~*Sound Effects*~

Having completed half of our voice over, we must now search for realistic sound effects. Although my user has limited access. many sites for downloading sound effects were blocked, thus I received help from Sarah to help me look for sound effects from her mac book. Here is a list of sound effects we hope to include in our trailer:

• School Bell (To create a school-time atmosphere and to make it sound as if we're in an actual school.
• Leaves Shuffling (To give it that naturalistic feel and to include in the park scene, to make it easier for one to imagine one is walking through the parkduring Autumn.
• Birds singing/Chirping (Also to be included within the park scene along with other noises you'd hear in the park, i.e ice cream van and children laughing/playing.
• Heavy breathing/Panting (to go along with Thriller conventions, to be included when the protagonist is dragging the dead girl's body.

Soundtrack

Thanks to my group members, here is a list of possible soundtrack we can include, from which we have all conjured up:

I have decided to use music to minimal effect in "TheCut", in order to capture the "heavier feel" of the darker stle of the trailer, Sometimes movie music feels fake and unrealistic, silence can be scarier than music. We decided to keep the music to minimal to give it that documentary feel.

The Trailer Plan

A preview of how our trailer is to look, a sort of step outline plan of how our trailer will order itself chonologically. ( Double-click to enlarge)

7th Meeting

On 9th of December, we all were to meet after college together, as a group. In this meeting, all we needed was the scene of Raza uploading his footage onto the Mac, and seeing as Suhail was in charge of filming, he filmed it with the camera I booked out for this date for us to engage our filming process. Therefore, Suhail filmed the scene to his full effort along with Raza acting out his scene, and I was planning for future filming as it will be beneficial for us all to film everything we have left to film before the Christmas holidays as the time there reminding shall be used for editing what we have filmed. I decided, that next Wednesday on the 16th of December, we shall film the remainder of our trailer including the toilet scene where Raza is lying unconscious on the floor where he is was attacked by the mysterious figure in the toilets after being excused from class.

While Raza and Suhail are filming in the toilets, me and Sameria shall focus on creating and editing the rest of our captions on Photo Shop as it is unnecessary for us to accompany the other group members in the boys toilets as it is wasting valuable time which can be spent on another important aspect such as sound and editing.

In conclusion, everyone had a productive day as we had filmed one valuable scene which combined the trailer together. And we have decided to film the remainder of what is left to film next Wednesday before the Christmas holidays.

Logo's/Captions

Here is a selection of logo's and captions we can use to extend the film trailer as well as making it seem like a film trailer through it's codes and conventions. These logo's have been distributed/found and edited by everyone from the group:

This logo was found by Suhail Muhammed through research and r

epresents an Independent British film and is quite rare in it's colourful style!

Filmfour represents a niche audience as

it doesn't distribute as many films as Warner Bros. does, but again it represents an Independent aspect.

^^ This is cut from the actual main poster we created in order to edit the trailer in terms of captions. This was created on PhotoShop along with dafont.com

Another Independent distribution company well known for distributing films like The country for Old men and There will be blood.

The UKFC another, Independent flm distribution company backed by the UK government to establish educational films thus would be a great company to use.

Another piece created from photoshop stating: "Outstanding, first-rate...and compelling" a quote from Phillip French, an editor from the Observer, another serious aspect to set the tone.

Five stars to make the whole trailer realistic enough with a nominated aspect of being rated. Therefore, the fuction of this caption is for the film to be taken seriously as it's considered to be a serious, independent, British best seller.

Voice Over

In terms of voice over, it was my job to complete this assignment given to me. Thus, on the 2nd of December, I asked Michael Trevaillon from the English Department if he were available to voice-over our trailer. I decided to choose Miche because he has a soulful voice plus a Canadian accent which is lovely and unique! =) Luckily, he had time and read out a small script I provided for him which was:

• Based on a True Story
• Nominated for best film
• At the Cannes film festival in 2008
• "Intriguing, fast-paced, neat."
• ^^ Empire Magazine
• The Cut (title)

Although, voice over's aren't a well-known conventions for an independent film trailer, we thought we'd go solo and start a new convention of our own. The least there is to say, the more effective it shall be.

We also asked Sam Rouse to participate from the media department,as the sound was all distorted on screen, we told Sam to repeat his script but this time, adressing the Mic in the studio room. We decided to go for Sam as he was on screen for the filming but he sounds extremely enthusiastic and blissful as he always is! =) Here are the lines for Sam in which he said;

• Welcome to film club, it will change your lives!
• The world on your doorstep...
• The trees, the birds, the nature
• It's great to see some enthusiastic film-makers!

Now, that we have completed the voice-over, the sound is yet to composed. Thanks to Suhail, we have found a song composed by Clint Mansell called "Death is the road to awe"from the operatic and classical era, here's a preview of the tune;

Improvements made...

Although we may have been unlucky to encounter such problems, or we may have even made some mistakes; the most important things to do is to learn from your mistakes! So here are a few improvements and corrections we made to make it more beneficial to us in terms of development and progression;

• Although, the sound wasn't exactly audible, we can still fix that as we can record in the studio room in college for sound purpose's, which we have already done. So what we have recorded are the sound effects (school bell, shuffling noises of leaves and background everyday noises), voice-over (we need one who has a deep and one-0f-a-kind voice to set the serious tone), dialogue (which we will hear Sam speak along with the rest of the characters according to their dialogues) and music ( classical, operatic music to set a spiritual theme to it)
• Having uploaded our work onto FCE, we did suffer from some stress as it would mean to go out to our various locations and film all again, but in order to solve this dilemma, we got our teacher, Sarah to upload our footage onto her mac book and was accomplished successfully as her user login may have had more privilege than ours.
• Finally, although we did spent plenty of time on editing, we have now started pre-planning for future jobs and roles to assign to one another to make the whole process less time-consuming as everyone would have assigned roles to do, such as me having to film some scenes in my neighbourhood to include more diversity, Suhail having to book out the equipment for future filming and arranging what to film where. Raza currently has the role of creating/editing captions and organising various fonts. Sameria and me have the role of sound and how to edit the voice over, along with the music and sound effects on garage band.

Problems encountered; ^^

Although, as a group, we've managed to film most of our storyboard, we have encountered a few problems which has delayed our project further in ters of time. Here were the problems we faced;

• Firstly, the sound wasn't exactly clear when we uploaded our work onto FinalCut Express, we could hardly hear the sounds, words, any of the dialogue from our recorded scenes such as the teacher scene with Sam in a room full of students. Sometimes we'd be able to hear the sounds but sometimes it would seem muffled which didn't really help as we were heavily relying on the dialogue to help progress the trailer.
• Secondly, having uploaded our work onto FCE, our work was worth half an hour's worth of recording, and it soon came out to be a long stretch divided up in to 2 second shots which obviously didn't seem genuine or satisfying enough to qualify for a thriller trailer as it all looked rather "choppy" and disfigured.
• Furthermore, as a group, we spent a great deal of time only on the fixing of the editing aspects which may be due to a faulty tape or the equipment supplied to us.

6th Meeting

As a group, we met again on the Wednesday the 2nd of December. In our meeting, we decided upon the various conventions of a Thriller trailer. We all came up with a list to provide for the trailer. I wrote them in the yellow book for everyone to intake. Here is a list of captions we all came up (Me and Sameria had researched by looking at other film trailers with similar aspects from our trailer, such as being a British film, along with being an Independent film as well as being a Low-Budget film. Here is a list of a few other British, Independent, Low-Budget - based film trailers:

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQTJUfqNJts ( Moon )
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGFbWhlVezo ( Afterschool )
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rXw1myJlpg ( In the loop )
4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6Km9L1Sqd0(Nowhere boy)
5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uxz03dyZj40 ( Mugabe and the White African )

Thus, I researched trailer captions by looking at trailers with similar codes and conventions to our trailer and came up with a list of various captions we can use to sustain the "feel" of a British Independent film:

• Awards/Nominations. EG; Cannes Film festival 2008
• Distribution companies. EG; GreenT
• Quotes from film critics. EG; "Intriguing, fast-paced, neat." by Phillip French - The Observer
• Film title. EG; THE CUT, A FILM BY___________
• Institutional Data. EG; a GREENT CLASSICS production. FILMFOUR presents THE CUT in association with GREENT. "THE CUT". RAZA MUSTAFA. UZMA AKBER. Casting director SAMERIA IDRIS. Director of Photography, HINA MAJEED. Written, Produced and Directed by SUHAIL MUHAMMED. etc etc.
• Logo's. EG; We shall create logo's such as greenT, filmfour along with award logo's such as the Cannes film festival logo

Having construted variuous logo's for our trailer, we also went with creating our voice-over to move the trailer further in terms of speed as the deadline is pretty soon. Suhail asked Sam for him to read out his script again for the trailer as we went through some difficulties in terms of speech and dialogue when we uploaded our work, so SAM read out his script and me and Sameria went to the English department to ask Michael Trevaillon to voice opver our film trailer as he consists of a deep voice with an Canadian accent along with a unique feel. The sound went pretty well as we all played our parts and carried on. The voice over was uploaded onto garageband on my account, so it is my duty now to carry on in terms of sound effects, voice-over and music.

5th Meeting =)

Our 5th meeting, as a group, was on Wednesday the 25th of November 2009 where we all discussed our filming process further. Here, we talked about the remainder of our trailer and where to shoot? Well, what we came up with was that on that same day, Wednesday after college, we shall film the interior remainder of the trailer. Considering that we all did bring 3 or 4 people to participate for our production. Fortunately, Sam was available like we asked him and acted out his role, with accordance to the script and stage directions from our help. Everyone has a specific role and portrayed it successfully! =)

• Suhail - [FILMING], Suhail was in charge of filming and filmed the study scene from various angles/shots which worked pretty well. He also created a "Film Club" poster for the scene which was rather beneficial for this shot.
• Raza - Raza, being the protagonist, acted out his scene as the "main guy" and helped Suhail for filming the shots and sort of directed some aspects of the scene as he tole some to act in a specific way, in terms of figure movement and body language.
• Sameria - Her job was speech and dialogue. In other words she helped remind everyone what to say and how to say it. For instance, she gave Sam the script and reminded him what to say.
• Hina [ME] - Lastly, I helped everyone engage together as a group. For example, if someone was late, I helped get all the equipment ready and bought the cast together, I also helped with the props, such as schoolbooks, paper, pens and cameras to make the scene realistic as possible. Having taken photographs of the group during production, I also distributed them to everyone to help them for future reference.

In conclusion, we had a very productive day as we've finished three quarters ofthe trailer, with Sam's help afcourse and the entire cast and crew. All that is left to film is the Mac/Toilets scene which should be completed by next week along with the parents/neighbours questioning scence which is to be filmed in my area.

BLOGGER UPDATE (Hmk)

In order to present our work as a group, I will now identify what we have planned and organised in order to extened the trailer in a more developed way:

• Recce Notes; (Exploration of Area)

Basically, our trailer is based on a Thriller-based genre which intends to thrill the audience in terms of thriller convention such as costume, location and props. Our inspiration came from AfterSchool which is a 2009 film about a young American student who accidentally captures the death of his two classmates on camera. This has influenced us to create our trailer on the basis of this. We also intend to use a similar style and aura of the film to give it a "thriller" effect.

• PhotoGraphs (Some of the photographs I took of everyone in the group at their best)

• Location (In brief summary)

As a whole, we have decided to film in various interior and exterior locations to give the film a typical "feel" for a trailer. Here is a brief list of our location spots;

1. Canon Hill Park (For the main park scene where the footage is filmed)
2. JCC Mac Room (Where the secret footage is discovered)
3. Library/Classroom (To set the story, the birth for film club!)

• Trailers (Afterschool)

Here is a trailer of our influentional film which has inspired us to create a trailer for...The Cut!

• Schedule: (In brief)

Every Monday/Tuesday = Try to book camera equipment (filming purposes...)

Every Wednesday afternoon = Group meeting (discuss topics in detail)

Every Friday/Weekend = Filming, if not then updating our blogs! :D

• Costume:

The protagonist is wearing casual wear (jeans and top to equate it a realistic effect) whereas the antagonist is hidden with maybe a hoodie and some shoes with distinguished laces. The rest of the classmates are dressed in everyday clothes along with the teacher, as one would normally in similar circumstances.

• Props (What the characters engage with)

The only props we are to use are the computers used for the editiing scene and the laces along with the distinguished shoes. The camera also participates here as the protagonist works with the video camera to film his "Nature Project".

• Step-Outline:

1. Shot 1 - Happy kids/students finish school scene. End of school "After school". Hear the sound of bell to prove this. Wide-shot of the entire school building with students rushing home.
2. Shot 2 - "Film Club" poster in the corner - we see a close-up of this, a clear description. Students staring at this.
3. Shot 3 - Focus on the "Popular guy" in school. He's flirtatious, follows a bunch of girls into the classroom (Film Club Meeting). Girls were previously seen looking at the poster, (interested in club). Popular guy spots the girls, (interested in girls...)
4. Shot 4 - The protagonist (Popular guy) is extremely talkative. He's seen sitting at the back of the class, "chatting up" the girls. Mid-Shot of this scene of the socialising, but we hear the teacher talking in the background - AUDITORY IMAGERY! Hear something else but on screen is displayed another. Teacher talking about "Nature project", popular guy not interested, not paying attention and teacher is out of focus, (blurred). Protagonist is in focus here.
5. Shot 5 - Over-the-shoulder shot, popular guy and girl in conversation, although the focus here is on the teacher, she is currently blurred, the two students = in focus. The boy and girl are obviously flirting/giggling. (Shoulder to shoulder). The teacher is walking around in the background, the board is in focus also.
6. Shot 6 - Everyone is put in groups. A wide-shot of the park (Canon Hill Park), a group of five, including the protagonists, are splitting up. Boy and girl are mocking around, all are off to film for Nature project.
7. Shot 7 - A scene of the two of them flirting again, except this time a theme of playfulness is involved. The boy is filming the girl, touchin her hair, she refuses - playfulness.
8. Shot 8 - The girl here runs off (playing hard-to-get), a medium shot of this, tracking in/out.
9. Shot 9 - The boy accidentally drops the camera on the floor
10. Shot 10 - The camera is tilted, the audience here see through the camera's lens...
11. Shot 11 - The boy chases after the girl without realising he has dropped the camera, it is on the floor – unnoticed at the moment, we hear the boy apologising for his rational behaviour earlier. In this scene, we see a girl (student) being dragged away, and we recognise something from the killer, his fluorescent shoe laces.
12. Shot 12 – The boy has finally realised that he has dropped the camera, he goes back to retrieve the camera, we see a Track-in of the blank camera scene, he switches it off.
13. Shot 13 – Back at the college now (Mac Room) Similar scene to the beginning, the boy is now flirting with a bunch of different girls now, again similar scene of shoulder to shoulder but this time the focus is ON the teacher, we are concentrating on what is actually said – time to upload the work of “Nature Project”.
14. Shot 14 – Registration scene, two are missing from the club, one arrives late. Tilt-up from the register to the empty seat to signify missing and lateness.
15. Shot 15 – The boy enters through the door where the popular boy spots his fluorescent laces and comments on this, compliments them.
16. Shot 16 – Time to upload the work (headphones) We finally see the full scene where the boy spots the laces, and is restless/paranoid and shocked after what’s happened, ask to go to the toilet to “freshen up”, the killer spots his paranoia.
17. Shot17 (Final) – The popular boy is washing his hands and face in the toilets, is looking down and spots those same laces, he is looking down, we get a tilt up where he starts to look up at the face and BAM! IS punched in the face.

• Draft Script: (SCREENPLAY)

EXT.PARK.EVENING

A strange MAN is dragging a woman’s body and is breathing heavily. It is set in a mystical forest woodland surrounding.

STRANGE MAN

Oh! C’mon...

He tries dragging the body across the floor with great difficulty

VICTIM

(Groaning)

Huh? Wha – Where am I?

CUT TO:

2. INT. SCHOOL CORRIDOR. LATE AFTERNOON

The school bell has just rung and in the school corridor a poster, “FILM CLUB” is displayed on a wall with a group of students staring at it.

1^st STUDENT

Ooh! What’s this? Film club, Awesome, it starts today!

2^nd STUDENT

I’m so in, I love using video cameras, plus it’ll look great on my CV!

A group of students hum and nod in agreement

CUT TO:

3. INT.FILM STUDIO. LATE AFTERNOON

A group of giggling girls enter the film studio without realising that they’re being followed by KAMRAN, a happy-go-lucky, student who is flirtatious around women.

DEREK

Come on in! Have a seat, and welcome to film club! It’s good to see lots of enthusiastic filmmakers.

CUT TO:

4. EXT.PARK.AFTERNOON

A group of students, in a nearby forest, are filming various shots of trees, birds and woodland creatures in order to attain their nature project.

VO of DEREK

The task I’ve set you is to capture the beauty of nature that lies all around us...

This is a cue to describe what we actually see on camera. The camera here is focused on ALEX here whilst we here DEREK instructing him in the background. Currently, the focus here is on ALEX so we are concentrating on his actions.

KAMRAN

So, I’m stuck with you then?

ALEX

I guess. Enough of the innocent act, I know why you’re here, so leave me alone!

KAMRAN

Whatever...I’m here to receive my excellent letter of recommendation!

ALEX is walking off in an opposite direction

VO of DEREK

The trees...the leaves....the birds...

KAMRAN

Hey...wait up!

KAMRAN drops his camera and runs after her.

CUT TO:

5. INT.JCC.MAC ROOM.EVENING

DEREK is helping students upload their work. KAMRAN is using headphones and is going through his footage. We see the footage SAM recorded of the leafy trees and the feathered creatures. Suddenly, we see the camera drop to the ground and soon afterwards we see someone’s legs being dragged away by someone wearing fluorescent green laces. SAM enters the Mac Room. SAM is a gentle character with a timid personality.

SAM

(Panting)

Sorry I’m late DEREK.

DEREK

No worries lad, have a seat.

KAMRAN spots SAM’s fluorescent laces.

KAMRAN

(Anxiously)

Can I go to the toilet Sir?

CUT TO:

6. INT. TOILETS.EVENING.

The toilets are dark and all we can hear is a tap dripping. KAMRAN splashes water in his face and his hands are trembling with fear. He turns around looking at the floor and green laces.

KAMRAN

You

SAM punches KAMRAN in the face. KAMRAN lays unconscious on the floor.

CUT TO:

7. EXT.PARK.AFTERNOON.

ALEX has run away from KAMRAN, managing to lose him. She spots SAM with a bunch of other guys, wearing grey hoodies. They are all sharing something among them.

ALEX

(Whispering)

What?

ALEX then hides into a shrub hoping to hide without being noticed. The group all split up and run off together, apart from SAM who is creeping behind the bush.

SAM

Hey, what you doing in here eh?

ALEX is silent with fear

SAM

What’s wrong with you?

ALEX is still quiet, but this time she is whimpering

SAM

(Seriously)

What did you see?

WHAT DID YOU SEE!?

ALEX tries to do a runner but SAM manages to grab her by the wrist.

SAM

If you tell anyone, and I mean anyone, you’ll regret it

D’ya hear me!?

ALEX

(Gasps)

4th Meeting...

Our next meeting is on Wednesday the 18th of November 2009, here we will discuss the further locations we can film for the rest of our trailer. Having completed the exterior locations for our trailer, we now need to complete the interior locations such as the college library, the Mac room and even at home. We will also help each other extend the script in terms of emotions, suggestions and stage directions to make it easier to read out aloud.

We shall also discuss who will be our cast for the interior locations to film, and have decided to choose Sam to act out the role for a film club teacher who is in charge and to play a rather passive role. Hopefully, we shall discuss the storyboard further and explain what has been changed and how we can work around this.

Improvisations/Extended Shots

Here are a list of shots provided by my group memebers along with my tutor which has helped enable to us explore further within the plot and the trailer itself:

• Extra shots of the park. Nature Project; Trees, birds, insects, plants, etc. (A quick succession of these shots - MONTGAE)
• The students talking about the "accused£ being the killer - all blaming him...
• The main character (protagonist) fights with another (creating more mystery and ambiguity) - "You did it?"
• Captions/Awards - These will be done in a more later stage for editing purposes, such as; nominations, five-star rate, "The Cut" teaser poster and the release date.
• Looking at the girl's (victim) photograph in a newspaper article (to extend the plot further)
• The protagonist is running away from someone (we don't see), maybe in the forest?
• He confesses to a friend, "Maybe, I did it?"
• His own investigation, frustration and anger released, "I'm going to prove it!"

These are a few shots we all came up with as a group to helped extened our trailer further in terms of extended shots, this will hopefully increase the length of time we have remaining and fulfill the 3 minutes we have to film...

3rd Meeting

Our next meeting commences on 11th November at 4pm till 5, in our meeting we shall be meeting up with our cast list and pre-planning for filming purposes. As a group, we intend to book the camera equipment on Friday at 3:20, cinluding 2 cameras and a tripod. We will also be planning on what to take with us (props) and who's coming where. I am in charge of the equipment, therefore it is my duty to make sure I bring the camera, it is safe and make sure to return it back to Sarah on Tuesday.
We will also extend our trailer shots through ou rstep-outline as we have not enough shots to cover our three minutes within the trailer. Currently we have about 20 shots, including the entire plot but hopefully we intend to expand this limit to 50 shots as done so in various other trailers such as Funny Games U.S and Afterschool which has about 50-200 shots for just 2 minutes, therefore we hope to cover this in our meeting. We will have our cast list which would cover the protagonist's role, antagonists and the "background" cast. There shall be about 6-12 people in total.

Poster/Editing

For editing purposes, I created a teaser poster and a film poster for our film trailer, it was also used for coursework and editing purposes through PhotoShop.

Teaser Poster: Main Poster:

Props

In our group, we have a wide assortment of props available in which we'll use in order to complete our project.

• Shoe laces Plastic Bag Video Camera
• 

Location

In terms of narrative, we have a variety of various locations, to help expand some broader footage in different areas, such as Small Heath, Kings Heath and the City Centre. In order to capture the footage in the "forest" we'll need some locations where there are trees, barks, leaves, grass etc.

• Canon Hill Park
• 
• Small Heath Park;
• 
• Library;
• 

Possible Ending (Individual Role..)

After oour group meeting on the 21's of October, 2009 at 4pm till 5pm, we finally decided on our first 10 shots together, as a group. We finally concluded that each of us should consume of a possible ending for the film trailer (Create 6 Extra shots) and draw our storyboards individually as we have extra and broader ideas then.

POSIBBLE ENDING: [Hina’s Version]
· Shot 11 - The boy chases after the girl without realising he has dropped the camera, it is on the floor – unnoticed at the moment, we hear the boy apologising for his rational behaviour earlier. In this scene, we see a girl (student) being dragged away, and we recognise something from the killer, his fluorescent shoe laces.
· Shot 12 – The boy has finally realised that he has dropped the camera, he goes back to retrieve the camera, we see a Track-in of the blank camera scene, he switches it off.
· Shot 13 – Back at the college now (Mac Room) Similar scene to the beginning, the boy is now flirting with a bunch of different girls now, again similar scene of shoulder to shoulder but this time the focus is ON the teacher, we are concentrating on what is actually said – time to upload the work of “Nature Project”.
· Shot 14 – Registration scene, two are missing from the club, one arrives late. Tilt-up from the register to the empty seat to signify missing and lateness.
· Shot 15 – The boy enters through the door where the popular boy spots his fluorescent laces and comments on this, compliments them.
· Shot 16 – Time to upload the work (headphones) We finally see the full scene where the boy spots the laces, and is restless/paranoid and shocked after what’s happened, ask to go to the toilet to “freshen up”, the killer spots his paranoia.
· Shot17 (Final) – The popular boy is washing his hands and face in the toilets, is looking down and spots those same laces, he is looking down, we get a tilt up where he starts to look up at the face and BAM! IS punched in the face.
Here we see a sort of cliff-hanger ending which is one of the key conventions of a Thriller movie.

Storyboard progress so far... (Brief Summary)

Shot 1 - Happy kids/students finish school scene. End of school "After school". Hear the sound of bell to prove this. Wide-shot of the entire school building with students rushing home.

Shot 2 - "Film Club" poster in the corner - we see a close-up of this, a clear description. Students staring at this.

Shot 3 - Focus on the "Popular guy" in school. He's flirtatious, follows a bunch of girls into the classroom (Film Club Meeting). Girls were previously seen looking at the poster, (interested in club).

Popular guy spots the girls, (interested in girls...)

Shot 4 - The protagonist (Popular guy) is extremely talkative. He's seen sitting at the back of the class, "chatting up" the girls. Mid-Shot of this scene of the socialising, but we hear the teacher

talking in the background - AUDITORY IMAGERY! Hear something else but on screen is displayed another. Teacher talking about "Nature project", popular guy not interested, not paying attention

and teacher is out of focus, (blurred). Protagonist is in focus here.

Shot 5 - Over-the-shoulder shot, popular guy and girl in conversation, although the focus here is on the teacher, she is currently blurred, the two students = in focus. The boy and girl are obviously

flirting/giggling. (Shoulder to shoulder). The teacher is walking around in the background, the board is in focus also.

Shot 6 - Everyone is put in groups. A wide-shot of the park (Canon Hill Park), a group of five, including the protagonists, are splitting up. Boy and girl are mocking around, all are off to film for

Nature project.

Shot 7 - A scene of the two of them flirting again, except this time a theme of playfulness is involved. The boy is filming the girl, touchin her hair, she refuses - playfulness.

Shot 8 - The girl here runs off (playing hard-to-get), a medium shot of this, tracking in/out.

Shot 9 - The boy accidentally drops the camera on the floor

Shot 10 - The camera is tilted, the audience here see through the camera's lens...

2nd Week Progress (Meeting)

This week, as a group we decided to meet up together at 4pm-5pm to decide on our storyboard ideas and to elaborate our storyline itself. We each pitched our own ideas to one another as well as drawing our storyboard at the same time - this helped me to see the different approaches and perspectives of my group members. Therefore, the four of us, all stayed after college today to help each other with our understanding of the film trailer, the music, the characters and the storyboard.

OUR Movie Trailer, :]

In our movie trailer, what you are going to see is a fast-paced montage, basically you hear the music, but you see something else, the pace will go quicker and quicker to increase tension for the audience and toward the ending, all you can hear is silence.

In the beginning, there shall be an introduction as to what is happening, what is the storyline, the plot. In terms of dynamics (loudness), the trailer may start with a quiet base and eventually leading toward a louder end to create tension and anxiety + to help represent a specific theme, i.e happiness, sadness or being scared.

We shall use score, basically music being composed specifically for the text, for example background music, such as a piano or anything instrumental.
In terms of Dialogue, there shall be conversations amongst the group members helping us narrate the film.

Sounds will be mainly digetic (realistic sounds) such as a heartbeat, someone breathing or walking – to create anxiety.
There will also be aspects of auditory imagery, as one would speak of something and it will be displayed on screen, about what they’re talking about...

Sound Effects!?

The focus point of many modern-day trailers would be the scenes including the sound effects and the music. The trailer for the "Dark Knight" would be the most outstanding as it's won 3 awards, one for being the best film trailer of the year"!

Inspiration...?

*~After School*~
Robert is a young American who accidentally captures on camera the tragic death of two classmates. Their lives become memorialized but the video memorial assignment results in an atmosphere of paranoia and unease among students and teachers.

Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGFbWhlVezo

Music ^__^

Music is a key factor as it helps the mood and the tone of the trailer itself! Usually the music used in the trailer isn't from the film itself, the film score(background music) may not have been produced yet even. The music used in the trailer may be, Music from the score of other movies,
Tarantino does this a lot, as he used a wide assortment's of songs taken from various artists such as "Miserlou" and "surf rider". Music can also be popular music, chosen specifically for its tone.

Voice Over Edits

A typical feature of a film trailer is a voice - over, every film has one, why? Well the function of a voice-over is to help improve the audience's understanding of the plot, what's going on. The most famous American- Voice over artist would have to be the late, Don Lofantaine, also known as "Thunder Throat" - Films such as The Terminator and The Simpsons Movie.

Sound (My Role ;) [Summary]

1) Voice-Over : A typical feature of a film trailer is a voice - over, every film has one, why? Well the function of a voice-over is to help improve the audience's understanding of the plot, what's going on. The most famous American- Voice over artist would have to be the late, Don Lofantaine, also known as "Thunder Throat" - Films such as The Terminator and The Simpsons Movie.

2) Music is a key factor as it helps the mood and the tone of the trailer itself! Usually the music used in the trailer isn't from the film itself, the film score(background music) may not have been produced yet even. The music used in the trailer may be, Music from the score of other movies, Tarantino does this a lot, as he used a wide assortment's of songs taken from various artists, such as "Miserlou" and "surf rider". Music can also be popular music, chosen specifically for its tone.

3) The focus point of many modern-day trailers would be the scenes including the sound effects and the music. The trailer for the "Dark Knight" would be the most outstanding as it's won 3 awards, one for being the best film trailer of the year"

4) In our movie trailer, what you are going to see is a fast-paced montage, basically you hear the music, but you see something else, the pace will go quicker and quicker to increase tension for the audience and toward the ending, all you can hear is silence. In the beginning, there shall be an introduction as to what is happening, what is the stroyline, the plot.

1st Week Progress (Meeting)

This week, we have starting pitching ideas to one another amongst our media groups. In terms of narrative's, storyline and genre. Having done so, we have obtained a mixture of various ideas and has helped us structure our film trailer as a whole. In our first meeting, we have created mind maps and a "To do list#" which has helped us to enable our route in a more chronological way! :D