Filming By Daisy

yesterday Tolu and I managed to do some more filming, We filmed 4 of our frineds shooting into the goal in different angles and using different shots. We did a low angle shot of one girl sweeping the ball into the goal. There shots were a bit tricky as it was nearly getting dark and we had to film quickly and the camera ran out of battery towards the end. Now I am just editing.

Company Logo by Tolu

We company logo i created previously, although happy with it when it was intially created, Daisy and I have decided that we dont actually like it. We feel like we can together create something that reflects us more so than our previous company logo.

I decided to look on the internet for exmaples of company logos and i found them to be much more suffisticated than my version of a company logo making our decison to change it much more infomred and the right decision.

Editing and Creating more Titles by Tolu

I went back and watched a few more trailers paying a considerable amount of attention to our trailer and realised that at the end of every trailer there is a title that shows all the people involved in the making of the movie and the company logos. I decided to copy this image into a word document and printed it out. This enabled me to get a idea of what was actually written on the titles. This included the names of all of the main characters the Directors and the film title and aat the very bottom, there is the website for the film.

Using the printed version, i was able to create my own version of this. I incorporated universal pictures as the co-production company, found their logo and made it balck and white and placed it in a similar position to that of the real thing. I decided our film was to be called 'Chances' and incorporated this into the titles and created a website for our film. I then imported this image into the permiere emliments as part of my trailer ready to be placed at the end once it is completed.

I decided to create some more titles to aid the telling of our story in photoshop. We maintained the same font and tried to make it as realistic as possible. I did this on photoshop and then imported this image into our trailer on premiere elements.

All we have left to do is to find the music for our trailer and a little bit of filming to do. The filming shall not take us long but finding the correct kind of music is prooving very difficult too find as in most of the trailers we have seen for sporting romance such as 'Bend it like Beckham, there is one track playing throughout the trailer regarless of what was happening. In our opinion we beleive the music should reflect the situation in the trailer, for example of we were showing a sad event, the music should reflect the atmosphere we were trying to create. Furthermore, finding another track that would work for the entire trailer is prooving very difficult so i think we may try to find music to match the events occuring the trailer so we expect to have at least 2 tracks.

Feed Back by Daisy

Today I managied to show my class my trailer and got some useful feedback. They though that the speed of the trailer and the changing of shots was appropiate for a Trailer and the sports romance genre. They commented on the fact that my titles may not all have the same size font, so I have to change that. They would like to see some other shots of the protagonist around the school campus, reflecting her day to day life. I will take some shots of her with her friends and in lessons. This is because the audience thought that they didnt know enough about the girl to understand the basic idea of the trailer. We are still to decide our music however.

Editing by Daisy

We have now managed to make a few titles and edit a majority of our Trailer
The Idea is to keep all the titles in the same style. We have made the letters have an outer glow and made the front letters of each word bigger to help emphasis the words. We have decided to use a simple black background and white coulred writing which should help to keep it direct and simple.

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Editing and Creating our Titles by Tolu

For the beginning of out trailer i copied the opening from the trailer for Pride and Prejudice, it is an image that states the rating of our film which will be PG and it is present at the start of many of the trailers we have seen. This means we are conforming to the traditional codes and conventions of making a trailer thus making our product much more professional. In order to do this, i had to import the trailer into Premier elements as a new project, delete the sound and edit out the sections I required.

For our company logo, I was going to use that of 'Focus Features' present in the Pride and Prejudice trailer but instead, I decided to create our own in Photo shop. I decided to call our company, 'Ritchie and Lawie Productions'. In order to make our company logo, i got an image of a camera and edited it into the shape I wanted. Then I proceeded to play around with the font and colours until i got an image i like and thought was suitable and believable as a company logo. I then imported this images into the project i had already started with the rest of my titles and exported it. Then i imported it into the project containing my trailer and placed it in the suitable places within my trailer.

Titles By Daisy

Here is one of our first titles.
Keeping on order of the other titles.

Filming by Daisy

Today I managed to do some filming. I filmed Lottie storming into her room being desperately upset. I used a tilt high angle shot and a low angle shot and a couple of mid shots. These shots really helped show her state of mind and emotions. She is currently at the stage in the film where she has to make the hard decision between hockey and Henry which is our disequilibrium. I asked Lottie to breathe deeply and make weeping sounds reflecting her misery which I think will help make this part seem quite realistic and natural. I found Lottie’s corporation incredibly and she’s a really good friend to work with.

Filming by Tolu

Yesterday, I filmed the a real hockey match in an attempt to get some genuine match on action. This was risky as it was a real life match and i may not have obtained the shots i required for my film but as it was prooving too difficult to find time to film an organised match as pur actors never seemed to be avaliable when we had time to film. I decided taking the risk was well worth it and it prooved to be. Some of the footage we obtained was quite good, there are a range of shots from different angles and i do beleive it was a sucess. We only have a few more scenes of filming to do then we are done obtaining footage and the editing can begin.

Filming by Daisy

We have now completed two sections of our Trailer. We are now editing some of the film. There is quite alot of film so we are currently cutting down as much that is not needed as possible. We made sure we filmed enough in the begining so that we could keep the best parts. Here is a taster of a few shots that we have already taken. Focusing mainly on Lotties hockey skills. From a high angle, subjective and perspective shots.

The Filming, First Attempts at Editing and Searching for Tracks by Tolu

We took some footage a few days ago and I have spent today's lesson trying to edit some of it. This is prooving difficult as we have over 2 minutes o footage, but as we have not filmed in chronological order. This makes editing particularlly difficult as there is still so much we need to do and I am unsure of how these shots will fit into the rest of the trailer, we have also incorporated some shots that are not present on our storyboard as when we were filming wwe were constantly coming up with methods of taking more interseting shots and using the camera. Furthermore I have found a track that would be played througout the scenes where Lottie is playing hockey but we havent got the track we need for all more emotional section of our trailer.

Filming By Daisy

We have managed to do some filming, we filmed Lottie on the hockey pitch we did some high shots throught the hockey nets, we did a pan of her running and some behind shots. It worked out really well as the goaly managed to stay behind after hockey practise and film with us. The weather was perfect for filming.

We have managed to find some music suitable for part of the Trailer, We are going to film today as our actors will be available. We will film Lottie in Hockey practise.

Filming By Daisy

We have had a short delay of filming due to one of our actors being injured, however we are planning to start filming on monday. To film on Monday Tolu and I will have to organise all the props the people and the timings. I have learnt from the past that people can waste your time by not turning up to film, therefore we will need to ask them in advance to be there. I will speak to our actors today to make sure that they will be there. On Monday we will film Lottie in hockey practise, will we use her other team members in the team to shot the team cheering. We will need to take a camera and a tripod out from our Monday lesson. Due to that in the time whilst we are waiting to film we will look at different types of voice over and various people to do it for us. We will need a realistic voice. We also will need to look at different types of copy write music for the background. These can be quite demanding jobs.

Filming by Tolu

The filming of our video is to begin on Thursday as this is the most convenient time as there is hockey practice on thus meaning that Lottie and the other players will be in the correct kit. We will also be able to take some shots of some real life match action thus making our video more believable. We are hoping to have all our filming done by Saturday giving us a considerable amount of time to focus on editing and finding the right kind of music.

Storyboard By Daisy and Tolu

This is our Storyboard in order:

We have manged to draw all our vital and key shots for our Trailer. We drew half the amount of shots each discussing ideas throughout our planning.

Storyboarding by Tolu

Today was spent deciding on the more significant shots and applying them to our Story board. After we decided or scenes and doing the story board was the final break down of our story into specific shots. We have decided on a wide range of shots that would tell the story in a non linear manner which would enable us to capture an audience's attention. We plan on paying a great deal of attention, in particular to the shots of her playing the sport in order to create a believable scene and an interesting combination of shots showing off her talent. Not only have we decide the style of shots, we have also decided the kind of sound we are going to have during the shot. Whether it is to be dialogue or aysycronous sounds. We have decided not to use a voice over but this decision may change depending on how our trailer works without it because telling the story may become a lot less complex with a voice over.

Further Analysis of Trailers by Tolu and Daisy

After watching the Trailer for ‘Bend it like Beckham’, I decide to watch it without the any sound. In doing this, I was made aware of the importance to sound to a trailer. It creates the entire atmosphere and without the voice over the number of shots put together to create a montage like effect becomes much more obvious and without the sound the story almost does not make sense this was the case with the She's the man trailer. For the vast majority of the trailer theres were differnt shots as the stroy jumped from shot to shot and althought the genre was abvious as it is a complicated story, the sound was required to fully understand what was going on. But in the case of ‘Bend it like Beckham’, without the sound, the themes present in the film and the general story line is very obvious. This is because there are lots of shots that make up the teaser trailer, it hints at several different potential endings and story lines but never really make a point of telling the story in a chronological order thus making it challenging to understand without any sound aiding the telling of the story. The employment of little captions as shown bellow also aid the audience in understanding the story without the music. This is a technique we may employ when creating our video.



But for ‘Bend it like Beckham’, the shots of the the girls playing football got the whole idea of what the movie is about across to the audience even when there was no sound. We are hoping to achieve this effect. We want our trailer to introduce the spot and the story line to the point where watching it without sound would not hinder the audiences’ understanding of what was going on.

After deciding on our scenes we observed went back to observing the trailer for ‘Bend it like Beckham’ to once again analyse how the trailers are put together and how the shots are adapted to form a teaser trailer. Throughout the trailer we counted more than 100 different shots keeping the audience interested and showing lots of different parts of the film without being giving away the story. The story was told primarily using a voice over which was very effective. We hope to incorporate these things we have learned in developing our scenes into shots in the creation process of our trailer.

Scene Ideas By Daisy

These are our ideas so far:

For our trailer we will need to have a main boy character who will be Henry Kirkness and a girl character, we have decided to use Lottie Cameron as the girl as she will be able to act and play hockey for us. Our Trailer will attract a younger age group; this will hopefully follow the idea of being in a secondery boarding school and reflect our Teen romance genre.

Scene1- Location: Astroturf-Lottie

The First scene in our Trailer will be the most crucial time to grab the audience as it can either attract or push away our target audience. Therefore our first scene will be an upbeat and fast montage of many different angled and exciting shots. The first will be Lottie hitting the ball into the goal this will be repeated a few times from opposite angles. There will be a handheld tracking shot of her running down the pitch with the ball showing the audience her skills. Followed by a shot of the team cheering this will show there team spirit and dedication. Throughout this beginning there will be upbeat music which will be parallel towards the genre and idea. The use of many different angles will entice the audience. The scene will be in full colour and Lottie will be wearing the full sports kit. This will create realism. Some things we will need to consider will be the weather, however we will most likely film when is convenient for the actors to play the sport. Will need to organise timings for convience.

Scene2- Location- Mr Mortan’s office

Here we will expose Lottie’s dedication to the sport and love as she will now be shaking hands with the manager of the team, showing her acceptance into the squad, the music will be parallel slower than before but still drilling. The shots will be varied, we will use high and low angle shots to show there position for importance. Lottie willl always be on the upper hand.

Scene3 – Location-Refectory

In this scene Lottie will meet the guy, this is called the disequilibrium to the trailer. The perfect beginning has been spoiled. This creates an exciting narrative to her Hockey career. Lottie will be talking to her friends, and by mistake turns around bumping into him. There will be no music here just the tense atmosphere of the collision. we will be able to grasp that they have an automatic crush on each other. We will use a close up shot of both and a reverse shot for their slight conversation. They will be dressed in casual clothes at this point showing that they are out of school time now. The silence will create a huge highlight in the Trailer. We will also use a fast pan shot to resemble the business of the refectory.


Here is a handheld close up shot of the school Refectory.

Scene 4- School campus- Next to Gordonstoun House

Lottie will be walking around school campus next to Gordonstoun House with friends to lessons, as he will slow motion run past there will be a change in music. The music will be parrelle towardst the moment that only Lottie and Him will know it. They catch of eye contact and we can see that something will happen. High angle shot.

Scene 6- School campus

Here there will be a Montage of shots of them kissing in fast motion for lots of different areas in the school to upbeat music. Therefore this will increase the excitement to the Trailer reflecting the obvious moment in the film. We wont know what happens next. This will be a climax.

Scene 7- Astroturf

Here there will be Shots of her missing crucial Hockey practise or turning up late. Using a huge varity of shots to create realism. Major change in the music. Different clothes for each shot and montage. This will help show passing of time.

Scene 8 –Titles flash up

I think that the use of titles in a Trailer brings an audeince automacticlly closer, they really grasp an idea of what it is really about but it is never spoiled for them. ‘The choice to choose’ ‘Where will she go?’ ‘what will she do’. We havent decided what to say yet but we have a few ideas.

Props-
We will need a hockey stick and ball. The appropriate clothing mostly school clothes or casual, reflecting there age.

Actors
We will use Lottie Cameron as the main part, Mr Morton, Hopeman Girls, Main boy.

First Ideas by Tolu

Genre- Teenage Sporting Romance

The trailer will begin at an equilibrium then move into disequilibrium and to conclude it would hint at various possible resolutions, conforming to the codes and conventions we have seen to be present in the trailers of a similar genre we have looked at. In doing this we will be leaving the audience in suspense and hopefully grasp their attention and arouse curiosity in the film. This will in fact result in a attracting an audience and alerting them to the coming of the film.

The storyline for our sporting romance trailer includes female hockey player who is the star of her team and she meets the guy of her dreams and her sport gets pushed aside and she begins to fail at a sport she used to excel at. Our trailer will end with us hinting at various resolutions which will include giving up hockey, breaking up with the boy and focuses on her sport or just breaking down and quitting everything. These hints will hopefully enlighten our target audience to the possible endings and once again. If we were actually making the movie the ending I would employ would be a happy one. This would include her staying with the boy as well as regaining her brilliance in her sport so it would be a light-hearted romance where all is resolved in the end.
Our Idea to create a trailer with more than one genre actually entices a wider audience, Just as James Cameron did for Titanic including true story, drama and romance.
This will apply to the terms and conditons of a of a original trailer but will be a wholly original version.

Analysis of Trailer for Wimbledon by Tolu

Wimbledon is a traielr by Working Titiles. It manages it manages to incorporate 4 genres into the trailer. These include drama, sport, romance and comedy. In doing this, they are able to attract a wide range of audience including comedy and romance lovers. in order to create a sucessful trailer which would attract vast audiences, we need to take into considerstion incorporating more than one genre into the trailer. There is voice over for the vast majority of the trailer. This voice basically tells the synopsis of the story enabling the audience to understand and pick up on the genereal gyst of the story. It is important that the audience are made aware of what is going on without giving the entire story away. The romantic and sporting element of the genre are put together usings very fast editing. A montage is put together switching between them playing tennis and shots of them in a loving embrace. This is a technique we might use towards the end of our trailer as it makes the audience curious as to where and how the link between tennis and their love is established durinig the film. The trailer is just over 2 minutes long and for most trailers that means that it can be difficult to sustain my interest as an audience. This has been the case with trailers that only focus on one particular genre thus making it more important for our trailer to portray more than one genre and to do so in an interesting manner with a good range of shots.

The incorporation of captions to show tell the story and show the contrast between the two players without the the use of the voice over is another effective way of getting the story across to an audience. Also these shots introduce and focuses on the two famous actors that are in the movie thus making the trailer more appealing to thier fans.

This kind of close up shot of the ball incorporated in the trailer adds a sense of reality to the sport and pace to the trailer arousing interest from the

audience. The shot of them embracing also adds incorporates the romantic genre in the trailer attracting a wider range of audience.

The sound is initally an upbeat popular music track that cuts out at times to make way for small snipets of dialougue and diagetic sounds of the tennis ball being hit. This music highlights the lighthearted, comic and romantic nature of the film.

By Daisy

Analysing 'she’s the man Film Trailer '

We have analysed ‘She’s the Man’ Film Trailer as it gives us some ideas how to match a story up with an obsession of sport for example football and tye in romance. The genre is romantic, comedy. It starts of with some non diagetic contrapuntal orchestral music which creates an automatic mood. The idea that an elegant women will appear, however our imagination changes as viola flings the doors open, the sound of the door is enhanced showing her masculinity.. We presume that she will be dressing up as her brother and it appears to be very believable this also grabs our attention as its quite funny, thus the narrative is clear here. The characters are represented in a stereotypical way, there is a hot guy and a pretty blonde girl this catches the conventions of reality and is always popular.
There is voice over throughout this Trailer this creates a narrative feeling. The editing is clearly fast montage, this helps with the narrative, and keeps the audience on thier toes! We can see her character through her clothes and her manner through out the clip we know what type of person she is imitating. The actor’s names appear on the screen by flashing up this can automatically persuade an audience to go and watch the film. Names such as Amanda Bynes can automatically interest us. This is a really good trailer as it leaves us wanted to watch the film.

Analyisis of Trailers with Screenshots by Tolu

To help us with producing the best quality trailer, Daisy and I have been watching film trailers within the same genre. This screenshot is from She's the man. This trailer is similar in genre with ours, we are hoping to make use of team shots like this at the begining of our trailer to create a idea of an equlibrium.

Another trailer we looked at was Bend it Like Beckham. At the begining of the trailer there were a series of really fast and snappy shots of the characters playing football and kicking a ball form a low and angle and over the sholer shots and close ups. This intoduces the sporting genre of the film in a very effective manner making it much more exciting and grasps the audience's attention .

Shots of match action is also an important element within the trailers that we looked at. Both trailers which include Bend it like Beckham and She's the Man both incorporate match action into their trailer. We think this makes the trailer much more exciting and continues the introduction to the featured sport. this screenshot is from She's the Man. It is a good example of the kind of shots we could incorporate.

By Daisy

At First we need to analyse a couple of relevant film trailers to give us some ideas for our own. Therefore we analysed 'Bend it Like Beckham'. This has a typical romantic sports genre. The 2 minutes of film catch our interest straightaway. It starts of with the diagetic sound of the football being hit enhanced so that we can see the automatic focus on the idea of football being A essential roll to the film . We can see that the dominance is focusing on women in football so its quite controversial for a film. The shots are fast and change to the beat, we can see that there is cross cutting and montage as it switches between two stories the idea of the Indian family and the English family, and we can guess that they are related through the fast cuts. The music throughout is fast however it changes as we can see that she is going to fall in love, it is parallel to the story. As the music changes as does the film, there are titles that flash in. for me however I feel as though the whole story is revealed to us as we see the Indian girl kissing the coach and escaping her regiments of society, in our film we will leave it for interpretation.

By Daisy

For me a trailer is Trailer consists of a series of selected shots from the film being advertised usually in cinemas or on TV. Since the purpose of the trailer is to attract an audience to the film, these excerpts are usually drawn from the most exciting, funny, or otherwise noteworthy parts of the film these are mostly not com,pleted narrtaive clues and dont spoil the climax. They should therefor leave you on suspense. A trailer has to achieve that in less than two and a half minutes, the maximum length allowed by theaters.