Schedules

This is our first shoot schedule, it's very brief.

"12:00 - All people involved with costume and make up preparations (you know who you are) arrive at Sarah's house.
1:00 - Arrive at ruins and meet Aimee there
3:00 - Finished filming ruins. Arrive at Clifton after lift up there in parents car
5:30 - Finish filming in Clifton and go home"

Second shoot schedule

"3:00 - All people involved in costume and makeup arrive at Sarah's house
4:00 - Arrive at ruins
5:30 - Finished filming at ruins and now filming in Weston - in - Gordano (WIG for short)
6:30 - Finish filming in WIG and go home"

The Potential Target Audience and Characters

Note: I have found a website containing interesting and useful articles and information on Tim Burton, the website is http://www.timburtoncollective.com/ and the article I looked at is at http://www.timburtoncollective.com/articles/misc18.html. These helped with research.

We are not going to activley represent social groups, however, the main groups included are; Male; Female; Age Range 16 - 25 and those with borderline psychological disorders. Take the Snow White chracter for instance, she is female, around 20 years old and of working class. This is shown through her costume mostly. As in many Tim Burton films, the main characters are very complex and developed, whereas the less important characters may not be less complex, hypothetically, but there is not room in the film to show every detail about them, especially in the opening. And, as it is only an opening, we have decided to opt for keeping the characters slightly shrouded in mystery rather than introducting every detail about them, mostly, to save, from doing extra work into the differect charcters psyches and their backgrounds. Additionally, most of TB's target audience relate in some way to the main characters, for example, someone might relate to Alice as she feels awkward in certian social situations as somebody else might. However, due to not having characters that show complexities in the opening, it would be difficult for any of our target audience to realte to the characters, therefore, it is probbaly not going to be a contributing factor to who our target audence would be.

We did quick interviews with different people to gather who might be interested in our film. We asked people of various ages, male and female the same questions. Questions included;

1. What kind of films do you enjoy?
2. Why?
3. Tell us what kind of film you would consider seeing and why
4. (We then explained our ideas breifly and mentioned our inspiration) Would you be interested in seeing our film.

We discovered that our target audience would be people from the age of about 15, up to about their thirties. It would not be sutible for somebody substantially younger than this. The gender would be predominantly female, with some male audiences additionally it would attract fans of the same genre.

First shoot attempt

The group spent Sunday filming (23rd jan) and I heard that it went okay. Unfortunatley, there was some kind of mix up which meant that I was not present for the shoot, apologies for not being there at the right time if you consider it to be my fault. I can see how our hard work has paid off from the footage gained, however some of the shots could be improved with the re-shoots we are planning to take out over the next few weeks.

I know that Heather is not used to the Tim Burton style and is more inclined toward comedy. However, she was not in at the time of briefing and Sarah and I needed to make a start, or else we would have been wasting time, otherwise there would have been more of a unified effort to come up with a theme. Most of Tim Burtons films are dark, but with some humour. Additionally, they are extravagant, interesting and theatrical. We tried to incorporate this into our mise en scene as much as possible with Heather's recearch into make up, as well as the reacarch into costume we all carried out. The style was ambitious and I prefer to do something challenging rather then something easy. It let us be creative with the brief. During editing we have tried to add effects to make more of a proffessional feel to our work.

I still have stuff to post!

This work is from weeks ago! Sorry it is so late. Look back over my other posts if you must, I have just edited in my work to older posts. Here is our updated script:



The opening would be the male character reminising on the past, therefore, we felt a voice over in past tense would be appropriate. The rest of the film would be Snow White haunting him and eventually turning him mad as revenge.