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Final film thriller opening:

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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.

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. Our film is also certificated as a 15 instead of it be an 18 this lets the ages 15-17year olds still see it. To make it a 12 certificated film we would have had to cut out the language, blood, violent and drug scenes to make it safer for the aged 12 year olds to watch this. We choose not to do this as the film mainly relied on these scenes and the film would not have been as affected to the audience as we wanted it to be to. But then it could have benefited our film as it would be viewed by a wider rage of aged audience but then could be a disadvantage as well.

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.