Evaluation: Technology

Planning and Research

• Throughout the planning and production of our trailer, we have been logging our progress on blogger.com. This website was very useful for organizing each step we took in producing our trailer and progressing in overcoming complications we came across such as schedules for filming. All in in all it was the best way to share are work and finished product.

  
• We gained inspiration from various film trailers on Youtube. The website was helpful as it contains more or less the trailers of all mainstream movies that are released. We researched a range of different trailers on Youtube including the one for Phone Booth

• Before filming we took pictures with a still shot camera of our movie trailer setting The camera we used was the Olympus E-20 SLR. The purpose of the this was to to gain familiarity with the environment we were filming in and come up with ideas of what kind of shots we wanted to film with our shot list. The camera itself was of good use as the pictures we took were able to be of the highest quality.

• We researched other movie synopsises on Wikipedia for plot ideas for our own production. We were able to read synopsises of movies that we saw as big influences on our own production. This gave us a blueprint of how to write up a clear and interesting synopsis for our trailer that would inform audiences of the narrative of our trailer.

Construction

• To film our trailer we used a Sony HD Camcorder. This camera was use as despite being a handheld camera, the HD quality allowed the quality of the camera shots and movements to be of the highest standard. We were able to do this even with a minimum amount of lighting.  

• Adobe Premier Pro is the program we used to edit our movie trailer

It was used to put the trailer sequence in order.

It was used to add the Terminator soundtrack to the trailer which was extracted from a Youtube video.

It was also used to add the titling and credits and to add dramatic sound and visual effects.

• To create the movie poster and magazine cover we used the program, Adobe Photoshop

We used Google images to research movie posters and magazine cover for inspiration and to be refixed in photoshop for the purposes of completing our ancillary tasks. We cut and pasted pictures of our actor that we had taken earlier onto the background of the promotional poster for the movie, The Departed. We then copied and pasted a Google image of Liverpool Street to replace the blank white background. We used the function of turning the entire product to monochrome on Photoshop. Finally we added the text and a gunshot aim drawn with the options on Photoshop. We decided red was the best colour for this as it is attention grabbing and it suited the theme of the movie trailer.






Technology used for Evaluation

• Various Youtube clips were used to show the sources of video and audio that were sampled
• Screenshots were used to illustrate the different websites and programs that were used in the production of our film trailer.

Countdown Teaser Trailer

Filming Schedule

As our filming crew and actors are generally busy during the week, we have decided to pick out two Saturdays in December to film all the scenes.

Day 1) 11 December 2010
Day 2) 18 December 2010

Soundtrack

The soundtrack that we have sampled for use in our film trailer is 'Escape from the Police Station' from the movie, The Terminator. This music helps our trailer follow the conventions of action-thriller genre as it builds suspense by starting slowly and then reaching a climax point after which the music becomes very fast-paced. This fills the audience with a sense of fear but excitement at the same time.

Costumes and Props

Originally we planned for the protagonist, Benjamin to wear a black suit. This was to symbolise his success and wealth but due to severe weather condition it was more appropriate that the main character dressed in smart casual winter clothes. We were able to film Mahfuzur, the antagonist on a warmer evening so we decided he should wear the suit to give him more authorotitive status over the casually dressed hero.








 The Blackberry would seem a suitable choice of phone for the antagonist. This is because the phone itself is more concerned with business than pleasure. Although a stalking sociopath probably wouldn't be concerned with a flash phone, having a top of the range business phone emphasises the status of the villain's character.

 
 The iphone was best suited as the protagonist's ringing phone as it is currently one of the most expensive phones on the market. it symbolises his greedy and carefree lifestyle. This is in contrast to the old payphone he is degraded to use as the trailer goes on

Promotional Magazine Cover

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