Target Audience Demographic

Target Audience Demographic. 

Our film is a thriller, so our target audience is going to be people who enjoy watching thrillers. We have put each gender into a group to make sure we know our stuff and have done our research.

We have found out that the most popular age group to go to the cinema is aged from 16-24 years old, this is why we have chosen this age group to target our film at. By choosing this age group it would gain a lot of money as this age group go to the cinema so frequently. We are also targeting both genders, this will also gain money, as we will have a wider target audience. 

Here we have split the two genders up into two groups, so that it is easier to analyse them as they have different reasons for watching the film. 

The first group is girls aged from 16 to 24 years old. We have decide to target this age group because, they are most likely to go to parties, especially as they are in university or sixth form. They will also go to parties because they are young and they will want to go out and let their hair down, this is also a good way to meet a date. 

The actresses in our film are aged 17, 18, 19 and 20 years old, so this target audience relates to the age of the actresses. By making the girls in our film young, we are hoping to achieve and more intriguing relationship between the audience and the actresses, as they around the same age. 

We have also made our target audience wider by having each girl in the group have a different personality, we are hoping to get a wider range of young girls watching our film, because we want to make each girl in our film relate to some of the girls in the audience. 

The second group we have is men aged from 16 to 24 years old. In general men are more intrigued by films that give them an adrenaline rush, this is normally achieved by watching action, horror and thriller films. They also like to watch films with girls in them because of sexual connotations. Our film is a thriller and has girls in it, this film will appeal to both men and women as it fits both of their needs and criteria. We have made our film to fit both men and women, because it gives us a wider target audience and this will make us more money. 

Men may like to use this film as a first date or as a friendship group get together at the cinema. If men were to use this film as a date film, it would give him the perfect chance to comfort his scared date during the film, this might bring the couple closer together. 

There is also a sexual nature within the film, this would appeal to men that are attracted to girls, and when people go to a parties, this is usually the time you would pick up a date and there are girls of all different natures. This could include some 'slutty' type girls and our film has a slutty natured girl as one of the main characters. 

Character Biography

Character Biography 

Chantelle plays a 20 year old woman, called Eva. Eva is the leader of the group of best friends in our film, this is because she is the oldest, so everyone in the group looks up to her. She is also the most sensible one as she is the oldest, this means that she thinks through carefully before acting and she also makes sure all of the other girls are in line.Eva is very mature, but she likes to let her hair down occasionally and have fun with her best friends as well.In our film we are trying to convey her personality through her bedroom and her outfit without spelling it out, this is because we are trying to reveal her character without literally pointing it out. Her room is plain with pops of colour and her outfit is also black with burnt orange shoes, this is the pop of colour with in her outfit. 

Abigail plays a 19 year old woman, called Riley. Riley is the girlie-girl of the friendship group. Riley's favourite colour is pink and she likes to wear it often, she also likes to wear some make-up. Riley is the second oldest, this means that she is also mature, however she is not as mature as Eva this is because she is still a teenager and she is still finding the teen-life to be as interesting and fascinating as when she turned 18. Riley also likes to take risks as she thinks that it make your life more interesting. Riley is very protective over the two younger girls and she acts almost like an older sister to them. We are also trying to portray Riley's character through her outfit and bedroom, this is so we do not have to say her personality,we wanted it to do it that way because we only have two minutes for our opening and we wanted to convey her character in those two minutes. 

Megan plays a 18 year old woman, called Scarlet. Scarlet is the Grudger of the group, this means she is into all of the Goth things, however she is not a Goth. Scarlet dies at the beginning of our film, so it is okay that she is a Grudge girl, because she is not one of our main characters. Scarlet is close to the other girls. We convey her personality through her bedroom and her dress that she was going to wear for the party before she is murdered. 

Kimberley plays a 17 year old girl, called Cassie. Cassie is the youngest and she is the Slutty type out of the girls, this means she wears barely any clothes and she wears lots of make-up. As Cassie is the youngest out of the girls, this means that the other girls mother her a lot. However, they still treat her as if she is their age,(hence they allow her to drink and do whatever she pleases). Cassie loves leopard print, we see this through out her bedroom and outfit, as it appears everywhere.

The killer, is a psychopath that takes pleasure out of killing innocent young women. There is no reason that we know of to why he kills young women, however one of his unfortunate victims happen to be this group of young women. His choice of weapon is a knife, because it is a common household item, so it is easy to get hold of. It is also personal as he has to be in contact with the victim in order to kill them. He also likes to leave his victim where he kills them, which is usually in their homes, this makes the murder intrusive as he is breaking and entering and your home is meant to be your safe place not your grave. This shows that the killer is cold-blooded as he kills coldly and emotionlessly. 

Mise-en-scene

Here in this short clip we are discussing the mise-en-scene of our film. I thought this would be a good idea to show us discussing the mise-en-scene because it was easier to talk about it and it shows everyones ideas and points, so we know how everyone feels about it . It also shows us how we are going to put it into our film, including everyone's points.

Institutional Features

Institutional Features

The production company that we have decided to use for our film is called Summit Entertainment. We chose Summit Entertainment because, it relates to our genre that we are basing our film on, which is Thriller. 

Summit Entertainment is an American film studio. Since 2006 Summit Entertainment has become an individual production company after working with Lions Gate and Universal. 

Summit was originally founded in 1991, by film producers Bernd Eichinger, Arnon Milched and Andrew G.Vajna, initially to deal with film sales in foreign countries. 

Summit expanded, so they started producing and co-financing film in 1995, and then they started fully financing films by 1997.

Summit was officially launched in 1993 by Patrick Wachsberger, Bob Hayward and David Garrett, under the name Summit Entertainment LP as a production, distribution, and sales organisation.

In 2006 Summit became a fully independent film studio, now known as Summit Entertainment, Rob Friedman; who was a former executive at Paramount Picture also joined Summit. 

Films made by Summit Entertainment:

• Bound 
• Twelfth Night: Or What You Will
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
• Kill the man 
• Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
• The loss of Sexual Innocence
• American Pie
• Breakfast of Champions
• Splendor
• Memento 
• Vanilla Sky 
• Insomnia 
• Wrong Turn
• Stark Raving Mad 
• Dot the i
• Mr. & Mrs. Smith
• The Brothers Grimm
• Step Up 
• Keeping Mum
• Lies & Alibis
• Once
• In the Valley of Elah
• P2
• The Hottie & the Nottie
• Step Up2: The Streets
• Penelope 
• Never Back Down
• Fly Me to the Moon
• Happy-Go-Lucky
• Sex Drive 
• Twilight 
• Push 
• Knowing 
• Next Day Air
• The Brothers Bloom
• The Hurt Locker
• Bandslam
• Sorority Row 
• Astro Boy
• The Twilight Saga: New Moon 
• Bitch Slap
• Remember Me 
• Furry Vengeance
• Letters to Juliet
• The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
• Step Up 3D
• Red
• Fair Game
• Drive Angry
• Source Code
• The Beaver
• A Better Life
• 50/50
• The Three Musketeers
• Wrong Turn4:Bloody Beginnings
• The Twilight Saga:Breaking Dawn- Part 1
• The Darkest Hour
• Man on a Ledge
• Gone 
• Step Up Revolution
• The cold Light of Day
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower
• Sinister
• Alex Cross
• Wrong Turn5: Bloodlines
• The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn-Part2
• The Impossible
• Warm Bodies
• Snitch
• Now You See Me
• Kevin Hart:Let Me Explain
• Red2
• Escape Plan
• Ender's Game

Animatics

Animatics

This is our animatics. I think that it was successful to fill and it shows how we are going to film our two minute opening. However, it would have been more successful it we managed to firstly film the scene for the length it will be in our film opening and secondly it the camera was more steady than it was.

Music

Music

For the opening song we have decided to have a cover of Decode, which was originally performed by a band called Paramore. This is quite an up-beat song, this shows a happy atmosphere, as this song is playing in the background while four girls are getting ready. This song is going to be played from two of the girls phones as you see them pressing play. 
We had difficulty try to find the right music to bring the bright excited atmosphere as we had so many songs that we thought were suitable for this part of the film, but when it came down to choosing we chose this cover of Decode, mainly because we liked the cover and we liked the song. We also liked the original, however we are not allowed to include it because it will be classed as copyright, as it is protected by the copyright protection act. 
Where as this cover is not protected by the copyright protection act so we are allowed to include it in our film opening. 
This song was covered by a girl called MEMELii, we liked it because it sounds a lot like the original performer. 
Link:      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgRPbiPauOo


For Scarlet's, death we have decided the have a piano cover of Young and Beautiful, it was originally preformed by Lana Del Rey, She was the original singer for the song.
We decided to just have a piano cover of the song, so we could have a range of different types of music. 
This is a fairly light, soft song and it brings a emotional feel as we see that one of the girls have been murdered. Also having no lyric in this piece brings a peaceful feel to the situation as we want death to convey a sorrowful feel to the scene.
We found it hard to find a good song for this particular circumstances, because we wanted to set the mood and make everyone feel the sadness of this scene. This cover makes the scene feel more tense as well, as she has been murdered in her own room. In the very place where she is meant to feel secure and safe. 
The other reason why we could not use the original song is because it is also protected by the copyright protection act. 
Link:       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57YkGFK7CDA

We are going to to have a song going over our title to, firstly set up the rest of the film and secondly to bring more tension to the title and make the audience want to watch on. This song is going to be composed by Chantelle on garage band on the Imac. We decided to compose the theme song, because we want to have a range of songs, as we already have a sony with lyrics and a instrumental song and so we wanted to have a song that was composed by a member of the group. This song has a deep creepy feel to the title and it makes the audience get a sense of what is coming up in the film. 
This is also called foreboding, with music, this song is not protected by the copyright protection act purely because we composed it. 

Filming Schedule

Filming Schedule.

Date	Location	Animatic Frames	Actors	Props	Camera Filming
PlanA-30/10/13 PlanB-02/11/13	Megan’s Bedroom	2, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15	Megan Daniel	Fake Blood White Sheets Knife Phone Mirror	1needed. Abigail
PlanA-14/11/13 PlanB-16/11/13	Kimberley’s Bedroom	3, 8, 9, 10, 17	Kimberley	Mirror Mascara Phone	1needed. Chantelle
PlanA-15/11/13 PlanB-17/11/13	Abigail’s Bedroom	4, 5, 9, 10, 18	Abigail	Mirror Mascara Phone	1needed. Megan
PlanA-17/11/13 PlanB-19/11/13	Chantelle’s Bedroom	6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 19	Chantelle	Phone Alarm	1needed. Kimberley

Editing Schedule.

Editing Dates	A-02/12/13 Period 2 B-03/12/13 Period 5 C-04/12/13 Period 4 D-05/12/13 Period 1 E-09/12/13 Period 3
EMERGENCY DATES	A-10/12/13 Period 2 B-10/12/13 Period 5 C-12/12/13 Period 2