New Production Schedule

Group Roles

Cinematographer - Jack Quinlan

Sound Editor - Jack Quinlan

Editor - Matt Healey

Director - Matt Healey, Jack Quinlan

Cast

Psychopath - Matt Healey

Henry - James Robinson

Mary - Jakiya Sultana

Unnamed Victim - Natasha Sizer

The Friend - Jack Quinlan

Filming Update

I am now working with Matt Healey as he encountered similar problems as me when it came to filming (with sound and footage). We are now both working on the production of 'Twisted' and combining our new knowledge in order to create a successful short film. We have both learn't that in order to achieve success we have to keep to a strict production schedule and organise our actors and actresses better, and making sure that everyone sticks to the plan. For this we intend to use the same people from the last shoot only this time with their timetables cleared up they will be easily available for when we set our filming date .

Filming Update

After filming the short film 'Twisted' I entered the editing suite and began to log and capture the footage that was used. Whilst doing this I ran into a number of problems which included certain clips to retain no sound at all and some clips to not have captured any footage at all due to the settings on the HDV camera being wrong. So I must now  film again after learning how to fully set up the camera and use it.

Review Page Analysis

Representation

The social group of our AS production was left open to interpretation from the audience, as the lone survivor could have been from any social background and his past is left in ambiguity. The effect this gave was that we were allowed to lead the character in any direction we wanted to, the character himself was not presented in a negative light, instead he was represented as enigmatic. He could be seen as a positive character in terms of his fighting off the zombies and knowledge of survival methods. 

Across other media products in the same genre, they utilise a large cast to show an interaction between survivors (The Walking Dead) and convey messages over morality, but in the case of our film our character was a lone survivor so the impressions the audience recieved were purely based upon his mise-en-scene. The category this film fits into is the zombie genre.

Finally the signs we used were the knife and the dead owl. The knife is a symbol for the violence and harm that now rules the digesis of this world, and combined with the dead owl we are given a different signified meaning of survival and that in order to survive death must occur. We can also see the ground to be wildly littered with leaves and unattended, this shows that the world has become abandoned and feral. Furthermore the close up shot signifies the intensity and haste in which the man must act because danger lurks everywhere.

Two Step Flow Theory

Katz and Lazarsfeld assumes a slightly more active audience. It suggests messages from the media move in two distinct ways. First, individuals who are opinion leaders, receive messages from the media and pass on their own interpretations in addition to the actual media content.The information does not flow directly from the text into the minds of its audience, but is filtered through the opinion leaders who then pass it on to a more passive audience. The audience then mediate the information received directly from the media with the ideas and thoughts expressed by the opinion leaders, thus being influenced not by a direct process, but by a two step flow.This theory appeared to reduce the power of the media, and some researchers concluded that social factors were also important in the way in which audiences interpret texts. This led to the idea of active audiences.