Advertisment for our Film

DVD COVER - Click on the image for a larger preview. Poster - Click on the image for a larger preview.


As a class, we have decided it would be a good opportunity to showcase our film in front of other pupils to gain necessary feedback on our piece from an audience of many different age groups. In doing this, there is an opportunity to raise some money for the media department, or even for a local charity and this planning and preperation would work towards our welsh baccalaureate, which are currently making progress on in year twelve. Here is a mock-up of a poster we could use to advertise our own film and a DVD cover we could use to market our film. It is basic and simplistic, to give our audience a sense of curiosity and mystery, hopefully intising our audience to come to the showcase or too buy the film
We could also hand out questionaires, so we have firm proof of audience reaction and opinions.

Editing

On Friday 5th February, Jamie, Danielle and myself filmed the last few missing scenes for our film - which included:
- The Boyfriend (Jamie) leaving the house through the front door
- Miss Red (Danielle) emerging from the shadows and making her way to the door
- Miss Red opening the door with a key
- Miss Red stepping into the house.
We needed to re-film these final shots as we had previously saved these extra shots on the schools backup memory source "The Lacey" but due to complications, we never retrieved our work from this source. We received help from another pupil from the class - Richard Parrish, who acted as a very efficient runner for the team.
The shots filmed were completed successfully and on Monday 8th February we uploaded the extra clips onto our Apple Mac. After the end of our lesson, Jamie and Abbie stayed up and slotted our new clips where needed, as Danielle and myself attended another lesson.

Our film is now nearing completion and we are all very proud of all the work put in. Next lesson we are planning on burning our film onto a DVD so it can be displayed in option evening, where pupil's thinking of returning to sixth form can see what they can expect from media studies A/S.
- Becky Baker(:

Target Audience

After researching similar film genres and plot lines to our own opening sequence including, 'Fatal Attraction', 'Basic Instinct' and 'The Eyes of Laura Mars', I have evidently become aware of audience research. I believe our Thriller film should be targeted at a 15 certificate. A 15 certificate leaves an opportunity for a wider audience. Also, as our film may be classed as a Psychological thriller, I believe that an audience not intended for children would be precise, as I don't believe anyone younger than 15 would understand the plot as it is quite intelligent. Although, we have discussed having our opening sequence as a 12A or PG certificate, to reach a larger audience than a 15 certificate would.

Research and Planning

"Eyes of Laura Mars" is a thriller film released in 1978. Laura Mars is a very successful high-end fashion and advertising photographer. Detective John Neville notes striking similarities between her art photos and those of actual crime scenes. Although suspicious of her, he soon realizes that she hasn't been involved in any of the crimes but can see what is happening through the eyes of the killer. After his friends and some of her models are killed she joins forces with Neville to identify the killer before she too becomes a victim
This is similar to our opening sequence as the mysterious intelligence of the main characters are the same, and the mysterious atmosphere created.

Research and Planning

"Basic Instinct" is an American erotic thriller released in 1992.
The film centers around police detective Nick Curran (Douglas), who is investigating the brutal murder of a wealthy former rock star. Beautiful, seductive and wealthy crime writer Catherine Tramell (Stone) could be involved; over the course of the investigation, Detective Curran becomes involved in a torrid and intense relationship with the mysterious woman — who turns out to be very dangerous. This is again similar to our film as the women based in both films have similar persona's.

Research and Planning

To improve my own idea on our film, I've been studying other films that have a similar plot like to our film. My favourite out of the number I researched was "Fatal Attraction" a popular thriller film which was released in 1987.
"Fatal Attraction" is about a married man who has a weekend affair with a woman who refused to allow it to end, resulting in her obsession with him.
This is a similar plot to ours, as they both relate to the topics of desperation, obsession and a sense of insanity.