Institution

My research shows that for this genre there isn’t a main institution that tends to make this type of film. I found that a lot of popular and not so popular institutions will make this genre of film. I found that although some movies like Austin Powers was shown to be extremely popular and ended up making a lot of money some other films such as Knight and Day didn’t. Box Office Mojo shows that Knight and Day was produced by the Fox studio but only made around $76,423,035 where as Austin Powers was produced by NL studio and made over $2million. I think for this genre institution is not as important because some small and not so popular companies make more successful comedy spy films

Questionnaire

We are making a spy, comedy, action spoof. We are focusing our work on a few different films such as Austin Powers, Hot Fuzz, Johnny English and Zombieland.

1) Would you go and see this film in the cinema?

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2 )What would you expect to see in a film like this?...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

3) Do you have any ideas about what we could include in this film? If yes, what?...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

4) Who do you think the audience would be for this type of spy-spoof action comedy?................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

5) What do you think we could do to make our film different from every other spy-spoof?...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Rank	Title (click to view)	Studio	Lifetime Gross /Theaters		Opening / Theaters		Date
1	Austin Powers in Goldmember	NL	$213,307,889	3,613	$73,071,188	3,613	7/26/02
2	Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me	NL	$206,040,086	3,314	$54,917,604	3,312	6/11/99
3	Cars 2	BV	$191,448,767	4,115	$66,135,507	4,115	6/24/11
4	True Lies	Fox	$146,282,411	2,561	$25,869,770	2,368	7/15/94
5	Get Smart	WB	$130,319,208	3,915	$38,683,480	3,911	6/20/08
6	Knight & Day	Fox	$76,423,035	3,104	$20,139,985	3,098	6/23/10
7	Spies Like Us	WB	$60,088,980	1,700	$8,614,039	1,556	12/6/85
8	Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery	NL	$53,883,989	2,187	$9,548,111	2,187	5/2/97
9	The Tuxedo	DW	$50,547,998	3,022	$15,051,028	3,022	9/27/02

Box Office Mojo shows that the most popular Comedy Spy film is Austin Powers. It also tells us that there are various institutions that are willing to make a film of this genre. 

Audience

The film we are aiming to make is going to be a spy, comedy and action spoof. This film will have a wide range of viewers and our primary audience will be mainly young male around the age of 12 onwards, this is because they are the main age and gender that are interested in the action and spy style of this film. This is also good for the comedy element of our film because it is a spoof and we will need the audience to understand and get the jokes that are part of the spy and action genre. The secondary audience will be the people that are interested in watching mainly comedies and the spoof type films such as Johnny English or Austin Powers.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Week 1	Louise: analyse first 5 minutes of Die Hard. Kelly: analyse first 5 minutes of Bourne Identity.	Louise: analyse first 5 minutes of Mr and Mrs Smith. Kelly: analyse first 5 minutes of Bounty Hunter.	**********	Louise: analyse first 5 minutes of Indiana Jones. Kelly: analyse first 5 minutes of The Dark Knight.	Louise: analyse first 5 minutes of Hot Fuzz. Kelly: analyse first 5 minutes of Hancock.
Week 2	Louise: analyse first 5 minutes of James Bond. Kelly: analyse first 5 minutes of Red.	Louise: analyse first 5 minutes of Austin Powers. Kelly: analyse first 5 minutes of Transformers.	***********	***********	************

Planning and research

-Decide who you are working with for your project (if anyone) - Kelly Senior and Louise Browbank

-Decide on the genre of your film - Action/Comedy/Spy

-Brainstorm ideas for at least 5-10 films from your genre (use the web to find ideas if you can’t think of any). If working in a group, you should look at 5-10 films each (although these could be the same films)

-The Bourne Identity (we will use the action and mystery aspects of this film)

-Johnny English (we chose this film because it's an action but it's funny)

-Die Hard (action)

-Red (action)

-Bounty Hunter (comedy/action)

-Hancock (comedy/action)

-Hot Fuzz (comedy)

-Mr and Mrs Smith (action/interesting storyline)

-Knight and Day (action/comedy)

-Dark Knight (action)

-Indiana Jones (adventure/action)

-James Bond Casino Royale. (action/spy)

Today we were given our third filming task which had to involve a 180 degree rule, Action Match and a Shot/Reverse Shot. For this lesson we made a script and found what location we are going to use and what the clip is going to be about.