Evaluation

Question 2:

As our idea for our piece was speed dating, we could represent a wide range of different social groups, and because of our unique idea. We leaped at the opportunity and tried to cover a variety of different male stereotypes. But first, I am going to talk about our main character. As being both the main and only female character within our piece, we wanted to try and make her the most relatable character by following the forms and conventions of what is expected by a female main role within a rom-com. I feel that we had portrayed and represented her as a very normal young girl; fashionable, attractive and looking for love (and also being very picky about it). Even though our actors/actresses ages were sixteen to seventeen, we had tried to represent them as being older aged people (around the age of nine teen too twenty two) as this would be more realistic to fit in with the idea of our media project and this would also be a good age to represent as our target audience (whom is also the age group whom go to the cinema the most) which is fifth teen to twenty four, creating a better sense of them being able to relate to our characters through the use of our audience pleasures.

 Below is an image of our main character:

Our male characters where a lot more easy to represent. As our female character was judging our male characters on the way they dressed and first impressions, we could work with stereotypes to help us connote certain social groups better. We first started with the idea of using around six different stereotypes of different male social groups so that we had a wide range, but when it came to it, we could not fit them all in within our time limit, so we decided to stick with only three, but also made sure that these where the most diverse social groups.

The first was our sports character. Within the use of mise en scene, we choose an actor that we knew was already into sports and keeping fit and also made sure that he would be wearing typical sports clothing. We represented this social group as being quite focused on only sports, as our voice over said "fitness freak". The use of the cut away really helped add a comical side to this stereotype also, and it had helped capture the portrayal of the social group a lot better.

Below is our sports character, and below that is the stereotype of a sports person

The second character we introduced was our posh/ stuck up one. We choose a smart suit and glassed to try and connote the posh said of this character, and when we wanted to try and connote the stuck up said of him, we made sure that the way he spoke (even though it could not be heard) was quite sophisticated. Yet again, the cut away helped this portrayal of the social group a lot, our use of drinking tea also brings in the stereotype of the English as a whole being smart and drinking tea. But we mainly focused on what the common stereotype for posh/stuck up people are.

Below is our posh/stuck up character, and below that is the stereotype of a posh/stuck up person

Our final character was supposed to be a ginger character. As our chosen genre of our film was both romantic and comedy, we thought that we could use aspects of the ginger stereotype within a comical way, and not an offensive one. As can be seen, our actor is not ginger, and we could not find a willing person who wanted to be our actor and also had ginger hair to play the role. So, we decided that where we had the shot of him talking, our main female character will pick out the words "I was born a ginger" and then within the cut away, portray the idea that she does not want a ginger family with the use of a family shot with a ginger haired child. We have simply tried to portray this social group as someone that the main character just doesn't want.

Below is our ginger character, and below that is the stereotype of a ginger person

Question 3

As we mentioned before within question one, we had choose a UK based production company, Rooster Production, and an American Distribution company, Bel-Air Entertainment, and as we had explained, we did this as to get a great distribution for our product, and American company would be better as they can distribute within a wide range of countries and also in large amounts. We also choose to have An English production company as our product was filmed within England and our piece is an independent one so that is why we have also chosen the American distributor.

I think because of our film is produced within the UK, we could get funding from the UKFC or Film Four, as they are also English based and fund mainly independent and niche film projects. We also feel that as our product is not on a large scale, it would not need masses of funding, which would be perfect for the UKFC, Film Four, or even both together to fund our product. Where it comes to our distribution , we did not aim for our piece to be backed from one of the large, international companies, like paramount or universal studies as we felt that our piece would not have been mainstream enough and gained a big enough profit for what those companies are looking for. As said, our piece is aimed to be a niche type one aimed at a niche type audience, but to guarantee success within the distribution and profit of our piece, we did decide to go and make our American based distribution company, as most American companies have links to many other companies. Hopefully American companies would see our unique selling point, this being our idea, and back our product.

To try and advertise our product even more (both before the release and after), we could use the internet to help us. As within the last ten years, technology and Wi-Fi have come extremely popular, we leaped at this and thought that we could first, create a trailer for our piece and place it on YouTube, where is can be seen world-wide, and also maybe create our own interactive website, where we would have information about the film, trailers, screen shots, the making etc… creating a better sense of connecting to our audience also. As these are free things to do, the websites would be glad to have our products advertised within their company/website.

Question 4

We debated a lot whether about what our age restriction should be for our product. The two that we were debated where either fifth teen or a twelve a; this is because many typical romantic comedies contain both adult humour and scenes of a sexual nature, but we thought that as our characters were being played by around the ages of sixteen to seven teen year olds, that we should have it as a twelve a, as we could include minimal amounts of swearing, adult humour and explicit language, and not have any scenes of a sexual nature within it.

When it came to our audience research, people mainly watched films within the age restriction of fifth teen, but as there was no one under the age of six teen that had taken part within our questionnaire, we did not know is people under this age would watch films that where age restricted twelve or twelve a.

We decided that our target audience for our product would be the fifth teen to twenty four age band; this is because we believe that this age band would have a better understanding of our product as a whole and would be able to relate to our characters within it, and also understand the humour, Another key aspect of our choice of this being are target audience would be that  this is the age group that was the most cinema visits, resulting in our product to be aimed as a mass audience, concluding in our product to be more successful and profitable.

We would not target our product at the under fifth teen age band as we think that they would not understand the humour and seriousness of our product, and they would also not be able to make a relation between themselves and the characters within it.  We also did not choose our target audience to be the twenty four years and up age band as, even thought there would still be some relation between them and the characters, but not much, they would be quite suited, but at this age and further on, the cinema visits start to decline, resulting in less of an audience for our piece.  

Question 5

I think that a large aspect of our piece that helps attract our audience would be the use of the voiceover, and how we have made it so that our wain character is addressing our audience directly, making them feel more involved with the situation our main character is in (Obviously there would be more relation and attraction to a female audience more than male) But, the biggest and more obvious way that we tried to attract our audience was by trying  to make a relatable characters within our product. The unique selling point for our piece would have to be the whole concept of the idea of speed dating, and this because it has created a whole range of different characters that then creates a wider range of reactions for our audience.  For example, the large range of male stereotypes that we portrayed within our piece builds up a range of different views and opinions of the people and their social groups, which our audiences can relate too. But the main relation to our audience would have to our female main character (even though this cuts our attraction to our audience by fifty per cent) As romantic comedies are usually stereotyped and associated with a mainly female audience, this results with us thinking and presuming that a large amount of our audience is going to be female, and with our target audience being the age band of fifth teen to twenty four, I think that this creates a better sense of relation to the situation that our main character is in; which is going to desperate measures to find love. As our aim is to create a niche type piece, we hope that our choice of our own made soundtrack helps attract our audience too with its uniqueness and indie-ness, and also how it changes quite often from where the cut away scenes are in place. When it came to the cut a way’s, this created yet again more relation and attraction to our audience by the fact that our audience way have been in the same situation or thought the same thoughts as our main character to lead to the stereotype of the male character and situation yet again creating more relation between our main character and our audience which almost always occurs within all of our shots and scenes, except for our soundtrack)

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