Production company - name and logo

We have decided to name our production company Optimus Productions. This is because 'optimus' is the latin word for 'the best'. And we want our project and production company to be THE BEST! We have created the logo and background for our production company which will we show at the very beginning of our film...

Our final production company name and logo. 

Music

Mat Weddle performing his version of Trouble by Coldplay

For our opening 2 minutes we needed to find a song performed by an unsigned group/artist that fit the mood and stroyline. We were looking for a slow, acoustic and a rather soppy song as it fit the mood of the opening 2 minutes. A while back we found an unsigned group on youtube called Obadiah Parker who we really liked! One of his songs particularly appealed to us and we realised that it was perfect for our film. Although Obadiah Parker is an unsigned group, we decided to send the lead singer Matt Weddle an email asking for his permission to use the song just incase he wasn't happy about it. A couple weeks later Matt replied saying he was more than happy for us to use the song for our project.

Actors

We were looking for a male aged between 16-18 to play our main character named Niall Fletcher. We imagined Niall as a good looking and rather stylish guy so that was what we were looking for when finding an actor to play the role.

In the end we decided to use Jack Gould as our actor as he fit the look we were going for. He's also featured in a small film before so he has acting experience and has been in front of a camera before. He also got an A grade in this drama GCSE suggesting that his acting skills are more than good enough. He is also a good friend so we know he is going to be reliable and he is very easy to contact when arranging dates.

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