Monday, 2 April 2012
Monday, 19 March 2012
Task 10 Evaluation
1) In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
For our media product, an opening of a thriller film, our main character is an adult male with a hidden identity. We used an adult male as this is conventional in thriller films such as Die Hard and The Dark Knight. The majority of thriller films have a male antagonist or a group of males for an antagonist so we used this convention in our media. In a thriller film, the antagonist usually does not hide their identity and if they did, their identity would be revealed in the end. Our male antagonist's identity is hidden and his identity would be revealed at the end of the film so we have used this convention.
The music we used for the opening of our film is eerie, incidental/non diegetic music which is conventional in thriller and horror films. This music creates tension which will grab the audience's attention and it will make them want to continue to watch the film to see what the creepy music was incorporated for. Over the top of the eerie music we included the Teddy Bears Picnic theme tune. This is because our media film is about two young girls and we wanted to ensure that the music was creepy but also related to the characters.
We challenged the conventions of a thriller film by filming in a woodland area. In general, the setting of a thriller film is usually in a town or city with many people and buildings around. We filmed ours in a woodland area where no other people were around which adds to the creepiness of the film.
2) How does your media product represent particular social groups?
The victims in our film are two young, white, primary school girls from a C1/C2 social class. This is unconventional in a thriller film because the protagonists are normally adults or young couples. Having the girls so young makes the audience wonder why the antagonist of our film is targeting such young people. The girls are holding a teddy bear which shows them as pure, innocent characters and this contrasts with the antagonist who has dangerous qualities and is seen as evil.
The film then fast forwards to the future when the girls have grown up and are now teenagers. Having the antagonist of the film targeting teenage girls continues to challenge the conventions of a thriller film because the conventional victims in a thriller film do not tend to be that young. The antagonist is a male, but the audience do not know what social group he belongs too because his identity is hidden. If the film continued, they would find out that the antagonist is an adult male and he would be a qualified doctor who is of a working class.
3) What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
A British media institution such as Warp Films may distribute our media product because they have released films such as Four Lions and television series' such as the well known This Is England. Our film would be a small independent film and if it was completed and it was not just the opening, it would be a short film therefore Warp Films would be the ideal studio to distribute it.
Another studio that may distribute our film could be Sony Pictures. They have released many successful thriller films such as 'Resident Evil', 'Ghost Rider' and 'Casino Royale'. Sony Pictures would release a typical thriller film such as our film 'The Vision' so Sony would also be an ideal studio to distribute our film.
Warp Films and Sony Pictures would distribute our film because it is not like the usual thriller film. The two main characters are females which is unconventional in a thriller film, so this would attract a female audience to the film. Females would usually be attracted to romantic comedies so having females wanting to watch a thriller film would widen the demographic of the film. These studios would be unique for distributing a thriller film that would attract females as well as the stereotypical males.
4) Who would be the audience for your media product?
We rated our film as a 15 certificate and this is because it does not contain any bad language, relation to drugs, no sex references and no extreme violence. Mild violence is included therefore our film rating could not be any lower than a 15 certificate. Stereotypically, males would be the audience for our film because they tend to prefer action packed, thriller and horror films whereas females tend to prefer romantic comedies. However, because the main characters are females, more females would be attracted to the film, therefore both genders would want to watch our film. The audience would have to be over fifteen years old due to the rating we have given it and they would be of any ethnicity and social class as long as they have the technology to be able to see the advertisements for the film and the technology to be able to watch the final film.
5) How did you attract/address your audience?
We have attracted our audience by challenging the conventions of a typical thriller film. Our characters are young girls which will attract the audience because they will want to continue to see what happens to the girls and why. They will want to watch it because it is an unconventional thriller film and they will want to see how it turns out.
The music behind our titles is a slow tempo, incidental/non diegetic, eerie track which is a convention of a thriller film. This will attract the audience because they will be able to tell by the titles we have used that our film is a thriller and that the storyline is going to involve something mysterious because of the music that backs up the text.
If we were advertising our film for the cinema, we would advertise our product through viral marketing. We would put a trailer on websites such as iTunes and YouTube which will give the audience an idea of what our film is about and we would also make a Facebook page promoting the film. Online games could be created which would involve aspects of our film and pop ups could also be created to allow online audiences to see our new, upcoming film.
We would use traditional marketing and create posters to show the audience our film and create radio adverts and television adverts to promote the film and engage the audiences attention. Adverts would be put into magazines and newspapers and merchandise such as t-shirts and pens promoting the film could be made.
We would drip feed our film to audiences and if the film became popular to the audience we would have a movie premiere/red carpet event where all of the characters/cast from our film will attend and television companies such as BBC would interview the cast and promote the film further on their television shows. This would widen the demographic and as a result our film would be more popular and probably be more successful.
6) What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
From constructing our media film we have learnt about many technologies.
To film our media product we used a Sony HD touchscreen camera (10 ati). We learnt how to record shots effectively and how to transfer the footage we filmed onto the Apple Macs. To edit our footage and create the opening of our film we used Adobe Premiere Pro. Adobe Premiere Pro has allowed us to cut down our footage to the bits we need and piece them together to make an effective sequence and a seamless edit.
When using the Sony HD cameras, we found that we could not get the camera positioned correctly when we arrived at our film location and as a result we had to take some of the shots out of our storyboard that we were previously going to use and change them. We did a variety of camera angles and shots that we thought would be effective and pieced them all together on Adobe Premiere Pro.
We were able to create a title sequence on Adobe Premiere Pro. We used red and white text and an italic, small font for our titles and we put a fade in and out on each clip to create a seamless edit and to use a thriller film convention.
We have been able to put effects onto our film opening such as dissolves to show a change in time and we have also been able to add incidental music onto our film opening.
We used many effects on our film such as colour corrector. For the dream scenes in the film, we changed the colour of the footage to sepia to give it an old, newspaper effect. For the scenes where the main characters are asleep and dreaming, we changed the colour of the shots to black and white to show the audience that it was in the past but not the same scenes as the dream. The black and white effect give the clips an old effect so the audience are aware that it is not filmed in present tense. For the footage that shows the main, older characters, we have kept the clips the colour they were originally to show that this part of the film is filmed in the present.
Another effect we have put onto our film is the spilt screen. The spilt screen shows both of the young girls sleeping, dreaming and waking up at the same time. This allows the audience to see that the girls have a connection and this is shown again when they both meet at the end of the opening.
Another edit we used on Adobe Premiere Pro is the speed and duration of the clips. For some of our clips we have changed the speed/duration to create effect or to simply make the clips fit together. On one of our clips we had to increase the speed of the clip to ensure that it fit with the clip that followed it. For the blood clip and the clip where the girls bump into each other at the end of the opening, the speed was slowed down to create a slow motion effect which creates impact and tension for the audience.
Me and Charlotte also used Garageband to create some music and sound effects for our film but unfortunately did not use them because they did not fit properly into the sequence. Instead, we went on Incompetech and chose some soundtracks off there that would fit into our film.
We have been using BlogSpot to blog all of our work onto the Internet and we have learnt how to edit our blogs design so it is clear to read and how to add, edit and delete posts.
7) Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
When filming our preliminary task, we were made aware of what the 180-degree rule was and how it should be obeyed. From filming our preliminary task, we automatically knew that we should abide to this rule when filming our film opening. If we captured some footage and the 180-degree rule was broken, we would film the footage again and correct it.
We were also made aware of the eye line match. This is where two characters look at each other and the camera is at an angle which shows a match in the characters eye line. We knew how to film an eye line match effectively due to previously filming an eye line match in our preliminary task. We learnt how to work the Sony HD cameras when we used them for our preliminary task so we automatically knew how to use them properly when filming our film opening. We used a tripod to ensure that our clips were clear and steady when we were filming our shots (unless the shot was hand held) and from our previous experience with tripods and cameras we knew how to get the spirit level correct to make sure that our footage was not titled or blurred.
For our media product, an opening of a thriller film, our main character is an adult male with a hidden identity. We used an adult male as this is conventional in thriller films such as Die Hard and The Dark Knight. The majority of thriller films have a male antagonist or a group of males for an antagonist so we used this convention in our media. In a thriller film, the antagonist usually does not hide their identity and if they did, their identity would be revealed in the end. Our male antagonist's identity is hidden and his identity would be revealed at the end of the film so we have used this convention.
We challenged the conventions of a thriller film by filming in a woodland area. In general, the setting of a thriller film is usually in a town or city with many people and buildings around. We filmed ours in a woodland area where no other people were around which adds to the creepiness of the film.
Another thriller film convention we have used is our film titles. The font we have used is small and italic and we made the font white with a glowing outer colour which is red. These colours represent the contrast between good and evil. The good in our film opening is the young girls and the evil is the antagonist of the film, Nicholas Stone. The red in the font also represents the blood involved in the film. The background for our titles is a plain, black background and this continues to create a creepy feel to our titles and uses the thriller film conventions. Our titles fade in and out which is another convention of a thriller film. At the start of many thriller films such as 'Red Dragon', the titles also fade in and out like ours do.
2) How does your media product represent particular social groups?
The victims in our film are two young, white, primary school girls from a C1/C2 social class. This is unconventional in a thriller film because the protagonists are normally adults or young couples. Having the girls so young makes the audience wonder why the antagonist of our film is targeting such young people. The girls are holding a teddy bear which shows them as pure, innocent characters and this contrasts with the antagonist who has dangerous qualities and is seen as evil.
The film then fast forwards to the future when the girls have grown up and are now teenagers. Having the antagonist of the film targeting teenage girls continues to challenge the conventions of a thriller film because the conventional victims in a thriller film do not tend to be that young. The antagonist is a male, but the audience do not know what social group he belongs too because his identity is hidden. If the film continued, they would find out that the antagonist is an adult male and he would be a qualified doctor who is of a working class.
3) What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
A British media institution such as Warp Films may distribute our media product because they have released films such as Four Lions and television series' such as the well known This Is England. Our film would be a small independent film and if it was completed and it was not just the opening, it would be a short film therefore Warp Films would be the ideal studio to distribute it.
Another studio that may distribute our film could be Sony Pictures. They have released many successful thriller films such as 'Resident Evil', 'Ghost Rider' and 'Casino Royale'. Sony Pictures would release a typical thriller film such as our film 'The Vision' so Sony would also be an ideal studio to distribute our film.
Warp Films and Sony Pictures would distribute our film because it is not like the usual thriller film. The two main characters are females which is unconventional in a thriller film, so this would attract a female audience to the film. Females would usually be attracted to romantic comedies so having females wanting to watch a thriller film would widen the demographic of the film. These studios would be unique for distributing a thriller film that would attract females as well as the stereotypical males.
4) Who would be the audience for your media product?
We rated our film as a 15 certificate and this is because it does not contain any bad language, relation to drugs, no sex references and no extreme violence. Mild violence is included therefore our film rating could not be any lower than a 15 certificate. Stereotypically, males would be the audience for our film because they tend to prefer action packed, thriller and horror films whereas females tend to prefer romantic comedies. However, because the main characters are females, more females would be attracted to the film, therefore both genders would want to watch our film. The audience would have to be over fifteen years old due to the rating we have given it and they would be of any ethnicity and social class as long as they have the technology to be able to see the advertisements for the film and the technology to be able to watch the final film.
5) How did you attract/address your audience?
We have attracted our audience by challenging the conventions of a typical thriller film. Our characters are young girls which will attract the audience because they will want to continue to see what happens to the girls and why. They will want to watch it because it is an unconventional thriller film and they will want to see how it turns out.
The music behind our titles is a slow tempo, incidental/non diegetic, eerie track which is a convention of a thriller film. This will attract the audience because they will be able to tell by the titles we have used that our film is a thriller and that the storyline is going to involve something mysterious because of the music that backs up the text.
If we were advertising our film for the cinema, we would advertise our product through viral marketing. We would put a trailer on websites such as iTunes and YouTube which will give the audience an idea of what our film is about and we would also make a Facebook page promoting the film. Online games could be created which would involve aspects of our film and pop ups could also be created to allow online audiences to see our new, upcoming film.
We would use traditional marketing and create posters to show the audience our film and create radio adverts and television adverts to promote the film and engage the audiences attention. Adverts would be put into magazines and newspapers and merchandise such as t-shirts and pens promoting the film could be made.
We would drip feed our film to audiences and if the film became popular to the audience we would have a movie premiere/red carpet event where all of the characters/cast from our film will attend and television companies such as BBC would interview the cast and promote the film further on their television shows. This would widen the demographic and as a result our film would be more popular and probably be more successful.
6) What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
From constructing our media film we have learnt about many technologies.
To film our media product we used a Sony HD touchscreen camera (10 ati). We learnt how to record shots effectively and how to transfer the footage we filmed onto the Apple Macs. To edit our footage and create the opening of our film we used Adobe Premiere Pro. Adobe Premiere Pro has allowed us to cut down our footage to the bits we need and piece them together to make an effective sequence and a seamless edit.
When using the Sony HD cameras, we found that we could not get the camera positioned correctly when we arrived at our film location and as a result we had to take some of the shots out of our storyboard that we were previously going to use and change them. We did a variety of camera angles and shots that we thought would be effective and pieced them all together on Adobe Premiere Pro.
We were able to create a title sequence on Adobe Premiere Pro. We used red and white text and an italic, small font for our titles and we put a fade in and out on each clip to create a seamless edit and to use a thriller film convention.
We have been able to put effects onto our film opening such as dissolves to show a change in time and we have also been able to add incidental music onto our film opening.
We used many effects on our film such as colour corrector. For the dream scenes in the film, we changed the colour of the footage to sepia to give it an old, newspaper effect. For the scenes where the main characters are asleep and dreaming, we changed the colour of the shots to black and white to show the audience that it was in the past but not the same scenes as the dream. The black and white effect give the clips an old effect so the audience are aware that it is not filmed in present tense. For the footage that shows the main, older characters, we have kept the clips the colour they were originally to show that this part of the film is filmed in the present.
Another effect we have put onto our film is the spilt screen. The spilt screen shows both of the young girls sleeping, dreaming and waking up at the same time. This allows the audience to see that the girls have a connection and this is shown again when they both meet at the end of the opening.
Another edit we used on Adobe Premiere Pro is the speed and duration of the clips. For some of our clips we have changed the speed/duration to create effect or to simply make the clips fit together. On one of our clips we had to increase the speed of the clip to ensure that it fit with the clip that followed it. For the blood clip and the clip where the girls bump into each other at the end of the opening, the speed was slowed down to create a slow motion effect which creates impact and tension for the audience.
Me and Charlotte also used Garageband to create some music and sound effects for our film but unfortunately did not use them because they did not fit properly into the sequence. Instead, we went on Incompetech and chose some soundtracks off there that would fit into our film.
We have been using BlogSpot to blog all of our work onto the Internet and we have learnt how to edit our blogs design so it is clear to read and how to add, edit and delete posts.
7) Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
When filming our preliminary task, we were made aware of what the 180-degree rule was and how it should be obeyed. From filming our preliminary task, we automatically knew that we should abide to this rule when filming our film opening. If we captured some footage and the 180-degree rule was broken, we would film the footage again and correct it.
We were also made aware of the eye line match. This is where two characters look at each other and the camera is at an angle which shows a match in the characters eye line. We knew how to film an eye line match effectively due to previously filming an eye line match in our preliminary task. We learnt how to work the Sony HD cameras when we used them for our preliminary task so we automatically knew how to use them properly when filming our film opening. We used a tripod to ensure that our clips were clear and steady when we were filming our shots (unless the shot was hand held) and from our previous experience with tripods and cameras we knew how to get the spirit level correct to make sure that our footage was not titled or blurred.
We have also co-operated well in a group and we allocated roles for each team member and stuck to them to ensure that our planning, filming and editing was completed correctly.
Thursday, 16 February 2012
Task 10 - Our title sequence
Landau Forte Films
Presents
A Baxhill film
Starring
Alex Gledhill as Evelyn Carter (young)
Keira Baxter as Alice Hampton (young)
Charlotte Gledhill as Evelyn Carter (older)
Ellie Baxter as Alice Hampton (older)
Liam Carvel as Nicholas Stone
Written by Jack Smith
Shot by Annie Fitzharris
Music by Louise Barton
Produced by Charlotte Gledhill
Directed by Ellie Baxter
The Vision
Presents
A Baxhill film
Starring
Alex Gledhill as Evelyn Carter (young)
Keira Baxter as Alice Hampton (young)
Charlotte Gledhill as Evelyn Carter (older)
Ellie Baxter as Alice Hampton (older)
Liam Carvel as Nicholas Stone
Written by Jack Smith
Shot by Annie Fitzharris
Music by Louise Barton
Produced by Charlotte Gledhill
Directed by Ellie Baxter
The Vision
Tuesday, 14 February 2012
Task 10 - Logos
The logo design we used:
Film logos:
Logos usually consist of one to three primary colours. In our logo we also used three colours which are black, white and red. Logos are normally made around a solid shape such as a square or circle. We used an eye because it is an oval, circular shape and having the image as an eye shows that the audience are about to watch something. It also gives off the effect that the eye is watching the audience which makes them feel uncomfortable and gives them an insight into the type of film opening they are about to watch.
We chose the colours red, white and black to ensure that the logo stood out. The black and white represent the contrast between good and evil and the red represents blood which is all a part of our film opening. We put the first letter of each word in red to match the eyeball colour.
The text on our logo is 'Landau Forte Films' because we are representing the school and needed something simplistic.First logo design:
Thursday, 2 February 2012
Our four film ideas
Idea One - The Vision - Thriller, Final film idea
Two young girls (Alice and Evelyn) both keep having the same recurring dream of both of them in a woody setting dancing to a nursery rhyme. Both of the girls have the same scar on their hands which bleeds once the nursery rhyme has stopped playing. There is a dark figure behind them making their hands bleed and this figure keeps popping up throughout the film (the antagonist). Everytime they have this dream, they wake up wondering who the other girl is because they have never met and they want to know why the antagonist is haunting them the way he is. The film then forwards in time to Alice and Evelyn in the future when they are at sixth form. They bump into eachother and find that both girls have the same scar on their hands and their hands start to bleed like they did in their dream. The black figure can be seen behind the girls everytime their hands start to bleed.
Idea Two - Lucky Chance, Romantic Comedy
Two childhood friends who have spent most of their life together finally need to go their seperate ways when choosing a university. The male, jake decides he wants to go to a university in London to study Economics, and the female Katie wants to go and study English at a university in Leeds. They both have an upsetting goodbye as they part ways, but months later discover each other once again, both conviently on the same educational trip to China. Katie bumps into Jake in a chinese restaurant where she sees him with another girl. This makes her realise how she has been in love with him for most of her life and has to figure out a way to tell him.
Idea Three- Last Minutes, Thriller
Two young girls (Alice and Evelyn) both keep having the same recurring dream of both of them in a woody setting dancing to a nursery rhyme. Both of the girls have the same scar on their hands which bleeds once the nursery rhyme has stopped playing. There is a dark figure behind them making their hands bleed and this figure keeps popping up throughout the film (the antagonist). Everytime they have this dream, they wake up wondering who the other girl is because they have never met and they want to know why the antagonist is haunting them the way he is. The film then forwards in time to Alice and Evelyn in the future when they are at sixth form. They bump into eachother and find that both girls have the same scar on their hands and their hands start to bleed like they did in their dream. The black figure can be seen behind the girls everytime their hands start to bleed.
Idea Two - Lucky Chance, Romantic Comedy
Two childhood friends who have spent most of their life together finally need to go their seperate ways when choosing a university. The male, jake decides he wants to go to a university in London to study Economics, and the female Katie wants to go and study English at a university in Leeds. They both have an upsetting goodbye as they part ways, but months later discover each other once again, both conviently on the same educational trip to China. Katie bumps into Jake in a chinese restaurant where she sees him with another girl. This makes her realise how she has been in love with him for most of her life and has to figure out a way to tell him.
Idea Three- Last Minutes, Thriller
Its 2012, in a normal suburbia area when suddenly a bomb is found under a family house. The family who live in the house and all of the residents around the area have to be evacuated and someone needs to be sent in to diffuse the bomb. The army refuse to send one of their soldiers to diffuse the bomb in case something happens to them and they lose a soldier. They come to the decision that a resident of the town will have to diffuse the bomb and arguments and fights break out because they are trying to find a fair way to come to a decision. In the end, a male, local decides he will be the bomb diffuser and finds that once he has touched the bomb his hands cannot be moved due to pressure and if he does he will immediately die.
Idea Four- Deathy Education, Horror
A child is made by scientists and is placed into a school to be given a normal life. He gets easily angered by his teacher due to a default gene/DNA and goes mental and starts to capture the school children and locking them in a store cupboard where he kills them. The scientists try to stop the child killing anyone else, but need to figure out a way to stop him.
A child is made by scientists and is placed into a school to be given a normal life. He gets easily angered by his teacher due to a default gene/DNA and goes mental and starts to capture the school children and locking them in a store cupboard where he kills them. The scientists try to stop the child killing anyone else, but need to figure out a way to stop him.
Our Storyboard and film certificates
Our film would be certified as a 15 because there is some violence involved even though it is very mild. One of our main characters, Nicholas Stone, comes across as a dangerous character who has a dangerous behaviour and in a way stalks the girls. There are not any extremely violent scenes and there are no sex references in the opening of our film and there are no references to drugs or the use of drugs which means the film would not be certified as an 18. There also isn't any bad language involved so it is suitable for anyone over the age of 15.
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
Role allocation and casting
Role Allocation:
Director: Ellie Baxter and Charlotte Gledhill
Writer: Ellie Baxter and Charlotte Gledhill
Cameraperson: Ellie Baxter
Editor: Charlotte Gledhill
Cast:
Alice Hampton (young) - Keira Baxter
Alice Hampton (older) - Ellie Baxter
Evelyn Carter (young) - Alex Gledhill
Evelyn Carter (older) - Charlotte Gledhill
Nicholas Stone - Liam Carvel
Director: Ellie Baxter and Charlotte Gledhill
Writer: Ellie Baxter and Charlotte Gledhill
Cameraperson: Ellie Baxter
Editor: Charlotte Gledhill
Cast:
Alice Hampton (young) - Keira Baxter
Alice Hampton (older) - Ellie Baxter
Evelyn Carter (young) - Alex Gledhill
Evelyn Carter (older) - Charlotte Gledhill
Nicholas Stone - Liam Carvel
Thursday, 26 January 2012
Characters
Name: Alice Hampton (young)
Age: 5
Gender: Female
Occupation: Primary school
Appearance/Costume: Victorian dress
Characteristics: Innocent, genuine, adventurous
Name: Alice Hampton (older)
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Occupation: Sixth form student
Appearance/Costume: Formal dress
Characteristics: Intelligent, outgoing
Name: Nicholas Stone
Age: 40
Gender: Male
Occupation: -
Appearance/Costume: Dressed in black clothes, facial stubble
Characteristics: Snidy, sneaky, quiet, creepy
Name: Evelyn Carter (young)
Age: 5
Gender: Female
Occupation: Primary School
Appearance/Costume: Dressed in victorian clothing
Characteristics: innocent, sweet, quiet, shy
Name: Evelyn Carter (older)
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Occupation: Sixth form student
Appearance/Costume: School uniform
Characteristics: Intelligent, adventurous, joyful
Sunday, 22 January 2012
Analysing film data
The table above displays the statistics of the most popular genres in 2010. It shows that the romance genre is the most popular film genres out of the three genres we have been looking at, giving the largest gross in box office, however, the horror film had a higher percentage of all releases as more cinemas were able to show the film and therefore more people were interested in the drip feeding effect as it gives suspense making more people want to watch the film. The thriller genre is shown as the least popular out of the films released in the cinemas. The thriller genre has the lowest amount of shows in the cinemas and has a very low total box office gross.
The horror gains the more than a thriller through all the aspects as people enjoy the scary experience at the cinemas. They like the adrenaline, and the suspense which makes the drip feed effect of horror films more popular for example with films such as 'Insidious'. The drip feed effect of giving webcam qualities made the trailer appear like it was filming a real event, people enjoy the possibility of something scary being real. Its harder to scare the audiences of today because of the amount of scary films that have been released and the horrific images of history such as the Holocaust which made film producers want to make films scarier to keep the audience in suspense.
The horror gains the more than a thriller through all the aspects as people enjoy the scary experience at the cinemas. They like the adrenaline, and the suspense which makes the drip feed effect of horror films more popular for example with films such as 'Insidious'. The drip feed effect of giving webcam qualities made the trailer appear like it was filming a real event, people enjoy the possibility of something scary being real. Its harder to scare the audiences of today because of the amount of scary films that have been released and the horrific images of history such as the Holocaust which made film producers want to make films scarier to keep the audience in suspense.
We created a questionnaire to give out to our ten peers to discover their feelings on all of the different genres. Our results are below and these results will help us to decide what genre we shall present in our coursework piece.
Thursday, 19 January 2012
Report: Questionnaire analysis
Ellie and Charlotte’s questionnaire results
We produced a questionnaire about various different aspects of openings of films. From our results, we will find out which genre of film is the most popular and also what people like the most about that specific genre. We will then incorporate this into our film opening for our coursework.
The first question was asking if the audience preferred horrors, thrillers or romantic comedies. Out of ten people, 3 chose horror, 3 chose romantic comedy and 4 chose thrillers. Thriller is the preferred genre out of the three we asked about.
The second question was asking the audience where they think a romantic comedy opening setting should ideally be set. The feedback we had was fancy cities such as Paris or London, in an office, In a restaurant, and on a beach. Some of the audience did not choose a setting because they do not watch or like romantic comedies. The most popular answers were fancy cities and a restaurant with three people each.
Question three asked the audience what they think the age and gender should be for an antagonist in a horror movie. 7 people said the antagonist should be over 30 years old and the other three said the antagonist should be over 60 years old. Male was the popular gender with 8 results, leaving a female antagonist with 2 results. The preferred antagonist is a male over the age of 30.
Our fourth question asked the audience what they think the certificate should be for each of the genres, horror, thriller and romantic comedy. For romantic comedies, 4 people said they should be a 12 and 6 people said they should be a 15. For a thriller film, 8 people said it should be a 15, 1 said a 16 and another said an 18. For the horror genre, 9 people said it should be an 18 and the remaining person said it should be a 15.
Question five asked the audience whether they preferred the opening of the film to include dialogue or if they preferred openings without dialogue. This was an even preference with 5 results for each. People chose without dialogue because they believe it would have more impact on the audience and others said with dialogue so they can understand what is going on more clearly.
For question six, we asked if the audience preferred a film which included a group of antagonists or just one main antagonist. 9 of the people we asked chose one antagonist because they think that only one antagonist should be focused on for impact and tension. The other one person chose a group of antagonists.
Question seven asked the audience what sort of music should be associated with each genre. For a horror, 3 people said the music should be creepy, 2 people said incidental music should be used, and the other 5 people chose rock music, mysterious, loud, orchestral and jumpy music.
For the thriller genre, every person who took part in our questionnaire had different opinions on what the music should be like. The answers we received varied from tense, loud, instrumental, fast paces, sharp, jumpy, and incidental.
The six people thought the music for a romantic comedy should be pop, and the other four chose romantic, the use of guitars, happy and soft music.
Question eight was asking where they think the setting should be for the revealing of a films antagonist. 2 people said it should be set in the woods, 3 people said dark locations, 2 people said somewhere with a life or death situation, and the three remaining people chose a tower, a hide out or an enclosed space.
For our ninth question we asked the audience what the font type should be for each of the genres. 4 people said that the font for a romantic comedy should be bubbly, 2 people said the font comic sans should be used, 2 people said a curly font should be used and the other 2 chose rounded and bright fonts.
For the horror font, 4 people agreed on the font being bold and the other six said metal, creepy, gothic, harsh, sharp and scary.
3 people said the font for a thriller movie should be bold- similar to the horror font choice, and the other 7 people chose from iron, the font century gothic, plain, creepy, structured, mysterious and gothic.
Our final question asked the audience what their favourite aspects of each film genre are.
For horror, the audience said that the scariness, tension, death, blood and action are their favourite horror aspects.
For a romantic comedy their favourite aspects are the relationships shown, the love, the comedy, the kissing, and the good storylines.
For the thriller genre, the favourite aspects were the jumpiness of the films, the entertainment of the films, the suspense, weapons, thrill and the music involved.
Questionnaire Results
OUR QUESTIONNAIRE RESULTS
Question 1- Do you prefer horrors/thrillers/romantic comedies?
Horrors – 3 people
Thrillers – 4 people
Romantic Comedies – 3 people
Question 2- Where do you think the opening of a rom-com should ideally be set?
Cities such as Paris- 3 people
In an office – 1 person
None (Don’t watch romcoms) – 2 people
In a restaurant – 3 people
Beach – 1 person
Question 3- What age/gender do you think the main antagonist of a horror should be?
Gender:
Male – 8 people
Female – 2 people
Age:
Over 30’s – 7 people
Over 60’s – 3 people
Question 4- What certificate would you give to each genre?
Rom coms – 4 people said 12, 6 people said 15 – AVERAGE 15
Thriller – 8 people said 15, 1 said 16 and 1 said 18 – AVERAGE 15
Horror – 9 people said 18 and 1 person said 15 – AVERAGE 18
Question 5- Do you prefer openings of films with or without dialogue?
With dialogue – 5 people
Without dialogue – 5 people
Question 6- Do you prefer a group of antagonists in a film or one main antagonist?
Group – 1 person
One person – 9 people
Question 7- What music would you assiciate with each genre?
Horror:
3 people said CREEPY
1 person said ROCK
1 person said MYSETRIOUS
2 people said INCIDENTAL
1 person said LOUD
1 person said ORCHESTRAL
1 person said JUMPY
Thriller:
Everyone’s opinions were different. The answers were: tense, thriller, drums, loud, instrumental, fast paced, sharp, jumpy and 2 said incidental.
Romantic Comedies:
6 people said POP
1 person said ROMANTIC
1 person said GUITARS
1 person said HAPPY
1 person said SOFT
Question 8- What do you think the setting for the revealing of an antagonist should be?
Woods – 2 people
Tower – 1 person
Dark locations – 3 people
Life/death situation – 2 people
Hide out – 1 person
Closed space – 1 person
Question 9- What font types would you associate with each genre?
Romantic Comedies:
1 person said ROUNDED
2 people said COMIC SANS
1 person said BRIGHT
4 people said BUBBLY
2 people said CURLY
Horror:
1 person said METAL
4 people said BOLD
1 person said CREEPY
1 person said GOTHIC
1 person said HARSH
1 person said SHARP
1 person said SCARY
Thriller:
1 person said IRON
1 person said CENTURY GOTHIC
3 people said BOLD
1 person said PLAIN
1 person said CREEPY
1 person said STRUCTURED
1 person said MYSTERIOUS
1 person said GOTHIC
Question 10- What are your favourite aspects of each genre?
Horror:
7 people said the SCARINESS
1 person said DEATH
1 person said TENSION
1 person said ACTION
Thriller:
2 people said the JUMPINESS
2 people said the COOLNESS
1 person said the MUSIC
1 person said the ENTERTAINMENT
1 person said the SUSPENSE
1 person said the GUNS
1 person said the THRILL
1 person said NOTHING
Romantic comedies:
4 people said NOTHING
1 person said the LOVE
1 person said the RELATIONSHIPS
1 person said the GOOD STORYLINE
1 person said the KISSING
1 person said the NICENESS
1 person said the COMEDY
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