Tuesday, 5 December 2017

EVALUATION: MY TARGET AUDIENCE & HOW I ENGAGED THEM

When making our film, we needed to plan how to reach our target audience. Firstly we needed to know who they are and the factors that determined this such as age, gender, ethnicity, social groups. We also needed to find what their media needs are so that we could produce something which they all wanted and also how to reach them (to market  my film).

We started researching into how brands define audiences in preparation for creating my own audience profile for my AS Foundation production. For example, I saw how Bauer Media, NME and Sky defined audiences; for example, 'millenniums' was a target audience that Sky defined.

 As part of distributing our film, we devised marketing strategies, for example a Facebook page, Twitter page, Instagram and different fake newspaper articles.


Who is my target audience: Action Steps

1. Who is my primary target audience?
For us, our target audience is male and female aged from 15-35.

2. What kind of films and Television are they likely to watch?
One of the films that our audience is likely to watch is a film called Morgan (Luke Scott 2016) which is about a bio-generated girl who began walking and talking after one month of existence, exceeding the wildest expectations of her creators. This girl later turns out to become rogue at some stages, which follows the same plot that we are trying aiming to achieve in our film.
Image result for morgan film

3.What platforms do they choose to watch films and where are they likely to see information about this?
They are likely to watch the films on the big screens in cinemas, such as the IMAX. This would give them a bigger picture with surround sound so they get the 'compltete' experience. 
 
4. What brands do they prefer? (food, clothing, media)
5. What makes my film stand out from the competition? 
For us i think that our film stands out from the competition because of how we're using technology that is being researched at the moment and technology that has been known about before. The fact that we have researched into detail and have a clear focus on AI makes us different to other competitors. 
6. Why should my audience watch my film?
Our film should be watched by our audience as we are addressing a problem that could probably arise in the future and we're educating as well as entertaining. Our film is showing the risks behind AI and how trying to enhance its technology could end up with the robot becoming rogue and out of control.

Monday, 4 December 2017

ROBOT RICK ADVERT




As a group we decided to create a short 30 second advert of which we will show in our actual film opening. I did all the camera work using the Canon 750D and Luca edited it using IMOVIE.
 

 I bubbled the tripod and then move the camera with a steady hand to make sure that the camera movements were clear. We decided that we wanted to create a trailer that was simple but also had an eye catching effect. To do this we Luca used various techniques such as white fade, gentle piano music and a voice soothing over. We also did little extras such as making Richie (Rick) kneel down on a chair whilst we span him around giving it a nice effect. In addition I also put the clips in slow motion to create a relaxed but professional effect.

This is our advert:


PLANNING: CALL SHEET



Call Sheet 1
Luca Stefanutti – 07799****** lucastef**@gmail.com
Max Behan - 07342****** Max*****@icloud.com
Tom Palliser – 07570****** tompalliser@***.co.uk
Date: Friday 24th Nov 2017
Equipment: Canon 750D, tripod
Lighting: 2 simple torches to expose face
Props: office chair chair
location: Claremont Fan Court School- Clive’s bath
Wardrobe: Smart – suit 


Call Sheet 2
Luca Stefanutti – 07799****** lucastef**@gmail.com
Max Behan - 07342****** Max*****@icloud.com
Tom Palliser – 07570****** tompalliser@***.co.uk
Date: Friday 1st Dec  2017
Equipment: Canon 750D, tripod
Lighting: N/A
Props: Papers and articles 
location: Claremont Fan Court School- Clive’s bath 
Wardrobe: Smart – suit
 
 
 
Call Sheet 3
Luca Stefanutti – 07799****** lucastef**@gmail.com
Max Behan - 07342****** Max*****@icloud.com
Tom Palliser – 07570****** tompalliser@***.co.uk
Date: TBD
Equipment: Canon 750D, tripod
Lighting: N/A
Props: TBD
location: Trinity Bouy Wharf  
Wardrobe: Smart – suit
 
 
 

Wednesday, 29 November 2017

PLANNING: CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT





As part of our production we are going to do a 'hot seat' interview to give more of an incite into our main character and the background of it all. We are going to find a realistic interview place. For our opening, Robotica, we decided to film our protagonist in order to develop his character further. This will be me as I am the CEO our company, Robotica, and I will discussing AI and our company in more detail. 

We were inspired by an article written by Charlie Sierra about building the back story to film characters, in which he quoted from the Riding the Alligator, a book written by Pen Densham, an Academy Award nominated film maker.
  In one of the chapters in the book, he provides a check list questions every writer and director should ask of themselves when they are developing their characters. The purpose of this is to outline a deep understanding of your characters for both the actors and director



Character Development- Our Hot Seat 

As i said earlier, we created a hot seat interview with myself, CEO of Robitica, to create a better understanding of the company and the character himself. We set up two cameras to get the right angle of the over the shoulder shot whilst using the film technique of shot- Reverse-shot. 



Myself and Tom had scripted together what we were going to say in the interview as a prompt. As an additional prop for the hot seat interview we decided to buy clip on microphones, we wanted this as we thought it would create a very crisp and clear sound to the audio.

 

We decided to plug the microphones into our phones rather than the camera as we thought that it would sound better and more professional. We then sent the audio clips to Luca who inserted them into the clips.




This is our final Hot Seat Interview