Ask target audience which of our groups idea do they prefer, how will it appeal to them?
- Thriller that doesn't give too much away but gives enough information away to set the genre, and give the audience a sense of what the movie is about, but at the same time, be engaging, raise questions, and makes the audience want to watch the rest of the film.
Sunday, 25 October 2015
Saturday, 24 October 2015
26. Who is your target audience?
26. Who is your target audience?
Audience:
My target audience is teenagers aged 15-18 both male and female. I chose this age range as i believe this age range isn't that big and will watch the same types of films. If I had picked an age range of 13-18 i feel that it would have been to big as films that a 13 year old watches will be too childish for an 18 year old and if it was the other way round the film would be too mature. My genre is a Teen Drama that will have coming of age and rebel involved so i though it would fit this age range.
Survey:
25: 'Head On' activity
25: 'Head On' activity:
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| Teen Dramas: High school musical, Mean girls and Kidulthood |
Kidulthood
Colours: dark, gloomy, boring
Story telling ideas: trouble makers, teenagers, playing football, talking about making a party while parents are away, foreshadows, something bad happening
Shots: panning, quick shots
Sounds: upbeat, drama-fast
Mise-en-scene: england, british accent, school uniform, under 16, scruffy, playing football
Mean Girls
Colours: bright colours, mainly pink (girly)
Story telling ideas: narrated by main character talking about her background, setting the atmosphere. Moved from africa to america, was home schooled. Never really had proper friends.
Sounds: sound effects (music) and foley
Shots: animated title sequence with cut out letters on a scrapbook to create titles, links to girly movies
Mise-en-scene: family home, teenage clothing, hair/makeup.
Introducing characters: talks about her past shows flashbacks of when she was younger, and gives us an idea of what people (children) believed at the time. Dad and mum hugging her before she leaves for the first day of high school.
Friday, 23 October 2015
24. Blog your own individual idea for a title sequence
In my title sequence i would want to give clues about the plot, but not too much. It cant be too exciting or it might set high expectations for the rest of the movie.
-Camera: extreme close ups, wide shots (to get background, work)
Genre: Thriller
Plot: Disturbed child who had a bad childhood, parents who seemed careless etc.
Grows up and has a good job, seems like a nice person, but isn't right in the head, because of the way she was treated as a child. Family is introduced in a flashback, a diary (her mothers), which had a record of all the strange things the child did at a young age, but wasnt old enough to realise it wasnt normal. (Mothers voice heard reading out bits of it, over lapped speech etc)
-Camera: extreme close ups, wide shots (to get background, work)
-Social groups introduced: work colleagues (hasnt got many friends)
In the opening we wont get any clues as to what kind of character the woman turns out to be:
Before film starts (during opening):
After opening (during film):
In the opening we wont get any clues as to what kind of character the woman turns out to be:
Before film starts (during opening):
After opening (during film):
Thursday, 22 October 2015
24. Individual idea/Outline for title sequence:
24. Individual idea/Outline for title sequence:
I would liked my title sequence to be stylised so it has a mixture
of narrative and discrete title sequences as it will give off a combined
effect. I prefer this style as i would like the information and the story-line
to be quite vague but also allow the tone and atmosphere to be set, this
is to not have the risk of setting out a high expectation and then not being
able to fulfill it. I would like the title sequence to be over moving
images to show a metaphor and narrative thread, with non-diegetic sound
and no dialogue so not much is given away. The use of these two will make help
suspend disbelief.
Genre: Thriller
Title sequence: Shots of the neighbourhood, quick transitions and flashbacks of the same
place in the past, Shots of the family inside, close up of mother calling child to wake up, close up of dad eating. Wide shot of little boys room. Canted shot of the boy sleeping to set the tone. Then an over the shoulder shot
of one of the other children (who haven’t come to the neighbour hood yet)
watching him sleep. Birds eye view shot of home.
Plot: Anxious and curious child who draws things he sees, has a
nightmare about the paranormal events that happened in the neighbourhood, in
the past. He starts drawing the images he saw, parents get worried but don’t do
much. People move into the house next door. Child makes friends with the
children next door but they aren’t who they say they are.
Camera: close ups to introduce characters, wide shots and long
shots to set location, canted shots to show the atmosphere of the story.
Social groups introduced: neighbourhood friends
Main character: Small child
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| Birds eye view shot |
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| Wide shot |
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| Canted shot |
Wednesday, 21 October 2015
24.Individual idea/Outline for title sequence
Individual idea
Genre: Teen Drama
Plot: Main character teenager is oppressed by parents, Forced to study subjects they do not enjoy. They have other career plans but parents do not approve. Turns to crime due to boredom and peer pressure
Social group. Young teens in secondary or college, Living in london
Main character: Teen
23: Our group's initial creative ideas
23: Initial Creative Ideas
Task 1: 6 minute challenge
Genre: Crime/ Drama
Location setting: A department store in a shopping mall
Prop/ object: A diary
Film name: Mechanised Infantry
Sypnosis: An ordinary man buys a diary at a charity store (salvation army) thinking that it is a book. He discovers a record of gruesome secret service acts diary entries inside it and finds himself in a complicated situation where he is unsure of whether he should act upon it or not.
Details:
Opening shot:
Establishing shot of the store.
There is a panning shot of a customer giving in the diary, but their face isn't shown.
Close up. Staff in Salvation Army putting away the books that were given to the charity, including the diary. Panning of main character walking in a shopping centre and entering the salvation army store. Foley sound used. when the main character picks up the book, an over the shoulder shot is used to give the sense that some one is watching him. Main character turns around but no one is there . Main character buys the Book. There is medium shot of someone hiding behind a book shelve watching the main character purchase the book and leave the store
Task 2: Consequence idea
Name of person, street, place or country: Martin Lawrence
Name of prop: Mobile phone
Name of set: Construction site
Genre: Action
Everyday scenario: Shouting for help
Details:
Lawrence is the construction site worker, he is on his phone trying to get signal, walking back and forth around the site. He suddenly hears noises and turns his head to see a group of people huddled together beating up someone. He looks closer and sees that the person that is getting beating up is actually his neighbour. He shouts for help.
21. Practical remake activity: Evaluation
21. Evaluation:
The film opening we recreated was the
title sequence of Gone Girl.
We watched the title sequence thoroughly to see what different
shots there were and how many, we wrote a list of the shot types and then we
looked at all the titles and wrote them in order and created a storyboard to
follow. One of the problems I would say we faced was the time management and
not being able to get each shot by shot, for instance we didn’t get the shot of
the canal/beach as it was too far and all our time would has been spent trying
to get the right shot so we decided to skip that one out, however I believe
that the shots were accurate and we incorporated each shot type that was
written but not each shot of the location but that was okay because we did have
enough footage to set the location and the major parts of the title sequence.
We shot quite close to the college and used majority of the building their to
make the shot by shot remake, the building looked run down just like the
buildings in the title sequence and the clock tower looked the same too. Another
problem I would say was that time of day wasn’t the same as the title sequence
involved night time with a dark and quiet atmosphere, while angel was loud and
in daylight. We didn’t need costumes as the characters we dressed in casual
wear and no props were needed either and setting up the camera and knowing the
shots were the easiest parts as we learnt them during out prelim.
We looked at different angles and each gave our ideas when shooting
the first scene of the man stoking his wife's hair and finally got the right
angle and we stayed to detail and even the spacing between the voice over of
the man, this was so we could set the same tone and ease of his voice. This
helped maintain the genre and no let it fade away from the story's plot.
For editing I would say the title credits weren’t too hard but
very time consuming so each one looked similar and we spent quite a long time
trying to get the right font. Premiere and After Effects were quite easy to use
after a while and we were able to do the voice over really quick.
One thing I would say we need to work on is time and making sure we do the most important things first so we don't leave anything vital out.
21.Practical remake activity-Evaluation
Evaluation
For our Shot-by-shot task we remade the title sequence of gone girl.I feel our title sequence was successful but there were a few things that our group could have improved on. I believe the production of our remake could of been better if we had better time keeping skills. I think if we had discussed the locations and settings we wanted to use before we went of to film we would have had more time to capture all the different shots we wanted . We also learnt that the position of the camera(Tripod) Plays an important role in filming
If we were to redo this task I would have our group pay more attention and discuss the location and settings we plan to use.I feel this would prevent rushing the filming due to lack of time
21. Evaluate success of practical activity
Since we got to learn the basics in the first preliminary, i found that setting up the camera wasn't that difficult this time round.We found it easy to set up the different shots as we just has to replicate the shots from Gone Girl. It was hard at first to get it to look as sharp and seamless when we couldnt get quiet, dark settings like in the film, but we got really good match cuts that made the editing look almost invisible. We worked well as a team to get all our ideas into one. For example one of the first shots was a man stroking a womans hair, and at this point we couldnt get the right angle, but we looked at different angles and positions and soon worked it out, it looked good too. Without the planning (and storyboard) the opening would not have been as good. We had to pay close attention to detail including the different sounds, (diegetic and non-diegetic) which helped us a lot when it came to filming. Throughout the activity we made sure that we maintained the genre, and didn't make it look or sound like any other genre than thriller. The film that we made the remake on inspired us to think about whether we should follow the conventions for our media product.
Tuesday, 20 October 2015
18. Practical Remake activity Planning and Storyboard
Planning And Storyboard
For our planning of remaking the title sequence of gone girl we went through the sequence and noted key features of the sequence such as the camera angles used in each scene.
Then we went on to making a storyboard to plan when these shots were going to happen and to have a picture of what should be happening on screen.
15. Why is sound so important in a film ?
Importance of Sound
Sound plays a hand to hand with the on screen action and contributes to 50% of the film so without it the audience may feel the experience to be dramatically worse due to the tone and atmosphere the use of sound brings. Sound can fall under numerous definitions such as
Diegetic sound - Sounds with source visible
Non-diegetic - Sound with a source which isn't visible
Synchronous - Sound that matches what's happening on screen.
Asynchronous - Sound that doesn't match what's happening on screen.
Sound bridge - Linking one screen with another with sound
Sound motif - Combination of sound effects that are associated with a particular character
Sound is used to keep the audience emerged in the text but is also used to create a certain mood or to encourage the audience to feel different emotions. As well as this sound is used to enhance minor details within the movie but also to inform the audience that something's going to happen.
Monday, 19 October 2015
12. Target Audience
Target Audience
A target audience is who a product or service is targeted at.
The use of interviews is key when establishing what your targets like or dislike.This can be done through focus groups whereby a representative small group of you target come together to test or preview your good or service. Another method is to have one to one interviews about your product but although this will give you more detail into what they like and dislike it can be quick time consuming which is good if there is a set deadline. Another route of collecting information about your target market is through surveys which can be give either through giving out questionnaires or by posting. They can also be done online through advertising or various sites such as survey monkey which is a free platform to make a survey.
Sunday, 18 October 2015
11. BFI Statistic Yearbook
BFI Statistic Yearbook
- Genre -
1. Which 3 genres were most successful at the UK box office?Animation, Action, Comedy
2. Which 3 genres were least popular or successful at the UK box office?
Romance, Documentary, War
3. Which film genre had the most films released in 2013-14 (not the most successful but the biggest number of films made)?
Comedy
4. How many films in this genre were made in 2013-14?
153
5. How many animated films were made?
33
6. How many action films were made?
47
7. What does this information about genre tell you about:
This information tells me about the what the UK audience wanted to watch during the period of 2013-14 and of many of these genres where release in addition to how they grossed in the box office.
- Audience -
1. Which age group made up the largest proportion of cinema admissions in the UK (who went to the cinema most)?15 - 24 with an to 35% from 2003 - 2011
2. Which comedy film was most successful with this age group?
The Hangover Part 3
3. Which film was most popular with the over 50s? What genre is this film?
4. Which genres were most popular with men?
Thriller, Action, Comedy
5. Which genres were most popular with women?
Women audience had a wider variety of movie genres they favoured.
6. UK films appealed most to which audience type?
The male audience.
7. Which 3 films were most popular with the 7-14 age group? What does this tell us about their preferred genre?
One direction, Wreck-it Ralph, Despicable Me 2. It tells us that this age group prefer animations or Boy bands.
8. Which 3 films most popular with the 35-44 age group were Frozen, The Croods and Jack and the
Giant Slayer. Why might this be and how does this contribute to animation being the most successful
genre at the box office?
This would mostly be because the 35-44 age group are likely to be parents taking their children to the cinema to watch these animations.
9. Which 3 films were most popular with the 25-34 age group?
Django Unchained, Fast & Furious 6, Rush
10. Which films were most popular with middle class audiences (C1 and C2)?
C1 - Rush C2 - Oz the Great and Powerful
11. Look at the tables for popular films in London and Scotland. What differences are there and what conclusions can you make about the types of films they appear to prefer?
Scotland had a preference of movies which had actors from Scotland who are featured in About time & At worlds end. However UK audiences prefer american produced movies and favour the genre science fiction.
10. What is genre?
What is genre?
A genre means 'category' or 'type' and is useful when discussing film because it helps to group or organize different films according to what they are able and what they look like. This helps producers make and market their film to audiences, and helps audiences make decisions about what films they like and want to see.
Main Movie Genres:
- Action
- Comedy
- Adventure
- Thriller
- Sci-fi
- Animation
- Romance
- Crime
- Drama
- Horror
- Western
Sub-genres incorporate more than one main movie genre.
Sub-Genre:
- Biopic
- Chick Flicks
- Supernatural
- Sports
- Fantasy
- Detective & mystery
- Disaster
Friday, 16 October 2015
Thursday, 15 October 2015
13.Analyse Title sequence
Analysis of Teen Drama title Sequences
Twilight:Breaking Dawn
Micro analysis
This title sequence uses a range of wide shots and a large use of panning setting the location of the film, which is shown to be a secluded area many lakes and forests. Slow transitions are used with a large amount of cuts.Ambient sound. slow tempo mysterious music.
Macro analysis
The use of red within the title sequence and also used as some of the title colours shows us that it is related to something supernatural such as vampires where blood plays an important role. There is also many images of a wolf like creature presenting to the audience that they also play an important role in this film.The only character we are shown in the title sequence is "Kristen stewart" it is an extreme close up of her eyes which are red showing us that supernatural plays an important role in the film. Also the use of a Triangle is used which present a high pitch tone emphasises that she is a main character as throughout the sequence the music has a low tone
Title Convections
Traditional title sequence , uses an average font size(medium), with two main colours white and red the font is integrated within the images but then becomes its own separate image.
- Production company
- Summit entertainment presents
- Production
- Film title(Breaking Dawn)
- Main characters- Kristen Stewart
- Robert pattinson
- Taylor lautner
- Range of other actors
- Casting director
- Costume designer
- Music supervisor
- Music by
- Visual effect supervisor
- Editors
- Production designer
- Director of photography
- Co-producer
- Executive producer
- Producer
- Based on
- Screenplay by
- Director
Juno
Micro Analysis
Animated title sequence.Main use of long shots and medium close up's. Which sets the scene but importantly gives us a closer look at the main character. A mix of slow and fast transitions. Bright colours sense of the location of the film possibly a small town. Ambient Sound use of up-pace music.
Macro Analysis
It's clear that the main character has some kind of relation to Some one on the running team as they frequently appeared on the title sequence.We are introduced to the main character as we are following her throughout the sequence. She is clearly representing a young teenager.
Title conventions
Macro Analysis
It's clear that the main character has some kind of relation to Some one on the running team as they frequently appeared on the title sequence.We are introduced to the main character as we are following her throughout the sequence. She is clearly representing a young teenager.
Title conventions
- Fox searchlight pictures Presents
- A Mindale pictures
- Mr.Mudd productions
- A Jason Reitman film
- Film title(Juno)
- Main characters(Ellen page)
- Michael Cora
- Jennifer Garner
- Other actors
- Casting by
- Costume designer
- Music by
- Songs by
- Music supervisor
- Co-producers
- Film editor
- Production designer
- Director of photography
- Executive producers
- Produced by
- Written by
- Directed by
09. What are the 4 different types of film openings?
Different Film Openings?
Title on a blank screen
Titles superimposed on a black screen usually with white text to add contrast. before modern technology this was commonly used due to its simple nature to produce and for films with a low budget. An example of this can be seen in Pulp Fiction |
| Pulp Fiction Opening. |
Titles on still images
Titles wa the next evolution of simpling having white text on a black screen but now they incorporated hand drawn borders and other images. With is move it allowed the opening sequence to hint at the tone of the movie and even the genre of the film so this led to further development of more elaborate title sequences.
This is a sequence produced by Kyle cooper for Wimbledon which incorporated moving images and also stills whilst the use of sound effects to give the effect of a tennis game during the sequence.
Titles over moving images
This type of opening features moving images behind the titles with sounds but no dialogue. To introduce tones and storyline of the film moving images are made into metaphors & narrative threads for the audience to follow.
Titles using Animation or motion
Animated text became popular in the late 1990s, the technique of merging titles and moving images waas a title type that required a lot of digital technology & stylised editing.
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