Wednesday, 26 January 2011

Our Target Audience

The audience our film will be aimed at is a primarily young adult audience, from the ages of 15-25 and will be mainly male. We feel that they would best relate to a superhero story, and the comedy genre we are following is modern and so younger adults will be more inclined to come to watch. Personality-wise, our audience will generally be interested in comedy shows, having a good ranged sense of humour, average job, appreciative of entertainment over money spent.

In terms of Rubicam and Young, our audience will be the mainstream, the everyday people, who are the largest type of people who will watch a variety of genres from sci-fi to drama and would respond to a comedy film produced by established names and companies within the semantic field of fim.

By the sbbfc guidelines, our film will be rated 15, as we would be looking to (if we created the whole film) include strong language, violence (some blood) and adult humour. We feel that this rating would help to advise people of the primary audience, that no-one under the age of 15 would be advised to watch as the language used would be too strong for them.

Animatic

Storyboard

















































Institutions

Films like Kick-Ass and Scott Pilgrim Vs the World are produced by smaller companies such as Big Talk Productions (for Scott Pilgrim) but then presented by a large well-establish brand such as Universal Studios. Roughly $60,000,000 was spent on the film and on the opening weekend grossed $10,609,795 (USA) (15 August 2010) (2,818 Screens), £1,604,545 (UK) (29 August 2010) (408 Screens). The film was marketed by pre-film trailers, with public appearances for the actors, publicising the film coming out into the cinema.

For our production we would use a small production company (Drunken Elephant Productions) and get it presented by Universal, who have presented films such as Kick-Ass and Scott Pilgrim amongst others and got more recognition and consideration.










Music Score for Teen Comedy

Kick-Ass:
At the end of Kick-Ass, the score becomes very majestic and serious - as he ultimately saves the day. Throughout the film, when the action becomes prominent in a scene, the score becomes louder and is non-diegetic, being quick-paced to accompany the scenes perfectly. The soundtrack is not always apparent throughout the film, but when conflict is in a scene the music helps to give it a feel of good and success for our hero in the film, in this instant, Kick-Ass.


Titles for Teen Comedy

Scott Pilgrim Versus the World: Production credits are on the floor as the camera pulls back from a medium shot to a long shot - half of the title of film is with all characters "Scott Pilgrim", then pulls down to join with the rest of the title ("VS. THE WORLD"). Then the actors' names burst in, jumpy (rave-time) as separate frames and cut quickly, with the quick-paced music . The background to this is strong, dark shades of colours, particularly reds and green. There is also bits of artwork flashing up, and its very student-like - artistic but not professional, nor too young child-like. The font is quite bold and 'in your face' which is stereotypical of teenage personality.
Also, for character credits, there are black boxes that pop up everytime Michael Cera's character, Scott, meets another character who has been previously unseen in the film. In these black boxes it gives brief information about the character.

Opening Sequences are Important

In the first two minutes of a film, conventionally, the main characters/actors can be introduced, through appearance or credit. The films opening can have a good effect, by using generic conventions to help the audience establish the type of film it will be and also build up expectations of the plot-line. If the opening sequence is engaging and connecting to the audience, then they are going to enjoy the film and perhaps going to see it again/purchase the DVD or any other merchandise - working as a marketing machine for the franchise. There are some very memorable, effective opening opening sequences - for example, every Star Wars film begins with the suspended space writing and then getting straight into the action.

Sunday, 16 January 2011

Presenting to the class

I haven't finished the list, except for the filming dates and the storyboard (which we are re-do at the moment) but currently my blog is a bit out of order but i'm going to change the dates and sort it out soon

Shot Sequencing

We will go from:
Establishing long shot of setting
to
medium four shot of the Kickables
to
medium close-up of Captain Awesome
pan to
medium close-up of Mysterious Man
pan to
medium close-up of MegaBoy
pan to
medium close-up of Protector
jump back to
medium shot of Captain Awesome
to
hand-held meduim-long shot
to
long shot from behind trees
to
medium-long shot over bin
to
title credit
to establishing long shot outside school

Roles and Responsibilities for Filming

During filming, as the four of us have acting roles, we will have a cameraman and we will decide as a group how to direct the shot variations and if any alterations are needed to stray away from the script/storyboard then we will talk as a group before coming to a democratic decision. Individual costumes are being left to the individual actors, so that we get our characters spot on for representation of their individual personalities. After every scene is shot, we will watch back to confirm whether or not we need to shoot it again - this will be fine for what we actually have to film, because there aren't that many scenes.

Response to Treatment

The treatment will be roughly the same, yet perhaps an alteration may be made over the ending, but has yet to be decided.

Additionally, the names will be changed to avoid being too silly: from Nerdman to Captain Awesome, Geekboy to MegaBoy, and Shoc-King to Mysterious Man

Actors








For the role of Captain Awesome, it is likely that I, Matt Vicker, would play that role due to my already real nerd status.













Mysterious Man will be portrayed by Sam Hocking, because his blonde hair will help to diverse the group and also help us to stray away from the stereotype that blondes are stupid, and that there are blonde nerds too.





(Right) Adam Bown would play Protector, putting his nerdiness into practice.

(Middle) Josh Chivers would be Mega Boy, the comedically taller sidekick.

(Left) The left hand side of my body, see first paragraph for my role.

Location


As our film is a comedy surrounding teenage nerds, the perfect situation will involve a school. Therefore our location choice will be in and around our school's grounds.

Questionaire


















Script for The Kickables

The Script (82.1secs)
All voiced over, by the individual characters.
Matt: DANGER! Ha you weren’t expecting that were you?
I’m captain awesome and I’ll be your superhero for your lifetime!
I became a superhero because I felt the urge to bring justice to the world… well Bristol at least… and also for the chicks. Superheroes get the ladies… hopefully. Of course there is also Sam… (17.5secs)
Sam: Cheers Matt. Hey I’m the mysterious man. Ever been called a queer or a bit of a loser. I have. So I made a stand against crime. Injustice is everywhere and its up to me and my fellow partners against crime to do something about it.
Lets not forget josh… (18secs)
Josh: Thanks Sam. Mega Boy is my name. Kicking crime is my game. I stare punches in the face. I became a superhero because I was bored at home and mum says I need to get out more. I’m called mega boy because I am unusually tall for a sidekick.
Now over to Protector… Adam? Adam? (17.2secs)
Adam: Hey hows it going?
Josh: Its going good… Remember were supposed to say a bit about ourselves…
Adam: Alright lets get to it! I’m Adam and I like Doritos. Best game of the year Fifa 11 I fucking did it with that game…
Josh: No no no… you are supposed to tell them about your superhero!
Adam: oh okay okay… I’m protector and I’m an alcoholic.
Josh: Perfect…
Matt: Wait you’re an alcoholic??
Sam: You actually serious?
Adam: Well not really, I mean it only counts if you throw up right?
Matt: Guys, man alive; we’re frozen in time right now! (29.4sec)