Actor Release Forms (For Trailer)

These following forms were signed by the actors who will be taking part in my film trailer, 'Double take'. 

Meeting post 6

We have decided as a group that we have to carryout the following:

• My personal aims:
• To continue with my film magazine by taking a new photo for the cover and create the cover lines and put them in a composition that looks eye-catching. 

• Take a photo of Jacob for the film poster - A mid shot of him smiling showing his side profile.

• Take a photo of Jacob for the film magazine - A mid shot of him smiling head on.

(For  the film trailer)

• Record scenes on Thursday with the film crew - the following scenes:
• Record the scenes of Gray being clumsy. (Jacob)
• Clancy giving Riven a makeover scene. (Mia and Kirsty)
• Clancy and Riven talking about Gray. (Mia and Kirsty)
• Get Jacob to record the voice over.
• We intend to do the last parts of filming on the 16th of march just as finishing touches to add to our nearly complete trailer.

We need a group meeting to discuss any further scenes that need to be recorded.

Camera Test

Camera shots:

My peer and I used an SLR camera in order to take the following test shots:

Mid Shot

Medium Close Up

Close Up

Extreme Close Up 

Wide Shot

Very Wide Shot

Over The Shoulder Shot

                                        

                                    Two Shot

Point Of View Shot

Extreme Wide Shot

Establishing Shot

Camera Angles:

Slanted Shot

Eye Level Shot

High Angled Shot

Low Angled Shot

Birds Eye Shot

My First Draft Of The Script

Characters:

Riven (girl main character)-Actor:Mia Jones

Clancy (friend of Riven's)-Actor:Jenny Crook

Jude (friend of Riven's)- Actor: Kirsty McDonald

Ilah (friend of Riven's)- Actor:Mia Harrison

Gray- (main male character)- Actor: Jacob Axford

Hugh-(male main characters best friend)- Actor: Jack Gough
Voice over voice: Jacob Axford

The brief script of the trailer:

• Music is playing throughout most of the trailer

• The appropriate audiences slide

• Starts off with six Different shots fading into each other of Riven doing funny things:

• Voice over says: 'Meet Riven' whilst Riven is looking in the mirror the camera pans to her jumping up and down to pull her jeans on then goes off to the side and a crash sound is made to give the effect that she has fallen (wide shot)

• Riven sitting in bed watching tv and laughing and snorting (wide shot)

• Riven Spilling a drink over (mid shot)

• Riven puts her retainers in (medium close up)

• Riven falling over a football (cutaway shot)

• Over the shoulder shot of Riven looking in the mirror smudging mascara in the middle of her nose and groaning (close up)

• Voice over: 'And Gray Johnson'

• Six different shots of Gray are shown (fade into each other like on Riven's)

• Gray walking down the street (wide shot)

• Gray talking to Hugh (two shot)

• Gray having a football kicked at his head (wide shot)

• Gray putting two chips in his mouth like a walrus laughing (medium close up)

• Gray pulling a stupid face for a picture (mid shot)

• Gray tripping over (wide shot)

• Voiceover: 'All they needed was to fall for each other'

• Shot of Riven starry eyed (mid shot)

• Cuts to Gray walking down the street (wide shot)

• Clancy says, 'You've liked Gray since you came out the womb Riv, why don't you just talk to him?' (over the shoulder shot)

• Riven says, 'He doesn't even know I exist' (mid shot)

• Jude says, 'As in Mr Gray from the books? So he's into like whips and chains and stuff?' (mid shot)

• Shot of all the girls laughing (wide shot)

• Hugh say's: 'Just talk to her' (mid shot)

• Gray say's: 'I just need the right moment' (over the shoulder shot)

• Shot of the girls in the bedroom (wide shot)

• Clancy: Were going to have to do something about the way you look we will have to start with the brows you look like chewbacca. (mis shot)

• Then goes into a extreme close up of Riven's badly drawn on eyebrows.

• Riven: 'They add character' (medium close up)

• Riven is sat down on a chair infront of a mirror and the girls are surrounding her all holding props (a hairdryer, curlers, tweezers, power and sponge) a mid shot of them all is shown. (wide shot)

• Clancy is holding up two magazines from in front of riven face (wide shot)

• Mid shot of Clancy separating the magazine's to reveal Riven's face

• Zooms into a medium close up of Riven

• Illah says: 'You look so hot' (mid shot)

• Shot of Gray talking to Hugh (two shot)

• A medium close up of Gray looking to his right then looking at his friend then quickly turning back to look at Riven after her makeover

• Riven walks down the street with confidence in slow motion, then she falls (wide shot)

• He runs to help her up of his bending down and giving her his hand (two shot)

• A mid shot of Riven looking up at Gray and putting her hand out

• Close up shot of the two characters hands (holding)

• Two shot of them staring loving at each other

• Gray says: 'Are you ok?' (mid shot)

• Riven stutters: 'Ye I do that a lot' (mid shot)

• Gray says: Do you maybe want to go out sometime? (over the shoulder shot)

• Sound of Riven thoughts plays whilst she is still on the screen just staring at Gray, Riven's voice says, 'omg omg omg omg omg,' (medium close up)

• Riven says: 'Yes I would love to' (mid shot)

• Voice over: Where two polar opposites who only have clumsiness in common...'

• He is playing on his phone she is reading (wide shot)

• She then drops her book making him jump so he drops his phone (wide shot)

• Shot of gray eating a salad whilst she eats McDonalds (wide shot)

• Voice over: 'Fall in love'

• Riven and Gray are laughing Really hard at each other together (two shot)

• Gray snorts at the end of his laugh (medium close up)

• They both burst out laughing even more (two shot)

• Shot of them holding hands ( wide shot)

• They both fall backwards off a wall (wide shot)

• A medium close up of the soles of their shoes at the top of the wall

• Shot of them lying on the floor facing each other (wide shot)

• Goes into a two shot of them both smiling at each other

• Close up of Gray saying: 'I liked you with bushman eyebrows'

• Riven playfully hits him and says: 'I can't believe you just said that' (laughing) (two shot)

• They kiss on the grass lay down (two shot)

• Slide showing: 'From the directors of The way'

• Riven Dancing really badly in front of her friends (wide shot)

• Her and her friends singing into their hairbrushes' (wide shot)

• Hugh looks at a girls bum as she walks past as Gray moves his head back round (wide shot)

• Slide showing: 'And The Love Triangle'

• Gray:'You don't need to fit in Riv thats whats special about you' (two shot)

• But I don't fit in with anything I don't even fit in my good jeans anymore" (mid shot of Riven)

• Text saying, 'Harmount pictures presents'

• Gray and Riven walk into a glass wall holding hand thinking it was the entrance to a shop (wide shot)

• Shot of their faces whilst they are lay down looking forward (medium close up)

• Riven says: 'We really need to stop doing that' (Gray holds his head in pain and grunts) (close up)

• Voice over: 'Double take' whilst a slide is on saying, 'Double take'

• Riven and Gray kiss (two shot)

• Collage of many shots of Riven and Gray pulling stupid faces

• Credits

Plan For The Week Post

2-11-15: Today we both decided on the name of the film which is ' Double take' as the film trailers is going to be about a girl who has a transformation to her looks and the guy she has a crush on starts to notice her and has to take a double take to see if it is really her. We also decided on what roles we were each doing and what roles we were both going to focus on which are listed below:

My roles:

• Script Writer
• Special effects

Jennys roles:

• Recording
• Sound

Both of us are doing:

• Editing
• Cinematography
• Acting
• Recording

Story Board From A Romantic Comedy Film Scene

I have selected a film clip from a film from my chosen genre  (Romantic Comedy) and story boarded the clip from the film, 'Pretty Woman'. I have done this as a practice as I will be doing this for my own film trailer.

Film Trailer Information

What is a film trailer?

• A film trailer is an advertisement or a commercial for a feature film that will be exhibited in the future at a cinema. It is usually played before the start of another film.

What do they consist of (genre specific)
Most film trailers consist of:

• Various shot types, edits, voice overs, sound effects, non diegetic and diegetic sounds, mise en scene, a detailed synopsis, locations, characters, shots/angles and cinematography. Most romantic comedy films include high key lighting with bright and vibrant colours due to the fact that rom coms are mostly upbeat and humorous films. Most romantic comedy trailers also consist of a male and female couple. 

My trailer

• My trailer is going to include detail synopsis, locations, characters, cinematography, shots/angles,Various shot types, edits, voice overs, sound effects and mise en scene. It is also going to include a male and female actress and about 5 other actors to use as extras. It is mostly going to have high key lighting throughout and the background score is going to be upbeat.

Meeting Post 5

This week we are going to finish filming the romantic scenes at crown point north shopping center, I have let Shafia know this as she cannot currently use I message.

Possible Film Names/Synopsis Ideas

I wrote down all of my ideas for plots and names for my film trailer:
We have decided that our film trailer will be entitled: Double take and we will be using the idea that a girl is ugly and she fantasies over a boy who never notices her and she has a makeover and then he starts to notice her, although they argue and she thinks he should have loved her when she was ugly, they eventually fall in love.

Genre Codes And Conventions For My Genre

Codes
Codes are systems of signs, which create meaning. Codes can be divided into two categories – technical and symbolic. Technical codes are all the ways in which equipment is used to tell the story in a media text, for example the camera work in a film.Symbolic codes show what is beneath the surface of what we see. For example, a character's actions show you how the character is feeling.Some codes fit both categories – music for example, is both technical and symbolic.

Conventions
Conventions are the generally accepted ways of doing something. There are general conventions in any medium, such as the use of interviewee quotes in a print article, but conventions are also genre specific.

How codes and conventions apply in media studies
Codes and conventions are used together in any study of genre – it is not enough to discuss a technical code used such as camera work, without saying how it is conventionally used in a genre.For example, the technical code of lighting is used in some way in all film genres. It is a convention of the horror genre that side and back lighting is used to create mystery and suspense – an integral part of any horror movie.

Codes and conventions for a romantic comedy trailer:

• A typical boy meets girl scenario
• Inevitability of the two ending up in a relationship, (happy ending)
• Often some sexual innuendo in the script
• Often starts with a voice over explaining characters
• Two protagonists, normally male and female
• Often stylised in a particular way e.g. flowers,weddings hearts
• Normally set in an urban environment, entered around a work place, where a chance encounter would happen
• Often entered around a female character, the film is seen from her point of view.
• Characters often conform to stereotypes E.g. Geeks, The 'it' girl etc.
• Examples of Rom coms: Bridget Joneses Diary, Love Actually and Just Go With It

Weather Post For Shoots

The following gif shows the weather forecasts that have helped us to decide whether it is going to be suitable to carrying out filming/ photoshoots on the dates that we have chosen. I have used the weather app on my phone and the websites, timeanddate.com and accuweather.com in order to check the forecasts.

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Trailer Drafts

These are several drafts for our trailer.

Meeting Post 4

Today I met up with my peers, Jenny and Shafia to discuss the imagery we will be using for our film magazine and where and when we are going to take the pictures. Jenny and I have decided to use Jacob as the model for our film magazines and Shafia is going to photograph me for her magazine. We have decided that we are going to take the shots and continue to film the romantic scenes on the  11th of February at crown point north shopping centre.

My Film Magazine Progress

These following screenshots show the creative process for my magazine:

Firstly I opened a plain A4 document to being the process of my film magazine. I changed the background colour to black because I wanted to add red and white text so I that the dark background would contrast well with the text and to  make it stand out to the audience. I then added the magazines title, 'The Reel', which I thought sounded professional. I went on Dafont.com in order to download this for as it didn't think any of the font styles on photoshop looked effective for a magazines header. 

I then inserted the magazines tagline, 'The ultimate movie magazine',  I think that this will persuade the audience to buy the magazine. I decided to highlight the words, 'ultimate' and 'movie' in red to show the audience the genre of the magazine (film), and I also thought that it looked effective. I used the font, 'Bebas Neue Regular' I am also going to be using this font for my cover lines to give the magazine a sense of continuity. I then added a small image of a barcode on the bottom left hand side as most magazines have a barcode on the cover.

I added a shape to the cover to give the magazine some dimension. I used the rectangle tool to create this red shape, and I then used the free transform tool to rotate the shape so that it is slightly diagonal, I then added the text, 'Exclusives inside' in black and put it over the red rectangle as I knew that this would automatically make the text stand out. It is in the same font that I have used for the tag line.

Then I added another rectangle but in white with black and red text on top of it. I have highlighted one part of text in red like I have done with the tagline because I think this looks effective. This text informs the audience of the magazines date, the issue number and the price of the magazine, all of these are vital features that need to be on the cover. 

I then added my cover lines onto the magazine again using a red and white font as this is my desired colour scheme.  I made the red cover lines to the size 45pt and the white text to 42pt so that the main cover lines would stand out to the audience and draw their attention to the main exciting articles inside the magazine which would make them want to buy the magazine.

I then started to add the main cover line using the font, 'badi MT Condensed Extra Bold Regular' then I also added a CD to the top right hand corner and added the text, 'The worlds best film reviews'. As I thought that the magazine needed an extra feature rather than just cover lines.

I then added the rest of the cover line using the same font as the text, 'Double', by using a white text to give the magazine some dimension whilst still sticking to my colour scheme of red and white text.

I then added another rectangular shape and placed it under the main cover line to make it stand out and draw the audiences attention to it and I then added the bevel and emboss effect to.

I then added the my main cover image of the main character in the film trailer and then increased the images exposure and used the curves tools to enhance the pictures vibrance.

I then added another cover line at the bottom of the left hand side of the poster because I thought that it looked empty.

I then decided to remove the image of the CD because I don't think it was needed.

By using the layer style tool I added the bevel and emboss effect to make the word, 'Double' look more three dimensional, helping it to stand out more effectively. I then decided to change the masthead font to, 'Lemon Milk' which I downloaded from daft.com. I thought that the original font that I had used looked like it was for a horror genre magazine and lemon milk looked more suitable for my film magazine.

I then added another image and placed it over the top of the first image to show the two sides of Riven (the main character in the trailer). The image portrays her as being half un attractive and the other more well presented, this fits in with the narrative of the plot of our trailer when Riven has a makeover and transforms from ugly to attractive. This image shows Riven before and after the makeover in just one image. I changed the brightness of this image by using the brightness tool and then I used the curves tool to enhance its vibrance. I then also added a cover line regarding the character in the main cover image. This is the overall finished film magazine.

My Film Poster Progress

I started off by using the, Steel Tongs font to add the credits. I had already downloaded the steel tongue font from www.fonts2u.com/steeltongs.font. 

I then added a 12A rating symbol as from my research from IMBD's highest grossing romantic comedy's I noticed that most of them were rated as a 12 or 12A. I then added some text to the top in the font, Bebas Neue.

I then added the characters names in the font, Tahoma Regular and I decided to have the first names in black and the surnames in red as I have seem this on the proposal poster and it looks effective and it also fits in with the black and red themed text that I have used for the film title, 'The bold font' which I have downloaded from daft.com.

I then added a film star rating of five stars, and added the films cover line which I thought fit in well with the plot/ narrative of Double Take. I then added a brief review from Mark Kermode, who is a well know English film critic. 

I then decided that I wasn't happy with my composition as it looked to cluttered and it didn't look like it fit in with the romantic comedy genre so I changed the font of the title and used,'The body font' which I download from Dafont.com. Then I deleted all of my other texts. I also used the layer style feature to add bevel and emboss, texture and outer glow to the title to make it stand out. I left a space out for the letter 'O' as I intend to put a love heart there. 

Once I have placed the love heart in as the letter 'O' I think that my poster has started to gain some sense of romance. I used the free transform tool to slightly rotate the love heart so that it had a slanted effect. I then added a Ribbon just to use as a background to make my black credits stand out. Once again I used the steel tongs font.

I added the characters names back on to the poster because I like the style of the font and the colour scheme. I also think they look effective in the opposite corners.

I started to added the five star film review from the guardian back onto the poster and placed this just below the title.

I also added the some other previous texts that I had deleted and placed them on the top centre of my poster.

I then added the cover line again however I made it smaller so that it fit under the title.

I then added a picture of Jacob (Gray) on the poster. I edited the images brightness and vibrance and used the free transform tool in order to rotate the image to give the effect that he is looking up.

I then added the other image of myself (Riven) and placed it in a composition so that it looked like I was looking down at Gray.

I then also enhanced the image by using the brightness and contrast and the curves feature.

I then added a slightly darker effect to the characters by using the brightness/contrast effect.

I then changed the composition of the star rating and the top line of text and deleted the Mark Kermode review as I felt that it didn't look effective and it wasn't needed.

As a last minute decision I decided to move the actors names to the top in opposite corners and change the star review to a four star as I carried out some audience research regarding how many stars I should include for the review and four was the more popular response. I also decided that the heat was a more girly source to review a romantic comedy film and this would fit in more suitably with my target audience (females). I also increased the titles size to make it stand out and fill the blank space. I then increased the boldness of the two lines of black text and this is my overall finished poster.