CONSTRUCTION: EDITING

Today, my group and I looked at editing and started piecing together our scenes. I created a flashback scene of The Ghost by using the lights effect in final cut pro ontop of the scene, and also having a fade to white before and after the flashback. For this I took inspiration from the trailer Taken, which had a lot of flashing lights and quick scene cuts during the trailer.
Here is a video clip of the flashing edit I did:

This is the part in the taken trailer with the flashes, that I was inspired by: 

RESEARCH: NARRATIVE

Today I looked at David Bordwell's Understanding Film Narrative: Trailer. Which used Wolf on Wall Street as a case study.
I found this very helpful as it talks about the suspense narrative can cause, which would be useful for my action trailer.
To see the post click HERE.

The article talks about different ways of narrative including:

Dimension 1: Pushy narration

Style as narration

Narration as inference-making

Dimension 2: Plot as pattern

Caught in the act(s)

Dimension 3: The story and its world

EXAMINERS REPORT 2015

I doubled checked the examiners report of 2015, in order to check I am fulfilling everything I need to be in my film trailer.

From this I have been reminded to

• Include the BBFC rating 
• use a variety of shots
• make sure my trailer is not in chronological order
• use pace in the trailer brief 
• clearly show the genre of the trailer.

PLANNING: INTERROGATING CHARACTERS

Today I really looked into the character's in my trailer. I did this by interrogating them. I took the idea from the filmscape website, CLICK HERE.

I then took the character Aaron, and asked some of the questions found on the website.
I looked at the family side of the questionnaire as I thought it would be interesting as we know Aaron and Sydney live alone.

Position in family?:

Im the first born, my younger sister, Sydney is all I got really. My parents died when I was young, Syd was only a baby, maybe one. I was around five. So we lived in orphanages and foster homes until I turned 18, then I became Sydney's legal guardian and now I take care of her. 

Parents: happy? together? 

My parents were together before they died, although they weren't happy. They fought a lot. 

Relationship with siblings?

I got one sister, 17. Were very close, always have been, more so when we were younger, she goes out a lot now. 

Major love interest? 

No no, I don't have time to date, I have to take care of the house and Sydney. 

Hobbys?

I like to write, poems and books. It calms me. And I like reading.

Fears?

Loosing Sydney.

I then looked ay Sydney and had her answer some questions:

Fears? Phobias?

Not scared of anything 

Any secrets? 

That would be telling, besides, everyone has secrets. Some just don't admit to them.

Skills?

Manipulating people to get my way

Hobbies?

Going out to parties

Did your parents death affect you?

Well I don't remember it or them. So it didn't affect me personally. But I guess it affected my upbringing, never got a home, always jumping between foster parents. 

Who do you hang around with? Are they good or bad influences?

Mostly Chris, sometimes an older guy who helps me with some issues. And good or bad depends on who you ask. 

I then recorded the questions and answers as Sydney. 

Sophie then also decided to interrogate Sydney. This is how I answered her questions: 

Kate's questions were about her character, the female immigrant. 

And finally Marcus asked his questions to his character Aaron. 

UPDATE: TRELLO

RESEARCH; TRAILER TAKEN

Today I looked at the trailer Taken.

I wanted to learn from the professionals and look at how many cuts was in the trailer.
I counted, roughly 151 cuts throughout taken, although the fast paced trailer and flashes made it very hard to count.
I also counted 6 intertitles, 2 production companies and 1 MPAA

I was also very impressed with the editing style of taken, such as the negative sections, so I showed my group the trailer so we could take inspiration from it.

CONSTRUCTION: PRACTICE POSTER

Today in class we looked at Abode InDesign and learned how to create text, add images, type in a shape, type on a path. I also figured out how to warp text to make it unique. In design was a complete new experience to me as I had never used it before. Below is some of the skills I learned:

To warp the text I created outlines and then used the white arrow to move the lines around.

I selected the pen tool to draw a line

I then selected the type on path tool

This was the outcome.

To do this on the text, I created outlines and then I went to the file tab, and then place. I then added in the picture.

 

I could then move the picture around until I was happy with the outcome.

 

 

I also had a play around with Photoshop and the different tools there, comparing InDesign to Photoshop. I found Photoshop easier, but that is just as it is more familiar with me as I know the software well.

 

PLANNING: PRACTICE POSTER

Today in class we took some practice poster pictures, ready for out tutorial on InDesign tomorrow. Below are the practice images:

RESEARCH: FILM POSTERS

Today we looked at professional film posters in order to learn from the professionals. I looked at Inception, and created a word document with all the writing needed for my poster. Along with this I also looked at the font used for the credits on the poster. I researched the font, learning it was called 'Bee Two'. The font is a very narrow and all in capital letters.

Using Inception and posters we have in class I created this list for my film poster.

WRAP PRESENTS A BLACKLIGHT PRODUCTIONS A BENNETT FILM “A QUESTION OF IDENITY” MARCUS COULING JORDAN BLAKE DEMI COLLINS KATE BRAFORD SOPHIE JONES OMAR PARREIRA ALEX CHALLEN JOE SKYES GEMMA TIKKOO ALEX LONGWELL AND JAY COLLINS AS THE GHOST

CASTING BY SUZY PARRISS

MUSIC BY MICHEAL OMARI

COSTUME DESGINER JANE BLOOM

FILM EDITOR LEE SANDERS

PRODUCTION DESIGNER JESSICA KAWAII

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY NIA KALE

VISUAL EFFECTS BY LINDA WARREN

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS JAMES O’BRIEN CHARLIE JOHNSON

PRODUCED BY JONATHAN GRANT JAY COLLINS

WRITTEN BY JORDI SKILBECK

DIRECTED BY DEE THOMPSON

AUGUST 2016  (25^th) +

www.aquestionofidentity.movie.com

AVAILABLE IN DIGITAL 3D AND IMAX 3D IN SELECTED THEATRES

SLOGAN = HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO FOR SOMEONE YOU LOVE

Instagram bug: @aquestionofidentity
Facebook bug: facebook.com/aquestionofidentity
Twitter bug: @blacklightmovie

I decided we needed a slogan, which I am still working on, but this was a rough idea for one.

I also gathered transparent logos for Instagram, Facebook and Twitter for my poster, as a lot of recent posters have those on them to spread the word via social media.