Planning and Preparation

Abbie: Well done. An excellent effort from you and a high level of proficiency. To improve your grade even further then try to mention how some of these trailers are targeting their target audience even more in your analysis. You can include a timeline and show how you have stuck to your own targets and deadlines and include your powerpoint presentation to improve your grade.

18/20
Level 4

Greg: I am very impressed with your work Greg, well done. Note what I have said for Abbie and try a apply a bit more media theory in your analysis. Show how you have managed your time even more to improve your grade.

17/20
Level 4

Nilesh: You have made some positive contributions to your group, well done Nilesh. To improve your grade try to show how you, and the trailers you have researched, have addressed target audience. Perhaps you could show some independent research into film institutions, telling us why you have agreed on Columbia. Try to include more comment on the decisions your group has made to improve your grade.

12/20
Level 3

Ruby: Well done Ruby. To improve your grade you need to comment on more of the planning and show how you have been involved in time manangement and meeting dealines. Include your own commentaries on settings, scripting and storyboards as much as you can, refering to target audience, to improve your grade.

14/20
Level 3

Final Film Trailer

Finishing Touches

To finish off our film trailer we have found our background music which we discussed and described in a previous post and we also found the sound effects we needed to put the trailer together and help it make sense. This included a phone ringing and a car screech at the end. We found getting hold of the music and sound effects one of the most difficult tasks to do because we found it hard to find a website that can give you free, non-copyrighted music and sound effects. We eventually managed to find them by searching through google results and although they're not as perfect as we wanted them to be they still fit in with our trailer and give it the tension and suspense the trailer needed.
Secondly, we added the title we created near the beginning of the production poster on to the end of the trailer, so the trailer has an effective finish. We decided to stick with this draft because it used the font and colour we wanted for the title and we agreed the picture was appropriate because it isn't a photo, which we plan to use in our film poster and magazine cover and we didn't want them to clash.
One of the flaws we found in our film trailer is that the dialogue when two characters are having a conversation over the phone is slightly quieter than the rest of the music we added into the trailer. If we were to do this again we would use a microphone so the dialogue is clearer and louder because it is important to the narrative of the trailer.

Music and sound problems

We are currently at the end of our editing process and are trying to find free and legal music to use in our trailer that fits and is effective. But it is proving extremely difficult to find a website with easy downloadable sounds and ones which are free. We are going to keep looking on google and we hope we will eventually be able to find the correct, free music and finally finish our trailer!

Barthes' Enigma Theory

After doing some further research into Rolande Barthes' enigma theory we have related it to our trailer and have done so successfully. Barthes' was interested in concepts such as negotiated meaning between institution and audience and how different viewers and audiences can perceive any kind of media differently, possibly through their own experiences and opinions. The most well known of Barthes' codes is the enigma code. This is the hook or mystery to be resolved for an audience, leaving them in suspense. In our trailer the main character can be perceived in different ways. Perhaps to a female audience she could be perceived as the hero because shes in control, but then because she strutting round looking evil with a gun she could be perceived as the villain. This creates an element of mystery in the trailer and leaves the audience wanting to find out what happens next. We also have a couple of cliffhangers too which add more mystery to the trailer. For example when there is a shot of 'Lola' holding a gun to the victims head, but you don't get to see what happens to this victim and whether or not he gets shot. Also at the end of our trailer 'Lola' hears a noise and the last shot is of her looking vulnerable and scared, creating another cliffhanger.

Analysis Of Font

The font we decide to use in the titles for our trailer will be an important effect on the audiences perspective of the style of our film, for example;

The above font would be inappropriate because it has a sense of immaturity and informality, and would probably be better suited to either an animated production or humorous family film.

The above font is one that the group considered as possibly a useable title, we eventually came to the conclusion that we could not use it as we didn't see any link with this font and the style of film that we were doing, what we liked about was how it stood out among the rest.

The above option is what we consider to be a feminine font, this can be seen due to the swirly handwriting. The benefit of this would emphasise Lola's gender and femininity, however we feel might be a bit to "girly" and therefore a contradiction of Lola's dangerous and powerful edge.

This font is a good example of how a font can indicate genre, we liked it initially for it's boldness, however ended up deciding against it because of its similarity to other titles that evoke too much of a sci-fi feel which is not the genre we are working in.

This final font is called 'gunplay'. We like it because it is bold and distinguishable whilst fitting in with our action genre. For these reasons we will probably use this in our production.

By Ruby & Greg

Re-Shoots

After we finished our initial shooting, we discovered in the editing that a certain section of filming came out very dark, what we required from the scene was to show our main character but when all we could see was a silhouette of the character. We filmed the shots again earlier in the day so we could gain the necessary close ups and long shots.

This proved that we should look at our filming as we do it so we dont end up wasting time doing re-shoots.

Research:Market Analysis

Our film is of the thriller genre, and we need to look into some research on the target audience, market and age for thr thriller genre. Below are some infomation i have found for the genre.


The thriller movie age profile
To the left shows the percentage of men and woman who whatch thriller movies. As you can see, the 18-24 age bracket has the highest percentage along with the 50+ age group. The lowest percentage is 16% between the ages of14-17.

Title Shot Discussion

At the moment we are finalising our ending title shot. In an earlier post we included a rough draft of the kind of thing we were aiming for; a large and striking 'Lola' and, if we were to accompany this with an image, a picture of a gun or of Lola holding a gun. We all like the drafted idea, however it may not look right placed at the end of the trailer because the image of the woman is a drawing and may appear incongruous alongside the rest of the footage. We will try it though and see if this is the case. Our other idea is to put the caption over the top of the final shot of Lola, at the moment we are working out how to go about this. Alternatively, we could make a new title shot following the outline of the draft, replacing the drawing with a photo of Lolas hands holding the gun with the same fonted caption layered over the top. Our final option would be to have a plain shot of the caption over a black backdrop. We will try all and see which we prefer...