Target audience

This show that the people that we are aiming our film at (teenagers/young adults) like films with characters that are of the same age, so that they can relate to them more. For example the three most liked films are about teenagers filming themselves and struggling though life.

I found that The age range of for my film is from ages 15-24. This shows coming of age films are liked most by people who are coming of age.

The majority of people who were interested in our film were male. This may be because our hole cast in our opening scene is male. However, this will change later in the film when Chester gets a girlfriend, this may attract a wide female audience.

I have found that the target audience for my film is aimed towards 15-24 year old  students that are males. These people watch films very often so will have a strong taste in films. Their favourite genre of film is drama and comedy and like to follow a character through a journey and seeing them find them self.

Casting

Ryan Kelly

Keinan Rayat

Here we were looking for an appropriate cast for our film. At this point we were only looking for a main character but we might find that we need some more actors at a later point.

We wanted to get a person that looked normal, due to the fact we wanted our audience to be able relate to the character, and to re-enforce the fact what happened to him could happen to anyone.

Megan Hughes

Ben King

Charlie Harris

Tom Bradshaw

These people are people who we can easily get in contact with and are also friends. We thought this would be good because it means it would be less awkward to tell them what to do and how to do it. This means it would also be more enjoyable. However, none of these people have much experience in acting meaning the film may be a bit bring worthy.

We also decided that we wanted our main character to be male but we also wanted to have a woman actor in the film at some point latter in the film.

Desparate Housewives

Here Gabby slaps the doctor because he informs her she's pregnant. This represents her as a stereotypical emotional woman.

Lynette Scavo is represented as the earth mother, she is the motherly caring figure. The fact that she is breast feeding during a meeting shows she is always caring for others, showing she is selfless. However, the expression on her face show  its not natural for he so this is also a counter stereotype.

This is a counter stereotype because her Bree is a practical and not the man. She has to unload a gun for her husband. She is represented as the temptress, she is shown to be perfect, punctual and demestic.  

Her Susan is shown to be the damsel in distress, without a man she is insecure and scared. For example here she shoots someone in the arm because she though they were an intruder.

Creating Our Storyboard

Here I have drawn  up a storyboard using the ideas from the my group, for each shot of our indie film. We did take into account that when shooting we would most likely need to slightly tweak our ideas, so we made sure our shots could be changed without corrupting the film. We started by first drawing up out opening shots. We want to start with a slow montage of wave shots to establish the setting and to make a calm/slow atmosphere. this then slow cut through a variety of shots of our main character, ranging from long close ups takes of the characters face to wide shots of the character from a far.

It was hard to plan how we were going to order the film, due to the fact we had flash backs and three different scene in our short sequence to cording into our storyboard. We found there best way to represent changes in scene would to just cut to black. We have tried to add a match on action in our short to connect our flashback. We have done this by using a rugby ball that our character will be holding in two different scenes that will be framed in the same part of the shot.

Location

Our film is taking place on Haling Island (the home of our main characters grandparents). We chose to film here for two key reasons. these reasons are, there is a beach that we can use at the bottom of the Island and one of the members of our group has grandparents that actually live there.

We wanted to film on a beach due to the fact, lots of coming of age indie films takes place in a coastal town. for example, Submarine, The Way Way Back , etc.

Nick King - Editor

We had a work shop where a professional editor, Nick King, to help my group and I's broaden our ideas for our film. His twenty of experience gave use ideas for our opening scene, we came up with the idea to make the first shot of our main character as awkward as possible. In this case to use a 15 second shot of his face to re-enforce the idea that our main character seems suicided. 

Another tip he gave us was to not use narration in our film because it is hard to achieve good narration. Also we wanted to use his most useful tip for our film which was, less is more. This means to not clutter the editing sequences with lots of shots so the scene is easier to understand and not disorientating. Nick's term, less is more, will also help us for the sound effects/music. For example, not to mix lots of sounds and music together, creating a muffled noise. Finally, he told us, when shooting, to make sure that we shoot, reshoot, reshoot then reshoot again. This is because when we get to edit the footage it is easier to intercut.

1. What is film distribution?
-Film distribution is the process of marketing, promoting and distribution of films.

2. Who distributes films normally in the UK?
- There are two main distributes in the UK, All Industry Marketing for Cinema and Cinema marketing Agency.

3. Is this different from the vertical integration model followed by the major film studios?
- Distribution and exhibition operate most effectively when 'vertically integrated', where the three stages are seen as part of the same larger process.

4. What steps are involved in the steps of film distribution?
- Once the film has been made this is hen they can start to work on the film release strategy. then the distributors then secure the screening of the film within thee cinema.

5. What are the major decisions made during the marketing of a film?
- The marketing of a film release revolves around two key questions: 'When?' and 'How?'

6. What is P&A? And why is it important?
- P&A stands for Print and Advertising. This is important because they rise awareness of the film and promote them.

7. How is digital technology revolutionising the process of film distribution & marketing?
- Digital technology is seen to offer a more cost effective and logistics-light alternative to the tried and trusted.