Location Scouting

For our trailer, as a group we have had to do location scouting. We decided on two main locations. The first one is Wapping, in West London. We have chosen this location as there are cobbled streets in the area. Using cobbled streets will authenticate and add a sense of realism to our trailer. Cobbled streets are part of the era of the 1960's. Therefore they are a good asset to have in the trailer. The second location is Hampton Court and Hampton Court Maze. We have decided to use the maze as the setting for the murders. It creates a sense of mystery to the murders and the murderer.

Props

As filming will commence very soon, I have made a mood board of  useful props. My group have been inspired by the 1960's in reference to detectives. The objects above, will preferably be used in our trailer. The props are typical conventions of 1960's detectives. Using them will make it clear to our audience the era our film is set, as well as the fact that our main character is a detective. 

Mood Board 2

Mood Board 1

Our group have created a mood board for inspiration. It will help us to generate ideas for our own trailer. We have used images that relate to the genre we are planning to do. A variety of the images are stereotypical conventions that a crime/detective film has. 

Film Pitch: 1st idea

Detective L.Garcia is a young man in his early 20's. He was dropped from the force due to his ruthless methods, although his unconventiallity is what gets the job done. The maze murderer is giving the police force a whole lot of trouble. His identity is unknown as he wears a white mask which he leaves at the scene of the crime. His signature is to leave the rope he strangles his victims with, next to the body.


Detective Garcia decidedes to take it upon himself to capture the killer. He brings in his trusty but dopey assistant Taylor James to help. Its a race to find the maze killer before he gets #Victim number 6. Will his assistants mishaps, his love for women or his turbulent personal life lead him to the trouble he trys to avoid .

Senna

'Senna' is an auto biography documentary thriller film about a successful Formula 1 driver who had ups and downs in  his risky driving career. This film would particularly be aimed at older age skewed to men; as the music  is used is classic, the black and white theme used and the unseen footage all bring the sense of realism to the documentary and also helps to appeal to the target audience.

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Transformers is a Scifi Thriller film that's aimed at a teenage upto 30s skewed to boys. The special effect of the machines helps to reach out to thier target audience. The low angle shot that was used on the transformer in the trailer helps lay emphasis on the power of it.

Last year's experience

Last year I learnt that its good to do more work and research independently as well as working in a group because I relied a little bit too much on the members of My group to do the research and the presentations as they promised they would but they failed to deliver at times which slowed us down; so I will work more independently this year even when set a group task. I also didn't work hard enough last year in terms of the coursework-posting on my blog at least twice a week. I was well behind last year as I didnt post often, infact I didnt post once in a period of 3 weeks. I hope I can have time to improve that this year and post at least twice a week in order to get a better coursework grade this year.
I got a new group this year and I think we'll all bring different strengths to the group from our past experiences; Malika is good with music and editing because her group last year left most of the work to her to do herself as they were lazy so she's good with the equipment-that benefits us as a group as we can use her skills,add it to mine and hopefully get a very good production.

Audience Research

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Teaser Trailer Research

The film 'Age of  Heroes' is about the World War 2 starring Sean Bean and Danny Dyer who play the role of two World war II heroes as the battle against the Nazi opposition. The target audience of this film would be 15plus teanagers up to the middle 50s which would be skewed to men there are mostly features in the trailer that appeal to the target audience: Masculine voiceover, fastpaced action sequences-several shots of explosions and shootings and the language all make the film seem skewed to men and successfully appeal to their target audience.

Advanced Production

Hello everyone, welcome to my second blog! I know you all liked my foundation blog; don't lie You did didn't you? its alright you don't have to answer the question, it was retorical anyway!
well this is my advanced production blog which will be an improved version of my foundation blog :). I will be updating every thing that happens before,during and after our teaser trailer production process. In order for you not to miss anything, i suggest you visit my page everyday!:D