Audience research

Audience research is important because you can see who you should be realising your movie and you will have certain concepts before you release it so for example I will do audience researcher whilst the planning of my movie and will see who I will be aiming it and why the particular audience. The audience is mainly categorized into age and gender to most movies, this what most producer categorize there movie in too. These categorizing your audience can really help with the development on your movie because then you could add stuff to the movie which you know will keep you audience occupied and interested. Some people would call demographics stereotyping because people are put in to categorise by their looks or how they think.

The hypodermic needle, two step flow and reception analysis is what I think is the three main theories that would be important to a movie. The hypodermic needle would be used to put a message into the audience and make them believe in it so it scares them for example paranormal activity mentions spiritual being are real and can kill you without you seeing them making the audience believing in it to scare them. The two step flow is used to spread the word of the movie so for example again if I watched paranormal activity it would make me talk about if the movie was good and I would basically explain why it is good and why people should watch that’s why the two step is another main theory for movies, it helps make the movie gain more popularity. The last one I think is a main theory to me is reception analysis because movie producers can send out a movie having one aim but people will see that aim in different ways and judge if the movie was good or not. It depends on your opinion and sense of taste of things for example I would watch an action movie and depending on my taste and expectations on action movie I would judge if the movie is good or not.

Two step flow diagram


Filmography - This is when a dercription is given for a movie for example when it was cretaed, writen and who it was directed by and other information about the movie.
Biblography - This is when a descriptoin is given for a book for example who wrote the book and when it was published in store or online.

Movie plans

The main theme of our film opening is that there will be a group or also known as a gang of bullies who bully a shy, nerdy boy. Then it goes to far which make the victim of the bully’s commits suicide because of all the struggles he goes through, but he comes back to live as demon but in other word possessed. He then makes it his goal to get revenge on the bullies and those who made fun of him and goes to the extreme as he decides to kill them all one by one.

The main character is Kallam is very believable as he is a class geek who keeps his head in his books and is very shy around the rest of the people in the class who also dislike him for his awkwardness.

Kallam’s main goals were trying to succeed in his exams as a geeky teenage but due to killing himself and coming back his main goal is to get his revenge. Kashif, Ehsham and Farhan are the bullies who have made his life a living hell but regret it all. They soon realize what they have done to Kallam and how his family feels depressed and sad. The bullies also realize the Kallam is back because of the fact one of the bullies die’s a few days later after Kallam’s death. Their main goal turns into to stop Kallam in his track before he succeeds in his goal.

At stake are the bully’s lives and their families feeling the same way as they made Kallams family feel and they try all their best to stop him.

The film takes place in a school and in a graveyard where we take Kallam to make him scared and in the school where we see him getting bullied and outside of the school on the journey home.

We have created 4 interesting characters:

· Ehsham who is the intimidating bully who overshadows Kallam in size and is physically intimidating.

· Kashif who follows the other bullies and acts like one of them trying to be big and powerful but is weak but still bullies Kallam.

· Farhan looks weak and small but is the main bully or gang leader and he may not be intimidating in size but for sure is a fighter.

· Kallam same high as Farhan and not very frightening either, looks nerdy but due to bullying is frighten and flinches a lot around people.

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Mood Board

Our key concepts adrenaline rushing, kidnapping, gruesome and physical violence and we have picked these concepts because they relate to the horror genre we are doing and our movie. The mood board shows the concepts and shows what most things people would expect from a horror genre. The mood does show the horror genre straight up to people but the concepts are there but you have to concentrate to understand them for example the two girls on the left hand side of the mood board represents kidnapping.

 These are one of our concepts and the words around the pictures shows what most people would expect in a horror movie. There is more key concepts in the movie and you will see that whilst looking at the poster, each concepts is set in a certain place for example back to the kidnapping one, it's in a certain place to represent kidnapping so people can understand it. The lightning represent fright for example lightning scares most people so in a horror movie it would be common so people jump when they hear the sound of it. Lightning is not very common in many horror movies in the modern day but in the 1990's it was and it made people jump at the sound of it because it would normally be random so that's why it is on our mood board.

Genre Research Task

A genre is something that categories a movie so for example scream for would be in the horror genre so this makes it easier for the audience to find and watch because most people have a certain type of genre they like meaning a they would only watch movies in a certain category for example i mainly like action movie so i would look in the action genre and find a movie that relates to something i like.

Advantages

• it can offer comforting reassurance in an uncontrollable world
• it offers a set of easily recognisable conventions like a language
• it was seen as a strategy used by producers to ensure audience identification and reduce the risk of a film failing
• genre can be seen as a way of working through importance myths and fears
• genre is not static but is constantly changed over time depending on what audience prefer

Disadvantages

• We should be understanding how a film text functions in relation to genre, rather than being defined by them
• we should acknowledge that a genres features will depend on the audience own understanding

The genre for our movie is horror and back in the 1900 the horror genre was famous and popular then any other genre, the first full horror movie was in 1931 which was Dracula. This was a famous movie about vampires and killing poeple which made the audience want more and this created the horror genre.

Filmography
Movie title -  Dracula
Director(s) - Tod Brownin & Karl Freund
Year Relesed/Created- 1931

Bibliography
Books name - Dracula
Auther - Bram Stoker
Year Released - 1897


 The reson why our movie is a horror because it will include killing, blood and other horror elements and the reason we picked this genre is because it is a famous genre and there is always one/two movies released every year on horror. Our movie would mostly relate to Childs play because of the killing, violence and the fact no-one suspects the most innocent. our movie will preferably appeal to audience of the age of 15/18 because of these sorts for elements but this age rating and element appeal in most horror movies but be set out in different ways, our one will be set out differently but will include these sort of element.

Filmography

Movie title -  Child's Play

Director(s) - Tom Holland

Year Relesed/Created- 1988