assignment 2 Task Three - Research for production

the equipment i will need are as followed.The equipment I will need are as followed:

Video camera

http://www.hireacamera.com/camcorders/detail.asp?model=21

The video camera I have picked is the Sony dcr-trv480e

This camera will work well with my group and me because out of all the camcorders this one was the cheapest. As we could hire it for a day for £35.00 but we are going to hire it for a week as it only cost £66.67 if we was going to hire it for 4-5 days it will cost a lot more if you hire it daily then hire it for a week. The daily vat costs £42.00 and the weekly vat costs £80.00. The deposit of this camera is £50.00. This may seem a lot but this is the cheapest camera out of all of the ones shown on the website.

The Sony DCR-TRV480E will be supplied in a flight case with the following -  

•    1 x Manual •    1 x Composite Lead •    1 x Mains Lead •    1 x Mains Adaptor •    1 x Cleaning Cassette •    1 x Strap •    1 x Lens Cap The tripod that was recommended for the camera, which was chosen by me, is the fluid tripod the daily price of this is £8.33 and the weekly price is £34.17. We also are getting 4-4 pin fire wire cable so we are able to upload the footage onto the computer. the prices of daily and weekly are the same £3.33

the tripod and the cable can be found in the accessories part of the camera 

the location on where we are going to be filming is going to be at a park where we are going to use some of the trees for part of our advert and we will be using a class room for the news place.
the park location will be central park as it has a open area which will be good for what we need as well will need a place to start running at a point in our advert and we will need easy low trees to use.
central park at the moment for water work so we may have to move to the chase which has more trees. this will be ok but may cause problems as their is not much area to get part of our advert in for the full effect.

we will hire people to act out people from the different people from the games. so we will need costumes to make the people look like them. for example for Connor from assassins creed we will just really need a hood that will cover their face also it will need to be white. we could use some fake blood for the zombies (which depends on how much of the face of the zombie we show) that will be near the end of the advert.we need a blue shirt and maybe some blue jeans for steve from minecraft. and we could get a mask for batman and a black cape. but we could just have the mask for batman

assignment 2 Task Two - Ideas Generation

the orange box consist of 3 games half life 2, team fortress 2 and portal.
these games people enjoyed as they would last quite some time and portal would make your brain think a lot as it was a puzzle type game team fortress 2 was a online game where you can play with many people online.
this is what we will be doing our idea on we are taking the idea of having different games on one disc but we are changing the games round to games which are more up to date.
we took in many ideas for this game box but some of our ideas had to removed from our final idea
some of these for games was:
assassins creed, resident evil, batman, minecraft, skyrim, call of duty.
we later removed call of duty as it had guns in it as they was not aloud to be in our advert so we removed it so we are going to use these games.

assassins creed


resident evil


batman


minecraft


These games have been round for a while now and they seemed to be the most played games so we thought would be a good idea to have these games in our game box. we settled on 5 games tops as you really don't want too many games to be in the game box as it would cost a lot of money to get the games on the box in the first place.
we first thought of what colour we could have for our box because we couldn't keep it the same as the orange box.
we are going to change the colour to the purple box as purple can be a mixed like colour for both genders.
the age range of this would be 15+ because some of the game does have violence which would not be suitable for younger ages but some will have passwords for parents to stop their kids for playing certain games e.g. resident evil as it has a lot of blood and people dyeing. also most of theses games are about the age ratting of 15+

Assignment 2 Task One – Market and Target Audience Research

in this blog i will be talking about the ways of researching

We used different ways to find out what we are going to do for our advert

We made a survey with these questions

What games would you like to see on the game box?

Resident evil=5

Skyrim=3

Minecraft=6

Batman=4

Assassin’s creed=7

Other=5

What could the age range be for the game box?

Most people said above 15 so we put it as 15+

What would the main focus of gender be?

We settled on focusing on both

How many games would you like to see on the game box?

1-3=13

4-6=15

7-9= 2

would you like a DLC in the game box?

Yes=27

No=3

If you said yes to the DLC would it be good if it was pong?

Yes=18

No=12
we asked these question to a focus group and here are a few of the people we asked

Marketing

assassin's creed 3

The assassin's creed is a great game to add to the game box as many people play it and enjoy the story line the advert is an animation but it makes it look quick and fast and then slows the shot down when he kills a person. the assassin's creed

Batman



batman would be a good one to add as many people know who he is and it was a very good game to involved in the game box as many people have heard of the game and would want to play it. the game looks life like sometimes or like the film.
Resident evil 6

resident evil we thought that we would leave at the end as a way of ending the advert because of the zombie innovation. the game is a very good series of games which is based on a terrorist attack but umbrella and survivors try and find a way of stopping it.

Minecraft


minecraft would be a great game to add as many people are able to play and as the xbox have created their own version so i thought it would be a good idea to introduce it to the ps3. many people play the game so they might get the game box for such a massive game.