Research into Trailer with same genre

TWELVE trailer gaining ideas

Over the last week I have skimming the internet trying to find films that fit our genre and get ideas off them, thus to reuse them in our actual filming. Myself and Mel found this crime/drama crime film directed by Joel Schumacher. The film follows closely along the same lines as ours but has more of a darker feel to it. It follows the life of White Mike (Chace Crawford), once a wealthy, carefree teenager, now struggles to scrape out a living as a pot dealer, dealing to his former classmates. The film is similar because it follows large group of people who don’t have much control over their lives. Moreover, it is similar by showing the dark side to being wealthy and white in Manhattan, New York. The film is very stereotypical by expressing the dark drug dealer as the “evil guy”, and having the young white middle class from a private school as taken advantaged off; by the lower classes. A shot ending of the plot is that White Mike is the only one to survive and ends up living a different life in a different country. Consistently the film is clever in the way it portrays the cast and the both our film and this film are set in an urban setting, making life seem glamorous with everyone becoming rich. Also with it being set in a city means there is more likelihood meeting people and more opportunities available for story to progress into successful ending.

http://www.trailerspy.com/trailer/9000/Twelve-Trailer-Leaked
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7DDBmDLEJc

I have carefully taken on board the trailer and tried to take away as many ideas as possible to make ours successful, I think this trailer is very good in portraying the inside lives of the people without giving the whole story away meaning that the audience are more inclined to go and see it at the cinema. Also the trailer starts slow and progresses throughout not giving the story away, the music is all reverent to the genre and the setting, and I have taken on board this and we will do the same when it comes to editing our trailer. As well as this I think the most important aspect our trailer needs to do is, end on a high and really make the audience want to see the film.

Locations of filming

Over the last couple of weeks and in the upcoming days we will be filming at varies places and building.

Over the cause of our filming it has been a struggle to choose the locations, but we have finally decided on the last location which will be held in the church at Holt village. This building has very large windows and large white walls, which will make the film and mise on scene right.

Moreover there is a strong likely hood that we will have to redo some of the shots and we will re visit some of the locations.

The main location we have filmed at so far is Phoebe’ house in Verwood, a map is seen below;

Filming Update

So far we have filmed about half of the text; however we have had problems with the tape due to a broken camera, pulling out the film out of the tape. Causing the tape to brake and us being unable to put it onto the PC and editing meaning that we will have to re-film the whole film.

We are going to do this to-night and also take photos of the main actor for the films poster and some short videos for the website.

Overall we are planning to get most of the filming done.

Filming Update;

The plan for tonight is get at least half of the filming done so that we can start to focuses on the editing.

Basic REVIEWS Page-plan

-This is a print screen of our groups review article layout, overall I think it is quite suitable; moreover I have researched into similar articles and magazines in which I have gained ideas and the rules for the layouts. An example of this would be empire magazine which is famous for it detailed reviews of films and DVD’s; however they do have large amounts of text which can scare many readers away. For this reason I am planning on have a reasonable amount of text but not too much. My priority is to have a single large photo which will draw the readers in; it is going to be hard to choose such a screenshot from our film however this task can be left to the end of the process.

How our page will look!

-Here is example of a everyday article which would be found in a film magazine this one is from Empire magazine and is about .the recent release of Paul, staring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.  I have taken on board the five star rating, which i will use in our review.

Here are a couple of photos showing a typical layout of a magazine review page lay out.

Change of plan!!!

We have decided as a group to know longer to a review page but instead we are doing a website for the film and poster. The only part changing is the review page.

Weather for filming

We are planning to continue filming over the next week and maybe the week after, however we might be doing a shot amount of filming outside, in which the weather conditions can lead to issues (problems last year). Therefore I am going to check the BBC weather and Met office websites daily to make sure everything is all right. After vising the building in which will be the studio for the photo-shoot scene, I realised that the large windows can course problems when the weather turns sunny or cloudy, therefor we are going to be extra careful when capturing the footage. An example of this for today is shown below.

Story board

Here is our finished storyboard; it demonstrates what we have done so far and how we plan to lay out the film in production process. The storyboard also gives us a clear insight into any problems that are clearly going to happen when we start filming. The pictures are quite low quality but they are backed up by the text, with the use of media technical language.