Conventions of a Website

Final Storyboard

Production Logo Ideas

In developing our production logo, we have aimed to link visual elements to the wording of our company, Drift Films.

Research into movie logo openings...

From this research we have been inspired by the following logos...

• Jerry Buckheimer Films
• 1492 Picture 
• Summit Pictures
• Focus Features International

These logos all have a simplistic style that creates a professional look,We have decided to use the technique of  'time lapse' for logo opening, an idea taken from the 'Jerry Buckheimer Films' logo. Although this was originally going to be implemented into our trailer, we felt that it would not appeal to the stye we have created and look out of place.

Below is a draft storybord of our logo opening...

Poster Research

A film poster is one of the biggest ways of advertising a film.  Before filming our film trailer it is important to research into posters so we can think about taking pictures for the poster during filming.  

Typical Features of film posters:

Large image with text

Vary in size and content depending on the use of the poster

Photographs of the main actors

Text including the film title and names of the main actors

Tag line

Name of director

Names of characters

Release date

Eye catching

Designed to attract a large audience

Genre of the film is made obvious

Reviews

 

Examples of social realism posters:

 

Analysis of the film poster for the film 'Fish Tank'

 

 

 

 

Questionaire Responses

During our screening of our first draft of our trailer we handed out 20 questionnaires to the audience who were aged 16-18. 

One of the questions we asked was what would you rate our questionnaire out of 10 and below is a pie chart of the results which we were pleased with.

  

We also asked whether they liked the title 'In headlights' and we were specifically interested in the responses to this question as we were unsure on whether we liked it.

Below is a pie chart of whether they liked the title or not showing that the majority of people did like the title 'In Headlights.'

The majority of the questionnaire responses were general in their comments and would not change much about the trailer, however these questionnaire responses below were more specific in their feedback.

                                        

This response shows that they were not sure on what the genre is. This is something that we will consider when making changes to our trailer by possibly adding more stereotypical shots that represent the social realism genre. 

We were unsure on whether the music worked well with our trailer, however this response shows that the music works well as they thought it created sympathy for the character. 

This person said that the relationship between the two settings can be confusing at times, which is something we will take into consideration when making changes to our trailer.

This response shows that they understood the genre of our trailer.

In this questionnaire response the ending was their favourite part as it was simplistic and effective. 

This person like the title 'In Headlights' as they felt it suited the city environment and could be seen as being like a 'rabbit in headlights.'

This person said in their response that they did not understand the relationship between the two settings as well as they could, which again shows that we need to make it clear in our trailer. 

This persons favourite part of our trailer was the setting and the colour of the shots, however if they could change anything about our trailer they would make the prostitution elements clearer. Even though we took a subtle approach to the prostitution elements, this may be too subtle, so we will consider adding in additional prostitution shots to make it clearer, for example, the girl counting the money she's made. 

This person also understood the relationship between the two settings and there was not anything that they did not understand. 

This persons favourite part of the trailer was the shots on the train and the shots of the ill dad.  They also said that they thought this was the best trailer they watched at the screening, which we were pleased with.

This person also liked the title of our trailer as they liked the way it makes her life seem like it is in headlights. 

Laura Mulvey - 'Male Gaze' Theory

Laura Mulvey is a British feminist film theorist, best known for her essay, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema in which she coined the term 'Male Gaze'. This term applies to her theory that in film the audience have to 'view' characters from the perspective of a heterosexual male. 

In relation to our teaser trailer, this theory can be applied to our portrayal of prostitution. Below are some screenshots that, through miss-en-scene, verge to this theory.

In this shot we have conformed to Mulveys 'Male Gaze' theory, the lips suggest an heightened exposure of femininity, along with the Red colour being symbolic of lust, passion and danger. 

The revealing costume worn by the female protagonist in this shot, can be perceived through Mulveys theory as addressing the character as a 'slut, slapper, whore, tart'.

Music / Soundtrack

 

This is the piece of music we have selected to use in our Teaser Trailer. We have chosen it because it provides an appropriate atmosphere for our trailers narrative and setting. The opening piano melody provides a captivating and emotive introduction, an element that we want to replicate in our trailer. In relation to our narrative it means the melancholic aspects of our protagonists narrative can be depicted to the audience with more depth.

New Actress Profile

We have chosen to use Harriett as our new actress, as she is very enthusiastic as well as good at acting. She is very reliable and goes to our school so will be available to do small shots at lunch and in frees. We have planned a filming schedule with her and what we will film on what days. 

Name: Harriett Sydall

Age: 18

Occupation: Drama Student

Hair Color: Brown

Height: 5"6'

Actress Change

Due to complications with our actress we have had to change. 

Below is footage that we took before we changed actress:

After watching this footage back we have decided to make some changes when we go back to London and film with our new actress.

THINGS WE WILL DO DIFFERENTLY

Planning

We realised that we will need to plan out our journey in more detail in order to film the amount of footage we want to get.

Communication

When we go back to London to film we will make sure we communicate more with our actress, as when we filmed this footage the actress needed to leave before it started to get dark, so we could not film the prostitution scenes.

Locations

We also decided that filming on a train instead of a tube may be easier because they are usually less busy so there is more room to experiment with shots.

Ed Sheeran - The A-Team Analysis

Ed Sheeran The A-Team

All these shots are here to represent the state of homelessness that the girl in the video is at. The shots show the girl sleeping on a bench and walking round carrying her belongings. All the shots used are typical shots you could expect to see when representing homelessness. Stereotypically relates to homelessness would be sleeping on the streets, which is shown ion the video. Also a common thing is begging. In the video we can see the girl sleeping the big issue, which is well known for being sold on the streets. Thins then directly relates to the girl trying to make money and begging.

This shot shows the camera angle looking up at her, which would most obviously give her power and authority, but actually the reality of the story is she relies on others to give her money and she is not in power. The shots show her looking up at the sky which could indicate she is looking up at heaven, or freedom, which is something she does not have.

The video then goes on to show the girl has turned to prostitution to make money and survive. These are the reason for the analysis of the video I am doing, as this is similar to the story line of our film that we will make the trailer for.

Some of the shots they have used in the video are simple but effective; they have make sure to show the girl before with minimal or no makeup on, and then are showing her putting make up on which immediately shows the audience that this is different. The girl is then seen putting on a lot of makeup and wearing minimal clothing which represent to the audience a sexual theme.

The video then goes to the girl standing in a car park or street corner which is stereotypical of a prostitute to stand and wait for clients. A car then arrive from the back of the frame, mainly showing headlights of the car, the girl then approaches the car and leans in to negotiate and gets in the car of the man.

These shots used clearly tell the reader what is happening and get across the message of prostitution without using any sexual scenes which could make our trailer inappropriate for TV viewing.

Shot Lists

Below are the shot lists composed for location shooting. They were used as a way to refresh ourselves for what we wanted on that particular shooting day. 

Title Ideas

When deciding on our title we decided to list as many words we could think of to do with our film to get inspiration, and these words are seen above. From this we decided that we liked the idea of the title including the word 'Headlights' as it links to the phrase 'Rabbit in Headlights'/'Deer in Headlights' which we think is a good metaphor for our film. From this we narrowed it down to the following:

HEADLIGHTS

IN HEADLIGHTS

IN LIGHTS

LOST IN HEADLIGHTS

We decided as a group to go with 'IN HEADLIGHTS' as we liked the idea of having a two word title and thought that it suited our film trailer the most.