Monday, 20 February 2012
Questionnaire answer analysis
Favourite villains:
Micheal Myers (Halloween) (Horror)
Al Capone (The Untouchables) (Action)
Jeremy Irons (Die Hard 3) (Action)
Zerg (Toy Story) (Family)
The Kurgen (Highlander) (Action)
Red Mist (Kickass) (Action)
The Joker (Batman – Dark Knight) (Action)
Jigsaw (Saw) (Horror)
From the looks of things here, many of these characters seem to be selfish, psychopathic, and have few redeeming qualities. However, it can also be noted that this seems to be the stereotype for action characters, and if we look at the horror characters, they seem to be "born evil" and don't seem to stray from this; although, having said this, in comparison to the horror genre, the only Family Film antagonist aids the protagonists at the end of the film.
Favourite Heros:
Woody (Toy Story) (Family)
Spiderman (Family)
Superman (Family)
John Mclane (Die Hard) (Action)
Oh (Year One) (Comedy)
Jason Bourne (Bourne Trilogy) (Action)
Robert Neville (I am Legend) (Horror/Thriller)
Graham (Red Dragon Rising) (Horror/Thriller)
It seems here that the favoured protagonists here seem to be family film characters, closely followed by action and Horror/Thriller heroes. In family and films, the hero is seemingly invariably "good", and always survives the film with a soaring rise in popularity and/or power. Having said this, it is worth comparing those characters to that of Robert Neville and Graham, who are vulnerable throughout the film and have questionable ethics and a deep history.
Favourite Genre:
Horror – “Gets heart pumping, stays in mind longer” “I like suspense and gore!” “I like films that make me scared”
Rom-Com
Thriller
Action/Adventure – “They are entertaining”
Comedy – “It’s funny” “It makes me laugh” “I like to laugh”
Horror title colours: Red, black, grey, white
Rom-com title colours: Pink, white, red
Comedy title colours: Purple, orange, green, colours not associated with gender
Action title colours: Red, orange
Thriller title colours: Black, silver, gold, white
Whether people prefer linear plotlines:
7:2 people preferred a linear plotline in their films, and this means that disturbing this would disorientate the audience and cause them to feel unnerved.
Favoured underlying themes:
All the participants of the questionnaire prefer an antagonist with a detailed past, so it is best that the character made should be a complex, 3d character, rather than a character put in place for the express purpose of making a movie.
This indicates that despite the difference in releases, Horror made, on average, less than Romance, this could be argued that the Romance are often predominantly family films, meaning they have a larger audience, whereas Horror films are generally 18+, and therefor have a far smaller audience.
Combined with this, the top performing title for Romance is the Twilight Saga, which is built upon the foundation set by a series of books and therefor had a pre-existing fan-base to cause additional profits to offset the cost of expensive special effects given from the massive budget ($68m). On the other hand, Paranormal Activity had an extremely low budget for special effects, and had no pre-existing fan-base, which meant that the fact that it succeeded to become the top performing title of its genre implies that it made massive profits despite the low budget ($3m), which is what we will have to work with.
Paranormal Activity 2 grossed $177,512,032 so the film made $174m profit from a very small audience and almost no special effects.
Eclipse grossed $698,491,347 so the film made $630m profit from a far larger audience, being a family romance suitable for all audiences with powerful CGI.
In conclusion, I have decided to film a psychological horror with relatively little violence and a main concentration on camera angles and sound to create tension. This is due to the relatively large profit made from the smaller audience while using a low budget.
This would likely obtain a 15+ certificate from the BBFC for several reasons:
The film contains a several scenes about taking drugs, but the context is medical and does not encourage misuse or glamourise the use of easy-to-get drugs.
There is a strong theme of menace and/or threat throughout the film, but it is not sadistic or sexualised.
Dangerous behaviour is either so low that it does not create a lasting impression on the viewer, or does not exist at all.
There is no "Frequent use of strong language", there is little enough dialogue at all.
There is no nudity, sexualised or otherwise.
There are no references to sex.
Scenes which include violence do not dwell on the infliction or pain of the subject and there is little gore, as well as this, none of the violence is sexualised or is in a sexual context.
This would be beneficial for profit, as it advertises that the film is not something for children to watch, so adolescents which are likely to be emerging from childhood into adulthood will be pushed to watch more "grown-up" films, such as Paranoia, as well as established 18+ year old audiences.
The fact that the film would receive a 15 certificate would mean that the image below:
would have to be printed on each and every copy of the DVD, Blu-ray, Video Cassette, and poster for the film in order to make the rating available to the audience to induce the correct response.
Until the certificate is confirmed however, they would have to be printed with
Micheal Myers (Halloween) (Horror)
Al Capone (The Untouchables) (Action)
Jeremy Irons (Die Hard 3) (Action)
Zerg (Toy Story) (Family)
The Kurgen (Highlander) (Action)
Red Mist (Kickass) (Action)
The Joker (Batman – Dark Knight) (Action)
Jigsaw (Saw) (Horror)
From the looks of things here, many of these characters seem to be selfish, psychopathic, and have few redeeming qualities. However, it can also be noted that this seems to be the stereotype for action characters, and if we look at the horror characters, they seem to be "born evil" and don't seem to stray from this; although, having said this, in comparison to the horror genre, the only Family Film antagonist aids the protagonists at the end of the film.
Favourite Heros:
Woody (Toy Story) (Family)
Spiderman (Family)
Superman (Family)
John Mclane (Die Hard) (Action)
Oh (Year One) (Comedy)
Jason Bourne (Bourne Trilogy) (Action)
Robert Neville (I am Legend) (Horror/Thriller)
Graham (Red Dragon Rising) (Horror/Thriller)
It seems here that the favoured protagonists here seem to be family film characters, closely followed by action and Horror/Thriller heroes. In family and films, the hero is seemingly invariably "good", and always survives the film with a soaring rise in popularity and/or power. Having said this, it is worth comparing those characters to that of Robert Neville and Graham, who are vulnerable throughout the film and have questionable ethics and a deep history.
Horror – “Gets heart pumping, stays in mind longer” “I like suspense and gore!” “I like films that make me scared”
Rom-Com
Thriller
Action/Adventure – “They are entertaining”
Comedy – “It’s funny” “It makes me laugh” “I like to laugh”
Rom-com title colours: Pink, white, red
Comedy title colours: Purple, orange, green, colours not associated with gender
Action title colours: Red, orange
Thriller title colours: Black, silver, gold, white
Whether people prefer linear plotlines:
7:2 people preferred a linear plotline in their films, and this means that disturbing this would disorientate the audience and cause them to feel unnerved.
Favoured underlying themes:
All the participants of the questionnaire prefer an antagonist with a detailed past, so it is best that the character made should be a complex, 3d character, rather than a character put in place for the express purpose of making a movie.
This indicates that despite the difference in releases, Horror made, on average, less than Romance, this could be argued that the Romance are often predominantly family films, meaning they have a larger audience, whereas Horror films are generally 18+, and therefor have a far smaller audience.
Combined with this, the top performing title for Romance is the Twilight Saga, which is built upon the foundation set by a series of books and therefor had a pre-existing fan-base to cause additional profits to offset the cost of expensive special effects given from the massive budget ($68m). On the other hand, Paranormal Activity had an extremely low budget for special effects, and had no pre-existing fan-base, which meant that the fact that it succeeded to become the top performing title of its genre implies that it made massive profits despite the low budget ($3m), which is what we will have to work with.
Paranormal Activity 2 grossed $177,512,032 so the film made $174m profit from a very small audience and almost no special effects.
Eclipse grossed $698,491,347 so the film made $630m profit from a far larger audience, being a family romance suitable for all audiences with powerful CGI.
In conclusion, I have decided to film a psychological horror with relatively little violence and a main concentration on camera angles and sound to create tension. This is due to the relatively large profit made from the smaller audience while using a low budget.
This would likely obtain a 15+ certificate from the BBFC for several reasons:
The film contains a several scenes about taking drugs, but the context is medical and does not encourage misuse or glamourise the use of easy-to-get drugs.
There is a strong theme of menace and/or threat throughout the film, but it is not sadistic or sexualised.
Dangerous behaviour is either so low that it does not create a lasting impression on the viewer, or does not exist at all.
There is no "Frequent use of strong language", there is little enough dialogue at all.
There is no nudity, sexualised or otherwise.
There are no references to sex.
Scenes which include violence do not dwell on the infliction or pain of the subject and there is little gore, as well as this, none of the violence is sexualised or is in a sexual context.
This would be beneficial for profit, as it advertises that the film is not something for children to watch, so adolescents which are likely to be emerging from childhood into adulthood will be pushed to watch more "grown-up" films, such as Paranoia, as well as established 18+ year old audiences.
The fact that the film would receive a 15 certificate would mean that the image below:
would have to be printed on each and every copy of the DVD, Blu-ray, Video Cassette, and poster for the film in order to make the rating available to the audience to induce the correct response.
Until the certificate is confirmed however, they would have to be printed with
Which means "To Be Classified", meaning that the film has yet to be formally recognised as a film to be released with any particular certificate.
Friday, 3 February 2012
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