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.
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.
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
Original
Current
Applicable
We have a car accessible
Con
Difficult to film
Potentially Dangerous
Hard to get good quality footage in a moving car
Homosexuality
Pro
Easy to film
Current social issue
Con
Unoriginal
Boring
Gives little leeway in narrative
Hard to find people willing to perform this role
Body Image Pro
Easy to represent
Current issue
Potentially emotional
Con
Unoriginal
Offensive to person performing
Gives little leeway in narrative
Limited cast needed
We looked at the pros and cons revolving around the previous 3 topics and concluded with Drink Driving.
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.
