week 13/14

Audience feedback questionnaire results:

Do you believe you were able to follow the plot/storyline of the film from the trailer?
All of our audience answered yes to this question, meaning that we have created a trailer which sufficiently shows the plot to the audience without giving too much away. We can attract our audience more efficiently because they will want to see them film more if they understand what it is about and can relate to the characters.

In your opinion, did the poster and magazine cover portray the film in the same way as the trailer did?
The majority of people chose yes, this means there is continuity in design and creation of our 3 parts of our project. This is an important factor for our film trailer as it is one of the best ways of getting the audiences interest in the film. If the poster and magazine cover weren't up to a good standard then there would be less people wanting to go and see the film.

Would you pay to go and see the film after watching this trailer?
70% of the people we showed said no, this means that we did something wrong with the trailer. We will try to figure out what we need to do to improve it by looking at the next two questions, there give us there audiences opinions

What did you like most about the trailer?
• The music used was fitting to what was happening in the trailer and it was also quite up to date.
• The beach scenery around the characters was familiar-I could relate more because I knew where you were.
• The pink titles were cute

What did you like the least about the trailer?
• There were random parts that appeared in the trailer,it was slightly confusing. which shows it is made badly
• The fact there was no voice over
Both of the most written answers are above, and we will be ensuring we change these parts of our trailer.

What do you think about the production standard?
60% of people said bad amateur. This was probably due to our editing software, which was slow and skipped all the time. It took us from October until Feburay to edit it but as the softwear wasn't great, it made it very hard to use good effects. This lead to our final product having flashing images of other parts of the trailer in it. We couldn’t see these errors as we couldn’t view the whole product until after we had uploaded the trailer. We will need to edit our trailer again so we can remove these errors.

In our original questionnaire results, the audience wanted a voice over. Do you think the film trailer was still attractive to you without a voice over?
Nobody answered yes, this means that we will need to add some sort of a voice over. Half of the people said it didn’t matter, which lead us to decide that only a small voice over was needed.

What genre would you class this film?
80% of people chose Psychological Romance, which shows our genre was put across our film trailer sufficiently enough for our target audience to understand the genre.

What is your opinion on the relationship between the main characters? Did it make you want to watch the film more?
• I think it was lovely and romantic, and also sad when he leaves. It made me want to find out why he leaves, and what the witch lady had to do with it all.
• I think there was good chemistry between the actors, which adds to the realistic aspect of the film trailer. This makes me want to watch more of the film because I love romantic scenes in films, and it was obvi0us there was going to be some.
• I thought the actors were trying too hard, and it didn’t seem natural, but i would still want to see the film as they storyline entices me.


Did you think the trailer needed more dialogue?
70% of people said no, it needs no more dialogue. We wanted to keep dialogue at a minimum so we could show the story more than make the audience hear it.However you can tell at some parts what the actors were saying, this gave the audience a brief idea as to what mood the actors were in and how they felt. We thought it would entice our target audience more if they could figure out the story for themselves, unlike the usual convention for a trailer which is to give the audience all of the information to persuade them to come and see the film.

Do you think the setting of the sea-side attracts you to the film more?
80% of people said yes, it does attract them to the film more. This could relate to the previous questionnaire where we asked what connotations do you feel relate to the scenery. It aslo helped that it was a nice day at the beach, we managed to shoot the happy scenes when the weather picked up and used the cold dull weather for the sad and angry scenes towards the end of the trailer. The most chosen was “free”, which insinuates our target audience like to feel free, and feel like they can do whatever they want. This is probably related to the physiological aspect of being 16-18yrs old and “growing up” and moving away from home to go to university and being responsible for themselves for the first time, or aspiring to be so.

Do the characters chosen help you relate to the film more?
70% of our target audience said yes, the characters do help you relate to the film more. This relationship between the audience and the characters will help our film trailer become successful, because the actors are in the same age group as our target audience, this helped them to relate to eachother..



ACTION PLAN CREATED FROM AUDIENCE FEEDBACK
• We will be adding a small voice over using the tag line ”When love falls apart at the seams, and for when you just can’t let go” which helps describe the feelings and emotions the girl in the trailer is feeling when her boyfriend goes missing after her “encounter” with the witch lady. This also helps the audience understand better and know what is going on.
• We will be cutting out the skipping parts of our film, so it flows better and it looks much more professional, this makes the audience want to go and see it as it doesn't look cheap and tacky.

Week 11/12

Audience feedback Quesrtionnaires:

As finishing touches are being made to the film trailer at present we have decided to distribute audience feedback questionnaires on our ancillary texts.

First is the poster. As we are allowing feedback to be produced separately so each ancillary text can be viewed as its own entity. So if an audience werent to see the trailer but saw the poster, we would find out whether the poster on its own would attract an audience to see the film.

the same principles apply to the magazine. We obviously needed to use fitting questions in accordance to each ancillary text. That is the reason we designed two seperate audience feedback questionnaires for the texts, for concise results.

Week 10

We chose to use Tom Courcey and Grace Collis as our main actors during the trailer.
Other actors Indcluding lucy Skerritt as the witch and maria Schiavone as the friend.
Extras included passers by however me made sure to not include clear shots of faces for legal reasons.

So far the editing is taking longer than anticipated due to slow software but prgress so far has been good.
We have decided to add music instead of a voiceover.We feel this is more fitting to the genre of film which in turn makes it more drammatic and gripping as a trailer.

Week 9

Planning progress:
Research of film posters what they include
Research of film magazines and what they include.
Prices and consumer information.

Film poster:







When deciding on a poster photo we decided on this extremely affectionate one.
This is the finished product.

Week 8

This is the image we have chosen to use for our magazine cover. The reasons for this is, our two main chracters from the film trailer are obviously going to feature the front page. The colour range is vibrant and light. This will encourage positive connotations about the film towards the readers. The image emulates the love genre, which is part of the film.


Using the Adobe photoshop elements we have managed to produce a viable magaizne cover using elements of our deconstructed magazines... We realised that through toms hair there was an editing error.So we have re-edited and tried to improve..

This is the finalised magazine cover. We have manage to retouch the faults to give this proffesional outcome.

Week 7

So far the editing process has taken longer than we thought as the system keeps freezing and shutting down. If we wish to get a proffessional outcome which will attain optimum marks within the film trailer our aims are to amend every detail and make sure the trailer is perfect.

Week 6

During the half term week, on Wednesday 27th of October all of our group members including one other person (Tom Courcey) travelled to Hunstanton to record the footage for our trailer. All of us took part acting different parts of the trailer. We brought several props and costumes with us and two cameras to help us get the best possible variety of shots. The reason we wanted an abundance of shots and footage is so that we have enough material to pick and choose from so the editing process runs smoothly.

Film magazine cover:

This is a recent magazine cover (Total film) that emphasises the release of the film Alice and Wonderland (one of the films deconstructed). This cover gives us an insight as to what main film audiences are attracted to on a film magazine cover. Factors thats effect the attraction of audience to this genre of magazine include title and text font and colour, main characters from a new release film and 3 to 4 main informative captions. We hope from each magazine cover that is deconstructed help give us inspiration and selling/attraction points for our magazine cover design.

Film Poster:

This is a film poster of my deconstructed film Shutter island.

Week 5

On October the 7th Lucy (a fellow group member) and I decided to go to Hunstanton, our film location and take initial scene shots of surrounding areas. The reason for this was to decipher the main parts of the trailer that we will be focusing on.



Begins with a woman lying flowers near the shore- Girl meets boy on beach- Visits boy on beach daily- Falls in love- Walk on beach- Romantic scenes- Tells friends about him, she doesn’t want to introduce him.- Bumps into ill looking person – grabs her, says they shouldn’t be together- She ignores her, goes back to boyfriend.- Hold hands- Buy food- Walk towards sea- She turns to look at him – he’s gone- Looks round frantically, can’t see him anywhere- Asks friends, they haven’t even met him.- Friends joke about him running away while he still can.- Girl breaks down & runs up & down beach/promenade – gets stared at- Bumps into same ill looking person as before – announces revelation he’s dead.- She thinks they’re crazy, runs away, crying.- She sits on the beach crying, drinking vodka, and thinking that maybe he did leave her.- She runs into ocean, drunk – screen goes dark.- Next day body washes up on shore.- Boy kneels down touches body, stands up holds hands with same girl, walk off into ocean, and fade into distance



Hunstanton photos:









We decided to take shots of the Hunstanton beach where we would potentially be filming our trailer. As the weather in these pictures were ideal for our filming ... we chose a day where the weather would potentially be the same. Therefore we made sure we tracked the weather forecast. So if it were to rain we would make sure we wern't going on those days.

FIlm trailer Script:

Woman Lays flowers by the shore.
Boy: Hi
Girl: Hi
Shots of walking along beach hand in hand.
Narrator: It was love at first sight.
Fast paced romantic scenes.
Girl (to friends): I just love him so much.
Narrator: But is it too good to be true?
Ghost(to girl): You shouldn’t be together!On beach, girl looks for boyfriend.
Girl: WHERE ARE YOU!?!
Girl runs down promenade.
Runs crying.
Fast paced action music.
Sits on beach drinking vodka & crying.
Runs into ocean.
Screen goes black.

This is the final film trailer script, however we are allowing room for interpretation and improvisation depending on the scene and whether it looks right or not.

Techincalities that we wished to be included in our trailer, included a wider range of camera shots, angles and compositions in comparison to our ameteur preliminary tasks from AS media.
These included...
Another thing we needed to address was mise en scene and non deigetic sounds from our trailer.
Firstly, our budget is extremely low therefore our costume and props would need to be produced from items we had at home or could buy from shops at a low cost. We are aware that when we do film, it is in a public place therefore cannot predict how much background noise will be created by others nearby. We could avoide the unwanted noise by shooting as many takes for ample editing material. Through the editing process we could remove unwanted sounds or record over them.

Week 4

Deconstructions of exsisting films:


We have all chosen to do film deconstructions that correspond with the genre of our film trailer (thriller/romance). This way we will get an insight as to what qualities are needed to fit the mixed genre we are embarking upon.




Shutter Island (By Maria Schiavone)





This is the deconstruction of the 2010 American psychological thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

In the first slide displays a boat slowly emerging out of white mist. This alerts the audience immediately to the underlying message the film is trying to portray. Eveything is not as it seems,this also gives us an idea to the film genre Physcological thriller.The second image introduces the audience to the main character (Leonardo Dicaprio)using low resolution colours for a merky effect. As the shot is a close up shoulder shot,this emphasises that this character is important.The third shot displays the location of the main part of the film. The fourth shot is a continutation of the location of the story and shows a significant symbol of the film.



As displayed most of the shots used in the decostruction are minimalistic and dark, these features have connotations of physcological confusion and therefore inturn creates a curiosity for the audience. These types of shots allure the audience into wanting to know more about the film and whats going to happen.




Alice in Wonderland (By Katie Douglas)




This shows the deconstruction of the 2010 version of the film Alice in Wonderland, directed by Tim Burton.The film is a thriller/ action/comedy.Well acclaimed actors such as Johnny Depp & Helena Bonham Carter star in the movie. This will encourage and draw wider audiences to watch the film. Another factor that will draw in a wider range of audiences would be the storyline of Alice in Wonderland, being a childrens story, it will attract families with young children.

The Titanic (By Grace Collis)

This is the deconstruction of the 1997 classic The Titanic starring Leonardo Dicaprio and Kate Blanchett. It's a romantic tragedy a fine example for the sort of genre we are using for our film trailer. The actual film is a lengthy three hours or so, so the producers of the film trailer have extracted the best footage in order to intrigue the audience in wanting to watch the film.

Film storyboard:

Film Trailer story board:

Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind deconstruction (By Lucy Skerritt)

Week 3

Questionnaire results:

What genre do you prefer a film trailer to be to make you want to watch the film?
Most people answered Psychological Romance tp this question which helps us make the decision as a group to base our film genre around a Psychological Romance, as this was the most popular choice. Some of our audience have probably seen to another film with a Psychological Romance genre in the past and liked the film, which has affected their choice on this question. Other audience members may have just liked the sound of a psychological romance.


Do you prefer to have a voice over in a film?
More than half of the answers to this question were yes. Having a voice over in the film trailer will make the trailer easier for the audience to digest as they won’t have to figure out for themselves what the film is about from just the footage. They should be able to relate more to the characters as they will know more about the storyline they are in.

What kind of storyline would you like to see in a film trailer?
17 people out of 21 answered “Only part of the story” which has helped thye group make the decision to show a rough idea of the storyline, including vital information to the plot, but retaining most of the information to be revealed in the full length movie. This will help us when writing the script and storyboard to make sure we only allow part of the storyline to be shown.

How much dialogue would you like in the trailer?
Most people answered “Only some dialogue” which will help us script the trailer more efficiently. We will add dialogue to the script which will help some of the storyline come out clearer to the viewer as we are aware that our current script ideas are quite complicated and therefore difficult to shown through only footage.

Week 2

Brainstorm of ideas:

Ideas: Media Studies A2 on Prezi

This is our interactive brainstorm of different ideas. These are all the collated ideas of each of our group members, which are supported by some pictures giving us an idea and inspiration on a theme for the trailer.

Audience Feedback Questionnaire:

This questionnaire was constructed in order to give our group a vague idea on what our general audience prefers in films trailers. We will then try to include preferred features and ideas in our film trailer, so that we meet the needs and preferences of our audience.

We diecided to distribute it in two different ways in order to reach our target audience (16-18year olds) efficiently.

Using a surveying site we constructed our questionnaire in a way it could be aswered with ease and electronically, this way people wont mind taking time out to fill in the survey as it will take a short amount of time with little effort, meaning the results will obtain more validity and reliability. These assets will give us a clear view on what our target audience wants.

This could be sent through social networking sites via this link http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/N8DKD29, a quick and easy way to access our target audience. We chose to allow the link to be accessed on Facebook and Twitter directly to our target audience. This would hopefully revenue a large response .

Another way we chose to distribute the questionnaire was through our school e-mail, a logical way of accessing the questionnaire. Through our knowledge that students at our school regularly use the school e-mail we figured that this would be a certain way to gain results.

Week 1

Time plan:

Hopefully this will enable me to pace the tasks I need to meet each week and be useful as a checklist to refer back to over the project. We made sure that each of our time plans important dates such as when we film our trailer (25th October), were the same to ensure we all film together.

Group decisions:

I have decided to work together with Katie Douglas, Grace Collis and Lucy Skerritt.We all agree that we have different strengths to inject into the project and will work together most effectively in order to attain the best possible end products from our brief.

BRIEF

Promotion package for a new film to include:

• A teaser trailer
• A film magazine front cover
• A poster for the film