Micro Drama

Main Task- Target Audience 2

Nationality- We expect out film to appeal to a British audience due to the northern english accents used by the cast, we don't think that this would transfer to an American audience. Our feeling is that an American audience would interpret the use of non-standard english and the use of colloquial dialect as representing the working class. However, we did not want to give this impression.




Socio-economic groupings- Our Target market for our film is the C1,C2,D and E social class groupings. We have chosen to target this sector of the market as it is the broadest group with cross-over appeal, what i mean by that is you can appeal to all these groups with the same media texts, however it is difficult to appeal to a broader range than that.





Fans- We expect that fans of the horror genre and the slasher sub- genre would be attracted to our film. In particular fans of the film `Trick or Treat` we hope would be enticed by our film opening as there is a strong inter-textual reference to that film in our opening two minutes.

Main Task- Target Audience

Gender- Our film is aimed towards a male target audience. Although there will be a female in the cast her primary role is to fulfill the male gaze theory, the rest of the cast is male. The horror genre tends to be a male dominated genre, partcularly the slasher sub-genre. The music in our film will be mainly drum and bass and heavy rock, again, clearly male orientated music genres.
Age-


The age group that we have aimed our film at is 15-34, the `youth` band. This is because slasher movies usually appeal to this demoraphic due to their graphic nature and the use of fast cut editing. You would hardly expect to see a group of pensioners going to the cinema to watch `Scream`. Another factor contributing to the target audience is the level of violence shown in the film. We have made a fairly violent plot and this would clealy be unsuitable for children and young teens. We decided that if the BBFC wer to classify our film they would give it a `15` rating, mainly due to the violence and gore.

Main Task- Equipment

The hardware i will be using to film our project will be:

1. A video camera.

2. A mini DV tape (60 min.)

3. Tripod.

The hardware I will be for the editing will be:

1. A fire-ire camera wire.

2. An imac computer

3. Blank dvd /Rw

The software I will be using for editing will be:

1. iDVD

2. Quick time player.

The props i will be using during filming:

1. A mirror.

2. A bed .

3. Gothic heavy metal posters.

4. School lockers.

5. School desk and chair.

Storyboard

genre research and intertextual links

Halloween- 1978.

John Carpenter, always a figure of law and authority, Adult, police, parent. Police often depicted as stupid.

Verisimilitude, creating a sense of realism in a diegetic world.

Low budget, ,made big at the box office. No stars, little or no special effects. 

"Halloween is the gone with the wind of the horror genre." 

Inter-textual references; Dr Loomis (halloween), Sam Loomis (Psycho), Billy Loomis (scream).

Auteur theory- John Carpenters Halloween.

Initial title was the babysitter murders. Limited location- sense of claustrophobia.

Target Audience, 15-34 (male). Although, cross-over appeal to women because the lead characters are a group of women. 

The Warriors.

1979.

Low budget, good example of  a film opening that creates a good sense of background and setting without using obvious and 'clunky' exposition.

The device