Practice Shots

Below are some images of the locations and props that we will be using in the teaser trailer...





Here would be the classroom we are goin to use. I chose these two angles to put up because one is from the door, where we will be shooting from and the other is the area that we think is ideal for the desk to go.

Storyboarding

In prepartaion for our teaser trailer, me and the other group members drew up a storyboard to show all the shots and whats going to happen in the trailer. This helps with our planning because it helps us stay on task with what were shooting and shows our ideas clearer and visually.

Here is our storyboard in animation.....

Feedback for film and teaser trailer ideas

With our two film and teaser trailer ideas we decided to go into a year 13 sociology class and pitch our ideas and see what type of feeddback we recieve. This is to help us know whether our idea is going to be a succesful and what changes we could do to have a better result.

Film: The list

Feedback
'The film sounds like a good idea and it should attract viewers' - Ra'aesha and Jordan
'Good idea but it is too similar to Final Destination...also how owuld the killings occur ?' - Nathan
'Good trailer idea but not a good idea for a film'...It should be a 18 certifcate film as 15 will not attract people' - Rianne and Lorisha
'Goood suspense for a film, and sounds like a good idea' - Jack


Film: Sweat

Feedback
'People can relate to it, especially people our age as it is more realistic unlike the first idea' - Ashley
'It is good to see how the guy acheives his goal' - Danielle
'It will be a good idea as we can see how financial suppposrt can help people pursue their goals and how much people value opportunities' -Yama

Overall we had both positive and negitive opinions on both trailers and narratives, however they also helped us. Looking at the review we recieved, as a group we deciced to stay with our first idea; The List. We feel this teaser trailer will be more successful and fits within the time limit we have.

Research into teaser trailers

Throughtout this project. I have been working with Holly Killick, Christopher Ogori and Naseem Begum.
To develop our understanding on teaser trailers and learn more about the coventions, we watched a variety on youtube.com and imbd.com. We watched Toy Story 3, The Dark Knight and 2012. From this we discovered that most teaser trailers are significantly shorter than your regular trailer, they create an enigma and suspense, allowing the audience to raise questions about the film and to be eager to want to keep an eye out for the trailer. We noticed that different genre determine how the teaser trailer is presented amd what it consists of. For example Toy Story 3 didnt show what the actual film was about and just showed the characters this could of been them not completing the film. this makes the audience realise what the film is due to seeing previous Toy Story films. However the teaser trailer for 2012 based on just the setting and soundtrack to create suspense and get a feel of the atmosphere. both teaser trailers created an enigma through lack of storyline and narrative.

Promotion And Marketing

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Two Teaser Trailers....

Title: The List
Genre: Physcological Horror
Certificate: 15
Type of production: Major
Enigma: Not showing the persons face, so you don't whether its a boy or girl or what they look like, raising a question on who are they ? and what they look like ?
Similar Narrative: Final destination, The Knowing and Carrie.

Narrative of film: A teenage girl is being bullied for isolating herself from her peers and having social difficulties. The bullying gets worse and she start writin in a journal like note pad, all her feelings, events and traumatised times. Out of her anger she discovers that she has a supernatural ability to move objects with out touching them (telekinesis). She gets obssessed with this power and begins to write a list of the bullies she wants revenge on. One by one, mysterious disasters happen to each person who bullied her but makes mistake when she gets angry with her mum and wishes the same on her.At thsi time, she is still writing down her problems. One day, one of the bullies discovers her power and tells everyone at school. Everyone now wants to be her friend. She eventually commits suicide.

Unique Selling Point: The killer is a girl, this would throw the audience off a bit because in typical horror film the killer is usaully a male dominant character.
Target Audience: Teenagers and young adults
Demographic audience: Skilled manual workers, builders, plumbers, students and casual workers.
Psychogrpahic audience: Explorers and strugglers

Feedback:
George - "I liked your idea of the way your title will be repsented at the end of the trailer".
Mr Marcus - he edited our idea of just having the scratching sound effect in the room where it was happening. He believed it would work as a continuous irritating sound throughout the trailer, only quiter.
Joy - "I like the narrative, the idea of the child being bullied and discovering supernatural powers, it works with a typical horror, you can recgonise the genre straight away".



Title: Sweat.
Genre: Drama.
Certificate: 12A
Target audience: Young adults.
Enigma: Which out of the two men will succeed and achieve their goal.
Similar narrative: The persuit of happiness. Save the last dance.



Unique selling point: The dancers are male.
Demographic audience: Higher and middle management such as bankers, lawyers, doctors, professionals, teachers and creative people in the media etc.
Psychodynamic audience: "Aspirers and suceeders".

Narrative:

A2 Media Studies coursework/ research

In my media lesson i have been looking at film promotion and how it is used to make the film sucessful, first we was given a choice of what contrasting fils we want to research, we were given internet access to find our information and create a power point presentation to show to the rest of the class. My partner was Holly and she decided to reseach Ghost of girlfriends past and I did some research on how the film Transformers 2 is being promoted. I chose Transformers because it is just come out and is well-known across the country, due to it being newly released it has more promotional elements for me to research and therefore would give me a wider range of findings.
Using the google search engiene i found advertising posters of the film, the main points from the poster where the colours and how they contrasted each other by being bold and also including some metallic shades, the font of the title was also metallic that connotes the brand of the film , the robots and the genre being sci- fi.


what i found

how i found it

tlk about trailer film and website

film promotion power point

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Who would be the audience for your media product ?

Within our fim the all the actors are teenagers from ages 12-18, and are from both black and white orientated background, we have shown what typical white famlies are portrayed as in the south region of london. We have also shown what the concept of a teenagers life is like; wanting to go partys, have a good time and having arguements with mums. Looking and researching about teenagers and their real life situations and havng our actors at such a close age range we decided to link the two together so our audience could relate to our film and situations that go on in it. Overall our target audience is any race of teenagers but black and white teenagers in south london, this target audience is ideal because in other areas it not always easy for races to mix and to show that within the film could have teenagers want to influence it.

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progession from it to the full product

Looking at my preliminary task and comparing it with my final produce, I have learnt how to be more steady with the camera so the filming doesnt look so bad, I have learnt how to cut more precisely so theres no jump cuts in between scenes and have also learnt how to use Ulead programming to put our film altogether and to add effects and frames that needed to be added.

How did you attract your audience ?

First we thought about mise-en-scene; the costume, the setting and dialogue. The costumes we made look urban and not too glamorous because it would fit the message that were trying to put across to the viewers, thhe end result for costumes was a dressed down image with jeans, hoodies and regular everyday wear, we tried to add a bit of colour so it would contrast with the beginning of the film. The dialogue was a combination of south london accent with south london slang that the teenagers would use. This gave a sense of recognition that people do focus look at theie area and realise whats going on in their community. The setting being the block of flats on a estate gave more of an impact on the life of South london teenagers

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why ?

Small british media companies would distribute our product because it is quite a low budget film. BBC films, Kintop pictures and stealth films would be ideal for our product because they are all british and have been apart of films that are similar to ours, Local actors and actresses would be usedto show the realness within the story. Local cinemas within London such as Greenwich, Bromley, Croydon and Central London is where our film would more likely to be shown because it wouldn't have much publicity and recognition such as the big film companies but enough for the local society to acknowledge the film and to be interested. The british film I looked at was Bullet Boy. Bullet Boy was directed and written by Saul Dibbs and co written by Catherine Johnson, Its was released on 8th April 2005, The film setting was in Hackney, East London and starred well known britsh actors such as Ashley Walters, Curtis Walker and Leon Black. The film is about A character called Ricky coming out of prison and wanting to do better for himself but when he see his friend Wisdom involved in gang related situation he is easily drawn back in , while this is all going on his younger brother Curtis, is watching every going on and admiring it. Thsi was a good film to look into becaus eit had similarities to our product; being from a urban orientated cluture .

Final Product !!

How does the product represent particular social groups ?

Within social groups we wanted to present multi-cultral enviroment in a positive way, we focused on doing this through the casting by having a mixture of black and white actors playing our characters. The picture above shows a white family and how they are conventionally potrayed. To make this more effective we added traditional fantasy-like music and added props such as the young girls teddy and story book. In stero-typical fantasy film people expect the music, props and white family to open the film, we challenged this by including black characters. The costumes we didn't want to make them too outrageous or glamourous, we wanted them to fit with the setting and character so the white family had there simple dressing gown and the traditional pink nightwear and the black character with a more urban, street wear such as jeans, hoody and jacket and perhaps a bit more colour to it, overall we kept to the conventions of costume but developed a bit futher for them to be noticed.

Our group look at forms and conventions of media products by analysing the begining of fantasy and comedy films , within the fantasy genre we chose to look at shrek, enchanted and hoodwinked , shrek had a fairytale theme song, a typical story book being opened and told about a princess being locked in a tower. The princess being locked in a tower, we took this convention and modernised it by having the character locked up in her bedroom. this was ideal because it still was appealing to our audience and giving us impression of your bedroom being a prison and somewhere that you go when your in trouble. We used some other conventions like having the main characters names in the beginning of the film to show that we are being professional and neat.