Final Film Opening

Question 7 - Looking back on your preliminary task, what do you feel you heave learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Question 6 - how did you attract/adress your audience?

I Firstly attracted my audience by the genre of my film the age limit would have restricted this and would have directed people into working out what this film is about. Secondly the catch name of ‘have you heard?’ I chose this as I felt it had many question behind it making people intrested and wanting to see what the film was actually about.

 There are many ways I would go about trying to attract my audience if this film was to be going into real cinemas etc. Firstly I would focus on the actors and actresses who will be in my movie, trying to get big people to act in it which would draw in a wider audience. Blockbuster actresses such as Ryan Gosling and Amanda Seyfried are the kind of people I want, (well know). Having people like this will sell my film to bigger companies more along with a bigger visual audience. This would be a big factor of trying to attract a good audience.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Another way would be using good advertisement, making sure the movies trailer would be outstanding against the rest, along with good film posters et, bringing back the fact about having famous actors/actresses in your film they will be useful to grab people attention if seen in the trailer or posters seeing the film before people have even watch the trailer. bellow are some film posters as an example of these famous actors and actresses attracting a wider audience.                                                                                  

                                                                                        

Question Five - what have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Question 4 - Who would be your audience for your media project?

Due to the thriller/horror genre my main target audience is young/middle aged males. This is because of the thriller kind of feel. Also this may also be aimed at the same age women because of the chick flick feel in it too, although the genre isn’t a chick flick aspects of the film fall into that category such as the ‘dumb blonde’ and stereotyped character. This therefore means my film will get a wider audience.

I Think they type of people who would come to watch this film would be the people who would usually go to see a film that would be on edge and rather mainstream. I don’t think this movie would fit people of a younger age as it may be complicated for them with all that is going on. Also there would be an age limit of 12 maybe 15 which would create a barrier for younger views. Id set this age limit on it as I feel that’s what would be suitable. I believe this movie will be most popular in the UK and America where there are main ‘blockbusters’ and would be shown in as many cinemas as possible.

What kind of media institustion might distribute your media product and why?

I would aim to get my movie into and distributed by a mainstream company such as universal studios. The target audience would be for people who watch main stream films and that would maybe look to see what these mainstream companies are working with. In order for my film to get the audience I want I need to and getting my film to be seen by many people as possible I need it to go through a bug main stream company. Looking into my research companies such as fox and Sony did a great job in 2006 getting their films into the top 20 films of the year. Even though this statistic is a little out dated the results still kind of lay in the same form.

 

 

 

 

 

The genre of my film fits into the mainstream band best as it would be a Hollywood fit kind of film. I would aim for the film to be seen as a ‘blockbuster’ as the mainstream films have the biggest audience. Escapism is one of their main reasons to go to the cinema and they successfully draw people in due to trailers mainly the genre of the story.

 

The marketing elements would be

-          Genre

-          Attached talent (director / cast)

-          Identifiable audience

-          Date

-          Quantity

Question 2 - how does your media product reprent particular social groups

Each of my characters represent different kinds of people. Beginning with the character male character who is not named in the opening scene, he is a mysterious character whom no one knows anything about the age of the man and the way he is dressed and p-resents himself with broad shoulders walking tall places him as an important person who can come across as intimidating and scary. Small things such as the way he walks and his facial expressions help portray this look and feel to the character, the3 way he doesn’t speak means he is being purely judged by the way he looks.

Secondly there is Jess who is the typical blonde stereotype who come across as rather ditsy a in her own world. In most of the horrors I watched such as cabin in the woods there is one of these stereotyped blondes so I went along with the same idea, this may help set the feel of the genre. Although this is the character I directed to go and look around for ‘something to eat’ so this is kind of going against her stereotype of a scared fragile little blonde girl but straight away as she sees the figure at the door her scream and running fits her usual  stereo type falls back into place.

Next there is Katie who comes across as confident teenage girl. She is the ‘cocky’ character who comes across as not being scared, usually you would find another character like this in a horror/thriller who ends up becoming the target just like in the film scary movie which is a mick take of the film scream. This brings an element of comedy into my film which would be uncovered as the film carries on.

The final character Lauren is a worried and panicked teenage girl. She is the opposite to the character Katie and is the one who panics the most. These characters are represented like many teenagers in society today, you usually come across a couple of friends that completely contradict one another in their appearance and behaviours. This gives the film more of a chic flick feel that changes the genre slightly having these characters may lead to a rider range of people as a target audience.

 

 

 

 

Question 1 - in what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventiohns of real media products

 

Rough Cut 1

Changes made when filming

I made some small changes to the scenes and characters whilst filming. The main difference I did was the costume, I felt them being in clothes made it look as if they had been out for the evening or day meaning the male may have been following them or watching the house while they were gone helping the mise-en-scene. Another thing I changes was the characters personalities, especially the character Katie’ she had a very bold personality who came across and the ‘tough’ and ‘cocky’.

New Script

Phone is ringing; hand reaches over to pick it up

Katie – Hello

Man – Hello, is there a parent or guardian there I could possibly talk to?

Katie – No sorry they won’t be back for the rest of the week

The man just hangs up and there is a cut to three different girls looking beaten up and messy

Girl one – I was home alone

Girl two – I was home alone

Girl three – I was home alone

Cut to a dark street with a tall man walking down it towards a house, he pauses and looks over at the house staring for a while.

Cut to girls bedroom setting, Lauren and Jess sat on the bed playing with phones and painting nails not speaking waiting for Katie to return to the room after phone call.

Katie returns to room

Lauren – Who was that?

Katie – just some sales person I think

Jess – have you heard the rumours about that guy?

Lauren – the one that attacked those girls?

Katie – oh that’s just a load of shit

Lauren – I don’t think it is my mum even saw something in the news paper

Jess  - we’re probably worrying about nothing

Katie – agreed anyway I’m starving let’s get something to eat

Jess – I’ll go have a look

Jess runs down stairs with all the lights already on straight into the kitchen, looking through different cupboards she walks towards the glass doors where she sees a figure outline of a male

Jess – Lauren Lauren! There’s someone there I swear! At the doors!

Frantically running up the stairs and tripping over Emily enters the bed room again.

Katie – Laughing it’s probably that guy

Katie tries making a joke out the situation not believing what jess has said

Lauren – I’ll go have a look!

Walking down the stairs to the kitchen, she doesn’t see the male standing about a meter away from her there’s a cut to the door handle and a loud slam of the door slamming cutting to the reaction from Jess and katie

Costume

The costume will be just normal clothes as these girls are meant to be just npormal girls i dont want them to look as if there is any reason for them to have naything happen to them.

I may either have them in jeans and normal tops or Pyjamas so it shows that its night time and it will state they are having a sleepover. Something and pyjamas makes them look innocent too and more vulnerable. Also the colours in which the characters are wearing can make them look more venerable and scares such as soft pinks and baby blue.

Katie and Jess will be wearing long pyjamas that totally cover them up where as I’m going to pout Laura in a nighty, this is to make her look as if she isn’t as innocent and all this strange thing happening only happens the night she here leaving the audience questioning it.

Plot

I will produce another pitch to explain my ideas for my new idea but the main idea is sticking to the way of filming that paranormal activity do.

Characters
Katie - 16 year old school girl a young sister of Jess and friends with Laura.

 Jess - 18 year old, older sister of Katie and friends of Laura

Lauren - 17 Years old, Goes to college with Jess.

 My main ideas will be explained in my pitch but the outline of the plot would be these three teenage girls home alone and the classic they hear a nose but think nothing of it. I also want to add in a phone call so I could use an idea I saw on a film where there is a song playing in the opening credits which then runs out to be a phone call of one of the girls. I think this looks really affective and draws in the viewer straight away. I’ll use a song I believe will be relevant to the genre of my movie or I might do the complete opposite and use a song/ringtone that totally contradicts the film giving the viewer’s something to think about This phone call will then set up the film and give me something to work around.

CHANGE OF IDEAS

Over my research of this film opening I started to sway more towards the idea of a horror, I found some films that gave me many ideas and I felt I would have a better overall outcome sticking to the genre of horror/thriller. A movie that greatly influenced my idea of change was paranormal activity and woman in black. The idea of the main filming of it being held by a character drew me in as it was different and unlike any other films I saw.

Film Posters

The Script Draft 1

FADE IN:

 

INT. PLAIN ROOM – DAY  

 

Young 6 year old girl is sat on a stool looking straight into the camera dressed in a fancy dress costume smiling.

CHLOE AGE 6

When I’m older I want to be a princess or a fairy or a (pause) pony

 

Scene changes with large camera flash to 10 year old blonde girl sat in the same place dressed in a Taylor swift top and messy hair .

CHLOE AGE 10

When I’m older I’m going to be a pop star like Taylor swift and I’m going to marry Taylor too

She smiles into the camera innocently. The scene changes again with a large camera flash to a teenage school girl blonde again covered in orange make up sat in the same place.

CHLOE AGED 15

I’m going to be a model, well I want to be a model, I will be one day just like those ones you see in vogue

Camera flashes to a girl in the ages of her 20s on a photo shoot. A male photographer fairy young is on set of a photo shoot with Chloe having images taken

 

RICHARD

Yes, beautiful, stand up a little straighter, now bend your knees, no actually I’ve change my mind, stand to the side oh wait you’re having a chubby day again.

Close up on Chloe’s face, she’s looking upset then another camera flash to Chloe sat in that same seat, applying makeup while the voice over plays starting with none and ending with a fully applied face.

CHLOES VOICEW OVER

I’m all I ever wanted to be, I’m famous, I’m a model, I’m like a pop star, I wear the pretty dresses and I’m on the cover to magazines. If only they knew what I go through to get here, the pain, the abuse, the (pause) illness.

Costume

I believe costume is a very important part of film therefore I will look into and plan my costume in great detail. My ideas so far are these;

-          Six year old Chloe – a fancy dress costume something like a fairy or princess to show how young and naive she is.

-          Ten year old Chloe – in typical clothes a ten year old would ware, shorts and a top with a slogan maybe.

-          15 Year Old – a teenage ion school uniform with lots of make up on badly applied messy hair short skirt, a typical stereo type of a teenage school girl.

-     20 year old - A model in high fashion, clothes made to fit perfectly, makeup done perfectly.

Characters

As I progress my ideas more I have thought more into what actors and actresses I want to use in my film opening and what kind of characterisation I’m going to do. My main protagonist is shown at many stages of her life. My film will open with a young six year old girl talking about what it is she wants to do when she’s older, saying this that are tot6ally unlikely that most six year olds would due to their imagination. I want this character to be the age of six and I have got someone in mind, they will act innocent and naïve; this will then lead onto the protagonist at the age of ten, they will also be naive and say things such as she wants to be like someone such as a pop start, I will then stick to this idea of the character wanting to be like someone else, this will develop more when the next age which will be a teenage around the age of 15/15 says she wants to be a model with some of that naivety gone. Finally the protagonist that the film would be based on is a young woman around the age of 20, is make her look just like a model would with heavily made make up and fashionable clothes, yet when the makeup is removed she looks just like a normal person. This is the idea that women and girls feel this great pressure to look and act the way they feel they should, and also the ‘glamorous lifestyle’ is not how it’s always made out to be. If this film was to progress it would be about how this girl and her lifestyle, it could go two ways I could turn it into quite a dark film about all the damages its caused this woman or into a light hearted chick flick this is what I am still undecided on.

Developing Character

Characteruzation - is the sum of all observable of a human being, everything knowable thorugh their character such as age and IQ, sex and sexuality, style of speech and gesture etc. All the different aspects of humanity we could know by taking notes on an individual, all these different areas placed together makes a person an individual. The singular assemblage of tarits is characterization... but is not chacter.

Character - This is the person on the inside where as characterization is about what you look and act like where as chacter is who you are when your placed in difficult poostions and if you are a trustworthy or outgoing person for example.

The revelation of true character in contrast or contradicion to characterization is fundamental to all storytelling. Life teaches this principle - 'what seems is not what is'.No matter what they say or do the only way we ever come to know characters in depth is through their choices under pressure.

Audience Profile

Name - Lola
Age - 19
Living in London whilst studying photography and fashion at university, she is single and spends a lot of time socialising and visits the cinema often with friends. She watched chick flicks such as 'Love, Actually' and 'The notebook', shes a fan of the TV show 'glee' and real life dramas such as 'Made In Chelsea'. Her last report from her sixth form was 'hard working, deserved the grades she got and will do well in the future with the positive attitude towards the subject she has chosen'.

target audience

In our session today we learnt about targeting the right audience and the importance of thinking about this before you start creating your film as in the past many films have totally flopped leading to them losing out on a lot of money. Its important to focus on a certain audience to help promotion and advertisement for your film.

Communicating clear film genre -
- having a clear genre helps to sell to certain audiences
- people look for things they believe will be a 'safe choice' so will often go to the cinema with the intention of watching a film due to its genre.
- some audiences simply don't like trying new genres they stick to the same one each time.
- defining the films genre able's it to be brought into the sphere of a more mainstream audience.

Different audiences grouped -
Mainstream only: These people only see the big mainstream hits and nothing else.
Mainstream Plus: See the mainstream hits, but also dip into specialised now and again.
Aficionados: Whilst they like to associate themselves with specialised films and do indeed view them, they are still disproportionately viewers of mainstream titles.
Buffs: Usually reject mainstream cinema as a first choice; always seek out specialised films; often members of film clubs and societies.

ABC1 -
These are groups of peoples as an target audience  not about what movies they see but what groups of people in society want to see etc.

A - Higher managerial, Administrative and Professional
B - Intermediate Managerial, Administrative and Professional.
C1- Supervisory, Senior Managerial, Administrative, Professional.
C2 - Skilled Manually
D - Semi - skilled and unskilled manually.
E - Casual Labours, State pensions and the unemployed. 

first pitch!