Target Audience and Age Certificate of our film opening

The targer audience that we decided as a group for our film opening is for people in their late teens and young adults, probably most likely to be girls of this age group because our film is about a stalker and victim relationship. Due to the victim being a female in her late teens, we feel that women would relate better to the story line rather than males. We also think that the reason why it would to appeal to teenagers and young adults, is due the the characters within our opening being at a similar age, helping the audience to relate to characters. Therefore we agreed on the age certificate of our film would be a 15 because of the story line we agreed on and that there would be violence throughout the film. It may also be upsetting for people who may have been in similar situations.

Second Filming Session

On Thursday 26th November we walked back to Saffron's house during our lunch and last two lessons to re-film our thriller opening. During Wednesday's lesson we wrote down what shots we needed to re-film and if there were any extra shots that we wanted to film, to try and improve our film opening. It took us the whole of lunch and the two lesson to re-film our film opening. We felt that this filming session went better than our last because we filmed more shots being used to try and create a typical thriller film opening. Also, after watching what we previously filmed back we realised and picked up on some continuity errors that we had and we wrote them down and re-filmed them shots to improve on these errors. We also decided on using a tripod on most of our shots that we could whilst filming to improve the standard of filming. We hope to edit our film opening so that we are able to get up to date with the other groups in our class.

Filming so far...

We arranged to film during our lunch time and our two media lessons in our last two periods on the Thursday 19th November, at the beginning of lunch we walked down to Saffron's house, who lives quite close to the school. During and after our filming session we thought that everything had gone rather well and that we had all the shots that we needed, and we even shot some extra shots incase there was not enough to fill the timing on our film opening as it has to be between one and half to two minutes, and we thought that we would be able to begin editing during out media lessons on Monday morning. However, when we went to upload our film onto our laptop we came to find that some of our shots that we needed had been erased, because we rewound the tape when we was filming to watch back some of the shots that we had filmed. We also thought that the shots that did have were not up to the standard in which we expected it to be, and we was not happy with what we had. We decided that we had no other choice but to refilm it, this was a problem for our group because of the other techinichal difficulties and other mistakes that we have had we were behind the other groups in our class who were getting on to finishing their films. We decided on another day to film which would be the Thursday coming so that we were able to begin editing in the first lesson of the following week.