Rough Storyboard

Shot 1: A close up of Tilt is lying on the floor, opening her eyes. There is a focus pull on her face as she wakes up

Shot 2: A medium shot of Tilt standing up which will then go to a long shot.

Shot 3: A long shot of Tilt staring out into emptiness, trying to find out where she is. The camera will pan on her as she walks away,

Shot 4: A long shot of the area Twist, Kicker and Wildcard are sitting while playing poker. Twist and Wildcard discuss their theories while Kicker gets frustrated.

Shot 5: A medium close up of Twist saying her theory about the government.

Shot 6: A medium close up of Wildcard as he says his theory about aliens. The shot cuts to Kicker before he finishes.

Shot 7: A medium close up of Kicker getting frustrated with Twist's and Wildcard's theories.

Shot 8: Wildcard celebrates winning the game, the shot then cuts to Tilt walking towards them. You can still hear Wildcard talking as background noise.

Shot 9: Medium long shot of Tilt looking at the group. She listens in to their conversation.

Shot 10: Close up on Tilt as the rest of the group spots her, she stands in  silence looking scared.

Shot 11: A high angle shot on the group looking at Tilt.

Shot 12: Twist stands, learning both hands on the table as she aggressively talks to Tilt.

Shot 13: Medium close up on Kicker as she says to Tilt that she thought everyone else was gone. Twist interrupts her and walks towards Tilt, the camera pans on Twist.

Shot 14: A medium shot as Twist confronts Tilt and asks her what she is doing there.

Shot 15: Twist pushes Tilt as Kicker comes and stops her.

Shot 16: A high angle close up on Tilts face, as she stands stuttering her words, not sure as to what to say.

Shot 17: A long shot as Kicker pushes Twist out of the way and asks Tilt if she's okay.

Shot 18: A medium shot on Kicker comforting Tilt, Twist then insists on searching Tilt to make sure she can be trusted.

Shot 19: A high angle, medium close up on Twist as she goes to search Tilt. Twist finds a Knife on Tilt.

Shot 20: There is a fast paced shot reverse shot between Twist and Tilt. This is a low angle medium close up on Tilt as she looks shocked, confused and scared.

Evaluation: Question 7

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product? 

Treatments

Evaluation: Question 3

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Since our film is an independent film which challenges general stereotypes, it may not have a large target audience. Therefore we need a distributor who would be willing to finance our film knowing it most likely won't make a large profit like Hollywood blockbusters, such as Star Wars.

The Walt Disney Company (TWDC) had a $200 million budget for The Force Awakens allowing them to have a lot of special effects and marketing. This won’t be necessary for our film since it doesn't need any special effects; however our film will need a substantial amount of marketing to allow our target audience to be aware of it. Our film also won’t have a saturated release, like Hollywood blockbuster films, since it doesn't have a large target audience, therefore it will most likely have a limited release to cinemas across the UK and maybe a few in other countries.

Independent films usually have very little marketing, for example Four Lions didn't have much marketing, it mostly relied on social media and publicity from articles and reviews. Their distributor was Optimum Releasing which gave them a limited release (115 screens in the UK).

Due to this, I decided that Working Title Films (WTF) would be a good choice as a distributor for our film. WTF distribute 4-5 films a year, 2 of which are "high risk" films, such as our own. WTF are able to get global marketing due to being owned by Universal which means our film will at least get enough marketing in the UK. They are also given $35 million budget by Universal for each film, this would most likely be a high enough budget for our film which makes WTF an eligible distributor for us. 

Evaluation: Question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Who and why:

• Both males and females because the film includes both genders which allows the audience to relate to the characters. However, there’s more females (with a range of personalities) so the film appeals more to a female audience due to them having a range of people to relate to.
• British because it's set in England in a rural area with British characters. This means the British will understand the characters and connect with them, and also relate to the environment they’re in. It also has pessimistic views which is a British trait, this will allow the British to engage with the film and understand the humour.
• The younger generation (teens and young adults) because most of the characters are young which will allow the audience to relate to them.

 Audiences habits and lifestyle:

• The target audience will enjoy the company of their friends. This being because the film is about a group of people with a friendship that develops throughout the story, this means it will be more relatable to an audience of this nature.

Pre-Production research:

• Once we got a draft of the storyline, we handed out questionnaires to our target audience and to a few people of older ages. This allowed us to understand our target audiences preferences and include them into our film and also understand what other audiences preferences are.

• Our results from our questionanire clearly show that teenages and adults is our target audience, from this we made sure to aim our entire film at this age group. We did this by having intense themes in it (about devestation) that an audience in this age group would understand and enjoy.

• We also researched into similar films to see how they appealed to their target audience. This allowed us to see what genre conventions, iconography and other aspects in the films were used to appeal to their target audience which helped us in targeting our audience.

Evaluation: Question 6

Full House: Extra Scenes

We decided during the editing period of our film that it would be better to add another scene or two to improve our first 2-3 minutes. We thought a good scene to add would be "2 months earlier" to give the audience an insight to what is actually going on because it is unclear right now.  The "2 months earlier" scene is going to be of the main character, Tilt, on a casual, normal day. She then receives a phone call from her mother saying that something is seriously wrong and she needs to get home, at first she just shrugs it off but then starts listening to her mother and then asks what is happening. Just as her mother begins to explain, the phone call is cut off very suddenly.

We are then considering to add another bit to this scene. We are maybe going to do a news broadcast that will explain a little more as to what is happening and then Tilt will be holding her phone and watching it, the news broadcast will have an extremely unstable connection and then it will suddenly cut off. This will then be followed by the "2 months later" scenes.

Pre-Production Questionnaire Results

Pre-Production Questionnaire

We handed out questionnaires to people, we had simple questions to find out what type of films they like and then questions about our film so we could get an honest opinion and feedback from individuals.

We also put our questionnaire on Google docs and sent the link to people via social media to get feedback from even more people.

Google drive link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n2rXtwyN6KOC8FORIz0NuIaKxXJg7uAaCJruRvNuikA/edit?usp=sharing