Storyboard part 2

Storyboard first draft for our Title sequence Part 1

location plan

Initially we were thinking of shooting the location outside of the apartment but after a group discussion and audience research we decided to shoot inside the apartment in the protagonist's bedroom. This is because inside of the apartment will allow us to delve in to the characters emotions which our audience desired. We also wanted to create a claustrophobic affect and so by doing this we  will be shooting in a bedroom.

Here is the initial location where we were going to use an establishing shot to establish the scene, however because of our demand to make it more of an emotional and personal setting, we aren't going to use an establishing shot and we are going to just start the scene from the characters head down.

Shooting schedule

Shooting schedule Plan 24^th march 2012 Saturday

9.00- Meet up as a group at Ilford station.

10.00 – Arrive at shooting location. (Not fully decided.)

11.00-  Have the location set up ready to shoot.

11.30- 5.00 – Shoot the whole scene with double the footage required.

One thing to consider is that one location is being utilized for this piece, this will be explained in the location decisions plan.

Audience research Conclusion

After having done audience research the group and I decided to look at and highlight the main reasons why females and middle aged people don't watch British Crime Dramas. 

Although middle aged people aren't within our main target audience it was clear in the research that they did not regard the genre, looking at the answers in the questionnaire they stated that:

• It was too violent at unnecessary moments which made it hard to emotional engage with plot.
• Language spoken by the youth is too hard to understand. 
• Plot seems dull and  very similar in all other texts within the same genre. 
• Plot is too predictable. 
• Very depressing at times. 

Looking at the this feedback it is clear that we as creatives have already subtracted those negative aspects however I find that it will be impossible to please this audience since part of the crime drama genre is to explore some real life yet at the same time depressing moments.

However when looking at the female audience we found that some of the things they disliked about the genre could be fixed within our film.

• Female characters are almost invisible and when they are presented in films they are pretty much the same and all lack personality for a female audience to aspire to be like or respect.
• Male characters always seem violent, even to female characters this seems off putting .
• They feel disengaged and neglected by the plot since there are no moments for female audiences to relate to.

This clearly shows the problems women faced with our genre, since our film features a strong lead role this should remedy part of their problems, however they aren't going to be seen in our title sequence were just going to use a portrait of her to establish the enigma. Although we aren't featuring a female character we are going to try and delve in to the emotional aspects of our protagonist rather than presenting him as a violent youth.  

On the whole I hope to create a text which still fulfills the genre conventions but simultaneously attains a broader audience than challenger texts of the similar genre.

This research has helped develop my understanding of what other audiences want from our text this will influence our creative decisions definitely as we may alter some scenes in the sequence so that they satisfy our female audience as  well as our male audience.

Final blocked Plan for main task

Final Blocked Plan

Audience research task- Surveys!

In order to develop our understanding of our target audience we created surveys, from our initial understanding it is thought that young males are the primary target audience for British crime youth dramas. 


Here is a template of our survey, we sent this out to 20 people, within this 20 people we asked 15 late teenagers to adults and 5 middle aged people. 13 males and 7 females, this proportion because of the fact that males are the primary audience we are targeting, but the females we surveyed were all teenagers to adults this is because we wanted to question why they don't watch British crime youth dramas. 

Questionnaire for the Research of Film Genres and Audiences

Here is an example of how one of the surveys was answered. 

From this surveys we made graphs using microsoft excel, graphs displaying the group of people that chose crime dramas as their favourite genre and we also made a list of the answers given by sources that didn't like Crime dramas.

Here is the graph displaying both males and females and showed the frequency of those that liked crime dramas, as you can see it is clear that our predictions were right since no females liked crime dramas.


In response to this information we surveyed one of the females personally and asked her why she doesn't like the British crime drama genre.

In the video we can see that the source states that she doesn't like the violence in the genre and that there are no women presented in the genre. In fact what she says clarifies our expectations of what females think about the crime drama genre. This means that our film could possible engage a larger audience.