Pitch feedback- continued 2

Pitch feedback- continued

Pitch feedback

Pitch

Our final initial idea

After hours of genre, target market and trailer/film research, we came to the decision that 'Imaginary Friends' were to be the most adequate idea to complete, not only does it take into account the expectations of our desired target market, it fulfills the stereotypical conventions of the genre 'drama'. The main characters would be human, instantly making it engaging to our chosen audience, with a lot of emotion-provoking scenes. The story-line offers a variety of twists/turns to take place therefore opens up the opportunities to using several different locations/venues to film. Which offers a wide variety of mise-en’-scene and keeps the trailer visually engaging.

Choosing our initial idea

We selected our favorite two initial ideas, 'disaster' and 'imaginary friends', we decided that we would weigh up the pros and cons of each in order to help us select our final initial idea that we shall continue with for the rest of this academic year.

Initial idea from charlihonnor

Meeting Minutes

Date: 19/9/13

Time: 1pm

Present: Charli Honnor& Georgi Honnor

Objective: Discuss and finalise initial ideas and choose an adequate, most appropriate one.

In todays meeting we finalised our initial idea, we are yet to come up with a title, but here are some notes we made throughout the meeting about the initial idea that we came up with and developed throughout the duration of the meeting.

Further Initial ideas

Reconstruction of myself and my production partners disagreements over the selection of our initial idea

Current situation

Our current situation from charlihonnor

Initial ideas- continued

After analysing my target market research, i have come up with a further nine initial ideas that conform to the audiences expectations, wants and needs. Our next step is to have a meeting with my production partner and our teacher to select the most appropriate idea, we will then write a pitch.

Target market research- Questionnaire

After identifying our target market as individuals in their late teens and older, i decided to create a survey in order to gain some understanding of what the audience for our chosen genre 'Drama' would expect and like in a film. This should help myself and production partner to choose our initial idea more effectively, and create more initial ideas based upon this feedback we have been given. I used Survey Monkey to create an online questionnaire and distributed it via the social networking site Facebook. 54 people were asked to participate, and 50 people did so. Here are some pie charts outlining my results.

Just 10% of the audience believed two characters to be enough for the main film, therefore i will go with the majority and ensure there are more than two characters present throughout the film. Although we will not exceed 8, as we still want to respect the minorities opinion.

60%, so just over half like the idea of the story telling a tale of friendship, so we believe that friendship, or relationships between family members should be a key part in our 'drama' film.

'Adult drama' meaning something which children may not be able to understand at a young age, so serious life situations such as illness, death or breakdown. We believe that a major adult event should occur in our film, which will be the main part, this will be the backbone of the film. We will respect the minorities opinion again, by not making the drama to harsh or horrific, as we must stay inside the genre conventions of drama.

80% of the people questioned said they wanted the story to be about family issues, we believe they choose this because it would be a story line that they may find easier to relate too. We will therefore now include some sort of family relationship/setting in our film.

The answer speaks for itself, 100% want the film to be realistic, therefore we will not have any fantasy or make believe aspect so to speak.

90% of the audience like the idea of children being present in the film, therefore we will ensure that at least one child stars in our film. It is vital that we still respect the minorities opinion, so we will ensure that the children do not overtake the film.

Target Market of our chosen genre (drama)- Adults/late teens

Our chosen genre- Drama

Initial idea 4- The Waiting

Initial idea 3- Parallels

Initial idea 2- The Listener

Initial idea 1- Twinsperation

What I've learnt from the feedback i was given...

Student Blog Feedback

Joeseph Garratt gave me feedback on my blog...

Micro aspects of our selected genre(s)

Genre- the various type

Evaluating our trailer remake....

After creating our trailer remake, as a group, we decided it was essential to evaluate the success of our creation to identify both what went well in order to use these successful methods again, and what didn't go so well, so that we can learn from our mistakes, and correct them in the future. I have decided to take 19 screenshots from various intervals throughout the trailer, and i will analyse them for the various micro aspects...

• Cinematography
• Editing
• Sound &
• Mise-en-scene

This is the opening shot, the mid shot enables the audience to view the character from an adequate distance and begin to recognise them. The use of the deep voice gives the man more character and the soft score makes him appear friendly but also quite mysterious. And the wooden kitchen setting really enables the audience to gain a solid understanding of where they are, it also sets a relaxed, calm setting and the audience are able to relate to a situation based in a kitchen setting. The mid length of the shot enables the audience to view the character for an adequate length of time without getting to bored of his face.

The next shot shows a 'shot reverse shot' sequence between two characters, it indicates a conversation, the mid length of the shot enables you to see the characters body gestures and get to know there character, the length of the shot is medium, so enables the audience to see the character for long enough to be able to recognise them. The sharp transition in the shot reverse shot creates suspense. Again the score creates a relaxed, calm and friendly tone but again creating suspence and mystery at the same time. Again the use of kitchen decor makes the setting recognisable to an audience and enables them to relate to  a 'kitchen' setting.

The next sot is by far one of my favourite, it was created with tea lights floating on a mixing bowl filled iwth water, with a printed out A4 backdrop. It is supposed to mimic the shot of lanterns on the water. It really works well and the calm score sets the relaxed tone. The slow motion we added to the shot makes it more effective in the sense that it's slower and calmer. And the 'establishing' shot enables the audience to gain a simple understanding of their whereabouts.

This scene sets a family setting, it's a short scene as the faces don't need to be recognised throughout the rest of the film, it's only a short snapshot of the protagonists past. The dining room backdrop really sets the family scene and the delicate score somewhat appears vulnerable, which could be a parallel for the child's vulnerability.

This scene begins to show the protagonists story, the elephant travels across the screen, the real grass gives a 'realistic' setting and the palm trees can be related to exotic animals. The diegetic sound of the elephant trumpeting makes the scene more realistic. The short length of the shot gives the audience enough time to recognise where the protagonist may be without giving away too much of the story line.

The close up enables the audience to view the protagonists emotions clearly and connect with him. The background is blurred as the protagonist is in focus. The happy up beat music, compliments his mood.

The over the shoulder shot shot somewhat enables the audience to view the scenery from the characters point of view, aligning them in the scene. The scenery of the horizon is dark and the music becomes more aggressive to match this scene.

The ariel view really enables the audience to see the sheer danger that the protagonist has put himself in, the dark setting almost makes it impossible for the audience to see him and where he is, and somewhat panics the audience, almost putting them in his shoes and making them again feel part of the scene. The scary music also creates suspense.

This clouded muffled score almost mimics what you would be hearing if you were in the scene, so again instantly aligning the audience with the protagonist and making them feel like they are again part of the scene. The slow motion again highlights the importance of the scene.

This again is one of the famous scenes from the film, the tense music almost mimics how the protagonist may be feeling at present. The light background enables the audience to establish the time of day and the boat stands still meaning the audience are able to focus purely on the action going on in the scene.

We used the actual titles from the theatrical film trailer to make the piece have a professional edge. The music blurs out, giving it a real edge and draws more attention to the title of the film. The text is bold yet elegant, which may symbolise the 'ellgance' of a tiger.

Audience feedback- Life Of Pi trailer remake

Our 'Life Of Pi' trailer remake