Sunday, 25 November 2012

Target Audience Survey - Analysis

Questions 7 and 8

7.
We asked this to support knowledge of what gender most people prefer the leading character to be. The majority result of Male showed us what most people think and put in our minds ideas of who our leading character should be and what would be suitable for our type of movie.
8.
This question was effective in letting us know what people like the beginnings of their thrillers to be like so that we could incorporate ideas into our film opening. Majority result was ‘Slowly building up to action’ This gave us ideas of how to start our movie as we want to impress our target audience and giving them something substantial is our aim.


Overall we thought that some of our results would be useful in the openings of our thrillers as it allows us to gain an insight into the minds of the target audience and a wide variety of audiences. Doing this survey has been useful and effective in letting us know what to add and what not to add in our film and has given us ideas for certain areas concerning the movie. E.g. the subgenre we pick

Target Audience Survey - Analysis

Questions 5 and 6

5. This was also effective in expanding our knowledge of what people like and what we should do to make our film likeable to a variety of people. It made sure that we were certain of things we should include and things that the audience would like.
6. I thought this question was good for letting us know what we shouldn’t emphasise in our thriller as most people don’t like it and so we want our audience to like the movie and so wouldn’t incorporate these things. The majority answer of ‘Other’ let us know that it would be alright to include a good plot, tension/adrenaline/suspense, shocking/unexpected features, characters and villains without the audience feeling uncomfortable and instead enjoying the movie.

Target Audience Survey - Analysis

Questions 3 and 4


3. This question was highly effective in letting us know how to mould our movie to make it suitable and likeable for a wide target audience. The top answers being Psychological and Crime thrillers gave us an insight into what people like to see and gave us ideas of what to incorporate into our film. It also gave us a starting point into think what subgenre or thrillers we would like our movie to fit into.

4. We also asked this question as a continuation of the previous one to deepen our understanding of what makes these thrillers so durable for these people and what intrigues them into watching the thrillers.  The majority answer was the excitement of it all and the second highest result was that the film plays with your mind. This was interesting for us to find out as we now know how we can make our thriller more appealing to the target audience and how we can improve and expand.

Target Audience Survey - Analysis

Questions 1 and 2
 
1. The majority answer of 12 people were between the age of 16-18 and so our target audience could mainly be targeted at this area as we have most information of the preferences of this age group. Also the age showed us the differences of opinions according to age when it comes to thriller movies.

2. This showed us the difference in opinion for the different genders of thriller movies late on in the questions and having different genders made sure that the survey was fairly valid. Although there were more female than male and so we did get more of a feminine view however we did validate and see that there were similarities. It also made our film, more based for a female audience as we now know what they prefer and will be able to shape our movie to fit their preferences.

Target Audience Survey

Questions 6, 7 and 8

Target Audience Survey

Question 5

Target Audience Survey

Questions 3 and 4

Target Audience Survey

Questions 1 and 2

Breakdown of 'Quantum of Solace' Opening Sequence



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From doing this task I have learnt that there are many titles used on a  title sequence and that certain titles are given different amounts of time to stay up on screen. I was also able to see the different titles so that I would know what to use on our own title sequence.

Breakdown of 'Quantum of Solace' Opening Sequence










I felt that using a breakdown of another movie was highly useful in that it made me think about the effort put into put into making title sequences. It also gave me a rough idea of the different typed of title positions which can be used for the title sequences. It also showed me how long each title was on for and I saw approximately what order the sequences tend to go in. This method of research was effective in telling me what our titles need to consist of and gave me ideas of how we could present these titles in our own title sequence.

Saturday, 24 November 2012

Film Treatment

In this psychological spy thriller, average girl Kristen Star wakes up in hospital. In the beginning of an action packed stalker situation, Kristen receives a recording on her side table giving alleged details of an exploding hospital.

 The recording says “Listen very carefully. The hospital you are currently in is going to be bombed in a minute’s time once the recording has finished. Don’t ask questions. Don’t help others just run” Kristen manages to make it out in time. The hospital explodes. Kristen receives a call from an unknown number saying ‘you’ve passed the first test, go straight home before paramedics and police arrive and make sure you are not seen’

Kristen follows her instructions despite her injuries from the explosion and her injuries for her being in hospital. On her way home the phone keeps ringing but she ignores all the calls. Kristen approaches a river and falls over in shock and pain. Kristen starts thinking it is all her fault and she didn’t do anything to help all the other innocent people. She realises she just witnessed a terrorist attack and did nothing to help. Her thoughts start to take control of her and she throws her phone in the river whilst in tears. A young man called Peter Crown comes up to her and asks if she is alright she tries to get away from him remembering the phone call saying ‘make sure you are not seen’ He insists on taking her home because he can see she is not well enough to be home. She eventually is persuaded to go with him.

When she arrives at his house he goes to the kitchen to make her some lunch and get her a drink. Kristen has been left alone and the phone starts ringing he yells from the kitchen to answer she slowly answers the phone. It’s the unknown man again saying ‘we told you not to be seen there will be consequences’ She yells down the phone to leave her alone he replies saying ‘turn on channel one news’ and hangs up. Peter runs in to check if she is alright she ignores him asking if she is okay and shouts at him to turn the news on. The news gets turned on as the news reporter reports that there has been another terrorist attack. Kristen is now distraught and runs out of the apartment.

When she is out of the building she sees some police on duty and tells them everything they don’t take her seriously because they can see she is ill. She begs them to come up to Peter’s apartment so he would explain for her as well. They go along with her. They knock on the door and it opens by itself. Peter is dead on the floor. Kristen can’t believe what she is seeing and runs the police try to stop her but end up having to stay with Peter. She leaves the building and screams, she runs over to a telephone box, answers the phone as it says ‘break one more rule or don’t follow one more command or try to ring the police there will be more consequences’

Throughout the movie she tries to run to ultimate lengths to stop the attacks from taking place. On the next attack Kristen manages to save one person and ends up making the young man called Luke stay with her because she doesn’t want what happened to Peter to happen to him. Kristen ends up finding herself on the run from the unknown stalkers and the police because of Peter’s death.
As the film goes on there are more attacks and phone calls which Kristen tries to prevent until she receives one very important phone call saying they want to meet her. Kristen agrees as long as Luke is guaranteed safety. They agree and meet.

When Kristen goes to the agreed location she finds her husband and best friend standing there she runs to them asking if they are alright. Three vans full of people Kristen knows drive into the abandoned location. Kristen then finds out that the unknown callers were people she knows and loves. Everyone tells her that she was in an accident and in a coma for a week and she is a terrorist just like the others in front of her. It turns out Kristen lost her memory in the accident and can’t believe what has happened.

They then reveal their master plan on killing the prime minister in the big, live conference today. Kristen manages to escape from them and can’t believe what has happened to her and what she was. She decides to try to prevent the plan from succeeding. The only way this is possible is Kristen going through many impossible tasks of sneaking into 10 Downing Street and warning the police, security and Prime Minister himself.

She starts regaining parts of her memory and skills which is how she succeeds on sneaking into 10 Downing Street and commits identity fraud. Once she is able to stop the plan from taking place she receives her final life changing call from the terrorists saying she has to pick between the life of the Prime Minister or the life of her new companion Luke and her 3 children and if she does stop the plan they will frame her for the murder of Peter and will tell the police everything about her.

What will Kristen do?

Feedback-

This film sounds really interesting from this feedback. It goes into a lot of detail and I like the main plot and idea of the film. This treatment does give me an inclining into the movie; however, I am now intrigued to actually see it. (Zoe Panayioti, 17)