Market Research Questionnaire

We spent a lesson creating this questionnaire which we then handed round to pupils and teachers, the purpose of the questionnaire was to get feedback on what people look for in a film and what their favorite genres are.

Location Hunting

During the half term our group went hunting for possible locations to shoot our film, in the end we decided on three different locations for different scenes in our final film; St Leonards Hill, Stag Meadow and Dorney Lake. Here is a short Slideshow of some of the photos we took.

Analysis of Opening Sequences 2 (Saw1)

I have again looked at the opening sequence of Saw 1 except this time I looked in detail for narrative codes in the opening of the film. At the beginning of Saw there are both Hermeneutic and Proairetic codes that leave the audience confused and wanting to know what is going on. The Hermeneutic and Proairetic codes are 2 of 5 codes laid out by Roland Barthes. The first thing the audience see is a Adam sitting in the bath and sounding panicked, because the room is dark and the audience cannot see much it leaves them a bit confused and not knowing where the story is heading. However this does give the audience some kind of indication that the film is likely to be of the horror/thriller genre. Adam is then seen, still in a darkened light, climbing out the bath tub and trying to free himself – the sound of chains five the indication he is tied up.

A small snare is then cleverly put in after that shot – you hear a deep voice coming from the same room saying “Its no use, you can’t escape” – the audience are lead to believe that the voice is coming from someone who may have something to with the situation Adam finds himself in. It is revealed shortly after that the voice is coming from someone one the other side of the room that is also tied up. Adams face is full of fear as the lights are turned on and as the camera pans round to show the whole of the room it reveals how dirty an old it is, a high angle shot is then used to show a corpse on the floor – all this adds suspense to the opening of the film and still leaves the audience unaware of how or why these 2 characters are in this situation. Further shots of the room show that the situation the pair find themselves in may be unsolvable – this is called jamming, which leads the audience to believe there is no way out for either character.

Brainstorming For Our Final Film

Before going ahead with our final film storyboards we spent a lesson deciding the order of events in our movie and disscussing possible locations. We came up with this flow chart using Apple's Keynote.