Research and Planning: Film Certificates

At our group discussion today, Emma and I had to discuss what we thought our Romantic film's certificate would be. We decided as it was a Romance film, a 15 certificate would be appropriate as this will give us the freedom to add more mature content, which our target audience would enjoy more than just a PG.

However, for our trailer we decided that it should be a 12A as this will allow us to direct the trailer at a wider audience, meaning that more people will want to watch the film, therefore creating a bigger synergy.

Research and Planning: Audience Interviews

Here are my audience interviews, in which we asked our audience the questions we came up with and they answered honestly. The last video you can see is in two parts as another person came into the interview without realising we were filming and we didn't want the interview to go off track so we waited until he had talked to our interviewee and left to continue with the interview. I think all in all we got some good feedback on what to do when creating our trailer, with our audience saying basically the same answers, using films such as the Notebook and Pretty Woman.

Research and Planning: Audience Feedback Questions

Here are the questions that I am planning on asking my audience in relation to the Romantic film genre.

1 What was the last Romance film that you watched? Did you enjoy it? Can you elaborate why?
2 What is your favourite Romance film? Any reason why?
3 Where do you think Romance films should be set?
4 What do you like to see in a Romance film? (e.g. characters, plot etc)
5 Do you like dramatic plot twists in Romance films or straight to the point plots?

Research and Planning: Group Meeting

For this project my partner through out will be Emma Hibbert, Emma and I are very close inside and out of college which will make the working relationship easier as we will be able to see eachother outside of college, make plans together and make sure that each other knows what we are doing as we are in constant contact with eachother.

Research and Planning: Questionnaire Results

Research and Planning: About Time

The other day I went to see new romance film 'About Time' in the cinema, the film itself was amazing, heartbreaking and lovely all at the same time and I think that the posters and trailers suit the film perfectly using the right colours and moods. The film follows a young man who discovers on his 21st birthday that he has the power to time travel, but even though the idea of this 'un natural' thing might put people off watching the film, it makes the time travel believable by him only being able to time travel to the past, and only to his own memories. This way he is not able to go into the future and if he goes to the past he loses memories from the future if he changes something in the past. The film was quite long, however I enjoyed every minute of it, even breaking me into tears at one point. I think the poster for the film makes it more appealing as Rachel McAdams is mostly associated with Romance films including The Notebook and The Vow so people will automatically know that this is a Romance film, whereas the main actor of the story Domhnall Gleeson is a new actor and therefore not as known, therefore making him not the centre of the advertisement. I also think that the image used looks natural and not forced, adding to the natural romantic appeal of the film.

Research and Planning: Questionnaire

Here is the Questionnaire which I will be asking my target audience.