28-02-13 progress

Today we again made another plan of action because we thought that the first one Tina made was very useful

Blue- Filming schedule: We organised at least  days of filming that we could all attend to

Monday 4th Mar: Filming
Tuesday 5th Mar Filming
Wednesday 6th Mar
Thursday 7th Mar: Filming
Friday 8th Mar

Green- Reshooting: We decided that the following need to be reshot

Tina and I were going to reshot the labs shots again because we werent happy with the other reshoot

Red-Blog: We are behind on updating our group blog. though we need to upload stuff on characters and props

Yellow-Title:  We have decided to name our movie bacterium as we have all agreed that it fits best with our movie and we have began to think about titles, using the colour green.

Orange-Sound: This is unfinished but we began to discuss the sound that would be used. Serena and I will begin to compose the music towards the end of the editing process. The other half of the group decided that it would be best to use a quiet instrumental music for the science scene. We also decided that we will experiment with synth, drums and symbol to create a mysterious effect.

15-02-13 group progress

So this week all of our macs and equipment were stolen meaning that we had lost our first draft of our edited sequence. so today we mainly focused on thoughts about re-filming some of our lab shots with Tina and Theo and we mainly thought about we props and costumes we would need and also how we could make it more interesting than the first time we filmed it.

Pre Production

Today I managed to complete the storyboard for our opening sequence and am in the process of creating the costume list, location list and props list, as well as a list of potential cast and crew, and I am also devising the risk assessment for our group. I hope to create a focus group and some questionnaires as soon as possible, of which the focus group shall be videoed (with their permission), and then uploaded to this blog and my group blog, as well as our production meeting footage.

Audience Research

From our research (both online and through asking people), we have found that the target audience of our chosen genre (action/ thriller) depends on what type of action film it is, and how much of a role the thriller component plays. Action films like Mission Impossible III and The Matrix are aimed at a slightly older audience, from the ages of about 22 and up, and more towards the male population -- with the extensive action sequences, male protagonists, scenes of mild and intense violence etc.
Generally, most other action films are geared towards the young male adolescent age group, because, younger males tend to like action films more than their female counterparts. Just like Romance films are geared towards women because they react to romance better than men do.

Many hybrid thriller films target an age group of between 16 and 25 years old. Thriller audiences consist more of a male skew, but this differs with hybrid genres. Horror thrillers, action thrillers and political thrillers such as 'Enemy of the state and Déjà Vu (2006)' have a male skew. This is because men are drawn into films with more action, more so than women. Horror and action thrillers have a younger audience of 16-25, as they are more exciting for this age group.

Genre: Reasarch into the codes and conventions of our chosen genre

Our Chosen Genre Is Action Thriller.

The certificate of action films usually ranges between certificate 12 and certificate 18, with the aim of maximising youth audiences as much as possible. The action genre is often hybridised with Sci Fi, Adventure, and Thriller Genres, some of which work fairly well (V For Vendetta, is an example of this. the fusion of the two genre's is almost faultless in this film), and some don’t.
Major studios usually produce and distribute action films, and often most of the action hybrid genres of film. These types of films almost always have high production values including CGI effects. The editing of these types of films is generally fast paced, to re-enforce the sense of action. Action films generally have a predictable chain of events – cause and effect, however with the inclusion of thriller, these predictable events can become more spontaneous, adding to the structure of the film. A single stranded, linear, closed narrative is mostly used, where the protagonist is effected by the actions of the antagonist, usually there is a main fight scene towards the end of the film, at which point order is restored, or justice is served.
Most of the non-diegetic sound used in the film is dramatic, and kind of separates the film from the real world, but not so much as to suggest it be a SCI-Fi or Fantasy film, as it still retains most of the elements of a real life situation, but is generally exaggerated quite a bit.
More narrative action codes than enigma codes are used.
Star Marketing: Audience identification/expectations (Cruise/ Pitt/ Willis/ Jolie/ Stallone/ Craig/ Schwarzenegger etc. 

Romantic sub-plot, Humorous dialogue
Relationships with new technology, which would appeal to the lower end of the target audience - youth audiences.

Use of close up/Insert shots/High Key Lighting
Dominant representation of gender: male/female action hero.

Today we filmed our Establishing Shot.

05-02-13 group update

So now we have again looked over the shots with the teacher and we have decided that actually the angles aren't as bad as when we first looked at them, we asked a couple of our peers and they said that it looks kind of like he is trying to hide something because we can't see the whole of his facial expression.

Filming Diary 01-02-13