Audience awareness (Cinema Inquiries : News Update)

It seems since my last post about audience awareness it seems odeon has e-mailed back but not with good news...

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 12:35 PM, ODEON Guest Services <GS@odeon.co.uk> wrote:

Dear Tom,

Thank you for your email.

Unfortunately we do not carry this information to share.

Should you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to email us again or call 0871 22 44 007* between 11am and 8pm.

Regards,

Mark
ODEON Guest Services

* Calls cost 10p per minute plus network extras.


On Tue, 13 Nov 2012, tw.shepherd1995@googlemail.com wrote:
> I would prefer it if you could reply back to this email as fast as possible.
> If possible could i have a short list of your most popular selling film genre.
>
> Tom Shepherd

Animatic

This is the animatic of our storyboard.

This was only created to get a basic idea of the timing. 

(A very simple animatic with no real flow or sound)

Production Logo

The finished production logo...

...Tadaa

Equipment list

This is a list of the equipment we will need;

• 1x Fish eye Camera
• 1x Steadicam rig
• 1x Camera
• 2x Spotlights with a diffusion filter 
• 1x Tripod

We will need this equipment for the 8th of December.

Production Logo WIP

Just a few work in progress pictures of our amazingly awesome...ish production logo.

Risk Assessment

Audience awareness (Cinema Inquiries)

I sent an e-mail to the Odeon and Cineworld franchises inquiring as to their resent statistics of sales for different genres. Odeon has not replied but Cineworld has replied with a disappointing e-mail saying that they only have information on sales that is not genre specific.

Audience Awareness (Stats Analysis)

Recently I been doing some basic research into what genre of film has the largest audience. I done research about the statistics as to which has the largest audience in relation to it's worldwide grossing total. This figure only gives a basic idea of the audience size as the price of film tickets change but as the total gross is made up of multiple releases it gives an idea of the popularity of a film and it's genre.

Top 20 films of all times

(worldwide gross)

1. Avatar (2009)
2. Titanic (1997)
3. Marvel's The Avengers (2012)
4. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 (2011)
5. Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
6. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
7. The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
8. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
9. Toy Story 3 (2010)
10. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
11. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
12. Alice in Wonderland (2010)
13. The Dark Knight (2008)
14. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
15. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
16. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 (2010)
17. The Lion King (1994)
18. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
19. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
20. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

From these twenty we can get a basic understanding as to the most popular genre of film. 

In the basic look it would seem that action is one of the most popular genres. It would also seem that films using  CGI or animation have a higher audience than live action films. 

Little Addition

Today we created a Facebook page to get other peoples opinions. We are going to allow other people to give us ideas, advice and overall help to make this thriller opening great. Here is a link to the Entrapment page. 

Storyboard

Storyboard for Entrapment-

Experiments & Evaluation

POV Experiment-

An evaluation of our POV experiment shows us what we need to change to better the effect. We need to increase the distance between the posters so that there is enough time to get back to a center line. We need to allow enough time for the fast motion between credits. Other than these changes I think the POV will be successful with a bit of revision of the small details.

Here is the evidence for a future disaster...

Location examples

Examples of various locations that the opening could be set in.