Target Audience Feedback

The feedback that we had from our target audience after we showed them our film treatment was that they said that since it was the type of film that they were interested in that they found it to be a very interesting and thought provoking plot and that they would go and watch it if it were being shown in the cinemas.

We took note of this feedback and thought about any ways that we could change our movie to make it better, but decided that from our feedback that we were pleased with our film opening and we just had to be careful not to make any mistakes that could change our target audiences opinion of our film opening. 

Storyboard

Time whisperers storyboard

Storyboard research

Storyboard research

A storyboard can benefit many people, such as the script write. It can benefit them by helping them picture the scene as they are writing the script.
It can also benefit the directors as they are creating the film, they can set up the scene and the actors to match the storyboard that was created.
It would help the producers also, because it would show them what to edit.It will also benefit the lighting engineers; it will show them if it’s meant to be set in a dark room or a very bright room. It can benefit the actors by helping them understand what they must do in the scene; this will make sure that they don’t mess up. It will also benefit the camera operator by showing them what camera angles and shots would be used while filming, and finally the other people it could benefit would be the location scout and the props master, it could show them the location they’re meant to be in and the weather it’s meant to be. It would benefit the props person by helping them decide what props must be used and what time era its set in.

On the Internet it shows the many roles involved in filmmaking, there are:
-       Production
-       Directing
-       Location
-       Art
-       Sets
-       Construction
-       Props
-       Costume
-       Hair and makeup
-       Special effects
-       Sound
-       Camera
However in our film we don’t have enough people for these roles so we will be doing:
-Directing
-Camera
-Location scout
-Props master
-Script writing

Script research and script

Script research

A script has many conventions, all of these conventions are important to the filmmaking process, these include:
-Stage directions usually in brackets before the characters dialogue
-Names of characters above dialogue (these are printed in capital)

-Location that the scene is taking place in
-Shot types and angles of the camera whilst filming
-Film Title and scriptwriter on front page
-Scene number
This is just a very basic list of what is included in a script

Script.

Time Whispers

Film treatment and an audio recording of our film treatment

Film Treatment – Time whispers

Audio film treatment

Film treatment research

For our film treatment research we went to this website and applied the information we found to our own film, this helped us create our film treatment for our film.


Film Treatment Research

Film idea discussion

My production team

So our whole class all got put into groups to create the opening of a film. My group consists of James Minton and Jordan Holmes, here are their film pitches.

Jordan





James

My individual film pitch

TAP (Target Audience Profile

TAP (Target audience profile)

A target audience is who we expect to watch our film and who we target it at. This is who we are planning to target our film at:
Our film rating will be 12, this is because we don't have any swearing or severe violence in our film but we do have threatening thoughts being voiced and slight violence. The age we are targeting is from 12-25 and the majority will be white males.

There are specific ways to measure class, our class rating is E/D. Our film will be viewed on places such as, youtube or at a shorts festival, this is because it is not professionally made and we don't have a budget to put it on any bigger screen. Audiences could find out about our film from social networking such as facebook and twitter since we also don't have the budget to do big advertising.

Here is a link to the BBFC, there is a list of classifications on the left that will explain more about the ages:
Link to BBFC

Our typical target audience member
This is Sam; he is a 19-year-old white male. He enjoys films such as Casino Royale, Inception, Donnie Darko and Taken. He has currently applied to Leeds University to do a media course. He lives in his family home and spends most of his time playing Skyrim. He has accounts on both Facebook and Twitter in which he uses on a regular basis. He loves going to film festivals with friends. His preferred music taste is Indie.

Current Thriller Target Audiences

This is an action thriller that has a similar target audience to ours, as you can see most of the viewers are male and are aged between 15-24.

These screen grabs are from 

Pearl and Dean

This is also a similar movie with our target audience, it is action, thriller and crime and once again the main viewers are males aged 15-24.

However our target audience slightly differentiates in comparison to these thrillers as we have discussed and considered our class to be of ‘D/E’ origin whereas theirs has seemed to be most popular with people of class C1.