Feedback

A couple of days ago, we showed our film to some people looking round on open morning. We had extremely positive feedback. People especially enjoyed and were stunned with the climax of the boy leaning and jumping over the edge of the tall building, especially with the cutaway. We heard comments such as 'I hope the boy isn’t dead' and "what happens next?". This is very reassuring and provides evidence of the feeling and emotions we wanted to create and it shows they want to keep watching. They also felt that the location was extremly realistic and made the situation of the boy even more shocking.
The viewing audience of our film included the targeted age group of 18-40+  with a mixture of genders. The movie seemed to appeal to both genres and all age groups well. We also had younger age groups which were very intrigued and grabbed by our film opening. This suggests that our film may appeal to an even wider audience than previously thought and so the chances of our film becoming a sucess is even greater.

Conventions of a thriller

In order to better understand the genre- thriller, we worked as a group and identified some key characteristics of thriller films and created thismind map using MindNode

Audience Feedback

After our first filming section yesterday, we started the editing during lesson today. We edited the part where I stand on the roof top and deciding whether I should kill myself or not. Then we carried out a small focus group survey, asking for feedback. Most of them thought that it was quite depressing but they could feel the tension and were interested to watch he film. Some of our focus group even gasped because they thought it was so realistic and this is pleasing to us as we aimed for verisimilitude. We think the opening sequence will be able to attract our designed target audience.

Sky investigation

In today's lesson, we had been doing research on the target audience for our psychological thriller. We took a look at how websites like Sky characterised their genres and audience. They provide different channels for example like Sky Sports, Sky Movies and Sky News, and each targets a different kind of audience. The channel we focused on was Sky Movies HD Crime and Thrillers. They say that the channel attracts young audience, about 34% of viewers are 16-34 years old, which is roughly the sort of group we are aiming to target for our movie intro.

Mood Board

This is a mood board for our target audience. It portrays everything from where they might eat out, to what other sorts of movies and T.V they will watch.

Preliminary exercise

This is our preliminary video. We did this exercise in order to better understand the shooting and editing techniques and get prepared for our final course work. We used an iphone to shoot this video so we can try and see what the qualities are but for our final project we will use a camera.

working process:

Our Call Sheet

When we filmed in Kingston, we needed to create a call sheet to show everything and everyone we needed. This was issued to everyone going along with all of our contact details incase we needed them.