AUDIENCE RESEARCH: EXIT POLLS

I have put together a visual representation to show the research and data i have collected for audience. I have picked 5 films, similar to the film that i am planning to make. The genre of these films are similar as they are mostly horror, detective or thriller films. To gain this research i used the helpful BFI website, allowing me to pick out the relevant quantitate data i needed and then go on to make pie charts for gender and age for each film. This gave me a better visual representation and clearly showed me what sort of people watch these specific films. I also collected qualitative data, showing the audiences opinions on the films they watched.

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REPRESENTATION: SOCIAL GROUPS

In today's lesson i created a Pinterest board to show the social groups that i would expect to see who would watch my film. By using Pinterest i am able to show who my social groups will be in a clear and formatted way. According to what the topic is, that picture will go in a certain board group, to clearly set out the different topics that i will be making. My first board is for social groups, and for each picture i have "pinned" i have said why it fits into my social group.



Click the picture to the left to go to my live Pinterest board for social groups.

This is a spooky house, in a rural location, with nobody around, very isolated old house.This is where the kidnapper lives, emphasising his strangeness. Furthermore, the house looks unloved, with nobody properly looking after it, this suggests that he hasn't the money to stabilise and do up the house, representing his lower class in society. This may intrigue the audience as particular social groups are interested in spooky, deserted houses as they may ask themselves - what does he get up to in that house? why does he live there? why has he cut himself off from the rest of the world? This therefore adds suspense and suspicion to the film and the character. 

Dark hooded man with his face being half covered by shadow and his face is blurred and not in focus with the camera, emphasising his mysteriousness and trying to protect his identity. He is also holding a gun at someone/thing, highlighting his dangerousness and how he is possibly capable of murder. this is similar to the kidnapper in my film opening as there is a scene with a gun in it. This will interest young teenagers or young men/ women as they tend to be interested in horror/detective films. 

UPDATE OF TRELLO

Here is another update for my Trello list.

DISTRIBUTION CASE STUDY: TORTOISE IN LOVE:

In todays lesson I watched the trailer for the film "Tortoise In Love" and then researched the film to see how they were able to distribute their film. With the help of BFI Print and Advertising, a small, crowd-sourced film was able to gain distribution. Its story is told HERE.

As i am making a low budget, independent film myself, it was interesting to see how this particular film producer was able to get their film released and to a wider audience and i intend to do similar things to gain distribution for my film.

This is the official website for the film. Click HERE to preview the site.

DISTRIBUTION: THE HUNGER GAMES

In todays lesson I tracked how distributors publicized The Hunger Games: Mockingjay. From my research I learnt that distributors use a variety of different methods in order to distribute their film and when I market my film I would make do things such as creating a twitter, tumblr and Facebook page aswell to publicise my film. Below is a slideshare presentation to shows how they have done this. 

PLANNING; SHOT LIST

Sound		Vision	Actors		Props			Notes
Flashback sound		India’s head slowly rises, eyes open. She looks left	Young Girl		Chair Rope			Only see part of her head and her eyes looking around – with a few bruises on her head. She then has a flashback
Footsteps and background noise of road and public		India walking over to gym	Young Girl		/			Only see back of India, walking away from camera. Then cuts back to India in basement.
		India eyes move to right	Young Girl		Chair Rope			Close up of her eyes moving to right. She then has another flashback
Little screeching over cloth		Jacks arm/hand comes round her mouth and holds cloth (with chemical on it) and India passes out
Audio flashback of Mother shouting at Jack as a child		Jack is looking into the mirror.	Male		Mirror			Jack is very angry when looking in mirror and then smashes it.
Voiceover from Mother shouting in visual flashback		Jack takes a piece of the mirror and goes over towards India	Male Young girl		Piece of mirror			India starts to beg for Jack not to hurt her.
Little whimper/ sobbing		Jack cutting India’s face	Male Young girl		Broken mirror			Reaction shot in mirror – only see part of her face
Bang on the closing door		Jack walks out of the basement door	Male		/
		India tries to reach for a piece of the broken glass	Young Girl		Piece of broken glass
Footsteps		Jack going up the stairs towards the attic	Male		/
Voiceover from news reporter		Lady on the news talking about missing girl	Woman		Microphone			Cuts between news reporter and India
Cutting of rope		India using piece of broken mirror	Young Girl		Piece of broken mirror
Voiceover from news reporter		Lady on news again	Woman		Microphone
Cutting further into rope		India using piece of broken mirror	Young Girl		Piece of broken mirror			We see India finally cut through the rope and gets rope off her wrists
Banging on a door		A closed basement door	/		/
Door flinging open		A basement door opening, as a girl runs out – you don’t see her face	Young girl		/			Young girl is bruised
Tense music		Over-shoulder shot of girl peering out the basement door – seeing if the coast is clear.	Young girl		/
Footsteps		She sneaks then runs (in hallway), we see her feet	Young girl		/			Tracking shot of her feet
Footsteps/scraping sound	She snatches a mobile phone off a table by the door as she runs out of the house			Young girl		Phone on charge on a table by the door.
Footsteps. Over voice of news report talking about the girl.	She runs out of the house			Young girl		/	Tracking shot
Music / natural sounds	Over the shoulder shot of the kidnapper looking at the open door			Male		/
Footsteps	Running on gravel and woodlands			Young girl		/	Mid-shot pans to the right
Branches moving	She moves branches with her hands,			Young Girl		/	Leads to flashback. Camera is her face
Tense suspense music	Shows her hands are tied up			Young Girl		Rope, chair	FLASHBACK
Footsteps	Running, low angle shot			Young girl		/
	Midi-shot we see the girls neck, which is bruised and cut			Young Girl
Frantic breathing, tense suspense music. Scream.	We see a knife next to the girl’s neck as if she had just been cut.			Young Girl, male hands holding the knife		Knife	FLASHBACK
Footsteps (of Jack)	Running, see the girl in front far ahead			Young girl		/	Point of view shot
Frantic breathing	We see her lips parted			Young girl		/	Leading to flashback
Female screaming	The man puts a finger to her lips to shush her			Young girl, Male hands		/	FLASHBACK
Footsteps coming to stop (India)	She stops running,			Young girl		/
Breathing,	The girl looks around, pulls out the phone			Young girl		Phone	360 shot
Phone dial	She calls 999			Young girl hands		Phone	Close up
Slow footsteps	The man walks towards the girl, we see her looking at a phone			Young Girl		Phone	Point of view shot
Girl talking on the phone “help me its me India Hagerman,” she then whimpers	We see her on the phone			Young Girl		Phone	Behind shot
Heartbeat	She turns around. We finally see her face			Young girl		/	Panning shot
Tense sound	A gun is rising up in the man’s hand			Males hand		Gun
Dead phone line	Title			/		/	/
Dead phone line	We see the phone on the floor abandoned
“That was India”		We see her shocked and worried face	Female operator			Headset.	Reaction shot