Screening

We organised a premier of our film so that we could get feedback on our sequence and identify how we attracted our target audience by each member to fill out a questionnaire. The event was well publicised, with announcements in a whole school assembly, a Facebook page was set up by Philippa and a poster was put up around the school leading to a turnout well surpassing the 35 we expected.

Event page

Film Poster

Earlier this day I held a test screening to ensure all sound was working.

Our screening is shown below, it features the audience reactions alongside the sequence.

Also, after our preview screening, we messaged people on the event with a YouTube link to our opening sequence, enabling those who could not attend the screening to watch it and leave feedback as well as encouraging them to repost it show friends and family.

Event message

As well as this I posted our sequence on the social network site Twitter to widen our range of feedback and spread the word.

My posts

Feedback and example of people sharing our film

Target Audience

Target Audience Research:

The genre of our film is mainly thriller, with elements of crime and action.

Here are some statisticts about the audience profile for thriller films:

Gender profile for people who like thriller films

Age profile for people who like thriller films

From our research we have come up with the following target audience:

Priamary target audience - 15 - 25 year olds, predominantly male. The main character in our film is a 17 year old male who we hope our audience can relate to.  The elements of action in our film should aslo be appealing to that market.

Secondary audience - 25 - 50 year olds who are fans of thrillers. There is a still a signifficant percentage of people who like thrillers that are over 25, (44%) and they are therefore our secondary audience.

Music research

We think, as our film would be set in East London, a way to instantly portray this would be through the music.

The music, for the chase scene especially would add to the atmosphere of the moment as this music does for this clip:


A song we like is Water Torture by Cee Why, it is from the Kidulthood soundtrack (also portraying the same part of London). We like this as it has a eery squeak to it that shows bad is going on (with the disposing of the dead body). It also has a quieter beginning which could contrast the shots of our innocent victim and then the shots of our antagonists. However, this music is not very tense for the moment when our victim is hiding, and just builds on the adrenaline for when our victim is running.




We also feel that this music would work well, as it has a gan gstyle feel to it and could also work well with a running sequence.


So, for the beginning of our sequence we think it should be very quiet with only diegetic sounds of the forest and our main character moving, and for the dialogue of our antagonists. However when the characters start running i think the music above or something similar would fit in nicely, as the bass and beat seem to represent the adrenaline heartbeat of the protagonist.

Research - Chasing Sequences

Casino Royale opening:

The sequence involves lots of wide and long shots to establish the environment that they are in. There are also lots of tracking and panning shots which give a feel of movement and chaos. Editing between shots is predominantly done by cuts as this keeps up the pace of the sequence.

We plan on using some of these techniques in our opening sequence to mimic the feel of a chase.

Initial Research

Influences:

The Bourne series:

The idea behind Bourne, is that the main character is an anti-hero on the run, but has nobody to turn to. We want to use this idea in our film. Our main character (Jack) has witnessed a crime but can't tell anyone because he is also a criminal. He therefore has to try and find out who the people chasing him are, and put an end to their criminal business before they kill him.

Taken:

Taken is about a group of people that abduct girls on holiday, and force them into the sex trafficking business. We were thinking of using a similar back story for the main villains in our film. Jack would have to stop them before they claim their next victim, which in turn could spark up a love interest between Jack and the girl.

Kidulthood:

Our film could potentially be set in East London, and gangs, drugs and street violence would play a significant role. Kidulthood shows gang culture and the problems faced by youth in London. We could use some of their ideas in our film.