Questionaire

On the left is a questionnaire that we created to find out what type of film genre our target audience might like. We also used it to help us decide what film title to use in the final product. This questionnaire helped us determine what to include in our opening scene to help attract people to come watch our film.

On the right is our questionnaire filmed out by someone outside our group.

Make-Up we could use for our opening scene

Make-Up tutorials we could use for our opening scene

In this first Youtube video it shows us how to use make-up to make a realistic bruise. This is an idea we could use for our opening scene to make our fight scene look more professional. 

This second youtube video also shows how to make a realistic bruise but we ended up not using it because nobody in the group knew how to do make-up.

In the end we ended up not using any of these tutorials because we couldn't use make-up.

Interview

Interview

This is a short interview we created to tell the audience a little bit about our film. We talked about our unique selling points and why we chose a certain age rating. We also mentioned what age group our target audience was going to be and why. 

Shot Lists

Close Up

Medium Shot/Two Shot










Long Shot












Over the Shoulder Shot

Low Angle

High Angle

Analysed Film Trailer from the same Genre of FIlm

Taken

This is the trailer for the film Taken. We have picked Taken as a film to analyse because it is an action Thriller Film which is also the genre film as the one we are creating. In the first part of the trailer it shows a relationship between a father and his daughter. This tells us that something bad will happen to them because they are the main focus at the beginning of the trailer. In the next scene the setting is in Paris and there is two camera shots showing the father and daughter having a conversation over the phone. The trailer then continues to show fast paced scenes in this format. This makes the scenes more dramatic because everything is happening very quickly. There is also music that slowly speeds up at the end of the trailer when the main protagonist is speaking to someone on the phone. As the music quickens the rate at which different scenes flash up also increase. This makes this part of the trailer very dramatic because there is a long build to when the main protagonist says "I will find you, and I will kill you".

Opening Scene Script

This is the script we used for our opening scene.

Thriller Genre Analysis

These are some of the conventions of the Thriller Genre film.

Costume and Location Research

Costume

This is the coat that Callum will be wearing for his character. 

Location

This is the location that we are going to set our opening scene. It will be behind the local community center. We have picked this location because not many people walk behind the community center making it easier for us to film our opening scene. Our location was right next some train tracks but it wasn't much of a problem because we let the trains pass before we started filming again.

Audience Research and Profiling

This is data from the website Pearl & Dean which shows the different type of people who went to watch Taken.

The data shows that the typical audience member who went to watch Taken was in between the ages 15-24. This shows that Taken appealed to mostly young people, it also shows that people below the ages of 15 were not the target audience because of the 15 age rating. From the data table we can also tell that the target audience was men due to the fact that 54% of the audience was men. The data table also tells us that most of the viewers are working class.

Similar films

Opening Titles

Analyse film opening titles in detail - Font researched

This film opening title is bold and stands out from the darker grey background. It is also splattered with blood which connotes violence and horror.

The SE7EN opening title is in white and has the worn effect on some parts of the letters. The title also has faded and out of place copies of itself which gives the effect that the title is flashing about.

The letters in this title are displayed in an olden days styled text. This makes it look mythical and makes the audience feel like they are entering a fantasy world.

Institution Research

Institution Research

An institution is a company that produces media products. Examples of some film institutes are: Paramount, Warner Brothers, Colombia etc. There is a short list for each film institute showing what films they have made.

Columbia - Pictures
The Bounty Hunter, The Karate Kid, Grown Ups, Salt and The Other Guys.

Lionsgate
The Hunger Games, American Psycho, The Last Witch Hunter, Kick-Ass and SAW.

Miramax Films
The Boy In Striped Pajamas, City of Men, The Boys are Back, Everybody's Fine and Doubt.

Paramount
Forest Gump, World War Z, Rango, The Godfather and Transformers.

Universal Studios

Despicable Me, ET, Jaws, The Mummy and Fast and Furious Franchise.

20th Century Fox 

Avatar, Deadpool, The Wolverine, Independence Day and The Martian.

Music we are going to use in our opening scene

Track 1

This is the soundtrack we are going to use for the more dramatic scenes in our opening scene. This music makes the audience think that the main protagonist is in danger and this therefore builds tension. We thought that this soundtrack was more suitable than Track 2 because it didn't have the horror thriller theme that Track 2 had and it was also must louder than Track 2.

Track 2

This is the soundtrack we are going to use for the beginning of our clip to build up tension in the audience. This soundtrack will only be played over the production team at the beginning of our opening scene because we thought that the soundtrack didn't fit the scenes. We didn't pick this sound track over Track 1 because the beat was too slow paced and didn't fit the fight scene near the end of the opening scene.

Classification Research

Classification Research

Universal (U)

Universal is an audience which is suitable for children 4 years and above. In Universal films there is no discrimination because it is not suitable for the young audience. However there may be drug references which have to be backed up with an anti-drug use message. There may also be violence but it must be animated, extremely unrealistic/over the top or it must be used for comedic purposes. Nudity and sex is not acceptable in a film that has been given a Universal certificate. The only thing that will be shown is kissing.

Parental Guidance (PG)

Parental guidance is used for general viewing, parents can decide whether their children are able to watch films rated PG. References to drugs must be subtle and must include an anti-drug message. Mild language can be used in these films but frequent use of mild language can lead to the film being passed as a higher certificate. PG films are able to contain a sequence where the character is in danger but it must not be too long or too intense. Violence can be contained in these films but it must be mild and not in detail.

12A/12

Films that are rated 12A/12 are suitable for children 12 years old and older. The misuse of drugs in these films should not be glamorised. Moderate language may be used but strong language won't be accepted if it is used too frequently used throughout the film. Nudity and sex maybe be used but it must be discreet. Physical and psychological threats may be portrayed but they must be mild and infrequent. Violence can also be portrayed in films rated 12A/12 but injuries and blood must not be in great detail. 

15

For our film we want it to be a 15 so that we are aiming at the teenage audience. If we were to carry on and make a whole film these are the types of things that we would need to take into consideration. In a film with a 15 certificate there might be some discrimination, this might include racism and discrimination to homosexuals. There is usually strong language in these films but the frequency of strong language in the film prevents it from becoming a film with an 18 certificate. Nudity and sex in 15 rated films are sometimes portrayed but it is not shown in a lot of detail. Violence is usually portrayed in 15 rated films as well but sadistic violence is not accepted.

18

Films given a 18 film certificate can contain lots of strong language and violence which is portrayed in detail. Drug misuse doesn't have to be backed up with a anti-drug use message. Sex and nudity is normally not censored in films rated 18 and can be shown in detail.

Our film is an action thriller and because of the popularity with young people for this genre, we would be aiming for a 15 certificate for release if we were to approach the BBFC with our final production.
Below there is a profile for the film Transporter 3. This film is an action thriller film and below it shows that the age rating is 15 and 37% of the audience is from the ages 15-24. 72% of the audience was also male telling us that the male gender is the majority of the people going to an action thriller film. The class that is going to these films is mostly working class meaning that it is mostly young people meaning that the 15 certificate is ideal and more people will be interested to watch our film.

Initial Ideas

Initial Ideas

Positives and Negatives
For our initial ideas I think our group did well on planning out what our trailer was going to be like. We knew a clear plan of what we wanted our trailer to be like. The local area is also suitable for the theme of our film. Representation of certain genres and people have also been met and I think this will help our trailer be successful because people will want cliché moments in an action thriller film.


One thing that we haven't planned very well is the actors because we didn't have an idea of who our characters were going to be in our trailer. We have also mainly aimed our film trailer at the male audience which could be bad as we could have made our audience a lot broader by aiming it at women as well as men.

Actors and Props

Actors
The actors we are using for our trailer are the people in our group.
Callum                                     Kevin                                          Ruslan
 

Props
We are filming a chase scene for our opening scene so not many props are needed but we may need to borrow some costumes to suit the characters we want to portray in our trailer.

A prop that we are using is Ruslan's coat:
Callum will borrow his coat for his role in our opening scene.

Media Project Preliminary Task

Media Studies Preliminary Task

For our preliminary task we were asked to film a short clip of someone walking into a room and crossing a room to sit down a exchange a few lines of dialogue with somebody sitting opposite them. For this task we were given a tripod and camera to film our Preliminary task. We filmed our shots by mounting the camera on the tripod and adjusting it to clearing show the people in the scene. One of the things we did well was the conversation between the two characters. We had obeyed the 180 degree rule and we cross cut between the two characters to show the conversation. However, we didn't consider the rule of thirds meaning that the characters were always in the centre of the shot. Another thing that we didn't do to well was the scene when I opened the door. When we were recording that scene we only recorded me opening the door half way. If we would have recorded me opening the door and walking through, then the scene would seem more natural after we edited it all together.

To edit the shots we just cut the parts of the clips with no movement. This helped the scenes look more natural and made it look like each scene wasn't suddenly jumping to the next. Our filming limited what we could do in our editing slightly. For example when I opened the door, we couldn't make it as natural as we could because I only opened the door half way.

Software used to create our first Media Project

Software used to edit our short film

The program we used to edit our short film was adobe premiere elements 10. We used the cutting tool to edit out the silent parts at the start and end of each clip. For one of our scenes we used a black and white effect on the video to make the scene more dramatic. In the same scene we used a tool to speed up the people turning around to make the characters seem more threatening. 

Feedback from other groups on first Media Project

Feedback from other groups

One group said that we could of used cross cutting in our first scene to show the conversation between Shaun and Ryan. They also said that we could have used the fade to black effect to transition into the next scene instead of just suddenly jumping to the next part. Another group said that we could have made the sound louder in some parts of our preliminary task because you couldn't hear what the characters were saying. 

Strengths and Weaknesses of first Media Project

Strengths and Weaknesses
Some thing we did well in our first media project is the editing. This was the first time we had used the programme Adobe premiere elements 10. It was quite easy to cut out the parts of the clip which we didn't want and we could therefore making our media project look a lot more professional. We also used adobe premiere elements 10 to speed up a scene to make the scene more dramatic. Another thing that we did well was the different camera angles used to make our actors look more or less superior to someone else. We were also able to use lots of different establishing shots to tell our audience where the scene was set.


Some thing we didn't do too well was the acting. This was the first time we were acting on camera and we were also limited on time. To improve on this we could retake multiple scenes so that our media project would look more professional. Something we could have done is practise panning the camera across a scene to make our project more advanced.