Time management

We are thinking of doing our montage filming during February half term, this is because this when all the actors are available and it is easier because everyone will have more time. This is the last bit of filming that we need to do for our teaser trailer. We have recently edited together the scenes of the trailer without putting in the intertitles. We have done this because we wanted to see whether the footage we created was up to the right quality. We feel this has benefited us because it has given us a good insight to what our teaser trailer will look like. Once the montage has been filmed we will edit it all together including the intertitles to see what the final copy will look like.

Music ideas

Here are some instrumentals that we feel will fit in with our teaser trailer. We feel they link well with genre with it being teenage crime as this is stereotypically what teenage gangsters listen to. The pace of each instrumental is also key as this is what will make the footage all link together. Most of them seem to start off slow with them picking up pace later on. This is what we are looking for in our teaser trailer. This is because we are wanting to set the scene early on with the pace being slow, it will then go to a montage which is where it picks up in pace.

Ideas for Music

This song is the theme tune from the film from Adulthood. Adulthood, like our teaser trailer is of a similar genre. It deals with teenage crime and deals with the issues relating to it. This type of music is similar to what we would like in ours. However, it will be difficult to find music like this as we have to use non-copyright music. However we will try to find music of this type to fit in our teaser trailer to make it more effective and of a higher quality.

Animatic

This is our animatic of our teaser trailer. We have created this to show the scenes in our teaser trailer and roughly how long they will be. It is more interactive than a storyboard and shows the scenes more clearly. The pictures are noy of a high quality however you still can understand them and gain an idea about the sequences of the scenes.

Time Management

Today we filmed the scenes again in our teaser trailer. We managed to film all the scenes accept for our montage of quick scenes at the end. We decided to redo these scenes, because after we filmed it we realised that there were a few mistakes made. The footage was fairly shaky in certain scenes so we decided to do all the scenes again to improve the quality of our teaser trailer.

We chose to do our filming today because the conditions were perfect for filming. It was a clear night with no rain whatsoever. The car park we were using was fairly empty, therefore we were able to film without any interruptions.

Name of film

Today we came up with a name for our film. We are going to call it Class A. We feel that this title is appropriate for our film as the story line is a drug deal that has gone wrong and therefore Class A mixes in well with this genre. Class A is also linked with the drug dealers with them being the best around. The reason why the "A" is in red is because it will make it stand out amongst others and therefore get the audiences attention. The colour red is also symbolised as being dangerous which what our teaser trailer is about. The "A" is most likely to be bold so that emphasis is on it. The font will be nothing fancy because we want it to be hard hitting towards the audience.

Production Company

We have chosen to choose Universal as our production company. Universal are a large American Institution who have made big blockbusters such as Fast 5, 2 fast 2 furious, Bad Boys and many others. These films mentioned are big action blockbusters. This genre is what our film is going to be like.

Storyboard

Montage Ideas

Wheel spin

Close up of gear stick

Burnout

Hand brake turn

Evaluation of Questionnaire

From our questionnaire we have found out that Males tend to enjoy the action films because of the fast paced editing and the tension that goes with it. The younger generation are also more interested in action films and also sci fi's. This is because they can relate to the films due to the modern day technology such as xbox and other things like that. The younger audience tend to go to the cinema to watch films, this is because they want to get the full atmosphere of the film. The older audience prefer to watch films at home because they like the comfort of their own surroundings. From the findings we have also found out that younger people prefer to watch teaser trailers before going to see the film because with them having little amount of income they don't want to waste it. This means that we need to make our trailer as appealing as possible so that it gets the attention from the target audience.

Responses to questionnaire

We gave this questionnaire to five randomly selected people in different age categories. These are the answers they gave....

Person 1

1. Male
2. 0-12
3. Action
4. I like this because I enjoy watching shooting with lots action
5. DVD
6. No
7. N/A

Person 2

1. Female
2. 60+
3. Romantic
4. I enjoy watching romantic because it is light hearted and reminds me of when I was younger
5. SKYmovies
6. No
7. N/A

Person 3

1. Female
3. 26-40
3. Comedy/Romance
4. I enjoy a love story with some elements of comedy to make me laugh
5. SKYmovies
6. No
7. N/A

Person 4

1. Male
2. 13-25
3. Action
4. I enjoy this type of film because it is fast paced and relates to computer games like call of duty which I enjoy
5. Cinema
6. Yes
7. Yes

Person 5

1. Male
2. 40-60
3. Sci-fi
4. They are usually unrealistic this helps to take the stress away from every day life
5. DVD
6. No
7. N/A


From these results it is evident that teenagers are most likely to watch teaaser trailers. This is useful are target audience are teenagers and young adults.

Questionnaire?

1. Male or female?

2. Age?
0-12 13-25 26-40 41-60 60+

3. Favourite film genre?
Horror Action Comedy Romance Adventure Sci-fi Thriller

4. With reference to question 3 why did you choose that Genre?
...........................................................

5. How do you consume films?
Cinema Internet DVD SKYmovies Other

6. Do you watch trailers?
Yes or No?

7. If yes,does a teaser trailer affect your decision to watch a film?
Yes or No?

Intertitles

The plan for our teaser trailer is to have quick scenes between inter titles which tell the audience important information about the film, for example title of the film, main actors, release date etc. We are thinking to have quick edited scenes followed by a black background with inter titles coming up. We have researched other teaser trailers and some of the best have followed this idea. We think that this will benefit our trailer and overall make it more appealing to the target audience.

The intertitles will flash up inbetween seens on a black background. They will be bold so that the audience pays close attention to it and can process the information

Update on filming

Last week we decided to film part of the teaser trailer. We have filmed the first couple of scenes but we may have to re do some of them to make them more realistic and authentic. We also decided to change the location of the trailer, our first ideas were to film at young street car park which is a gravel car park. We decided to change it because the car park was waterlogged and it was difficult to film on. We moved the location to a train station car park as it is a lot easier to film and in actual fact is it probably better overall. Also we have more actors than we first planned and also more cars. We have gone from three actors to six actors and two cars to three cars. I feel making these changes are going to benefit our teaser trailer and make it better.

Costume ideas

This is an idea of what the actors will be wearing in our teaser trailer. They will be wearing teenage gangster clothing like joggers, hoodies and trainers etc .... We got these costume ideas from films like Kidulthood were teenage gangsters are used. We feel that are target audience which will be mostly teenagers will be able to relate to these costumes as it is fairly common and fashionable in modern times.
The mise-en-scene in this case the costumes is crucial as it portrays certain stereotypes to the audience which immediately portray the character and personality of the actors. For example one of the main actors Jack will be wearing trackies and a hoodie. This immediately gets the audience thinking about teenage crime and issues related to that as it is a common stereotype in modern day society.

Audience Profiling - Fast and Furious

Fast and Furious
release date: 10th April 2009
price: C+
estimated box office: £6,000,000
genre(s): Action
director(s): Chris Morgan
film cast: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster
certificate: 12A
distributor: Universal Pictures

Here you can see a table that shows the type of audience that went Fast and Furious. Like our film Fast and Furious includes car chases and is of the action genre. 74% of the audience for this film is in the age category between 15-24 years of age. This shows we need to target our film at people in this age category. The gender analysis shows that 74% of the audience for this film was males.

These stats suggest that are teaser trailer should be aimed at young males. We plan to do this by including lots of action, by using fast editing techniques.

Kidulthood trailer analysis

Kidulthood has had a major impact on our change in genre decision. It is a film the deals with the issues that revolve around teenage crime. The trailer uses dark lighting mostly to indicate to the audience what the genre of the film. The major thing we have learnt from watching Kidulthood is the costume and the type of actors they have used. For example I feel the actor Adam Deacon is crucial in helping to sell the film.

We will be looking to include things based on from watching the trailer:

- The use of costume
- Dark lighting
- Fast paced editing
- Type of music
- Camera angles and composition
- Settings and location ideas

This is a trailer and we are producing a teaser trailer so we are going to try and use even faster editing and include more intertitles. We have also decided not to use dialogue unlike this trailer as we want the audience to focus on our diagetic and non-diagetic sound.

Improved shot list

Shot 1: This is an establishing shot of the a car entering the car park, the camera also pans around at the same time. We used this shot so that the audience could get an idea of the location, it also gives them an idea of what type of genre it will be.

Shot 2: The camera then fades and goes into another scene. We used an over the shoulder long shot to show our first glimpse of the actors. The long shot was used because we didn't want to go straight into introducing the characters.

Intertitle

Shot 3: Medium shot of all the actors together, this is first time that the audience see all 3 actors. The camera then zooms in to allow the audience to see what the actors are doing.

Shot 4: Over the shoulder close up shot of another actor in the car. This has been used to show the emotions of that character. While this is happening the fight is still going on in the background.

Shot 5: Long shot of the car chase beginning. The camera also pans round when the cars go past.

Shot 6: Long shot the cars coming towards the camera. I think this is a good shot because it feels like the cars are coming straight towards the camera.

Shot 7: Long shot of the coming past. This is a good shot because it show the audience how fast the car going. It builds tension within the trailer.

Intertitle

Shot 8: Medium shot of a car doing a wheel spin.This is the start of a montage so the shots are quite quick to keep the audience on the edge of their seats.

Shot 9: Medium shot of a cars wheels screeching, this makes the audience feel like someone is following him.

Shot 10: Close up of the radio playing, it is a song that is associated with teenagers.

Shot 11: Long shot of a car speeding in a certain location

Shot 12: Close up of a gear change, this is a good shot because it allows the audience to see what is happening within the car. It is also adds a bit of difference from all the shots being outside the car.

Shot 13: Medium shot of the car coming out of a hand brake turn. These shots are meant to be quick so that it keeps the tension high.

Intertitle

Audience Profiling

As you can see from the table below the highest precentage of people that go to the cinema in the UK are people in the age 15-24 age category. We therefore have decided to aim our teaser trailer at people in this age category so we have a larger target audience.

We will need to make sure our teaser trailer includes the appropriate style and narrative to attract this particular audience. We will need to make sure our storyline is contemporary and relevant in modern society which I feel are's is. We have chosen teenage actors so that it appeals to a fairly youthful audience. We are going to try and find suitable music to use that is contemporary, again to attract our target audience.

Actors

This is dago. He is playing one of the drug dealers in our teaser trailer. You dont see him much in the footage however he still needs to wear suitable clothing so he looks like a realistic drug dealer.