Planning our own production

From our research we now know what the typical conventions of horror / thriller films are, what you would see on a magazine front cover and a film poster. We also have done audience research so we know what our audience likes and dis-likes. This would make our production more sucessful as we know what suits our targeted audience best. We looked into excisting products, such as film trailers, film reviews, film posters and cinema magazines. We looked at the content of each of them. For film trailers we looked at timings, the credit content, and how much of the plot they gave away. We looked into alot of details about all factors of the film industry,and this helped us in not only planning our prduction but editing and making it too.
We looked at different location settings, costumes, ideas for plots, music ideas, digetic and non digetic, and casting. For planning we also drew lots of storyboards that would help us know the order of our filming, we also drew ideas for the print productions so we had an idea of what we wanted it to look like.

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Audience Research.

We then looked into audience research, we used burtons theory of grouping your target audience, and we created a questionnaire that we could use to find out how we can attract our target audience, and what colouring and pictures would be most efficent. We then looked online at different genres of film and looked at what was different between them, we also looked at different posters of the films and also looked at what was different between them such as; pictures, misenscene, colour shemes, and fonts. We then related this back to our own film and genre.

Film Poster Planning.

In our brief we also have to include a poster that promotes our film, and a cinema magazine that features and advertises our film. We looked at film posters and what they include, such as a main strong image on the cover, the title of the film in a font that suits the genre and when the film is due to be released at the cinemas. We also looked at different aspects of the poster such as representation, conventions, connatations and denotations, the preffered meaning of the poster and what message the poster gives out as a whole.

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Plot Summarys.

We then did some research into plot summarys to give us an idea into what we should base our film on and what genre we should have.
We then decided we are going to make our film a thriller and so we looked more indepth to films such as 'The hills have eyes' and 'drag me to hell'. We now also have an idea about what we are going to base our film on, and as a result of this we also have ideas about what types of shots we could use to give a scary effect.

Analysing Film Trailer Shots.

Today we again looked at film trailers and chose certain shots we liked, we then looked at each aspect of the shot and anyalised it according to typical conventions. We looked at the mis-en-scene, the shots that were used, costume of the characters, and what the audience see in the foreground and background. We found this very helpful as it made us think about what we can include in our film that will be of a certain significance. We also have found that what you include helps the audience know what your target audience is.

Research Into Film.

We have researched into film trailers and conventions into film. This gives us an idea of what we can base our film on, and what we should include in our film. This has helped us alot as now have base ideas to help us get started. Looking at film trailers has also let us look into film shots and camera angles that look proffesional.

Introduction to our production

We have chosen to do a film trailer and print (brief 2). We have experience in creating high standards of print work using photoshop elements. We feel this will help us when we start to create our cinema magazine and poster to advertise our film, we also both enjoy filming and editing and have valid experience which will help us once we get started. In year 12 we produced a school magazine and this also was followed by a commerical music magazine.