This is what i hope to find out from my audience research:
-The demographics of the audience (who they are)
-what types of media do they currently enjoy (films, video games, music etc.)
-why they enjoy those types of media
-what they think of my idea
then, i will use the findings from this to influence my work in order to best cater to my audience's needs.
questions that will be asked:
-age?
-favourite genre and why?
-favourite/most memorable title sequence and why?
-what would you like to see from our title sequence?
-what do you think of our title sequence idea?
the results from our research:
audience research was filmed by Rachael, editing by Bradley, and questions written by Brogan.
0:01- Film title , "The Final Destination." quick zoom into white block font, surrounded by dark red blood splashing forwards. The blood hints towards the gory themes of the film.
0:03- Zoom in 'through' the text- as if it's coming at you through the screen (the film was shown in 3D)
0:06- Name, 'Bobby Campo' appears next to an xray image of a scene from one of the prior films. the text is a simple block font in white.
0:12- The next name, 'Shantel VanSanten' appears in the same block text, next to another xray image.
0:15- 'Krista Allen' appears in the same text, but appears smaller and less noticeable as the screen around it is busier this time.
0:22- 'And Mykelti Williamson' appears in a smaller font, surronded by and xray image of various car parts. we can assume these are the names of the main actors as they dont appear alongside any significant 'job title'
0:26- From this point, the names start appearing in pairs, this time showing 'Nick Zano' and 'Haley Webb'. These names probably represent less significant cast members, as they are given less importance in the shot.
0:32- This time the names 'Andrew Fiscella' and 'Justin Welborn' appear in black instead of white, but still in the same font.
0:35- At this point we start to see the names of crew members along with their job title, starting with "casting by David H. Rapaport and Lindsey Hayes Kroeger"
0:38- "Costume designer: Claire Breaux"
0:40- "Associate Producer: Tawny Ellis-Lehman"
0:43- "Visual Effects Supervisor: Erik Henry"
0:48- "Music by Brian Tyler"
0:51- "Music Supervisor: Dana Sano"
0:55- "Co-producer: Art Schaefer"
0:59- " Edited by Mark Stevens"
1:02- " Production Designer: Jaymes Hinkle"
1:05- "Director of Photography: Glen MacPherson"
1:10- "Executive Producers: Richard Brener, Walter Hamada, Sheila Hanahan Taylor"
1:16- "Produced by Craig Perry, Warren Zide"
1:19- "Written by Eric Bress"
1:25- "Directed by David R. Ellis"
Each piece of text is either brought onto the screen or removed from it by the occuring animation on screen. for example, at 1:02 Jaymes Hinkle's name is removed from the screen by being smashed by a collision with a train. the graphic images on screen coupled by the bold text and fast paced, heavy sounding music, set the scene of a quite intense and gory film.
the opening sequence I chose to analyse first, The Shining, is a classic film from the 1980's and sits somewhere in the psychological horror/thriller genre.
Watching the clip without sound, the on screen footage appears calm and serine, and we have no reason to assume that anything unusual might happen on this road. The darker themes are revealed by the dark, eerie score used.
We see a car being driven along a long, isolated road, and we are instantly questioning where this car might be heading, and why. As the car drives further along the road the intensity of the music seems to increase, possibly expressing the troubles this person is driving towards.
One noticeable piece of mise-en-scene within this clip is the apparent changing of season as the car drives along. The beginning of the clip appears warm and summery, whereas by the end of the clip, the car is driving alongside a snow covered mountain. We assume this is because he is driving further up the mountain, but it also could represent the fact that our character in the car has been travelling for a long time.
I feel this is an effective title sequence as it draws the audience's attention in. Everyone is a little bit nosey and we will all be curious to see where this road ends, hence enticing viewers to continue watching.
the preliminary task was to make a short clip, showing a person enter a room, and have a conversation with another person. the clip had to show specific features including: match-on-action shots, shot reverse shots, a variety of shot lengths, and also it had to observe the 180 Degree rule. this clip involved myself, Rachael, and Bradley as the cameraman.
Here is the coursework introduction as provided by my class tutor. By referring back to this during the course of my work I hope to stick to the brief well, thus increasing my chance of a higher grade.
"For your coursework you must produce the first two minutes of a film including titles. You also have to produce a 'preliminary task' of shooting a brief conversation to include the 180 degree rule, a match on action edit and a shot-reverse shot.... the preliminary task isn't marked, but it has to be included or you will lose marks. The opening sequence can be in any genre... but it must be a specific genre. You can go over two minutes but only by a few seconds. You cannot use copyrighted music in it - so no recognisable tracks. Your research must inform your production."
this is the first piece of work on planning and research for my coursework.
My group have decided that the genre of our title sequence should be horror. It was felt that in this genre, we would be most able to be creative and experimental with our ideas and techniques.
as you can see from these examples, even the movie posters are eccentric and creative, more so than any other genre.
we have also decided on our roles within the project, which was decided by a group discussion. I was given the role of producer, as the group felt I was the one to help keep things organised and under control. It also this enables me to actively input my creative ideas into the final product. Rachael took on the task of cinematographer whilst Bradley became our editor.
