Questionnaire

at the beginning of our coursework, we created a questionnaire to find out what thought of our coursewrk idea. here are the questions we asked and the answers we recieved.


Questionnaire
1. How old are you?
6= 17 years 1= 26 years 1= 30 years 32 = 1

2. What is your gender?
8 = female 3= male

3. Do you enjoy watching rom-coms?
9 = yes 1 = no 1 = sometimes

4. Do you enjoy rom-coms based in a school or a work place?
Yes = 7 No = 1 sometimes = 1 workplace =2

5. How you seen any of the following rom-coms:
· Napoleon Dynamite = 4
· Bridget Jones = 9
· Along came Polly = 6
· Date Movie = 7


6. What do you think of the title “Wrongcom”?
Good, smart, clever, catchy, tells you what sort of film it will be, witty,good play on words, sounds like the “romance” in the film goes wrong somehow,
“if I didn’t know anything about it I would think it was about a web company gone wrong.”

7. Do you understand the meaning of a spoof film or a parody?
Yes = 11 No = 0

8. If yes do you enjoy these kind of films?
Yes = 7 No = 3 sometimes=1 “have been over done” “ not if over the top”

9. If no would you watch it to find out what the conditions of the genre are?
Yes = 4 No = 3

10. Would you watch a film with the title “Wrongcom” without knowing anything about the film?
Yes = 6 No= 2 Maybe = 3

moodboard

for our media coursework we decided to create a moodboard to show what the two main characters are like. by doing this we could focus on our main characters personality. we seperated the page into two sections and dedicated each part to each character. we chose pink and purple colours for april to show her gender and blue red and greens to show buddys gender. we wanted to emphasis the "geek" so to do this we put math sums and equations on the page as well as a calculater which shows they like maths. we used a green dinosour on buddys side which was also on the film poster. On aprils side we used the big geek glasses which april wore in the poster,advert,and teaser trailer. we also created an american flag to put into the middle to represent that it is an american film. we also put the song we originally wanted to use in the film "everyday" by Buddy Holly.

overall concept behind our promotional package

the concept of my promotional package of a film teaser trailer, a movie poster and magazine cover is to get the taget audience and all audiences interested in our film that will be coming out. The poster wil be released first, showing the genre of the film and not a lot of information to tease the audience. the magazine cover will then be released. and finally the teaser trailer will be realised.
we want the poster to show how unconventional the film is and it also gives the information of who the actors are that are appearing in our film. also by looking at the poster you are able to see what the characters look like. the tag line will also be on the poster " forget chic, go geek".

the magazine cover then gives out a bit more information about what the film is about by telling the audience to buy the magazine to find out more. the magazine also has a different picture to the poster which then shows the variety of scenes and costumes, which hints that its shot in a school setting.
finally the teaser trailer will show various clips from and not from the film to tease the audience into wanting to watch the film, by this time the audience will know the genre and part of what the film is about.

Filming Schedule

Tuesday 18th January – start filming at 11 am· Interspersing shots to be filmed in photography studio, two shots of two different characters displaying beauty and brains· Outside scenes to be shot first – couple looking at each other from a distance, running towards each other, close ups of each characters face· Inside shots to be filmed within the diner and toilets, character looking into camera as though it’s a mirror, diner shots to be filmed as though characters are being bullied by other people

New Media Technology in Research and Planning Stages

when we were in the research and planning stages of our coursework new media and digital technology have played a huge part in helping us make important decisions towards our teaser trailer, film magazine and movie poster.We used the internet and the blogs in order to research which film companies produce films similiar to the genre chose. This is how we found Fox Searchlight produced films such as 'Juno', this film is the genre we want our production to be. It also enabled us to email Decca records and enquire about the copyright to using Buddy Holly songs. We used the website 'Dafont.com' to research different fonts and create a selection to compare and choose from. The internet allowed us to research the conventions of movie posters and film magazines,by doing this we were able to ensure our work looked professional.As myself and two other members of the group are photography students, we were aware of how much editing we could do to our movie poster and our film magazine to make it look as proffesional as possible. This helped us prepare for the photo shoots, because we knew certain elements could be edited in post production.

Poster Idea

This is our movie poster. The top image is our original picture with no editing. The second image has been edited in order to enhance and develop it. the picture has been edited by editing out the background and enhanced all the lighting and colours. also we have superimposed 'Buddy's' head as it was facing the other way. we decided as he's a main character he has to be facing the camera so that the people that see the poster can see who he is. The picture also had to be enhanced as you could not see the drawing on the paper, so we then redrew the picture in Photoshop.When comparing this to our initial idea we decided that the background we had originally chosen was too unconventional and did not suit the film we then decided rather than a scenic background we chose the school common room and added students into the background in order to emphasise how much our characters stand out.

Filming Schedule

· Tuesday 18th January – start filming at 11 am


· Interspersing shots to be filmed in photography studio, two shots of two different characters displaying beauty and brains


· Outside scenes to be shot first – couple looking at each other from a distance, running towards each other, close ups of each characters face


· Inside shots to be filmed within the diner and toilets, character looking into camera as though it’s a mirror, diner shots to be filmed as though characters are being bullied by other people