Expected Work on your blog

By the first week back, the following should be on your blog:

• Thriller film pitch individual outline of plot of the whole film (3 ideas posted in total from the group) 
• Continuity editing in the first 2 minutes of Thriller films 
• Preliminary task progress 
•  Preliminary task script/storyboard/shotlist 
•  Preliminary task plans 
• Production company profile - What your 'company' makes and why 
• Your ident
• Results of interviews - what you found and why 
• Interviews with potential target audience
• Target audience identification. This must be tagged and present 
• Results of your internet survey with charts and pictures
• An internet survey looking at target audience
• At least three internet research posts looking into target audience of individual films
• technical conventions of a film opening group mind-map/ notes/ initial thoughts on what a film opening should establish 
• establishing narrative in opening 5 mins of a film individual detailed CEMS analysis of one film opening (any genre) 
• character types within Thrillers and micro-elements used in their portrayal individual detailed description of one character type from Thriller + egs from existing films (could make links to Propp) 
• genre-specific conventions of a Thriller opening group prezi/ mind-map, research notes + egs 
• detailed group CEMS analysis of ‘Seven’, ‘Da Vinci Code’, ‘Silence of the Lambs’ – how are they established as Thriller films? 
• themes and symbols used in Thriller films individual research notes + egs + illustrations 
• cross-sub genres used alongside Thriller film individual research notes + egs 
• credits ordering, timings and style individual detailed anlysis of 3 opening credits sequences (2 must be Thriller) 
• narrative structure of Thrillers individual research notes + egs of one of the following: Levi-Strauss - binary oppositions Propp – functions/ character types Barthes – enigma code 
• implications in the first 2 mins of a Thriller film 
• Welcome post

Moderator Post May 2012

Dear Moderator

Please find the requested sample students below (their preliminary tasks are also linked for you, you will also find links to their videos on their blogs also)  

Sirius Group - Preliminary Task

6053; BYFORD, HARRY G
Blog
Evaluation

6231; TICKLE, WILLIAM C
Blog
Evaluation  

Supernova Group -  Preliminary Task

6234; TZEN, HARRIS M
Blog
Evaluation  

Altair Group - Preliminary Task

6121; DUTTON, JOSHUA S S
Blog
Evaluation

6148; HADDOCK, DANIEL
Blog
Evaluation 


Gemini Group - Preliminary Task

6201; PEARCE, MICHAEL A
Blog
Evaluation  

Andromeda Group - Preliminary Task

6156; HOOPER, JOSHUA D
Blog
Evaluation
6229; THORNBERG BERGDAHL, SIMON G
Blog
Evaluation  

Northstar Group - Preliminary Task

5004; ANDERSON, CAROLINE I J
Blog
Evaluation

5148; PAPIER-BANTICK, MILES
Blog
Evaluation

Uses and gratifications model

• The need to reinforce a view of personal identify by comparing our own roles and values with similar roles and values represented in the media.
• The need to have companionship and interactions with others. Media being used to aid social contact.
• The need to be informed.
• The need for entertainment and diversion.

Audience - Two-step flow model
• The text does not directly go into audience’s head – it is mediated by “opinion leaders” who communicate it to those who have influence.
• Audience then received information directly from the media but influenced with the ideas and thoughts from opinion leaders rather than a direct process.

Target Audience Profile

• Age
• Location
• Class
• Ways of consuming films
• Interests
• Values
• Beliefs
• Other films they enjoy
  

What they want from

• settings
• plot
• characters
• actors
• music

An analysis of what you are going to take from this.

List of Thriller Films

Black Swan
Shutter Island
The Talented Mr Ripley
The Game
Fatal Attraction
The Departed
Cape Fear
Diabolique
Memento
The Usual Suspects
Taxi Driver
Mulholland Drive
Pi
Requiem for a Dream
Following
The Sixth Sense
Donnie Darko
Unbreakable
Jacob’s Ladder
The Machinist
Hard Candy
Frailty

Places for Audience Research

http://boxofficemojo.com/

http://www.independentcinemaoffice.org.uk/resources/how-to-start-a-local-cinema/annex4

Articles that may help

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2001/feature-articles/audiences/

Audience Theory Prezi

Audience Theory on Prezi