Showing posts with label Research. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Research. Show all posts

Friday, 6 March 2015

My Zombie Makeup

For my Teaser Trailer, I had to wear makeup to create the Zombie character. 



Below are all the images I took of myself with the Zombie looking makeup applied. 






Wednesday, 19 November 2014

Magazine Demographics

When searching in Google "Most popular gossip magazines UK" the search result was:
Now
OK
Heat World

I then used the website YouGov, which shows profiles of media products, such as magazines, films, bands, and the demographic of the average person who likes it. I searched the demographics for each gossip magazine that I found was most popular in the UK, so my results would be my most common target audience. Below are the screen shots...

NOW magazine demographics 





OK magazine demographics





HEAT magazine demographics






Result analysis:

I am overall very happy with the information I have found, the demographics were similar for each magazine, which will create a strong target audience for me to follow. Also, the sample size for each demographic is extremely high, over 1000 for each, and the size is shown on the screenshots. This will mean my findings are much more reliable.






Thursday, 6 November 2014

Magazine Front Cover Research - Survey Monkey - Primary Research

The link for my survey is - https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8YC8J2Y
I shall link it on my social networking sites

Wednesday, 8 October 2014

Age Rating BBFC

15 | Age Rating

(all copied from http://www.bbfc.co.uk/what-classification/15)

What might I see in a 15 rated film or video?

Any of the following:
  •   strong violence
  •  frequent strong language (e.g. 'f***').
  •   portrayals of sexual activity
  •   strong verbal references to sex
  •   sexual nudity
  •   brief scenes of sexual violence or verbal references to sexual violence
  •   discriminatory language or behaviour
  •   drug taking
  • Conventionally zombie horror films will only include the first 2 bullet points, I'm planning to only include these. On the website, "strong violence" is described as "It should not dwell on the infliction of pain or injury, however, and the strongest gory images are unlikely to be acceptable. Strong sadistic violence is also unlikely to be acceptable." This is fine also for my genre, as the shots wouldn't linger and the violence itself wouldn't be sadistic, the zombies causing the violence wouldn't be doing it for fun, they'd be doing it as part of their nature and to survive. 
  • On the website it says "At 15 there can be strong threat and horror as long as there is no sustained focus on sadistic or sexualised threat." Again, this is sufficient for my film as there will be an overwhelming threat of the undead Zombies, but it won't be sexualised or sadistic. 
  • Lastly the website quotes "We consider the risk of potential harm to impressionable teenagers. For example, dangerous behaviour such as hanging, suicide and self-harming should not dwell on detail which could be copied. Whether the depiction of easily accessible weapons is acceptable will depend on factors such as realism, context and setting." In my film there won't be suicide or hanging etc. Also, the weapons would only be easily accessible because the characters are in danger and need the weapons to survive, the weapons used will most probably be household items.


Examples of zombie horror films of a 15 age rating or lower:
28 Days Later
World War Z
Zombieland
Shaun of the Dead