Planning - Target Audience Research - Interview

We interviewed three random people in our school that suit the demographic, two being female, one being a male. We asked them about their current interests in their preferred thriller films. We collected their answers and reflected with what we discovered on our secondary research.

We asked the following questions:

How often do you got to the cinema?

Do you like watching horror films?

What do you like about horror films?

What kind of music are you currently listening to?

What would you say is the most aspirational tech company?

Planning - Draft Work

PLOT

The film is about an epic tale featuring a girl named L-R who tries to come to terms with who she really is.  On the outside she looks like an socially awkward teenager with background issues, who's looking to live a normal life, but on the inside she has a ruthless alter-ego who takes pleasure in slaughtering anyone who opposes/threatens her. As the movie goes on, the amount of corpses pile up. L-R then embarks on a journey south to find herself and to finally but an end to the phantom menace that lies within her soul. Throughout her journey she meets many people and makes many friends and of course enemies.

With nothing but a shirt on her back, iron will and fire in her belly; she meets a stranger who accompanies her throughout her journey. Despite never meeting before they get on like a house on fire and even sparks of romance seem to fly when there within close proximity. She soon realises this mans true identity and intentions, now all the cards are thrown in the balance.

On her quest she discovers that she is part of the notorious Sanguis Bestia and that the blood line runs strong within her veins. She also finds out that her and the mans fate are somehow intertwined. With this new information she now knows that she is a natural born killer. Which side would she choose; continue living her life as a caricature or will she embrace her heritage and become one with the beast.

Planning - Sound

Diegetic Sound

This is sound that the character who are in the film can hear. these are also voices that you hear in the film which the characters will hear too.

Non Diegetic Sound

This is around which is read to the audience however it is not real to the characters. this is normally used for credits to keep the audiences interested.

Ambient sound effect

the ambient sound effects are different sound effect that allows to give suspense to the film.

sound ambiguity

This is were the non diegetic sound then changes into the diegetic sound. this helps set the scene and allow an easy flow into the first scene of the film.

Planning: Demographics

Demographics

Target Audience is the type of person or a group of people you wish to view your film. Target Audiences can range, for example; Race, Nationality, Age, Gender.

Gaining Demographics

History - Looking at films from the past and gaining ideas.

Survey - Interview about current interests of the people and trends that are around currently. For example ("what kind of films do you watch").

Other questions - What aspect of horror/thriller do you like?

Questions of personal interests, make sure the target audience is locked in with the plot, mine en scene etc.

For example women watch horror films more than men because men watch horror films with girls as a date and some girl just go with a group of friends, this seems to be the current trend.

The statistics to the left shows the percentage of women and men who go to watch thrillers.

Since we know that a higher percentage of men watch horror we have to base the film more towards men's interests.

For example music that men like, clothing that men prefer.

The graph on the left shows how the age group differs from genres compared to horror.

This shows that more teenagers like thriller movies more then any other age generations.

This mean that we would have to add things in the store that teenagers can relate too.

For example characters the same same age as the views. Scenes with sex, drugs and violence. These are what interest viewers and makes them watch the film.

Planning - Prefilming and Organisation

Planning - Calendar

These were the different dates that we planned to film and edit out work, we also labeled out who offered to do the work and who was meant to attend the filming.

It also had the times that we were meant to meet and the place we arranged to meet at when we were going to go filming.

Planning - Master Catalogue

 Description on  Walter's personality and traits

 Description about the Mysterious Geeza's traits and character

 Description about L-R's character traits and personality

 Description about the actor Alysia B

 Description about the actor Ben Bingham

Description about the actor Alfie Herbert