Media Studies (Film)

Silence of the Lambs (1988) Target Audience- The target audience of the Silence of the lambs was for young adult and adults because of the film being rated r. This is important because the rating of the film restricts it from young audiences lowering the potential income. The reason it was restricted was due tot he controversial topic discusses and the explicit gore. Both of these thing are found in my film and therefore if my film were to be rated it would be restricted due tot he similar aspects. Marketing -  The marketing for this film consisted of very similar marketing techniques employed in all film marketing such as billboards, radio broadcast, and print in popular magazines such as The New York times. All of the prints showcase some feature of the poster  for the film from above. But the emphasis was in the death moth as it would intrigue the audience and make their curiosity grow forcing them to go see the movie to find out what it about.  However, ...

Feedback/Revisons- From the screening of the first cut of the film, the response was overall very positive.Everything was conveyed the way it was suppose to, successfully obtaining the response of  horror (disgust) and a bit of stale comedy towards the end. All the feedback was very similar, in regarding to fixing up the audio. It wasn't that the audio wasn't clear, but that I implemented a way to consistent clicking noise  that was too prodomentiant as in loud making the radio affect loses it believability. This an easy fix as in the audio program I was using to create the effect ,Audacity; i can simplify reduce the frequency of the clicks lowering the overall decibels of the clicks drowning them down but still have them be hear to give the illusion of a cracking radio. Another problem with the audio is that when Scout reaches for radio to turn it up the audio doesn't get louder so this can be fixed in Premiere by setting a read and write of the audio when the Scout tur...

Conventions-      The project uses a variety of conventions but two are prominent. In the project, multiple mid shots were used primarily to help establish the shot and situation, but other than than that the majority of the shots are closeups. This was done both intentionally for two reasons one is due to limitation of  space on the location I was filming the project, but mostly it was one of the ways used to build suspense as it reduced what the audience can sees, putting them in the moment and leaves them clueless on what going to happen next. The second, convention heavily used is the the use of incidental music as it really helps to build atmosphere and suspense but helps with pacing. In the first edit of the film, i didn't have any incidental music and the film just dragged on because as in the parts with no dialogue it just dragged on. It's important to mention that a convention that I challenged in the project it instead of having long drawn out takes to ...