Cinema habits surveys

We were asked to create and retrieve answers from at-least twenty different people of a wide age range in the form of a survey this allowed us to gain a wider understanding of target audience profiling and see people's average cinema habits which in turn gave us a better understanding of how if how film was put in a cinema who'd watch it, when and how this showed the age group we were targeting, the social background/class and also when they'd be watching it, premiere, two weeks after release etc and generally if they would download it or not watch it t the cinema at all and just purchase the DVD/Blu Ray. This information is key when audience profiling and we found this was very helpful indeed in showing just how far you must think about your audience even after its been in the cinema awhile, findings I will develop further through evaluation 4.

Getting the voiceover done

The Directors commentary went well i thought, we managed to record it the first time round and it was also relatively simple to apply it to our film. All though the script was slightly too long for our video the section we missed out had little importance to begin with basically biding goodbye to the listener however I believe the script sounds just as good without it as we managed to cover the key points of the Evaluation 3 criteria nevertheless.

Media AS evaluation 3 : What kind of instituition might distribute your media product and why ?

This is our directors commentary for our horror opening 'The River'. Through it we have expressed details on the features of our horror short which we originally planned through a script. Through our voiceover we refer to our production company, the distributor for our film,where the funding came from aswell as our own particular roles in the film and we have also mentioned films such as 'monsters' that we would like 'The River' to be released in a similar way to.

British independant films : Slumdog Millionaire + The King's Speech

Independent British films such as 'The King's Speech and more low budget film such as 'The Slum dog Millionaire' that have been extremely successful despite being by independent, both have claimed a range of awards including 'best film'. Films such as these are good examples of how British independent films can be quite successful movies despite the low budget which is encouragement to movie makers alike. 'Slum Dog Millionaire' for example was merely planned as a 'straight to DVD' release however it claimed much more getting into cinemas and claiming a range of awards. I believe this shows that just because Hollywood films have a bigger budget etc there is still hope for the small and independent movies like our own through good marketing/distribution can be key but also a good script and director are needed.

Evaluation 3 - Directors Commentary (The script) part 2

Evaluation 3 - Directors Commentary (The script) part 1

After research distributors etc like film 4, we began to plan a script. Although the initial plan wasn't perfect we began to improve it greatly as a group (myself, Josh Spoelstra and Jonathon Fromont).  This is the script we finally came up with together which we were pleased with, we all have a fair amount to say through it and I think it covers 'Evaluation 3' nicely.   This is our script which we will soon turn into our directors commentary over aour final version of 'The River.'

Evaluation 3 - The voiceover/Director's commentary - 'Film 4' research

Like I discussed in my previous post we choose Film 4 as our distributor over companies like 'Working Title' due to their comedy origins. Film 4 we decided was the most appropriate  through its great reputation in British cinema and one of the more successful film companies in the UK. They have worked on other horror shorts like our own such as 'Monsters' which they have distributed through places such as the 'Edinburugh Film festival'.  Film 4 have also worked on productions including 'Enduring Love' a psychological thriller which also can relate to our own genre of 'horror'. We thought that due to our horror short that we could snugly fit into Film 4's average range of films, fitting in well to this category.  We believed due To film 4's previous successes in similar genres such as 'Enduring Love' that it would encourage a greater audience to our film  by knowing Film 4 ( a respectable film distributor) wanted involvement in our production 'The River'