Directors Commentary

Storyboard

Story Board

We created a story board to help us with planning our shots, we first drew out the shots we thought we would shot and then took still images pictures of the images using a still image camera and uploaded it onto final cut express. This gave us experience with final cut before we started our film. We added the pictures into the right order and worked out how long the shot would stay on screen for. We added our titles onto the storyboard, which helped me pick out where I wanted them to be shown, I experimented with this before finalizing my decision. I thought this was good to do as it helped me understand how long the screen should be on screen for and it helped me experiment with my shots to make it look the best I could.

Editing

After finishing the filming, we uploaded the clips onto Final Cut Pro on the Mac's we have at our school. I went through all the shots and picked out the best ones of each scene as I took double shots to make sure I had the best shots. After picking the right shots I then had to put them onto the timeline of the film. I then put the music on by going on a website called audionetwork which was a non copyright website. Then edited the shots by adding effects.

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What would be the audience for your media product?

When planning my film a big process is who our main target audience, I thought about this for a while. My film could have a wide range of audience as it relates to most people. I wanted a specific target audience so I aimed it at young adults from 17-30 both men and women but is more focused at women. I feel like my film addresses these target demographics: 

Women - The film follows a young girl as the main character. Having a woman as a main character is quite rare in films so this will encourage people to watch and be interested in the film.

Men - The film involves a young male which would attract them to watch this film and are an audience who are keen to watch thrillers.

Young Adults - The film follows the story of two teenagers/young people which would be a main reason as to why they would be interested in watching this film as they can relate to them.

Below is a mood board of my specific target audience, I wanted to interview my friend, Chloe, she goes to University and is 19 years old. This helped me to get an idea of what interests she has as it would help with the advertising. I wanted to gather information to decide whether she would be the specific target audience.