Genre Research- Action and Superhero Films

Characters-
Main Hero

• Sometimes mythical creatures
• Big sense of morality and courage
• Do what is good and right 
• Sacrifice themselves for humanity 
• Often behind disguises, are shy and geeky

Villain

• The audience love to hate and hate to love 
• Selfish and want power 
• Either the first scene consists of the Villain or the Villain comes later in the film this depends on how familar the audience are with the film and whether it is a sequel

Lover Of Hero

• Helpless and naive
• Often introduced later in the film

Typical scenes of genre-

• Superhero films would either start with the bad guy or start with showing us how the superhero got his powers.
• Action films always include a chase scene

Typical Iconography- 

• Weapons
• Superhero suits

Typical Themes-

• Good vs Evil 
• Immorality 
• Morality 
• Superhuman 

Audience Research

We briefed our primary audience of teenage boys about our ideas for our film. Overall they really liked our idea and liked our creative thinking, however they thought that the idea was quite unrealistic and unsure if it would actually be believable. We also found out that our target audience preference of film genre is mostly comedy and action, we were satisfied by that result as our film is an action film. Most of our audience said that they would go to watch our film in the cinema but would not recommend it to friends after they had watched it and made sure it was a good film. This audience research has been very helpful for us as it has made us understand our target audience more. Our secondary target audience is women aged 14- 30.

Opening Sequence Research- Batman Begins

The scene starts with a loud bang showing the Warner Bros. Pictures logo and then showing the DC comics logo, the screen then goes black and you can hear a high pitched noise which is quite unfamiliar at first until you see loads of bats flying to form the shape of the batman logo. It then cuts to a track shot of the children running with very intense music as though to tell the audience that something is going to happen this also makes the audience feel uneasy about the scene which is good because it gets them interested into the film. We decided that we would use sound slightly similarly, in a sense of making them feel uneasy by using slow sad music. You then see the children playing with each other and the boy runs off, the girl follows and the boy ends up falling into a ditch, the girl runs off and calls for help when a swarm of bats fly at the main character Bruce, this is an important part of the film as it is what led him to become Batman. This is similar to our Opening Title sequence as in ours, our main character gains his powers. 

Opening sequence research

 
The film starts by showing us the 'Warner Bros. Pictures' sign, this straight away tells us it is a big budget hollywood film as Warner Bros. is a very big respected distributor, this ties the audience in straight away as it is a well known logo and the audience can relate it to other films distributed by the same company. During this there is a big bang noise, almost like thunder, this noise is sudden which draws in the audience to watch the screen. We then see the sign for 'Legendary Pictures' this is also a big american production company. During this we hear eerie music, this keeps the audience attracted to the screen and gives a sense of enigma as they don't understand what is going on yet. We then see the sign for 'DC Comics' this is a famous american comic book company, comic book fans will recognize this as they made Superman, Wonderwomen, Green Lantern and of course batman.
The scene starts off with a crane shot zooming into the window, the music builds up until the window is smashed. There is a man standing with a clown mask in his hand and the camera zooms into it the mask very slowly and it stays in shot for quite a while, the music also becomes very eerie and there is not much else in the shot and no cuts at all to make sure not to take away the attention of the audience this ensures that the audeince focus on the mask, this one shot shows us that the mask or what the mask signifys/ represents is a main part of this film and is an important aspect. When the car comes the music begins to become more fast paced and the audience almost gets snapped back into reality and it begins to suggest that this is an action film. The characters then begin to talk about the so called "joker" that they work for, this gives enigma to the film and makes the audience begin to question what is happening.This also suggests to the audience that they are not the main characters and they work for the "Joker" who will then be a big part of the film.

Feedback

As a class we all watched eachothers opening sequence and got feeback for it. We found that our opening sequence had a number of things that could be improved for example, in some shots the diegetic sound is interrupted by laughing heard in the background. We fixed this by filming pick ups. Another problem with our opening sequence was that the running scene wasn't believable, it looked at though they were jogging rather than running, to fix this we also needed to re film, although we did try to speed up the clips but that didn't work as it didn't look real.

Premlinary Sequence

I thought that the preliminary sequence was overall quite successful, however I do believe that there was room for improvement in many different aspects of it. Firstly the match on action, at one point character A (in the red jumper) was on one side of the stairs and then jumped to the other, this could have been improved by doing a few pickups. Another thing that I believe stopped it from being even better was the range of shots that we used, I thought that we could have gotten much more shots to really signify the characters authority in the sequence. Another thing would be to improve the shot reverse shot, once we had made the sequence we realised when filming the conversation between character A and B it could have been improved by filming character B's parts from characters A's other shoulder.

Our overall preliminary sequence could also have been improved if we planned it abit more 

Production, Distribution and Exhibition

Once there is an idea to the film they have to finalise it ready for production. Production refers to the tasks that must be completed or executed during the filming or shooting. This includes tasks such as setting up scenes, the capture of raw footage, and usage of set designs, to name a few of the many pre-production tasks. Once financing is secured detailed preparation for the shoot begins this is Pre- Production. This usually involves casting storyboarding production design and special effects planning. Production is the second step in film creation. It follows the pre-production phase and evolves into the post-production stage. Post- production usually stars during the shoot when the first available footage and sound are made.

The distribution of a film is the process through which a movie is made available to watch for an audience by a film distributor. This may be accomplished in a variety of ways, for example, with a theatrical release, a home entertainment release in which the movie is made available on DVD-Video or Blu-ray Disc or a television program. They would make a trailer and lots of teaser trailers.

Cinema exhibition is the primary channel for films to reach their audiences. There is usually a premier that is used to launch the film where loads of high profile celebrities would attend and walk down the red carpet, this would usually have an explosion of media coverage. Once the distributors have been paid the financiers can recover their investments as laid out in the recoupment schedule.