Reece.

Bench over looking Barnard Castle.


Everytime i see this location it takes my breath away. It gives the audience the view of British land. I like how much greenery there is and it looks over loads of houses and the sites of Barnard Castle. This setting will be used for a lot of detail in the film as this is where the couples favourite spot is. I intend to access this location on the 5/10/10. The bench will be used a frequent number of times, shots will be filmed at night and in the day time. I will be using natural light, hopefully the sun will be out so the sun will be reflecting off the characters. The sound around them will be quite quiet, maybe some rustling of the threes and the sound of wind. There are a couple of hazards for this location:
> The bench is near a drop, so students may fall down if there not careful.
> if there is any glass or sharp objects on the floor students may hurt them selfs if they manage to stand on it or fall.

Field.

This field is behind the bench. It will be used for when the couple goes for picnics and just a nice walk. The dangers of this location is it is quite high up so we have to careful not to fall over the edge.


Saltburn Beach
I have chosen this location becuase I wanted to give the audience a romantic feeling. A feeling that all girls want to feel. A 'Summer Romance' I thought the beach would be a good idea as its different just to shoots being set in houses etc. I will be using natural light, hopefully the sun will be out so the sun can reflect on the characters instead of powered light. This will be the setting where the characters first meet each other and they go back and reflect on their memories. The sound will be from the waves and the people around to give it a summery and welcoming feeling. There are a few hazards which might occur here. As there is the sea near where the shooting will take place students might fall in or might not be able to swim. There are quite a few rocks so there might be some loose ones and rocky ones and they might fall and injure them selfs. There are a few quirky feautures i like at the beach, which is the pear which i will set my first shot there. There is one problem with this beach, I need it to be dry and sunny weather and also transport there and cost is limited.

Teeside Media Work Shop.

12.10, we set off to Teeside Universtiy for a Media Work Shop. The aim of the trip was to learn and to get a new expierence to use the cameras which we need to use for our teaser film trailer. Also we looked at final cut pro to help us learn how to edit our video footage.


Using the Camera...
What i learnt. The tripod has three clips that holds the legs together at the bottom, unclick them and they extend out. When putting the camera firmly onto the top of the tripod, it will click as you slide it on. We learnt that there is a button on the camera that acts like a huma eye (the iris) you can adjust it and what you see on the camera screen is what your own eye should see in real life. There is also a button called the filter which should be on number two when you are shooting scenes outside as it produces natural light, it acts as sunglasses. If shooting inside you need to lower the filter to zero or one. When zooming into a object you need to focus on it by twisting the first wheel on the lense of the camera, if you change the shot of the object you have to zoom back into the object and re-focus the shot. The bubble has to be level so when you pan and tilt the camera doesnt jerk and as you pan it will pan smoothly and the image on the screen will be framed correctly. The camera has its own memory and if you dont do the white balance right then all the colours on the screen will get miked up. There is a wheel you click round until you get ACD on your screen and then point the camera to a white wall, or white tee/shirt, or a white piece of paper etc and hold the wheel in and it will then get all of the right colour ready for shooting.

Sound.
When recording sound as well as a video, using a gun mic will help a lot with the sound. You have to postion the gun mic to the object you want to hear. It doesnt look very perfessional if you see it in shot so make sure you keep it at a distance but a good distance so you hear the person talking. Also the gun mic is good for sound effect for e.g. a door shutting, phone ringing, footsteps. All you have to do it move the mic down to the object and either slam the door or walk to get the sound you want. The gun mic cuts our all of the wind so its really clear. There is also another mic so you can hear everything else going on for e.g. if someone is talking. On Final Cut Pro if you have used the gun mic for sound effects you can over lap it by using lots of different layers.



Editing.
(above) The thing i learnt best on final cut pro was layering. It interested me how you could add pictures, music, and a video all at the same time. If you are just watching one person talking for 20 mins, you are going to get very bored so adding images to the relevant topic they are talking about will interest the audience and also to add music or sound effects. You can change the volume of the sound, as the character or person is talking, make the music quiter but then louder as it goes off subject or onto a picture etc. If you are making a dramatic film trailer the filters you could use to make the audience get the feeling of gloomyness, you could make the shots black and white or just make the brightness darker.

When producing my trailer i will do test shots before i capture the right one. I will have to get my focus right before i shoot anything as it could be blury or disorentated.

Costume and Make-up.

Here are two pictures of me shopping for some costumes in the British Red Cross. I wasnt planning on buying anything i was just looking for ideas on the style i wanted to create. The style is going to be vintage but very simple. For boys i would like them to be wearing a simple logoed polo top prefibly a navy or burgendee or black and a cardigan with jeans and plimsoles. For the Homosexual character i would like him to wear tighter tops and more brighter coloured just to make some contrast from the other two male characters.
Here is the main characters best friend in the film.
The colours are dark and vintage. I wanted to give the characters a 1960's look with the style and colours. Adam is wearing a Ralph Lauren burgendee polo top with bage trousers, plims and navy blue cardigan (bottom). The other outfit is his more formal clothes.
This is the homosexual character in my film trailer. I have chosen this costume to make him look camp. In commonly known Rom Com's the gay charactre usually is iconic to the genre by making themselves more feminine as the target audeince is directed to females. The pink shirt influences his camp look in contrast to the other male characters in the film trailer.
(insert image of jess)
I have chosen my female character to wear this outfit as it is iconic to my genre of film (Romantic Comedy.) She is wearing it to construct representation of specific social groups i.e. girls aged 12-24. I want her outfit to be casual but sophisticated. As my target audience is aimed at mostly women I wanted her to make my character as a role model to look up to. Not a steretypical female which are nearly alwasy situated in Romantic Comedy films.

Here is a picture of the costume the main character is going to be wearing in some shots. His clothes are plain and dark coloured as this connotes his saddness in the film. I have based my male character on the one in (500) Days of Summer- Tom. The costume which he is wearing is ironic to my specific genre as male's in Rom Com's are represented as a 'sexual' like character which women like to look at.

This is another picture of the main protagonist. These are just his simple every day-day clothes. For his formal clothes he will be hopefully wearing a checked shirt with dark coloured jeans and plims.



Again here is two more pitures of the homosexual character. I have chosen a leather jacket to emphasise on his feminity, as the white tee shirt underneath is quite tight. but the last picture connotes his happiness in the film and trying to impress adam. With the bright pink shirt. The colours really stand out. This represents certain social groups which I wanted to put across to the audience. I want the female target audience to connect with the gay character so i made him fun and to wear fashionable but camp cloths to make him stand out.

My letter to the Music Idustry.

Dear Copy Right Holder,

I am an A level student and I am writing to request your permission to use one track from the latest album by 'The Temper Trap' entitled "Conditions".

The track I wish to use is "Sweet Disposition", track 3 on the album. With your permission this track would be used in my current A-Level Media Project, acting as a soundtrack, this involves creating a Film Trailer, as well as producing a poster for the film and a film magazine cover.

If I received your permission this track would be viewed by my peers, teachers and the OCR exam board, it would also be uploaded to a public video website in order for it to be embedded into my personal blog for research and planning.

The Artist and your Company would be fully recognised throughout pre-production and the final trailer itself. A copyright notice, with wording supplied by you can be included in the records of the project. If this is required, please send full details.

Yours Sincerely
Emily Cunliffe

Logos and Titles.

I have made a video to show my sketches of my logos and titles. I have desgined them from scratch but searched for fonts to get ideas from. I have made the main film title in colour to make it stand out more than the other logos. Romantic comedy film titles are normaly very simple and natural colours. i thought i would add some calm music in the background of this video becuase i want my trailer to create a calm effect when watching it.

Flat Plans.

My flat plan for my film magazine front cover.

Unfortunatly these flat plans dont look very clear.
The masthead is 'THE VOICE' the logo to go with this is a picture of a mouth I thought this would be a good contrast seen as though the media is always talking about different celebrities in magazine's. This refers back to my initial target audience which are female. Now female like to talk and find out gossip and I wanted to make my magazine like this, but to try not to make it too much of a 'gossip' magazine and more a 'film'. My tag line is "the magazine's biggest mouth" and that is featured just under the masthead. I thought of this tag line as i was doing my audience research they told me that they liked a magazine to have a lot of gossip and interesting facts about film celebrities etc, espically women. So i encorpurated my own tag line to try and sell the magazine. I could do with some work on the font style of my text as it's plain and simple, I want to make it more feminine but to also target males as well but as much. So I'm going to stick with the colour shceme of red, black and white; as they aren't feminine colours or male. I could also do this by creating a more modern font on photoshop or scanning in my own font and adding changes to it later on in the process. The main Protagonist is framed on the left hand side with his arms corssed this provides so narrative information. By framing the main male character on the left hand side we know straight away that he has power in the narrative, but i have tried to leave a little white open space and framed a little to the right as well to suggest he might loose some power over another character. The background is going to be simple, either white or grey, but I want no props or effects added to it, I dont want it to look too busy. This will resemble my genre as logos and titles in professional Romantic Comedy Film's are very simple with a plain background. Framed on the right hand side of the page is the other two characters. Taigh's friend and Jess's gay friend. I want it to come across to the audience that they are looking at Taigh and over looking his life. Maybe Taigh is fed up as he will have his arms crossed in the actual picture. So one of them will be either looking at him and the other at the camera. If this doesnt work i think i might just have a medium shot of the mian protagonist- Taigh eith looking away from the character to provide some narrrative information and make the audience think he is shy, or hiding something. The logo of the film is featured in the middle of the page for the audience to reconise it and remember it. I have made the logo the same colour as the film title to make people reconise that it is a Romantic Comedy film magazine.
First Copy of Film Poster.

This is the first flat plan i did of my film poster. I wasn't sure how i was going to set it out so i looked at, "500 days of sumer", "Angus Thongs and Perfect Snogging" and "Dear John". They were all quite simular. So i decided to take a few aspects from each one.

Second Flat Plan of Film Poster.
(pic of poster)
Here I have included the female protagonist as well as the male. I wanted them to be framed on the left hand side as they look together. They are smiling and almost laughing. This provides narrative information as it shows that they are at a point where they are happy and maybe forgetting the bad things which are about to happen. In Rom Com's a girl usually falls in love with the boy and can never let go. But using the binary oposition it's the other way around. I wanted the colours to be bright and vibrant. My colour scheme goes with the representation of the social groups as females. My logo is going to be a dust pink instead of a blue as i thought the blus presented the film more to males. Presenting to logo 'One Love' in pink colour font will put across to the audience which specific genre I have aimed my trailer at. From looking at professional examples of specific Rom Com genre film posters they all include film credits, normaly situated at the bottom of the poster. I realised that the main things they include are, actors, actresses, music, director, producer, hait and make up, costume desginer, special effects and most imporantly the release date. I have made my release date in a different colour to make it stand out so people can realise exactly when it is coming out. I want it the same colour font as the film title so it represents the rom com genre. I think the colours used reflect the mood of the reality looks I want my product to look like.

Storyboard

Shot One.
Lasts 2.5 seconds. Its a close up of my institutional logo i have made, 'ACTION PRODUCTIONS'. The Sound track i am going to use is Sweet Disposition- The Temper Trap. The Dialogue which will start straight away, will be a deep male voice presenting the logos and telling the story through the film trailer. I want the colours to be simple, but to match the logo i have made for the name of the film.

Shot Two.
Lasts 2.5 seconds again. The shot is a close up again of a logo saying 'Presents...' i thought i would include this writing because in the other trailers i have viewed a few of them present the logos first. all the sound and dialogue will be the same as in the first shot.

Shot Three.
Lasts
3 secs. This shot lasts a bit longer as its the main film title.

Shot Four.
Lasts 2 seconds. Its a long shot of the two protagonists sitting on s bench holding hands..

Shot Five.
Lasts 1 second. It's a medium shot of the main, male protagonist.

Shot Six.
Lasts 1 second also as its a simular shot to the perious one of the female protagonist. Its also a medium shot but she is framed on the left hand side.

Shot Seven.
Lasts 2 seconds. Its a long shot of a male and the female protagonist walking on the pier at a beach.

Shot Eight.
Lasts 3 seconds. It is a medium shot of the main, male protagonist. Framed on the left hand side.

Shot Nine.
Lasts 4 seconds. This is a close up shot of the femal protagonist. In the same shot she also turns her head away.

Shot Ten.
Lasts 3 seconds. Its a long shot of a male far away on the pier and the female protagonist walking towards him.

Shot Eleven.
Lasts 2.5 seconds. Another long shot.

Shot Tweleve.
Lasts one second. Its a close up of a quick flash of the main male protagonist's wallet in his hands with an unexpectied note.

Shot Thirteen.
Lasts 2 seconds. Its a medium shot of two male characters sat on a bench, the protagonist on the left hand side.

Shot Fourteen.
Lasts 2.5 seconds. From shot Thirteen it pans around to see the female protagonist walking away. Fast paced.

Shot Fifteen.
Lasts 1 second. The shot is a close up of the femal protagonist.

Shot Sixteen.
Lasts 1 second as well. It cuts from the perious one but its a close up of the male protagonist..

Shot Seventeen.
Lasts 2 seconds. Another close up, but this time of the two main characters.

Shot Eighteen.
Lasts 1.5 seconds. Film logo, "One Time".

Shot Nineteen.
Lasts 1 second. Its a close up shot of the bottom half of the two characters.

Shot Twenty.
Lasts 1.5 seconds again, as its another logo, "One Chance".

Shot Twentyone.
Lasts 2.5 seconds. Slow paced. Close up of the two characters.

Shot Twentytwo.
Lasts 2 seconds. Also slow paced to create the feeling sadness. Long shot of the main male protagonist looking at his reflection into the mirror.

Shot Twentythree.
Lasts 2 seconds, its a close up but as a birdseye view angle.

Shot Twentyfour.
Lasts 2 seconds. Medium shot of male protagonist, framed on the left hand side.

Shot Twentyfive.
Lasts 2 seconds. Female protragonist framed on the right hand side, medium shot.

Shot Twentysix.
Lasts 3 seconds. Split screen as a medium shot.

Shot Twentyseven
Lasts 4 seconds. Medium Shot.

Proposal of ideas.

Here's just a few ideas i have come up with for my film teaser trailer. Things will be added to it as i go along this is just the start.

mind map on Prezi

this second mind map has more detail and changed ideas.

mind map 2 on Prezi

Audience Research, Secondary Research

I set up my own facebook media focus group. I asked a range of questions so my audience could answer them. The friends i have on facebook are aged 15-30 so this is what im basing my target audience on. http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/group.php?gid=138152336215665&ref=ts This is a link to my focus group. Here some examples of the question i asked people..
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYuKxAspH1A

Does this film trailer appeal to you?
What do you think the target audience is for this film?
What do you like in this trailer?
for e.g. shots,editing,logos,narrator,music,colour etc.

2.what colour scheme would you use?
how should the text and images be laid out?
do you think it should include crtic's views of the film?

do you think this is a good example of a film poster?
http://www.solarnavigator.net/films_movies_actors/film_images/Mean_Girls_movie_poster_Linsay_Lohan.jpg



















This tabel here is for 'Sex and The City Movie'. The first thing i realise in the tabel is that form the ages 4-14 none of that catagoary have gone to see it. This has something to do with the rating of the film which is a 15. The second thing i realise is that 81% of the public who went and watched this film were female. So this film is obviously aimed at females but the other 19% which were males, proberly got dragged there by their girlfriends. 15-24's got a 36%, this shows the younger generation go to the cinema more than 35-44's. When i choose the target audience for my film this will help me a lot to choose it as this tabel shows the younger generation enjoy going to the cinema more than the older generation. In contrast to this 45+ got a whoping 22% which is more than the 35-44's. So some humour will have to relate to older females.




This tabel is from '(500) Days of Summer'. (tabel to come)

I love how in (500) Days of Summer, 'its not a love story its a story about love.' This is exactly how i want my trailer to be, not a lovey dovey love story but a story about someones life and how they may or may not fall in love. The time period they are in has encourage me to use it in my trailer, as i wasn't certain before, but now i think it looks really effective. The clothes they wear and the hairstyles etc are really creative. But i also want to include some modern features in their some how as well. In the trailer of (500) days of summer, i really like the close up's of Summer's face, to get the message accross to the audience that she is beautiful. And the change in music when Tom is happy, he dances to his favourtie song down the street and when he and her aren't happy the music either slows down/changes/or stops. Also the colour darkens and makes it look more gloomey. So It makes the audience been put in their prespective. For my trailer i want a very small amount of dialouge but a lot of over voice to tell the story instead of the characters. But when my target audience watch my trailer i want them to be drawn in and be thinking 'awww i want a love like that' or something along those lines. So i need the right music, setting, costume etc. Dear John also inspired me for my setting, even though Dear John is set in america i would love some of my trailer to be set at a beach, maybe where they first see each other?

Further more I went and looked at the UKtribes website. I decided to make my own prezi on UKtribes. Some of the information will be from the website, but in my own words, however most of it will be what i think. I have used my own pictures of my friends and myself to try and show you the different trends. Also i have shown you a range of celebrities in the trends i have wrote about.

tribes on Prezi

Textual Analysis

Mean Girls trailer analysis. on Prezi

angus thongs and perfect snogging on Prezi

Ideas for genre.

Here a few different types of genres of teaser trailers i have been looking at, as im still not sure of what genre i would like to do. I looked at a range of different trailers just to get some type of idea what they include and what i could create by myself.

FISH TANK.
Director- Andrea Arnold. British Narrative. Independant film. Genre- drama.


SEX AND THE CITY
Director- Michael Patrick King. Hollywood Narrative. Mainstream film. Genre- Rom com.



Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging.
Director- Gurinder Chadha. British take of an american high school movie. Genre- Rom
com.


(500) Days of Summer.
genre.-rom com. Hollywood narrative. Mainstream

action plan

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Aj6CYcRwGbQkdFRaVUNrT0g5M3Zuc0RLWkgydkdkaEE&hl=en_GB