Potential Target Audience

Whilst making our film opening as a group we had to decide who our target audience was going to be. Whilst planning and editing we realised that the main actors in our opening sequence were teenagers. The protagonist (Lucy) is a 17 teen year old girl that is going through a difficult stage in her life. We realised that many teenagers might relate to Lucy's character and will hopefully teach them its okay to go through these particular problems in life and you will get through it. Having this relatable character we realised that the main target audience will be 15-25 year olds. The reason we chose this age range is because we thought that this particular age range would appreciate the aesthetics a bit more and also being more relatable. Saying this during our audience feedback we had gathered numerous feedback forms that varied in age ranges.This going to show that many people would be able to enjoy our film and would not just be targeted at specific ages. However this can be argued because the older generation may not enjoy it as much as the younger generation. Only because of the fact that if our film opening was to be a full feature film it may include some crime (stereotypical of teenagers) that the older generation may not enjoy. 

Evaluation questions 4&5

Our main target audience would be from teens to adults, Varying the age range from about 15-25. We incorporated relatable content that hopefully many teens understand or maybe have been through it themselves. However our audience feedback varied in age ranges which goes to show that many people could enjoy our opening sequence , but is still mainly targeted at 15-25 year old's. We attracted our audience by using the cliche scene of a party, that many people can relate to and imagine the atmosphere. The protagonist is also a teenage girl, this will allow teens to relate to her struggles.

Explaining Lucy's Character

Lucy Character is extremely introverted and quite a anxious character, hence why is receives a text to reassure her that "tonight will be fine" this character can hopefully be very relatable to some of the audience because many teenagers feel like this one point in their life. Lucy character is also there to explain that it is okay to feel that way and you're not 'strange'. 

Lucy herself is a great actress if i might say so myself! we thought that she would be perfect to be the main character. She also held it together very well! whilst filming there were some awkward shots to film. Thanks to Lucy the scenes were 10x faster to film because she did not mess about.

Of course we did have fun filming! we do have many funny bloopers but we managed to organise our filming time really well and were able to finish without stressing! 

Explaining Helin's Character.

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 Meet Helin. Helin is 17 years old(as many of the characters are) one our characters in Dazed (seen in photo 1) the reason why Helin seems concerned when Lucy is running out of the flats is because Helin receives a text on her phone saying something along the lines of "if you see someone leave the party, they know" so this is why she seems suspicious and looks and Lucy when she runs away.

 However many people may ask 'why is she outside in the first place?' is it to keep a look out who leaves? is she experiencing something similar? this a theme we would like to carry on if we were to create a full feature film.

 Helin can also be seen at the party but leaves at a similar time Lucy does, Maybe she just wants to help?

Helin on the far right

Time Between Filming

As a group we filmed on three separate occations mainly because of lighting. The party scene and the scene within the flats were filmed in two locations but on the same day. The scene were Lucy is walking on her own was difficult to film because it started to get dark,  it was filmed in a hallway and the only natural light available was from an open door.  However the scene were Lucy is running down the stairs to her running out the door (pic 1&2) were again filmed on separate day to show a time frame from how the party has progressed and how she has been there for a few hours.

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The rooftop scene was filmed a considerable amount of time later we wanted to finish editing the first half of the film opening so we could put all of our focus into the rooftop scene. We were lucky with the weather as we wanted it to be bright but gloomy, we found that this could ports Lucy's state of mind.

Media Institutions

Personally if our film was to be continued and finished i believe that the production company A24 would possibly distribute Dazed. This is because A24 is a newly founded production company (2012) with a fresh new vibe. Producing films such as Spring Breakers, American Honey and Ginger and Rosa. I believe Dazed has very similar attributes to these movies including the aesthetics and lighting from Spring Breakers. American Honey in similar in the sense that they have a female protagonist and she is troubled adolescent. A24 has a similar age audience to us. Dazed has a teenage protagonist and most of their films do. I feel that A24 have the same target audience so that people are able to relate to the movie itself.

Spring Breakers (lighting)

Dazed (lighting)

American Honey (female protagonist)

Dazed (female protagonist)

Choice of Title

Whilst designing our opening sequence we closing analysed Drive's opening sequence.We saw that they played around with bright lettering and dark background's  We found this very inspiring for our own opening sequence we found that the contrast between light and dark colours we able to tell a story. In our case it was the fact the teenage lifestyle has its 'dark' and 'light' moments and they can collide at some points. This also help to foreshadow on what will happen later in our film.