombie breakout is a common horror and maybe found as being too ‘cliché’ or obvious.  

The table above shows the results to the question, ‘With a large selection of other Zombie movies out there do you think that ours will be as successful’ from the table we know that the majority of people think that our introduction will be successful, however there is a small minority that don’t think it will be successful or are not sure it will be. This shows that people may think there are too many zombie movies out or are not interested in zombie movies.

The table shows the results to the question, ‘Do you like the title of the film and do you think it is relevant’ from the table we can see that the majority of people think that the title of the film is good and relevant to our theme of a zombie horror. The table also shows that some people are not sure if the title will suit the ‘zombie breakout’ theme.

The table above show the results to the question, ‘Is the location good for the introduction’ from the table we can see that the majority of the people we asked, thought that the location and setting is good for the introduction. Our target audience filled in our questionnaire so we know that our target audience will enjoy the film and think the location is ideal.

The table above shows the results of the question, ‘Is the overall idea of the film good? Would the introduction make you want to see it?’ from the table we know all the people like the idea of the film and would like to see it. With the full 10 people liking the film idea’s it shows people would be interested to see the introduction to the film, therefore the film could be successful and acquire to our target audience.

On this table it shows the results of ‘Do the characters fir the idea of the film’ from the results we know that the majority of people think that the characters would fit the idea of the film. With characters being the most important part in the film, the participants thought that our characters and roles fit the film well and would appeal to the audience well.

The table above shows the results to the question, ‘is the reason behind the infection endearing’ from the results we know that more people found the reason endearing than people who don’t.  After the importance of the characters, the story line comes straight after. From this question we now know that the audience like the ideas for the introduction and therefore it entices them to want to see the film.

The table above shows the results to the question,, ‘What age rating would you rate the film’ from the results we know that more people said it would be a 15 rating than an 18. After the audience read the brief explanation, we asked them to rate our film and give it an age rating they’d expect it to be. From the results it shows us what age people think the film will suit therefore indicates us what clip’s we can put in the introduction to suit that age rating.

The table above shows the results to the question, ‘Would you recommend this film to a friend’ from the results I can see that more people said they would recommend this film to a friend than people who said they wouldn’t. With our target audience for the introduction being people who enjoy zombie horrors, we asked them if they would recommend the film to friends whether they like zombie horrors or not. Therefore the results suggest that most people would recommend this introduction of a film to a friend after watching it.

The table above shows the results to the question, ‘Would u prefer a zombie horror or a monster horror’ from the table we can see that more people said they prefer a zombie horror than a monster horror. However one person said neither, possibly showing they do not like horror films.  From the results of this question it gives us an idea whether to have a zombie as the main theme or a monster, overall the zombie horror idea has more potential.

Defile idea.

The idea allows us to give a background idea of the introduction, it enables other people to decide whether they believe our idea will work and show through our clips or whether the idea will not work.

The major plot line is a viral infection planted in the water supplies by terrorists. The virus has spread in the water supply and reached the public houses. In the first 24 hours the virus had major effects, disabling vital organs which killed people who got infected.... or so they thought.
This post was created by both me and Tom Berry.

Introduction

Hello, my name is Natasha Russell im currently doiny my A-levels in Media, English Literature, English Language and geography.
I am starting my Media coursework where we are doing a horror based introduction to a fiction film. I am working with tom to make ideas for the introduction but we are going to add other people in the introduction to make the clip.
We are going to use editing and camera techniques we have learned in lesson, for example, match on action, shot reverse shot and 180-degree rule.