At the moment we had to change our story twice. 1st is due to the fact that we never had the right equipment and not enough actors and secondly our other storyboard was not an appropriate opening scene, as we have so much going on in the opening scene and it is impossible to film everything in 2 minutes. Another problem with that is that this story line told us the whole story in 2 minutes which we dont want.
Change To Storyboard
We had to change our story as we dont have the appropriate equipments and props. We also dont have enough actors to act for us, and this is a problem as we now have less than 1 week to record everything.
One of the thing we're missing is a car, as we have a car accident in our clip and it may be difficult to film the crash. So far we only have 1 actor but we need atleast 3-4. In our new story we only need 1 actor and we wont need a car, we have chosen to do this because of the time limit.
Representation
We watched the opening scenes of American Pie, Police Academy and Meet the Parents.
The one we will be talking about is American Pie.
What did we see ?
In the opening scene of the film we see two people, a young male and female who are both white. They are both dopey looking and are dressed formally. The female has red hair.
Characteristics
Both of them are dopey and the female has slurred speech. She has funny facial expressions.
Young adults are being represented in this film.
Summary Of Lesson (16/12/09)
In this lesson we carried on with our planning.
We have already planned out the possible locations and will choose ONE of the location as our main setting. We have also planned out the actors we need for our C/W.
In the following lesson we will continue planning and plan on the costume and props.
Possible Locations For Our C/W
Here are all the locations that we have come up with to film in our C/W:
. Canary Wharf
. Mile End/Park
. Riverside
. Tower Bridge
We have come up with these locations because we wont need permission to film in these areas, these are also typical settings in a comedy film. Before we film our C/W we need to choose one of these as our main location.
Synopsis
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Closing Date is 25/12/09.
Research Target Audience
In our short film we decided our target audience will be aimed at teenagers and adults from the age of 13 - 25. This will appeal more to boys than girls because they tend to watch films that have sense of humour and entertain them. There's more of a chance of a person who's not so religious to watch our opening scene than someone who's really religious because they may get offended or show scenes against their religion. In terms of social class, we need to find a suitable audience to target and in Tower Hamlet we have a lot of working class people who are in a diverse community.
Typically, age ranges break down as follows:
- Kids 5-11 and mums
- Teen 11-14
- Teen 13-16
- 17-21
- 18-24 and 18-34
- 25-54
- 54+
These age ranges are important. A movie that entertains a 5 year old is not going to appeal to a 14 year old. The 18-
24 and 18-34 range makes up the largest movie-going segment.
