First and Second shoot

Chariss- Question 5 extended

Here is our audience feedback on what they thought of how film and how we could improve it.

This feedback sheet was given us before we completed the whole of our film. They say our mise en scene was 'all good' and would consider watching the rest of our film. They gave us a mark of 45/60, i would of liked more feedback to see how we could improve to up our marks.

In this feedback sheet they comment on our camera work and how we have a good variety of shots but said some of our shots were to long, we took this on board and changed this. They also said the genre of our film was clear which is good because we dont want our audience being confused about this.

This feedback sheet they also said we have a good variety of shots and made good use of our costume and location.

We are happy with the good feedback and our bad feedback such as our sound and having some long shots we will take on board and change to make out film better.

Chariss Lee Question 4

No film is for everyone, so it is important to know and find out who your target audience may be; this is because you want your film to succeed and by aiming it at people who are not interested is not the way to do it.

Here is the trailer from Fright Night.

It is very common for the vampire to be male and any age above 18 and in this film they have done exact that and have not challenged any stereotypes. By using a male as the villain makes a more tense/intimidating feeling when it comes to the biting of his victims because males are known to be much stronger and faster than women. However his victims are both females and males all ages, which is also common in vampire films such as 'Let Me In' and 'Twilight'.
The main characters in this film are Teenagers, so it would make sense the film would be aimed at teenagers because they relate by their age and teenagers are interested in other teenagers lives. This film could be aimed at both genders because of the film being a thriller.
Their class is all the same, they live in a nice neighbourhood and from what is shown their parents are working class.
When in the classroom you can see a variety of races, however the main characters in the film are all white, so the target audience for this film may be teenagers, males and females from the white population.




For the film i am creating, our target audience when researching was males aged 18-29. If i was to say who i feel would be our target audience, it would be both genders aged 18 and above, this is because the main characters in our film, both victim and villain are female and because of the amount of gore that will be shown in the rest of our film this is what would draw the males to come see our film.

Question 3 - Katie Smyth - film poster ideas

Distribution

Distribution is getting the product out to its customers/audiences, so it is seen and known to the public, which gets more people viewing the film. This is done in many ways such as:

• Posters
• Trailers - at the beginning of other films in the cinema or during TV adverts.
• Film festivals
• Internet advertising 
• magazines / newspapers
• Chat shows 
• Social sites
• radios (e.g interviews)

Here i have researched 2 independent production companies and 2 major production companies, and i have been comparing the difference between them and how they distribute films.

House of the dead was by Brightlight pictures, which is a major production company as uses artisan entertainment distribution company, so this is likely to have more publicity and viewers as it has major distribution company, so will have good distribution of this film.

Mirrors is produced from a major media institution, regency enterprises. 20th century fox was the distribution company of mirrors, which is a major corporation, which is likely why mirrors is a very well known film.

nightmare is a hammers film productions film, which is an independent film production company. For nightmare the distribution companies were rank (in the uk) and universal (in the us), rank defunct in 1995 and universal is no longer independent it is owned by comcast. 

There is a big deifference compared to major film production companies and independent, as you can see that the major company's have made a lot more films that the independent ones, the film from the independent production company hammers, is very old and not well known, as now days its more like likely to know of a film or go see a film from one of the major production companies. however they are both similar as they both distribute posters and trailers for their film.

Film festivals

Film festivals are a great way to distribute your film, and get it well known by the public.

Here is my production company logo:

Here is universal production company's logo (a competitor):

They are both similar as have both black backgrounds, which i think makes the images clearer and look more professional. Our's is slightly a bit bluryer where we have edited it on photoshop, as there is very clear. We both have our production company name in the centre of the image. Their's is a lot more general, so could be used on different genre films, where as our's is obviously for vampire films as you can tell by the image, so wouldn't be able to use it in other types of films. Their's is also more colour full, but mine works well for a horror film with the colours and such. They both have clear writing that goes with the image well.

Here are some sample posters that helped us with film idea's for our film. Heres one horizontal and one vertical, but in the end we went with the horizontal:

Here is our finished film poster:

Here i have included the name of our film when our film will becoming our in the cinema, also our film will be out on dvd in january the 4th. Also in the poster it includes our logo at the bottom right with our film productions company on it. 

Here is a trailer that would be similar to ours, as the main characters are teenagers like ours, and the victim is a vulnerable teenage girl, which a vampire is after. 

Chariss Lee- Question Three- film festival Nottingham

Local promotion is a great way to get started in the film industry and get your work/name noticed and it is a great opportunity for anyone to be involved. This film festival was shown in a independent cinema in Nottingham. You always have to start at the bottom and work your way up and this is a great way to do so.