Research and planning the moving image work

today our task is to complete and answer the following questions

Research - what research did i carry out into similar products

Research -what research did i carry out into my target audience

Logistic planning- how well did we organise our characters

narrative planning- evaluate our story boards or scripts.

and finally evaluating my own and group management.


What research did you carry out into similar products?

The first stage of our research were looking at short film case studies,  In relation which was similar to our genre that we were initially thinking of, which in this case was thriller/action. The case studies I personally looked at were Victim – short horror film, knowing too much thriller short film and Closed doors – thriller short film. Which were all related to our ideas that we wanted to do.

I looked at these short films as my case studies in order to identify how successful in both horror and thriller the short films were, how they appealed to the audience, how the effects were used, the camera angles as well as the use of soundtracks.

Once looking at these elements consisting within the short films, we noted down how they appealed to the audience as well as the use of soundtracks building suspense.

After major discussions and meetings with our group we outlined what will fit best to suit our genre and therefore came up with a final idea.

With gaining skills from last year course , I believe it will help me towards this year’s course such as conducting research using technological presentations, Identifying camera angles for the right purpose for example,  the use of  a shaky camera to create a fast pace pulling the audience, the correct use of colour; red emphasizing  anger or control  or black  room a fear and tension.  Elements like these will help us build a creative short film; if we have a correct structure I believe our film will turn out to be very good.