Establishing Audiences

Within media it is important to establish your audience in order to know who you are aiming the product at. This can help when choosing my target audience and when marketing my final product as I am able to think about the potential character I could use within the sequence. When thinking about the type of audience I want for my own product i though about the age classification as it is important when thinking about uses tpyes of acting such as dangerous behaviour, strong langauge and violence. I thought about my own product being a 15 rating, even though our open sequence itself wont include strong language or violence. 

When we was planning and sharing our ideas about the opening seqeunce as a group we decided on a character who would be a young female and a myseterious character that the audience would not see in the opening sequence. I think by using a female character would not put off males from watching the product as this mysterious character encourages people to watch as the film isnt dominated by the female we chose.

Production Diary - 4th Meeting

After completig a script it allowed us to understand and have a clear idea as to what was happening throughout our opening scene. This led us onto thinking about the types of camera shots we should use throughout all 3 scenes within our sequence.

Shot List

Scene 1

Dutch Angle on house

Long shot of car pulling up

Medium shot as Dani gets out of car

Extreme close up of badge when walking towards house

Close up of knocking on door

Wide shot of stepping back view of whole house

Medium shot of looking again and shouting name

Reverse shot on looking through letter box

Close up of door handle

Medium long shot of door opening

Scene 2

Long shot of Dani entering house

Close up of trying light switch

Medium long shot of door closing slowly behind Dani

Long shot of looking for candle

Close up of lighter and lighting candle

High angle of beginning to walk up steps

Extreme close up of feet walking up stairs

Jump cut to door ajar in time of sound effect coming from basement

Scene 3

Medium shot of walking back down and towards basement

Wide shot of starting to walk down basement stairs

Point of view shot of Dani’s view of basement

Extreme close up of candle being blown out in time of sound effect

Production Diary - 3rd meeting

During our third meeting on the 8th January we decided it was time to create our script for the opening scene as this will make our opening scene come together that little bit more. 

Script

Scene 1

(Car pulls up)

*Dani gets out of car, checks address

*Knocks on door - no answer - waits

*knocks again

Dani: Mrs Smith? Are you in? It’s Margaret, the district nurse.

*Looks through letter box

Dani: Mrs Smith? Can you hear me?

*Looks through letterbox

*Tries handle and door opens

Scene 2

*hesitantly enters

Dani: It’s Margaret, Polly, I’m coming in.

*Tries light switch – doesn’t work

Dani: Polly where are you?

*Finds candle on table and lights it – begins to walk up the stairs and suddenly there’s a noise from the cellar.

Scene 3

*Slowly steps back down stairs

Dani: Polly is that you? (Worried)

*opens the door to cellar and begins walking down the steps

(Doors shuts quickly behind her – sound of breathing and the candle is blown out)

By doing this script it helped us to have a clear idea of our idea allowing us to start picturing the opening scene much clearer.

Production Diary - 2nd meeting

On the 18th December our group had our second meeting in which we discussed our task and decided to change our idea in order for it to be more successful and realistic. we changed our idea to base it on the fact a old woman was being visited by a new district nurse. in order for this is work efficiently we decided to change the location and set it in Kirtlington.

These pictures below show the new location:
 

Also during this second meeting we also made a new production schdule:

By making a production schdule helps me and group to be more organised as it indicates when our filming will take place, the costumes we will as well as the props we will need for each scene.

Composition: Framing of Shots