R+P POST 3: BBFC ratings research

BBFC - Ratings regulations:

With our film being a coming of age film and our target audience being 15-20 years old we are looking at the upper brackets in terms of our film rating.

These catagories are a bit more limiting than the aged 18 regulations, with the issues that we want to address the aged 18 regulations may be better fitted however doing so would limit our audience dramatically and would not be beneficial for the profits of the film. As a group we decided to instead use the aged 15 regulations because although our audience is still slightly limited films such as 'deadpool' highlight that aged 15 films can still be financially successful because there is a gap within this aged audience.

R+P POST 2: Our target audience

Our Target Audience

Primary audience

Our target audience will be around 15-20 years old mainly,  the younger audience will be able to relate as it is what they're going through at this moment being a coming-of-age film. Our film will focus on issues which young people face on a day-to-day basis.

(below: an example of our primary target audience)

Secondary audience

Our secondary audience will consist of fans of the 

genre's coming-of-age and drama. Our film will 

suit them because these are the two genre's our film

 fall under. Similar audience's would be attracted by

 films such as 'The Breakfast Club' and 'The Perks Of 

Being A Wallflower'.

How we intend to meet our target audience

We carried out a quiz in order to see how we could meet our target audience's demands and also put our film across to them on in terms of advertising. These are the responses that we received:

Our results show that our audience like action and rom-com films which indicates that we should also try and put elements from these genre's within our film.

Targeting our secondary audience

Our secondary audience consists of fans of the genre so to promote our films we can place adverts before coming-of-age films in the cinema and also use t.v sports to generate an audience that way.  It is also clear from our research that sites such as Netflix are where most of our audience receive their films, this would therefore we a good place to make our film accessible our perhaps just use these sites for promotion.

R+P POST 1: Group organisation

Group organisation-

My group consists if Orla O'Carroll, Bertie Hobbs and Jisu Kim.We made a Facebook group chat so that we could organise our ideas and discuss possible solutions. We also used this so that we could plan which days we will film and to discuss the location of the film. We also used our class time to sit down and discuss ideas also so that we are all on the same wavelength. 

Preliminary Task Evaluation

Preliminary Task Evaluation 

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Preliminary Task

Preliminary Task

Below I have linked my preliminary task. The purpose of this task was to get us to explore different camera shots and to look at how they can be used effectively within media. 

Practical Project Evaluation

PRACTICAL PROJECT EVALUATION 

Our teachers gave use the script for the film 'Pleasentville" without telling us where it was from as they wanted to see how we would interpret the script and what shots we aphld use. Below is my groups script and storyboard for the project as we planned out our sequence.

Aim of assignment:

The aim of this assignment was for us to gain a better understanding of film and how different elements can represent, signify, and convey the particular perspective which we are trying to achieve in our provided media text. We had to learn how to use elements such as sound, mise en scene, editing to convey meaning. For example we played me just off centre to convey an awkward situation where I am not quite central nor to either side of the frame to give a disoriented look for the audience.

Script:

Colour code:

We used this colour code in order to have practise for when doing a final project we could use colour co-ordination to ensure each department gets the right lines in response for what they would need to prepare for and work on so that the director can call upon them if need be.

Storyboard:

This is a photo of the final story board we used; we tried to use shots which would accurately represent the moment, when filming however we did try multiple shots which differed from the story board just to test them out and see how they would come out with the film and we opted to put an over the shoulder shot around the lines surrounding frame 9, as we realised how affacetive it was during editing. My role within the production was acting but I also helped to take control of editing and providing reasonable music to pursue symbolism within our media text.
Evaluation:

Our group effectively used cinematography in many ways to convey meaning, our establishing shot was a pan which allows the audience to familiarise themselves with the surroundings. We used this so that we could put a title sequence over it, as something of little significance it was effective as the audience didn't miss any relative action. In the first scene that we are introduced to the character  David and The Girl we have a nervous David standing in frame whilst the girl walks into the frame. Having your action walk into the frame is effective when done well because it gives the audience a sense of involvement and a grasp of a full understanding of the situation.
Our group effectively used the mise-en-scène to convey meaning, for example we placed David's character in front of a vertical fence to show symbolism of a prison, this represents how David is enclosed within his emotions and how he feels stuck in this situation which are connotations we relate with prison. We also paid close attention to the background behind "The Girl" because within the script she is portrayed as the focal point of David's attention, we wanted the audience to feel the same way by making her prominent using shallow focus and removing any things which could distract the audience from being focused on The Girl. We also effectively used sound in order to convey meaning, after David's lines we tried to use silence to convey a meaning of awkwardness and to show how he is anxious. Also we placed the scenes besides a music department so that the background music would give further indications as to how the scene took place in a school. The music which the scene opens with was a love/hip-hop beat which conveyed to the audience that it was a romantic scene whilst also indicating it was a young and fresh love as stereo-typically many young people are tuned in to the "hip-hop" genre.
I would say that my group worked together reasonably well, not knowing each other all too well was of course to begin with a barrier which we had to overcome however in terms of playing our roles effectively and using each other's strengths I think as a group each and every one of us gave our all.

Camera Shots used within film

Children Of Men - Camera Shots

Below I demonstrate my ability to recognise different camera shots and the effect of them. I give examples from the film 'Children Of Men' which demonstrates these shots within one continuous tracking shot.

CLOSE UP- A close up only focuses on the actor/actresses face, good for looking at emotions and facial expressions, usually a close up begins just below shoulder level.

MEDIUM SHOT- A medium shot is the most commonly used shot in film, usually crop starts just above the waist of the actor/actress and extends beyond the head.

WIDE SHOT- A wide shot is commonly referred to a long shot or a full shot in film. It typically shows the entire object or human and is usually in relation to its surroundings.

HIGH/LOW ANGLE SHOT- A high angle shot is shot from below a character looking up usually to highlight the characters importance or to make them seem bigger than they actually are and a low angle shot is usually shot from above a character looking down upon them, this is done to exacerbate the opposite connotations related to a high angle shot, to show that the character being shot is of less significance or to make him seem smaller than he actually is.

PAN- A pan is a shot which involves the camera continuously moving left and right, it gives the audience a good view of the entire scene and a broader view, the word pan originates from the word panorama which is defined as an unbroken view of the whole region surrounding an observer.

TRACKING SHOT- A subject is followed throughout a scene, either from behind, the side or in front of the subject in focus, can help someone get a real feel for the character because we feel as if we are joining them on their journey throughout the scene.