Filming 2nd location

Thursday 17th december was when we filmed our party scene, at Sams house. We filmed many clips such as pouring drinks, drinking, eating, talking, laughing, dancing, stumbling and other such clips. Sam and Lucy were the only members of the group to attend the party scene, therefore the whole scene was shot from the protagonist characters point of view. Other people who acted at the party scene were Alicia Walker, Ralph Lambert, Becky Tolmie, Chloe Roberts, Alex Williams and Charlotte McMahon. Sam McMahon played the part of the villain or attacker, however his face is not shown to leave the audience wondering who the attacker was.

In this party scene the camera was held free-hand so it looked like it was the protagonist characters POV. Therefore when the character was pushed to the ground, the camera was held by the actor who played the victim.

Filming 1st location

On the 13th December we filmed our shots for our first location. This first location was filmed in a rural area, near a small river and footpath bridge. Saliah Idris was the only actress in this section of our opening sequence, as she plays the character who wakes up in the middle of the field.

We used many different types of shot when filming at this location, such as Extreme High Angle Shots, Long Shots, Medium Shots, Low Angle Shots, Zoom Shots and Close-up shots. We used these various shots to try and establish to the audience the location the character has found herself in, a secluded rural area with no-one to be found for miles around.

Risk Assesment for filming

Feedback

Okay, this blog is quite well developed now, so we really need to get that footage to create a product that matches the research and planning! However, there are a few minor things to work on:

• go back over the early analysis of opening sequences etc and ensure that all have a comment at the end that clarifies what you have learnt/ can copy as a result of looking at what works well...
• cast list - add some cast shots and comment on why the people chosen suit there role
• location shots - these look good, so add some comment to this post about why you have chosen this location - why it suits what you are trying to achieve
• the reflection on the box office stats - I agree with the disadvantage of using a popular genre but what do you try and do to overcome this - can you define what your USP is?
• audience section - not sure I agree with your claim that thrillers are generally enjoyed by all - whilst both genders can enjoy them, often they are more of a male thing? For each of your audience segmentation reflections, can you add comment on what aspects you will use in your film that will appeal to these sectors? You could end this section by commenting on whether it is mainstream or niche and why you want to target just such an audience....

As well as tweaking these details in your own time, make sure you have chosen your music - there is a list of sites in your booklet and Rachel has some CDs of copyright free music....

Please get your footage asap and start editing, so we can see where we are....

Mrs Doggart

Our chosen Times/Dates

We have now decided on the dates we are going to film on. Due to the good weather forecast for the upcoming days, we have decided to film our first location shots this weekend, as hopefully the field will have begun to dry out from the heavy rain we have had over the past few weeks. This will be on Sunday 13th December. The only actress needed for this location is Saliah Idris. Lucy and Sam will be filming and organising this part of the filming.

For our second location, we are filming in Sam McMahon's house in Brockhall Village, this is where the party scene will take place. We are filming this on Thursday 17th December. The actors/actresses included in this location are Saliah Idris, Lucy Gillett, Sam McMahon, Ralph Lambert, Christina Calver, Alicia Walker, Becky Tolmie, Liam Kinney, Alex Williams and Taylor Barnes. Sam, Saliah and Lucy will take turns in filming this section.

Target Audience for our film

With the help of our questionnaire and the film research, as well as the box office figures, we decided to base our target audience on teenagers around the age of 15. We have used the following to decide this:

Gender: We have decided that this type of segmentation in our target audience is not relevant to our thriller film, as we feel that both genders like films of the thriller genre. However some genres such as action, romance and horror have gender segmentations, as more females watch certain genres than males, and vice versa.

Race: This is another type of segmentation which does not matter in the target audience for our film, as we fee that any race will like the genre of thriller. There are some types of films, such as the ones produced by Bollywood, whos target audience is mostly a certain race, Indian.

Age: This type of segmentation is probably the only target audience segmentation that applies to our genre and opening sequence. From our research on thriller films, our questionnaire and research on box office films we have decided to give our film a certificate of 15, as all our research shows that this is the appropriate certificate for a thriller film.

Socio-economic Status: We do not feel that a certain group of people, segmented on their socio-economic status are more likely to watch our film. However due to our storyline evolving around teenagers, the subsidence group might be more likely to be are main target audience as the majority of teenagers above the age of 15 are included in this segment.

Location Photographs

These are the pictures from the first location we have chosen, which is where the protagonist character will be found, attacked and injured. However if we are unable to film at this location due to heavy rain, then we will film at our other location:

These are the location photgraphs for our second location, which is the party scene, set in Sam McMahon's kitchen: