In one of my previous post, I said we wanted to incorporate the use of a car in our teaser trailer. Fortunately, we did use a car in our teaser trailer, and it is one of our mise-en-scene used in the film. Ainsley used his car as the car our characters would be driving.
In my opinion, I think we used the car to its full potential. We got our ideas from the movie 'Collateral', a lot of the movie is shot in the cab of Jaime Foxx, we thought we would use that idea for our teaser trailer. Majority of our teaser trailer is centered around our car, we have scenes with Ainsley and I in car just before the robbery, a lot of the panning scenes are done by holding the cam in the car as it is driven around.
There were some difficulties with using a handheld cam while the car is being driven, for example, when the roads where bumpy or had pot holes in them, there was nothing we could do to prevent it, thus making the video shake and making it look amateurish and this would inevitably lose us marks as it says in the spec to avoid camera shaky-ness. There were a few scenes that where shaky but we tried to work our way around that as much as possible.
A scene from the classic Pulp Fiction. We re-created that scene in our teaser trailer.
These are our final magazine cover and film poster. We used photoshop to create these as we were very familiar with it and had used them in As and GCSE Media. We got our influence for our from KidultHood movie poster. As you can see the colour scheme is kinda the same and estates in the background is also very similar.
This is the trailer to final instalment to the very famous Hangover franchise starring Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Justin Bartha and Zach Galifianakis. The Hangover Part 1 was and still is the highest grossing comedy film of all time directed by Todd Phillips (Due Date, Project X).
In the trailer, it begins at a funeral with someone singing almost opera like, we then find out its the character of Zack Galifianakis, 'Alan'. This somehow is amusing to the audience as he is the comedians in the film with stupidity and ignorance. This kinda gives you a mix feeling of emotion as it is funny with Alan singing and the character of Bradley Cooper, 'Phil' saying "My God, he's got the voice of an angel'. There is an element of sadness as it is someones funeral, we catch a glimpse of Jeffrey Tambor's picture so there is a hint that it might be his death, in the movie. The music abruptly changes to the rock and glimpses of Las Vegas's buildings.
There are a variety of shots of the 3 characters doing what they do best; causing mayhem. There's a voice over saying "Someone needs to burn this city to the ground", this sets the audience in the mind of an action-comedy. The following shots are a mix of both gun shooting and someone being killed, and also comedy scenes with "Alan", in this scene there is no music, the very quite sounds in the background, the music resumes with a long shot with silhouette figures running in the distance and the a handheld shot of "Alan" running from a guy in a pig mask.
Throughout the trailer, it shows both action scenes and comedy scenes, however the comedy scenes are very obvious, the music stops and the attention is all on the characters, whereas in the action scene have music and are very quick paced, maybe to suggests the pace of the movie.
In many trailers, especially in horror and comedy films, they show the funniest/scariest scene at the end, and the trailer has been no exception. The last scene sees "Alan" driving with a giraffe in a cage and it suggests that he kills the giraffe and causes a huge accident in the background. If someone who has seen the previous Hangover films, will know that this is typical "Alan" behaviour.
The new
poster for the upcoming Fast and Furious 6 movie is really basic. The movie is
the sixth and final instalment of hugely popular franchise. The movie
stars Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson and Michelle
Rodriguez. The teaser trailer was first shown on the half time SuperBowl spot
along with the new IronMan 3 and the new Star Trek: Into Darkness.
The 2
poster shows both Vin Diesel and Paul Walker, standing next to their car on an
empty and deserted highway looking into the horizon. Right next to them,
there is the caption 'All roads lead to this', this concretes the fact
that this is the final movie. In the poster, the camera seems to be on the
floor with Vin Diesel and Paul Walker in the centre of the poster. Their
clothes are very casual, and also their body language. Paul Walker seems to be
leaning on his car with his hands in his pockets, whereas Vin Diesel seems to
be more serious, almost seems to be walking towards something or even someone.
There have been speculations that Vin Diesel's characters "Dom", his
girlfriend, who seems to have died in the fourth movie, she returns but against
Dom. Maybe she is the person that Vin Diesel is going towards and Paul Walker
is just leaning back and just observing.
The cars the two are leaning on are muscle
cars, Paul Walkers car is Blue and Vin Diesel's car is red. Blue is associated
with trust and peace and loyalty and integrity, this is very much like the
character of Paul Walker, Brian who was an ex-cop (suggesting the peace and
integrity) and has been with 'Dom' since the beginning and is always helping
him out (matching with trust and loyalty). Vin Diesel's car is coloured red,
which may indicate they are ready to take action, or they may be passionate
about what they are going to be doing, or again it may mean that they are
feeling angry. This definitely matches 'Doms' character, he feels passionate
about knowing his girlfriend is still live, he is ready to take action (his
body language shown in the poster) and also feeling angry for what his
girlfriend (who is played by Michelle Rodriguez) 'Letty' is still alive.
The background of the poster is very basic, it
is very bright sunny day with the blue sky with only white puffy clouds there.
As the sky and the ground join, the horizon is practically white and you can't
see it, this is maybe a connected to the movie as the people don't what will
happen with the situation of 'Dom' and 'Letty'. The reason the poster works well is because of the simplicity of it, there are only the main character(s) and their cars on an empty road. I was thinking that we could do something like that for our film poster, for example, we could do something like our two main characters (me and Ainsley) jus on an empty road to symbolise their tight friendship or their vast complex simplicity of their situation.
The group and I have hopefully finished our filming on Thursday. We met up in Tooting to do our final bits of our teaser trailer. It was extremely cold so we may have rushed it. I think we got some really good shots that day, my favourite shot was a POV/low angle shot from inside the boot with me closing the car boot. We also added some dialogue whilst in Ainsley's car just to show the difference in character; my character was confident and willing to do the robbery whereas Ainsley's character was not feeling upto the it and wanted to back away. We also used props, we had a small BB gun, this would be really relevant later on in the film as that would be the same gun that is pulled and used against my character.
We are sill yet to edit it, and once we have edited it all we can see if there where any scenes we missed and then add them later on but for know, we have finished the majority of our filming.
Today, our group filmed in Valley Park. I would say today was very successful as we got a variety of shots today and all were very effective. We filmed a lot of shots with only one character in focus, in one shot it was Ainsley and another shot it was me.
Both our characters did the similar shots but were in opposite directions, for example, if Ainsley was caught walking from left to right down a street in a medium shot, my character was right to left to signify that they are two opposite characters. This also gives a feeling to the audience that they are going to meet up for their final confrontation. The two characters were dressed similarly, Ainsley had a black hoodie on, and I also had a black hoodie with a black Nike jacket on top.
We did run into a trouble with the police and were questioned why we were filming and did waste a bit of our filming time. I asked if it was okay for Salim (our camera man) to film them while they were talking to us as it would of been very effective in our trailer- as it shows that these two 'friends' have been in trouble by the police before. However, they didn't feel comfortable to be recorded as they wouldn't know where it was going.
To end on a positive note, the group as a whole think today was very productive and can't wait till Wednesday, the day we hopefully finish our majority of our filming. On Wednesday we are looking to shoot where the robbery goes wrong and their fallout.
One of the biggest sporting events took place on 3rd February, the SuperBowl, this is the final of the American Football league and during the half time, many celebrities come out to sing in front of the huge crowd. This year was the reunion of Destiny Childs, Alicia Keys and many more. During the half time, there are also a few commercials for new upcoming films, most likely big blockbusters. This years blockbusters are all highly anticipated sequels to hugely famous and very successful franchises. This years trailers were Iron Man 3, Star Trek: Into Darkness and Fast & Furious 6 (the trailers are below)
To get a trailer into the halftime of SuperBowl, it is reported to cost $4million for 30 seconds. I thought this would be a really great idea as millions of people watching the half-time events would watch the trailer and get more people interested to watch the film.
However, it is a big risk as our film is not a big blockbuster, many people would not want to waste their money to go and see our film, but some people still may want to see our film. Most films that have been placed in the halftime have been huge successive films and most are sequels (as is this years).
There aren't only films, there have also been game trailers for hugely successful game companies, the most obvious one being the Call of Duty series.
I still believe that putting our trailer in the halftime SuperBowl spot would be a great success.
