Our group done a match - cut, over shoulder shots, shot reverse shot and different camera shots for our preliminary task. This was a mini clip of practise shots to gain knowledge and understanding about what is expected from the actual trailer and also to get used to the cameras.
The editing in the preliminary clip in my point of view was okay. However the final trailer had several match cuts which were much better. As our skills on using Final Cut Pro improved, we started to get better editing skills and better scenes.
After a while of producing the preliminary clip we had relaised that the clip wasnt fully edited in the way that we are able to do it now. I believe that the preliminary task has a big affect on how we filmed, orgainsed and edited our thriller title sequence.
Ive realised that the camera could have been used better and is not as good as it was on the final title sequence. We could have used extreme close -ups and extreme long shots etc. Luckily this is one of the reasons why our final outcome is better than our preliminary!
We did not use any sound on the preliminary because we didnt realise that the sounding wasnt working. Instead we wrote down what the characters had to say! I dont think thats its our fault that we wasnt aware that the sound wasnt on, but to make the preliminary clip better, we could have used voice overs to create an effect rather than just writing it down. Again this has helped us expand on our knowledge in the long term!
For our mis-en-scene in the preliminary scene we didnt have much. Although we were in college we could have moved out the ways of some stuff, but we never thought about how serious the mise-en-scene could be at the time. However we did have some props such as the scarf to tie the girls hand and mouth and we used a red marker to create the 'bloody' look on the other character (atacker!).
We have improved on this on our thriller title sequence as we had a lot of things for our mise-en-scene such as candles, clothes, cards, candle holders, bangles and some others. Once again this made us realise that we had to have a variety of things that are placed infront of the camera on purpose to make the scenes look realistic.
I think the preliminary task has a big affect on helping me and my group get better for our final draft for 'The Reading'. We gained knowledge and got better and editing, camera work, sound effects / music and the mise-en-scene.
When i first started Media AS, i didn't have any skills with any of the programmes on the Apple MAC's. I actually wasn't very good or had any skills with the MAC's too. I have used them in the past for GCSE media as we had to edit our little video we done but i didn't really know much.
When we first got introduced to the Apple MAC's i thought it was going to be something i could never figure out and be good at! But it didn't take very long to get the hang off!
We were firstly introduced to the Final Cut Pro, which is clearly the main programme to edit our trailer. We used clips from the Bait tutorial to bring some clips together for it to make sense. This was basically just an exercise us to get used to tools such as the razor tool, input, output etc.
We were also introduced into Live type pro, SoundTrack Pro and the actual equipment to film: JVC video camera, Tripod, Sound kit and Lighting!
It took us roughly half a lesson to be able to use each programme. Live Type Pro was another programme were i learnt to create titles for my title sequence. We learnt how to get effects onto the words, different styles, font, size, colour and animation etc. We also learned how to put them onto Final Cut Pro and rend them to get the final piece!
We filmed with the JVC digital cameras and i really enjoyed doing this. This wasn't the first time i had used a tripod or camera because i had been filming for my GCSE course works too. However i had gained skills into camera movements, angles and shots.
We were taught the really basic aspects of what we needed to do while using the camera (health and safety)
We were taught how to lengthen a tripod, open and close lenses of the camera, turn on and off, insert memory card and battery and how to check for the voice, to see if its working!
I really enjoyed using all these programmes and gaining new skills for the media society!
They are interested about things like future telling, witch craft, spells and so on.
This is a bag that a girl is most likely to have. The gender doesn’t really matter, but could be females more than males.
A stereotypical person that would come to watch our film would have the things above in their bags.
These are items that a Gothic / Emo person would have. The bag would have a lot of chains and accessories all over.
It would contain:
- Ipod - because a myth about them is the fact that they cant live without music!
- BlackBerry phone as they like to keep up to date!
- Keys
- Ka soft drink, because it isn't expensive!
- Cigarettes and lighter as moth goths / Emos' smoke!
- Purse
- Book about Tarot cards
- Dog chain in Gothic / toxic design!
As shown on my picture of whats in the bag, it is clear that the main target audience are females. A lifestyle summary of somebody that would watch this movie would be:
Louise, 18, Employer at Tattoo shop. Favourites of hers is the colour black, supernatural activities such as Ouija Board. She enjoys supernatural thriller and horror movies. Her hobbies are designing tattoos and she likes body piercings!
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I researched online for any AS-level Media students trailer movies on youtube and I found a couple interesting ones. The one that grabbed my attention in particular was what a group named ‘Duties of Fidelity’. It was a trailer made by students that also had done AS media. It was a well created title sequence for a thriller opening. They had used the desaturated effect really well which made the title look extremely thrilling!
It is a long trailer, however it has a meaning and is a powerful trailer, therefore doesn’t necessarily get boring, this could be because it has an interesting storyline. The trailer uses hardly any music or even a theme music and uses a lot of dialogue but its a good trailer which doesn’t get boring.
The group members that produced this title sequence definitely had a very good sense of what they had to be doing and produced a good work.
They uploaded their video trailer on youtube and got to about nearly 6 thousand views! This automatically makes it less critical for them to get the video going around with a low budget. Youtube has a big affect on things that are produced on low budgets and could be hard most of the time because they have very little access to the actual big professional equipment.
This is just a starting idea of what our trailer and better trailers in the future could lead to. We could and have embed our rough cut on to our blogs. We can also upload it on to youtube and other sites as such, like facebook etc and see how many views it gets. Eventually, if the trailer / video is good enough, it would get results with a lot of feedback which would then relate to the trailer becoming popular although its a low budget film and globalise world wide for everyone else to see!
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Another way for distributing our trailer could be by advertising our title sequence as a billboard or publish them on local bus stops etc. Posters could be made so the film gets promoted to everybody on road. This would definitely be eye catching and would attract a certain audience type straight away.
They also should be presented on random websites and also we could do something such as having to watch the trailer on youtube before somebody wants to watch a video.
Regarding the fact that the trailer is aimed at teenagers + we can make special posters and put them inside college buildings and universities that are media, film and advertisement related!
Our trailer represents two very similar social groups very clearly, these are "goths" and "emos".
The audeince could clearly see this because of what our mise en scene was and the 'future teller's costume. These things are influential for people that are interested in wearing loads of chains, carless or extreme looks.
We wasnt really inspired by any other movie while producing it, it was something we came up with our self, to make something unique!
However, if i was to arrange the similarities a real goth / emo character with our future teller, i think that our future tellers room (mise en scene) and her costume was realy relating to them. Dark colours, candles, supernatural activities, curses, spells etc are all things that emos and goths are stereotypically meant to do so!
The other charater which is the victim (the girl that goes to the future teller and at the end is found dead! - She has a very careless costume which is how many original goths will be and also in dark colours.
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'The Reading' is a trailer that me and my group members Lydia Alldritt and Reem Emary produced. We chose our production company to be 'Candi Studios' which clearly isn't one of the Big Six. This makes it clear that our film is a low budget film.
An example of a film from the Big six could be 'Mission Impossible'.
Mission Impossible 3 (also known as M:I:III) was an Action / Thriller film made by One of the Big Sixes - Paramount. The film stars Tom Cruise (Ethan Hunt) as the main character of all series!
The reason why me and my group never chose to star anyone famous and choose a production from the big six is because it would have been very hard to find extreme settings, locations and the mise en scene. We didn't want to risk a failure therefore chose to use 'Candi Studios' for our production.
For our Directors and all the information about who produced the title sequence, we wrote down our own names and chose to put a made up name in for one of the starring as we didn't want to use our names twice. We didn't give any famous / important names for any of these because it wouldn't be realistic.
We included the Production company, Starring, Director, Producer and Music. We deliberately chose not do go into things like 'Costume design', 'Hair and Make-up' etc because we wanted to keep it simple so the audience could concentrate on the actual trailer such as locations and mise en scene and the actual scenario rather than all the detailed made for the trailer.
We wasn't really inspired by any movies made in the past, we wanted to plan something different! However something similar with Mission Impossible and our trailer, just as similar as it is to many other trailer is the fact that we chose to explain the storyline a bit instead of keeping it as just showing the location or not having a meaning or idea to what the film could be about. We wanted to explain what the film roughly is about. Mission Impossibles trailer also does the same as they give away some of the things that will be happening in the film.
Both our trailer and Mission Impossibles trailer introduces the main characters of the film in the trailer into what they are like in the film. Meaning not only showing their faces but bringing forward their character. Such as the audience of our trailer could clearly tell that their is a main character that's a fortune teller , similarly we are aware that Tom Cruise is a character full of action!
Our trailer gives away the main settings of the film which is in a forest surrounded with trees and a fortune tellers room. Similarly, Mission impossible gives away the settings and locations. Although M:I:3's trailer is mainly based on the roads, we can see this as the trailer tells a lot about the film being an action thriller and the audience could tell that a lot is going to be based on roads!
Mission Impossibles theme tune has become a general and is a very powerful orchestral, differently our theme music is instrumental made on SoundTrackPro.
Mission Impossibles trailer has a lot of dialogue as well as just sound affects and the theme music, however our trailer is just a theme music. This is because we chose and decided together to have no dialogue as it can give away and spoil the trailer.
All films have a font style used for the title sequence and main title on posters and billboards etc. There are two types of fonts. These are:
- Serif
- Sans Serif
Serif fonts are different from Sans Serif fonts because they tend to be more formal and traditional. The basic and also one of the main Serif font is Times. Serif fonts look more formal compared to Sans Serif fonts as these fonts have a slight 'stroke' on each letter.
The Untouchables was a film based on the (crime, drama and historical thriller) genre. A Paramount Pictures film, 1987. The film starrs Kevin Costner, Sean Connery & Robert De Niro.
The font used for the film is 'Perpetua'. This is a Serif font style. This font is used because it gives the film a serious and formal categorie. The title is written in full capital letters, which gives a sence of a masculine character, big, bold and formal.
Sans Serif fonts are less formal compared to the Serif fonts. They are more curvy, bold and modern - informal writing! A common Sans Serif font style is Comic Sans.
The Young Victoria was a film that was out not very long ago. Its a 2009, GK film. They've recieved an oscar for 'Best costume design!' The film has a mix of genres, however the main genre is 'romance & drama.' The font style for this film is Sans Serif which is called 'Avenir'. The font is Sans serif although its a film based on a historical lifestyle. Both Serif and Sans Serif could go along to the films font style. I believe that Sans serif was chosen as it looks more modern and feminine!
Since we've now finished our rough cut for our title sequence, I've come across a situation were i thought re-filming some shots would make our film better considering the fact that there was hardly any good lighting and camera angles in our rough cut. It isn't the editing skills we need to work on, its the actual filming that would make our rough cut look more professional.
- One of the first things that we would be changing from our rough cut would be the studios name would be changed instead of being promoted on a simple white handwriting.
- This shot needs to be changed into a close - up to make the audience have a clear idea of what is needed to be seen and watch for the following scenes interests. The shot would look more dramatic and less simple if it became a close up, it would also have more affect on the audience.
- This shot looks too bright compared to the other shots so i think we need to saturate the shot and it would make the scene look better, and even effect the whole title sequence if it was a extreme long shot because it would have an effect of point of view shot and
creepy due the character being alone in a forest. The dog would be taken out to make the shot look more dramatic and add emotion. This is because with the dog, the audience may feel laid back thinking, the dog would look out and keep the girl away from any how. However, if the dog is out of these shots, the audience are likely to worry more than this shot that is actually in the rough cut. This shot that's in the rough cut so far almost looks as though its just a random scene of a girl walking on some grass around some trees! - This shot shows one the one of the two characters in the title sequence which
is the fortune teller. In this shot, she gets a scruffy piece of paper and starts writing. The shot just goes on and on, without any movement with the camera, just very little zooming. This shot has to be shortened not to bore the audience with a scene of a women writing for ages - were the audience are not even aware of what is been written. - Lastly i think that the forest scenes look abit too light, although the the fortune telling shots are too dark! Even if we didn't want it to match, i think its too light fo
r a thriller movie. I think this shot either needs to be re-filmed at a better location and better lighting, or edited on final cut pro by playing with the levels!
The rough cut of our thriller title sequence is not very much like what our final edited title sequence would be but most of the things are related to the final draft. We used Final Cut Pro to edit our shots and bring them altogether, add any effects etc to create our rough cut.
This is because of many disadvantages we came across during filming:
We firstly arranged to film at one of our group friends house far from college at Walthamstow, the problem with this was the case that we had to leave college late, therefore due to Walthamstow being a long way from the college, we were at our film location around 6 o'clock which was the times where it got dark in the room and lighting's were not enough and the lighting provided like a clear spot light which didn't make anything look good, so we couldn't film shots with clear lighting. Due to being in a predicament, we had to film once again at another location where it was closer to the college so we could have guaranteed the problem of lighting! Therefore, we decided to go to another group mates house, this time every prop we needed, we had. The location was good aswell, but once again, unhappily, there was a problem as the room was slightly small to film in. This caused countless amounts of problems as i was unable to move the camera around comfortably. There wasn't even much room for the tripod to be placed. For this reason, we couldn't get the shots and camera angles that we wanted which made the rough cut look very low budget and low quality! Lastly we decided to film in the colleges studio, which had a lot of lighting and good facilities and we also went to Finsbury park to film the forest shots. We then finally had our filming finished!
However, although it took us longer to finish our filming, i believe that this rough cut wasn't that bad if the camera angles were to be correct. We could have just played with the colours, hue-saturation or saturate etc and make it look even more creepier suiting our supernatural thriller genre. This means and clearly gave us a good understanding of what should and what shouldn't be done while filming, where to film and how to film. I see it as an experience rather than being such a big dis advantage and disappointment!
Our rough cut has the shots and scenes of our original storyboard, and so will our final draft. The uniqueness about our final cut would be that it has better camera angles and lighting.
In general, our rough cut contains the main things that were asked from us. It has various shots, camera angles and movements. It has been fun and the filming was enjoyable for me. Also i think that the final draft would be good because of the help with the rough cut!
k close the 'Finsbury Park Station - on the Piccadilly & Victoria line'! We filmed in daylight in both locations. We chose Finsbury park as our second location because it has a big greenery area which means we can have a lot of extreme long shots that look dramatic and mysterious benefiting the thriller genre.
We made a simple story board about what we wanted to film for our practise title sequence, then we started to film. This helped us to improve our camera skills in many ways.
We learnt how to work on the camera:
- Shots
Long, Mid, Close-Up, Extreme Close-Up, Extreme Long Shot - Angles
Birds eye view, Worms eye view, Over shoulder, Straight eye-level - Movements
Tracking, Panning etc.
In our filming we have used a match cut were one of my group friends walk into a room (closing the door behind her), over shoulder shots, mid-shots, close-ups and more.
To improve our short clip we could have made a good shot reverse shot and extreme close-ups. This short clip has helped us because it has given us a taste of how it would be to film and we also know what more we can do to improve and make our work look even better.
In general i think we done quiet good for a first attempt in our filming and we now have a good idea of what we would be doing and its made things easier because we are now clearer on what kind of shots we need to take and the exact things we need to do. Preparation makes perfect!
Live Type:
Live Type is the programme we would be using to create our title. It is a useful and unique programme as it lets us to create our titles in the style we want it to be. There are a variety of font styles and sizes that we can choose from. There are many affects that are available for the way that the words come in and out. I personally think that our group would be using Serif as our font style, because it is slightly more formal and suitable.
Sound Track Pro is a software created for us to be able to make our own music. This programme is also very useful because it has countless amount of sound effects and noises and beats which we could just drag into the timeline to make our own music. We can use many layers to make each sound go on top to make a professional sounding, orchestral sound track.
My teacher told me and my group to make a storyboard for our Thriller Title Sequence, therefore we made a quick sketch of what we would like our title sequence to look like. In the storyboard i wrote about:
- The order of shots
- Types of shots used (camera angels, camera shots, camera movements)
- Props
- Setting
- Sound effect / Music
- What happens in the actual shot!
This storyboard gives us an idea of what we would be filming and once again is another technique of preparation. As we film, we may want to change a couple shots to make the title sequence look better. Other than that i think this storyboard is quite good for our group!
We planned our title sequence and have decided to make a supernatural thriller genre based title sequence. We would be shooting scenes of a future teller / phycic women who clearly knows a lot about what will be happening to the 'victim', which would be the girl that goes to the future teller. Were planing to film in a forest aswell, this would be flash-forward scences from the film. Suspence would be throughtout the whole of our title sequence!
Man in custody over King's Cross, Jessie Wright murder.
Intro to Camera & Health and Safety. In this session we were taught to be able to use the cameras safely without damaging them and also to make sure that we use it correctly, such as making sure the microphone is turned on and the cameras in focus and also using angles. We are also aware of how to use the camera properly so that we capture our shots correctly as in getting the right angles and etc so that a characters head isn't half cut or the audience doesn't have a clear understanding of what kind of shot is being used. This could be a medium shot were the camera would shot a characters upper body etc.
Another thing that were clearly aware of 'not to do around the camera' is not to run around, make sure we don't trip over by keeping a distance between the camera and a person. Also making sure we don't have any water around it.
Another safety issue that me and my group friends are aware of is that while were shooting outside we would need to make sure we could keep away from people that look as though they could make trouble. If there is such case we would obviously contact our teachers, if very serious - we would know to contact our parents, police etc!
Mission Impossible 3 (also known as M:I:III) was an Action / Thriller film made by One of the Big Sixes - Paramount. The film stars Tom Cruise (Ethan Hunt) as the main character of all series!
In this nine shot title sequence picture, we see titles. The font style used is Serif. This font style is generally more traditional and often slightly more formal than sans serif fonts. The reason why Serif font was used would be because it is more of a 'serious' film rather than 'comfortable, comedy' for it to be Sans Serif. The titles say the producation company followed by a picture, then Tom Cruises name and in the last shot it has the films name. The titles are clearly writen in white, and becomes an extreme close-up with a light blue colour, which may emphasise a lot about what will happen within the film. Such as, the storyline becoming tense and extremely close to tension, as the writing almost gets uncomfortablely close!
The use of colours are mostly dark, apart from the white used for the titles. The nine shot title sequence picture gives the audience a clear breif for what the film is about. There is a picutre of an explotion / fire, main characters face, techniqal machines (computering) and another explotion. This all shows us that the film is some kind of investigation - refering to the title 'Mission'!
All the images are slightly close (mid-shot) or close-ups! The camera use changes a lot for the title sequence.
The last shot is the films name in a black background, which is generally prefered to used at title sequences. This is to keep the films name in the audiences mind as it is clear. The word 'impossible' is in the form as if its been stamped onto the surface, which makes it slightly different from many of the other title sequences!
