Facebook group

We have decided to make a Facebook group to get feedback about our movie, website, poster, e.c.t. Facebook is the perfect place for us to conduct audience research as people can take part in quizzes or answer our questions interactively without taking up a lot of time.

Many films use social networking sites to advertise films. This is an example of how film companies use new technology in order to reach out to their target audience who use it. The most popular target audience is 18-26 year olds and the main users of social networking sites such as Facebook are also 18-26 year olds. This suggests that film companies are using a new advertising and research technique which was not available before the technical revolution.

We used Facebook for the following reasons

• To conduct audience research- to see who would be watching our film
• To see if our ideas appeal to our target audience
• To gain feedback on our rough cut and final piece

Our decisions based on the questionnaire

According to the questionnaire our target audience is males between the age of 16 and 24. Because of this it is important that our genre is popular with the target audience in order to attract them. Originally we decided to make our movie a teen drama, however the most popular genre with our target audience is comedy. We have therefore decided to make a teen drama with a comedic edge. This will appeal to more than half of the target audience (males ages 16-24), which will hopefully give us a larger audience.

Questionnaire analysis

60% of the females sampled watched a movie once a week.

The most popular genre (according to our research) is Romance, followed by Comedy. The least popular genre is Action.

The females who we questioned are attracted to movies by the actors and the trailers. The did not actively seek out trailers but watched them when at the cinema.

The most popular teen dramas are Kidulthood, Skins and The Inbetweeners.

These results are regardless of age- as all different ages had, on average, the same results.

80% of the males asked watched more than one film a week.
The most popular genre is Comedy, closely followed by Action. The least favourites being Romance and Horror.

Good trailers and the actors are what attracts them to go and watch a film.

The members of the sample who actively seek out trailers, watch them on Youtube or on T.V.

Skins and The Inbetweeners are the most popular Teen Dramas.

These results are based on 16-24 year olds.

Costume

Website Research and Analysis

According to this research the main features of a movies website are:

• Images of the characters
• Details of the production and distributors
• Film trailer
• Links to other parts of the website e.g. character profiles
• Link to facebook and Twitter pages
• Title and film catchprase

We need to use this research and include these features when producing our own website. This will help it to look more proffesional and work better as an actual movie website.

Shooting

Day 1 - Cuckoos Hollow and surrounding areas.

We first started filming in the October half term. We decided to use actors due to the fact that it would better allow the group to focus entirely on the production side of filming.

The main locations we used were Cuckoo's Hollow in Werrington and garages in Gunthorpe, which we chose to use instead of the originally planned ones in Walton. This was because the Gunthorpe garages looked less urban as they were better kept, and based on the idea that our film is a comedy, we thought it would be funnier if the story was set in a very leafy, green Suburbia kind of setting. To give the allusion of “posh kids acting street”.

These are our actors: Anthony Race, Sophie Wardell and Joe Stimson. We dressed them all in the similar costumes of jeans and jackets to make them look geeky, plain and very ordinary.

This is a photo of Dan (production) positioning an actor so that he is framed correctly in the shot and according to his surroundings.

Prop list

In our trailer we will have to use some props to make the production more realistic and professional. A prop is an object that is used by a character to help add to the atmosphere of the scene. A small prop such as a pen or a bottle is known as a "hand prop" these are the types of props that are used the most usually without the audience realising. Larger props such as cars and tables are used as part of the set and these are obvious to the audience.
The props that we need are as followed :

Sports bag filled with money
We are planning on using one of our own sports bags so that we do not have to buy a new one that will add cost to our production. We also need a large quantity of money this will be hard to obtain so we are going to print off several "specimen" notes that are found on google.

Vodka bottles
We need these to feature in a scene where the characters are celebrating that they have found the money by getting drunk. For this we will use empty Vodka bottles that have been filled with water.

Water gun
We need a water gun to film a comedic scene. We will buy this from a local shop before production.

Dog
In our production a character is chased by a dog. To add to the comedic edge of the film we don't want to use an intimidating breed of dog. Two members of the group have dogs as pets so we will use one of theirs as they have given their consent, allowing it to be used.

Car
In another scene the characters are driving a car but are over taken by a walking old lady. One of us owns a car so we will probably use theirs due to easy access.
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