Monday, 19 January 2015
Friday, 16 January 2015
First day of filming
I took a few pictures of our location and setting in between shots:
Monday, 12 January 2015
Audience theories appropriate to our Thriller (Mass vs Niche & Uses and Grarifications)
Audience Expectations of the Thriller Genre
However, the various sub-genres of thriller films can appeal to a much wider audience. For example, one of the more popular, thriller sub-genres, the action thriller, appeals to a much wider, audience. Younger people around the age of 15 may be drawn to this particular sub-genre due to its fast paced edits and camera angles typically used throughout.
Sunday, 11 January 2015
Distribution of film research
My research into the distribution of films has helped me understand a lot more about how films are released.
When a film is being produced, there are always people who work out how and when the film should be released to the public. These people are the film distributors. Their job is to determine a marketing strategy, the media by which a film is to be exhibited and may set the release date etc.
The film can be exhibited to the public through many different ways. For example, a cinema or movie theater, where someone will pay for a single viewing of the film (often prior to its release on other types of media.)
Television, where different network stations may purchase the rights to show the film to the public on one of their channels.
Personal home viewing, this includes releases on DVD, Blu-ray disc, download etc. And also includes streaming sites such as Netflix, LoveFilm and Blinkbox where the viewer can own their own copy of the film permanently or have inlimited access to it by subscribing to streaming sites for as long as it remains up.
Thursday, 8 January 2015
Marketing and promotion of films
I have started to research the various ways in which film studios and production companies promote their products (films, tv shows etc.) The knowledge I have gained will help us when we come to promoting our thriller when it is complete. It can also help by possibly allowing us to further think about our target audience while we are still shooting and open us up to a wider potential audience.
There are several different methods involved in the marketing and promotion of films. These include advertising campaigns, press releases and other methods including those involved in the production of the film/ tv show. Interviews with the actors, directors and producers for example.
In the early stages of release, production companies will invest a lot of money in marketing campaigns in order to maximise their revenue. Around half of the production budget is spent on marketing which highlights how important it is.
Other ways in which different companies promote their films are through film posters seen at cinemas and sometimes in city streets which advertise the films to any movie-goers that happen to be in the area. Trailers are a vital way to advertise films and are the most popular and most effective way to get a film recognised. These trailers show short clips taken from throughout the film and are used to persuade the viewing audience to go and see the new film. Trailers are very common in cinema and are shown just before the film they are about to watch.
Storyboard
We have created a storyboard to roughly show the plot and direction of our thriller opening. This includes camera shots/ angles, directions and actions for our actors and the order in which each shot will take place (as a lot of our scenes are in a slightly random order on the sheet)