CONSTRUCTION: TV NEWS REPORT SHOT

In the starting sequence of our trailer we will show a reel of different news reports talking about North Korea as well as Artificial Intelligence (AI). We will also create our own news report where we see and interviewer, interviewing Max Tegmark the writer and author of Life 3.0 where he talks about the dangers of AI in the future and how it will change the way that the world works. In this short clip of the interview, the audience will find out how dangerous AI is and that North Korea have made multiple cyber attacks using this technology against their enemies.

In the end we didnt use this idea, we found that artificial intelligence was irrelevant towards the plot of our trailer. Instead we made our own news reports by using a green screen and putting news report footage and images behind the people who we had speak in the news reports. In these images below you can see the way that we set up the greenscreen in order to create our very own news reports.

CONSTRUCTION: PLANE CONVERSATION

Involved in the construction of this scene was the process of building the green screen. We also used an Ipad with the application Green Screen by Do Ink to insert a background of the outside of a plane. We used live action filming in this scene and the actor in this scene acted as the father towards the teenagers who are the main characters in our trailer.

This was the way we set up the green screen, we had the actor in frame on the Ipad with the application that rendered the image onto the green screen.

For the second layer we used an image of plane windows with the windows being a green screen so that we could put our own video of the outside of an aeroplane onto the green screens of the window.

The live footage of a birds eye view of London was taken from a British Airways flight this year that shows iconic London buildings like Tower Bridge as well as the hugely recognisable River Thames

This is how we set up the green screen alongside the Ipad with a tripod so that the frame was straight whlst we filmed the scene.



Then we used our actor for this scene, made his upper body in the frame, filmed him doing his lines and that was the end of the scene. This is how it turned out, with the moving image you can see the different environment moving in the windows of the plane. This meant that there were three different layers when filming this scene, the first layer being the live action actor. The second layer being the frames of the aeroplane windows, and then the third layer being our own filming from the outside of an aeroplane.

PLANNING: CREATING OUR FILM POSTER

This is a collection of different movie posters where I can use some ideas from them and incorporate them into my final movie poster. These are other ideas of ways that I can compose my movie poster and also different techniques and tools I can use when creating my final movie poster.

In the Moonlight poster (top left) I plan to experiment with using different colours on the final edit of my movie poster. In the 71 posters I am going to use the technique of putting an image within another image, or inside the title of the movie. In the Total Recall Poster I might expoeriment with different editing styles on the main image of the poster. In this poster you can see an effect going out of the back of the main character as if he is breaking apart. Finally, the last convention I might use within my movie poster is editing images of the characters in different sizes just like they have done with the Getaway poster but with a car as the main images as well.

RESEARCH: FILM ESCAPE - CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT

We decided to interview our characters, to get to know them. We got our inspiration from what we learnt from a blog called Film Escape. This screenshot is from the website called Film Escape, and is on this post Charlie Sierra writes about a man called Pen Densham who is an Oscar nominated film maker who has made 16 Feature Films. Pen Densham uses the technique of questioning his characters in order to get to know them better. This way he can learn how the characters work which allows Pen Densham to understand each character when filming a feature film. Questioning the characters means that Pen Densham can understand their personalities as well as the way they work. 

Our interview included the main characters being questioned about how they feel about the situation they have been put into and what happened along the way. This questionnaire and interview was to find out and further develop our character's personalities so that they are easy to understand when we release our film trailer.

Here you can see the interview where military personnel interviews two of the boys after the attack has occurred...

CONSTRUCTION: SCRIPT YOUR INTERTITLES

I went over the the BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) website, and visited their subsection where I can view Trailers from recent and old movies. Here is where I am using this collection of trailers to analyse their use of Intertitles.

Lord of the Rings

The Trailer for The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies uses intertitles to grab the audience's attention by breaking down a sentence with little snippets that each have its own intertitle: 'This Year, from the Director of 'The Lord of the Rings trilogy'/ prepare for the defining moment of the Middle-Earth Legend'. 

However, this is broken up into 5 different parts which are spread throughout the trailer. This means that as the person is viewing the trailer they want to carry on the sentence, and to do so they need to go through the whole trailer. It functions almost like a voice over that is guiding us through. This constant need to know what is being said in the intertitles also means that the viewer watches the whole trailer. 

The imperative 'Prepare for' is quite a bold and demanding statement telling all people viewing the trailer to be ready. Epithets like defining and legend suggest the prestige of the project, all of which is enhanced by the glowing gold lettering.

Delivery Man

In this movie trailer the start is where all of the intertitles are seen. They are presented in an almost slide show format with lots of images of people surrounding the intertitles. It is also presented with a voice over that reads sentences with that say very similar things that are seen on screen. 

This voice over and style we are presented with at the start of the trailer gives context to the unknown for the scenes of the movie that we see after this intertitles section. After we know that these pictures of people have something in common, we see the next part of trailer which shows what they do have in common. Intertitles here are used give context for the movie and the voice over also guides us through this part. 

These intertitles also intrigue the audience because the words unique and common are complete opposite words. This enigma leads to the viewer being tantalised by the hunger of curiosity which leads them to find out what lies behind this enigma. Here the intertitles use of apparently contradictory words unique and common features as a bait that whets our curiosity.

PLANNING: SHOT LIST

This table is the shot list in which we planned how our trailer was going to be shot and what each shot and scene contained.

SCENE	SOUND/VOICEOVER	VISION	ACTORS	PROPS	NOTES
News Reporting	Soundtrack Diegetic sound	Newsroom backdrop with visual test rocket launch, via green screen Mid shot	2 different news reporters, one male, one female	None	Stationary camerawork, this is a mid-shot
Tree scene	Soundtrack and diegetic sound	Leaves blowing in the wind Close up of leaves	N/A	None	Close up shot, stationary
Flashback scene	Voiceover Soundtrack	Slow-mo effect Black and white filter Low angle tracking shot Followed by a low angle shot Followed by a tracking mid shot	All three brothers seen in past life	Rugby ball Football Table tennis table, bat and ball	Low angle, slow tracking shots Followed by a low angle shot Followed by a slow tracking mid-shot
Public Emergency Announcement	Voiceover Soundtrack	Public Emergency Announcement with informative text moving downwards	N/A	None	None
Plane scene	Plane audio Diegetic sound	Stationary mid-shot Plane interior backdrop via green screen	Father of three brothers	Mobile phone	Stationary mid-shot Green-screen
Packing bags	Diegetic sound Soundtrack	Slow, low-angle tracking shot Blurred filter	2 brothers seen packing bags	Two rucksacks Cans of tinned food Radio Two bottles of water	Slow, low angle tracking shot, cut out when actors walk past the camera
Running scene	Soundtrack Diegetic sound	Handheld camerawork, two-shot Slow-mo effect	3 brothers seen running	2 rucksacks	Handheld camerawork, two-shot
Hospital scene	Diegetic sound Soundtrack	Slow, mid shot tracking shot	Mother of three brothers	Mobile phone	Tracking, mid-shot
Shelter scene	Diegetic sound Soundtrack	Stationary shot, 3-shot, actors move towards the camera,	3 brothers	None	Stationary, 3-shot

PLANNING: STORYBOARD

This is what we did when we were planning the different shots and scenes that we wanted to put into our trailer, these scenes are put in chronological order in which they will be presented within our trailer.