Hopefully my 'Final Actors' Update...

Drama over....

My sister Tasha agreed to play the female role for me.

My Production Company logo

These are my two logos, I am completely inept at Photoshop so I sat on Skype with my uncle who is a pro for 2 hours and he taught me the basics and told me how to do what I wanted to achieve. It was a long process but I am happy with the results I've achieved.  

Through this process I have been taught the basics and hopefully I will still remember them when I reach the point that I am having to do my auxiliary tasks.

Second Day Filming:

Once again people have failed me. My actress bailed on me last minute and after a discussion we decided that she wouldn't be taking part in my film and I am yet again actress-less.

Risk Assessment

Photos

These are the photos that I collected from my actor’s house. I ended up only taking four out of the large selection he had, the reason for this is that I’m only using photos for two of the rules but thought it would be best to have back-ups or other options if the main photos I wanted to use don’t work.

Will Sexton: 

Tasha's to follow

First day Filming

Today didn't really go as well as planned. Hopped on a bus Avebury where my actors were supposed to meet me, one arrived.. The other we couldn't get through too. I managed to record some of the voice overs needed and took some photos of the actor in costume but all in all for actual footage, not a successful day.

But  I did take a lovely location shot - Avebury

Revised Shooting Schedule

A quick powerpoint explaining why I had to create a new shooting schedule and the new schedule!

Shooting schedule from millieoconnor12

Permission request for song

Because I decided to change the theme of my trailer, I thought it to be best to change the song also, I found a song on SoundCloud that I would like to use for my work so, I sent a request over to the owner of the song. I kept the request casual as the nature of the website is too.

Conversation:

Actors update.

FINALLY! I've got a female actor!!!

Hannah Jeffries

Costume List

A basic list of what I will require my actors to wear.

A screen grab of the messages I sent to my actors letting them know about the costume requirements for the different scenes. I wanted to send them as text messages so that when it comes to filming I can tell them what scenes we're shooting on that day and they can refer back to their text message. Since sending the texts I have had a full confirmation that they both have everything required.

Bellow is a PowerPoint presentation on why I chose the different types of clothes I've required for my characters.

ACTORS

I currently still have no female actress, I have the feeling that I am going to have to star in it myself as well as the other filming jobs. Today I am going to my male actor's house to have a look at his childhood photos and select one or two for me to take home and use Photoshop to combine it with the other actors childhood photos.

Rules 1 and 2

For rules 1 and two I will be using photographs to show the rules, I’ve chosen to do this to try and get across to the viewer that the two characters have known each other since they were very young. To get the continuity to flow I’m going to be photo manipulating images of my two actors together to show them in the same location. To do this I will use Photoshop, I have limited knowledge on how to use it but will be teaching myself how to via YouTube and hopefully the images will come out nicely.


I went to Will's house and went through his baby photos. I selected 4 photos that I thought would be appropriate but also easy enough to manipulate. 

Casting

Will Sexton as Ben
Currently I am struggling to find a female actress to play Sophie.

Change of mind

I have already chosen my soundtrack and have been given permission to use it but as the idea for my trailer has changed slightly I think I'm going to have to change it. In this post I'm going to look at some trailers that I think are similar to my idea and see what songs they use, if any and from there go onto creative commons to find something similar to them.


The genre of the already chosen song is pop, I no longer think that the track would suit my trailer as I've slightly changed the storyline. (only the trailers storyline)

The trailers i'm going to look at are:
500 Days of Summer 
Like Crazy 




500 Days of Summer:soundtrack
-There Is a Light That Never Goes Out by The Smiths
-Us by Regina Spektor
-Black Tambourine by Beck
-You Make My Dreams by Hall & Oates
-Vagabond by Wolfmother

Like Crazy: soundtrack 
-Can't help falling in love by Ingrid Michaelson


These are all songs that are slightly indie and upbeat and I think for my trailer I will now try and find a similar song/s to fit with it.

Shot List and Shooting Schedule

Click the arrows on the slideshow bellow to view my shot list and shooting schedule for my main piece.

 

Though process

Thought process of trailer framework.

Plot: Throughout their whole lives Sophie and Ben have been best friends, living in the same close nit village, at the same school, same friends, same everything. They both love each other in more than just a platonic way but are both too nervous to say anything. They go through their lives dating other people; falling out with one another; fighting and rekindling their friendship. Sophie becomes highly successful, however, due to unforeseen circumstances Ben's life goes in a slightly different direction.

To do list:

-          Photographs of will and Hannah- a timeline of their lives starting 0-1

-          “ – aged 3

-          “ – aged 5

-          “ - aged 9

-          “ 12-13

-          16

-          18

Photos need to be a mix of inside/outside locations. Preferably a mix of photos alone, proud moments, with family, embarrassing moments.

To help me come up with some ideas that will link with my trailer it seemed to be a good idea to come up with my own rules and regulations of friendship which I can base the structure of my trailer around.

10 rules of friendship:

1)      Avoid close friendships with the opposite gender

2)      Never ever eat your friends yogurt

3)      Sharing is caring except when it’s (insert toy name)

4)      Always be honest, even if its brutal

5)      Make sure they’re your crazy partner in crime

6)      Know how to make each other smile and don’t mind being judged in the process

7)      Take the fall for one another / blame one another

8)      Share clothes

9)       Bodily functions are allowed and laughable

10)   Don’t fall in love with your best friend

Act 1:  Throughout their whole lives Sophie and Ben have been best friends, living in the same close nit village, at the same school, same friends, same everything. ( PHOTO(1) Avoid close friendships with the opposite gender PHOTO(2) Never eat your friends yogurt VIDEO/PHOTO(5) Make sure they’re your crazy partner in crime PHOTO(3) Sharing is caring except when its x PHOTO(8) Share clothes VIDEO(9) Bodily functions are allowed and laughable

Act 2: They both love each other in more than just a platonic way but are both too nervous to say anything. (VIDEO(9) Bodily functions are allowed and laughable VIDEO(10) Don’t fall in love with your best friend VIDEO(4) always be honest, even if its brutal PHOTO/VIDEO(6) Know how to make each other smile and don’t mind being judged in the process VIDEO(7) Take the fall for one another / blame one another

Act 3: Sophie becomes highly successful, however, due to unforeseen circumstances Ben's life goes in a different direction. VIDEO(10) Don’t fall in love with your best friend.


I've contacted Hannah and Will about sending me pictures with a list of the type of photos I'd need and they're yet to get back to me but once I have copies of them I will do a post about them.

The email I sent to Will trying to explain my ideas. In the end he didn't understand what I was on about so we met up in person for me to explain it properly.

Final Script

SCRIPT: 

For the narrative in my trailer I want to keep it mainly voice overs and then within each scene there will be a bit of dialogue if the scene is a moving image. If it's a photograph I will just be using the voice overs for that scene.

Scene 1:

Sophie: rule one
Hannah: avoid close friendships with the opposite sex


Scene 2:
Ben: Rule two
Sophie: Sharing is caring except when it's (insert toy name)
Sophie: Ben this still isn't funny give him back!


Scene 3:
Sophie:Rule three
Ben: Always be honest, even if its brutal
Ben: Honestly (2) Soph you look like a tart
Sophie: (gasps)

Scene 4:
Ben: Rule four
 Sophie: Make sure they're your crazy partner in crime
(door opens)
Sophie: we're here!
Extra: You cant come in dressed like that, who'd you think you guys are
Pause
Ben: we're...we're the coolest partners out there!

Scene 5:
Sophie:Rule five
Ben:  Know how to make each other smile and don’t mind being judged in the process
Extra: errr i don't think so, bye now
Ben: (jumping around funny dancing) We are we are we don't need your stupid party anyway

Scene 6:
Ben: Rule six
Sophie: Take the fall for one another 
Extra: and who's is this? who wants to own up? you both know the rules
Sophie psst ben please
Ben: it's mine

Scene 7:
Sophie: Rule seven
Ben: blame one another
Extra:Sophie was this you
Sophie: no no not me it was ben
Ben: Hey

Scene 8: 
Ben: Rule eight
Sophie: Share clothes
Ben: Soph, not those ones please
Sophie: go away ben, ill give them back

Scene 9
Sophie: Rule nine
Ben: Bodily functions are allowed and laughable 
Sophie& Ben laughing lots

Scene 10
Ben&Sophie:  Don’t fall in love with your best friend
Ben&Sophie: I love them

Title Design

 This is a quick powerpoint explaining the thought process I went through to pick the type face for my Titles.

First Script draft

Final Storyboard.

I made one mistake whilst putting my storyboard together, I missed out one of the rules, so I put it in at the end but when filming it will be in the correct order.

Progress on Soundtrack

After listening to my selected songs over and over I decided that I was aiming too high and that I almost defiantly wouldn’t get a response from any of the charts artists. But I remember that I was thinking about asking Will Campbell if I could use his song 'Rise' so I approached him and he said yes! Which is brilliant and means that for my trailer I have my soundtrack sorted.

Storyboard ideas...

This post shows my storyboard and some details about why I've chosen to do certain scenes.

In my trailer I want there to be a series of quick ‘flashes’ of times that the two main characters ( Ben and Sophie) have spent together. The reason for this is I want to show the audience that the two characters have grown up together and have stayed close throughout their whole lives. I also want to try and show the viewers that Ben is in love with Sophie but isn’t letting on as he just wants her to be happy so doesn’t tell her a thing.

At  this point in my storyboard i  realised that my storyline is rather elaborate and that it will take a lot of manpower ( actors aged from toddlers to adults) and this could potentially be really hard to do.

SO

I’m going to take the next couple of days to try and find the amount of actors I need and if I can't. I’m going to have to rethink or maybe just tweak my initial storyline but if i can I will finish off the storyboard from this point on.

Ideas for my soundtrack

For my trailer I thought it would be best to look at the UK Charts for inspiration. My reasoning for this is that I've decided that due to the fact my film is a romance film the type of song/s playing in the background of the trailer should be something up-beat and possibly very cheesy and I do believe that is what the 2015 charts have to offer. I would also like the song at some point to have a climax like some of the ones in the trailers I looked at previously did.

The top 10 currently are: (02 October 2015 - 08 October 2015)

1. Writing on the Wall by Sam Smith
2. What do you mean By Justin Bieber
3. Locked Away By R City ft. Adam Levine
 4. Easy Love by Sigala
5. Can’t feel my face By Weekend
6. On My Mind by Ellie Goulding
7. How Deep Is Your Love by Calvin Harris & Disciples
 8. Do it again By Pia Mia ft. Chris Brown & Tyga
9. Runnin’ By NaughtyBoy/Beyoncé/A Benjamin
10. Don’t Be So Hard On Yourself by Jess Glynne

Sam Smith's song Writing on the Wall is an elegant song however, it is far too slow and dramatic for my film if not actually the complete opposite.
 Justin Bieber's What do you mean is a potential, it up beat and 'poppy' and the lyrics of the song are talking about how the actions and feelings of one person contradict themselves resulting in the other person being confused about how the other feels for them. The lyrics of the song match the plot of my film so if I am able to get permission for this song I would defiantly like to use sections if not all of it in my trailer.
R City ft. Adam Levine's song Locked Away is sort of the right song. There are elements of the song that I think would be really fitting for example the running theme of insecurity in our flaws and about unconditional love, these themes do also run throughout my film so it is lyrics appropriate. But from what I've seen in trailers as the footage is the main focus to actually hear what the lyrics are saying you have to focus on them not what's happening in the trailer which is why I’m hesitant about using this for my trailer.
Sigala's song Easy Love is another good example of what I had in my head before looking for ideas, again like Justin Beiber I do think it'd be really hard to get permission to use this song but if I could I would. It is upbeat, fun, about love and has a sort of drop over the chorus which I can envision going over a certain part of my trailer. The lyrics from this song are also appropriate and I think at certain parts of my trailer I may attempt to make them the main focus of the scene. (Providing I get permission.)  
Weekend's song Can't feel my face is again an upbeat 'poppy' song but I think it's too lively for my storyline. It's the backbeat its too 'jump-up' and I just don't think it would work as well as some of the other songs I have looked at so far.
Ellie Goulding's song On My Mind like Weekend's song isn't right for my trailer, the back beat of the song has a very strong jumpy base throughout and I think it would disrupt the flow of the trailer. If it was only over the chorus I would consider using it but it seems to be throughout most of the song. Furthermore the lyrics are about not having feelings for someone and being rather bitter about it and that isn't the impression I want to give off about my characters.
Calvin Harris&Disciples' song minus the chorus would fit, I think the chorus needs to be a bit faster in pace, its a slow and dramatic dance song but I like the underlying question how deep is your love, because I could easily apply that to my two main characters as throughout the storyline they are questioning how much do they really love one another and what sort of love is it.
Pia Mia ft. Chris Brown & Tyga's firstly lyrically is all wrong, its about a one-night stand which is the exact opposite to my trailer's storyline. Secondly the song is swaying from 'poppy' to rap and even though most rap songs are about love, this storyline is more suited to pop than rap.
NaughtyBoy/Beyoncé/A Benjamin's song Runnin' at first I didn't like the sound of but if you skip to just before the chorus and then after the chorus I think potentially I could use this song, its got an upbeat chorus, but afterwards its slightly slower and dramatic but I can picture it fitting with the scenes in my trailer. On the other hand not the lyrics so much, they're about losing yourself and someone you love which I guess I could make work but I'd rather my audience think that the storyline wasn't about loss of love.
Jess Glynne's song Don't be so hard on yourself would be good for my trailer I think, It starts off with a strong happy beat and it continues throughout the whole song.  I like this because It will imply to the audience that it's a cheerful film not filled with doom and gloom. If I was to use this song I think I would have it as an instrumental, not that I don't think the lyrics would be appropriate because they would but because I think it's a lovely bit of music and actually just doesn't need the lyrics over it to give off the effect that I'd want to have.

On a final note

Last week in lesson we were watching the year 10's music video's and one really stood out and it turned out that he has created the song and sang it himself. The song was similar to the ones I've spoken about above and I think I am going to ask him if I can use his song for my trailer.






The reason I'm doing my soundtrack planning so early is so that if its the case that I don't get a response from the producer or they say no I can then work on finding another song or even produce my own alongside with my brother. If I was to leave it till last minuet and they said no I would end up either having a song I don't want to use or a silent trailer.

Title Of Film

Initial ideas for the title of my film/trailer.

After coming up with a few a handful of ideas I thought I would narrow it down to my favourite five and then write a questionnaire asking the public which one they like the most. My reasoning for doing this is so that I know that the public will like the title maybe meaning it will be most memorable. I decided to do my questionnaire thorough the website SurveyMonkey.  By using SurveyMonkey I will be able to get my questionnaire to a larger range of people as I can post it on social media websites, for example - my twitter account. But I can also email it or text it to my friend to get them to answer it and I have done all of the above.

 

Personal Favourites and why:



Thanks to you
It's short but sweet and implies that maybe one of the protagonists has done something amazing for the other character. I deliberately used the word 'Thanks' not 'Thank You' as 'Thanks' is informal and more personal giving it more of a casual, personal feel to the film.


The Next Chapter
This title follows the storyline in how it follows the characters through their lives in to the 'next chapter.' Is also short so may be more memorable compared to some other film titles.





Rules and Regulations of Friendship
This title is slightly more comical, it implies that there are rules and regulations of friendships which is a way there are. There actually are unwritten rules of friendships, like how some say there's 'bro-code' between guys and 'girl-code' when you become friends with a girl but as far as I know there aren't any unwritten laws about boy to girl friendships and this film could be an answer to it, showing what is appropriate in this type of relationship and where the line is.



Building Blocks
Any form of relationship, friendship or romantic there are always different stages and things that move you up to the next or different level. Some could argue that these are the building blocks of the relationship. I think this would be an appropriate title for my film as it works alongside the storyline of Ben and Sophie's relationship with time.



If Only
This title fits in with Ben's side of the story his longing for Sophie but her being slightly out of reach. It could also imply to the viewer that the storyline may not be a typical fairy-tale ending, giving the film an element of surprise which may in fact make the film more appealing to any potential consumers.




CHOSEN TITLE:  Rules and Regulations of Friendship

Using my survey results I have chosen the title of my film! - Rules and Regulations of Friendship was the most popular, not by far but was the winner.

My Questionnaire https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/9GV3T38

Analysis of results
Above are the results from my questionnaire. I had the questionnaire up for a week before deciding to count in the data. Unfortunately I didn't get as many responses as I was hoping for, only 14 in total. Even though it is a small sample size I can still take it into account when choosing which title I go for. The results are fairly equal. three titles having the same average as one another! The title that was most liked was Rules and Regulations of Friendship, this didn't take me by surprise as it is the most playful title so I expected it to be the favourite. On the other hand, Building Blocks got the worse score and I am actually shocked by this I thought it would score higher than a 2 on average, but the public know what they want!

Soundtrack research

Inspiring Trailers


Before choosing whether or not I even want a soundtrack to my trailer I thought it would be best to have a look at some trailers within my genre and see what sort of songs, if any they use and what effect it has on the trailer itself.













Seeing as in my planning I focused a lot on Love,Rosie it seems like a good place to start.
In their trailer they use two separate songs to show mirror the events as they unfold throughout the film.It starts off with The 1975's song Chocolate which comes under the genre of Indie Rock, its an upbeat playful track, if this track was a person they would be carefree and bubbly and these traits reflect the relationship between the two main protagonists at the beginning of their lives to their later teenage years (graduation, 18 years old) but when things start to get more serious in their lives and their friendship becomes more complicated Olly Murs' song Right Place, Right Time fades in. Even the song title suites the second half of the trailer as it seems that the two main characters never seem to be in the right place or time for one another. If this song was a person they wouldn't quite be content with their own life, pining over something/someone just out of reach.




P.S I Love You's trailer is different to the others that I've looked at I starts off with a self-produced instrumental and as the trailer reveals more of the storyline it fades in  "Breathe" by Michelle Branch but as an instrumental. The combination of the two gives off an overall glow but at the start when the music fades out it does so quiet suddenly almost to show how the female protagonists life changes. In a way this is sort of the same as Love,Rosie it mirrors the storyline in the soundtrack.






Miss You Already isn't quite in my genre but after watching the trailer I really like the compilation of songs. It starts off with a basic instrumental but is then ( as I newly discovered) followed by not one, but two songs.

1. All American Rejects - There's a place
2. R.E.M - Losing My Religion

When There's a place fades in it fades in at the point in the trailer where the storyline takes a turn for the worse and it adds to the distress and helps the audience emotionally connect with maybe how the characters are feeling too. However, my absolute favourite introduction of a song in any/all of the trailers I've watched has got to be when they introduce Losing My Religion as when its brought in it isn't over the film scene its a part of it. The characters in the trailer are signing along to it in a taxi journey and then It continues along with the rest of the trailer. The song again is well suited as in the last section of the trailer the main character Millie is asking her best friend if she thinks there is a heaven and if they would let her in, which could be seen as losing her religion when faced with something as awful as she is going through.


Titanic is a historical romance as the story is set in 1912 but the film was released in 1997. The soundtrack to the trailer is Southampton by James Horner it is a classical instrumental and in my personal opinion it is beautiful and I think it was used as it fits the time period of the film. A stereotype about classical music is that its old and loved by old people so the producers of the trailer probably used this track to boost the context of the film.




From looking at these five very different trailers and how their soundtracks compliment the scenes i'm still unsure on how many songs I would want to include but I think it's helped me choose what type of song I should include.

Character Profile - Ben

From creating my character in a way I used the character Alex to influence some of his characteristics.

Love,Rosie - character: Alex

Age: continuous
Interests: medicine
Hobbies: unclear
Personality: caring, sentimental, loyal, loving, selfless

My character
Name: Ben Stanton
Age: continuous
Interests: Photography, Art-History

Hobbies: Bowling, puzzles and Pottery, Rugby

Personality: Loud, easily exited, sentimental, Closed emotionally, Selfless




To try and really get to know my character i've written a short paragraph about him from his Mother's point of view.

Ben is a lovely boy, wouldn't hurt a fly. He has always been there for Sophie, they really are the best of friends. He isn't always open about his emotions probably because he's so selfless, if he sees his emotions getting in the way of someone else's happiness he'll keep it to himself.

First draft of storyboard

So this is my first draft of my storyboard, I know there aren't any pictures but my drawing skills are awful and it was easier for me to visualise with words at first.

This is an extremely rough draft I think its clear that I still have a lot of things that I haven't figured out yet but as i start to put things together and work them out i will make more drafts and end up with my final storyboard shortly.

Titles and credits timeline for Love, Rosie

Because Love, Rosie has such a similar storyline to mine it only seemed logical to look at the credit and titles for its trailer and how it's all set out and then I can take that on board for when I go to make my own trailer.

Character Profile - Sophie

Name: Sophie Del
Age: Continuous
Interests: TV History and Drama
Hobbies: Reading, Dancing
Personality: Bubbly, Loud, Hyperactive, Kind

Film Pitch:

Throughout their whole lives Sophie and Ben have been best friends, living in the same close knit village, at the same school, same friends, same everything. They both love each other in more than just a platonic way but are both too nervous to say anything. They go through their lives dating other people; falling out with one another; fighting and rekindling their friendship. Sophie becomes highly successful, however, due to unforeseen circumstances Ben's life goes in a slightly different direction. 

Inspirational film. - Love Rosie

Love Rosie

For weeks now people have been telling me to watch this film so I finally decided too and I'm ever so thankful that I did, because it is so close to the sort of film that I want to make. It follows a teenager called Rosie and her best friend Alex through their lives and the aspect of their love being ever so slightly forbidden as they are best friends, and so they do not want to make an advance in case it messes up what they have.(Spoiler alert) You can argue that it is kind of a social realism film, not by the way it's filmed but by one of the focus' in the film that she becomes a teenage mother and how her life plan is changed due to the child.

Further research into logos and initial ideas.

This is a short Canva presentation looking at some pre-existing production company logos that caught my eye and brief explanations as to why I like them. I've then chosen some images that I think I'd like to incorporate when making my own image.

 


Bellow is a few sketches that I drew up when I was thinking about other possibilities for my logo.

My Genre

For my film I will be incorporating two genres together to make a sub-genre.

• Social realism
• Romance

My reasons behind choosing to join these two together is that although romance isn't a problem that people face in society as a whole, It can be something that massively effects a person and their whole life in a negative way and I feel that due to all of the 'chick-flicks' out there, there is an unfair representation of what love is and by filming in the same sort of way as a social realism film it will allow the audience to
1) relate with the characters
 2) accept that every love story is a fairy-tale.

Production company research:

A brief Canva presentation on two contrasting production companies. The reason I have looked into these two specifically is I haven't looked into them that much previously and I was curious as to the sort of films they produced etc. By looking at production companies I'll be able to give myself a rough idea about how they work but also how mine would work when it comes to setting guidelines and rules about films.

 














What I found really interesting about them is that their logos in a way can tell you all you need to know about the types of films they produce. BadRobot for example, it's logo is dark and looks a little spooky which is back up by the name of the company (the 'Bad' bit) The word bad can imply to the viewer that the films, maybe aren't for the faint hearted. All you have to do to see this is look at the film list I have posted bellow of some of the films they have been producing recently.

 

Audiance Profie

MY TARGET AUDIENCE:
 from doing research I have decided that my ideal demographic is 15-29year old women primarily, although in principle the age range is rather large but as a whole it is an age range I have proof of them liking and enjoying my genre of film.


This is a profile of someone who I would generally expect to watch my film/film trailer. They fit the demographic that I am trying to reach with my film trailer.

Name: Tasha O'Connor
Age: 18 years old
Education/job: University - English and History combined honours
Hobbies: Yoga, Running
Favourite genre: Romance or Comedy
Favourite film: Romeo and Juliet
Spare time: Chill with friends and family
Occupation: N/A

Name: Rachel Fowler
Age: 27
Education: A-Level
Hobbies: Tennis
Favourite genre: romance or thriller
Favourite film: About time
Spare time: chilling with the hubby watching movies
Occupation: Insurance








Why do I want these two people as my ideal target audience?




Tasha: Tasha is a well-educated teenager who has a wide variety of interested and to me that makes her someone I think would find my film interesting. Her favourite film being Romeo and Juliet also massively swayed my choice, as we all know the film is about forbidden love and I like to think that my film will have an element of this too.




Rachel: Although she is much older than Tasha and has a completely different set of interests/occupation when it comes to films, their interests are fairly similar. Her favourite film being About time made me really think that she would enjoy my film as it has an underlying theme of wanting what we cant have the first time.




Like i've said Tasha and Rachel have very different lives yet they can come together and both enjoy the same sort of film. I deliberately chose two people with an age gap but no lower as I think to watch my film there will be a needed level of maturity that someone bellow this age may not have yet.

Audiance Research Questionnaire

I wanted to do a questionnaire on what kind of genres people are interested into to ensure that my genre was one that people liked but I also wanted to find out specific things about trailers so I added in some questions about certain aspects of trailers too.

Basic conventions of a film trailer

 A quick prezi which goes into more detail about certain codes and conventions of film trailers.

Social realism genre research

Social realism...

The realistic depiction in art of contemporary life, as a means of social or political comment.

From writing out my initial ideas and having my top choices in my head I decided to do a little bit of research into this genre as one of my ideas could fit into this genre too and I think I could film it the same sort of way as social realisms are filmed...so...I have looked into a few trailers for social realisms to see if its something that I can see working for my trailer.

- Fish Tank:

- Ecstasy : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4s_YTxO8E0

Fish tank:

Is about a 15year old girl who lives on a council estate in Essex, living with her un-caring mum and it follows her struggle and drive to wanting to become a hip-hop dancer but also the relationship that forms with her mothers Irish boyfriend.

Once I had watched the trailer I wanted to look more in to the storyline and the work behind the film and this article in particular seemed to have the highest level of detail into the questions I was asking.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/movies/17fish.html?_r=0

My favourite line from the whole article was :

Ms. Arnold shot “Fish Tank” in a raw, non-judgmental and observational style with plenty of hand-held camerawork. This is how I think I would like to shoot this idea, maybe less raw considering the topics of Fish tank and my film will be on opposite ends of the scale.  I like the effect of the hand held camera and the fast pace editing of the shots it really does make the film look as if it's a documentary on her life rather than a set up film. If I go ahead with this idea I will most likely want to replicate the same effect so will if not always, mostly use a hand-held camera and fast pace editing depends on the situation in hand. I also think that the lighting in the trailer is crucial, well the lack of it. The low lighting helps reflect her situation and the storyline.

Ecstasy:

Is about a group of teenagers who start to recreationally take ecstasy but they begin to depend on the drug and become regular users. It follows their lives and how the drug takes its toll on them personally but also those who surround them.

For the first minuet of the trailer it looks as if they are glorifying it but then it takes a turn for the worst and it shows some of the negative impacts of the after effect or if you take too much. Again  Fish Tank it uses a what looks like a hand held camera for most of it and the editing is fast pace, yet this could be to mimic the effects of the drug and the lifestyle. I really liked the titles of this film, although they were fairly basic I like how they started off white, connotations of purity and changed to red which connotes danger and corruption, which is effectively what has happened to the girls that took the drug. 'try it you might like it, coming to wherever you are. soon' is a powerful way to end the trailer as its almost testing your morals and willpower and you assume they're talking about the drug when reality they mean the release of the film. When I make my trailer I think I would like to try and twist some words to entice the viewers even more.

From looking at two examples of social realism films I think I would really like to incorporate  into m film trailer some how, most likely through the use of a hand held camera and I will look at lighting in detail too as I really liked its effect on Fish tank.