Audience research

The way we obtained our target audience was by carrying out research through creating questionnaires , focus groups and one to ones. From our target audience we gathered that mostly 18-24 year olds were our prime target audience.  from our research we looked into to what appeals to this age range e.g hobbies/interest. the first question we wanted to ask our audience if they were interested in short film documentaries in which we recieved a positive response this motivated us to film a short film documentary. in our questionnaire we asked what style of short film they would like to see and we received responses of horror and comedy so made this the medium of our short film.

I created the script to be quite comical as this was appealing for our target audience however i included drama to make it so the social issue within our short film was perceived well.

Screen Shots of our Film :)

 Collage that me and Sannah produced for Jons room to portray his passion for cooking!

Jons dinner!.

 Interview scenes of Jon watching his favourite Chef Mr Jame Oliver.

Dinner time with the family very important shot as the only shot you get to see Jon interact with People.

Over the past week we have all been working hard to produce our final product and help produce the pre production folder. Phil edited while i assisted him giving him my input . While Phil and i Edited , Sannah Mala and jess helped out by sorting the production folder . on the deadline today we all helped each other produce everything we needed in paperwork, finished product, etc. We have a few problems with the audio in the film however we were able to overcome that , the music we inputted went well with the film and helped to create emotion. I was very happy with the ending in which i pictured the ending in my head before all the researching, scripting, filming, etc however i thought we weren't going to be able to get exactly what i pictured but we got there! so i was very happy to finally see it on Screen . with the finished product i was very happy however as i have mentioned before just that one scene of in the room i feel brought it a bit down however the rest was brillant and just what i imagined the final film outcome.

Filming

Last week on Monday me,Sannah,and Mala went to matthew Bolton to film the student interview scenes, at first we had a problem as the weather was miserable and couldn't capture any of the outside shots of Matthew Bolton however From last year i took some unused shots of the college that we will edit and use in the film. Bad start of the day however turned out great we got a variety of students in which we all pucked up the courage to ask people to take part in which the feedback was very positive, we film 5 different students and asked them to make either good or bad comments about our zombie jon. The acting was impressive from various students and looked natural , I directed Sannah and the actors in what to say and how to take the shots and Mala did the sound for the shots .

On the Wednesday was the last day of filming in which we all made our way to Jessica house, me and Sannah both looked at the room a bit of a delay occurred as the room was not set up however while the guys set up downstairs me and sannah started moving things around.  I found a problem in which i wasn't very happy about the lighting as it was quite dull and we couldn't produce natural light in the room. Jessica did Jons makeup while me and Sannah cut up Food magazines which were to be used as food collage in Jons room we also went up their and set the room out in which we moved and took away some features/Furniture. While we were setting up downstairs Jessica went up and stuck the Posters on the wall.  Filming in the room went well again the lighting was a bit of problem as on camera it looks quite bad quality however interviewing john scenes we all quite liked the shots. I got some extra shots of Extreme close ups of Jons facial expressions which i think will become very useful. Next we did the cooking scenes in which took some scene of jon making dinner . Mom and dad scenes were next interviewing them in which i directing them how to react or how to come across in the interview Sannah filmed and Mala interviewed, phil also had input with the shots getting cutaways etc.

Yesterday Phil captured the footage that we took on Tuesday , he edited the clips togeather including the location scenes of Birmingham and of Jessica's area. Phil would ask for my input and ideas in which we worked togeather to edit the footage well.

Shooting

Yesterday we shot a few scenes around Jessica's area , we had to re-shot location scene's as the footage was not captured and was lost. while me,Mala,Phil and Sannah filmed the location shots , Jessica was doing johns makeup for the next scenes. The next scenes showed of John leaving his house , general walking scenes making his way to college/supermarket and then we went with the style of handy cam in which questioning john while he was walking in which Mala asked the questions as she is our interviewer in the short film. John was easy to direct in which he listened carefully and had the same vision that i have in my head of how the scenes should be shot and consist of. i was also pleased with Sannah and Mala's input of camera and interviewer as they both produced good camera shots and Interview questions. Mala also on shoot did location shots of the area.

In the Past week Jessica practice the zombie makeup on my self, we also went out in town all together to look for more makeup . Yesterday we had the idea of shooting the general interview scenes of john in his bedroom however Jessica's brothers room was not suitable for his character in which the suitable props were not their e.g posters,poetry/cooking books we therefore had to shoot the outside Scenes.

Last week on Wednesday we all delivered our pitch for the life of a teenage zombie, i think it went very well our teachers/class mates seemed very interested and liked the idea of our short film/documentary. On the Friday Sannah ,Phil, Jessica, and I went shooting near Jessica's house in which will be our zombie Jons home in the film, I directed Sannah in taking a variety of shots to setting the scene for Jon area in which we worked very well together in deciding what shots would set the scene well with also input from Phil, we took long shots of the streets, medium/close ups are the street signs, close up of the door number, a variety of nature shots for example out of focus shot of the tree branches then cutting into in focus shots of the branches and houses behind, and also included long shots/medium shots of Jons house.