Sunday, 18 December 2011

Props/Costumes

We only needed one prop and that was the mobile phone, as the mobile plays a key part in our teaser trailer, no phone, no movie. the rest of our props where coming from our enviroment where we actually filmed the shots.

For our costumes, we decided to go with suits, there was the main character, in a suit and the people chasing him where dressed in shirts and tie, this way you can easily identify the main character, through mis-en-scene as he is the only one wearing a suit jacket and the rest are just in normal shirt and tie, also it makes our film look very modern, in the aspect of, the film revolves around a mobile phone, which is new up to date technology, so we had to give the actors costumes which would suit that aspect of the film. suits, shirts and ties are all very 'business' like and when talking about mobile phones you would expect a business man to have a mobile phone, so we where right in giving the actors suits, to go with the business look and the whole mobile phone idea. 

13 Week Plan

Week 1&2

Research on existing trailers and market research

Week 3&4

costumes, props, location, blog and images, sketch for magazine and poster.

Week 5&6

Story board and plan layout. location photoshoot, check costumes and props and find actors
analyse more film trailers. location refer back to research. check story board.

Week 7 

Write Castlist, order of shots, write script, equipment check.

Week 8&9

shoot film, take photos, edit footage, photshoot.

Week 10&11

Magazine ideas, make magazine and poster.

Week 12&13

Final Check of promotion package, check with teacher, final evaluation, final blog check, corrections.

Script.

My groups original plan was to include a voice over with the movie trailer, but we have decided not to, as it would not suit our target audience. We feel as though our target audience would be alot more interested if we where to include fast paced music which is up to date. We feel as though a voice over is suited to a more older target audience and may slow the whole concept of the teaser trailer.

Thursday, 24 November 2011

Trailer analysis of source code.




At the start of the trailer institutional information is used straight away again, this obides with forms and conventions of normal movie trailers, and also as I referred to in a previous analysis, its like 'brand' recognition' if you know the production company and you've liked most of their films, then you're going to want to carry on watching this also if you know the production company has a lot of money and you know it's prestigious then you're going to know the film is going to be good. 

there are some sound effects which are played when the institutional information is shown, this straight away gives you a hint towards what the movie is about, and you're going to get some clues, via sound as to what the movie is about. 

sometimes with the editing of a film trailer, it's not all about something actually being on screen, a black screen with no sound can be just as effective as something on screen with sound, in this case they have used a black screen for a sort of 'pause' which has allowed the audience to gather together what has just happened and rethink it through their mind. 

good use of camera shots/angles, such as an establishing shot, which shows where the film is set. 

fast cuts in the editing side of the trailer can be used to illistrate the pace of the movie as 'fast' and also it will show just how intense the film is. fast paced is going to draw the audience in and make them watch it. they wont get bored with fast action packed part of a trailer. 

the trailer ends with insitutional information and when the movie is coming out. which is good for the audience, as they are going to want to know when it comes out and it use conventions of a normal trailer as most trailers have a date at which the film is released on it. 





Wednesday, 23 November 2011

Magazine Front Cover Draft.

Here I have created a magazine front cover draft of what I would expect my front cover to look similar to, I will use this draft to create my final magazine front cover, obviously with alot more detail and colours and real images. I used paint to create this draft as I feel it's the most simplistic programme to use aswell as it being quick. for my final magazine front cover I will be using Photoshop.

Tuesday, 15 November 2011

Filming

My group and I have successfully filmed out of movie trailer, there are one or two shots which still need to be filmed but these couldn’t be filmed due to lighting issues, with it going dark really early in the day lately, it was a struggle to fit such a vast amount of filming into such a short space of time and then we had the worry of lighting issues, and the floor was still quite damp from previous rain, so the footwear they were using 'smart shoes' proved and issue when they were doing all their running.

we are now onto editing the final movie trailer during the editing of the movie trailer I’m going to look at a lot of final cut pro tutorials as well as trying to do as much as possible of my magazine front cover and movie poster. Out of the two I feel the movie poster will take the longest to do, as I have never created a movie poster before, I have however made a magazine front cover.

final cut pro, from what I have gathered already is very difficult to use, from what i9 understand there is a user friendly version which is available but at a price and my school only has the old version, so it will be quite difficult and a lengthy process when editing, what makes the editing process easier is that we don’t really need sound from the clips we filmed, in our movie trailer so this will make the process of editing a lot faster.

We need.
- cut the clips and get what we need and don’t need
- make sound track or backing music
- Voice recorder a voice over for our movie trailer
- add transitions and effect to clips/between clips
- make final institutional info, so it's a perfect copy and then add into trailer

Thursday, 10 November 2011

GENRE

We are planning to have the trailer as a sci-fi/action/thriller because we feel as though this work quite well within the film industry and have quite a large audience that are interested within this genre. We also feel as though this genre will work well with the planning we have done for the trailer.

Monday, 31 October 2011

Filming issues

There has been a major filming issue which has affected us drastically, the weather over the half term has been absolutely horrendous, and as a result we have not done as much filming as we would of liked, the weather caused the environments we wanted to film in to be too dark, with it being too dark it would have affected the quality of our video.

we were due to film on Monday and Tuesday and could not on Wednesday as our group was busy, Monday and Tuesday where set filming days but our group failed to look at the weather forecast before the actual day arrives, from this we have learnt that when we book the cameras out, check the weather forecast first!

Friday, 21 October 2011

Research into film classification

My group decided to research what classification our trailer is going to get, we feel as though this is a very important part of marketing a movie, as without the correct classification you are not going to get as much money as possible for your film, and it may not target the correct audience.

We researched classification for our movie trailer and we have found that a trailer for a movie can get a different classification to the actual movie, we used the BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) to look at the guidelines for different ages so we could find a suitable classification for our movie.

We have decided to choose 12A, 12 for out movie trailer and for the movie we would make it a 15 classification

When looking at the 12 classification it states 'Imitable behaviour - Dangerous behaviour (for example, hanging, suicide and self-harming) should not dwell on detail which could be copied, or appear pain or harm free.  Easily accessible weapons should not be glamorised.' we feel as though the actual movie that would follow on from the trailer will have dangerous behaviour in it, such as the main character being chased by a group of men wanting to hurt him.

The BBFC say ' Violence - Moderate violence is allowed but should not dwell on detail. There should be no emphasis on injuries or blood, but occasional gory moments may be permitted if justified by the context. Sexual violence may only be implied or briefly and discreetly indicated, and must have a strong contextual justification.' we have come to the conclusion that there will be very little violence in our movie trailer, and will most certainly not dwell on detail, however if a full theatrical movie was made after the trailer, it would most certainly dwell on detail when there is moderate violence. No blood will be shown in the trailer and very little amount in a full movie.

I feel as though my trailer is going to fit into the 12A/12 classification before making this decision we looked at classification of 15 rated films and how they are classified.

The 15 classification is stated that imitable behaviour is the same as it is in the 12 classification, this allows our trailer to fall into the 12a/12 catergory however the violence is slightly higher in that 'it may be strong but should not dwell on the infliction of pain or injury. The strongest gory images are unlikely to be acceptable.' therefore, the intensity of the violence may be higher than it would be in a 12. our trailer can be classified as a 15 as it is very unlikely that strong violence will be shown in such a short amount of time.

Possible Candidates for Main Character



 
These are the possible candidates for my groups movie trailer, and those who we dont use as the main character will be asked to be extra, we have chosen these to be the candidates as they all seem to have reletivly masculin features and from our market research in which we videod we have gathered that a man would best suit the role of being the main character. they are all average height.

Wednesday, 19 October 2011

Possible Tag lines.

My group has come up with possible tag lines for my movie, these tag lines will be used on the trailer, poster and magazine front cover, and the tag line has to be very effective as it sort of like sums up the movie in one line.

'Answering to the unknown'
'Running from the inevitable'
'Living the impossible'
'Would you run the risk?'

We've tried to make the tag lines short and snappy as these are most likely to appeal to the audience and is the most eye catching, we have tried not to bore the audience with long, time consuming tag lines. The shorter the tagline the little thought process that has to go into looking at it which is a lot more effective, using a tagline is following the codes and conventions of other magazines as most have included a tag line


Using a tagline is going to be effective in our genre and poster and trailer as according to market research, a tag line is one of the top answers when we asked ' what sort of information would you like to see on a psychological thriller poster ' so we have had to think very carefully about the tag line we are going to use, we shall perhaps do market research on which of the above taglines we should use and which would be most effective for our genre of film.
and most are 4-5 words long for example, jumpers tagline is 'anywhere is possible'

Sunday, 9 October 2011

Bourne Identity Trailer Analysis

Here is the link to the trailer of the bourne identity I couldnt embed the trailer because the owner of the film had taken embedding rights from youtube.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD-uQreIwEk

At the beginning of the trailer the audience is introduced to the institutional information so if they have heard or watched any films made by the production company before then they will know what this movie is going to be like. so for example the production company of 'the dark knight' is warner bros, if you liked warner bros, and know what they're filmes are like then you know what's instore for you in the trailer.

It's like brand recognition, you wouldnt buy a phone which is exactly the same as an Iphone but didnt have the apple on the back of it. but you would buy an Iphone with an apple on the back because you know that it's going to be good through the brand and trademark

it's the same in films if you watch 2 films by the same producer then chances are they are going to be alike and you are going to take some sort of appeal to them both.

Action scenes in the movie start off quite early which is going to signify that the trailer and the final movie when its out is going to be quite action orientated and you can expect quite alot of fast editing, fast fades. The use of putting the action scenes at the beginning is it's going to quickly build interest for the viewer and its going to quickly make their decision as to whether to carry on watching or not, now depending on target audience will decide whether they're going to carry on watching or not, and in this case it doesnt really matter to the producer as they already have a target audience in mind.

But the use of action scenes in the begginning of the trailer is showing us it's going to be a young to middle aged target audience. as stereotypically they're going to enjoy a fast paced action packed film more than someone in their 50's.

Intensity is exaggerated as some of the action shots are slowed down. The fact that some of these action shots are in slow motion may actually draw the audience in even more because they're going to want to know what happens and it may not be happening fast enough which could leave them on 'the edge of their seats'

Camera angles and shots are used very well throughout the trailer, the director has made sure that mid shots have been used correctly so that when a mid shot is shown of a character, the audience know that this character in particular is more than likely going to be important.

In a particular part of the trailer a high angled shot of the main character has been used, this is particulary well done as it gives the audience a feeling that he is being watched by someone. it then turns into a CCTV shot, which could further back up the fact that the main character is so important.

Thursday, 6 October 2011

The importance of font for movie trailer.

Choosing the right font type for your company logo is not just about recognisability and being able to see it properly, although this is important.


take disney for example. the D at the beginning, clearly does not look like a D, it looks more like a G, and the Y at the end definatly looks like a P, and because there content is aimed at a much younger audience, they're going to grow up with these thoughts in mind which could be bad for the company, just because of their logo.
choosing a font for my logo is also about choosing a font that communicates the right message to my target audience. for example if my film was about something like construction, most people would probably find it more than just a little curious if your company logo had elegant swinging letters. it would have to be big and bulkey, which could be connotations of contrustion, I will have to take things like this into account when deciding my font for my movie trailer.

Wednesday, 5 October 2011

Market Research Part 1

Market Research

-          Whilst watching a Sci-fi Thriller, what lets you know it is in fact Sci-fi
-          Do you find sci-fis entertaining or appealing. Sci-fi being stuff like jumper


Need appropriate name for film. Ideas?  -apparition – too horror sort of name, sounds too scary and dark.
Definition of apparition - anything that appears, especially something remarkable or startling
Conveyance, transference??
Transference is more technological. But too long
Reverberation.

Need a tag line for film, ‘films under the genre sci-fi thriller or just thriller’ –

Tag line for jumper - anywhere is possible.
Anywhere. Anything. Instantly.
Tag line for transporter 1,2,3
-          Rules are made to be broken
-          The Best In The Business Is Back In The Game.
-          If You Need It To Arrive Safe and In One Piece -- Hire A Professional
Tag line for Tron
-          The only way to win is to survive.
Tag line for transformers
-          Only one team will transform your summer.

Production Company Mock ups

I have drawn some mock ups for my production company and print screened my production process of them, I have not print screened the production process of all my mock ups as some of them are basically the same process to make, just with different fonts and colours.



This was my first draft of a logo for my production company and institutional informtion. you can clearly see how my skills devlop on photoshop as I keep changing and making new production companies, this was probably the most simplistic of my logos, but it just wasnt right, it didnt have the feel of the genre of our movie, which is a thriller mixed with sci-fi. it was too brightly coloured and the text didnt go with the genre of the film and wouldnt produce a clear synergy throughout our trailer.
 This was my second attempt at a logo and again it's too 'child like' and brightly coloured which isnt the look im going for in our trailer.
                                           
 This Logo looks as though someone who has very basic skills and knownledge of photoshop created it, so im definatly not using this one.

 This Next logo is getting closer to the final design that we're looking for, it shows quite a decent understanding of photoshop and took alot longer to make than all the previous logos. I still feel that this is for some sort of childs movie, perhaps a PG and ours is aimed towards a much older and mature audience so I shall construct more logos till I find one which matches this description.
 I decided to take the above logo and make it darker and gloomier to make it more of a thriller sort of production company.
 I went for the black background and it maked it look alot better than the previous logos.
 This logo was created on a very complext programme called 'cinema 4D' in which is allows you to create very techniqual 3D text. but we still feel as though it needs to be darker and have more of a thriller 'edge' to it.


This Oaktree productions is probably one of the best logos Ive made, however it is definatly aimed more towards the younger audience so we wont be able to use it. oaktree productions is an alternative production company me and my group were going to use.

Our whole group had a go at creating logos and one of my group members made a more realistic, thriller genre sort of oaktree productions so that is the one we will be using in our trailer.

Monday, 3 October 2011

I am Number 4


I am Number 4
In this movie trailer institutional information is shown at the beginning
On YouTube the trailer is titled ‘teaser’ but it may not be, it could be a teaser trailer thought because instead of saying a specific date the movie is coming out it just says ‘coming soon’ which will leave the audience in suspense, wanting to know when the movie is in fact coming out.
The main character does the voice over which seems to be quite regular in most teaser trailers I have seen, also the sound seems to progress in pace, at the beginning the music/sound is very slow and then as the trailer goes on it gets a lot heavier and faster and turns into rock music at the beginning, there is a pause before the rock music kicks in which causes suspense as if to say ‘oh my god, what’s happening now’ and then it kicks in and you’re like ‘wow’ the rock music seems to provide me with a cool heroic sort of vision in my mind. Like whenever I hear that type of music I think of heroes and powerful beings. Most sounds in the trailer are diagetic.
There is a very faint blur which seems to be blacked out around the edges of the screen which create a sort of ‘fish eye’ effect only without magnification. There are blurred images; slow cuts go in time with the slow paced music and then when the rock music kicks in the cuts become a lot more fast paced.
There is a POV at the beginning which makes you feel as though you are the character. A lot of long shots and mid shots, close ups on objects of significance such as a gun, and the main characters, his hands glow when he’s using his power, this shows the sci-fi aspect of the movie.
You get the feeling that this is a heroic type of film, and just by watching you get the image it’s a sci-fi and wouldn’t happen in real life like his hands glowing where his power would come from.

Jumper Movie Trailer Analysis


Jumper Movie Trailer Analysis
Jumper makes good use of their own tagline ‘Anywhere is possible’ as they transfer it onto a simplistic poster as well and everyone will know the tagline ‘anywhere is possible’ from the movie ‘jumper’
The teaser trailer uses a voice over at the beginning of the trailer, which is what I was planning to do in my trailer but use a voice over more to the end of the trailer so it gives more of a set up to the storyline.
When the movie is playing without sound from things such as editing, camera angles/shots and mis-en-scene we know this movie is going to be fast paced but has a hint of soft, key parts in the trailer which are sort of romantic and quite. We know this movie is mainly action packed because of the mis-en-scene and editing, editing is fast paced, and quick, there are a lot of quick cuts, the more serious parts of the trailer have long cuts.
There are lots of closes ups in the film on parts which are of some significance. There is one part of the teaser trailer which really caught my eye and it’s a part when there is a close up on the main character, it then zooms out to an establishing shot, this shows his ability to ‘jump’ and goes with the tagline of the movie ‘anywhere is possible’
There seems to be a variety of locations and this again has reference to ‘anywhere is possible’ also there is a close up on an object of significance and it’s a world map with a lot of pins on it which shows a lot of different locations have been travelled to.
We know that a main character in the film wants to ‘kill’ the ‘jumpers’ as he believed only god should poses the power to teleport, this line is in the trailer used my Samuel Jackson and it gives a crucial part of the film away and helps us with the narrative and tells us what the film is partly about we also know that this line is true in the movie from close ups of props, such at the lightening spike used to stop jumpers from jumping.
When the main character ‘jumps’ you get a blurred effect which is left behind for a few milliseconds after he has jumped,
I’m going to have to pay close attention to editing like this as in my trailer I plan to have a jump effect like this movie does, only difference is I will be involving a mobile phone. In order to signify this object and try and make this film more modern instead of this blurred effect you get when jumping I may include a flash, when my main character teleports. a flash would be a lot easier to carry out on the editing software as you can make the surface area of the flash quite big so you don’t actually see as much of the actual teleporting, it’ll be like a shot of the main character answering phone, then a flash, then a shot of the room empty so it appears he has teleported, this will be worst case scenario if I cant find another away to ‘teleport’ my character because it may get too complicated when it doesn’t actually have to be and I can make the final outcome of the teleport quite effective with just a flash.
At the end of the trailer it shows the word ‘jumpr’ – jumper abbreviated and then it does the ‘jump’ effect I was just talking about and it turns into ‘jumper’ which is quite a nice effect and goes with the rest of the film and the editors of the film have tried to portray this edit through the whole film and it can be used as a sort of trademark
As usual, such as in other trailers, institutional information is shown in-between clips of the film towards the end of the movie, the editors have tried to catch your eye with the film at the beginning of the trailer and then it’s as if they’re saying ‘right now you’re interested, here’s some information in who made the movie and when it’s out’ so they put clips in-between the information to keep you ‘hooked’ to the television and not miss any crucial points in the trailer.
Another point on editing , when the main star ‘jumps’ somewhere else he fades very quickly then reappears very quickly, not really a flash, just a very quick fade in and out, this shows the ‘sci-fi’ aspect of the film as you wouldn’t see it in real life, you see sort of a bubbly effect on the outline of the characters when they jump, but the ‘bubbles’ are only visible for a few milliseconds.  

Friday, 15 July 2011

I have constructed a Brainstorm to show my main idea and possible locations and characters etc.


Thursday, 14 July 2011

Editing

Types of editing
Transitions – fade, dissolve, wipe, spiral, shutter, cut, digital effects.
Different types of cuts - Axial cut, Cross-cutting, fast cutting, Jump cut, long take, Match cut, slow cutting.
What affects the type of editing used
-          Genre
-          Pace of action
-          Sound used
-          Create illusion .e.g. danger
-          Emphasizes objects that need to be emphasized
-          Create a vital subconscious emotional connection to the viewer 
Market/cross promotion
-          Editing in trailers – used in advertisements for films – if editing isn’t used effectively then the audience may perceive the film in a different way to what the director wanted it to be.

Wednesday, 13 July 2011

Narrative clues in teaser trailers.




I have tried to guess what this film is about by looking at the clues from the teaser trailer
Clues I have gathered are
-          Number tattooed on wrist
-          Running towards cliff/freedom
-          Locked in a room
-          Women – 21, girl – 10/11, bold man – 30, man with long grey hair – 45/50.
-          Facial expressions – blank, could be blind?, fear, petrified, blank.
-          Setting – Bosnia – eastern Europe, grass and trees don’t look familiar colours
-          Sound – no dialogue, slow, dull, sad, slow pace of music could mean slow pace of film.
-          Clothing – poor, headscarf
-          Men and women are separate
-          Same women – main character, is with a lot of different men during the film
-          Riding on a horse
-          Travel a lot during the film
-          Refugees
From this i have gathered that the film is set in like a post war type of time, where war is on the uprising or just about to start
The main women is used as a sex object, and the trailer is split into different sections, there are times when it's bright and time when it's really dark and dull, the bright times could be before the war and everything that has happened, and the dark times are during all the bad things that are happening.

Sound

- Types of sound.
Diagetic - expected
Non digetic - not expected
Voice over (dialogue)
Sound effects (bombs and stuff) – enhanced diagetic sound
Music
Theme song
Sound bridge

- What affects the types of sound you hear?
Genre*
Location
Character
Props
Narrative
Audience*
Editing

- Marketing/cross promotion
Theme tune
Ringtones
Quotes /catch phrase
Soundtrack

First I watched Larry Crowne with no sound and then filled in what sounds I thought would be in the trailer. below the video is the list I came up with





Genre – rom com – the things we see in the trailer, laughable and stuff
Target audience – late teens, to middle aged
Sound we expect to hear – dialogue, soft friendly music, sound effects from props, voice over

Most of what I wrote about the film was correct for sound, We could guess the genre and what sounds and music would be where in the trailer.


Mothers day –
Sounds – quick sudden sounds, jumpy sounds, which make you jump like a kangaroo, sudden action paired with the sound

Tuesday, 5 July 2011

Main Idea for Movie Trailer

Main Idea
Name is going to be either Passage or Places maybe something different, as at the moment they seem irrelevant, perhaps we can adapt the film trailer to accompany the name.
Man finds mobile and whenever he answers the mobile he just hears a strange crackle noise or some white noise and after a few seconds he gets teleported, usually somewhere bad like some place getting beaten up or what not, the guy tries to escape the phone or the places or maybe the people who want the phone, last shot can be either phone ringing on a table or the guy answering and him teleporting like a bright flash to show that.
Possible Locations are ‘forest, field, house, and car’


First shot – Institutional information like company name which is going to be either ‘blue max group productions’ or ‘oaktree productions’
We will have information such ‘from the makers of ‘studio 6/six/’’
And then either the name of the film at the beginning or most probably at the end as it will follow codes and conventions of other movie trailers
Second shot – black screen, sound of a phone ringing and then an image or close up of the main man/character
Third shot – fast paced music and the main character running, maybe in a suit or something?
Fourth shot – naughty man voice, the baddy of the film, saying a key quote of the film or something to show he is after the main character, and then another shot of the guy still running
Fifth shot – main guy running to a different location again.
Sixth shot still open for discussion, think about having the man actually teleporting  so we know what the film is about.
Seventh shot will be an image of the phone ringing on a table, vibrating and then on the screen says ‘unknown number’ and it will be a really old crappy nokia or something.
Last shot will be back to a shot of the main character answering the phone and disappearing.


Props – phone
Characters - a man who looks as though he has a job, a voice of a baddy.
Costumes – suit, maybe a different era clothing.

Monday, 4 July 2011

List of Equipment needed for trailer

Locations - In order to produce an effective movie trailer we're going to need a very real location, which hasnt been manipulated for the movie, which fits perfectly, and as I do not know the final draft for my movie trailer I do not know where it will be set, but the following locations are where me and my team are more than likely going to film - Forest/Warehouse/Field/Office

Props - For my movie trailer there are not really many props we're going to need, other than a mobile phone, prefrably an old nokia

Costumes - A suit will be what the main guy will be wearing, any other characters and their outfits have not been finalised yet.

Transport - Two members of my team have cars so we can use them to travel to and from certain locations and carry the filming equipment saftley to where they need to be

Actors - We will definatly be needing a teenager in there later teens or a young man, with stubble, maybe bold in order to get the certain look I want. other characters havnt been finalised so we will not know what actors will need to play them

Technological equipment - A camera with sound equipment, a mac or laptop with decent editing software to edit our movie trailer. 

Tuesday, 3 May 2011

Introduction

For my A2 Media coursework, Im going to produce a teaser trailer, and it's going to be of the genre action/psychological thriller. I Feel as though these genre of movies are quite popular in this day and age and I think it will ber very appealing to most audiences out there.