Typical Target Audience Member

 
 

For our film "Rejected", the type of target audience that would appeal to the genre of the film would be a boy or girl. The age range would be any ages as it targets a family film as our classifaction is a PG. The image I have uploaded is a typical audience member, his age is 16 and the genre of films he enjoys to watch are mainly action and comedy. His favourite films are, "Saving Private Ryan" and "Kick ass", starring Aaron Johnson who is one of his favourite actors. Hobbies that he enjoys doing at the weekends are skiing at a local centre and football, drama and rugby. He also likes playing on his x-box and watching television programmes including, mock the week and top gear.

Target Audience Questionnaire Evaluation

Target Audience Questionnaire Evaluation 

How important do you think the special effects are?

72% of people we asked thought the special effects were important.

How important to you do you think music is in creating the mood?

86% of people thought music was very important to creating the mood.

How important do you think titles are for a opening sequence?

61% of people that we asked think that the titles of an opening sequence are important.

Having seen the statistics, it is important that we have music as our audience have stated it to be the key importance out of all three. 

Target Audience Questionnaire

Target Audience Questionnaire 

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                                                                         M          F

Your Gender

                                                                      11-13   14-16   17-21

Your Age 

Circle

Favourite Genre of film                            Action Comedy  Thriller                                                                                                                                                               

                                           

                                                                       Rom-Com Horror  Something Else

Scale. 1- Priority to 10- Last thing to think about.

How important do you think are special effects?

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How important to you think music is, in creating the mood?

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How important do you think the titles are?

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Locations of Filming

We took photos of the locations where we want to film. We chose this setting because it's just outside our school and so it was easy for me and my partner and our actors to locate. We said at the beginning that we wanted "Jess" to walk down a path, and this path has a lay-by which enables us to film without the danger of traffic.

 

For one of our scenes, we thought it would be a sensible idea to have a black, plain background in order to take away any distraction from the actor. There were two backgrounds in which we could use. The first one has coloured patches on which can be taken of to have just a black sheet. However, we decided to choose the second background as it was a lot bigger and so therefore it would be more reliable.

     

 

For one shot, “Jess” is sat on the back right table with the left chair. She is sat still whilst people are walking past her taking no notice, this emphasises her being lonely and by herself through-out her school life. 

The next images are the different locations where we would like to films flashbacks that happen to "Jess" when people physically and mentally hurt her e.g. Hit her, laugh at her etc. Having the flashbacks being repeated creates effect and shows that "Jess" goes through the bullying daily. Making the different shots quicker and quicker will then build up to a climax of the title saying, Rejection".

Security of Names

For the lead character, we have her name spoken on voiceover, which meant we had to think of a sensible name. I told George how I liked the name "Jess Huntly", however after some discussion, we thought that the surname sounded more upper class rather than middle which is what we wanted. "Jess Hunter" however, sounds like a  middle class, common name, but also the surname "Hunter", brings something myseterious about her name which relates to the film as she has magical powers.
I went on the website http://www.imdb.com/ where I typed in the name to find out whether it's a popular name in the performing arts industry. There were three "Jess Hunter's" and non of the films were popular which meant it was acceptable for us to use the name.
I also typed into the website our title which is called, "Rejected". There were only two films with the same title, none of which were big, popular films. This meant we were able to keep this name for our title.

Jobs

Producer - George Cooper

Director - Kate Fenwick

Actors - Rachel Brent, Faye Dixon, Megan Deighton and Gemma Chambers

Planning - George Cooper and Kate Fenwick

Planning for Opening Film

At the beginning of the research, me and my partner discussed different effects in our opening shots. I liked how you can find films that have a comic book effect in the opening credits, i found my inspriation of this of the film Juno.

We have a girl walking down a path with a couple of girls around the same age, staring at her and giggling. Because of this, i felt it wouldnt be appopiate to have the comic book effect because to me it seems a good way to opening a cheerful, happy family film.

After drawing our storyboard, i thought it would be a good idea having a voice-over to create the mystery of why she was different to other people her age. We decided to have two people being the same person but in different periods of their life. Having the older actor speaking in the voiceover whilst the younger actor is on camera is clever because we see her at the end as being older and only then does it really make sense of why she is different, so this makes it a climax!

Casting
Because we had two people playing the same character, they needed to look similar in order for it looking realistic. I was thinking of people in our year (because it would be easy to contact them and more likely to know them), that look slightly younger then our age to play the younger "Jess Hunter". I told my partner about a girl in our year who looked similar to another girl in the year above. They both take theatre studies and so i knew they had experience in playing different roles. The female in the year above also looks older then there age so there was an age gap in looks between them.

Mise-En-Scene
Costume-Modern clothing because we want it to be around this era.
Lighting-Day light.
Actors-Both actors having a similar appearance so they would look similar to eachother.
Make-up-Asking the younger actor to not wear so much make-up in order of making her look younger.
Props-Having a her wear a school bad conveys her age and shows why she is walking.
Setting(s)-Having the opening film around school so it's easy for me and George (partner), and our actors to locate as we all go to the same school. Classroom with an appropiate black curtain for a plain background, we have took photos and are going to film this shot in our drama studio.

Sound
Non-digetic sound through-out. Background music. Voice-over. Foregrounded breathing. Camera sounds possibly of cars going by of shots of actor walking down pathway (might need to be turned down so doesnt interfere with storyline but keeping it down will make it as realistic as possible).

Editing
Fasst motion walking - time lap shot. Photos speeding up to create tension. ball of fire at the end to show the person has magical powers. Video transitions on varius shots (fading going into next shot).

Representational Feature
Only females are in the opening of the film. The aging in which we want the actors to look is around 13-20. The class and status of all the actors is middle class making it relavent to people watching as it's classed in the middle. This can be shown by them both dressed neatly wearing average, modern clothing.

Target Audience
Gender: Both.
Class: U - exceptable for everyone.

Opening Film Research

Over the last couple of lessons, we have been looking at past students work to give us some inspiration on what works well and what doesn't. Depending on what genre the film is e.g. thriller, comedy; that would relate to the techniques you would use in your opening sequence. We watched a thriller and I thought the foregrounded noise of breathing created tension and was a good way to finish the sequence as you want to know what happens next. The use of close up's worked well because it stresses something significant in the shot and can bring it into the performance e.g. One of the past students picked up some keys which showed only his hand and keys in the shot. We watched one opening where the the first shot was too long because they had that as only only using text on screen in introduce the key people who made it. This can make veiwers get bored straight away and then miss the rest of the sequence.