Secondary Audience Research

This is the audience profile for the director's cut of Donnie Darko. The majority of the audience for this film is aged 15-34 years, this makes up 82% of the total audience. The percentage split for gender is almost equal, tilting only slightly towards more of a male audience compared to female audience. Understandably the film is targeted heavily towards middle and upper class, this is probably because it allows an easier relation to the characters for people who fit into this category.

This is the audience profile for Inception, the second film I analyzed was Memento but there was no profile for that, Inception is similar however and does display Memento as the comparable profile choice. The age of the target audience is primarily 15-34 years (the same as Donnie Darko) with 67% making up this total. Strangely, the percentage split for gender is exactly half for both male and female audience members. This film is also heavily aimed towards middle and upper class, with a total of 82% of the audience falling into this category.

Research Into Distributors of Similar Products

Donnie Darko:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0246578/companycredits

Flower Films (II) is one of the production companies involved with the creation of Donnie Darko, other films that they have been involved in are:
50 First Dates
Charlie's Angels
Whip It

This shows that this specific production company makes Indie style films that differ from the usual blockbusters and are not what would be considered simple mind-numbing entertainment.
Despite alot of these films having quite a high budget, some don't so I think if I chose this company they could possibly be interested in producing my film.

Video Brief

Preliminary exercise: Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.

Main task: the titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of two minutes.
All video and audio material must be original, produced by the candidate, with the exception of music or audio effects from a copyright-free source.