Jakes birthday!!!!!!!!!

After looking through our footage and we realised that some parts of it didn't work. using only teenagers didn't give us a broad demographic therefore it didn't give the effect we wanted. we have now changed our idea to focus purely on one person. Tom has started redoing our storyboard to include some extra shots. 

happy birthday to Jake

George 

Half term and Jakes awesome Hair cut and boots

Jake and Tom met up and did some planning as i (George) was away on a geography school trip for most of the week. Tom story-boarded our 1st draft of our new film idea.

We changed our film idea as our original idea did not work narratively and we had problems with casting. our new idea is to film about suicide. 

George and tom filmed our first scenes for our film on the 20th and then we met up with Jake on the 21st to film the remainder of our shots.

        oh and Jake has some sexy new boots and a pixie haircut!

George

Our Questionnaire

In order to find out what preferences our target audience had, we decided to hand out a questionnaire to our fellow pupils. The questions included:

1) What is your age?

2) Are you male or female?

3) What is your favourite genre of film?

Horror Comedy Sci-Fi Drama Romantic War Other

4) What particularly about the genre attracts you to it?

______________________________________

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5) How many films do you watch in a month

0 1-3 4-5 6-8 9+

6) Has a film ever attracted you to purchase the merchandise?

Yes No

7) Do you enjoy films that make you think or entertain you?

Think Entertain

Results

1) As the dominant target audience for our questionnaire were our fellow pupils, the average of our interviewees were 16-17 .

2) The gender of our interviewees were predominantly female, as we attend a girls school. However, we were also able to find the views of the male society in our school in order to make our results unbiased.

3) We received a mixed review as to the preferred genre of film from our fellow students. The two results that came up the most were horror and comedy. However, we felt that producing a comedy film would be very difficult as some audiences may not find humour in what we feel would find as funny.

4) The results showed that our interviewees preferred the genre of horror as they enjoyed the sense of suspense and the thrill of being involved in the action as well as relating to the characters and wanting them to survive.

5) The average number of films watched in a month was 4-5 films. This shows us that there is a keen enthusiasm for films even in our younger generation. However, this could be dependant on what films are being broadcasted on TV as some may not have access to films e.g Sky Box Office.

6) The main response from our intevierwees is that they were interested to purchase merchandise depending on the success of the film. Obviously with this result, it will not affect our film but could show the potential that our production to offer merchandising and other forms of synergy e.g Soundtracks

7) From our results, we concluded that our audience preferred to be entertained rather than to think on the whole. Because of this, we included the scenes of suicide because it shocks the audience to a way it entertains them .

Unfortunately, we were only able to find the views of teenagers so this do not cover our whole target audience. However, it did significantly make the film appealing.

It's my birthday!!!!!!!!!

These are our storyboards for 'Feed the fish' . Unfortunately Jake spilt creamy choc on one shot!
just quickly, it's Georges birthday!!!!!!!!!! we're celebrating with Gary Numan!

These are our first 6 shots:

These are our next 6 shots:
















George, Tom and Jake

Film Re-Recording

After a few mishaps with the original recording of the film, we had to retake a few of the scenes. Some of the scenes were lost and so we were required to retake. Fortunately, most of the scenes did not include dialogue and so, we had the ability to re-record without affecting the continuity of the film. 

Tom

fruit and film

We filmed all the shots we needed for 'feed the fish'. We encountered battery problems but got everything we need. However once uploading all the footage we found out that Tom had accidently not filmed the scene with the stairs and that we had missed out part of our conversation so we will re-film these shots tomorrow. Tom's eating a banana, i've never seen him smile so much

George

Jake for last line  

Brainstorming

Me (George), Jake and Tom have been brainstorming ideas for our final production. We have drawn up a list of what we have and things that we need to do. Just getting ready to film our 1st task. Tom has finished writing directions to go on our storyboard so we al ready to start!

Things we have acheived: Plan for idea, sorting our props, lighting

Things we need to do: Script, Storyboard, locations, find actors costumes, character profiles, date for shooting and last but not least, Sushi for filming (request of Jake)

George

practice shots, patrick wolf oh and a storyboard but thats not important...

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This is a link to our practice shots which we used to work our storybaord into some sort of order, toms finally managed to finish the storybaord with a beautiful rendition of a lacklustre quiff. We are now writing up the explanations for our storyboard which will be uploaded once finished. Now heres Patrick wolf.

http://fashfash.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/patrick_wolf1.jpg

jake