Group- Planning for final audience research.

We have decided that the form of our audience research will be us conducting intervies after the showing asking the following questions:

Questions we want to ask:

1) What genre would you label our film?

2) How did you identify who the hero and villan is?

3) Explain briefly what you think is happening in our opening sequence.

4) What mood do you think our soundtrack creates?

5) What characteristics are present that tell you this is an opening sequence?

6) Would you pay to see the rest of the film?


People we want to invite:

Josh, Callum, Marcus, Marco, Matt, James and Dom because they fit into our target audience as males are typically more interested in drug related thrillers than women. Also, they are within the 15-24 age range and we think our film appeals more to these ages as the characters in our film are of the same age range.

Questionnaire

This questionnaire we gave to people after our big pitch we included all our ideas for our opening sequence. The results to this questionnaire are presented earlier in the blog under 'Audience Research'.

The questionnaire looked like this:

LB- Progress Report 8th April

Progress Report What needs to be done: We are completing the titles and finishing the whole opening sequence, we are just adjusting the sound levels and then we will have completed the construction stage.

YM- Production Log 07/04/2011

Today we:

• Completed the titles to add to our opening sequence


• Recorded the other half of the conversation shown in the opening sequence


• Uploaded the audio onto premiere

What we still need to do:

• Ensure the blog is completely finished, ready to be marked.

YM- Production Log 06/04/2011

Today we:

• Showed our opening sequence to our teacher and wrote out the feedback


• Put the music track we have chosen into our opening sequence and cut it to fit the footage perfectly


• Re-edited a few shots in the middle of our opening sequence

What we plan to do tomorrow:

• Finish the construction of our opening sequence


• Ensure the blog is complete

YM- Final Feedback

We had our opening sequence evaluated by the teacher for final opinions and we were given several things to look at and re-do:

• Fade from black into money shot


• Key frame money shot


• Cut soundtrack out in conversation


• Make sure titles fade into the next scene


• Hear the phone call (phone ringing) at the end of the sequence

LB- Progress Report 5th April

Progress Report: Today we have been carrying on looking at music and we have found an audio that we think will fit in our opening sequence, so we are trying to incorporate it into it. We got a full length track from a CD which is copyright free. We are also looking at titles and are close to putting them into our opening sequence. We have also continued to develope a couple of our shots. What needs to be done: We need to finish editing our opening sequence and put the titles in.

YM- Call Sheet and Risk Assessment

Before we could go out on a reccie, filming, etc we had to fill out a call sheet and a risk assessement.

The call sheet helped us to know what we needed to do, by recording the shots that we had to do and the characters involved. We also recorded the equipment we needed to take with us to make sure we had everything we needed.

Our callsheet looked like this:

The risk assessement was used to identify the risks we could face for both us and the equipment. We recorded each risk we figured we could come across and made a note on how we could overcome it.

YM- Production Log- 4/04/2011

Today we spent the lesson listening through sound effects and backing tracks to start finding sufficient audio for our opening sequence. We had a lot of CD's to go through, but managed to find a few tracks that could possibly work. We will continue looking in our next lesson. We also thought about our titles in the opening sequence. We looked at where we could place them and whether or not we want them to appear on screen during the action or to appear as a sequence at some point in the opening sequence. We came up with a couple of ideas which we will be looking at experimenting with in our next lesson.

AS - Genre Research

Car Chase With Kirill
The Bourne Supremacyat MOVIECLIPS.com

This clip is the cutting rate we wish to try and do with our chase scene. Also the music is building the suspense so we wish to have something like this in our opening sequence.