Thursday 13 January 2011

Casting For Deadline

Charlie Hopwood as Shaun

Steven Power as Matthew

Mikey Masher as Ray

Tom Brown as John

Monday 10 January 2011

Audience Research/Feedback

For our audience research we have found out that the key audience and our main audience target is teenagers aged between 15-19.

The gender for our film 'Deadline' would be male because it has features in the film that would mainly attract a male audience to go and watch the film, for examples guns and zombies.

We asked these questions to 3 people and the feedback for them follows:

1. Are you male or female?

A) Male
B) Female
C) Male

2. How old are you?

A) 17
B) 17
C) 16

3. Do you prefer English films or foreign films?

A) Foreign Films
B) Foreign Films
C) Foregin Films

4. What genre of film do enjoy best?

A) Horror
B) Comedy
C) Action

5. What would you expect to see in a horror zombie film?

A) Guns
B) Death
C) Blood

6. What did you think that 'Deadline' has that makes its opening sequence?

A) The Music
B) Sound Effects
C) Sound Effects

7. Do you think the time length for the opening sequence is too long?

A) No, it starts and stops in a mystery
B) No, i think it needs to be longer
C) Yes, it could be shortened

8. What do you think could be improved?

A) The pace of the character running
B) The use of clothing and props
C) The length of time

9. Is there anything you would add to make the opening sequence better?

A) Add a zombie into the sequence to show what they are running from
B) Make the running scenes shorter
C) Have more angled camera shots

10. Is there anything you would take out of the sequence to make it better?

A) Some of the running scenes
B) Some of the running scenes
C) Some of the running scenes

Feedback from teacher (Miss Whittaker):
There are some things about the opening that need to be improved, a selective piece of text needs to be removed otherwise the opening sequence may look like a trailer, the amount of time that the text has to appear on the screen, the length of time that the production logo has to appear and the text that appears during the opening should be placed in the corner instead of being in the lower centre of the screen.

We have improved the video by removing the selective text so the opening does not look like a trailer, we have lengthened the amount of time that the text scrolling scene has so the text can be seen clearer, we have also lengthened the amount of time that we see the production logo and finally we have edited the text so it appears in the corner of the screen instead of being in the lower centre of teh screen.

Sunday 9 January 2011

Recce


Gate


Gate


Corridor


Safe house


Pathway


Pathway


Door To Safe House


Desk In Safe House

Deadline Animatic

Saturday 8 January 2011

Production Logo


Here is are company Logo it is called Bunny hell productions. We decide to use a scared bunny has some viewers would find the bunny cute to look at. We used the back ground of hell as it was called bunny hell productions. We called it this as it is similar to bloody hell and we wanted it to sound like a commonly used phrase but with a difference.

Friday 7 January 2011

Typography

Our film is a zombie, horror so for our film we have been looking at the typography from Dawn of The Dead, 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, Diary of the Dead, Land of the Dead, here are some typography examples for our film Deadline. We chose to use the 3rd typography because it has most characteristics of a zombie film to the others and this typography also has a dark and gloomy effect to it.