Actors For The House Guest

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This presentation shows you the actors I am using in my Media Studies coursework project. As I think you should see the actors in the film so you would know who will be whom in the film. This is part of my research for my project so this presentation will answer your questions and give you more information about The House Guest film coming out soon. Feel free to comment if you would like to see something specific in The House Guest and I will try to add most of the things you the audience want to see the The House Guest.  

Magazine Ancillary Product Before Importing The Main Image

This image is here to show you how my magazine cover was getting to well I take and edit my main image for the front cover. Here you what my magazine will be having in the skyline and the tagline at the bottom of the page. You can see what type of colour scheme I have used in my magazine product for my ancillary product. I believe the colour scheme fits perfect for the horror genre magazine as this shows the audience that it is aimed at people who are interested in horror films. The colours I have used are red, grey, black and white. As all these colours have sub meaning to it, I will be explaining this in a different slide to show you why I have selected these specific colours in my magazine cover. I might be changing few things before I finish/present my final product on the blog, But I will letting you the audience know what changes might be happen in my ancillary product for marketing The House Guest.

Characters For The House Guest

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This presentation shows how each of the characters are represented in the film and what characters are playing in The House Guest film. This explains how each of the characters fit perfect for the film and how they can link with each other as they all had a hard time growing up with different problems. As part of my research, I am explaining what type of characters I have playing in my film and this presentation is also to show the audience what characters to expect in the film.  

The Different Types Of Posters

Before creating my own poster, I have first looked at different types of posters to see what types of posters were getting released by other film industries.

Teaser Posters are an early promotional step for a film. These teaser posters are known as an advance poster to attract the audience before all the big marketing happens.These teaser posters contain very basic image or design the excitement to be built for the audience and have excitement around the film without revealing much information, as this keeps the mystery around the film. A teaser poster includes the tagline to create a memorable dramatic phrase that will sum up the tone and premise of the product, or to reinforce and strengthen the audience's memory of a literary product, and it has the date at the bottom of the page so the audience know when the film will be releasing.One of best example is that when the Dark Knight was released, film industry released the Batman logo, they can hint the target audience what might happen in the film.

A lot film industries use Character Posters to market their films to the audience. These posters contain an individual from said film. These posters can show how each of the characters in an film are represented to the audience and this gives the audience a chance to see how characters are in an film. I can use something like this for my film posters as this will will give my audience a chance to connect to the characters being shown in my film. Not a lot of horror films do character posters but I believe character posters would be good for my film as it gives my audience a chance to see the characters in the film as characters are a very strong aspect of my film.

Theatrical Posters are the type of posters that are released near the date of a films release and are showcased outside of cinema.Theatrical posters are a key role in posters as they are the main posters for a film and show the key aspect of the plot, characters, location and actors etc. They are a very crucial posters to a films success for the films marketing companies. 

From the research for the different types of posters, I will be including an teaser and theatrical posters for my film.As this will be time consuming so that is why I have chosen to go with the teaser and theatrical posters so the audience will get to see one of the posters for my film as each of them will show the basic information needed by my audience. All of the posters created by me will be disturbed on social networking sites as this is what my target audience use on a day basis.By using these poster types, I will have the opportunity to have as much marketing strategies as possible for my film product.  

Shot List Drafts

Shot List Draft 2,
In the image you can see the second draft we have created for our trailer for The House Guest. You can see how each of the scenes will be place in the trailer. This also tells you how long each of the scenes in the trailer will be. This Shot List just explains how we might structuring our trailer when finishing the final product. This draft is just to show the audience that the team of The House Guest film can take the trailer in many different paths.



Shot List Draft 3,

Here is the third draft of the Shot List for The House Guest. Again the team of the film have made a draft of how they would like to see the trailer for the film in a different way from the first one. Showing the audience how they can see the trailer in many different ways. This is why we have created another Shot List so the audience know that we can approach this product in many ways and show that we have put a lot time into this film.





Shot List Draft 4,
This Shot List draft is the last one we have created for The House Guest trailer. As you can see this one is a lot more in depth as we hope the trailer to be going in draft 4 order as we think this is the best one from all of them. As you can see in this draft you can see how long each of the scenes will be and what shot number the scenes are in the trailer. You can also see that what order the scenes go into the trailer. This shows the audience how the trailer will be set out when marketing this film to the targeted audience for The House Guest.


All of these drafts are to show how will be setting our trailer out when marketing the film to the audience. These drafts also tell the audience what types of scenes we are having in the trailer and how we are showing a little part of the story line to them. These drafts will be put into Windows Excel with what types of sound and audio we will be having in the trailer. We will also be putting the angle of the camera so you can know what type shots we have in the trailer and how the angles are representing the horror in the film trailer.

Stuart Hall And The Theory Of Encoding And Decoding

This theory is about how media messages are produced, circulated and consumed, proposing a new theory of communication. Hall said that the meaning of a media text is not determined or fixed by the sender, the message is never transparent and the audience is not passive recipient of meaning. He says that there is a "lack of fit" between the moment of the production of the message (encoding) and the moment of its reception (decoding). In other words people interpret media texts in different ways, depending on their cultural background, economic standings and personal experience, and also that the audience members can play an active role in decoding the messages of the text and are capable of changing these messages themselves.

Audience Response 

Oppositional: When they understand the text, but reject the message, they come from an oppositional position

Dominant: Seen as the hegemonic response, people share the code and preferred reading 

Negotiated: They accept what the text is saying, and adapt it according to their social background.

These are the three different types of ways the audience reads the text according to Stuart Hall.

Keeping the Audience Updated

Hello everyone, we will be going out on the 20th of November to film one of the first trailer scene for The House Guest. I will be keeping you updated on what we will be filming on this Friday, I will also be updating anything we decide to change in the trailer, if you have anything that we should add into the trailer that you would like to see in The House Guest on this as post as I will be checking this poster everyday until the production team and I go out on Friday 20th to shoot for the trailer, please feel free to comment or try to contact on my Google account. Thank you