This is just a quick update to see how everyone is doing today. Id like to film the clock scene later on tonight and shall do so, i will keep you updated with how it all goes :)

Crime Watch
As i mentioned before crime watch really helped to inspire the different shots for my suspect, although it is not a film and a reality crime show i think this is more relevant because it will look more realistic and adapt to the audience. Take a look and tell me if you agree. This isant very detailed because the series does the talking. Please watch and give me feed back thank you
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006ppmq

NRS Social Grade

Our group got together and started to do more in depth research on our audience. We defined our target audience as being a range from different ages and status. We originally only wanted teenagers from around 18, but we made a choice to make the audience have more variety so that we can have more people interested in our production. Our audience now ranges from social grades E(being unemployed/receiving benefits) up to C2(being skilled working class).

Interests and hobbies of our audience:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/jan/26/hobbies-british-class-survey- this is a link to show you what The Guardian thinks. Read and let me know if you agree.

Unemployed: This occurs when people are without work and are actively seeking work, most likely on job seekers allowance or benefits. Spends time thinking about updating their resumes while relaxing, playing video games, or sleeping. They tend to take part in activities that don’t intend on spending a lot of money. With all this into account they do sometimes save up what they have and go to the cinema!

Skilled working class: football, drinking in the local pub, minimum wage/benefits (£12k - £20k), drink beer, 3+ kids, tendency to 2 part time jobs, cinema is a treat.

This has given me enough background understanding to carry on with my editing and think about what the audience will like to watch.

 

Auditions

DSD held auditions for our female protagonist character; we needed to ensure it was someone dark haired as we are going against ‘blonde girl victim’ stereo-types but someone that is patient to work with, because filming hours are long are some scenes need to be repeated several times. So they have to have flexible hours, but most of all a good actress so that they can play the innocent victim.

We auditioned around twenty girls and found that some either had one quality from the above missing or they just did not meet up to our high standards.  

We emailed all our actresses and told them our decision; because we couldn’t find anyone I decided I will put myself up for the role and film the parts I am not acting in. I was found to be quite good at it and we decided not to spend more time on this I should just do it. So I auditioned just like everyone else (as you can see and I got the role). I think it is good because I have got long black hair and I can make it longer with props such as hair extensions. I am also young like my target audience so they will be able to relate to me and sympathize with the victim.

Thank you 

Initially, our target audience was mostly for 18 year olds but we’ve decided to range it from 18 year olds to 25 from all different social statuses. This is to have more people interested in our production and to 'tell a friend'. We went into our local shopping centre and surveyed people that we would think would be interested in watching our production and we transferred the results into a pie chart. After telling our ‘young trendies’ the story line of our work, we are glad to announce that 70% of our audience approved and thought that it was very definitely something they would watch on a Saturday night. One even said a humorous comment and said that ‘I would use my orange Wednesday and get myself down to staples corner cinema’, we were quite happy when they said that it had cinema potential. The ones that do not want to watch our film was purely because they do not like scary films and find the adrenaline rush bad, one public member also said ‘I like to sleep at night’. LOOOL I thought!

The ages we wanted defiantly started from eighteen as the films that are scariest from the horror genre usually will have a viewing age of eighteen. The max age for our audience will be around twenty-twenty, as the themes and situations in our production will be more suited to a younger generation rather than having people over thirty.

Audience

Step five Analysis

This step is all about the different edits we want to include. me, Simon and Daniel discussed about basic editing techniques we would like to use. The first is a simple cut to and fro from the man walking through the alleyway followed by a cut of the girl lying on the floor. This is done to simply quicken the scene but also build up tension for the audience.

 Id like to present cross fades and blurs during the man walking through the alleyway, this is done to make the atmosphere foggy and dysfunctional but also to match how unclear his thought process.

Tim lapse is also very simple but effective, this is occurring when the clock is going to be shown the audience. Id like the angles to speed up and go back in time- this whole scene being fast pace.

All this is concluded with a white flash back just to highlight the fact that the audience are about to go in time.

We have also shown you a music step so here we have not gone into much detail. But we shall include the minimum of heartbeats, footsteps, radio static and even a scream. Although the scream is going to be debated upon. I think we should involve it, just to give the audience one last scare, this will make them talk about the film as there leaving, giving good advertisement. Whereas others think we shouldn’t do so as the victim is to weak to do so. 

Meeting and Breaking Convention 
Is it just me or every time i watch a scary film the victim is always blonde? :0
Well in my film i have challenged this stereo-type and made my self (a dark haired person) the victim, instead of a vulnerably innocent looking protagonist. I have been looking around to find prime examples where they meet up to these stereo types and look what i found... Not only can victims be blonde and bubbly, but evil characters are actually dark haired for example look in the The Grudge, the villan has clearly got dark long hair. Playing around with characters are often done in films to keep everything contemporary and exiting. I have also done this and with making my jet black hair work with the innocent 'look'. Going against the media's perception of blonde hair girls being dumb, vulnerable victims and placing myself in that position to prove that through camera shots such as, high angle and facial expression i can also demonstrate the innocent look and pull it off successfully, resulting me to go fight against the media's interpretation as i do not agree with stereo-types!

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