New Storyboard

Here is a few pictures of our drafted storyboard. We used blue tack and pencil to sketch up our initial shots, we did this so we are able to go back and edit them. We also typed up the duration, shot type, dialogue and what is happening and stuck them below, as well as marking each transition between shots.

 Once we have a finalised idea, we will permanently mark out our drawings and add colour.

Car Crash Sound

As a group we have concluded the car crash sound will be our climactic moment. 

Because of this decision, we have thought of multiple conventions we can use to intensify and emphasise the severity of the crash. Sound is essential in our piece to leave the audience with fear and suspense for the unravelling of the story ahead.

After watching car crash scenes on Youtube we saw how common sounds are a hissing of smoke,dripping of oil and water, crunching of bonnet and screams or cries.

We want to introduce these sounds in time to climatic or relevant moments in our house music backing track, we will do this on iMovie. In editing we wish to adjust our pitch,tempo and tone to make the scene all the more piercing and frightening . We are contacting the producers of all clips used in order to not infringe copyright laws.

Narrative Planning and Ideas

Today we began to look at the different themes and narratives we would consider for our trailer. After brainstorming we chose the following three to evaluate, drink driving, homosexuality and body image as they all a controversial topics in the media and relatable.

Drink Driving

Pro

1. Original
2. Current
3. Applicable
4. We have a car accessible

Con

1. Difficult to film
2. Potentially Dangerous
3. Hard to get good quality footage in a moving car

Homosexuality

1. Pro
2. Easy to film
3. Current social issue

Con

1. Unoriginal
2. Boring
3. Gives little leeway in narrative
4. Hard to find people willing to perform this role

Body Image


Pro

1. Easy to represent
2. Current issue
3. Potentially emotional

Con

1. Unoriginal
2. Offensive to person performing
3. Gives little leeway in narrative
4. Limited cast needed

We looked at the pros and cons revolving around the previous 3 topics and concluded with Drink Driving.

Our poster

We used a scene from our film as a capture shot for ou poster as it was passionate,high intensity and enigmatic. We also used a black and white edit to anchor our social realism genre and used the same font that is shown in the trailer. Faded into the background of the poster is a 'Police Road Closed' sign, we did this to show our narrative clearly and excite the audience that the film takes a turn for the worst.

We used the stereotypical codes and conventions of social realism film posters, including a large title, main character names, film ratings by a range of British companies, the age rating (which is crucial) and our film production logo. 

Film Poster Conventions and Analysis

Conventions of a Social Realism Poster

Introduction of characters

Strong Clear Title

Enigma

Key theme outline

Fish Tank

Hoops,dyed hair, straightened,heavy make up and necklace all suggest she is a teacher and takes pride in her appearance.

Bright colour contrasts to her black top

Black top represents her sadness

Pink represents the love she discovers

Fish tank is in blue, like water

Social Realsim Moodboard

Narrative Theory

I have created a Prezi to display my research and understanding of Narrative Theory.
I learnt the difference between story and narrative and that all media texts have a narrative.
Story = a sequence of events, known correctly as the plot
Narrative = the way those events are put together to be presented to an audience.

http://prezi.com/sct6if_maj44/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

Why Genre Has Change

I have been exploring why genre gas changed since the early 1960's.I decided technology, the outside world and 'what came before' are the three main factors, our group created posters to present our knowledge of the development of genre.

Party Scene Inspiration

At the beginning of our trailer, we are featuring a party scene to demonstrate the action of substance abuse as well as introduce the main protagonists. We looked at Movern Callar as inspiration for the opening, as it uses variation of colours and follows one character around (similar to how we would film the brother).

However, we would use the sound and music differently, using a muffed, deep bass track to put the audience inside the brother's head (hearing the sound he hears).

Our Production Company

We felt it essential to develop a name and logo to distinguish ourself from other companies and have a clear brand. This also makes us more professional and allows us to create credits for out film trailer. 

How did we come up with the name 'Chrome Pictures'?

We felt the meaning of the name into account was essential and the fact it needs to correlate with the genre we chose. At the moment we are fond to explore theatrical Social Realism trailer for our final cut.

We began to look at interesting adjectives to use in order to make our production company stand out, however we also wanted our company to be dominant and signify power. This is where we came up with using 'Chrome Pictures'. 

When/where will our logo feature?

We will use our logo on most of our promotional material, including the trailer itself, poster and written coursework.

We used a free logo creator to explore all the possible ways of writing Chrome Pictures and possible symbols we could tie in. We felt the following bottom one is slick and appropriate and is our winner!

Time Lapse Filming

Age rating

We felt it essential to identify which age bracket our film should be in due to the mature content. We didn't want to rate it to young and be criticised  for being irresponsible, our rate it too old and potentially lose customers

Our Trailer Contains:

-Alcohol and Drug abuse

- Mild Violence

 -Mild Graphic Images

Therefore we have decided to rate our film trailer at an age 15 certificate.

In an age 15 the British Board of Film Classification stated you may see the following:

1.   strong violence
2.  frequent strong language (e.g. 'f***').
3.   portrayals of sexual activity
4.   strong verbal references to sex
5.   sexual nudity
6.   brief scenes of sexual violence or verbal references to sexual violence
7.   discriminatory language or behaviour
8.   drug taking
9. 
   

Website Research

I felt it essential to look at other websites of social realm films in order to see codes and conventions that they obtain and reflect this is my own.I looked at Trainspotting and found the following characteristics.

What I took from this is the following

1. -A bold Title
2. -A specific colour theme
3. -A photo of cast
4. -Clips of scenes
5. -Introduction of crew

Fish Tank was a film that throughout our trailer journey has inspired me with it's current theme and clear identity. I identified the following traits.

1. Release Date
2. Identifying colour
3. Main Character
4. Synopsis
5. Company Logo

Tile and Credits

We looked at Fish Tank and This is England in order to gain inspiration for our credits and title.

We wanted to use big bold text, however, we thought white text against a black background would be too plain so we used a white powder in order to reflect cocaine and a Gothic century text as it is aesthetically pleasing and professional.  

Making our own sound

Re-filming

Unfortunately we have had to change the actors we originally casted due to a lack of commitment on their part to attend rehearsals and filming. Therefore we have re-cast and are very optimistic and confident in our new choices. After evaluating the characteristics we wished for our female protagonists to obtain we realised that Milly Clark in our group fitted all of these and also obviously  had a strong idea of the look we wanted for our trailer and a high level of commitment. Therefore we are now using her and are hopefully going to progress through filming quicker.

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Filming test shots

Animatic

After producing our storyboard we decided to create an animatic to structure our trailer. There will be a differentiation between the music below and our official piece  We will be using Bass music and moments of silence with enhanced diegetic sound , we will have the title of DR10 to flash up at the end to identify it.

New Script

In these slides we have shown a comparison between our two scripts and will be able to see which is more successful and moment that are essential.

Chest Held Camera

It is common in Social Realism to have a hand held camera as the shaky quality is humanising and makes the audience feel they are in the moment.

We experiment with a chest held camera as we felt it may be relevant for the party scene as Will walks around the party. It may represent his disorientated state well. 

Our 3 Key Shots

Updated Storyboard

This is our updated storyboard, we have used pencil and blue tack to attach it in order to be able to edit and make necessary changes.  We also typed up the duration, shot type, dialogue and what is happening and stuck them below, as well as marking each transition between shots. We will use permanent marker and colour when all shots are official in order to create a more professional and aesthetically pleasing storyboard. 

Dialogue and Voiceover

Audience Research Questionnaire

Audience Research:

Name:
Age: 

This short questionnaire has been designed to inform us at Chrome Productions what you would expect from a film trailer and would appeal to you about our film trailer. 

How long would you expect a trailer to be?

30-60 seconds (1/2 – 1 minute)
60 – 90 seconds (1 – 1&1/2 minutes)
90 – 120 seconds (1&1/2 – 2 minutes)

Would you be more interested in a trailer containing characters your age?

   Yes
   No

Are you more likely to be interested in a film if the trailer was based on 'true events'?
Yes
No