MAIN Post 9: Production

At the start of the project we made our choose on what genre we would be doing by the way the questionnaire was answered, we found out that comedy and action was the most popular. Because of this and the fact that we are a group of 2 boys and 2 girls we felt that the final outcome would work for us as a  Action Comedy. This allowed us to spelt the Target audience so that we could bring two groups together to get a wider audience so the film would be a hit. We felt that this would benefit us in the long run if we were all happy with the genre that we based our film on.

 

After sending out questionnaires we felt that it was important to investigate on our chosen genre. We watched opening sequences of films such as The Hangover, clips of Project X, Hot Fuzz and 21 Jump Street. After watching the opening sequences we became aware of the factors needed to attract an audience to a film. The Hangover demonstrated a comedy factor in the opening sequence, following typical conventions such as opening titles and names of the cast and crew. The Hangover seems exciting with the choice of location and the well known actors which create a buzz. We knew that we wouldn't be able to have well known actors but we knew we could have actors that the audience could recognise and connect to in different ways.

Although we knew what our film was going to be like we faced difficulties when it came to actually filming our film, we came across issues such as the following:-

• Finding moments to film - we decided we wanted to film at someones house to build up the party atmosphere. This led us to come across complications as we had to find transport to the house along with being organised with all of our filming equipment, we also had to find time in the day when we were all able to find time to go.

• Ensuring we had 'extras' to be in our film - this was hard as this meant that we sometimes had to film at night so we are able to create the party atmosphere so it was a realistic depiction and also so we were able to get people there at the same time.

• Having to re film - we had to re film a couple of times. After filming and watching our footage back we felt unsatisfied with editing it and decided it would benefit us in the long run to re film. We made silly errors such as cutting actors out of the frame it was hard to re film cause we had to come across the issues previously faced again.