Missed deadline work : Defining your audience

Many groups have not completed the work due by the deadline last Friday.
If you have not completed all of the tasks, you are in danger of losing marks for planning, where your completion of deadlines is assessed.

As part of this work, you should have defined your audience. Do this using the demographic and psychographic terms introduced in the magazines course. Consider the ways in which your film is most likely to be viewed, as this may constrain your audience (you should also have commented on this as part of the short film promotion task - see below and in booklet).

Check the deadline tasks again below, and add any missing material fully and within the next couple of days at the latest:

Deadline Two: Ongoing Research and Pre-Production Planning (this has now passed)
On your group blog by the date below, with everyone contributing equally, and all individual posts tagged, aiming for 1 post per day per group member:

- evidence of ongoing research into short films which reflect the ongoing process of your planning (embed links to more films the group finds inspiring, with comments)
- short statements (bullet pointed paragraphs) on initial group decisions in each of the areas for assessment in Unit G325: genre/style, narrative, representation, target audience, use of film language (eg ideas for key shots and dominant mise en scene). Remember that you will need to consult members of your audience for feedback later in the process!
- allocation of roles at this stage
- location research (photos taken and uploaded with notes)
- initial props ideas and photos with notes
- lighting notes (on animatic or as separate posting)- use examples from others
- storyboard as animatic (with or without commentary)
- outline script (either as part of animatic, or separate posting)
- initial ideas for additional sound (soundtrack, foley/fx, ambient)
- notes, images, links on initial research into short film promotion (advertising, reviews)
- some audience feedback on story ideas, proposed characters and scenes (can be gathered and presented through social networking sites), with comments posted