Questionnaire

In our groups, we came up with a questionnaire to give to people about our film, this is what we got:

 

Summary:
 Overall, our audience expect for our film to be a dark comedy/horror/action. They expect to see death, violence and zombies. They expect to see zombies, killing, news footage and an introduction to the film within the title sequence. They expect to hear screams, zombie noises, gunfire and slow deep music in the title sequence. They expect to see low key / dark lighting. They think the protagonist should be aged from high teenage years to low 20 year olds. There is a 3 - 2 on the type of font the title should be (we should play around with the title more with these fonts and ask again). The audience would typically see the film late at night and at the weekend, typically children aren't around at night and this would put the audience in the mindset to be scared, getting the audience ready for the diegesis of the film. Typically, the audience expect to see a low budget.

Need to:

• Play around with the fonts 

  • Question the same audience about the titles

    • Prelim/initial storyboards for the film

     

Logo, Audience Profile, Codes and Conventions, Analysis of Title Sequence

This week in Leanne's class, within our film groups we were set four tasks to complete:

-Research the codes and conventions of horror, paying attention to title sequences

 

-Write an audience profile (primary and secondary) for your film's target audience

 

-Analyse one sequence from chosen genre individually and one as a group. Note any features to include in own work. 

 

-Invent a production company and design a logo for it. 

This is our logo for our production company; it is a combination of our first initials (Terry, Aiden, Louis, Lauren). As our production comapny produce films within the horror genre we decided to use simplistic and dark colours.

Codes and Conventions:

-low key lighting

-faint images

-foreshadowing of bloodshed

-isolation

-scenery – rural

-foreshadowing

-killer – glimpse of character

-sets equilibrium

-knife – foreshadowing – physical weapons

-medical imagery – experiments

-dark clothing, not suits, jeans and t-shirts, trainers

-hand held – shaky

-close ups

-tracking

-point of view shots

-low and high angle shots

-pan movement

-establishing – isolation

Features to include with title sequence:

• Handheld footage
• Generally slow paced editing (slow motion)
• Orchestral music
• Connotations of blood
• Connotations of weapons