Sunday, 7 April 2013
Target Audience
Target Audience
Target audience is extremely important because it means you can tailor your film to a certain age range or gender, so that it gets the audiences taste.
Out target audience is probably predominatly males, as males take the prominant role, it also includes lots of action, and women are sometimes degraded, by playing damsels in distress. I believe the age should be about 16 - 30's. The main audience would be teenagers/younger adults, as they are the ones who statistically go to the cinema more, so would be more likely to come and see our film.
As i couldn't find any statistics on gangster films, I looked up action films, becuase our film could also fall into that catagory because we have lots of action going on in our film.And looking at the following results from the Bourne film, we can see it is most popular with males and over half of the audience is between the ages of 18 - 29, my statement earlier about our target audience being teenagers and younger adults is correct.
Opening Credits Order
Opening Credits Order for our Film:
Time Credits
0.00 - Studio Name: Universal
0.22 - Production Company: Out Of Sight Pictures
0.32 - Producer or Directors Name: A CDS Film
(Actors)
0.34 - Aidan Kendler-Rhodes
0.37 - Scarlett Rowley
0.40 - Chris Sharp-Paul
0.51 - Film Title 'THE CAPTIVE'
1. 01 - Casting by Erica Husain
1. 04 - Costumes Designed by Pedro Sanchez
1.08 - Music Composed by Zach Winterford
1.12 - Edited by Harvey Sayer
1.18 - Production Design by Sammy Hades
1.23 - Director of Photography Kristen Levin
1.31 - Written by Out Of Sight Pictures
1.34 - Produced by Caitlin Dear - Fitzpatrick
1.37 - Directed by Jack Casey
2.06 Opening Ends
Friday, 22 March 2013
Survey Results
We decided to leave out question 10 about the flashback, as we hadn't yet added it in before the viewing, and also lots of people didn;t answer question 12, as they probably didn't know what cinamatograpgy was. In looking at the results of our survey I chose to layout the questions then the answer to the questions so we, and other people, can see what the results for each question were, I also put questions 4 and 10 together and 7 and 8, as the answers people gave linked those questions together.Overall the feedback we got from the survey the audience, of our first viewing did, was reasonably positive.
1. Do you like our film? (circle) YES NO They all said they enjoyed our film
2. How old are you? Most of our audience were teenages, so obviouly have different views than other age ranges.
3. What age do you think our film is aimed at? The rating they gave our film was 15 or 18.
4. What do you like about our plot?
10. Did you like the music in our film? Do you think it suited the film? A number of our audience said we had an iteresting polt and it was intense, it created suspense and tension which was helped by our choice in music, Another person said they liked all the points of view from the camera of the characters.
5. What genre do you think our film is? A crime/gangster genre.
6. Does our title suit the type of film? And why? They all said that they liked our film title - 'The Captive', as it suited our film because in the beginning the people are being held captive/hostage, they also said it made it mysterious and it complemented the setting.
7. Is there anything you think we should change? Ideas of how we could improve our film?
8. Do you think the camera is steady? And could you see our film clearly? They did have ideas of how we could improve it, with the stablity of the camera, as in some parts it was jerky, others thought that we should have had blood when one of our characters (Nico) got shot.
9. Did you follow the plot of our film? Do you think it's realistic? All of our audience said that our plot was realistic and believeable.
11. Did you think our location went with our film? Our audience liked the location as it was isolated, though slightly dark
12. Did you think our use of costumes were appropriate? They liked our use of costume as it was appropriate for our plot and genre.
1. Do you like our film? (circle) YES NO They all said they enjoyed our film
2. How old are you? Most of our audience were teenages, so obviouly have different views than other age ranges.
3. What age do you think our film is aimed at? The rating they gave our film was 15 or 18.
4. What do you like about our plot?
10. Did you like the music in our film? Do you think it suited the film? A number of our audience said we had an iteresting polt and it was intense, it created suspense and tension which was helped by our choice in music, Another person said they liked all the points of view from the camera of the characters.
5. What genre do you think our film is? A crime/gangster genre.
6. Does our title suit the type of film? And why? They all said that they liked our film title - 'The Captive', as it suited our film because in the beginning the people are being held captive/hostage, they also said it made it mysterious and it complemented the setting.
7. Is there anything you think we should change? Ideas of how we could improve our film?
8. Do you think the camera is steady? And could you see our film clearly? They did have ideas of how we could improve it, with the stablity of the camera, as in some parts it was jerky, others thought that we should have had blood when one of our characters (Nico) got shot.
9. Did you follow the plot of our film? Do you think it's realistic? All of our audience said that our plot was realistic and believeable.
11. Did you think our location went with our film? Our audience liked the location as it was isolated, though slightly dark
12. Did you think our use of costumes were appropriate? They liked our use of costume as it was appropriate for our plot and genre.
Fonts - Title/Credits Analysis
After reviewing our film one of the thing's we thought we should change was our title colour and font, as we felt it didn't match our film, so i've looked at other font of the gangster genre to draw inspiration, and see similarities. First off they mostly all have black backgrounds, with bright or writing that stands out, like white, red or yellow, they then each have their own personal touch:
The 'American' has a city silhouette and Gangster in
red, which could represent blood that has been spilt
Has a city on the gun - could show they control the city
the 'The' is is white, which matches the background and
'Departed' in blue, contrasting with the black of the gun
The 'American' has a city silhouette and Gangster in
red, which could represent blood that has been spilt
it too also had a city in the background
It has elegant looking old style writing it also has hands playing with puppet strings - implying manipulation
Has an explosion of a lighter background on top of the dark main
backgroud and has a kind of cartoony style, also
the only other one that has a person properly in the background.
Has a city on the gun - could show they control the city
the 'The' is is white, which matches the background and
'Departed' in blue, contrasting with the black of the gun
Shows jagged typewriter font with white writing,
contrasting with the black background, so making it stand out.
Has animated writing which stands out against
the black background
It had blood spatters in the background, with silhouettes
of the gangster
It has made it the logo look like a signpost, it then has
a picture of a diamond being stolen, roughly telling us
what the film is about.
It had shadows of the letters extending out, it has
a gloomy background, the dark at the top and the bottom
of the screen make it look mysterious.
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