Post Production: Ident

This is the ident for our group that we created which appears at the start of our film opening. Before settling on this ident, we experimented with different types of idents that could best fit our film opening. We feel that this was the best title to use as our ident because each part of the title is the first 2 letters of each of our first names of the people in our group. In addition to that, we thought that it also looked the most professional out of the idents we looked at. In order to produce our ident we used Adobe Indesign and then imported the ident into Premiere Pro, which we used to edit our film opening. Finally, we felt it suited the genre and conventions of our film opening, which is action thriller. 

Risk Assessment

Target Audience

The target audience for our film opening will be teenagers aged 15 and over. This is because there is moderate violence in our film opening and two of the characters that are in our film are played by teenagers, therefore, it would allow our intended target audience to relate to them. In addition, our genre, which is action thriller, will appeal to our primary target audience because stereotypically teenagers over the age of 15 would be interested in the chosen genre of our film opening. Furthermore, the protagonist in our film opening is male, therefore, it is more likely that it will appeal to males.

Due to the linear narrative in our film opening, it allows the audience to feel the suspense and tension through the conventions of the action thriller genre that are represented within our film opening. In order for our primary target audience to enjoy our film opening, we have to keep them engaged through the use of tension created in our two minute film opening and ensure that the film opening sticks to the conventions of our chosen genre.

Actors Media Consent Forms

Consent forms completed by the actors starring in our 

film opening 

Call Sheet

Costume, Props and Make up

In our film opening, the costume, props and make-up within it will have to link to the stereotypes we wish to conform to or subvert. In addition to that, we will also have to conform or subvert the conventions of our chosen genre, Action-Thriller.

Costume 

The main antagonist in our film opening will wear a black suit and tie because in the action thriller film Heat, the main antagonist in that film, Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro), also wears the aforementioned costume. This is because we want to conform to what a villain would like with a film that has a closely linked narrative to our film opening.  Furthermore, in most action thriller films the antagonists tend to wear black clothing as it connotes that the characters are powerful and have a mysterious personality that stemmed from a vendetta for someone that has wronged them in the past.

The protagonist in our film opening will wear a hoodie, jeans and trainers because we want him to represent what the average male teenager would like. In addition, to that we feel that this would empower our target audience as they are aged 15 and over and may feel inspired. We also wanted to loosely conform to what a main protagonist would look like in an action thriller film, specifically, Lieutenant Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino) in Heat (1995), as he wears more casual clothing than the main antagonist, Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro).

Props

One of the props that will be used in our film opening is a metal briefcase. This is an essential part of our narrative as this is the prop that the antagonists will be exchanging and it is also what the protagonist will be after when chasing the main antagonist.

Make up


In our film opening, it won't be necessary for our characters to wear make up because in action-thriller films the main characters need to look as realistic as possible and it is possible for them to get injuries and scars over the course of an action-thriller narrative due to characters being involved in altercations and fights for the purpose of the narrative.