Film Name.

After much thought and lots of ideas being batted back and forth, I finally came up with a name for my film. My initial ideas were quite cheesy, with names such as "Rising Up" or "Waking The Hero" but then I realised that these were quite sickly and almost quite Americanised with the 'Grand' names.
I thought I needed something more British, with maybe a little irony or sarcasm involved, but then I decided I wanted a lot of irony, so that even an American audience would understand, which of course would then lead to American profits as well as English. As I'm not looking for subtlety, I went for a really controversial name (considering the film is about disabled people). The name I finished with was "Taking A Stand". Obviously, a name like this is really pushing conventions and would spark controversy, if actually made into a film. However, something a little controversial often works out well, as we can see in films like "The Exorcist" which was actually banned, yet after it was re-released, the film did very well. Similarly, a film like "Schlinder's List" which was shot in black and white, despite having the technology to film in colour, was made to be un-conventional and the story was controversial. So, from past experience, I can see that films often make it, when controversial. Obviously, there will be films that did not do so well that will have been controversial, but I feel it is worth the risk.

Wheelchair Research and Planning

This here is a small Prezi presentation that looks at Basketball chairs, the fact that my entire film package is going to be about Wheelchair basketball, means that I have to choose what kind of chair would look good for it. Here is a presentation on the pros and cons of the different chairs I have access to. On my Pinterest there are a number of images of different wheelchairs, yet not all of them made it through to what I call the 'Final Few' due to many different reasons.
I showed this to a number of peers and used a simple tally chart, here are the results:



As can be seen, the Interceptor was the definite leader. There aren't many people who voted on this, mainly due to time and resources, but ultimately it's not the most important decision of the film. It's good to know what people like, but since it's on such a niche topic, there are going to be few pre-conceptions, therefore the answers given aren't bound to be very biased.

Audience Research

The research here originally started taking place last year, yet it seemed it would have been perfect to carry on the research for this! So, what is here is a lot of information on different audience theories. It's difficult to apply many of them, but this doesn't mean it's not useful. In fact, it's very useful as it gives me a better idea of what to do in regards to many things. It helps me sub-consciously, when deciding on different things to do in creating and planning my media package!

Character Research

Here is some research into different characters and conventionally liked characters, everything is explained in the presentation. I feel I'm making good progress with my research and certainly finding useful information!

Film Trailer Research

Here is research into film trailers. What is here is mainly conventions and the stuff inside is mainly for something to refer to when planning my own. There are many different patterns I have seen within the trailers, yet some things are varied throughout. The things that stayed the same are the ways in which characters are represented, they are all blunt and all have roles, whereas things that change are things such as lighting, sound, etc. So, there's not much to be gained from highlighting these things, as it's all to think about when I begin planning.
Apart from that, there isn't much to be said for the research, I found what I expected to find and what I've found will be easily interpreted to help create my own trailer.

Rough Plan.

 

 

 

What I have here are seven images of notes that I made about my film ideas. It looks at many different aspects of the film, many of them based on the research I have done. Reading through them, I get a decent idea of what I want to feature in my film trailer, yet no doubt the ideas will be slightly changed when I come to storyboard, as I will realise exactly what I have to work with and what my limits are. However, for now this is a decent rough plan of what I want to do and one that I will stick reasonably close to.

Choice Of Film.

So, given my research into different genres, I can see that people want a film relating to sport, which really helps, as this was what my initial ideas were based around. The fact that sport is a popular topic, means that I can now start to plan what kind of sport film I would want. Given my expertise in Wheelchair Basketball, I feel it would be perfect to do a film on it. Also, what can be taken is that after the Paralympics, a film about disability sport has the potential to be a huge hit. The Olympics/Paralympics were possibly a heavy factor as to why sport was a big contender for favourite genre. Given that I have chosen to do a film on Wheelchair Basketball, I feel that there is much to be researched in terms of Wheelchairs themselves and also planning how exactly I will make a film of that sort. Obviously, this is to be looked at later and planned carefully.

The storyline for the film is going to be based mainly on Wheelchair Basketball itself, however I feel there is much call to have other happenings in the mix, but this will be further studied at a later date.