Research: Magazine Analysis - Empire

Research: Magazine Analysis - Empire

Research: Magazine Analysis - Total Film

Construction: Social Media

This is our Facebook page. It has a profile picture, and the cover picture, both of which have come from our initial edit. It has an information section which tells the audience about what the film is about and when it's coming out.

You can view the Facebook page here.

Planning: Call Sheet 1

Here is our first call sheet for when we will go to shoot around the school grounds. This call sheet will make sure that we have all the equipment we need for when we go to shoot. 

Research: Film Magazine Covers

Empire

Total Film

Entertainment Weekly

Research: Audience Theory

Research: Audience Profile

Today I started making outline notes about what my target audience for 'One Off' was like
Age: 15-35
Gender: Male 60 : 40 Female

Viewers of our film are likely to enjoy watching TV shows such as 'The Walking Dead', or films such as 'World War Z'. Our target audience will enjoy shows and films like this as it is about the dangerous, futuristic and tense situation which you wouldn't want to experience in real life. The younger part of our target age bracket will be interested in our film as it is about people of their age. 

This audience profiling will help us later on in the process with the forms of distribution which we choose to use. For example, we will create an Instagram page, Facebook page and Twitter. We will do this because these are the social media platforms which our target audience use. This will allow us to address them correctly and these social media platforms will allow us to communicate with our audiences during the production stage. An example of this would be putting up release date updates and short behind the scene videos to tease them about the new film. This will entice our audience to come and see our film on release as they will feel more connected.

Research: Trello

I have created a Trello list in order to organize my work and keep track of what I have to do. The screenshot and link is below.

I intend to update my list as I progress. 

Research: Poster Analysis: The Martian (2015)

Research: Poster Analysis - Casino Royale (2006)

Research: Poster Analysis - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Pt2)

Reseach: How to make a Story Board

Here we saw Steve Thorne teaching about video production. This will help me with my story board as he shows us an organised and clear way of how to create one. He uses sticky notes to draw on so that he can draw on the sticky note and then change it around if the scene changes, where he could move the sticky note around on the storyboard sheet. This method will greatly help me when I make mine.

Research: Making an online Storyboard

Here is my attempt at the online storyboard. I used Story Board that, which is an online tool. This too is quite limited as there isn't that many possible scenes to work with, possibly why I prefer the hand written storyboard.

Planning: Our Treatment

"So, if you’re aiming for your film to reach a large audience online, making sure it has universal appeal will be key. We’ll be thinking about this in more practical terms later in the week, but let’s bring Frank Ash’s points together with the last step’s concerns:

Think about your favourite book or film or any ‘good story’ you recently watched online, could you sum up its narrative into ‘one elegant sentence’ to provide its ‘topline’?

What was its big story question, and how important was it to your appreciation of the text?"

Thanks for the presentation to The University of Birmingham and FutureLearn:

Video © BBC, Text © University of Birmingham

As part of my research, I looked at a video of Frank Ash who explained about what a topline, big story question, and other necessary elements of a film trailer that we would need for our own production.

For Frank Ash, Creative Consultant who has taught storytelling and creativity techniques to teams across the BBC and beyond, it is important to focus on the audience: what will interest the audience? How will the narrative develop?

Working Title: 2020

Story:  In the year 2020,  complete war breaks out between America and Russia resulting in mass population loss. The story follows a 18 year old who is surviving on his own in his abandoned school building. After several weeks on his own living on food which was stored at the school he finds his provisions running low and his mental state decreasing. Pin's falling off of notice boards, water dripping off of pipes, all startle and alert him to become paranoid if there is someone dangerous living there as well. After realising he needs to leave as there is either a dangerous presence or he is going insane, he embarks on a journey to reconnect with human civilisation. This journey takes him outside of his comfort and brings him into contact with other survivors some friendly, some hostile.

Top Line: A lone survivor in the wake of a World War must try and connect with human civilisation after believing his place of safety is either compromised or he is going insane and beginning to imagine other presences with him, sending him insane. This results on him going on a quest to find other survivors.

Big Question: Will he be successful in finding other human survivors who are friendly, or will everyone be hostile or will there be no-one at all.

Research: Film Education

Research - Trailer Maker

I visited the fim education website to endevour to add depth to my knowledge about the process of trailer making and producing. I made a trailer for 'Die Hard'. his will be helpful when we start to construct our final film trailer product as I will have had previous experience with framing, timing and editing the shots into the correct order.

Research: Trailer Analysis - Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

Research: Trailer Analysis - Casino Royale (2006)

Research: Trailer Analysis - The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Research: Trailer Analysis - Jaws (1975)

Research: Trailer Analysis - Just Go With It

Research: Trailer Analysis - Identity Theif

Brief

I am doing Brief 2:

A promotion package for a new film, to include a trailer, together with the following:

• a film magazine front cover, featuring the film
• a poster for the film.

I am working in a group of three with Ryan Evans, Xander Allman-Varty and Milo Gammond.