Meeting Post 7

This week we are indiviually working on our own ancillary tasks (our magazines and posters).

Sound Research

As my role is to control the sound in the trailer I have researched the specific needs that my role entails.

Sound Effect definition: A sound other than music or speech that is made artificially for use in a film, play or other broadcast production. 

Because of my role I think that it is important for me to understand the concept of sound and how it can be used to portray certain moods. I have the responsibility within the group of controlling all concepts of sound within the trailer. I therefor I have to include a soundtrack within the trailer that will relate with the romantic comedy genre and give the trailer an atmosphere using sound. I have looked at other romantic comedy trailers including, The Break Up, Princess Diaries and Two Weeks Notice, all of which use soundtracks where the music changes depending on the scenes.

By carrying out this research I have developed a clear understanding of what I need to do in order to do an effective job in my role, as the key feature that I have found when it comes to the trailers soundtrack is that I need to change the music for the different scenes to change the mood/atmosphere. For example, the more romantic clips could have a jazzy but slow piano number in the background and then for the more energetic scenes I could have a guitar and drums playing to make the audience feel more intense and involved with the narrative. As sound has a big influence on the trailers mood it is essential that I create the appropriate soundtrack for our trailer so I have analysed the similarities of sound used in most romantic comedy trailers.

These three romantic comedy trailers all include the following features regarding sound:

• A voice over.
• A soundtrack that changes as the scenes go on creating a flow/atmosphere to the trailer and making the audience feel involved with the scenes moods.
• Humorous dialogue between the main characters.
• Use a mixture of classical songs and songs with dialogue which is played quietly in the back ground so you can still hear the characters dialogue.

The Final Trailer Script

Characters/Actors:

Riven (Girl main character) – Mia Jones

Jude (Friend of Riven’s) – Kirsty McDonald

Gray (Boy main character) – Jacob Axford

Hugh (Male main character’s bestfriend) – Brandon Evans

The brief description and script of the trailer:

(Music playing throughout the trailer)          

• The appropriate audiences slides
• Starts off with 6 different shots fading into each other of Riven doing funny things:

-Voiceover ‘Meet Riven Morrison’

-Riven is looking in the mirror the camera pans to her jumping and down to pull her jeans on then goes off to the side and a crash sounds is made to give the effect that she has fallen (wide shot)

-Riven sitting in bed watching TV (wide shot)

-Riven laughing and snorting  (mid shot)

-Riven putting her retainers in (medium close up)

-Riven dancing (cutaway shot)

-Over the shoulder shot of Riven looking in the mirror brushing her hair (close up)

• Then 6 different shots fading into each other of Gray doing funny things:

-Voiceover ‘And Gray Johnson’

-Gray on zip wire

-Gray walking down the street (wide shot)

-Gray on the phone (mid shot)

-Gray on swing

-Gray pulling a funny face for a picture (mid shot)
- Gray and Hugh on swings

Voiceover: And all they needed was the fall in love with each other

-Staring into camera (Riven)

-Dropping brolli

-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)

-Shot of the two girls laughing (wide shot)

-Hugh says, ‘Just talk to her’ (mid shot)

-Gray says, ‘I just need the right moment’ (over the shoulder shot)

-Shot of girls in bedroom (wide shot)

-Clancy says ‘we’re going to have to do something about the way you look we will have to start with the brows you look like chewbacca’ (mid shot)

-Then into an extreme close up of Riven’s badly drawn eyebrows(-'Bad' Eyebrows)

-Riven says, ‘they add character’ (medium close up)

-Riven is sat down on a chair in front of a mirror and the girls are surrounding her all holding props (a hairdryer, curlers, tweezers, powder and sponge’ a mid shot of them all is shown

-Clancy is holding up two magazines in front of Riven’s face(wide shot)

-Mid shot of Clancy separating the magazine’s to reveal Riven’s face

-Zooms into a medium close up of Riven

-Clancy says ‘You look so hot’ (mid shot)

-Shot of Gray talking to Hugh (two shot)

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

-Gray runs to help her up he bends down and gives her his hand (two shot)

-A mid shot of Riven and Gray putting her hand out

-Close up shot of the two characters holding hands

-Two shot of them staring loving at each other

-Gray says ‘are you ok?’ (mid shot)

-Riven Stutters ‘yeah I do that a lot’ (mid shot)

-Gray says ‘do you wanna 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 "What Do You Mean
Gray says' To like a fancy restaurant or something'
Riven says 'Yes I would love to'

Voice Over: Where two opposites meet

-Costa Clink

-Riven and Gray Looking at Phone

-Laughing together at park

Voice over: ‘Fall in love’

-Riven laughing

-Walking away together at park

-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 the Bushman eyebrows’

-Riven playfully hits him and says ‘I can’t believe you just said that’ (laughing, two shot)

-They kiss (two shot)

-Slide showing: ‘From the directors of Love Actually'

-Riven dancing really badly in front of her friends (wide shot)

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

Slide showing "The Love Triangle"

-Riven says 'I just feel like I don’t fit in with anything anymore’ (mid shot of Riven)

-Gray says ‘You don’t need to fit in Riv that’s whats special about you’ (two shot)

Text saying ‘Harmount Pictures Presents’

-Gray and Riven walk into a glass wall holding hands 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"

Voiceover: ‘Double Take’ whilst the slide states Double Take.

-Collage of Riven and Gray pulling stupid faces
Other Scenes we have - are they the extras??? 

-Mia Hairflip

-Mia Fall

-Jacob Helping Mia Up

-Holding Hands

-Mia and Jacob Looking at Phone

-Mia laughing

-Kiss Scene

-Costa Clink

-Mia Zipwire

-'Bad' Eyebrows

-Singing into brush 'focus'

-Posing for picture Mia

-Laughing together at park

-Mia dropping things

-Pulling pants up

-Dancing & singing to 'sorry'

-Holding hands and falling over

-Talking in costa (bushman eyebrows)

-Dropping brolli

-Jacob on Phone

-Staring into camera (mia)

-mia fastening pants

-Mia pulling face on zip wire

-Randon and Jacob (how are you)

-Brandon and Jacob (stopped smoking)

-Brandon and Jacob (talking about riven)

-Mia and Jacob walking 

Some Short Takes For Our Trailer

Hair Styles (Pre Production Photography)

This blog post will show the hairstyles that each of the different characters have within the trailer.

Hairstyles:

Clancy will have a high top knot bun. 

Riven will have her hair down in most scenes

In the bedroom scene before Riven has had her makeover her hair will be in a messy low bun style with two hairs coming down, in some of the shots.

The male characters will have a gelled up hair style throughout the trailer.

My Roles

My roles that I have to carry out throughout our process for our A2 media course work:

• Script Writer 
• Editing (add transitions and cut certain scenes then put them together)
• Actress
• Sound Editor
• Mise en scene

The roles in our group:

• Editing: Shafia, Mia and Jenny
• Sound: Mia and Shafia
• Cinematography: Shafia
• Mise en scene: Shafia and Mia 
• Script: Mia
• Actress: Mia

I hope to do a successful job as the following roles and I especially hope to gain more confidence and skills whilst using softwares such as garage band for the sound editing and premier pro to add the voice overs and music to the trailer.

Actor/Actresses (Pre Production Photography)

The following pictures show all of the actors/characters who are in our film trailer:

Mia Jones as 'Riven'

Jacob Axford as 'Gray'

Brandon Evans as 'Hugh'

Jenny as girl holding the polaroid camera

Kirsty as 'Clancy'

Setting/Location Research (Pre Production Photography)

These pictures show the setting and locations in which we are going to be filming our film trailer.

This is the room in which the bedroom scenes are going to be filmed.

I have looked on the Crownpoint North Website to find out its exact loaction.

This is Crown Point North Shopping Centre in Denton which is where the romantic scenes of Gray and Riven are being filmed.

We also shoot a scene in costa coffee in Denton.

We shot the park scenes at Stamford Park in the play area.

Shot Types For The Film Trailer

The following graphs show the shot types that we will be using in our film trailer.

Second Editing Log

This is our groups second up to date editing log regarding our trailer, 'Double Take'.

Second Editing Log from miajones98