Introduction for Professional Skills & Our Target Market

For this term professional skills brief, we have to show a wide range of skills in organisation and planning. As well a a look at some of the technical aspects of Referencing and Rendering.

But firstly we have established a target market that we want our film to be aimed at. We are creating a zombie related film but with a twist. We want to aim our film at all ages. We have tried to stay away from the normal Zombie blood and gore design as we see that as unsuitable for younger age groups, so using brighter colours turns the Zombie into more of a comedic character rather than the normal horror monster. However we want to make sure our style appeals to all ages, by using light humour and comedic value we believe that our film can be appealing for a wide range of audience. We want to create an original style that will appeal to other students or other creatives as well as having high quality work at the end of it.


We have looked a number of films we really like and plan to try use them as a good reference on how to maybe create a successful short film!


Below is a list of things I plan to look at and do this term:

- With the group, we plan to identify our target market and what we want to get out of our movie.

- I'll show my groups way we use referencing and Dropbox to make things easier for us to work apart but still get all the updates and files we need to continue working.

- I'll research and develop the idea of rendering use the Rave renderfarm. As I work at a production company I know alittle about the renderfarm experience but being able to render at uni would be a big advantage we would really want to take.

- Another part of the project is to develop and advertise our group work, so we want to create a website, plan our end of year show, design posters and start to get our video out there.

- We are using google calendars to plan out deadlines and events we want to achieve for our project.

- For a more personal aspect of this project. I will develop my showreel to show at the end of year show but this will most likely develop.

- We will be looking at the quality control aspect as our videos need to hit a certain specifications that work on the big screens around uni and online, keeping as much quality as we can.

Out of this I plan to learn alot about professional skills that I need to keep developing ready for when I look for work. As being able to meet deadlines, advertise my work to a high standard.