Storyboards

A storyboard is the best form of planning as our script will be basic and minimal. We researched different storyboard artists and came across Martin Scorsese who directed Taxi Driver. His video helped us realise how drawn pictures can be turned into real life camera shots. Our storyboard will need to be descriptive and to the point as i mentioned our script will mainly be improvised.

Our storyboard

This is our storyboard so far, we have not yet planned the interview that 

our two characters will take place in. The storyboard shows the opening scene of our film. 

Research into target audience and production development and advertising

We used the Internet and came across a blog by Joshua Reeves, he looked at the horror film genre and discovered that 48% of horror film lovers are 18-24, however there isn't a prominent difference between sex. If this age group was ignored when producing and advertising a horror film the film would lose a massive amount of revenue, finding your target audience and advertising the film to suit your target audience is where the most money would come from. Although other ages could see the film this would not recover the loss of revenue from ignoring the target audience. Knowing your target audience allows you to push the themes of your film, if you are producing a horror film and know your target audience is between the ages of 18-24 you know that you can add adult themes to your film and push the boundaries of horror, using gory killings and frightening effects. 

Questionnaire on the film genre horror

We created a questionnaire asking our fellow media students what they thought of the genre horror. We did this to see if we had correctly chosen the right target audience. We asked specific questions such as why are you interested in the horror genre or not. Also we asked what is their favourite theme of horror.

We then recorded them vocing their answers.

Unit 1: Foundation Portfolio- Two minute film opening

We have been given the task of creating our own two minute film opening. So far me and my partner Fran have discussed the genre horror. We plan to base our idea around the films Paranormal Activity, Saw and Human Centipede. We have considered the idea of our characters filming it as a disturbing home movie, (Paranormal Activity) which would consist of a handheld camera been carried around showing our characters movement. In Saw we are shown scenes which include torture, we are also going to incorporate this into our opening. Minimal conversation is also another key idea we have discussed as it can make a scene seem more dramatic and intense. A rough script will be made for our opening scene but we will mainly focus on storyboarding as our genre is more of a visual film rather than a dialogue.