I asked people to participate in my questionnaire by:
- Word of mouth
- Group Messaging (whatsapp)
Tuesday 27 September 2016
Audience Research
This is my survey for my audience research: Create your own user feedback survey
I asked people to participate in my questionnaire by:
- Word of mouth
- Group Messaging (whatsapp)
- Email
- Twitter
I asked people to participate in my questionnaire by:
- Word of mouth
- Group Messaging (whatsapp)
Genre, Audience and Conventions
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Monday 26 September 2016
Thursday 22 September 2016
Tuesday 20 September 2016
Audience Profiling
This is the audience profile on my target audience for my film idea. This include age, gender and the social background they belong to and the reasons behind it. I have created this on 'Piktochart'.
Synopsis 2
Will is a trouble maker and is friends with similar people. After
Will is in trouble again his mum decides to send him to a dance class down the
road, hoping he’d stay out of trouble if he’s busy. Will grudgingly go to the
class. Once there the teacher begins to pair the girls with the boys, Will,
gets paired with a girl called Darcy. Will makes a huge scene about being
paired up as he doesn’t want to dance consequently embarrassing Darcy. Darcy
comes from a more upper class background and due to this her group of friends
and Will’s get into a lot of fights. During the lessons they both begin to
bicker.
They keep bumping into each other. The first is when one of
Darcy’s friends throw a party, Will and his friends find out decide to crash just to annoy her and her friends. Will forgot who Darcy was friends with and as soon as Will sees Darcy he leaves his friends.Will asks Darcy to dance but before he can ask her for a date a fight between
one of Will’s friends breaks out meaning Will had to go help and both of them
get kicked out.
The next time they see each other Will is causing trouble
again. Darcy is going to a pub just as Will is getting thrown out. They both
dance together at their lesson again and this time they don’t bicker and he
asks her out and she agrees.
After their first date the war is announced. Will has to go
and out of fear asks Darcy to marry him, she says no. Will leaves heartbroken
but continues to write letters to her whilst at war. The war comes to an end
and Will returns to England. Darcy agrees to meet Will again. They meet at a coffee
shop. When leaving the coffee shop they leave together, on Darcy’s hand she is
wearing an engagement ring.
Monday 19 September 2016
Demographics and Psychographics
This is the JICNAR scale used by media companies to identify different groups. This is useful for marketing, narrative e.g., so the audience they want to target can relate to the product they want to sell.
However, we use psychographics for adverts:
Aspirers: People who want to appear as rich and attractive
Explorers: People who are adventurous and take more risks
Reformers: People who want to make social change
Mainstreamers: People who follow the crowd
Strugglers: People who find it hard to acheive
However, we use psychographics for adverts:
Aspirers: People who want to appear as rich and attractive
Explorers: People who are adventurous and take more risks
Reformers: People who want to make social change
Mainstreamers: People who follow the crowd
Strugglers: People who find it hard to acheive
Friday 16 September 2016
Synopsis for Idea one
The scene opens up to find Tommy in an hospital bed, when his face is fully shown the flashbacks begin. The scene flicks from the present and to the flashbacks of the accident. The hospital is almost silent which contradicts the loud party. Tommy is seen talking to his friend and then later Tommy dancing, we then see Tommy walking home drunk after the party before being attacked by a gang and then left in the middle of the road.
Mike, Tommy's best friend then goes to visit him at hospital. Mike enters the room taking a seat next to the bed and begin to talk to Tommy, Mike blames himself for the accident as he allows his friends to walk home alone intoxicated. Mike goes to take his hand however a nurse walks in meaning the both of them don't come into contact. A couple of weeks this later Mike visits again more angry and frustrated than the last and shakes Tommy. The time travelling begins.
Tommy and Mike wake up in 1980s wearing clothes from that era however, both don't realise and both excited to see each other. They pull each other into a hug and before they know it they end up in 1920's party. This time they notice they are somewhere different. They run out of the party and find a newspaper stand and see they are in present day, Mike snatches the newspaper to see where they are and both get teleport into another time in history.
Mike eventually pulls out of the time travelling and the next day visits the hospital again so he can teleport. Every time they time travel Tommy begins to get weaker and Mike and Tommy argue, Tommy wanting to stop but having no control over it whereas Mike wants to see Tommy and wants to keep travelling.
They end up in 1945, where Tommy and Mike separate from each other, meaning they are both trapped there till they find each other again. Once they find each other again Tommy manages to pull himself out and wakes up from the coma bringing Mike back as well as a girl from 1945 who they had met along the way.
Both work together to get the girl back (who makes it hard for both of them as she doesn't want to go back to the war.) The film ends with them getting the girl back and both entering a party together, similar to the party they started at.
Mike, Tommy's best friend then goes to visit him at hospital. Mike enters the room taking a seat next to the bed and begin to talk to Tommy, Mike blames himself for the accident as he allows his friends to walk home alone intoxicated. Mike goes to take his hand however a nurse walks in meaning the both of them don't come into contact. A couple of weeks this later Mike visits again more angry and frustrated than the last and shakes Tommy. The time travelling begins.
Tommy and Mike wake up in 1980s wearing clothes from that era however, both don't realise and both excited to see each other. They pull each other into a hug and before they know it they end up in 1920's party. This time they notice they are somewhere different. They run out of the party and find a newspaper stand and see they are in present day, Mike snatches the newspaper to see where they are and both get teleport into another time in history.
Mike eventually pulls out of the time travelling and the next day visits the hospital again so he can teleport. Every time they time travel Tommy begins to get weaker and Mike and Tommy argue, Tommy wanting to stop but having no control over it whereas Mike wants to see Tommy and wants to keep travelling.
They end up in 1945, where Tommy and Mike separate from each other, meaning they are both trapped there till they find each other again. Once they find each other again Tommy manages to pull himself out and wakes up from the coma bringing Mike back as well as a girl from 1945 who they had met along the way.
Both work together to get the girl back (who makes it hard for both of them as she doesn't want to go back to the war.) The film ends with them getting the girl back and both entering a party together, similar to the party they started at.
Tuesday 13 September 2016
Narrative and Film Industry
What is narrative?
Narrative is about how the story is told to the audience.
Syd Field's Three- Act Structure:
Field suggested most stories have three acts which he broke into the following structure
Act one- (25%) The Set-Up
-Turning Point 1
Act two- (50%) The development
-Turning Point 2
Act three- (25%) The Resolution
Todorov's Theory of disequilibrium:
Similar to Field's idea, he also defined there three acts but as:
Equilibrium- Disequilibrium- Re-equilibrium
Propp's Spheres of Action:
Propp identified the characters roles which he called the spheres of action. Propp studied fairy tales and spotted these recurring roles in many of the stories. Hollywood and other film producers also use the fairy-tale structure for their films.
Propp's spheres of action:
Hero- the protagonist who is sent on a quest and saves the day
Villain- the antagonist whose mission it is to disrupt the hero's quest
Princess- must be saved by the hero or is the hero's reward
Helper- the hero's sidekick who helps them throughput the mission
Donor- gives the hero something crucial without which they could not complete the mission
Dispatcher- sends the hero on their quest
Anti-Hero- may appear to be on the side of the villain's of hero's side
Levi Strauss' Binary Opposites
Strauss expresses that narrative are concerned with binary opposites. E.g. good/evil, dark/light
Roland Barthes' Codes
Barthes identified a number of codes that are used in narratives to allow the audience to understand the plot development.
Action codes: Things that happen dictates an action that will occur; for example, a character placing their hand on a gun signifies that they will likely shoot.
Enigma codes: Things that are seen that raise questions for the audience, for example an important letter falling of a character's pocket: who will pick it up? what did the letter say? What now?
Narrative is about how the story is told to the audience.
Syd Field's Three- Act Structure:
Field suggested most stories have three acts which he broke into the following structure
Act one- (25%) The Set-Up
-Turning Point 1
Act two- (50%) The development
-Turning Point 2
Act three- (25%) The Resolution
Todorov's Theory of disequilibrium:
Similar to Field's idea, he also defined there three acts but as:
Equilibrium- Disequilibrium- Re-equilibrium
Propp's Spheres of Action:
Propp identified the characters roles which he called the spheres of action. Propp studied fairy tales and spotted these recurring roles in many of the stories. Hollywood and other film producers also use the fairy-tale structure for their films.
Propp's spheres of action:
Hero- the protagonist who is sent on a quest and saves the day
Villain- the antagonist whose mission it is to disrupt the hero's quest
Princess- must be saved by the hero or is the hero's reward
Helper- the hero's sidekick who helps them throughput the mission
Donor- gives the hero something crucial without which they could not complete the mission
Dispatcher- sends the hero on their quest
Anti-Hero- may appear to be on the side of the villain's of hero's side
Levi Strauss' Binary Opposites
Strauss expresses that narrative are concerned with binary opposites. E.g. good/evil, dark/light
Roland Barthes' Codes
Barthes identified a number of codes that are used in narratives to allow the audience to understand the plot development.
Action codes: Things that happen dictates an action that will occur; for example, a character placing their hand on a gun signifies that they will likely shoot.
Enigma codes: Things that are seen that raise questions for the audience, for example an important letter falling of a character's pocket: who will pick it up? what did the letter say? What now?
Tuesday 6 September 2016
Monday 5 September 2016
Preliminary Task: Evaluation 3
What parts of the process did you find most challenging? How did you overcome this?
For me I found editing the hardest part of the process. I couldn't work out how to do some of the things I had visualised for my clip. I watched/read tutorials to work out a lot of it however, at the end of my clip when the camera tilts up to show the masked face I had visualised the screen become distorted and pixilated, but even after researching I still couldn't find a way to do it so in the end I had to do it in a different by cutting the clip and putting white fillers to create a similar look to what I was going for.
Another thing that I found challenging as a group is organising ourselves to make sure we're all in the right place and have everything we need. When we went to film we did not have everything we needed to film which we overcome by adapting and using other props instead or cutting that part of the video out of the clip.
For me I found editing the hardest part of the process. I couldn't work out how to do some of the things I had visualised for my clip. I watched/read tutorials to work out a lot of it however, at the end of my clip when the camera tilts up to show the masked face I had visualised the screen become distorted and pixilated, but even after researching I still couldn't find a way to do it so in the end I had to do it in a different by cutting the clip and putting white fillers to create a similar look to what I was going for.
Another thing that I found challenging as a group is organising ourselves to make sure we're all in the right place and have everything we need. When we went to film we did not have everything we needed to film which we overcome by adapting and using other props instead or cutting that part of the video out of the clip.
Preliminary Task: Evaluation 2
This presentation is to answer the second evaluation question for the preliminary task: How did you work with other people in your production team? What role did you play in the production? Would you have done anything differently?
This task was completed using google slides.
This task was completed using google slides.
Preliminary Task: Evaluation 1
This presentation is for my evaluation:What new skills, techniques and knowledge have you learnt from producing the preliminary activity?
I have completed this task using emaze.
I have completed this task using emaze.
Sunday 4 September 2016
Research into different time periods
This is my research into some of the moments of time we will be covering to give me more insight into the times so I can make it more realistic when filming. I have created this presentation using Zoho presentations.
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