Tuesday 10 May 2011
Debra MacMillan
Age 19
Boyfriend
White
Middle classed
Lives with her mum, step dad, younger brother and 2 younger sisters in a council house in the outskirts of a big town
Studies beauty therapy and works part time at the cinema distributing popcorn
Debra enjoys going out drinking with her mates on the weekend, either to a friend’s house or out clubbing. Aims to become a hair dresser and one day open her own salon 
Tyrelle
Age 21
Black
Single
Upper middle class
Lives at home with mum and dad in a nice house in the suburbs
Studies sports at university and a part time bartender
Tyrelle enjoys playing sports such as football and cricket. He also plays alot of video games in his spare time. Aims to become a P.E teacher or personal trainer.
Our target audience is aged from 15-late 20s. Lower to upper middle class males and females. Although predominately more males. We have aimed the film at this type of audience as they are the main cinema customers. Our target audience would mainly be from the working class as and at a wide variety of classes to optimise viewers. We’ve tried to achieve this by creating character that the tagert audience would be interested in. By making them roughly the same age and of the same class we hope the audience would be attracted to Bill. We have kept the violence, swearing and sexual content to a minimum of BBFC guidelines to make Bill no more restricted than a 15 so we don’t lose any of our audience and opening it to the wider public. We took our questionnaire results into consideration as this was from our target audience that we needed to cater to, so tried to make a contemporary film, with added noir aspects and stylistics.
Attarct/address the audience
We tried to make a story line that the audience would buy into. And make it based in a place that our target audience may have grown up or are currently occupant. We also made it so the audience could relate to on so many level; Abusive relations ships, Making hard decisions, Taking the wrong path in life, Growing up in a rough area, all things that our target audience may personally have encountered or know people that have.
The characters were based on people that actually exist in real life, we all know a ‘jack the lad’ and a mysterious girl. The ordinary type of people caught up in sticky situations to get out of hand, and try to make the audience feel interacted as this could happen to someone they know or themselves and can relate. And the costumes reflected the commonness of the characters of the casual clothing, to how they act.
We tried to incorporate the titles in with the shots and editing so that the audience could digest the text whilst consuming the footage but also to keep the audience interested and reframe them from getting bored of solid text. We also tried to keep the pace of the piece quite fast to keep the audience attention and interested. But not too fast that you can’t see the emotions and the ideology behind some shots eg blood on the hands and sitting all alone, feeling alone in the world. We used a piece of music that we thought would give an effect of uneasiness and that something had done wrong. Music that gave an edge on the whole piece further more leaving the audience questioning.
We hope the attraction came from the setting of your average place in England that everyone has seen, been to, lives in. And that the characters are easily related to and that people know or are just like these character. Also that the storyline can be interpreted to so many things that people also can touch into; violence, relationships, love. And that the enigma of what happened and the questions keep them hooked and really involved in the story and the characters.
Monday 9 May 2011
individual evaluation
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Our Media film thriller opening product mainly focuses and represents the younger youth; we had 4 typical British teenagers aged 18-20 acting in our product. Involving the non-glamorous and unloved side of teenager’s life this made it more easy to relate to the audience target we was aiming to get which was from the age 15-22years old. Our film involves violence, victims, love, friendships, guilt, drugs and alcohol, it shows the reality of today what happens in teenagers life so I think the audience could relate to the situation that are happening in our opening. But I do feel that all our themes we have used in our opening would represent ever teenager who watches it. Also I thought the clothing and props are used well in the scene to represent the younger youth social groups as the actors just wore what they would wear if they were going shopping or just casual clothing.
Also the main character is a typical cocky, popular, good looking, stylist and who can get the girls this makes me think that male teenagers who watch this could look up to him wanting to be what is described as him. Our opening doesn’t really represent the older audience. However when they watch this they could probably relate to the situations that happen to the British teenagers as this could be their views on typical British teenagers now a days. I feel that we did a good job at making our product represent teenagers well as we looked into our films that represented the same audience such as films like Skins, Adulthood and Kidualhood. Also we used our props, locations and actors to make our film relate to our teen and young adult audience as much as possible.
Who would be the audience for your media product?
Our main audience we were trying to attract to our film opening product was teenagers particularly ages between 15-22years old. Also I feel that our product could be seen for the lower middle class audience as this is likely who will be buying our film as it’s a low British budget film. A reason why we have picked the audience to be aged between 15-22 years old is also because these ages are the highest population in Britain
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
Our film opening would be an independent British low budget distributor such like film4 and our film could also be seen on E4 and channel four as many other films that are shown on these channels are for the young youth group such as the film Skins and inbetweeners. It will be co-produced by a British company which will be a low budget film which Film Four is so this would be a brilliant company to show our film “bill”. Also I think we have chosen a British base company as in our film we have used a lot of British culture such as the actors are British and the location etc.
Our film would be shown in small and independent cinemas such as the Ipswich such as the cinema cineworld. As teenagers and young adults will be seeing the film “Bill” we would not want it to be too expensive and cineworld is perfect as it’s a lower price then say theatres so this would let the audience being able to afford to go see our film “Bill”.
What we used to create our film “Bill”:
Preproduction:
We used Communication technology to communicate with each other to let know what times places to be at this made it much easier and less worried because we was organised. Also as we could contact each other we could let the group know if one of us was going to be late letting the group start with out them this meant we didn’t loose any time and our film was not rushed when making it. We used face book, emails, MSN and phones to text and call each other to keep in contact with each other.
Tuesday 3 May 2011
GROUP NOTES-SHOOTING
During shooting we decided to make a few changes:
When we shot the street scene we decided to take more shots than we had planned, we planned to take a total of 4 shots, however we decided to take a wider variety of shots in order to have a greater choice, in total we took about 8 or 9 different shots for that scene.
Because of this when we started editing we had a wide choice of shots and so we could keep continuity and interest in that scene as the shots weren’t too long.
When we shot the main part of the opening we kept to the main storyboard of ideas, however we used different shot types again in order to create a better, more interesting clip.
We also tested different coloured light filters in order to create a better lighting appearance but decided that the natural colour of the light appeared the best.
Also during the first long shot we filmed, we used a piece of card with strips cut out in order to create a Venetian blind effect. We did this in order to keep to the stylistics of classic film noir apparent in our contemporary noir opening.
When we shot the street scene we decided to take more shots than we had planned, we planned to take a total of 4 shots, however we decided to take a wider variety of shots in order to have a greater choice, in total we took about 8 or 9 different shots for that scene.
Because of this when we started editing we had a wide choice of shots and so we could keep continuity and interest in that scene as the shots weren’t too long.
When we shot the main part of the opening we kept to the main storyboard of ideas, however we used different shot types again in order to create a better, more interesting clip.
We also tested different coloured light filters in order to create a better lighting appearance but decided that the natural colour of the light appeared the best.
Also during the first long shot we filmed, we used a piece of card with strips cut out in order to create a Venetian blind effect. We did this in order to keep to the stylistics of classic film noir apparent in our contemporary noir opening.
Pre-Production
For the pre-production work I created the questionnaire and gave them out which helped us have a rough idea how to make our film opening connect with the audience. Also I helped fill in the group roll sheets and call sheets. Also I helped make up the script for the voice over.
When we were filming I used the camera and shot scenes I wasn’t in for example the one of the flash scene when the man is beating up the girl. I also acted in the film opening as I was the girls friend who was walking down the. For this I wore simple clothing which I would wear everyday such as shopping. I didn’t wear anything over the top as we tried to make Larni look like the main character I was just an extra who wasn’t seen anymore after the street shot. Also as a group we planned the storyline and picked the location.
Group notes
Tuesday march 8th
- We added Light ray effects added to the flashback of the dead body give mysterious look to it.
- We added car sounds to the main (street) flashback create an urban effect
- We lowered the sound from the main flashback because it was a windy day and the sound gear picked up too much unwanted noise
- We moved the flashbacks of the dead body to make it fit to the character, because it didn’t fit in because it didn’t make sense being flashback straight after flashback.
- We added an effect called “over drive” To the flashback of the fight scene and we changed the white and gray colours to create an effect so it was clearly a flashback.
- We shortened the fight scene and sped it up to make it appear more violent and more physical to the audience.
Tuesday march 15th
- We put a fade on the shot where Ashley is opening the bathroom door and we also put a fade on the flashback where the door is being opened in order for the shot to swap over nicely and smoothly from the present to the flashback.
- We put on the title of the film “Bill” and also the production titles such as “ a teleport production” and “BXU” which are our production companies.
- We added a bit of non diegetic music at the beginning of the scene, this is our start off point for music in the scene.
- We deleted the close up shot of Ashley as it appeared too quick on the edit and so was unappealing to the eye.
Tuesday march 22nd
- We recorded the voice over and cut and paste it onto our film noir style opening
- We typed out and researched the audience views via a questionnaire
Tuesday march 29th
- We changed the colour on a clip of Ashley as the colouring stood out compared to the other clips as it was too red/orange. Because of the colour difference we altered the orange clips with a colour altering effect.
- We placed the voiceover clips in the correct place so it made the best out of the scene, we placed a large section of the voiceover on a large shot so that the clip appeared less boring to the audience.
- We decreased the volume of the music where the voiceovers were also playing so the voiceovers were audible.
- We faded the music just before the voice clips so the alteration in music was not too noticeable
- We added character titles in so the actors are known within the opening sequence, we placed the titles over the shots on an invisible background so the titles linked in well with the opening scene.
- We added Light ray effects added to the flashback of the dead body give mysterious look to it.
- We added car sounds to the main (street) flashback create an urban effect
- We lowered the sound from the main flashback because it was a windy day and the sound gear picked up too much unwanted noise
- We moved the flashbacks of the dead body to make it fit to the character, because it didn’t fit in because it didn’t make sense being flashback straight after flashback.
- We added an effect called “over drive” To the flashback of the fight scene and we changed the white and gray colours to create an effect so it was clearly a flashback.
- We shortened the fight scene and sped it up to make it appear more violent and more physical to the audience.
Tuesday march 15th
- We put a fade on the shot where Ashley is opening the bathroom door and we also put a fade on the flashback where the door is being opened in order for the shot to swap over nicely and smoothly from the present to the flashback.
- We put on the title of the film “Bill” and also the production titles such as “ a teleport production” and “BXU” which are our production companies.
- We added a bit of non diegetic music at the beginning of the scene, this is our start off point for music in the scene.
- We deleted the close up shot of Ashley as it appeared too quick on the edit and so was unappealing to the eye.
Tuesday march 22nd
- We recorded the voice over and cut and paste it onto our film noir style opening
- We typed out and researched the audience views via a questionnaire
Tuesday march 29th
- We changed the colour on a clip of Ashley as the colouring stood out compared to the other clips as it was too red/orange. Because of the colour difference we altered the orange clips with a colour altering effect.
- We placed the voiceover clips in the correct place so it made the best out of the scene, we placed a large section of the voiceover on a large shot so that the clip appeared less boring to the audience.
- We decreased the volume of the music where the voiceovers were also playing so the voiceovers were audible.
- We faded the music just before the voice clips so the alteration in music was not too noticeable
- We added character titles in so the actors are known within the opening sequence, we placed the titles over the shots on an invisible background so the titles linked in well with the opening scene.
Research and Questionnaire
We created a Questionnaire to see if we could use the information we go from it to help with our film noir opening. As this would let us know what the audience are interested in seeing and what they dislike. We randomly handed them out to people and have found out that most of our audience were aged 17- 24 none were above the age 31 one, because of this result we tried to make our film noir opening a 15 as the audience age we are trying to connect with would be 15-25. Also a good twist in a film and a cliff hanger is always good and this I what a lot of people said they enjoy a film having. This is why we added a twist to our opening making the audience guessing on what has happened who has died and why. The results to the question what is your favourite genre of film were brilliant to us students who are doing a film opening as the most answered was Thriller and noir. The audience like a good storyline and characters, we are going to think of the best storyline as possible make it exciting and also will plan out our characters from how old they are, clothing, makeup and face expression.
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