Evaluation Q4

From doing research previously, where each member in our team looked into a film to see who the film appealed too and what people of different classes, ages and genders wanted to watch. We conducted a questionnaire to see if we could find any pattern in what people wanted to watch.

This is our questionnaire results.

From the results we were able to tell that our film would appeal to young males aged 15 - 35. This had an effect on our film being classed as a 15 as we didn't want to lose any audience. We researched further into this to try and justify the results by looking at some other films in the same genre and this is what we found.


This backs up our questionnaire results, and shows that thrillers are appealing to young males across the world.

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Evaluation Q3

After looking at other films in the same genre as our final film. We have decided that it could appeal not only to small independent companies, but it could also be produced by a worldwide filming company that could make use of its specialties in each aspect of film. As our final draft is filmed mainly inside a small house, the costs wouldn't be too much to handle, and the general aspect of our film being a thriller, with psychological horror generic codes embedded in the scenes, we won't be needing special effects. The main cost would be for the actors and any other luxuries that the company would want if affordable. Sony Pictures could quite well produce our film, but on the other hand so could a smaller company such as Lionsgate films, who have worked with other films such as the SAW series and American Psycho. Depending on who would release our film would change what would happen with prints and advertising. If we did release our film with Sony, then there would be a massive push in our advertisements, and we would base this to a mainstream audience, but also from looking at our research, we understand that our film is most probably going to appeal to young males, aged between 15 - 35. We will do this by maybe putting adverts in magazines, on TV and in the newspapers. If we did however go with Lionsgate, we would have to think much more carefully about where we would put out our advertising scheme. But we have the relative research to work out that it has to appeal to young males and from this we could work out where to spend the small budget we have.

Lionsgate Films - Click here to visit Lionsgate Films website

Sony Pictures - This links you to Sony Pictures if you'd like to browse their website.

Evaluation Q2

Our film was originally going to be featuring two males and a female. With the female being killed off, but due to some problems in the production of the film, we had to revert to using three males. I think that we gave males a balanced representation overall, showing that youthful males can be successful, but on the other hand our killer is a youthful male. Dressed in a stereotypical way. Our film shows Arjun not being able to cope with housework and trying to look after his child. He is waiting to go to work and his character is based on a typical guy that is making a living to support his family. There is a negative representation of the male character Arjun is playing as he is easily targeted by the murderer as he is not looking after his child responsably. We have tried to compensate for this with the music that we play just before which is representing a sad feeling and sorrow feeling towards Arjun. This is inserted in the film to make the audience feel sorry for Arjuns character rather than think that he deserves what he gets. We have various camera shots showing the murderer entering the house and this shows a negative representation of males. Showing his costume and the way he breaks into the house. We see that he has planned this as he uses the same window to break in the second time, it is shown negatively as he kills Adam's character for no apparent reason. To complete how negatively we are representing the killer, he speeds off in a car away from Arjun showing no remorse for what he has done.

Evaluation Q1

In our opening sequence to the film ‘Targeted’, we have used media conventions that are typical of most horror films. We have constructed our characters profiles as well as we could to make the murderer appear sinful and realistic. His costume is used to show his youth and also brings a sense of intimidation. The other characters in this film are constructed stereotypically to their age and value. Arjun appears as a young man in a high-end job that is struggling to keep up with everything in his life. The other character in the film is Arjun’s friend. We have constructed him to wear clothes that are typically what a youth would wear. He is well spoken and we use the phone call to show this. Arjun and Adam are both likeable people, which is typical of a horror film to get the audience emotionally involved. The setting we used was convenient and worked with what we were trying to do. We needed a narrow house that had an exit point for the murderer. The sound in our film comes from mainly diegetic sounds form the TV that Arjun is watching in one of the scenes; there is also some dialogue in the sequence that is made up of a phone call. But the main sound that we had a choice about was the theme that we created on GarageBand. This we felt was perfect to bring across the feeling we wanted to give the audience. We have created a slow tempo piece that we use whilst the credits are rolling. This carries through until a shot of a photo showing the close relationship between Adam and Arjun.

Evaluation Question 2

Our film was originally going to be featuring two males and a female. With the female being killed off, but due to some problems in the production of the film, we had to revert to using three males. I think that we gave males a balanced representation overall, showing that youthful males can be successful, but on the other hand our killer is a youthful male. Dressed in a stereotypical way. Our film shows Arjun not being able to cope with housework and trying to look after his child. He is waiting to go to work and his character is based on a typical guy that is making a living to support his family. There is a negative representation of the male character Arjun is playing as he is easily targeted by the murderer as he is not looking after his child responsably. We have tried to compensate for this with the music that we play just before which is representing a sad feeling and sorrow feeling towards Arjun. This is inserted in the film to make the audience feel sorry for Arjuns character rather than think that he deserves what he gets. We have various camera shots showing the murderer entering the house and this shows a negative representation of males. Showing his costume and the way he breaks into the house. We see that he has planned this as he uses the same window to break in the second time, it is shown negatively as he kills Adam's character for no apparent reason. To complete how negatively we are representing the killer, he speeds off in a car away from Arjun showing no remorse for what he has done.

Production of the Opening Sequence - Day 2

As Productions went well yesterday, and we filmed a good number of shots, that we were pleased with for using for our first draft. We filmed the whole sequence of Arjun in the kitchen. And the continuity of the diegetic sound was working well whilst we were using the PS3 to play the music. We decided to use the song, 'I Can Be - Taio Cruz' as we thought it was a typical song that gives a "get up and go" feeling. We used a variety of shots in the opening day of filming, and we got over the problem of the kitchen being narrow. Day 2 of filming will see us starting with the transition of Arjun being in the kitchen to making his move upstairs. This shouldn't be too hard to complete as we have more space, and we have an idea on our storyboards to refer to. We also took a trip to a number of phone shops around Windsor Town Centre to ask if we could use any old Model's that weren't in use anymore. After being told by a few shops that they couldn't supply us with a phone. Luckily the last shop we were going to ask gave us 2 phones to use. One of which fits what we need, to be easily recognized.

Time of filming: Daytime.

Production of the Opening Sequence - Day 1

As we have got all we need in terms of props and settings, nothing is able halt our filming process. We can film a number of shots inside the house, so the outside scenery won't matter for a while. But as we need to shoot some shots at night time, we can only shoot the sequence of Arjun in the kitchen and walking up the staircase. We will use one camera for this as it shouldn't be too hard to film with one camera. We have all of the equipment in Arjuns house to create a realistic recreation of a young males lifestyle. The sound is going to be mainly dialogue, with a diegetic sound coming from the TV in Arjun's house. For this we are going to use a PS3 to play music, this will allow us to stop and start a song as we please, allowing us to retake shots without breaking up the continuity within our film.

Other props we will be using on the first day of filming include.

Cutlery
Kitchenware - (Toaster, Fridge etc.)
Food (Bread, Butter etc.)
Clothes (Tie) - Arjun will appear to look rushed, scruffy and not well prepared.
A Small Blanket

Time of Filming: Daytime