Wednesday, 18 July 2012

AUDIENCE RESEARCH My Target Audience


What type of Audience would you like to Attract?

My target audience would be 11-40 year olds because I embed a relist view of life into my creations; they would have to be flexible, spontaneous, and open-minded to all views and opinions that the world presents us with on a daily basis. They have to be mature but, have a sense of fun about them; enjoy a good laugh or two. I want an audience that is up to date with events in the past, present, and ready for the ones that we will go through in the future. I also would like an audience that has a massive imagination as well as a taste for new experiences and has a creative side.

Sunday, 15 July 2012

AUDIENCE RESEARCH Questionnaire Plan


Audience Research Questionnaire Plan

Basic questions:

  1. How old are you?
  2. What gender are you? Male, Female, Other
  3. How do you watch films?
  4. Do you watch trailers for upcoming films?
  5. Have you used the internet to watch trailers?
  6. Do trailer make up you decision to watch new films?
  7. What genre of film do you like?
  8. Do you look for that specific genre in a trailer?
  9. If you watch trailers, are they the only type of advetisiment you watch for films?
  10. What is the reason for looking online for a trailer?
  11. Do things like movie posters at bus stations or, TV adverts, or word-of-mouth, lead to you looking for trailers?
  12. Do you read film magazines?
  13. What makes them different to of type of film news platforms?
  14. Why do you read them?
  15. Do you look out for film posters on buses or at cinemas?
  16. Do posters make you want to watch a film?
  17. Why do they make you want to watch a film?
  18. What memorable film posters have you seen recently?
  19. What was it that made you remember it?

Friday, 13 July 2012

AUDIENCE RESEARCH Product Research


Film Posters and Magazine Front Covers

I may decide that a poster or front cover will be more suitable for attracting an audience for my teaser trailer, After a few days research, I have come to the conclusion that these websites are some of the best sites that I can use to strengthen my project planning and audience/product research.

  • Empire on Line: Give brief but, detailed description of films. Author, director, cast, and main elements included. Shows poster for films, magazine front covers, film posters, and DVD front covers for films.
  • Google Images: The mother-ship of the internet contains millions and billions of film posters, magazine front covers, DVD cases, and much more.
  • Total Film.com
  • IMP Awards.com: This site specialise in showcasing the most famous and least famous posters of all time. If there is anywhere that is worth checking out for posters, it’s here.
  • The Guardian Website: The Guardian Newspaper’s website has a range of very serious and precise reviews on films and the advertising and promoting material. With a special page that is dedicated to posters, how can you afford not to use it???

Saturday, 7 July 2012

RESEARCH & PLANNING Deeper into my Ideas


Previously, I thought that attempting to produce and adaptation of Harold Pinter's play "The Dumb Waiter" would be impossible. However, I have had a light bulb moment and I realised that I do not need to make my teaser trailer in the same image of  the play; I can us the same plot and storyline while adding changes of my own.

I have the perfect soundtrack but, I cannot remember the name or composer. It was composed by an Italian man and comes in the form of an instrumental. The beat is slow and hard hitting, the pace is slow and jumpy, every instrument packs a punch. It sets the muggy, tense, awkward, and sinister tone for a Pinter piece. I remember when Scott and I used it for the AS drama exam and the effect that it had on the audience and us because of the dark atmosphere that it had on us.

Over the next few weeks I will do some research on Pinter adaptations and gather up some ideas that can be used to attract a Pinter type audience. The play "The Dumb Waiter" was set in in the 60s and has that quirky-classy feel. I will also find out about the Whip Pan Transition editing technique (more about this in another post), the setting that was popular back then, and,I need to find a way to embed a Pinter trademark like his pauses because this will attract his type of audience.

Thursday, 5 July 2012

RESEARCH & PLANNING Things to do


What needs to be done?

Product Research:

In the A2 cycle, I will need to find a teaser trailer that I like, perform an anlysise on it, and then I will need to make a presentation about it.

In lessons, I have been watching a wide array of teaser trailers that we could uses. Some of the titles that I have take an interest in are:
  • The Dark Night Rises, Christopher Nolan, 2012
  • Twiglight: Breaking Dawn, Bill Condon, 2012
  • I Am Legend,…..,2011
  • Hobbit,…..,,2012
  • Skyfall, Sam Mundes, 2012

I can use these titles so that I can have a few test runs in order to get a feel of what teaser trailers have in common or, what their differences are. I will write up an overview of what is involved in the teaser trailer, the length of the teaser trailer is, the total number of scenes and shots in the teaser trailer, a description about the soundtrack, and, further detail on areas like mise-en-scene (what can be seen in the shot or scene), the way the camera has been used (example “how has that cantered angle been used to convey the subjects fear?”), and characters; how does the character in the trailer attract the audience.

Tuesday, 3 July 2012

RESEARCH & PLANNING A2 Media Studies Blog

In my second year of Media Studies, I will use this blog to research and plan for my assessment of my teaser trailer. I will be learning about what teaser trailer are, what they are for, what they may have in them, and how Film Production companies uses them to attract a specific type of target audience. Once I have a thorough understanding of this, I will develop and produce my own teaser trailer which will be apart of a future film.

Sunday, 1 July 2012

RESEARCH & PLANNING Another Idea


One could say that my mind is childish, thus, so are the ideas I imagine. However, I see the world in a different way to everyone else and, yes, I may be a teenager but, the older I become matures my ideas. I have a wide array of ideas for my teaser trailers; many of them are happy, few of them are dark, a small number of them are funny, but, there is a mixture to develop and ripen.

The things that I have seen recently have made me change the perception I have on life; the way the media has lead many people to think that the Underground Rap Scene is nothing more than a group of wanabee gangster. Or, what about the rising number of outragous murders and killing that slowly consume us?

The idea that I have come up with connects with the recent movement in which upcomming rappers like Labrynth, Plan B, as well as singers like Liona Lewis, have been visiting their old schools. They have been taking young  teenagers   (who have had torn up lives) and given them the chance to make something of themselves. They have used recording studios, put on public performances. So, after I watched  the shows, I thought about making a movie trailer about a rapper trying to bring rap to Mainstream. I feel that I am compelled to do this because of my love of music and rap; I'm a poet, an author, and a amutar rapper so I  have the knowldge of what I can do in this trailer.