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.