Production Log

Production Log

15/09/10= we discussed starting ideas for short film and combining our two ideas of kidnap and the seven deadly sins.

20/09/10= Nic Saunders gave us a talk about how he created his own films and what we should do when creating them, we also watched the unfinished product of his second film that already is winning awards.

22/09/10= we began more textual analysis of films. Also discussed our film idea and linking it with short film analysis ‘for the birds’ and ‘sorry I’m late’; only having one line of dialogue or no dialogue to make an impact.

24/09/10= we began showing the class our personal presentations on a film we have analysed for research. I showed my presentation on ‘Sorry I’m Late’.

27/09/10= in this lesson we went through the research part of our coursework. In my group we spoke about how we were going to do our research together. However there was an error with college computers so couldn’t get much work done.

29/09/10= we started our own individual work on our poster analysis and then decided that in the next lesson we would swap over our work so we could join it together to post on our blogs.

01/10/10= this lesson we did our own individual work on our research section of the coursework for the deadline at 4pm. However as Kymberly was off ill we were unable to combine our work and had to put it my work up on the blog individually without hers.

4/10/10= there was no college lesson so we had to do are only individual work on audience research and finding ways to find out information about our target audience.

06/10/10= in this lesson me and Kymberly swapped over our research work so we can add it to our blogs. We also discussed our feedback that we got from what was already on our blogs.  We also began looking at our production work checklist and who what do what. Also I began writing out the whole of the production log on the computer from my notebook.

08/10/10= today is our audience research deadline at 4pm so both together and individually we tried to finish off our audience research. We put all our work together and put it up on our blogs such as questionnaire and target audience ideas.

11/10/10= we brainstormed ideas about our target audience and shot ideas that we would use in the film

13/10/10= today we started advertisement for out film. We both went on the social networking website Facebook and posted a status asking for actors and actresses for our film and preferably people who are taking drama or performing arts at college or university.

15/10/10= in this lesson we carried on our search for actors and actresses for our film. We decided to email the head of performing arts at our college and ask him to suggest and help out with finding actors for our film. Also uploaded some odds and ends onto our blogs.

18/10/10= within this lesson we started our storyboard and began thinking about what shots to use within the film and how they would create meaning and help to tell the story of the film.

20/10/10= today we completed our shot list for our film and put it up on to our blogs.


01/11/10= today neither myself or Kym were able to come into college to do any work, as I had an hospital appointment and Kym was unwell.


03/11/10= today we discussed a plan on what we are going to do about filming, we also discussed props and costume list.


05/11/10= today we had the day off because of partner school day, we planned to do filming but there were some complications so we were unable to film.


08/11/10= in this lesson we began filming the first scenes in our film and took some backstage photos.


10/11/10= This lesson both of us were unable to come in and complete filming


12/11/10= Within the lesson we carried on filming some scenes with just the girl in it, and then we stayed after college to do night filming. However there was a problem with the camera so we were unable to finish.


15/11/10= In today's lesson together we discussed possible camera shots we could do. We also began creating magazine review drafts and finishing poster drafts for our film. Together we began coming up with ideas for a dramatic line, which shall be the only line within our film. Later on after college we began filming our canteen scenes and finished off our night scenes. All we have left to complete is the boot of the car scene.


17/11/10= today we began to edit our film be capturing what we had. Then we began looking at the shots, choosing which ones are best and putting it in to the order we would like. Then began cutting them down and adding effects.

18/11/10= today we finally finished filming. During college free time we filmed the car boot scene.

19/11/10= Today we began to finish editing, as the editing deadline was 4pm. We spent most of the day trying to capture some things that we filmed and finish editing. However there was a problem with the computers, they would not capture or let us edit. However we finally got it done.


22/11/10= In today's lesson we added the final touches to our film, such as finishing a few cuts and adding in the titles and credits. We completed it and made it into the final format to be shown.

24/11/10= In this lesson we completed the costume and prop list as well as the location recce, as well as a few other things.

26/11/10= Within the lesson we went through the photos for the poster, and chose which one would be best, and completed it outside of the lesson. We discussed our plan for the final week of media coursework.

29/11/10=. In today's lesson we split up the work. Kym finished off the magazine review and I completed the shooting and acting schedule, adding a few pictures to show what scenes we did on certain days. Also I began editing the synopsis.

1/12/10= Today's lesson we showed our film to the class and gained audience feedback, which we took on board. I then wrote up all of the feedback so it was easier to understand whilst Kym did the final edit decision list

3/12/10= We were both off today. However we managed together to complete the evaluation together by dividing the questions up between us. The final deadline was today so we made sure that everything on our blogs was up to date and everything completed.

7 Deadly Sins: Shot List Ideas For Our Film

• Shot 1.1 = Medium shot, fades in from black to Isabelle in boot of a car.

• Shot 1.2 = Extreme close up of Isabelle’s eyes, showing that she is crying.

• Shot 1.3 = Zoom out from Isabelle’s eyes, she is gagged and tied up.

• Shot 1.4 = Point of view shot from Isabelle’s eyes, the car boot is opening, she sees her kidnapper. 

• Shot 1.5 = Point of view shot from the geek looking down at Isabelle, hand in shot showing him pulling out a weapon.

• Shot 1.6 = Close up shot reverse shots of Isabelle looking at the weapon and the geek’s perspective of the helpless Isabelle.

• Shot 2.1 = Over the shoulder shot of Isabelle doing her hair and makeup in the mirror.

• Shot 2.1 = Medium shot of Isabelle sorting out her hair and makeup when she sees her reflection, as if she were looking in another mirror. She smiles and pouts.

• Shot 2.3 = Medium shot, slow pan from behind; her flicking through her notebook and walking off past the camera.

• Shot 2.4 = Pan of Isabelle pushing the door and walking out into the corridor.

• Shot 3.1 = Point of view shot of Isabelle walking down the corridor of people looking at her, waving and smiling. Then Geek bumps into her (walk into camera) and drops the books.

• Shot 3.2 = Tilted down shot of her looking down on geeky guy. He frantically tries to pick up the notebook.

• Shot 3.3 = Shot reverse shot of Geek; he frantically tries to pick up the books.

• Shot   3.4 = Extreme close up of Isabelle’s notebook, her name is written on it.

• Shot 3.5 = Close up of Geek putting his phone number in her notebook.

• Shot 3.6 = Point of view shot of Geek shakily handing over her notebook and Isabelle snatching it back off of him.

• Shot 3.7 = Long shot of Isabelle slowly walking away down the corridor.

• Shot 3.8 = Slow zoom in to Isabelle pulling out of her notebook of Geek’s number.

• Shot 3.9 =Tracking shot of the paper and Isabelle screwing the paper with the Geek’s number on it up and throwing it in on the floor.

• Shot 3.10 = close up of the Geek’s eyes, full of emotional turmoil at the sight of Isabelle rejecting him, his eyes fill with tears.

• Shot 4.1 = Tracking shot of Isabelle walking down the corridor.

• Shot 4.2 = Over the shoulder shot of Isabelle stopping and spotting Hot Guy sitting with some of his friends.

• Shot 4.3 = Close up of Isabelle’s face. She smiles and sorts out her hair. She starts to walk towards Hot Guy and his friends.

• Shot 4.4 = Medium shot of Isabelle strutting over to Hot Guy and pulling up a chair as close to him as possible. She begins to whisper in his ear.

• Shot 4.5 = Extreme close up of her whispering into Hot Guy’s ear. His eyes light up as to what she is saying to him.

• Shot 4.6 = Medium shot of Hot Guy getting up and then coming back, handing Isabelle a drink. She smiles sweetly, they carry on talking and flirting, she kisses him on the cheek. Isabelle walks away.

• Shot 4.7 = Close up of Hot Guy’s face after Isabelle kisses his cheek and leaves.

• Shot 4.8 = Medium shot of Hot Guy carrying on talking to his friends. A slow zoom to the background where Geek is staring enviously at Hot Guy, after seeing everything that just happened. Geek is angry, he storms off.

• Shot 5.1 = Slow pan of Isabelle walking down the hill texting on her phone and having a cigarette. She is not watching where she is going, She bumps into the Geek’s shoulder.

• Shot 5.2 = Medium shot of Geek’s face, he is clearly  very angry, he carries on walking.

• Shot 6.1 = tracking shot of Isabelle all dressed up with a bottle in her hand. She stops and slumps onto the curb.

• Shot 6.2 = medium shot of Isabelle sitting on the curb; she begins to cry.  Diegetic noises of cars can be heard. A hooded person walks into the shot, they attempt to grab Isabelle but she gets up and runs away.

• Shot 6.3 = series of running sequences, take place, showing Isabelle running and constantly looking back at her attacker; she wants to see how far away he is. She stumbles to the ground. Diegetic noises of Isabelle heavily breathing throughout the scene.

• Shot 6.4 = tilt shot of Isabelle on the floor, crying and turning her head and looking up at her attacker. She looks at the camera, crying, point of view shot from the Geek’s eyes. The Geek walks into the scene and grabs her.

• Shot 7.1 = Medium shot, fades in from black to Isabelle in boot of a car.

• Shot 7.2 = Extreme close up of Isabelle’s eyes, showing that she is crying.

• Shot 7.3 = Zoom out from Isabelle’s eyes, she is gagged and tied up.

• Shot 7.4 = Point of view shot from Isabelle’s eyes, the car boot is opening, she sees her kidnapper. 

• Shot 7.5 = Point of view shot from the geek looking down at Isabelle, hand in shot showing him pulling out a weapon.

• Shot 7.6 = Close up shot reverse shots of Isabelle looking at the weapon and the geek’s perspective of the helpless Isabelle.

• Shot 7.7 = Medium shot so the audience can see the Geek.

• Shot 7.8 = he draws his weapon up and as he brings it down the camera slowly pans up, after he strikes the shot fades to white.

Final shots we used in our film can be seen in our final shot and edit decision list.

Prop and Costume List (Draft)

Prop List

• Rope= to tie up Isabelle in the car
• Handkerchief/fabric= to gag Isabelle
• Rounder’s/Baseball bat= geeky guys weapon
• Drink= for hot guy to give to Isabelle
• Decorated notebook= Isabelle’s
• Folders and books= geeky guy’s
• Make-up/lipstick= Isabelle to put on

Costume List

Isabelle= Mini skirt, high heels, pretty top (when she walks on residential streets)

Geeky Guy= Glasses, jumper, jeans, hooded jacket (for the kidnap)

Hot Guy= Nice top, jeans.

Storyboard

Editing Brainstorm

Camera Shot Brainstorm

7 Deadly Sins Script (Draft)

7 Deadly Sins: Script (Draft)

Location: boot of a car.

The screen is blacked out, slowly we hear the diegetic sounds of the car slowly fade-in. The screen then slowly fades in to a girl named Isabelle tied up in a boot of a car. She is crying with make up running down her face and masking tape across her mouth so she can’t scream. The car sounds stop and we hear someone get out of the car and come to the boot, the boot opens and it cuts to white.

Location: toilets.

Isabelle is seen in the toilets doing her hair and make-up, making sure it is completely perfect. Before she turns to leave she smiles at the mirrors, pouts and flicks her hair away as she walks out in to the corridor.

Location: corridor.

She walks down the corridor were everyone she meets waves and says hello to her. The geeky guy bumps into her and her books go flying on to the floor. She doesn’t bother her books are on the floor she has to check whether her appearance is okay. The geeky guy bends down to pick up her books were we see her name written on it; he slips his phone number in to her book. He shakily hands over the books to her and she snatches them away and slowly walks down the corridor. He stares loving at her as she walks down the corridor. We see her pull out his number from her book, screws it up and throws it in the bin. The camera turns to the geeky boy as his eyes fill with tears.

Location: canteen.

Isabelle walks in to the canteen were she spots the hot guy sitting in the corner with his friends. She struts over and pulls up a chair as close to him as possible. She flicks her hair back and whispers in to his ear. We see his eyes light up and he walks away and comes back with a can/bottle of drink. She smiles sweetly and takes the drink off of him as she sits back down. They carry on talking and she kisses him on the cheek and walks off, a big smile comes across his face and he carries on talking with his friends. The camera slowly zooms in to show the envy in the eyes of the geeky guy who has just witnessed this. His heart is crushed. With anger in his eyes he storms off.

Location: walking down a hill.

She is walking down the college hill having a cigarette.

Location: residential street.

Isabelle is wearing high heels and a mini skirt. She stumbles along the street with a bottle of alcohol in her hand. She stops and slumps down on to the kerb, she sits there in silence and then tears fill up her eyes and she begins to cry. We hear a car come screeching along and skid to a stop; we hear the door open and close. Then the boot pop open. A hooded man comes into the shot he goes to grab Isabelle from behind but she notices and gets up frantically and runs for her life. A running scene sequence begins, she runs along the streets constantly looking behind her to see how far away he is. He begins to catch up with her, she turns around to check where he is and stumbles and falls to the floor. The geeky guy then grabs her and the screen cuts to black.

Location: boot of a car.

The screen is blacked out, slowly we hear the diegetic sounds of the car slowly fade-in. The screen then slowly fades in to a girl named Isabelle tied up in a boot of a car. She is crying with make up running down her face and masking tape across her mouth so she can’t scream. The car sounds stop and we hear someone get out of the car and come to the boot, the boot opens. Isabelle see’s the geeky guy standing over her with anger in his eye’s he says:

Geeky Guy: “dramatic line for dramatic impact.”

We see him pull out a weapon and lifts it up and draws it down on to her. Cut to white.

End.

My Personal Treatment

Treatment

Research

The theme of the film shall be a journey, but not a physical journey but a mental one for a young girl. The other theme of the film will be ignorance of the girl. I believe the audience shall be young people as the film will be based on people around the same age as them also they maybe able to relate to the characters as they may have been in similar situations like them before. However I would have to do an in depth survey about who would be more suited to watching the film. When watching the short film I would like the audience to react by thinking about the situations the characters were in and what they would do to prevent the situation and also to realise this could happen to them. They should walk away with awareness of the theme. The film therefore is intended as information about the situation and also for entertainment, as young people like to watch something that is more entertaining than educational, so by putting information within the film it will help get an understanding. The film Kidulthood was a big success amongst young people, the film portrays the brutal goings on of young people in London from bullying, violence to death threats. This film entertained young people as well as informing them about what is going on in people same age as them lives. This style I believe I can try to adopt the style to my film and maybe also develop it so it is slightly different from the hit movie.

Concept

Society and the world have changed each day, each week and each year. It changes so fast that we can lose track of what goes on with people in our society, and are not aware most things within our society. Young people are not aware and don’t see what is going on in there society at times. What if they realised that their friend was getting bullied, their next door neighbour does drugs and there college/school friend was involved in street crime. In Ignorance the short film tells the story of how a young girl who is blind to what her boyfriend is like, and will not pay any attention to the people she knows and trusts warning her about him. In this five minuet drama the film will help entertain young people and try to make them more aware about what happens in society and how it can affect them or people they know.

Synopsis of Story

The film begins in the darkness of the night. A young girl named Isabelle is walking home from a party with her friend Ellie. They come to a crossroad and Ellie gives Isabelle a hug and leaves Isabelle to walk the rest of the way home. Both the girls go their separate ways. We see Isabelle walking down the road; she looks down the empty street and turns to walk down a small alley. Behind her we see a hooded man following her down the alley. She then hears footsteps getting closer behind her. She walks faster. The footsteps get even closer. She turns around and see’s the hooded person right behind her. We hear her scream. The screen then cuts to black.

The full story then begins as the sun rises, and shines through the crack of the curtains on to Isabelle’s bed where lies asleep. She awakes to her text tone and looks at her phone. The text reads “Meet me at 11am at the park, ly Isabelle x”, we see them name Blake at the top of the text with a love heart next to his name. Isabelle smiles and kisses her phone, turns over to look at her clock where the time read 10am. She jumps out of bed, and we see her getting ready; picking out her clothes, putting on her shows, doing her hair and make up in the mirror. All around her mirror are pictures of her and her friends. Isabelle walks out of her house and begins to head towards the park. As she walks down the street someone comes running up to her. The girl stops Isabelle from walking off. The girl begins to speak frantically; “You’re the new girl going out with Blake. Are you crazy?! You don’t know what he is like. Don’t trust him. He will hurt you like he did me.” Isabelle pushes the girl off of her and tries to walk away until she notices the bruises up her pale arms and the black eye. Isabelle pushes the girl out of the way and says “Leave me alone. I have to go. Stop making up lies he is not like that” and she begins to walk off down the street. The girls screams after her “you ignorant person, if you don’t believe me maybe you should ask your friend Ellie”. Isabelle ignores her and carries on walking. She reaches the park where she spots Blake waiting for her on bench. She walks over to him with a spring in her step and a smile on her face. Blake stands up and hugs Isabelle and kisses her cheek. Blake confronts her with slight sense of anger in his voice; “where have you been, I’ve been waiting for ages”. Isabelle goes to stutter out the words I am sorry I bumped into someone. However Blake realises what he said and changes the subject quickly, “so you are coming to the party tonight baby”.

Isabelle then goes to the party with Blake. They both walk through the door in to the house party and make their way into the kitchen and grab some drinks. They make their way back into the living room and start dancing with each other and socialising with other people. Blake’s phone begins to ring; Isabelle tries to catch a glimpse of who is calling his phone but the phone screen says unknown caller. He see’s Isabelle looking and quickly answers the phone; he mumbles a few words and walks off without saying a word to Isabelle. She is left standing in the middle of the dance floor, all alone with no one to talk to. From the corner of the room her friend Ellie comes running over to her and jumps on her and hugs her. “Izzie what you doing here all alone?”; Isabelle begins to explain how Blake got a phone call and left with no warning but its okay and tells her about her day. Ellie keeps quiet while Isabelle is talking, and then it goes silent between them and Ellie says “Isabelle my friend Chloe spoke to me today, she said she saw you and warned you about Blake. Please listen to her. He is bad news. I don’t want you to get hurt, you hardly know him”. Isabelle ignores her and carries on talking about what she had been doing in the day. The time goes on and nearly everyone has left and Blake never came back so the girls decide to walk home together.

They got there separate ways and Isabelle walks down an alley where the beginning of the film is replayed, and the hooded man grabs her and covers her mouth. The next thing we see is Isabelle coming around in a small dark space with only a little light shinning through, what seemed to be a keyhole. Isabelle hears sounds of a car moving and frantically tries to untie herself. The car stops and Isabelle freezes and does not move. Footsteps are heard walking around the side of the car, the key goes into the boot and the door lifts up. The light rushes in to the car and as she adjusts her eyes there standing in the hooded jacket is Blake. He begins to raise a blunt object and says “you should of listened to your friends”. As he says this he brings the object down quickly to hit her and the screen fades to white.

Creative Approach

Opening Sequence/titles

Footage starts off in complete darkness with a slow eerie music playing which fades out when the girls go their separate ways. The titles begin appearing on screen as we see the two girls walking down the road but they are very conspicuous. The camera is in front of Isabelle zoomed on to her face, it beings a slow zoom out to see the man in the back ground, the camera movement then stops and Isabelle walks clearly into a medium shot and then the hooded man grabs her. The screen then cuts to black where the title of the film comes on the screen very bold and obvious and the music starts up again.

Inciting Incident (the girl Chloe)

The camera is in front of Isabelle and pans as she comes closer to the camera and then into the frame runs Chloe, so they are both are sharing a medium shot. The conversation begins as an over the shoulder shot, then as a conversation forms a shot reverse shot is used. As Isabelle walks off the camera is left in an over the shoulder shot of Chloe shouting down the road to Isabelle in the distance who becomes further out of the shot. We then see Isabelle in a medium shot outside the park looking towards the corner of the park; eye line match is then used to show a long shot of Blake. When Blake shouts at her a close up is used to see Isabelle’s reaction to it and then a close up of Blake to see his reaction to what he did.

Progressive Complications (the party)

When Blake’s phone rings the background diegetic sounds fades to mumbles and an eye line match is used as Isabelle tries to look at his phone, and the phone gets snatch out of the shot. As she is standing alone in the room the camera zooms out to show how she is left alone whilst everyone is laughing and having fun. Her friend then walks into the shot towards her and then cut to them talking. Again the diegetic sound fades out slightly so we can hear Ellie confronting her, then silence as Isabelle doesn’t reply and all of the sound goes back up as soon as she begins to talk.

Crisis (The alley)

The camera is in front of Isabelle zoomed on to her face, it beings a slow zoom out to see the man in the back ground, the camera movement then stops and Isabelle walks clearly into a medium shot and then the hooded man grabs her. She turns around and an eye line match is used to see Blake as the hooded man. After there is a sudden cut to black.

Climax (The car boot)

Close up on Isabella coming around in the car, after a frantic panic the camera zooms out to a medium shot to show her trying to untangle herself, and extreme close ups of her hands trying to undo the knots. The intra-diegetic sounds of footsteps and as soon as Blake finishes speaking (eyeline match) it cuts to white.

Idea Generation and Reflection

Searching for Actors and Actresses

In order to find actors and actresses to act within are film we decided to email the head of preforming arts department at our college and ask him to let the performing art students know about our film and if they would like to act in it. He then helped us to find the perfect actors and actresses for our film. 

From: Emma Bennett
Sent: 15 October 2010 09:08
To: Nic Saunders
Subject: A2 Media Coursework

Hello,

Kym Tran and I are creating a film for our A2 Media coursework and were wondering if it would be possible for you to ask your students if they would like to be in our film. If you could let your students know that being in films for media and film projects will look good on their UCAS references and applications; that may encourage them a bit. We are looking for one girl and two guys, maybe a few extras also, we’ll be holding auditions in the next couple of weeks, if anyone is interested then please have them email us or add us on face book.

They can contact us on kymberlyjt@hotmail.co.uk or on this account.

Thank you from Emma and Kym J

From: Nic Saunders
Sent: 15 October 2010 09:09
To: Emma Bennett
Subject: RE: A2 Media Coursework

I see no problem there.

What would be helpful is to know exactly when audition is, what is required, how long filming commitment is and where.

Let me know this and I will hand pick the better actors and send them your way.

Nic J

From: Emma Bennett
Sent: 15 October 2010 09:18
To: Nic Saunders
Subject: RE: A2 Media Coursework

We will be holding auditions at Monday lunch, would it be possible if we could use D3 to hold the auditions?

They would need to bring just themselves, it is a silent film so no monologue is needed. The film is about the 7 deadly sins portrayed through one main girl. Find attached the basic script of our film.

Filming would be within college next week and week commencing the 1^st November. However we may do two nights during half term which will require only one actor and actress. We would like to film in block 3 if possible which is are media lesson, and block 5 as this is our fee. The film will only be 5 minutes long.

Emma and Kym J

From: Nic Saunders
Sent: 15 October 2010 09:23
To: Emma Bennett
Subject: RE: A2 Media Coursework

D3 is not available on a Monday as it’s full all day.

This Monday is too soon to get the word round – it’s Friday and most aren’t in today. Could I encourage you to reschedule for later in the week? (Which, I realise, will push filming back)

I would suggest even if the film is silent, ask people to prepare a short monologue. This will a) make them take the audition and you much more seriously and b) even if the actor doesn’t speak in the film, don’t you want to know people can act? Reaction shots are still acting.

Also, it’s going to be impossible to use Vocational students in class time as their timetable doesn’t work like that – if you want to use them you’ll need to schedule filming after college hours I’m afraid .

And word of advice from experience, length of film doesn’t always correlate to length of shoot. 5 mins of complex set ups could take you a long time – I’d strongly advise setting aside a weekend for the shoot. Two whole days and you’ll get a lot done and it’s a concentrated, focused amount of time for everyone .

Sorry to highlight problems, but trying to help.

Nic J

From: Emma Bennett
Sent: 15 October 2010 09:38
To: Nic Saunders
Subject: RE: A2 Media Coursework

We would be able to do Tuesday lunch time and if we do not have enough people we may reschedule to another day during the week.

We would appreciate it if you could ask the students that you pick what blocks they are free to film during college as we need to film within classrooms and canteen etc.

Could you please then ask them to prepare a small monologue, and be ready to improvise. We will also need to take photos of them for character profiles.

When we find the actors we will have to work around both theirs and our schedules, so we will be prepared to put some weekends and evenings aside if necessary.

Emma and Kym J

From: Nic Saunders
Sent: 15 October 2010 09:48
To: Emma Bennett
Subject: RE: A2 Media Coursework

What time is your lunchtime?

From: Emma Bennett
Sent: 15 October 2010 09:48
To: Nic Saunders
Subject: RE: A2 Media Coursework

11.55-12.55

Searching for Actors and Actresses

In order to find actors and actresses to act within are film we decided to to go on the socail networking website Facebook and publish a post which can be seen by both our friends, between us we have roughly 600 people. So when asking for advertising for actors and atresses on this networking site we have gained loads of publicity.

Here is the post I sent:

Hello, me and Kymberly Jade Tran are creating a film for our media A2 coursework. We would like actors to be in this film. So if you do performing arts or drama A Level and would like to audition please let us know, we hope to stat filming next week. We are looking for people to play two main guy characters and one main girl, also some extras. If you would like to be in it let us know as soon as possible, this work should also help your college/uni applications. Thank you.

Here is the post that Kym sent:

Actors and actresses are needed for my A2 Media film project, so if you take drama or performing arts or are just intrested in acting for fun and want something that will look good on your uni application, then we need two guys and a girl for filming; possible extras may be required. We're hoping to film within the following few weeks. You can email me on: kymberlyjt@hotmail.co.uk. Thanks.

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1. To gain information= finding out about relevant events, their surroundings, their society, the world, seeking advice, satisfy curiosity, to learn.

2. To gain a personal identity= reinforce personal values, finding models of behavior, identifying with someone in the media, gaining insight into themselves.

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4. For entertainment= Escaping their problems, relaxing, aesthetic enjoyment, filling time, emotional release.

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Marketing Research Questionnaire

This survey has been created in order to find out more about you the audience. We are creating a movie to target a specific audience; in order for us to make it to appeal to the audience we need to find out what the audiences interests are.
Please circle the appropriate.

1    Gender:                  Male                       Female

2    How old are you? _____________________

3    Rate these forms of media on how much you use them.

(1 meaning constant use and 7 meaning never use it)

Television          Internet           Cinema           Mobile Phone

IPod/MP3          Games Console           DVD

4    What television channels do you enjoy to watch?

(You may tick more than one box)

BBC1       BB2       BBC3      ITV1       ITV2       Sky One       Channel 4         E4     Five       Other (please state): __________________

5    Please state 3 or more shows that you enjoy watching on television.

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6    How often do you go to the cinema? (State how many times you visit in a month)

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7     What genres of film do you enjoy watching?

Drama            Comedy          Horror            Animation            Action

           Crime                   Fantasy             Romance

8     Do you go to any music gigs?

Yes             No            If yes; how often: _________

9     What are your favourite music genres?

R’n’B             Pop             Hip hop            Reggae            Classical   

  

Rock           Punk          Elctro          Rap

Thank you for taking time out of your day to answer the questionnaire.