Audience Research/Feedback

Audience Research/Feedback

For our audience research we have found out that the key audience and our main audience target is teenagers aged between 15-19.

The gender for our film 'Deadline' would be male because it has features in the film that would mainly attract a male audience to go and watch the film, for examples guns and zombies.
We asked these questions to 3 people and the feedback for them follows:
1. Are you male or female?

A) MaleB) Female
C) Male
2. How old are you?

A) 17

B) 17

C) 16

3. Do you prefer English films or foreign films?

A) Foreign Films

B) Foreign Films

C) Foregin Films

4. What genre of film do enjoy best?

A) Horror

B) Comedy

C) Action

5. What would you expect to see in a horror zombie film?

A) Guns

B) Death

C) Blood
6. What did you think that 'Deadline' has that makes its opening sequence?

A) The Music

B) Sound Effects

C) Sound Effects 
7. Do you think the time length for the opening sequence is too long?

A) No, it starts and stops in a mystery

B) No, i think it needs to be longer

C) Yes, it could be shortened
8. What do you think could be improved?

A) The pace of the character running

B) The use of clothing and props

C) The length of time
9. Is there anything you would add to make the opening sequence better?

A) Add a zombie into the sequence to show what they are running from

B) Make the running scenes shorter

C) Have more angled camera shots
10. Is there anything you would take out of the sequence to make it better?

A) Some of the running scenes

B) Some of the running scenes

C) Some of the running scenes

Typography

Typography

Our film is a zombie, horror so for our film we have been looking at the typography from Dawn of The Dead, 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, Diary of the Dead, Land of the Dead, here are some typography examples for our film Deadline. We chose to use the 3rd typography because it has most characteristics of a zombie film to the others and this typography also has a dark and gloomy effect to it.

Deadline Animatic

Recce

Recce

Gate

Gate

Corridor 

Safe house

Pathway

Pathway

Door To Safe House

Desk In Safe House

Casting For Deadline

Casting For Deadline

Charlie Hopwood as Shaun

Steven Power as Matthew

Mikey Masher as Ray

Tom Brown as John

production and personal schedule

production and personal schedule

1. create blog and post our meeting minutes, production schedule, a questionnaire, a written script, evidence of what we have researched our horror, institution research, typography. we filmed our continuity piece so that we could get use to the equipment(camera, tripod, how to put the dv tape in safely) we recorded our continuity piece and the took the film to the mac room so we could edit it and get use to the imovie programme.

2. for our planning evidence we looked at other movies from our genre such as dawn of the dead, shawn of the dead, land of the dead, diary of the dead, zombie land and we also looked at a foreign film called dead snow.  we also looked at the typography from other films and we went to da font to play around with different titles.

3. we drew our storyboards and started to snowball ideas. when we finished this we then hired out our equipment and started to film our final decision.

4 after our filming this is when we started to edit, this is where cut unnecessary clips and added effects using i movie. we added our sound effects in from garage band.

5. this is our final step where we decided if anything needed changing with sound text and more cutting.

Meeting minutes

Meeting Minutes

16th January 2011 – Filming the sequence discussed at Welling School at 11am – 1pm

Film Sequence – 1:51 minutes:

00:00-00:10– camera on the floor feet running past

00:11-00:21– camera close up on Shaun’s (Charlie’s) face with zombies running in the background

00:22-00:32– Shaun (Charlie) running at the gate

00:33-00:43– Shaun (Charlie) runs to the safe house

00:44-00:54– The three other survivors are in a room pointing there guns at Shaun (Charlie)

00:55-1:20 – All four start talking about if Shaun (Charlie) got the radio signal online

1:21-1:25 – Close up on gate opening slowly

1:26-1:32 – Title of film (Deadline)

1:33-1:40 – Shaun (Charlie) asleep in bed, alarm goes off, he wakes up

1:41-1:51 – Credits of the film

Production/Personal Schedule

Week 1 Create Blog

Week 2 Planning Evidence

Week 3 Planning Storyboard

Week 4 Filming

Week 5 Editing

Week 6 Evaluation
Production Brief

For our production we are making an opening sequence to a horror/action film

The film is called Deadline and it is about a pandemic that has spread worldwide causing everyone to turn into zombie, except a certain blood type which is AB+

The movie is about 4 men trying to survive the hordes of zombies that attack them

Setting – School, Car Park

The film starts with a scene from the middle of the film

Start – Man wakes up, normal day but little things change throughout the film e.g. less people are seen out on the streets as he goes for a run, deaths highly reported on the news.

Middle – Trying to survive zombie attacks and find other survivors

End – Cliff hanger of a final attack between the humans and zombies

Props – Guns, Old/Dirty/Ripped Clothes, Fake Blood, Enigma Code Prop

Target Audience – 18+, Adults, Male

Characters – Charlie = Shaun, Steven = Matthew, Tom = John, Mikey = Ray