Research and planning- Questionnaire

• How old are you?
  
  
  
10 - 20
  
20 - 30

  
30 - 40

  
40 - 50

  
50+

  
  
  What gender are you?

  
  
  
Male

  
Female

  
  
  
What Perspective would you prefer the trailer to filmed in?

  
  
  
Criminals view

  
Police view

  
Outsider

  
Journalist

  
Victim/ Victim's family

  
Other Please Specify


  
  
  What Theme would you like to see? (Murder mystery, Drug film etc)

  
  
  
Murder Mystery (Sherlock Holmes)

  
Drug Raid (shifty)

  
Robbery (Ocean Eleven)

  
Kidnapping (Taken)

  
  
  
What would you expect the certificate to be?

  
  
  
12a

  
15

  
18


  
  
  What age do you think the actor/actresses to be?

  
  
  
Young

  
Middle age

  
Elderly

  
Other Please Specify


  
  
  How do you believe they would dress?

  
  
  
Casual

  
Smart

  
Smart/ Casual


  
  
  What setting would you think they would be in?

  
  
  
City

  
Woods

  
Park

  
Countryside

  
Other Please specify

Research and planning: teaser trailer analysis

• At the start of this trailer there is a close up of one of the main characters. 

• This has a dramatic effect on the audience as the mans face is stitched up this suggests that the genre is either a horror, thriller or crime. 

• There is a dark shadow approaching from side this could suggest something dark is coming to the audience. 

• The next shot is a close up of the second main character which zooms out to a medium close up. 

• The man has a torch which connotes he is going to put light onto whatever the problem is, this may mean he is the good guy in this. 

• The next shot has a red tint on it this may suggest that this film involves blood and death. 

• There is then a jump cuts showing different objects this is building up the story for the audience. 

• Next we see a dissolve into a extreme close up of a man wearing glasses we can see the reflection in his glasses to be a collection of papers.

• The sound used throughout the trailer includes diagetic sound of the voice over. 

• Jump cuts are used throughout this trailer, and montages are created by the excessive use of them, this gives the feel of emergency to the trailer. 

• The use of location is very effective as there is many different locations used such as houses, offices, streets and crime scenes, this suggests to the audience that the crime is widely spread.  

Research and planning: Audience theory

Three theories:
1. Effects model/ Hypothermic model
2. Gratification model
3. Reception theory

The effects model:

• has an effect or influence on the audience 
• usually negative 
• audience are always passive to prevent influence
• power lies with the message of the text
• example shrek
• inject messages to the audience 
• audience cant resist 
• like a drug the audience is addicted 

The bobo doll experiment:

• the child copied the older women 
• It found that you copy what you see 

Frankfurt school

• creating meanings of people
• corporate capitalism and governments 
• Prince charming disney character always the top person 
• Moster ink the merchandise 
• changing with the time, tangled male is a robber

Examples:

• childs play 3- James Bulger (1993)
• Manhunt- Sephfan palkeehr (2004)
• A clockwork orange (1971)
• Severrone- simon Everitt (2006)

They create moral panics a current example is Kevin Webster 

The Gratification model:

• Opposite of effect model
• audience is active
• audience uses text, isnt used by the text
• free to reject, use or play with media meanings 
• recreate themselves to be like that

Used for:

• Diversion
• escapism 
• Pleasure 
• Information
• Sexual stimulation
• Comparing relationships and Lifestyles with ones own

Research and planning: poll junkie

Research and planning: Photoshop Challenge

This is a poster I created for a possible horror film, I did this to see what photoshop skills I had remember from AS Media last year when creating my music magazine, I used different tools when doing this such as the cut out tool, the smudge tool, dissolve tool and a few others to create this quick poster.