Questionnaires

In todays lesson, I gave out some of the questionnaires that I had put together as apart of my research into the target audience of my groups film opening. First, I got onto the computer and checked the questionnaire to see if it was good enough to give out to people. Once I had done that I printed off five copies and distributed them to members of my class. I then thought, that in order to get a good variation of results, we will need more people to do the questionnaire, so I decided to print off another five copies. Out of the ten copies that I had printed off, 6 were completed by members of my class. I will give the last four out to people outside of my media class so my results can vary more. Once all the questionnaires have been done, I will use the findings in order to determine what our target audience want from our film and how we can try are best to put these things in.

Character and Location preparation

In this lesson our group began to look at the things we need to orgainse in order to start filming our film opening. Firstly we decided to develop on the plot and talk about the characters that we will have in our film opening. We felt that it would look more proffesional and realistic to incorporate adults into our opening, rather than just have people of our age. This because we felt that our film would look more proffessional and realistic than if we just used younger people in the opening. Then some members of the group went and phoned up some people they knew that they felt would be suitable to be included in our opening. We then decided to prepare for the location that we would film our opening. As I said in my previous posts, our group had originally decided that St Giles Church would be a good location to film some of the scenes in the opening so we decided to phone St Giles church to see if it would be possible to first perform a risk assesment of the grounds in order to identify the risks involved in filming that area. Because no one was there to answer the phone, we left a message with the church leaving my details in case they phoned back.

Devolping Ideas

In todays lesson, we began to develop the plot ideas of our film project and also started thinking about the technical aspects of our film e.g. where we are going to film scenes, actors and props etc. Which we would then present to the class. Firstly, our group started on developing the plot outline of our film.

We decided that our film would be about a group of people who are filming a documentary, and unexpectedly discover a creature of some sort while filming the documentary, from there we began thinking about scene locations. We felt that the locations we would use would have to set the atmosphere and tone of our film, we felt that some sort of open grass area with a lot of trees etc. would be a good type of location for the scenes where we are trying to create a documentary environment. We then developed on this idea and came up with concept that some sort of graveyard area (such as the one at St Jiles Church which is only down the the road from the school), would be an even better area for our film because it would link in with the idea of a ghosts and monsters, we could portray the graveyard as the cause or the explanation behind why the ghost or monster is there. We then came up with the idea of combining the school with our film opening and using a part of the school as a scene for our film opening e.g. one of our ideas was that the person filming the documentary could run from the graveyard to the school for refuge. As a whole, we felt that the two locations that we suggested, would be good because they are very local and would be easily accesed. The only problem we would have is asking the owner of St Jiles church for access to the graveyard.

After talking about these ideas, we then presented them to the class, our teacher (Mr. Deen) said we had good ideas, but we had to think more indepthly about our choice of location and how we actually intend on filming our opening. We were then set homework in which we had to discuss with our groups three things we need to do during this week, my three tasks were to update my blog (which I have now completed), come up with ideas for questionaire questions and go on the Hertwood House Media channel on youtube, to look at the film openings they have as a part of our research into similar media texts. Mr Deen also told us that it would be beneficial to look at some of Hertwood Houses work as we could use it as a guideline to see what we needed to do in order to gain the top grades for this project.