Casting Ideas

To help pick the ideal cast for our opening we looked at different variations of what we wanted / the typical characteristics of their dominant representations. From what was available to us we chose the people you see in the slide show. 

We felt that they accurately depicted what we were trying to show effortlessly and helped us to add our own perception of the genre to our piece.

Mood board: Aurora

This is the mood board we created to represent the main protagonist Aurora. This collection essentially embodies all that a dystopian survivor should be and hopefully what we'll be able to re-create in our opening.

Mood board: Teenagers

This is the mood board we made to represent the Aurora's (imaginary) teenage friends. The pictures essentially represent the dominant ideology of who teenagers as a group are. In our opening we didn't have to try particularly hard to embody these characteristics as we are teenagers ourselves and life George Melley said; there's a complex relationship between reality and stereotypes as there is an element of truth to every one of them.

Audience Research - Focus group 2

This is our second focus group screening as having a response to two videos rather than one gives us more information and therefore more to work from.

Audience research - Focus group 1

Focus group watching '28 weeks later' opening for audience research

Audience research

Audience research Survey questions and responses we got about the dystopian genre. slideshare.net

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/JJF8DYN - This is a blank version of the survey we made.

Codes and Conventions

Codes and conventions

This is a powerpoint on the codes and conventions of the Dystopia genre

28 days later opening analysis

Untitled Prezi prezi.com Shannon Fowkes

The Hunger Games opening analysis

12 Monkeys opening analysis

12 mONKEYS OPENING prezi.com Shannon Fowkes

Children of Men opening analysis

I am Legend opening analysis

This trailer just like the one in my last post is not what I analysed, it is there to give a general gist of what this film is about. Only a few shots in this clip are relevant to the task set but again this is the best I could find.

Z for Zachariah opening analysis

The first 30 seconds of this trailer is essentially made from the first 2 minutes of the actual film which is what I analysed. However, since I cant get the clip I need the trailer will have to do. (Disregard the rest of the trailer because that's all from later on in the movie and is therefore basically irrelevant).

Comparable Genres

The comparable genres we came up with. These were potential texts to look at to compare with the genre we decided to go with.

Initial planning ideas

This is a mindmap of the initial characteristics we thought we'd find in our research and the openings we considered researching.