Focus Group

We asked a group of people who fit the age of our targeted audience. We chose a mix of male and female teens to participate, We read them the synopsis  for our opening sequence which was the following:

"Our film forms in a similar style to project X. Based on an unpopular female planning a party in order to gain popularity. What seems like the party of the year, with people having fun and doing wreck less things it's not until the next morning that the unexpected happens. The morning results in an unexpected death..."

They responded with...

"I think the film sounds like it would really appeal to me. I am a fan of the film Project X I think the way that film is made is fun and action packed. 'The Morning After' seems as though it would be similar and even the death at the end makes it seem mysterious like something crazy happened"

"I think the same, I like the sound of the film being a party and similar to the Hangover in the way they have to try and trace their footsteps in how the death happened"

"It would be cool if there was a lot of different shots as well to create the action and speed up the pace of the party atmosphere"

Group Meeting

From our research we know that we were doing an action film. Within the four of us we decided that our action film that we shouldn't do a typical car chase or fight scene style film. We brainstormed about types of films what we could relate to and also with the comedy genre coming second in our questionnaire we would want a story line which could incorporate both genres.We came to this conclusion after expressing many other ideas to each other. We came up with the idea of a chick-flick action adventure film, but decided against it when the boys in the group disagreed with the idea.

From this we decided that our film would be based mostly around teenage girls who decide to throw a massive party in attempt to gain popularity, however as the night progresses on the party gets out of control, leading to destruction, death and missing people. The main story line is based around a group of friends from the party attempting to discover what happened to their missing friends. 

History of action films

Title Timeline

Narrative / Character Research

We're decided to make our film based mainly around teenagers and teenagers having fun. while teenagers aren't all, crazy party animals we are working off of stereo types which express the over exaggerated  need to be wild and crazy.

teenagers would spend most of there days at either school or collage. This means six hours a day five days a week would be spend in the company of others, which suggests that it feels normal to teenagers when they're around each other and would have a lot of friends . As most of the teen characters in our final opening sequence have spend the whole school lives mixing with both boys and girls it seems normal that boys and girls would feel comfortable around each other.

The actors we are using all have their own personal style which i think that most teenagers have as they differ in what they like and dislike and this can be seen in how they dress and how they act around each other. For example Danny is a 'lad', 'class clown type. which means that he would act goofy and cool around everyone. But some of the extras in the film stick together, like a couple of the girl in shot are always together, which could come across as them being a little shy towards others.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

Plot Development

The title for our film is 'The Morning After'

It would come under the genre of action thriller, as someone dies. 

Our target audience is teens over the age of 15.

Synopsis of entire film: the film is based around an unpopular teenage girl who holds a large scale party in an attempt to gain popularity, however as the night unfolds a close friend of hers dies and several other go missing. The film shows the seemingly amazing party unfold before the morning after reveals the catastrophes that must be uncovered and fixed before the girl’s parents return.

Synopsis of opening sequence: the opening sequence begins in a trashed garden with one person waking up the morning after the party and questioning what happened the night before. The film then cuts to the hour before the party is due to begin and the following several people as they prepare to get ready for the party. As a small group at the house and the door opens, the title appear with the people.

Analysis of an Opening Sequence

I have looked at the opening sequence for the film 'The Hangover'. I chose to look into this film as it's in the same genre of the film that my group will be making. 'The Hangover' has the normal conventions of an opening sequence as it include, credits of all the cast and crew which appear over a range of different shots including a soundtrack in the background.