Monthly Diary

Monthly Diary 24/9/2011

During the past week, we have focus mainly on producing a plan for our main coursework trailer. We have already produced a practice trailer which was called Big Fat Sweaty Coppers which was a success. I devised a PowerPoint presentation to class which involved not only clips from our practice trailer but our plan of are new Trailer; we made the plan through the use of video clips to give the audience a good idea of how the trailer will pan out.
In presenting this to the class it is a good use of audience feedback, we got their views on trailer and what we could improve and whether we could just get it to work. The feedback was all round very good. The audience seemed very excited with our idea and thought that the storyline was very convincing. The negative feedback was mainly about the use of cars as we where planning on using a car more often but in the end we decided against using it. This is a benefit to audience feedback.

25/10/2011

During this month we had half term between the 24th and the 31st. We didn’t have any lesson as it was half term this allowed us plenty of time to film the basic outline of our trailer and compose the first draft. We created the trailer by using and following the film schedule. But we didn’t manage to stick to the schedule and got behind. This is a negative factor to our trailer as being behind schedule means there is less time to edit, and editing is a very important part of the trailers outcome.

25/11/2011

This month is very similar to last month as we are working to get the filming of the clips needed finish so we can get ready to start editing within a week’s time. We managed to get around 20-25 different clips where we need to pick a variety of the best ones for our trailer. The locations of our clips vary from being filmed just outside school to a farm in sevenoaks. This is positive as it shows a range of different clips from different locations. The trailers have to be finished by the 16th of December; this allows us just over 2 weeks to produce our edited final piece. We aim for our trailer to be just over 2 mins 30 sec.

22/122011

This month has been a good month with us finishing our trailer and posting it up on Facebook and YouTube. With it being on these sharing sites it allowed us to receive a lot of audience feedback which in turn was very positive. In this month also, we have had a few clips to improve such as the running scene. Also there was a clip of us in the abandoned house this was a very effective clip but unfortunately we had to edit the clip due to there being a shadow against a wall of the camera man which was Jack Welch at this time in the production of the trailer, but it changed throughout.

25/1/2011

In this month I’m looking at creating our posters and magazine covers for our trailer. At this current time i am looking at doing some research on films similar to ours such as the Bourne films (Bourne identity, Bourne ultimatum) This is very important as it will give me an idea of what is needed on the front cover to make the genre most effective to our target audience. I also need to take a few action photos for the cover and the poster. They have to be good photos to really show the importance of the storyline in Betrayal and Retribution.

Audience Feedback On Final Trailer

In this Audience Feedback Post, i have entered in two types of feedback. One type of feedback is from friends on the social network site "Facebook" this is a very good way of showing your poducts, because the is a wide audience. The other Type are much more detailed comments about the trailer. Some of the comments included:

"This is literally amazing"

"This is Great"

"I would definetely watch that, if the ending hadn't already been revealed by the trailer ya big din"

I believe that these are extremely positive comments. In reply to this last comment the ending isn't revealed in depth and the ending isnt a main part as strange as that sounds. Mark Steele trys to seek revenge and after he is betrayed hence the name betrayal and retribution.  The main character has been betrayed and now he seeks revenge, reuniting with his son is to be seen in the trailer as it isn't suppose to be a secret.

The Practice Trailer (Big Fat Sweaty Coppers)

This is our practice trailer, which is a hilarious comedy about two over weight police men who seem to always get themselves into situations usually because of the large size. They unfortunately get banished from the force and decide to create there own BIG FAT SWEATY COPPERS who go around getting into embarrassing situations.

Early Footage For Audience Feedback

This clip is a recording of the trailer and not the introduction. It was filmed in an abandoned house and the first scene is when he goes looking for his son "Alex". 

Due to the lack of clips filmed, other clips form previous trailers made and other clips where added in. These clips where put together to show how the clips will eventually role into a montage. The clips that weren't filmed for this trailer, were added to show how the trailer will run and give the audience more of an idea to how our  final trailer will end up. 

In this clip there are scenes from are new film, Big Fat Sweaty Coppers, and clips filmed for the mer purpose of giving the audience a better idea. 

Cinema attendance

UK Cinema Attendances

Shown below is a table charting the progress of The Uk cinema attendances.

 

1951	1961	1971	1981	1991	2001	2009
1365 m	449m	176m	84m	89m	124m	173m

As you can see there is a steady decline from the year 1951 to 1991 with only a slight rise in attendances during the early 2000's. The decline is a result of many factors, he television being most notable. TV's were commercially available from the 1920's, yet very few people had them, many people were content with a wireless. This however changed, the early 1950's saw a dramatic rise in families with televisions, and this is due to The Queen’s Coronation, which took place in 1953. As you can see in the table above in 1951 cinema attendances went down, this can be directly attributed to the rise of the television. The popular demand for televisions led to the continual decline of cinema attendances.

The economy also has an effect on cinema attendance. In the current economic climate
  Peoples high standards of living have decrease because of the poor economy and the
 Recession, Cinema ticket sales have been affected due to people standards of living dropping. 
Many cinemas around the UK are independent businesses; this means that they can close down if sales are low. The lack of money in turn led to the degradation of facilities which again led to attendances plummeting even lower. In recent years Cinemas have joined with each other creating a more stable and facility efficient business. The raised standards of Cinema's nowadays had led to a more positive reputation.

Technology also has an effect on the cinemas in a positive and negative way. For instance new technology for the home such as HD television and sky, has made cinema tickets decrease but new technology in film making has lead to there being a n increase in ticket sales. A great movie for this is "Avatar". Also 3D helped boast the cinema ticket sales. 

  

UK cinema screens

Average number of screens open during the year

1911	:	1936	4,500:	1961	2,711	1986	1,289
1912	4,000	1937	4,600	1962	2,421	1987	1,295
1913	:	1938	4,700	1963	2,181	1988	1,416
1914	3,170	1939	4,800	1964	2,057	1989	1,559
1915	3,300	1940	4,600	1965	1,971	1990	1,685
1916	3,450	1941	4,415	1966	1,847	1991	1,789
1917	3,600	1942	4,492	1967	1,736	1992	1,845
1918	3,750	1943	4,569	1968	1,631	1993	1,890
1919	3,925	1944	4,646	1969	1,581	1994	1,969
1920	3,941	1945	4,723	1970	1,529	1995	2,052
1921	4,100	1946	4,705	1971	1,482	1996	2,215
1922	4,125	1947	4,710	1972	1,450	1997	2,383
1923	4,150	1948	4,706	1973	1,530	1998	2,638
1924	4,150	1949	4,800	1974	1,535	1999	2,825
1925	4,100	1950	4,583	1975	1,530	2000	3,039
1926	4,041	1951	4,581	1976	1,525	2001	3,248
1927	3,995	1952	4,568	1977	1,510	2002	3,402
1928	3,760	1953	4,542	1978	1,519	2003	3,433
1929	4,561	1954	4,509	1979	1,564	2004	3,475
1930	5,361	1955	4,483	1980	1,576	2005	3,486
1931	5,090	1956	4,391	1981	1,533	2006	3,569
1932	4,825	1957	4,194	1982	1,439	2007	3,596
1933	4,570	1958	3,996	1983	1,304
1934	4,305	1959	3,414	1984	1,271
1935	4,410	1960	3,034	1985	1,310

Many city centre cinemas turned to bingo halls and retail outlets. The mid 80s was the nadir for cinemas. The rise of home video contributed to lose of the cinema tickets sale.