Evaluation Question 5 (Abby's Question)

5: How did you attract/address your audience?

Our intended target audience was 15 - 24 year olds, male and female. I feel that we stuck to the target audience very well as we had the right amount of suspense involved with the gore aspect pulling it all together. To target our audience we had older teenagers as the actors so that the audience could relate to the characters and get more attached to them. 

The soundtrack we created was quite upbeat and faded out into the radio report which attacks the threat - making it known. which helped a lot to attract the audience due to it being a serious news report being played out to the audience - the event isn't just random, it's threatening the world. 

The mise-en-scene really has an effect on the target audience because our actors looked very natural on the footage and don't look like they're putting it on which helps the film to look more realistic. for example the reaction when the jogger finds the dead body is very realistic and how you'd expect someone to react. the props such as the fangs and the blood make the film more thrilling as they looked quite realistic bar the problems we had during filming with them falling out a bit.

The location was very isolated which again adds to the horror part of the film. I think this has an impact on the target audience because in a horror film we found that people want to see blood, gore, isolated places because then the audience are on edge waiting for something to happen.

We went against generic vampire film conventions due to the vampire being out in the day (and not shining) and being able to attack in the day also adds to the attraction of the film because people feel safer in daytime so having all of these killings going on in the day time really throws the audience off.

Overall I think we did a good job in attracting the audience because of all of the mise-en-scene used and how we edited the film together to keep the audience on edge at the times needed. 

Editing screen shot, 3rd filming attempt

This is the editing stage of the 3rd attempt at filming which went pretty well till our actors dropped out.

Screen shoot, editing first film take

This is when we was editing our very first filming work.

editing screen shot. Second filming.

This is a print screen of us editing the second lot of footage after we filmed for a second time.

This week :)

Today we finished scanning everything in which is amazing!
We just need to finish off the evaluation questions and finish our film and we'll be well away!


We've recorded the voiceover this lesson and are in the stages of importing it into our soundtrack which means our soundtrack will be completed.


It is a packed lesson but will help us to organise and start finishing everything off.


The group filmed again on saturday completing all of the filming so it's just down to editing and finalising this week before we're done. It will be finished by thursday so it'll be fine.


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Scripts

Release Form

Lighting Design Sheet

Location and Equipment List.

Storyboard Sheets

Film Outline

Today's Lesson

Today we've been scanning in, importing and editing - so a lot going on!
We are finalizing the filming on wednesday and so have booked out the equipment for pick up on wednesday and will hopefully get everything done! :)

Test Shot/ Character Design

Reccee Sheet

Evaluation of Previous Students' Work

Title Narrative Research

Audience and Certificate Research

IMDB Research Sheets

Casey's Textual Analysis Sheets

Amber's Textual Analysis Sheets

Ambers blogging... this is werid!

soooo it's my turn to blog.
-_- great! today we have re wrote the script, fount a new location in eastwood! and considered changing the name.
 we have considered adding more clip too there is more to come!
keeep reading!

Abby's Textual Analysis

UPDATE

WE NOW HAVE A NEW MEMBER. Mitchell Procter aka NEW BOYYY.  He has joined due to his group falling apart ad has brought in some new ideas to improve our film
 Mitch's Original Blog

we will be re-doing our recee sheets - bye bye field. and our shots list and story boarding but can get this done before filming.


Costume and Props will be researched this week to get everything prepared for re-filming on saturday the 19th March.


We have a location in Bulwell and Beeston that could be used and will get pictures of it to see whether either would be suitable for the film.


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This week

UPDATE


We filmed at the weekend but the footage we got was shockingly bad and so have to re-film yet again! :(
We are going to talk to all of our actors and make sure everyone is free so we don't have to pull anyone in last minute again. Although we had some very bad results we're going to import what we have to see if any of the shots can be used in our final piece.


Today we're uploading and scanning in our sheets up to the blog.