Thursday, 29 November 2012
Focus Group for Ideas and plot
From our focus group we learnt that some of the people we interviewed liked the name Seizer and liked how we were making a twist on the main stream film Taken. We also found that our focus group liked our idea of having an interrogation scene in the film.
What people didn't like about our plot and idea was that it was a bit cliched and that it didn't make sense to all our focus group and so we found ourselves having to constantly repeat the plot. Also one member didn't like the name Seizer as it made her think of the emperor Ceaser instead of the meaning of seize.
Sunday, 25 November 2012
Tuesday, 20 November 2012
Advanced Production Questionnaire (Teaser Trailer)
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Question 1 - What is your gender?
We asked this question so that we can get to know the proportion of female and male people answering our questionnaire.
Question 2 - What is your age?
We asked this question because depending on our responses age, they may have different veiw points.
Question 3 - Did a trailer you watch meet the expectations of the film? Name the film and give a reason?
By asking this question we will be given a list of films that produced a successful trailer. This will help us in taking key ideas from these trailers to improve our teaser trailer.
Question 4 - Have you seen a trailer which you liked, but been dissapointed with the film? Name the film and give reson why?
This is the inverse question to the previous question. By asking this question, we will be able to identify which trailers were unsuccessful and to be sure to not include the key things in those trailer to put in our own production.
Question 5 - Which of these pieces of clothing do you think a Hitman character should wear?
The responses we recieve for this question will help in developing our final costume for our Hitman character.
Question 6 - If a scene were to be done in the dark to create mystery would you have a...?
We asked this question because a multiple scenes in our film is show an interigation between characters and Richard Smith. This scene must be very mysterious and create tension. By asking this question, we will be able to get a response to which scenery creates the most tension and mystery for our film.
Question 7 - In an Action trailer, what else apart from action would you expect to see ?
This question will help us fill in any details we missed which we should include in our trailer.
Question 8 - Any other comments you would like to make on how we could make a Action-Thiller genre trailer? Anything you believe we should include?
Again this question helps us in filling in any points we missed out in our film production teaser trailer.
Question 1 - What is your gender?
We asked this question so that we can get to know the proportion of female and male people answering our questionnaire.
Question 2 - What is your age?
We asked this question because depending on our responses age, they may have different veiw points.
Question 3 - Did a trailer you watch meet the expectations of the film? Name the film and give a reason?
By asking this question we will be given a list of films that produced a successful trailer. This will help us in taking key ideas from these trailers to improve our teaser trailer.
Question 4 - Have you seen a trailer which you liked, but been dissapointed with the film? Name the film and give reson why?
This is the inverse question to the previous question. By asking this question, we will be able to identify which trailers were unsuccessful and to be sure to not include the key things in those trailer to put in our own production.
Question 5 - Which of these pieces of clothing do you think a Hitman character should wear?
The responses we recieve for this question will help in developing our final costume for our Hitman character.
Question 6 - If a scene were to be done in the dark to create mystery would you have a...?
We asked this question because a multiple scenes in our film is show an interigation between characters and Richard Smith. This scene must be very mysterious and create tension. By asking this question, we will be able to get a response to which scenery creates the most tension and mystery for our film.
Question 7 - In an Action trailer, what else apart from action would you expect to see ?
This question will help us fill in any details we missed which we should include in our trailer.
Question 8 - Any other comments you would like to make on how we could make a Action-Thiller genre trailer? Anything you believe we should include?
Again this question helps us in filling in any points we missed out in our film production teaser trailer.
Saturday, 17 November 2012
Trailer Pattern
The genre of our film is Action-Thriller. There are certain conventions to a Thriller genre that we will have to use which are to create suspense. We can create suspense using different trailer patterns. The first trailer pattern we could use is the 'Character-Driven' trailer. This trailer pattern concentrates on a single or group of people who have a huge impact on our media production. This is shown in films that have a comic book adaptation like the 'Avengers' and Batman. Our film protagonist is a young businessman. He could be described as an:
Another trailer pattern is a 'Plot Driven' teaser trailer. In this trailer pattern, the audience are compelled to viewing or listening to there favourite character and finding our hints to there characters role in the film. This trailer pattern could link with our film plot as we can make our trailer centred around our main protagonist but we have 3 protagonist. This will create mystery and suspense about our other characters if we decide to base our trailer on one of our protagonist.
A common trailer pattern is a 'Trigger-Event' teaser trailer. This trailer builds up slowly to a change in the plot which triggers other things to happen in the film. This is used commonly in Action-Thriller genres which is the genre of our film. We can build up a story in our trailer and then have a point where the story all changes and so the teaser trailer changes in pace or story. This can help create suspense and tension as our audience will be confused and would want to find out more about our film.
The final trailer pattern in a 'Theme centred' teaser trailer. In our film production, we have many themes but our main themes are violence and justice. However if we concentrate on a teaser trailer pattern on certain themes, we may give away to much of our film.
I believe for our production, we will be using a mixture of all these teaser trailer patterns. By doing so, we can pick the most helpful aspects of each pattern for our film production so we can make a better teaser trailer. Inevitably we are trying to make a teaser trailer that makes our audience want to see more and we believe this can be achieved by using a mixture of trailer patterns.
- A young, naive businessman who doesn't take anything for granted
- A father figure that is involved in dangerous side of life
- Boss with extra-ordinary friends
- Years of curiosity
Another trailer pattern is a 'Plot Driven' teaser trailer. In this trailer pattern, the audience are compelled to viewing or listening to there favourite character and finding our hints to there characters role in the film. This trailer pattern could link with our film plot as we can make our trailer centred around our main protagonist but we have 3 protagonist. This will create mystery and suspense about our other characters if we decide to base our trailer on one of our protagonist.
A common trailer pattern is a 'Trigger-Event' teaser trailer. This trailer builds up slowly to a change in the plot which triggers other things to happen in the film. This is used commonly in Action-Thriller genres which is the genre of our film. We can build up a story in our trailer and then have a point where the story all changes and so the teaser trailer changes in pace or story. This can help create suspense and tension as our audience will be confused and would want to find out more about our film.
The final trailer pattern in a 'Theme centred' teaser trailer. In our film production, we have many themes but our main themes are violence and justice. However if we concentrate on a teaser trailer pattern on certain themes, we may give away to much of our film.
I believe for our production, we will be using a mixture of all these teaser trailer patterns. By doing so, we can pick the most helpful aspects of each pattern for our film production so we can make a better teaser trailer. Inevitably we are trying to make a teaser trailer that makes our audience want to see more and we believe this can be achieved by using a mixture of trailer patterns.
Monday, 12 November 2012
Possible Locations
Our film is an urban drama based film, so we are going to be filming in urban areas.
This is an area in Brixton where we plan on using one of these areas shown for our production. We want to use an estate because one of our protagonist is a gang member and gangs mainly hang around estate areas as that is where they grow up. Also this indicates a sort of poor background which usually leads to violence and stealing and links to the reasoning of why one of our protagonist is a gang member.
Our other protagonist is a student who is planning on going on to university so we also need to use a school setting. The school we have chosen to use is Ernest Bevin College.
This is our school so it will be easy to film at school without having to sort out permission and sorting out times to meet.
We will also be using other locations which we haven't discussed as of yet.
Tuesday, 6 November 2012
Sunday, 4 November 2012
Survey
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Question 1
What is your age?
We would like to know our responses ages because we want to know if age has any effect on certain choices.
Question 2
What is your gender?
We believe it is nessacery to ask the responses gender because it could lead to biased opinions. Based on gender certain answers could be put down and so we need to take into account biased or sexist opinions.
Question 3
How often do you veiw teaser trailers?
From this question, we can see weather our respondent veiws teasers enough. This response is to just see weather many people in our target audience are into teaser trailers.
Question 4
How often do you go to the cinema?
This question gives an insight into our respondents hobbies as going to the cinema is considered a hobby. If they respond poorly to this question, then we will know weather or not to include this hobby into our film.
Question 5
What genre of film do you like to watch the most?
This question is going to help us reinforce the idea of us to make a Thriller genre film.
Question 6
How do you find out about teaser trailers?
This question enables us to find out whether our target audience is as keen as we are about films. Again it is to get an insight into our target audience.
Question 7
What method of watching film do you do the most?
This question helps us to again understand the background of our respondents.
Question 8
Do you believe using London city is a good place to film?
This question will help us decide whether or not to use London as our main location. This again is to enforce our original decision.
Question 9
What would you expect an Assassin/Hitman to wear?
This response is going to help us in how to dress our hitman protagonist.
Question 10
How would you expect an Assassin/Hitman to appear?
This will help us in completing our characters characteristics in our film. This will not only help us complete our character, but it will also help us mould a script around this character.
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Question 1
What is your age?
We would like to know our responses ages because we want to know if age has any effect on certain choices.
Question 2
What is your gender?
We believe it is nessacery to ask the responses gender because it could lead to biased opinions. Based on gender certain answers could be put down and so we need to take into account biased or sexist opinions.
Question 3
How often do you veiw teaser trailers?
From this question, we can see weather our respondent veiws teasers enough. This response is to just see weather many people in our target audience are into teaser trailers.
Question 4
How often do you go to the cinema?
This question gives an insight into our respondents hobbies as going to the cinema is considered a hobby. If they respond poorly to this question, then we will know weather or not to include this hobby into our film.
Question 5
What genre of film do you like to watch the most?
This question is going to help us reinforce the idea of us to make a Thriller genre film.
Question 6
How do you find out about teaser trailers?
This question enables us to find out whether our target audience is as keen as we are about films. Again it is to get an insight into our target audience.
Question 7
What method of watching film do you do the most?
This question helps us to again understand the background of our respondents.
Question 8
Do you believe using London city is a good place to film?
This question will help us decide whether or not to use London as our main location. This again is to enforce our original decision.
Question 9
What would you expect an Assassin/Hitman to wear?
This response is going to help us in how to dress our hitman protagonist.
Question 10
How would you expect an Assassin/Hitman to appear?
This will help us in completing our characters characteristics in our film. This will not only help us complete our character, but it will also help us mould a script around this character.
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