Audience Research Reply

We interviewed some of our peers asking the five questions:

• What are your expectations of the opening 2 minutes of any film?

"I should find out the main themes and a bit about the main characters"

"Know everything about what the film is trying to show me"

"Brief description (visually) of what's happening, the setting, the man characters"

"Set the scene- hooks you to the film"

• What are your expectations of the opening 2 minutes of a youth culture film?

"Find out what's going to happen, and how the film will develop"

"Get to the point"

"Show what area it's set in"

"Teenagers, walking around [...] in groups"

• Why do enjoy youth culture films?

"I can relate to them"

"I feel like I can relate to the problems the characters may feel"

"They are relatable to some of us"

"Teenagers enjoy watching other teenagers"

• How do you typically access films?

"On the internet"

"Download offline or DVD"

"Cinema or DVD"

"CInema is really expensive, so DVD or internet, peer to peer sharing"

• What is your favourite youth culture film?

"Kidulthood"

"Adulthood"

"Adulthood"

"(some mutterings with no real answer)"

What we did learn from our audience research was a lot of information we could use to make our film more appealing to our targeted audience. I realised that our genre of film really appeals to our age group, they enjoy seeing people their age in situations such as our characters Ceaser and Flo

Most people our age have watched the films like Adulthood and Kidulthood which our films is sort of inspired by, this means our audience was excited to hear about the genre of film we'll be making, we now know what are the expectations of our film from our audiences and we can work towards achieving these expectations

Audience Research

We asked a few of our peers the following questions:

1. What are your expectations of the opening 2 minutes of any film? 
2. What are your expectations of the opening 2 minutes of a youth culture film? 
3. Why do enjoy youth culture films? 
4. How do you typically access films? 
5. What is your favourite youth culture film?

Edited Storyboard

Ali (Ceaser)

                                                                        Kirsty (Flo)

Storyboard

These are our groups original storyboard ideas for kirsty's part in the film

Timetable

This is our timetable for filming and editing. I was the only one in our group without the same free periods as the others in my group so we had to take advantage of lunch and our media lessons

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday
Period 1					Friday
Period 2	Editing
Period 3		Editing
Period 4			Filming
Lunch			Filming	Filming
Period 5				Filming

Final Song Choice

• After song proposals from each of the group, we finally came to the decision of this track because it reinforces our chosen genre, it puts the audience in the right mood. 
• The music reflects off of the lifestyle of the main character in our film
• The song comes in first at the opening titles and again when Kirsty puts on her headphones, giving off an impression that we can hear what she hears.
• The music can also be seen as foreshadowing since it is playing when Ali buys drugs and again when Kirsty is going to meet Ali.

Film music examples

These are some of the songs i have put forward as a backing track to our film,I feel as if these songs would provide the necessary emphasis on our genre, stereotypes and conventions. Everyone in our group is bring forward their few choices well. I believe that Bad-wale and end of day are very good choices as they both provide a unique backing track to further develop our characters to our audiences.
The music is very important as this will give the representations we want to our audiences

Titling Analysis

THIS IS ENGLAND:
Opening Sequence:

The title sequence for This Is England uses archive footage from the 80's, including footage of Margaret Thatcher, ballet dancers and the modern youth. These opening credits show and reflect the events during the 80's, the birth of a social revolution and the uprise of Margaret Thatcher and the Tory party.

It does not only reflect the harsh side of england but also the nicer side by showing clips of things such as rock and roll bands

The font used helps to reflect and create the mood for the audience displaying the general rough feeling and struggle of the era. The use of historic clips creates a feel good feeling for the audience that may have been alive in those times. The rough font of 'This Is England' (also in capitals) establishes he film and the type of genre it will fit into.

rought font + rough estate

There is a huge variety of clips, from lower class to upper class, at one point, it shows protestors then cuts to princess diana. This cutting shows the two different sides of the spectrum of England.
The first thing shown is a clip of Roland Rat saying "Testing testing 1,2,3!' before being followed by a song by Toots and the Maytals and a black screen with rough white font, 'Film Four and The Film Council Presents'. This creates trust in the audience, as Film Four and the Film Council are both well known companies who have been recognised in England as good for producing and showcasing good films.

Final Script

This is the final script that I created, it has a few minor changes but also a few larger ones, we had to take out one of the scenes featuring a large group of people, as most of our friends were too busy at our allocated filming times. We also changed a lot of the dialogue as some was no longer necessary or no longer made any sense after some of the other changes, I believe that this edited version of our original script will do a much better job of establishing our codes and conventions to our audience as it has more  ways of showing both the different sides of Flo and Ceaser but also their connection, when we begin filming I hope this script helps our film turn out as we hope and plan.

Costume

We plan to have Ali (Caeser) and Jotham (Link) dressed as a stereotypical youths, for example, the main characters in Kidulthood. A modern tracksuit would suffice. This clothing will portray them as working class youth. Wearing tracksuits out of a track is usually associated with working class. Audiences will immediately be able to recognise the characters as working class. In films such as Kidulthood and Adulthood, a lot of the characters wear tracksuits and hoodies which reinforced to the modern day audience the idea of a stereotypical working class youth. Choosing Ali and Jotham (Caeser and Link) to wear this will hopefully work as a signifier as we planned.

Kirsty's character being middle classed means Kirsty will be dressed accordingly. Her clothing will portray her as a middle class girl. A lace skater dress seems appropriate. This dress compared to the tracksuit shows a difference between working and middle class. the elegance of the dress compared to the simplicity of a tracksuit further reinforces the difference in classes. Along with her home and technology, I hope the audience is able to recognise Kirsty (Florence) as middle class.

Plan for this week

Finishing off our filming on:
Wednesday (06/03/13) at Period 4 and Lunch time
and Thursday (07/03/13) at Lunch time and Period 5
We are filming the scene between Caesar and his group of friends.