Social Class - The British Class System

Upper Class: Breeding, aristocracy, country estates
Personality: Toff, privileged, snobby, opinionated, know-it-alls, self-centred, judgemental, inbred, stupid
Sports: Usually things involved with horses

Middle Class: Factory owners, vulgar, make money
Personality: Snobby, education is important, very status obsessed, NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard), selfish, judgemental, accents are very important
Sports: Golf, Rugby

Working Class: Work in factories, follow on from parents
Personality: Friendly, community minded, get on with neighbours, family orientated, honest, hard working
Sports: Football, Darts

Lower Class: Unemployed, homeless
Personality: Chavs, Burberry wearing, alcoholics, aggressive, drugs, thieves

Seven Classes:

• Privileged Elite
• Established Middle Class
• New Affluent Workers
• Technical Middle Class
• Emergent Service Workers
• Traditional Working Class
• Precariat

Regional Identity - Liverpool (Scousers)

Stereotypes:

• Have the most deluded football fans.
• An unsafe place to visit (cars could be stolen, you could be assaulted etc.)
• A dirty area e.g. people from Liverpool or "Scousers" are often called things such as "bin dippers".
• Everybody's name is preceded by 'our'. "Our Jake, Our Carl" etc.
• Love for The Beatles
• All people within Liverpool either support the football clubs Everton or Liverpool. Both have a rivalry with each other (The Merseyside Derby) along with Liverpool FC also holding a rivalry with Manchester United.
• Most "scousers" are proud to be from Liverpool although on the outside is generally thought of as a very negative place.

Notable People:

• Steven Gerrard (Footballer)
• Rick Astley (Singer)

Practical Task - Identifying target audience through questionnaire

SurveyMonkey Survey

In attempt to find out the target audience for the genre of film we are making, we designed a survey through SurveyMonkey, which we proceeded to send out to different people. Here are some of our results, which give us an idea on the kind of audience we will be aiming our film to.

As apparent through these two questions in our survey, males tend to prefer action films, over the other options.

 It is also seen from these two questions that the two genre's that females tend to prefer are comedy and horror.

As seen from this question, a very large majority, of nearly 90% of our audience are of the age 16 to 30. This will help us decide how we film, insuring that we target it for this age.

In conclusion, from these, and other questions we asked through this questionnaire, we managed to discover that our target audience are predominantly male, and between the age 16 to 30 year olds. We have also found that as well as the "Thriller" genre, they enjoy mainly "Action", "Horror" and "Comedy" films. Due to the age of our audience, a large majority of them will be at school or college. For those who are not in college, with the amount of income they receive, the majority will be middle class. We also managed to find that factors such sexuality and nationality didn't matter and were in fact not relevant towards viewing habits to the type of movie we produced.

Practical Task - Call Sheet

Date:

Saturday 7th February 2015

Location:
Keinan Rayat's House, Michael Thomas' House and Alexandar Jokovic's House

Weather:
Overcast - 7 Degrees

Director(s):
Barney Kleinman, Keinan Rayat

Cameramen:
Barney Kleinman, Keinan Rayat

Editor(s):
Barney Kleinman (main editor), Keinan Rayat, Amar Jakupovic, Alex Jokovic

Cast:
Michael Thomas as Michael Blakewood, Alex Jokovic as Alex Wilson

Schedule:
09:00 - Filming at Michael Thomas' house for very first scene of main character Michael Blakewood (played by Michael Thomas) is contemplating suicide.

11:00 - Filming at Alex Jokovic's house for scene with corridor where main character Michael Blakewood (played by Michael Thomas) has heard gunshot and decides to investigate by going down the stairs.

13:00 - Filming at Keinan Rayat's house for final scene where main character Michael Blakewood (played by Michael Thomas) has discovered the dead body of character Alex Wilson (played by Alex Jokovic).