final film !

Unfortunately i was not in school on the thursday last week and wednesdasy could not transfer our video to my blog so when im back to school on tuesday i will make sure the video is up :)

cast

 Aaron Harris: Directing and Filming

 Danny Pyatt: Directing, Filming, Acting















Ollie Webster: Directing and Acting

Jamie McWalter: Acting

props and costumes

our hitman (ollie) wore his bed clothes, trackies and a top for when he wakes up in bed and for when he goes to work he wears a suit, there is a perpose complete opposite clothing style because it will develop later on in the film to show his split personality. the terrorists (Jamie and me) were wearing terrorist/criminal wear, we wore balaclavas, scalf over the head, i wore a hoodie and jamie wore casual clothes other than his mask. ollie has a hand gun for his props he is an assasin/hitman so this is a vital prop for the killing and to show his charachter build up. The bag, we used a bag to put over the wife of the hitmans head, this means he could not recognise her and in the moment did not see. the mask ollie used a clown balaclava mask, he is a hitman but due to he has a wife and kid he wants his identity hidden when he works to take out the risk of his family getting hurt.

story board

here ive uploaded the basic story board to our final film, it goes through scene by scene with a different picture representing the beggining of each scene.it tells you the time scale of shots for filming and the sound or dialougue, i also in some columns filled in with a bit about the story.

target audience

When considering our target audience for an Action/Thriller or well for any genre of film there are some aspects of people we must look at first so we can match our film to the greatest target audience possible for your genre and film. The greater the film fits the profile of our target audience the more likely you are to reach a higher profit margin, this is due to the fact if your film suits peoples taste and needs then people will pay to watch it.

Demographics, the age of our target audience, we are aiming for the age groups between teens to 30s, more specifically we are aiming for 15-25 year olds. Gender, we are aiming our film at both genders but it will suit the male gender more and potentially will be enjoyed more by the male population. Next is class, class is a big factor in target audience as the actors involved, speech used, body language and so much more can either attract or repel a target class, our film specifically will be aiming at working class to middle class, aspirers will look up to the film and will be interested in this type of movie. Race, does not often concern people in films but it is still your target audience so you may aim a particular type of film to a specific race but again this minimizes your target audience and overall profit, our film is aimed at any race. Geographical location, this plays a large part in target audience , you must find areas which suit your audience, for advertising, promotion and viewing of the film, these are the people which are going to watch it so aim for areas with a large audience to suit your film.

i believe the largest factor of target audience is gender as boys and girls have such different views on films and their ideas of entertainment, here you can see out of action/thriller movie views 59% were from the male population and 41% female. action thriller is a good genre to use as females often prefer thrillers to males and males prefer action, with the two put together as one it attracts both genders and widens the target audience of the film.

The graph below is comparing cinema audience from the demographics of Age, Gender and Class from the age 15+ compared to the population. This graph will give us an idea of our target audiences for Action as it is aimed at the young and upmarket cinemagoers that will be commonly viewing films at the cinema within this genre. This graph shows that genrally there is a slight larger percentage viewing from females over males which means we loose part of our target audience already as action appeals largely to the male audience.

 

This table is showing the results of a survey for the film wanted, this was taken of the pearl and dean buisness planner website which again emphasises the male domination of views in action and the age of 15-24 year olds shows up again as they have the most cinema views within this survey.

 

Below we have a quick questionaire i have created and asked the people around my school that take media to answer to help me with my target audience research, because this was answered at random when i could find the students i did not manage to get all the students in for the questionaire unfortunately but i have counted the results and put forward the final result for each question.

 

Our Target audience questionaire

 

would our film be better matched to the male or female population ?

 

Male?               Female?

 

What age group would most likely view our film?

 

4-6?       7-11?       12-14?       15-24?       25-34?       35-44?      45+?

 

what sort of psychographic would watch our film?

 

strugglers?                              aspirers?                           explorers?

 

 

 

Question 1 answer = Male population

Question 2 answer = A tie between 12-14 and 15-24

Question 3 answer = Aspirers

 

The first question i agree with and believe the male population are more matched to our film this is  true, the second question our film was aimed at 15-24 year olds as our film was aimed with an age rating of 15 but because of the action people believed the 12-14 year olds would be intrested which is potentially true. Finally question 3 aspirers is corect, people aspiring and relating themselves to this kind of movie are often the target audience you recieve in this action thriller genre.

 

research into similar media and texts

Action thriller, this is two genres within a film, our film would be based around these two genres and seeing as they are often closely used within the film industry it would make the perfect genre for our film with action films based around a hero that faces a series of challenges that will often require physical feats, extended fights and frantic chases and with thriller basing its self on its extreme elements of suspense, tension and excitement this would create a very exiting film if directed and filmed in the right way. While action films have traditionally been aimed at male audiences from the early teens to the mid-30s, many action filmmakers from the 1990s and 2000s added female characters in response to the expanding social conceptions of gender. Our film will not have a female character of high status or heroicness, this means we have narrowed our target audience again from the teens to the 30s of both male and female to just male.

The genre we picked is a very competitive area with so many new media technologies and the effects on films these days it will be a struggle to stand up to many action films. With films such as Jarhead making a loss in gross profit of around 7 and a half million dollars it is very clear it is a hard market to win in, but films such as Wanted making a 59 million dollar profit if you do get it right, it can be very very good.

To research into the viewers of these films i have found some tables of cinema views, showing age, gender and class, this is done by surveys and allows us to see what kind of films are prefered by who, at what age or gender and potentially why.

firstly i have Jar head.

This table has shown me that this action film is male dominated in cinema views, it has had the most views by 45+ which is suprising as action is generally aimed at 15-24 year olds but it is only a 2% decrease from 45+ showing that there was still a large number of people viewing this film from this age group this is common in action films as they are generally more enjoyed by the male population.

This table is showing the results for the film wanted

Wanted here has shown the common trends of a action film, the same genre we are aiming at, it shows that the film views were mainly male dominated with 65% views to males, and a huge 47% of viewers were from the ages 15-24, the film was rated as 18 so this shows ratings from 18-24 year  olds 47% were in this boundary. These figueres show that the genre of action has moulded itself around there audience.

initial idea with story boards

from our first idea we had always wanted to create a hitman based film aiming at the action genre, our first idea consisted of a hitman used by the government to dispose of big time drug dealers and gangs used to clean up the streets of the uk, this was all well and good untill the government asked more and began hits on innocent people, our opening consisted of a large charachter build up showing our hitman living in various posh hotels showing his wealth but his consistency to stay on the move, the opening began with the charachter in his hotel room recieving hits on his high tech computer, the hitman recieves series of work and chooses his hits, the hitman has choosen to take down a high ended gang leader whos involved in importing cocaine into the uk.

location shots

Here i am uploading some location shots taken of where we have filmed, these will give you an idea of the enviroment we have filmed in and shows are restrictions and limitations of our work in these areas, we found outside we felt alot happier filming and directing as we did not have a rushed timescale to film in and we also had alot of open space. here are some location shots to show this:

 here is the location shot for where the hitman is set up by his company to kill his own wife, in the process he kills the two other decoys with them, he is given a hit by his company and told to get a confirmed kill, this scene shows him killing his hits but it has come back to haunt him after vivid flashbacks bring this to light, he starts hitting depression and seeks revenge after this scene.

 This shot is filmed later on by handheld camera as this scene is used as a flash back of happier memories in tthe hitmans dreams, he fights his nightmares with the few happy memories he holds but as he runs out the memories overcome him.

this is a picture of their garden a location shot where in one scene the hitman plays football with his son , this scene is used similarly tothe picture above as a happy memory.

 this shot is used withing our film as a quick pan to show the location of the next scene and to build a feel to the area.












this is just another location shot, this is used in part of the killing scene and is just another shot of the area.





the image below is a location shot of the hotel room, it was hard at first finding good camera angles in this room as it is small and the camera could not fit in the entire shot we had originally wanted but with abit of moving things about and climbing on tables we managed the shot we wanted.

this scene is used as the largest happy memory of the hitman it is showing his sons birthday and is used in the film as a flashback to fight the nightmares and the harrowing flashbacks he began to have after the death of his wife.

wanted essay

Wanted is a film about A frustrated office worker that learns he is the son of a professional assassin, and that he shares his father's superhuman killing abilities, the staring role is played by James McAvoy, the director is timur bekmambetov and this action, crime thriller had a budget of $75,000,000 and in the first opening weekend brought in $50,927,085 and reached a gross of $134,294,280. The film is opened with writing giving the basic details into what the film will be about, talking of the ferternatiy that arose thousands of years ago, it was a clan of assasins with super human killing abilities designed to kill people that deserved to die. The first camera shot is of a camera panning across an office building showing it is someones birthday and with the main charachter wesley speaking in a narrative voice over explaing it is his bosses birthday. The opening of this film follows his life and is showing how he begins to care about nothing in his life, This is shown by him being treated badly by everyone and his best friend getting with his girlfriend, the dull voiceover specifically put in place to show his mood is used to emphasise the position he is in. The voice over continues to explain how his dad left him when he was 7 days old, because of this event he sees himself as a failure of a person. The camera in this opening is used very smartly using pans and a range of different camera angles ranging from wide angles and establishing shots to the close ups, these wide angles establish the setting in the first intinces of the film and the close ups are used for the charachter build up in these opening phases introducing the main charachter. The editing in the first couple of scenes begins with basic invisible editing but as we work on towards the centre of the film many special effects are used very effectively to give the full effect of realisim in an unrealistic film. The sounds in this film are very important they use alot of non digetic music in the intro to express the mans anxiety attacks, the opening also heavily uses voiceovers to not only to explain the film but to emphasise the main actor james mcavoy playing the part of wesley in his current situations in life. The mise en scene throughout the first few scenes is out standing with many props from douhnuts from his fat boss to the weapons of the assasins, the clothing and costumes are very effective with a setting that allows the viewer to feel part of the film due to the realisim within the scenes.

initial idea

from our first idea we had always wanted to create a hitman based film aiming at the action genre, our first idea consisted of a hitman used by the government to dispose of big time drug dealers and gangs used to clean up the streets of the uk, this was all well and good untill the government asked more and began hits on innocent people, our opening consisted of a large charachter build up showing our hitman living in various posh hotels showing his wealth but his consistency to stay on the move, the opening began with the charachter in his hotel room recieving hits on his high tech computer, the hitman recieves series of work and chooses his hits, the hitman has choosen to take down a high ended gang leader whos involved in importing cocaine into the uk. the story board will be posted later with the rest of the story boards .

working brief

We were given a brief giving us the basic rules of our film, we were given alot of room to work in allowing us to create a film of any genre, we were told it must be around 2 minutes to 2 minutes 30 at maximum, this gave us enough room to work in by allowing us to set the scene and convey the mood of our film opening. We had been studing the previous half of the year editing and camera techniques and this helped us with the rules we should follow and the techniques to use. Our brief came complete with deadlines and first draft dates to stick to which allows us to hand in our work and change or edit anything that could be improved to create the best work we can. we were taught to use invisible editing and this was part of the criteria to use which will give our films fluent proffesional views.

CLOUD 9 Productions

Cloud 9 Productions is the name of our group, we are made up of three people, Ollie Webster, Aaron Harris and myself, we came up with this name at the beggining of our filming career in AS media studies, After creating our preliminary task we were told of our next peice of work and we began to put our ideas together and Cloud 9 was what we came out with.