Evaluation

My film opening is quite conventional of normal zombie movies with the infection show at the very start which is quite stereo typical like 'Dawn of the dead' or '28 days later' and '28 weeks later'. Also the the riot scenes are quite like the opening of 'Dawn of the dead' however my credits challenge it because they play whilst Kyle is being chased. It sets up the characters personality's; lazy Kyle (ignoring the phone) and emotional Hannah (drinks potion because no answer). This is quite typical like the start of 'Step brothers'. You can see the change which the film is set on (her becoming a zombie) and you can tell when he meets a zombie will be the disequilibrium.

My opening does have a lot of stereotypical social groups within, this makes the film more believable and easier to follow. Firstly there is the lazy slob Kyle which you expect from a typical teenager. Then there is Hannah who is a emotional teenage girl which is yet again seen as the stereotype because of their hormones.

I think mostly the film would be distributed by the Internet because you rarely see horrors in papers or banners because to sell a horror the audience need to see that its scary and the Internet will provide clips and details. Secondly would be TV, again because short clips will lure in the audience with the genre. The production companies would also probably distribute it because the major distributors are Disney, Time Warner and News Corp, but these would be more likely to distribute family or light action films. Because there is a bigger market there.

I believe there is a large audience for horror-comedy, for instance anyone over the age of 15 because the older generation like horrors and the younger generation like comedies. The only fall back is that a lot more men prefer this genre than woman so the main audience in my opinion would be men from the age 15- 24 (the most popular cinema seeing audience).

To get my comments i uploaded my opening to YouTube and then sent a link to facebook where people could watch the video and comment or 'Like'. I many have viewed the video including other media students and people who just rate a film on how it looks. This was to get a variety of feedback.
I have learnt from creating this film opening that the technology side of a film process is by far the biggest part, from creating and filming to distributing and editing. The technology's i used was the Sony camera i recorded on, the Apple iMac where i used final cut pro to do the special effects and iMovie and finally the laptop where i used it to upload the video to YouTube.

I think that i have progressed a lot form my preliminary task, like i took inconsideration the locations needed to be suitable and i made the sounds a lot more clearer. Another big difference is that this has plot which is understandable. Also the characters are displayed better which will help the audience.
Since then i have realised where to put more suitable effects in and how to add in sound with out it sounding like it's just been added for the sake of it. I also learnt a little bit about how to use Final cut Pro which allowed me to see how special effects are made.
But mostly i have learned how to make a film look more professional by keeping continuity and make the sounds and clips actually needed. And how the production companies at the start mean more than just a clip.