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How I have Evolved My Idea

  

At the start of planning my firsts step was to decide what genre I wanted to use. I eventually chose Comedy and made a mind map laying out all the generic features of comedy to try and stimulate some ideas.

I then came to the decision to make and action comedy and started to write down what ever came in my mind just to get some ideas flowing and I can develop it from there. 

Next I made a storyboard so I can visualise my idea and this will help when I wanted to write my script.

 

After I Had written my script I made a few changes in the next couple of days. These included,

1. Stanley will no longer have any lines apart from Hi... and then he gets interrupted by ken.
2. There will be more screen time of Hugo getting dressed and panicking before Stanley comes in

Also instead of it being a phone call to ken it will now be face time. The camera will focus on Hugo's phone displaying ken on it. It will then zoom into the phone and will transform as if you are looking at ken from his phones point of view. it then will vary from Hugo's house to Hugo's phone to ken afterwards.



A few days later I had made some more changes regarding the script

1. The script changes make Stanley and ken fight instead of talk
2. there is a new long shot added in to show the argument on a large scale and to emphasis how stupid they are.

I made these changes as I thought that it would show the audience how much ken really does change in the rest of the film. I did this because when ken becomes friends with Stanley the audience can now look back on this and compare it to then and really see how far ken has came in his journey for finding who he really is on the island.

Then I drew a new storyboard as I was happy with my idea and I can use it to help me film.

During filming me and my cast decided to add a few more shots in, take some out and change some of the lines.

I chose to do this as when I was there in the flesh ready to film some of the shots and lines just didn't seem believable so I changed them. For example I added a new shot of Hugo picking up keys and turning on the radio.

I also made quite a large change by removing Hugo's mother from the film and changed it so the audience doesn't know that Hugo is skipping school. I did this because I think by slowly revealing that Hugo is a rebel character it provides me with the tools so I can create an element of surprise later on in the film.

what type of media institution might distribute your media product?

podcast.

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Who would be the audience of your media product?

Who would be the audience of your media product?

I believe that my audience mainly consists of 14-21 year olds from both sets of genders. This is because most of my characters are also in that age group. When thinking of the film I really wanted to emphasise on the relate ability of the characters to current teens of that age. After looking at current forms of media such as The Inbertweeners and Miss-fits and seeing their success with realistic and relatable characters I wanted to include it in my film.

After conducting some audience research to find out what age group, gender and race the comments that really stood out were the age. I received a even response between males and females and people of different cultures.  This would then help me to develop the film around that audiences such as the type of comedy to have because after all  my film is an action comedy. And also older age groups tend to prefer more psychological action and mystery. Where’s the younger ages prefer explosions, guns and fast cars etc.

The rest of my audience will be people who enjoy comedy and action. The beauty of this is that everyone and anyone could have these preferences. So not only can there be more people wanting to watch the film but these random people can bring friends and family to come along too.

But back to my main audience, 14-21 year olds. These age groups will be enjoying the film more than older people because they live the same lifestyle as the main characters. And back to that word again “relateability” I believe that this will emphasis the comedy effects on the audience because they will all know “that one clumsy person”, “the stupid person” and “the bossy one” this is just what I want because when they see it on the screen they can relate to it in real life too. And that’s the beauty of having this type of film.