Definite Location

We have decided to film outside Northwick Cinema for the first part of our film, as it has a classy jazz - style look that were aiming for. This isn't to say however, that we will film inside, as that is near-enough impossible due to filming restrictions.

After watching "Manhattan"'s title sequence, we were inspired by the

outside shot of the Manhattan sign on the side of a building, similar to that of Northwicks.'

Possible Locations

Northwick theatre

This is Northwick theatre, made in 1922 so it is perfect by giving of the old effect and it's easy to access.

Huntingdon Hall









Huntingdon Hall, Worcester is a fantastic 'old fashioned' venue, this would be great to film at as it's such a historical and popular venue.


The Swan theatre

The swan theatre has a professional stage and will look very slick though the camera giving our project a classy feel, this would be a great place to film at.

Health and Safety: Lighting

I have received a health and safety brief from my teacher to use the cold lights that my college can supply. We are debating in using these lights because we want to film in a theatre and the lighting would be provided. We were informed about how to dismantle the lights, and how to safely place them on a tripod and the measures of keeping people away from the wires.

Props

These are the items were planning on using, with a table showing cost and source.

Individual Prop use:

We are clothing our main and only character in a pin strip suit very similar to this one. We chose a suit as it connotates a gentleman and manners, traits that we don't want associated with our protagonist. Therefore a suit will confuse the audience and disguise his true character. We will also include a small rose within the chest pocket of the suit.

We are getting 4-5 half mannequins as props on the stage. Although not life like, when placed with clothes will be adequate.

We also need old clothes to dress the mannequins to make them seem more human.

We are using a full size mannequin which is going to be dancing with the character.

A record player like the one shown is going to used to play the music and set the classical theme.

Why we don't need a script.

In our opening sequence it does not require a script because we chose not to use dialog but instead we use the classical music to show a classy and sophisticated representation of the character. So a detailed dialog is not required as there’s no communication between characters.

Time Management

On December 1st we posted the time management sheet that we created on Outlook Web App and included every detail of our project that needs completing in a certain date to have full organisation on our project. We have included the idea process, the final research summary and research into target audience. Also finding a location, writing a script, finding props and performers, and completing a story board.

Target Audience Profile

The age group of our target audience is 25 - 50, as we researched that mature audiences would relate closer to the themes present in our title sequence (Regret, Loneliness, Heartbroken, Anger), than those below 25 would. Not only based on asking members of our demographic, but studying user data for Se7en at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114369/ratings allowed us to see that the majority of those viewing Psychological horrors were over 18 and were mainly male, with their viewings of 207, 562 far outnumbering 32, 110 females who posted user ratings. This was surprising and caused us to reflect on our film, and consider how to appeal further to the populated male audience. Steven Casey Murray, is 'Bellaonline's horror film editor, however and believes "Horror films cross gender-boundaries because they deal with the primal emotion, the basic instinct in all human beings - fear". We decided to aim to keep our film appealing to both genders, as alienating certain gender audiences is not necessary in horror, in comparison to age.

Our target audience are intelligent, mature and experienced. They realise the complications that love can cause, and the problems it can create. They prefer well thought out, sensual and deep meaning film rather then the 'jumpy', 'blood and guts' horror often associated with a teen audience. They realise the disturbing effect objects such as clowns and empty locations can create, and realise that subverting traditional connotations is an effective form of 'horror'. Understanding light in film, they realise the strengths of using black and white in horror, but are welcome to all aspects of colour.
Their interests are reading and watching films that are not always advertised and marketed but are more obscure, discussing the message behind films.