• Research and planning

• Research and planning

We firstly got inspiration from Friday the 13th, where the antagonist is much bigger and more intimidating than the rest of the cast, especially the protagonist. Another film we took inspiration from was Billy Black Christmas, where the antagonist suffocates the protagonist, and completely dominates the situation, whilst being psychopathic and causing the protagonist to be fearful and try to run away. however something we decided to change from the film is that the antagonist talks, whereas ours does not, and simply remains a silent killer, building much more mystery around the character which is much like Friday the 13th, and thought it would work well with our theme. Our audience which we mainly focused on was teenagers and young adults, mainly due to the fact that we wanted a fast action fast paced film with some fighting scene.          

 The audience informed our thinking of our media production through the means of creating more of an intense atmosphere and giving us ideas which were helpful in opening our mind and creating some more scenes or at least being able to edit some new things into the film using Adobe premier elements 10. The inspiration from film enabled us to have new ideas on either the protagonist or the antagonist, and since we wanted to focus on the antagonist, we took a lot of inspiration from the character Jason Vorhees.

 In order to record all of this research we put some blogs on blogger to create a kind of folder, so that it was easy to access. However we discovered that we would have to have some sort of internet to access these files, so we decided to send these to our other Gmail accounts and save the files on our home computers, as well as saving them on the school computer so that there were several versions of the files just in case one of them got deleted.

 For our primary research we mainly focused on smaller questionnaire which we put onto blogger, where we asked several people from our class what title they preferred for example, even though we did have a good idea of what title would be more fitting, a lot of people's votes were quite staggered so that we had to make the final decision ourselves.

 We used the primary research to make sure that we had a base to start off, and that we had some ideas of what to call our film for example, or another example is what music we should have used. We then used secondary research to double check on what we had done and made sure that everything was in check, however we did come across some troubles as we didn't want to do another questionnaire, so we did a quick survey which we didn't put on blogger.

 The results informed our production as we were able to discover a lot more about what people would prefer and how they thought our initial ideas would work in the trailer itself.

 A couple of the main uses for this kind of research is to find out what our target audience would prefer and how they would like that to come about, if we do not follow what they want to some extent then they will not get as much immersion from the trailer.

 Since we had to change the main story about halfway through the editing process we did not follow the script and storyboard as well as we could have, which meant that we could have lost some good grades as we did have quite a few good ideas in our head which were on the storyboard which we had forgotten a couple of months later. We did plan to have some dialogue but again as we were filming the shots we were too concerned on making sure every shot was perfect as we had limited time, and spent the majority of the first half shooting to fix the lights at the scout hut we were situated at.

* How have you developed these skills at A2? I have developed these skills in A2 through being able to write a script and a storyboard effectively.