Animatics

To help us with the creation of our trailer, we have created an animatic. This enables us to visualize our trailer in more detail and to give us a physical representation of the finished product. This also means that if there are any flaws in the trailer, such as continuity or camerawork, we can see these and correct them.

Focus Group

As part of our primary research, my group and I organised a focus group for discussion on thriller movies, and particular films in that genre. For example, Inception was popular in the discussion. To record this focus group we used Georgia’s Blackberry. The focus group is located on Georgia’s blog. To view this blog, visit:

http://georgiangusmediastudiesa2.blogspot.com/

Costume Ideas

As teaser trailers are always under a minute long, symbolism is important to convey messages to the audience in this short time. Therefore symbolism should be considered in all aspects of the trailer, this including the costumes of our characters. As we want to suggest that the female character in our trailer is bad (because she has been unfaithful) the colour of her dress is significant to this been addressed to the audience. Therefore my group and I have decided it would be best for the woman in the trailer to be wearing either a black or red dress. The black would reveal the idea of something dark and death. The red would suggest danger, passion and love. These subliminal messages would create an impression on the audience about the film and the character.

Personal Timetable

To maintain positive progress and to meet deadlines, I have devised a personal timetable which will remind me of deadlines and provides me with targets to achieve. Having a schedule means my work will be more organised and efficient.

Poster Ideas

In addition to our main task of the trailer, we also have to produce two supportive ancillary tasks. These being an advertisement poster and a magazine cover. We all have some initial ideas and this is an example of one of Hayley’s ideas for a poster.

After discussion and further analysis of how films are released, we decided to change the release date of our film to December 2011.

Font types

In order achieve the best design of text for our trailer, Hayley formed a tally on a range of fonts. This enables us to choose the best one to suit our genre and our target audience. Evidence proves that the most simple can sometimes be the most effective. Arial Black (with spaces) got the most votes. Meaning this was the most popular H U N T

Location

Here are some images from Google Maps.They are of four possible locations of a filming shoot. We have picked these as they are the most fitting for the type of car park that we want to capture in our trailer. We will visit all four and then from our findings, choose which is most reliable and suitable for our production.