Bit more planning

What a musical includes-
Songs(catchy)
Dance
Showstopper
Performance
A problem/twist in the plot
Romance


Ideas for our character-

• happy ending
• bubbly
• searching for the spotlight
• talented
• acts,sings and dances
• different from the rest of the cast
• carries a story

Storyline for our film-

• Talented teenage girl goes for an audition
• very bad auditionees
• put on a show
• love interest
• Girls competiveness almost costs her future

Distribution

Parodies:

Scary Movies-Miramax Films
Date Movie- 20th Century Fox
Epic Movie-20th Century Fox
Scary Movie 4-Buena Vista International
Spaceballs-Metro-Goldwyn Mayer
Austin Powers- Pathe Distribution(UK), New Line Cinema(USA)


Musicals:
Fame(1980) -United Artists
Fame(2009)- Entertainment film Distributors
White Christmas- Paramount Pictures
Footloose- Paramount Pictures
Grease- Paramount Pictures
Billy Elliot- Universal Focus
The Wizard of Oz- Metro- Goldwyn Mayer


Overall we found out that these two genres do not normally have to same distributors. However we found one match between Spaceballs and The Wizard of Oz and their distributor was Metro-Goldwyn Mayer. Therefore we have decided to go with Metro-Goldwyn Mayer because this is the link we were looking for. Even though Paramount pictures was the most common distributor between the musicals and 20th Century Fox was the most common between the parodies they are single minded to their genres.

Genre Research:

Parodies:
-Scary Movies 1(2000),2(2001),3(2003),4(2006)
-Austin Powers(1997)
-Date Movie(2006)
-Superhero Movie(2008)
-Epic Movie(2007)
-Spaceballs(1987)
-Airplane(1980)

Musicals:
Fame(2009)
Fame(1980)
Footloose(1984)
Sound of music(1965)
Grease(1978)
Billy Elliot(2000)
White Christmas(1954)

Genre Research



Parodies:

-Scary Movie 1,2,3,4

-Date Movie

-Austin Powers(1997)

-Spaceballs(1987)

-Airplane(1980)

Script for Voiceover


Katie: It's fine i can do this i have been performing since i was three years old its just one audition what does it mean!?...... OH SHIT! it means everything, this one audition could change my life and finally make me a star! (Breaths out through mouth) oh.............

Pre production survey

Female Male

My Age 6-12 13-18 19-29 30-50 51+

My favourite Genre:

Rom com Horror
Action Thriller
Musical Animation
Parody Childrens
Comedy Adventure
Sci-Fi Fantasy
Chick-flick Other

What would you expect from your favourite genre?

In a week how many times would you watch films?

In a month how many times would you visit the cinema?
Never
Once a month
Three times
Four times
More

Where/how do you watch films?
DVD/Videos
Downloads
Cinema
TV (eg. channel 4)

What are your top three films in your genre?



How do you first find out about movies?
Social Website Internet
Posters Cinema adverts
TV advert Other


How long does it take you to settle into film?

What rating would you expect a musical parody involving a romantic scene to have?
U 12A
PG 15
12 18

What would you expect from a musical parody?
Stereotypical character e.g. popular,geek
Romance
Songs
Dance
Murder
Gangsters
Showstoppers

What musicals have you seen?

What did you like about them?

Which of these titles do you think suits a musical parody?
Make me famous
Stardom
This is not it
One shot
Other

Post production survey

Age:

Gender:

Did you enjoy the opening of our film?

Do you think the title of the film is suitable?

What is it that you liked about the film, list 3 things:

What would you change about the opening?

Did the music link in with the opening?

Do you think the film would be the suited to the cinema?

What is it that you didnt like about the opening, list 3 things:

Do you think the opening suits its genre, musical parody?