Planning/ Costume

Planning my actresses's costume for filming today, I have brought along a suede brown bomber jacket, Adidas trainers, fitted black jeans and a Chocker. Costume obviously being an important factor to my genre, to just refresh my memory of what would be suitable costume I looked back at my Mood Board. This is my Actress in her costume...

Planning/ Target Audience

For my target audience research I used Pinterest as my source. I typed in tags, that were relevant to the type audience I'm aiming to draw in.  Shane Meadows was the first name I put into the search engine I found most pages on Pinterest from the search were film lovers, who had a lot of pins of movie posters and actors. The profiles mostly belonged to people within the age of 25-35 years old.

The same age group applied to my search "90's Rave" the profiles belonged to mostly men also. I think these profiles show an interest in culture and particular era's, very British images were found proving my audience would  be a national one, because it's a subculture which was more dominant in the UK and emerged from Britain.

Searching Jack O'Connell I found profiles like this one. Profiles of people who enjoy a variety of British TV as well as films which have been very successful in the box office as well as independent films. This makes me think of the audience who I want to target for my magazine cover. It will be a niche of people who love film just a bit than others do and it's seen a hobby for them.

Planning/ Preliminary Task

This is our final edit of our preliminary task. We had written down the list of shots and angles we wanted just to get us back in the hang things for filming our trailer which is why it's not as polished as we would like it to be. But we incorporated idea's from what we've seen through trailers we've analysed, therefore our soundtrack changed as the narrative developed through the trailer and we had inter titles also helping the story come together. Learning from this task we will obviously use more locations to add variety to the story line and create more depth to the characters and narratives. Also I will be using an Iphone 5S for my filming, because I believe the quality is better than the flip camera we have used here. Also if I want to do additional filming my phone will be at hand at all times.

Research/ Fish Tank Poster Analysis

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Research/ Sight&Sound Magazine Analysis

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Research/ Hyena Theatrical Trailer

• Straight away we're introduced to the distribution company, Metrodome, and then the production companies 4Film and BFI. So already we have expectations of the film. For example the narrative being something that's about society and artistic/creative cinematography but without the Hollywood budget. 
• The first shot is a over the shoulder shot but because the camera is panning it feels like a point of view shot. So this creates the sense of us entering the world we're about to be shown through this trailer.
• The inter titles are quotes from reviews but they also work with the scenes we're shown. Phrases and words such as "Hits like a sledgehammer" and "Arresting" give clues to narratives about the crook police officer we're following. 
• The darker scenes are in darker lighting and most are at night, so we're left wanting to know more. This gives the trailer a mysterious twist and the sense of unknowing, which also hints towards what the ending of the film will be like.
• The music is dramatic and loud throughout the entire trailer and the inter titles coming in to the time to the music emphasises the words we are reading even more. We're creating our own build up to the music.
• The trailer shows the awards won at film festivals so we're aware this an independent film which has gained recognition which means it's worth watching. 
• The last shot is my favourite because of the title "Hyena" is an electric blue this contrasts the dark background and makes the last thing we saw on trailer stick with us visually.

Research/ Little White Lies Magazine Analysis

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