Audience Profile

the type of people we are looking for is people who are interested in actions films, people who are into fast paced films, packed with actions scenes and maybe the odd explosion or two. we chose this theme because we as a group thought that it would appeal to more people than a drama or comedy.

the age group that our film is targeting  is from around 16-40. the reason why we chose this range is because stereotypical male's around this age are interested in action such as fighting, guns, explosions. we are aiming to appeal to this audience by adding in fight scenes between the cops and gang members and we are also going to be using guns as props in order to give the fight scene a sense of realism.

we are expecting the majority of the viewers to be male because stereotypical males like action and explosion whereas girls are more into romance and drama films, but this doesn't mean that we aren't aiming it at just males, we expect to aim it at both gender. we will add a sense of drama and mystery to the opening scene at the end where one of the cops gets shot, by doing this it leaves the audience thinking what will happen next so they will watch on.

Conventions of action genre

there are different conventions for different movie genres. however there are things that occur in all movies such as the title of the movie and the production companies and within some movies they name the actors and actresses at the beginning of the movie rather than the ending. for action movies the conventions you normally see are as followed:

• the camera pace is always fast during action movies
• there is always the movie title (name of the movie)
• normally show the location e.g urban city
• there is more use of establishing shots and close ups to show intensity
• the use of fast tempo music 
• they also use the Todorov's Theory in some action movies.  

this is a trailer to a action movie showing all these qualities.

Mindmap

this is a mind map of ideas that we are thinking of for our movie opening.

AJA Feedback

1. Post your focus group video. Also evaluate responses, rather than simply stating what the questions were - how does the feedback inform your product?

2. Also add some comments for your moodboard discussing ideas.

3. Post your planning mindmap (use website: Text2mindmap) and your analysis of conventions.
  
4. Analysis work is still too brief - add more detail/terminology please.

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Production schedule

Tuesday 9th September
Form my group and make my first post which will be the introduction

Thursday 18th September
Plan idea for our primlimanary task which  is to film a short video with specific shots used

Monday 22nd September
Film the primlimanary task

Wednesday 24th September
Finish editing the primlimanary task and post it on youtube

Thursday 2nd October
Fully plan out our initial idea for the opening

Sunday 5th October
Complete all tasks sent and start new tasks

Sunday 12th October
Complete set tasks and begin planning the film

Thursday 16th October
Make a film title and a production title

Thursday 23rd October
Create a questionnaire and focus group

Tuesday 28th October
Choose our props and characters

Thursday 30th October 
Choose location for the filming

Sunday 9th November
Complete tasks

Thursday 13th November
Complete extra tasks

Tuesday 18th November
Take pictures of the characters and  set dates for filming

Focus Group

This is our focus group for our film opening project. We used the opening scene of the bank robbery in the dark knight and thought of questions that would help plan our film opening.

The first question was 'would you rather want to see a drug bust in the opening or the planning of the drug bust?'. In the focus group they decide to go with the planning of a drug bust but we thought it would be a better idea to actually start with the drug bust because it gives a lively opening scene that would attract the viewers.

The second question was 'would a slow pace opening or a fast pace opening be more effective?' and we will be going through with the answer in the focus group and use fast pace because it will hook in the viewer as someone said.

The next question was 'what do you think was most effective?' and we thought that we will need some interesting dialogue that will intrigue the viewer into knowing what will happened next.

After that was the question 'what do you think was a key audience pleasure?' as said in the group we need to build suspense within our opening in order to make the viewer want to watch on.

mood board

For my mood board i have used pictures that will relate towards the opening of our film. I have used pictures such as the props: the guns, the police badge and the fake money. I've used these to show that we are trying to make it more realistic. Then I've used a picture of a abandoned school to show the location in which we are setting our opening in. Lastly i have used pictures of drug exchanges within fairly recognisable movies such as the godfather and 21 jump street, to show different types of scenarios that can happened, like the drug lords catching the undercover cops in the act.

questionnaire analysis

AJA Feedback

1. Remove the first post. Blog should be presented professionally!

2. Post your planning for the prelim task - research into different filming techniques

3. Post your storyboard for the Prelim task

4. Change the order of your posts - Main task should come after Prelim task

5. Evaluate your prelim task, discussing strengths and weaknesses. Also discuss what you have learnt that will make you do things differently in the main task

6. Add more detail to your analysis work (three different openings) for the Main task

7. Post regular progress reports on your blog – treat it like a diary 

8. Try to come up with more of your own planning/research tasks to show your own creative journey

Much more effort required Taylor.