Update of Progress as of 27/12/13

As of 27/12/13 i am coming along with my blog and my overall work, i have completed most of the editing needed for my auxiliary tasks and am now into consideration for my trailer. I have done some location scouting and have a rough idea on where i want to do some shooting for my trailer. I went over the results of my survey and analysed the results to help me try and find a way to cater towards a certain audience. I have also gone into some research of different institutes that would maybe produce and publish my work i enjoyed looking at these companies who have been apart of some of my favourite films and magazines. To help bring more relevance to my product i created a twitter and facebook page for my tasks which i feel are quite helpful and overall beneficial for my main tasks.

Social Media Input

To help gain recognition for my movie i have created a Facebook and twitter page for my movie to maybe also get some feedback from people who are maybe interested in my product.

Sourcing Costume and Props- For Trailer

Sourcing Costumes and Props- Trailer

I am going to need a various range of clothing and props for my trailer, heres what i need-

• Baseball Bat
• Gun
• Mask
• Red Bag
• Clock

Heres a list of costumes that i need my actors to wear-

• Hoodie
• Leather Jacket
• Jeans
• Smart Shoes
• Waterproof coat
• Polo Shirt

I only need a couple of things which are all in the possesion of my actors except from the clock so it shouldnt be hard to get the other props. Also all of the clothing is all the actors own clothing so it shouldnt be hard for them to forget what to wear.

Institutional Research- Film Companies

Institutes for films

Institutional Research- Magazine

Here I Am Going to Research Different Companies Who Publish Multiple Different Kinds of Magazines to See Wh...

Consent Form

Dear Parent/Guardian

Your son/daughter has been selected to participate in my A2 media film “Heist” a non-profit film. The participation of your son/daughter is crucial to the creation of the film. Filming will start at the beginning of December 2013 and will finish early January 2014. Please fill in the details below to give permission to your son/daughter to take part in the film.

From Kristopher Cook A2 Level Media Student

Media Studies Film Consent Form

I parent/guardian of __________________ hereby permit/ do not permit my son/daughter to be part of A2 media film “Heist".

Signed:___________________________ Date:_______________________

Survey Results

These are the many results that i received on my 2 surveys one survey was to find out what peoples opinions on posters and magazine covers.

I asked pretty bog standard questions and received some pretty diverse feedback from it which helps me greatly especially in the long run when it comes to focusing on what i want to do and how to go about it. I have a mixture of written feedback and numerical feedback both will help me as i can use these statistics to find and use the most popular answer to my advantage.  As you can see my very first answers i received from my survey was written answers and most of my audience liked to read music magazines meaning the results i am going to receive later on will be from a more musical background.

Most of my audience is female this will help me try to get a better understanding of what the female audience want. I also learned that my audience is also aged at around my age so i can also learn what my peers especially female what they think of magazines in general.

It seems that people seem to enjoy images over content in magazines as you can see, there is a large amount of people who appreciate imagery over content it seems as not many people seem to enjoy the content. You can see below this question that the following question asks the user if he/she reads throughout the magazine or just skims through it only looking  at the images and it seems that most people like to just skim through and not look at some of the written content available. This is very useful information that i can use to help me in my work later on.

The following questions are from the poster side of my survey and feature, as you can see the first two questions asked straight away what the user feels about a film poster and if it reflects good/bad on the overall film itself. Me personally i would not go to see a film if the poster is bad and that was the most voted option also which means my poster has to be of a certain quality if i am to gain peoples full interest.

 
 

The last two questions i asked where vital questions that i hopefully will be able to incorporate into my future work. I asked the most important question of what people look for in a poster and it seems a lot of people prefer images over everything else which is something that i will to add into my work as i some what agree with this statement. from the information i gathered on the final question i learned that the highest demographic is comedy with genres such as thrillers and sci fi following just behind.

Location Recces

The following images are all images from the various different locations that my trailer was set in, the locations chosen are some of the ones that i scouted in my location scouting blog post, however places such as the back lanes in town where mostly used in the moment and weren't really planned upon.

 All of the following images are from my house which is where the beginning flash back of my trailer takes place. The images are of my front door, living room, hall, dining room and finally the yard. The reason why i used my house as a part of my trailer is because i wanted to show the audience that my main character lived an ordinary life before and lived in an ordinary house.

        

 The next set of images you see below all appear not just in the flashback section of my trailer but also are set in the present through my trailer and are quite visible through my quick cuts and various other shot types. The first couple of images are quite close to the St Peters campus and i liked the various different views you can get you may notice that this location is the same location that my shot types video was filmed in. The reason why i used certain back lanes that you find in the town centre was because they had a real gritty feel to them there is broken glass and un even paths etc that all give it a down to earth feel and make the entire thing more believable.

Location Scouting

For my locations i want to have it in mostly gritty areas such as back lanes and old rural parts of the town centre to give it that real British feel to it. I also want to film in my house as i want there to be remnants of my character living normal life so shooting at my home will help. The places i intend to film at are as follows.

• Backlane close to home
• My home specifically hall, living room, stairs.
• Parts of the city centre specifically the street where the store Joplin's is
• Down by the University close to the river walk

All of these places i hope will give a real British feel to my trailer.

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