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Creating a plot discourse, a more advanced idea of my short film.

Plot line 1
Our character wakes up with no recollection of the past few days, laying on a beach close to the water, he wakes up and is confused. 'How did I get here?'. He cannot find nobody who he knows, everyone seems to have just disappeared. He finds his bag and starts to walk to places he knows looking for people. He sees a house with the door fully wide open as he enters his house he finds all the supplies that he can, lighter, food, bottled water, PILLS. Tries to call someone - line dead. leaves house.
Montage of walking - journey.
After a couple of days of looking and no signal on his RADIO as he is walking through a forest he sits down to camp for the night, trying to start a fire when he breaks down into tears, looses the will to live on alone and ends his life by overdosing on pills so he can be joined back with his friends and family after death. Just after he passes away you hear the crackle of the radio and a faint voice...
Feedback

• plot one was to bleak
• I didnt want my character to be so miserable 
• I felt as if this idea would be more interesting to viewers due to being able to relate to the character.
• i felt as if this was a better way to show my directing and producing skills with more to edit and with a larger scale of camera angles to choose from. 

Plot story animatic

(as shown a few posts up)

My Target Audience Profile;

Demographics;
Age: 15-35 year old men
Class: mainly working class and lower middle class target market.
catagorys: C1, C2, D Mainly students and people who do manual labour jobs instead of mental, business end of a Business.

Reading Style;
Exibition: I feel that my short film would be shown in a art house cinema, this is because it is not a feature lenght film, also it is not a usual film it would be a cheap film to watch as it is only 5 mins long. Although this short film could be able to be shown as an extra to a feature film, for an extra cost.
Distribution: I believe that is would be viewed by streeming and film fan sites, also at art house cinema as a piggy back film. I do not know much about this way of distribution yet because the film would need to be a high enough quality to be watched and streemed. I would need to learn about this process.

Social/cultural:
According to Buckinghams artical I believe the audience who would watch my short film would be either
Film Fanatics (male, preplan their trip, 25.44, go in 2s review lead). (PAGE 2) I believe that my short film would only ever be watched by film buffs and short film fanatics.

Audience pete buckingham what people go to see from Elaine Humpleby

I believe that i fit in with my TA for my short film this is why I am confident that my short film will and should fit with there expectations of a short film.

FILM: How Should My Audience Respond?

when watching my film i would like my audience to feel:-Anticipation of the storyline and emotions / sad for the character / interested in what happened to him /questioning: who is the other person?

My research into audience types and interests suggests that my film is best suited to:
the young adult audience 18-25 regular film goers but yet to smaller independent film distribution site. Due to it being a short film it is unlikely to be scheduled into a main stream cinema complex: In Norwich we are lucky enough to have an art house cinema which would be suitable for screening my movie.

www.picturehouses.co.uk


Summary of my plot narrative. (1)
Reece is a normal, every day working man, stubble, 6ft tall, thin, well groomed. He is in his house preparing to leave to find sivilisation, with deserted streets the world is dead with no feeling the dominant force has been wiped out. As time goes on he becomes more desperate to find people like him always questioning 'Am I the last?'. Time goes by he looses the will to live, finding a quiet, painless way to end his life. As he takes his last breathe the radio crackles with a vague voice.

Summary of my plot narrative. (2/january 2013)

Reece is a conventional young man, red hair, 6ft tall, thin, casual dressed. we see him going about his day to day life, He is in his house carrying out mundane tasks then leaving , with deserted streets the world is dead with no feeling the dominant force has been wiped out.  time goes on and nothing changes or does it?
I think this will engage my audience more and become a more successful short film because, because the enegmatic ending is more conventional to short films and will make the audience leave the cinema talking about what they have just seen. 

Critics...
-Do I know the style of my film?

What does cinema do for me as a consumer.

As a consumer I look in a film for escapism in a film, something to get out of real life. I like to feel in the film, feeling so that im there with the actors making the film real with how griping the film is.
I feel that I get into the 'Fast And The Furious' films as they are all about subjects that really interest me.
-I like to have a short film/film which is a strong story line, I personally do not mind if I have to work to understand the story (Inception) or if I can just sit and watch and its very basic (die hard).
-I like to be captured by the film and feel as if I am there.
-Feel like the film is in relation to me in some way.

Audience: demographics, categorising audience..

Category audience groups: This is done by comparing wealth, employment and education. Meaning therefore that you can be on a very high wage(singer) with only school level education therefore would be in a lower grade due to their lack of higher education. 
-age,
-class,
-ethnicity,
-gender,
-religion,
-earnings,
-education.

A;   100K+
B;   50-60K+  (graduate, 35k+, employed, careers work their way up the social chain.)
C1;                 (graduate, 35k+, employed, careers work their way up the social chain.)
C2;                 (graduate, 35k+, employed, careers work their way up the social chain.)(Training->jobs
                                                                                                                               school level education)
D;   (Training->jobs, school level education.)
E;    (Not in Education, employment or Training(NEET) students/retired/unemployed)

This system is used for the industry not the the audience, this is so that the producers can find out where their product is heading. Therefore helping with...

-product placement

-marketing and promotion

-focus groups

-creating a target market.

This is so that the producers can target the correct market, therefore creating maximum revenue and interest in their product.

There are 3 types of Target for the producers.

-traditionalist; set in stone the film will fulfill the viewers needs (James Bond) These types of viewer will only change between the genres they like if there is a influential actor to them such as Daniel Craig, because they like him in James Bond. James Bond fanatics are likely to also likely to like films such as xXx, The Bourne films, Bruce willis(Die Hard) and also The mission Impossible series.

-hedonist; random, unusual films. These viewers will chop and change between what ever film they want to see, they are not a specific target market they will go and see anything which goes against conventions. Also seeing films which there are films that they have never seen before (Drive)

-post modernism; This viewer likes the new technology, they would have been the first type of viewer who went to see Imax, 3D, and films such as 'The Matrix' where the machines take over the world and use humans as batteries for themselves and keep the humans in a surreal dream for there whole lives.