First Storyline Ideas

• the main character, a girl in her teens who sees people in her head
• these people all have different personalities, and she sees them as her friends.
  their personalities influence her mood/behavior
• parts of the trailer she will be in a hospital
• other parts she will be in a field/a wood
• there could be a scene with all the people in her head and her having a conversation together
• a scene where we see the girl killing/hurting someone
• props used such as; a straight jacket, a white gown, hospital scrubs, clothes that reflect the characters personalities, fake blood, fake knife

Film Presentation Pitch

• Story line
• Possible locations
• Characters
• Setting
• Genre and sub genre
• Specific target audience
• Special effects/camera shots you are going to use
• What roles are people going to play in your group
• Prezi, powerpoint, video, flip board 

Structuring a trailer

Scary Movie

Beginning - Act 1The Cert
Premise of the story

Middle - Act 2
Build up of the story
Adds Climax
Institutional information
Text

End - Act 3Montage of powerful/emotional/funny

Composition

Composition

Rule of thirds

Back ground

Framing

RULES OF COMPOSITION

1 back ground – keep it simple, not busy or congested, alter the shot to keep the focus on the main subject

2 rule of thirds – cross sections that things fit into two of them, think about the logics of the shot,

3 framing – look for natural frames in your scene, be aware of lines in the frame, like fences and stuff, make them level with the shot, HEAD ROOM not too much or too little.

4 leading lines

5 balance

Depth of field

Depth of feild
F-stop
Aperture
Focal length
Focus
DOF (Depth of Feild)

DOF depends on-
Aperture Size (f-stop) (fraction of the size of lens, the smaller the number, the wider the hole, the wider the hole, the shallower the depth of feild or the less things are in focus)
Focal length
Distance of subject

Shallow depth of feild- one particular thing in focus, other things involved but less important out of focus
Deep depth of feild- most things in focus, sharp image

Audiences

Audience

·         Age

·         Interests

·         What they look for in a film

·         How often they watch films

·         What genre of television programmes/film they are interested in

·         Favourite film

·         Occupation – reflect interests and social status

·         Likes and dislikes

·         Where you live – reflects their status

·         CGI?

I can find this information out via questionnaire using;

·         Twitter

·         Facebook

·         Paper questionnaire

·         Email drop

·         Street asks

Audience Classification – centred on income/status

A – Upper middle class – top management/bakers/lawyers
B – Middle class – teachers/’creative’s’ e.g. graphic designers
C1 – Lower middle class – office supervisors/nurses/junior managers
C2 – Skilled working class – skilled workers/engineer
D – Working class – waitress/brick layer
E – People at the lowest level of income – students/casual workers

Young and Rubicam’s four consumers

Mainstreamers – 40% of the population – like security and belonging to a group
Aspirers – Want a status and the esteem of others – like status symbols and designer labels
Succeeders – People who already have status and control
Reformers – Define themselves by their self esteem and self fulfilment   

Audience Theory

‘The Effects/ Hypodermic model’

According to the theory the media is like a syringe which injects ideas into people, originating from students who attended Frankfurt school, a group of German Marxists who witnessed firsthand how Hitler used propaganda to influence a nation.
In other word s, you see something violent, you do something violent , if you see a woman washing up on TV then you (being a woman yourself) are expected to do the washing up at home.
However, this does not appeal to everyone thus making it too simplistic and stereotypical, as we cannot stay that every person that views a film or television programme containing violence of gore would inflict the same upon others in real life.

                Uses and Gratifications theory

Based around the Hierarchy of needs, identified by Maslow. Explaining why people watch the media they do, researchers simplified it into four key ideas;

1.       Information; we want to find out about society and the world – we want to satisfy our curiosity. This would fit the news and documentaries which both give us sense of learning about the world

2.       Personal identity; being able to relate to the characters in the programme or film

3.       Integration and Social interaction; conversing with others about what you have seen

4.       Entertainment; sometimes we simply use the media for enjoyment, relaxation or just to fill time