My focus group will consist of 3 people. These people will be members of the target audience which I have decided to aim this teaser trailer at. This means that whatever I design, layout for my poster and magazine cover and the storyboard for my teaser trailer, will be seen by them first and then their opinion on how I can make it better will be provided in separate posts on my blog. I have decided to do this because I will get more information about the separate elements that I must deign and what I can do to make it better and it will tell me what my target audience are looking for exactly. Obviously, I have an idea of what my target market want as I have found these out from the questionnaire which I distributed on facebook. I will be recording their answers by recording them talking about my designs or by writing down what they think or both. I will keep you updated with what my focus group like/dislike about my teaser trailer, magazine cover and poster.
Thursday, 24 November 2011
Editing techniques and different camera positions to use!!
As I will be using iMovie to edit my teaser trailer, the editing techniques which I will be using will be limited as I will only be able to use the different editing techniques which that programme offers me. The different editing techniques which I will, for definite, be using are fade in and fade outs. You may be thinking why I'm using this editing technique but it is because the genre of film that I have decided to use uses this quite a lot in their teaser trailers. They do this because it adds a form of suspense to it which could be very beneficial for me as this is what I want my teaser trailer to do to a degree. Another editing technique which I will use is merging two shots together. To do this, I will need to film two shots of what I need and then layer them on top of each other. I think this would be useful in my teaser trailer as, when I show a mirror scene of the female lead crying, I will also show the male lead who is supposed to be dead but to take him out of the shot I could either edit him out or layer two shots on top of each other. This will be used as when I looked at other teaser trailers and movie where they show the deceased loved one in a mirror, they layered two shots on top of each other and therefore this is what I will do.
The different camera positions that I will be using are panning, close ups, medium shots and reverse-shot-reverse. These will be used because they are appropriate for what I need to film and I think that they will be better to use than another camera position where it doesn't show what I want in the shot very well. A picture of the different camera positions are shown below:
This is a close up shot. I want to use this camera technique because I want the viewer to be able to feel the emtoion that the actors will be portraying. This is how it will be done and this is the sort of camera technique that I will be using.
This is a medium shot and I will be using this when I want to expose more of the character. I will be using this because emotion can not only be seen in the facial expressions, but also in the boyd language that the actors will be doing. This is a shot that I will be using more of.
This shot I will be using because I need to show a bit of conversation between the female lead and the female support. I need to do this because if I don't show what my teaser trailer is about, then I have lost my audience immediately because they won't feel motivated to go and watch the film.
The different camera positions that I will be using are panning, close ups, medium shots and reverse-shot-reverse. These will be used because they are appropriate for what I need to film and I think that they will be better to use than another camera position where it doesn't show what I want in the shot very well. A picture of the different camera positions are shown below:
This is a close up shot. I want to use this camera technique because I want the viewer to be able to feel the emtoion that the actors will be portraying. This is how it will be done and this is the sort of camera technique that I will be using.
This is a medium shot and I will be using this when I want to expose more of the character. I will be using this because emotion can not only be seen in the facial expressions, but also in the boyd language that the actors will be doing. This is a shot that I will be using more of.
This shot I will be using because I need to show a bit of conversation between the female lead and the female support. I need to do this because if I don't show what my teaser trailer is about, then I have lost my audience immediately because they won't feel motivated to go and watch the film.
Bloom's taxonomy (information to help is with our blogs!!)
This is a chart for the way in which we analyse and create our own work and how we analyse other peoples' work. Bloom came up with this chart and this is it!!
This shows what I need to think about when I analyse other peopoles' work. The bottom end f the scale, so the 'Remembering' and 'Understanding' is the bottom end of the grades for example E and D. The upper end of the scale so the 'Evaluating' and 'Creating' are the higher grades such as B and A. This is what I want to reach and therefore I should look at this everytime I am analysing my own work and people who I draw inspiration from.
This shows what I need to think about when I analyse other peopoles' work. The bottom end f the scale, so the 'Remembering' and 'Understanding' is the bottom end of the grades for example E and D. The upper end of the scale so the 'Evaluating' and 'Creating' are the higher grades such as B and A. This is what I want to reach and therefore I should look at this everytime I am analysing my own work and people who I draw inspiration from.
Tuesday, 22 November 2011
SMART targets
Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Timed...what SMART means. My smart targets are listed below and they will be all of the things that I must do which are the things above!!
Make a storyboard and record me talking about my storyboard.
This must be done by the end of next week!!
Make a storyboard and record me talking about my storyboard.
This must be done by the end of next week!!
Cinematography!!
Wikipedia defines cinematography as "the making of lighting and camera choices when recording photographic images for cinema"
If my teaser trailer was to be exhibited in the world of cinema it would be distributed in an arthouse cinema because it is not going to be made on a major scale. This means that the imagery of the this would be much different to imagery from a blockbuster. To illustrate my point I will put down to images, one of a blockbuster and one of an individually produced movie and then comment on how they look different.
This is an example of an arthouse film and a shot which has been used from the film. This shows many of the main characters in the shot just looking at the camera. The background of this film is also suitable for when this film is supposed to be set in and therefore establishing the time period brilliantly. On another point, this means that when I make my teaser trailer it wont have many elemants in which my target audience will have to look at. This means that there isn't that much cinematagraphic images in there that woud make it approproiate to use on the cinema scale. This is the sort of thing that I will need to establish when making my teaser trailer because I would be exhibiting this film in an arthouse cinema because it attracts my target market and the images that I will use wont be suitable to use in a multiplex cinema.
This film is a blockbuster and the cinematography for this movie establishes all the main character by using close up of their faces. This is because the target market will associate with the actors better. This is a convention of these sorts of movies because showing close up of the actors' faces means that we can judge whether the movie is any good because of who is in the shot. Also, Inceptio is a very good example of using great cinematography. This is because when the action sequences show up on the multiplex cinema, everyone is mesmerized in the cinema because there is so much in the shot that if you were to watch it on a small screen, the viewers would miss certain elements which make the shot amazing.
If my teaser trailer was to be exhibited in the world of cinema it would be distributed in an arthouse cinema because it is not going to be made on a major scale. This means that the imagery of the this would be much different to imagery from a blockbuster. To illustrate my point I will put down to images, one of a blockbuster and one of an individually produced movie and then comment on how they look different.
This is an example of an arthouse film and a shot which has been used from the film. This shows many of the main characters in the shot just looking at the camera. The background of this film is also suitable for when this film is supposed to be set in and therefore establishing the time period brilliantly. On another point, this means that when I make my teaser trailer it wont have many elemants in which my target audience will have to look at. This means that there isn't that much cinematagraphic images in there that woud make it approproiate to use on the cinema scale. This is the sort of thing that I will need to establish when making my teaser trailer because I would be exhibiting this film in an arthouse cinema because it attracts my target market and the images that I will use wont be suitable to use in a multiplex cinema.
This film is a blockbuster and the cinematography for this movie establishes all the main character by using close up of their faces. This is because the target market will associate with the actors better. This is a convention of these sorts of movies because showing close up of the actors' faces means that we can judge whether the movie is any good because of who is in the shot. Also, Inceptio is a very good example of using great cinematography. This is because when the action sequences show up on the multiplex cinema, everyone is mesmerized in the cinema because there is so much in the shot that if you were to watch it on a small screen, the viewers would miss certain elements which make the shot amazing.
Soundtrack...and what music I can use!!
The soundtrack for this movie will be small as it is only going to be a 30 second teaser trailer. However, I still want music in my teaser trailer so that it is more smooth and that it will attract my target market.
The music which I have decided to use will be guitar music because the target market which I have got enjoy playing, or listening to, acoustic guitar music. I know this because of other pieces of research I have found on the internet. I will also use acoustic guitar music as I can make the music myself by writing music on my guitar. This will not be used from anywhere else and therefore will be copyright free. This is a major advantage because I don't have to write any emails asking whether I can use somebody else's music in my teaser trailer. However, this can be seen as a disadvantage because I will need recording equipment and a studio to do this which is very time consuming and therefore will be difficult to complete in the time that we have to spend on our practical production.
If I do need to use any other pieces of music in my teaser trailer which I cannot make on my guitar, I will have to look back on the post I made about copyright music and read what the laws are about using somebody else's music in my work. I will most likely have to email the company/individual about using their music in my teaser trailer and the evidence the email that I will receive from them explaining that I can use their music in my practical production. This is an advantage because I don't have to make much music on my guitar and the have the time to use specialised recording equipment and then a studio to do this in. However, this can be a major disadvantage because it will be time consuming waiting for a reply from the person I need to borrow the music from.
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