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Evaluation question 5

                                         

                                           How did you attract your audience?

In our two minute film scene, we tried to attract our audience with many different types of conventions and stereotypes, some of these are:

Gender

• Connection between the protagonist to the audience.
• Emphasis on stereotypes of males.
• Close ups of the antagonist.

We used these so that we could connect the audience to the film opening and it would create a stronger bond of appeal to the audience. We also felt that due to the stereotypes of girls being the victims, we would use males to change the typical convention.

Sound

We used a pitch change of our thriller scene to emphasise the 'horror' in conjunction to the 'normal' scenes to create more effect. This helped with the movement of our scene as it made it more linked to the audience so that it creates more of an effect and an attraction.

Our scene involves two boys who are friends walking in the woods and then another boy who is seen as the antagonist. The reason that they are two boys and not two girls as the victim is so that we change the gender stereotype and males feel more involved within the horror and want to watch it more.

Evaluation question 4

                   Who would be the audience for your media product and why.

When looking into our themes and genre conventions we came across many ideas of which we wanted to use in our pre-lim and our official. We also looked into the different themes so that we could appeal to different age groups. We felt that thrillers appeal to many different ages, but mostly young adults and teens. 

One of the reasons that we chose to appeal to young adults and teens is because that is also the age range of the actors, as they are 16/17 years old themselves. The element of thriller is used well in our scene as we had a protagonist and an antagonist, this was important for us so that we could use them against eachother and somehow create binary opposites.

After finding out what age group we wanted to appeal, we then had to research what their ideas were and how we would make our scene interesting to them. We did this with 3 different questionnaires and it gave us a big insight into what we should and what we should not include. As the age group we were appealing to were the same age group as us, we also took that into  consideration as to what WE liked as well. 

Our secondary audience are older adults, as older people also like to watch thrillers and we feel like our story line could appeal to all. However we feel like our target audience is perfect for us as we could also link other parts of what we researched to the scene.

Finally, i feel as though we have created our our thriller perfectly in the way  of target audience, secondary audience and in conjunction of narrative theory.

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Evaluation question 1

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The Behind Film - final.

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Script Change

This portion of the script:

(Chloe and jack come over happily)

Chloe

Oh , there you are

(pauses) 

Chloe

Josh what have you done? 

Josh

(pointing to where the figure was)

No it wasn’t me it was some other guy 

Jack

(Accusingly) 

Well,where is he now then huh? 

(Jack and Chloe standing side by side) 

(The figure appears behind them)

(Josh notices)

Josh

Look he’s behind you now

(Both jack and Chloe turn around to see nothing)

Jack

You're insane man 

(Stage direction – shot from figure point of view from the distance)

Chloe

Very

Jack

You expect us to believe that 

Josh

I’d never do this, why would I do this, believe me guys, you know me 

Jack 

Oh I’ve had enough 

(Jack punches josh)

Stage direction – camera switches to perspective of figure watching the scene smiling 

(muffled from distance) 

Chloe 

(Shaking with fear) 

I’ll call the police, watch the bodies 

(Figure walks away from the scene)

(Shot fades to black to signify end of scene)

Has been removed from our opening , we have done this as the current filming of our opening was already around 1:45 , so we couldn't afford to have another whole scene. we also had feedback saying that we had too much dialog in our opening , and seeing as the last scene was mainly dialog we decided to remove it. in its place we will keep the very end of the scene and try and fit it into the end of the current scene.

Character change.

Character change of names - 'Natalie' to Jamal'.

The reason that we have decided to change this is due to the fact that we could not find anyone suitable for the role of Natalie, so therefore we have decided to use another male as well as Josh. The reason for this is that we think it will contrast the friendship between the boys and will show a good use of emotion as it will be easier to show through a real life form of friendship, not put on for thr camera.

Focus group - 2.

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Edit of test footage - more in depth.

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Final Logo.

Test footage- all together.

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story development.

Story Development.

Our ideas for our 2 minute scene has varied immensely throughout the past few months, as we originally had many ideas but was not able to put them together so that they flowed well with each other, so therefore we have now chosen a suitable type of genre and idea for our scene. The idea is a group of friends in a forest and then something mysterious happens. We thought this would be a good idea, as the group of friends are roughly our age, so that brings the target audience in to many different types of ages, and people can also relate. 

The story development has influenced more ideas to come across as while we are thinking of what our ideas to be, we are always coming up with new and improved ideas to make our scene look more professional.

Focus group - 1.

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Productions logos

Production Logos.

Focus Group questions

These are our focus group questions we will ask people (minimum) to get an idea of what should be included in our film opening and what our target audience would prefer to see and what they dislike about thriller trailers etc, so that our overall final opening piece is up to their standards and creates satisfaction. From this we will create a focus group feedback. 

 1. what things do you expect to see when you watch a thriller trailer?

2. What about thriller openings specifically?

3. What are your opinions on thriller films? And if you dislike them why is that?

4. What do you consider to be an average thriller story-line?

5. What should a thriller film include in order to be classed as a thriller film?

6. Is there anything particular you like or dislike about thriller films?

7. If there were a film coming out about a group of friends who are in the woods searching for the rest of the group whilst undergoing life threatening situations would you watch it?

8. Is there a film that you saw recently because you enjoyed the trailer? What film was it and what was it about the trailer that made you want to watch the film?

9. If you could change anything about an average film trailer, what would it be?

Practise shots

Finished script.

Final Movie Script 

BEHIND 

ENTER

THREE FRIENDS WALKING IN THE WOODS, HAVING A CONVERSATION ABOUT THE UPCOMING EVENTS THEY HAVE AS A GROUP

JOSH

(Excitedly) 

Wow that was actually fun, next time we have to go bigger and better, I’m talking maybe like a trip to Ibiza, party, dance all the cool stuff! 

NATALIE 

(Looks at Josh in disagreement) 

 Well before all this Ibiza stuff, we really need to focus on more important matters 

JOSH 

Like?

NATALIE 

Like our GCSE’s coming... or have you forgotten about that? 

JOSH 

Of course not but that doesn’t mean we can’t plan ahead, *sighs* just relax, I’m prepared don’t worry, it’ll be alright.

Stage direction – shot reverse shot of the two characters 

JOSH 

(In shock)

.. Wait where is Chloe and Jack? 

NATALIE 

(Stares at josh blankly)

*shrugs shoulders*

BOTH JOSH AND NATALIE, RUN BACK TO FIND CHLOE AND JACK 

Stage direction - match on action shot switched to a point of view shot, side angle shot implying they are being watched. 

THEY BOTH STOP RUNNING

JOSH 

(Terrified) 

What was that noise?

Stage direction – mid close up shot of Natalie’s face to show the uncertainty that she is feeling 

NATALIE    

I don’t know but I hope it’s not Chloe and Jack 

JOSH 

Yeah let’s hope not.

Come on.

BOTH JOSH AND NATALIE BEGIN TO RUN AGAIN

Stage direction- low camera angle of a twig being snapped while stepped on.

-          NEW SCENE 

JOSH AND NATALIE ARE NOW FURTHER INTO THE WOODS 

JOSH 

(Shouts)

Jack!  (Repeats three times) 

NATALIE 

(Out of breath from running) 

(Shouts)

 Chloe!

ATMOSPHERE IS SLIENT 

JOSH SEES A STRANGE FIGURE PASSING BY

JOSH

(Shouts)

Who are you? 

(waits) 

... wait why aren’t you answering? 

FIGURE WALKS NEAR THEM THEN DISAPPERS BEHIND A TREE

JOSH 

(Aggravated) 

Did you see that? 

NATALIE 

(Still out of breathe looking down) 

See what Josh? 

JOSH

(Josh looking over by the tree then back at Natalie)

Nothing... it’s nothing 

-          NEW SCENE 

NATALIE STILL WORN OUT WHILST JOSH IS STILL LOOKING OVER BY THE TREE 

(Josh looks back at Natalie in confusion) 

(shouts) 

NATA-

Stage direction – close up shot of josh’s reaction 

NATALIE NECK SNAPS WHILST CAMERA FOCUSES ON JOSH 

Stage direction – camera focuses on Natalie on floor and bottom half of figure 

Stage direction – camera slowly pans up to show more of the figure 

FROM JOSH’S POINT OF VIEW HE BLINKS SEE THE FIGURE THEN IT DISAPPERS QUICKLY 

JOSH RUNS OVER TO NATALIE BODY 

 WAITS IN SHOCK 

JOSH 

(SHAKING NATALIE) 

Natalie, Natalie, answer please 

(Realises she’s dead and puts his hand on his head) 

-          NEW SCENE 

CHLOE AND JACK COME OVER HAPPLEY 

CHLOE

Oh there you are

(pauses) 

CHLOE 

Josh what have you done? 

JOSH

(pointing to where the figure was)

No it wasn’t me it was another guy here

JACK 

(Accusingly) 

Where is he now then huh? 

JACK AND CHLOE STANDING SIDE BY SIDE 

THEN THE FIGURE APPEARS BEHING THEM 

JOSH NOTICES 

JOSH 

Look he’s behind you now

BOTH JACK AND CHLOE TURN AROUND TO SEE NO FIGURE 

JACK 

Your insane man 

Stage direction – shot from figure point of view from the distance

CHLOE 

Very

JACK 

You expect us to believe that 

JOSH 

I’d never do this, why would I do this, believe me guys, you know me 

JACK 

Oh I’ve had enough 

(Jack punches josh)

Stage direction – camera switches to perspective of figure watching the scene smiling 

(muffled from distance) 

CHLOE 

(Shaking with fear) 

I’ll call the police, watch the bodies 

FIGURE WALKS AWAY FROM THE SCENE 

SHOT FADES TO BLACK TO SIGNIFY 

END OF OPENING 

Audition for the role of Natalie.

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Audition for the role of Josh.

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First audition practice - The Behind.

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Audition Script

BEHIND

ENTER

THREE FRIENDS WALKING IN THE WOODS, HAVING A CONVERSATION ABOUT THE UPCOMING EVENTS THEY HAVE AS A GROUP

JOSH

Wow that was actually fun, next time we have to go bigger and better, I’m talking maybe like a trip to Napa, party, dance all the cool stuff!

NATALIE

(Looks at Josh in disagreement)

 We’ll before all this Napa stuff, we really need to focus on more important matters

JOSH

Like?

NATALIE

Like our GCSE’s coming... or have you forgotten about that?

JOSH

Of course not but that doesn’t me too tough at all, I’m prepared that, it’ll be alright.

Stage direction – shot reverse shot of the two characters

JOSH

(In shock)

.. Wait where is Chloe and Jack?

NATALIE

(Stares at josh blankly)

BOTH JOSH AND NATALIE, RUN BACK TO FIND CHLOE AND JACK AS THEY HEAR A SCREAM IN THE DISTANCE.

THEY BOTH STOP RUNNING

JOSH

(Terrified)

What was that noise?

NATALIE

I don’t know but I hope it’s not Chloe and Jack

JOSH

Yeah let’s hope not.

BOTH JOSH AND NATALIE BEGIN TO RUN AGAIN

Stage direction- low camera angle of a twig being snapped while stepped on.

Risk Assessment

S.O.S Studio Pitch.

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