Preliminary Task

Mood Board

Here is our mood board. It's a collective group of images that we feel represent the genre and mood of the film we're trying to portray, showing romance, adventure, depression and adolescence.

Opening Sequence - Our Pitch

We had to pitch our idea for our film and 2 minute opening to our media teacher and two other senior members of staff. The following week we recieved positive and negative feedback from how our pitch went:

Positives

- Fantastic location ideas
- Certainly fits the target audience
- Good overall idea
- Appeals to couples - lucrative market
- Good ude of powerpoint
- Clearly passionate about idea
- Potentially a great opening 2 minutes

Negatives

- Don't run away with your passion for the project, make sure you listen to people's advice
- Make sure you have a mix of ages...Parent actor needs to be convincing. Parents are huge facotrs in young people's lives and shape development.

Our media teacher also announced the 'top 3 pitches' and the 'top 3 ideas'... And our pitch and idea happened to be in the top 3 for both which was was very encouraging! This gave us further confidence in our idea and we believe we can make a great film opening.

Initial Audience Research

Having established that we're aiming our film at a teenage audience, we went out and found boys and girls between the ages of 12 and 18 to answer the following questions to give us a better perspective on what our target audience is looking for.

Five People Aged 12-18
Age	15	17	16	15
Gender	male	female	female	male
How many times do you go to the cinema each month?	2	1	2	3
What’s your favourite film genre?	Action	Rom Com	Fantasy	Comedy
Favourite Character?	James Bond	Bridget Jones	Hermoine Granger	Happy Gilmore
What’s your favourite film?	Golden Eye	Love Actually	The Lion the With and the Wardrobe	Green Street
Do you prefer a fast or slow paced opening?	Fast	Slow	Slow	No preference

Five People Aged 12-18
Age	15	12	14	15
Gender	female	male	male	male
How many times do you go to the cinema each month?	2	1	1	1
What’s your favourite film genre?	Comedy	Action	Action	Thriller
Favourite Character?	Rachel from Friends	Indiana Jones	Terminator	Wolverine
What’s your favourite film?	Role Models	Temple of Doom	Die Hard	The Matrix
Do you prefer a fast or slow paced opening?	Fast	Fast	Fast	Fast

The Art of an Opening Sequence - A short review of Sahara

Sahara

Shots of newspapers, photographs, postcards and other items showing the character's interests, background history, characteristics and an indication to their professions - treasure hunters / archeologists.

Genre

Genre is a creative strategy used by film producers to ensure audience identification with a film. Genres are constantly renegotiated between industry and audience. Genre functions like a language in the sense that it has a set of rules and a vocabulary with which to organise meaning.
Film genres are :

Action

Comedy

Horror

Initially we found it hard to categorise our film into a genre, as it has elements of different genres. It has clear elements of romance, with adventure as well as our character Niall Fletcher struggles to stand on his own two feet. The relationships he has with other characters like his girlfriend, his father, and the other characters he meets during the film and goings on between them would put the film in the category of a drama. Combining these areas of the film we have come to the conclusion that our film is a romantic adventure.