Friday, 4 March 2011
OldLocation - Rachael Whittaker
As from an older post that a member has put up explaining about the situation of trying to record at Went Worth Castle I took some image on my mobile phone to show the location. I know that we didn't fulfill what we wanted to at this location as to difficulties with arrangement but I do still have the images I feel are useful to put on blogger as it shows the idea we had and how we thought the location was appreciate. There are a selection of images I took.
Sub-genre of our film
We think our film falls into the sub-genre category of addiction drama. This shows how characters deal with the addiction to drugs and/or alchocol, and our film is similar to his. We had to make sure that our film did not promote drugs in any way as this is a rule stated by the BBFC.
However, our film does have aspects of other sub-genres, incorporated into it also such as tragedy. This is because the main character Connor, is dealing with a bad situation within his life, and in a tragedy there's nearly always conflict, which also applies to our film.
In relation to our first post, "Sub-genres of a drama film", we found another website that had alternative sub-genres as well. . .
http://www.allmovie.com/explore/type/addiction-drama-954
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_the_subgenres_of_drama
However, our film does have aspects of other sub-genres, incorporated into it also such as tragedy. This is because the main character Connor, is dealing with a bad situation within his life, and in a tragedy there's nearly always conflict, which also applies to our film.
In relation to our first post, "Sub-genres of a drama film", we found another website that had alternative sub-genres as well. . .
http://www.allmovie.com/explore/type/addiction-drama-954
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_the_subgenres_of_drama
Radio Trailers
For our film we have been asked to create a radio trailer. So through a lot of research we discovered that I couldn't really find any. So instead I decided that I would look at movie trailers that have a lot of dialogue and sound. This is because most radio trailers are very similar to the movie trailer anyway and use sound bites from the film.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsxjM03ME7s&feature=fvst
The Kings Speech
This is a very useful trailer as it efficiently combines music and dialogue while also portraying the unique selling point of the film. The way in which key lines of the film also makes this trailer very useful as it helps me understand what are the most important things to include in our radio trailer. The music in this trailer is very meaningful and is edited so that faster tempo's are used on more aggressive parts of the trailer for example the change in tempo at 0:13 seconds.
The main features I think that our radio trailer could draw from The Kings Speech trailer are the use of music as part of rhythmic editing, as I think that this is very important because it adds to dramatization .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71l-kIhJ5j8
The Fighter
This is another very helpful trailer as it uses lots of dialogue that summarizes the general gist of the film. Without this I think that it would be very hard to understand what the film is about which is something we do not want to happen with our film. The use of music also plays a key part in this trailer as again it adds to the general effect of the film on its audiences. The music used in the first 20 seconds sets up the first part of the trailer and creates a strong image for listeners.
The features from this trailer that I think we could incorporate into our radio trailer is the strength of the dialogue. By using key lines from the film it really creates strong imagery in your mind about what will happen in the film and makes the audience want to watch the film.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsxjM03ME7s&feature=fvst
The Kings Speech
This is a very useful trailer as it efficiently combines music and dialogue while also portraying the unique selling point of the film. The way in which key lines of the film also makes this trailer very useful as it helps me understand what are the most important things to include in our radio trailer. The music in this trailer is very meaningful and is edited so that faster tempo's are used on more aggressive parts of the trailer for example the change in tempo at 0:13 seconds.
The main features I think that our radio trailer could draw from The Kings Speech trailer are the use of music as part of rhythmic editing, as I think that this is very important because it adds to dramatization .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71l-kIhJ5j8
The Fighter
This is another very helpful trailer as it uses lots of dialogue that summarizes the general gist of the film. Without this I think that it would be very hard to understand what the film is about which is something we do not want to happen with our film. The use of music also plays a key part in this trailer as again it adds to the general effect of the film on its audiences. The music used in the first 20 seconds sets up the first part of the trailer and creates a strong image for listeners.
The features from this trailer that I think we could incorporate into our radio trailer is the strength of the dialogue. By using key lines from the film it really creates strong imagery in your mind about what will happen in the film and makes the audience want to watch the film.
Updated Shot list
As we changed parts of our film along the way, another shot list was made to enable us to have a more accurate list to follow.
Scene 1 - Photo shoot
Medium close up of Connor being photographed.
Close up of Connors face
MCU of Lucy and Connor
Scene 2 - Magazine Interview
Medium Long Shot of Connor and the Interviewer
Over-the-Shoulder onto Connor
OTS the shoulder shot onto Interview
Shot reverse shot between the two characters throughout the scene
Scene 3 -
Long Shot pan of Connor and Lucy's car coming down the drive
Medium shot of the car and pan round to show the press
MCU of Connor getting out of the car
MCU of Lucy and Connor walking towards the house
Scene 4 -
MLS of Connor and Lucy sat at the table reading through the recent headlines
Extreme close up of Connors phone ringing
CU of Connor talking on the phone
MLS of Connor and Lucy
CU of Connor
Scene 5 -
MCU of Connor
MS of Lucy walking in
CU of Lucy snatching bottle
LS of Lucy walking out of house, swarmed by paparazzi
Scene 6
LS pan of Connor getting swarmed by paparazzi, getting into his car and driving off
LS pan of Connor pulling over at the bottom of the road
CU of him backing away
Scene 7
MS of Connor pacing up and down
CU of Connor taking the drugs
MS Connor walking to the mirror
CU of Connor looking at himself in the mirror.
LS of Connor walking out of the house, and hitting a paparazzi.
Cantered angle from paparazzi point of view
Scene 1 - Photo shoot
Medium close up of Connor being photographed.
Close up of Connors face
MCU of Lucy and Connor
Scene 2 - Magazine Interview
Medium Long Shot of Connor and the Interviewer
Over-the-Shoulder onto Connor
OTS the shoulder shot onto Interview
Shot reverse shot between the two characters throughout the scene
Scene 3 -
Long Shot pan of Connor and Lucy's car coming down the drive
Medium shot of the car and pan round to show the press
MCU of Connor getting out of the car
MCU of Lucy and Connor walking towards the house
Scene 4 -
MLS of Connor and Lucy sat at the table reading through the recent headlines
Extreme close up of Connors phone ringing
CU of Connor talking on the phone
MLS of Connor and Lucy
CU of Connor
Scene 5 -
MCU of Connor
MS of Lucy walking in
CU of Lucy snatching bottle
LS of Lucy walking out of house, swarmed by paparazzi
Scene 6
LS pan of Connor getting swarmed by paparazzi, getting into his car and driving off
LS pan of Connor pulling over at the bottom of the road
CU of him backing away
Scene 7
MS of Connor pacing up and down
CU of Connor taking the drugs
MS Connor walking to the mirror
CU of Connor looking at himself in the mirror.
LS of Connor walking out of the house, and hitting a paparazzi.
Cantered angle from paparazzi point of view
Voiceover Script
We decided to add a voiceover of the main character into our film, in order for the audience to understand the story more and get more of a connection with Connor. This was also a good way to cover up the sound in some scenes, as when we filmed the press scenes, the wind was quite bad and when we edited these, the sound wasn't very good quality.
Tuesday, 1 March 2011
Updated script
This is our up-to-date final script. We wrote one before making our film, however we changed aspects of our film, which meant the script had to be changed also.
Tuesday, 15 February 2011
Radio Trailers research
For our film we will be making a short radio trailer for it also. Not all films have a radio trailer, but as ours is a short film and would be distributed by Film4, a radio trailer would be sufficient for us, instead of an actual film trailer as well.
As most films do not have radio trailers, finding examples of them on the internet was difficult. So instead, we looked at film trailers and just listened to the trailer rather than look at the images/cinematography to go alongside it, as a radio trailer would be similar to an actual trailer in terms of what they tell the audience about the film.
Trailers i found that were interesting are:
"Inception" short trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC4Z6QiSU0k
Although this film is not similar to ours, I thought the trailer to it was very good. Just listening to it and not watching it was like listening to a radio trailer and it sounded interesting and gave some bits away to the audience, however not everything - to keep them intrigued.
We would want ours to be like this as dramatic music is featured throughout the trailer, (linked with the genre of action/mystery), and there was also a voiceover, which gave an insight into the story of Inception for the audience. The trailer also featured some dialogue and sound effects. We would like our radio trailer to be similar to this, and as our film has a voiceover, this was a useful example.
"Salt" trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ40WlshNwU&feature=related
In contrast, this trailer for the film "Salt", does not feature any voiceover and is more on dialogue, so our radio trailer could also feature this aspect. It still featured dramatic music and sound effects, to again, sound interesting and make the audience want to find out more ...
In contrast with these trailers, our radio trailer will also say the names of actors and actresses, and when it is realeased; but as these are visual film trailers, the details appear on the screen and not audibly.
As most films do not have radio trailers, finding examples of them on the internet was difficult. So instead, we looked at film trailers and just listened to the trailer rather than look at the images/cinematography to go alongside it, as a radio trailer would be similar to an actual trailer in terms of what they tell the audience about the film.
Trailers i found that were interesting are:
"Inception" short trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC4Z6QiSU0k
Although this film is not similar to ours, I thought the trailer to it was very good. Just listening to it and not watching it was like listening to a radio trailer and it sounded interesting and gave some bits away to the audience, however not everything - to keep them intrigued.
We would want ours to be like this as dramatic music is featured throughout the trailer, (linked with the genre of action/mystery), and there was also a voiceover, which gave an insight into the story of Inception for the audience. The trailer also featured some dialogue and sound effects. We would like our radio trailer to be similar to this, and as our film has a voiceover, this was a useful example.
"Salt" trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ40WlshNwU&feature=related
In contrast, this trailer for the film "Salt", does not feature any voiceover and is more on dialogue, so our radio trailer could also feature this aspect. It still featured dramatic music and sound effects, to again, sound interesting and make the audience want to find out more ...
In contrast with these trailers, our radio trailer will also say the names of actors and actresses, and when it is realeased; but as these are visual film trailers, the details appear on the screen and not audibly.
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