Our film 'Burning Aces' was a thriller genre, that was created with no sort of budget whatsoever. This overall made it hard to make a very good thriller film that had much suspense, drama and high pulse action. Despite these obstacles, I believe our film fulfilled its potential in that we tried our hardest to create a decent film on no budget. Our film challenged many of the generic conventions that a thriller film should possess, with our poker match being typically thriller with our main protagonist meeting our main antagonist in a one-on-one do or die grudge match. Also, our media product tried to copy other thriller films that already exist, but added it's own twist. Unfotunately, thanks to the budget that we were on, we were unable to live up to Hollywood standards, but nevertheless, our film was good for its catergory.
Our film pretty much relates to any person as it is easy going and not to complicated but I would say that for a catergory of people, I could see many young males adapting to this better than the older generation as the generic conventions of thriller are easy for the younger generation to understand and many of the films that our film is similar to are watched by the younger generation and from the male sex. Possibly, the poker game makes it very adaptable to young males as the game of poker is played majoritly by men. Not only this but the characters are both young males and have a goal to beat the other, which gives the plot a manly characteristic.
I believe that the target audience for our film would definitely be young adult males and teenagers; however, the film is adaptable for any sort of person, no matter what their age or sex due to its simple plot. But due to it being based around a poker game, a game that many young males play and the antagonist and protagonist being both male, this film would have a target audience of young males. If there was a certificate to be placed on our film, it would probably be suited to 15; however, depending on how our chase scene went, the certificate could be lowered to 12a, leading to a much wider range of audience.
With our target audience being large, a cinema chain should be able to show our film and should be successful with the correct marketing and advertising. A trailer would possibly boost our advertising ratings and will get the film out there. Also, a trailer will give a good insight into what our film would be like and whether the audience want to come and see the film at the cinema. Another possible method of advertising is through adverts in magazines and newspapers and also on billboards, so that the general public will have a better chance to see that our film is out there and will also be given details about where to see it, the certificate and who is starring in it. Finally, a possible technique is to give the film an unique selling point, such as we could relate the protagonist to the normal, everyday person which would be relatively easy as our protagonist as he lives in the city and leads an everyday life, but is highly qualified in conning typical antagonists.
I have learnt that producing a film is more difficult than I thought as problems easily come about and that on no budget, the film making process is extremely difficult, much more difficult than it would be if we were given a budget of some sort. What stuck out as harder than I thought was keeping to the 180 degree rule, which meant that the structure of the shots had to be careful as one shot with the 180 degree rule broken may ruin the whole film.
Compared to our preliminary task, we were able to have more freedom in what we could do. When our final piece was shown to a group of unbias people, they said that the amount of freedom that we were allowed meant that we were able to tick as many boxes that we originally set out to achieve. Most of the people liked our plot and story idea which we drew many positives from, but we did encounter some problems. such as breaking the 180 degree rule in one of our shots and the camera wire being visible in the bottom right-hand corner of one of our shots.
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