Monday 30th November

In this lesson I completed the representation theories, Will carried on with the Final online questionnaire, whilst Hubert began the final pitch. Then I went on to emailing Fiona about our focus group interview and this is now set for Tuesday lunch in English 1.

Theoretical research: Representation Theory

Focus Group email

Will Guy sent out this email after I had received confirmation of an English teacher.

What is our target audience age?

From the BBFC website we have realised the suitable age rating. We have decided to aim our Dystopian Thriller towards this demographic because even though our opening will not include much violence, we feel that due to the action that we plan to incorporate within the flashback and the overall concept of our idea this age rating is best suited. Despite males being our main audience gender as they are stereotyped to prefer violence we will still try to attract female audiences through the use of mise-en-scene and our idea. Furthermore, we vision the main character to be quite confident and to use derogatory terms to connote that he is not a true hero which will allow our production to be against the normal conventions.

Friday 27th November

Today, I completed the prop and costume ideas on www.bubbl.us and I also emailed Jenny about filming our focus group exercise in an English room, whilst Hubert did some more sound research and Will planned out a focus group email which is ready to send out, but we are waiting for the confirmation from Jenny. Also we decided what research and planning tasks we will do each to complete the work. Our aim is to finish this by at least next week.

Costume and props ideas

This planning has been useful because it has enabled us to have a clearer idea of our ideas. However, in terms of this, our impulsive and selfish protagonist did not wear Army trousers because we decided to use jeans instead to provide recognisable pleasures for a formal mainstream target audience. Also, we never used the bread because the shot that showed this action was ineffective and we discussed whether to incorporate a bin, but we found that this discovered the messy connotations and decreased our practical space-we were already struggling.

Theoretical research: Narrative theory