Storyboard

Storyboard for 'The Watching' trailer

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Planning Music for Trailer

I plan to create my music either on a piano or using the Apple software, garageband.

The music will be spooky and supernatural and used as a current piece through my trailer.

Shooting Schedule - Theatrical Trailer

This is my shooting schedule for the 14th of November. It contains infomation for the shots that I will be gathering from the filming of my theatrical trailer.

Props

I intend to use a minimal amount of props.
I plan to only use 2 props in my trailer.
I will use a scarf as a prop. This prop will be used when the killer tries to grab at the girl and she runs off.
I will also use a random plank of wood. I intend to use this as a weapon in the girl’s escape.

Trailer Analysis - Funny Games

Funny Games Analysis by MiniManJamJam



I will think about doing shots in the same way when I film my trailer. The use of text to break up clips is an idea I wish to incorporate.

Fonts - Film Magazine

Cinema Trip - Majestic King's Lynn (27/09/2011)

I used the feedback from the interviews with the women to try and make my first attempt movie poster. The women told me they wanted a bit of mystery within my poster to attract them to my film.

After creating my first poster I went back to the cinema to try and get some more feedback. I took along with me and A3 printed out movie poster.

I showed it to 25 people outside the cinema with many people liking it but feeling that improvements could be made.

Most people felt that it looked terrific for the thriller genre, it was spooky and gloomy which made people sense fear and terror. One person linked it to the gothic subgenre which I was pleased with.

People did however tell me that the girl in the picture didn't look realistic. They weren't sure whether she was a ghost or just watching him. One man said, "The girl looks frightening until you notice the fact that the shadow around her made her look at though she is being pressed against the window, rather than pressing herslf against it." From this comment I know I definately need to change the girl in my poster.

One person, Darren, was on hand to give me some feedback to my poster.

Darren Interview by MiniManJamJam

I am pleased with the feedback as it means that I can go away and change a few things without having to start from scratch. Darren said that he liked the fact it was 'dark' but it was hard to see everything. This means that altering the brightness should be done, but not to an extent that everything because too bright. The poster needs to remain gloomy so it is still supernatural and fits well into the thriller genre.

Planning Target Audience

Looking at the genres close to my movie I think it would be ideal to make my movie rated 16. What I plan to have in it can get quite gruesome but not too gruesome that it should be deemed a certificate 18.

The type of person I expect to want to see my movie, based on the media products I will be creating, would range from a teenager to someone in their late twenties. The reason I expect this to be the age range most likely to watch my movie is because of what the movie is about and that this type of movie is popular with this age range.

I want to create my media products to be spooky and supernatural so that it is something a teenager would be inclined to see.

The picture to the right is what I believe a typical group of my target audience would look like. The person is around 17, dresses quite casually and enjoys socialising with friends. I believe that aiming my movie at the teen market is ideal as it has ideas of ghosts but also shows the audience that doing wrong means you do get a comeuppance.

Planning Fonts

The use of fonts on my poster is very important. I need to pick a font that I can use across the board on all of my media products. The target audience is 16 so the font I use must get their immediate attention.

At the moment I have 2 possible fonts that I might use for my poster.

• I Still Know - This font I intend to use for either my Title or tagline is this. It is an old looking font and fits in with the supernatural theme that I intend to try to create with my poster.


• Steel Tongs - This font help to do the credits that are used at hte bottom of film posters. Using lower case letters it creates things like Directed by and Produced by. This means I encorparate the codes and conventions without having to go out of my way.

Planning Ident

All big companies have an ident, they use their ident to symbolise who they are. An ident is important because it attracts the target audience.

A company like Warner Brothers uses their ident to show that they are into family films. They have WB inside a shield, which connotes unity.

Paramount have a mountain range with stars around the mountain. The stars can be traced back to the United States flag.

Universal studios aim to use their ident to show that their movies are for everyone. The word Universal and a globe which indicates that their movies are for everyone.

At the moment my studios is called "After Burner Studios" so I intend to use a recognisable font, having all my characters as capitals. I might also add a flame behind the text to symbolise an after burner.

My Storyboard

In this storyboard it shows how my story for my trailer occurs. This storyboard shows the story in a chronological order but for my actual trailer it's going to be different. I wanted to get my ideas down for what I wanted to do. The storyboard is thumbnail type and this was important as I wanted my plot down on paper before I forgot it.

The drawings are very rough which is ok for this starter storyboard. When I come to do my actual trailer I will change the order of everything so that it attracts the audience.

After thinking about my plot I decided to do this tumbnail storyboard so I can think more in depth about what I will do for my poster and magazine cover.

Cast, Costumes and Make Up

Cast, Costumes and Make Up

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Plot Outline

The Watching Plot by MiniManJamJam

The Plot within my products by MiniManJamJam

My Genres

Thriller - This genre uses suspense, tension, and excitement as the main elements. The primary subgenre is psychological thrillers. After the assassination of President Kennedy, political thriller and paranoid thriller films became very popular. examples of thrillers are the films of Alfred Hitchcock.

Thrillers heavily stimulate the viewer's moods such as; a high level of anticipation, ultra-heightened expectation, uncertainty, anxiety, suspense, excitement, tension, terror. Literary devices such as red herrings and cliffhangers are used extensively. The cover-up of important information from the viewer and fight and chase scenes are common methods in all of the thriller subgenres. Each subgenre has its own characteristics and methods.

Revenge movies are also a subgenre of thriller movies and these nowadays are very popular. The Kill Bill movies are some of the most popular revenge movies around.

Fantasy - Fantasy films are films with fantastic themes, usually involving magic, supernatural events, make-believe creatures, or exotic fantasy worlds. The genre is considered to be distinct from science fiction film and horror film, although the genres do overlap. Films in this genre range from Elf to Nanny Mcphee.

Different Types of Storyboards

1. The Thumbnail storyboard - This is where you draw your storyboard all on one or two pieces of paper. For each shot in your proposed film, draw a little sketch, about the size of a postage stamp. Even if the drawings are barely legible it is ok as the point is to be able to get your ideas down on paper as quickly as possible.

2. The Floating storyboard - This is where you draw sketches of your scenes without rectangles around them, they are just floating on the page. When you're in the early stages of developing your images, this is a free-form way to work.

3. The Framed storyboard - This storyboard is where you draw your images inside of fixed rectangles. This here forces you to think carefully about how you want to compose things within the shape of the screen that your film will be displayed on.

4. The Photo storyboard - If you have some puppets and sets done, you can make your storyboard images using a digital camera. With the camera, you don't have to worry about aspect ratio as the device imposes a frame around the image.

Location Shots

These are the location shots for where I want the main part of my trailer to be shot. The glass behind the bench I want the dead girl's ghost to appear looking pasty and ghastly. On the bench I want her killer to be sitting, as the ghost of the girl sets her sights on revenge.

I intend on using these for all 3 of my products. I intend to do this to keep continuity within my trailer, poster and magazine cover.

My Moodboard

This is my moodboard. The things on my moodboard include specific places I wish to use in filming, things I want to be in my trailer and things that I think would be a good idea for my trailer.

I created this moodboard on Adobe Photoshop and collected the images from the internet. I decided to create a moddboard for my trailer before the production of my poster because I wanted to get an idea of what I would use in the trailer, so I had ideas of what to put in for my poster. In order to conform with current film posters using the same location in both my trailer and my poster are important. It is a way of keeping continuity throughout my media creations.

The pictures of the hut, cliffs and church are exact locations I intend to use in the filming of my trailer. The gravestones and trees with fog are not settings I will actully use but ideas for settings and weather.

The face and the girl are not characters I intend to use, but moulds of characters. The man crying is one idea I have, a way to show my main male character as feel guilty for what he has done. The girl is a ghost, she is cut from the movie, "The Shining" and on Photoshop I have made her more opaque so she appeared more like a ghost. I might use this technique in my poster to show the girl as being a ghost.

The Lovely Bones - Film Poster Analysis

The reason that I chose this film is the fact that this movie is a very much like mine in the fact that a young girl has been murdered and looking for redemption. The genre of this movie is both drama and revenge, something mine would be. My movie will be more horrific in the sense of how the girl looks for redemption but I felt this was a good movie poster to look at in contrast to the darker way mine will be.

1. The title and font for this is all written in capital letters, to try to get to the attention of the audience. The word 'Lovely' is in bold, this is again to get the attention of the audience. It gives an audience a clue that the girl could be very lovely and also could be quite ironic due to the fact she was murdered, something very awful.

2. The girl in this film poster looks sweet and innocent. From the clothes that she is wearing it looks like a winter's morning, her face looks shocked to see the figure standing across from her and her colours in her clothes are happy colours. The colours show life, where as the the figure all black could symbolise death.

3. The setting for the poster is a corn filed, the colour of purple doesn't seem too natural but it adds an air of mystery to the meeting of these 2 people. The ground looks dead, another tell tale sign that it is likely to be winter time. The colours of the sky also make it seems like sunrise. The lighter yellow is on the half with the girl and the darker purple is with the blacked out man. This good be a contrast of good and evil.

4. The man is wearing a coat and the rest of him appears to be blacked out, this makes his character a shaded one, it hides who they really are from the audience. The total colour of black makes him mysterious and made to look a bad person.

5. The sky is where the 2 contrast colours clash. This is the contrast of good and evil. It makes the poster seem more realistic too.

Hot Fuzz Poster Semiotic Analysis

Hot Fuzz is a popular 2007 British comedy movie starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost as 2 Police officers who make a giant discovery within the small village of Sandford which is controlled by the local Inspector (Jim Broadbent). The movie is the second in the Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy. The vanilla Cornetto representing the Police force and in Sean of the Dead the Strawberry flavour representing the bloodshed and zombies. Written by Simon Pegg along with Edgar Wright it was distributed by Universal Pictures and recieved wide acclaim.

The colour scheme for the poster is; Blue, Black and White. The black and white are juxtopostion with the white denoting innocene and purity and black being mysterious and death. The use of these colours not only fits in with the colours of the Police uniforms worn but it also forshadows the events of the movie. In the film the Police are supposed to be good, clean and upholding the law but the entire way through there is an air of mystery surrounding the Police force and their lack of co-operation. Blue can often denotes calmness, something that the Police force are supposed to help create in a community. However Hot Fuzz is not calm, and it is the Police force that use a lot of violence.

The font used on the text is all written in capital letters, a way to attract the audience and help promote the movie. With both Pegg and Frost being popular actors in the Uk their names help to promote the movie. The text along the top goes against the colour used. With white being used you expect it top be innocent text but it actually mentions the violence of the movie. Hot Fuzz appears to be written in letters used on Police badges and uniforms, this helps to show the audience is a movie about the Police force. The middle of the O also includes the Sandford Police logo.

The clothes worn by the characters is standard Police uniform but the guns held in Simon Pegg's hands are not usual to be seen for the UK Police force. This is a way of showing hte audience that this movie is going to be different, maybe try and show the UK Police as being something more than many percieve. The bullet vest and sunglasses make Pegg's character seem emotionless, cool, calm and ready for action. He is looking to the ground which is a great way of showing power and eliminating emotion from this image. Both characters look very serious and as this isn't normal it can easily intrigue the audience into wanting to see this film.

Milk Poster Semiotic Analysis

Milk is a 2008 American film which portrays the life of gay rights activist Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to the public office in the state of California. This film was produced by Momentum Pictures and Sean Penn's staring role in this biographical movie won him an Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his portrayal of Harvey Milk. Though being nominated for 8 Academy awards it only won 2, the other being for Best Original Screenplay.

This poster uses 3 main colours; Grey, Blue and Brown. These colours all compliment each other for none of them are too contrasting. The colours work well for this poster as they denote Sean Penn's character to be smart, intelligent and serious. The movie is about the rise of Harvey Milk's political career as a gay activist, so the character needs to be shown to be serious and this colour scheme does that well.

The fonts used in this poster are clear to see, all of the text is written in capital letters to attract the audience's attentions. The word Milk has a faded use of blue, with small pieces of white seeping through the letters. As the case of Harery Milk was very important at the actual time this could done to show Milk being a newspaper headline. Another reason could be that it is an old case so the letters are faded because this has been a long time.

The way that Sean Penn is dressed up is very serious and on the left of his waistcoat he has a blue badge that says, 'Harvery Milk'. This badge is like the badge someone campaigning for a political position would wear so it keeps in context with the political career of Milk. The smile of his face is there to show Milk as a happy candidate and to make the audience see that he is a likeable character.