Production Ident

for creating our production idents we where spit into groups of two so that we would have two end products and we could choose to use either of them or even use both. at the start brain stormed and them settled on deep magnum. we then started to create ideas and images for a possible main image and animation of our ident. we started to create an animation an image for a ident of a gun sinking to the bottom of the see to then shot out bubbles and the words deep magnum appear on screen. However after toying with this  idea and starting to create the ident we decided to alter the name and basis of our idea. This resulted in us changing the name to full magnum, this meant that we dropped the under the sea portion of the animation and just keep the falling spinning portion of the previous ident and the text. We did this as it gives the ident a more professional and adult feel to our ident, this fits our target audience better as it is cleaner and sharper and possible allows the audience to guess that we as a production company make thriller films. 

These are some of the early ideas that we have for our production ident. you can see concept art for the more complete original idea on the top and left, the possible name options in the bottom right such as: explosive productions, CoCONUTi (to be written from elements in the periodic table) these ideas where dismissed as we didn't feel that they fit our audience or the film that we were planning to make as well as full calibre.

These are the images that I made/edited using photoshop. The image with the white background of the gun was changed to make it look darker and more sinister this was use in the final production ident. the other image I though make make a good background for the production ident but in the end was roomed as the plain black we thought looked cleaner.

Distributors Evaluation

This is a presentation that shows a variety of different distributors that we could use for our film. The part on Pathe

Target Audience and Production Company Ident

For our target audience of our thriller film that we a creating we have a target audience from the quadrant males under 25. this is due to the content that we plan to have in our film, like:

typical thriller target audience

• Violence, this would appeal to our target audience as it would probably excite a young male audience so that they would enjoy the film, but this may not to apply to other quadrants as they may be more "squeamish" and therefore hinder their enjoyment of the film.
• Identifying with main characters, as the people in that quadrant we are targeting are in the same age bracket as the main characters in our film, this may draw them to it as they can relate to the character any perhaps understand why they are doing certain things. this however does not work with other quadrants as they are not in the same age group or same gender as the main characters and therefore may find it to relate to them and this can result in limiting their enjoyment of the film.
• Genre, this also helps our film appeal to young males as they typically enjoy films from the thriller genre, such as: Taken, Leon and Batman. This also pushes our film from other quadrants that may dislike films from this genre and would not want to see our film because of this.
• The influences of the game, as this is a revenge story I feel that I was influenced by films like Taken, and others in my group felt influences by the film kidulthood for the location and possible gang influences. these again are films that people from our targeted quadrant are the typical people who would enjoy this sort of film. and would perhaps push away people who dislike these films that may have had some influence decisions in our film.

The use of locations and accents may appeal to a UK audience as it can make the characters more easily relatable to them as they may feel closer to the situation as they may live in or know the area which connects them more to the story.

However the themes in the film are far more universal and can appeal to everyone, as we all can associate with being in a family and loosing someone close to us and this can make the audience (from any quadrant) more empathetic with the main character and what they are doing. This is similarly seen in the theme of revenge as it is more universal as many people have been victims of injustice and can understand the feeling of want revenge for what has happened to them.

25 Word Pitch

after the untimely death of a innocent child, the brother seeks out his killers to extract revenge for the pain they have caused.

Synopsis

The story that we have created is a revenge thriller. We open the film to see the death of the main characters friend after the pair witnessing an event that they were not meant to see. despite our protagonists best efforts, the attack results in his friends death. The story follows our protagonist as he hunts down the people who killed his brother. as we watch and see him turn from a average man into trained hunter seeking revenge for his friend and the injustice of what happened to them. 

Genre Choice and Reason

As a group we have come to the decision that we are going to create the opening of a film that would be grouped in the thriller genre. I believe that is was a good decision to have our film from the thriller genre as it allows us to be quite creative and it doesn't particularly restrict us when it come to planning as it could be set anywhere and have any variety of characters. this also give us the ability to make that target audience of the film to be a people like ourselves, I know that I personally enjoy thriller films as a genre such as Taken and Seven. Due to me enjoying the genre so much it is going to push me to create a strong opening as I wish to replicate and adapt things that I have seen in these movies. I also think that it is a good decision to have gone with the thriller genre as I believe that I will be able to create a piece that is interesting and exciting for the audience.

On the basis of creativity all members can give ideas and we would still be able to create a complete and piece will all the ideas implemented, as thriller films are very broad when seen as a group; as seen through the pictures below we can tell that all the films are so different when it comes to story line, character, location and even slight variations in target audience despite all being of the same genre. As the quote implies, we can have a great amount of freedom and still stick to many of the key conventions of the thriller genre. This to me is quite exciting as we plan what our film it going to be about.

examples of shots from great thriller films

Brief