Mock up of Film Poster

This is my mock up of our film poster. We decided on the location because of the surroundings and the urban setting fits in with the conventions of this genre. Photoshop allowed us to darken and saturate the colour of the images to create this dreary, depressing scene. We decided on our fonts and used dafont.com to see how this font type would work against the film poster. As a group we are happy with the font although we have decided to experiment more with colour and the tagline both in its positioning and font. This is a basic idea in the layout of our film poster, however we have decided that a different location may work more effectively but overall we agreed that the body language of the characters and the information given works well.

Mock up of Magazine Front Cover

This is my mock up for our magazine front cover, each group member produced their own mock up and then we will use ideas from each to create our final front cover. We have chosen the font type and image already. We decided on this mid shot of our main character and will be using this for our final magazine front cover too, we decided on this one because it shows the gun and suggests the genre, we also thought that the image is slightly intimidating similar to that of Adulthood's film poster with the gang which is what we have tried to recreate here. Also you have the idea of the character being front on to the audience in a direct manner which is typical of a film magazine front cover according to Empire and Total Film, whose front covers I previously analysed. The fonts I used were from dafont.com and I tested the possible fonts from our font test to see which works best. I used Photoshop to design this cover and used this task as a practice for when we come to produce our final front cover. I like the use of the arrow because of the magazine title, however next time I might experiment with its placement. The use of graffiti like writing is used as a connotation of the gangs that our a convention within this genre. Overall I think we could develop this mock up further and the cover lines and featured articles I have chosen are not the ones we will be using on our final magazine this is just to give an idea of where we might choose to place these.

Contact Sheet

Contact sheet of all our test shots



Shooting Schedule For Photography

We decided to do some test shots in the studio of just our main character and then a location shoot with our main character in the foreground and the two muggers in the background. We want to follow the conventions used in the film poster for 'Adulthood', by taking into account the dark lighting, location and positioning of the characters. We will need to book the studio out and work around when our actors are available to do both shoots.

Studio Shoot: 16th December
Location Shoot: 22nd December

Magazine design layout analysis

I found this article in Media magazine, it gives an analysis on page layout and design and some of the points made can be used for when we come to design and create our own layout for both ancillary products of the film poster and magazine front cover. Me and Ellie made notes on the information given and it has helped us understand the best approach when we come to do the construction of our products.

Selected Magazine Font

The title font that we have selected for our magazine front cover is a graffati typography. I thought that with the connotation of gang culture being a major part within this genre that this is the right angle to appeal to our target audience. The magazine needs to have the same audience as our film therefore the typography, imagery, and content has to be similar. 

Magazine Font Test

Our magazine title will be 'Follow Up' and I have conducted a series of font tests to see which ones will fit in with our genre of film and appeal to our target audience. The genre of the magazine has to be similar of that of our film in order for the promotion and advertising of our film to be a success.

http://www.dafont.com/el-font-urban-caliigraphy.font?text=Follow+Up&fpp=50&psize=l

http://www.dafont.com/graffonti.font?text=Follow+Up&fpp=50

Second Production Schedule

Main Deadlines

• Main Product Deadline: Friday 17th December 2010
• Ancillary Products Deadline: Tuesday 4th January 2011
• Audience Feedback: Monday 10th January 2011
• Evaluation: Friday 17th December 2010

Production and Post Production Deadlines

• Font Tests and Selected Fonts: 18th November 2010
• Filming Complete: 5th December 2010
• Final Sound Mix: 10th December 2010
• Final Main Product: Teaser Trailer: Friday 17th December 2010
• Test Shoots Complete: 3rd January 2011
• Contact Sheets: Monday 3rd January 2011
• Ancillary Product: Film Poster: Tuesday 4th January 2011
• Ancillary Product: Film Magazine: Tuesday 4th January 2011
• Feedback from Audience: Monday 10th January 2011
• Evaluation: Friday 17th December 2010

Conventions: Gun Crime

Gun crime is a reoccurring theme throughout and is a key convention to our genre. The screen grabs above are from the teaser trailers of 4, 3, 2, 1 and 1Day, as you can see in 1Day the actor is wearing a tracksuit which follows the connotations of the type of character being portrayed here. The first shot is a mid shot and is fairly powerful because it challenges the codes and conventions because she doesn't fit the profile of a gang member or stereotypically character to be using a gun. In our teaser trailer and possible for the ancillary tasks a gun will be necessary for both our storyline and genre. Social realist drama has to portray the sense of realism which is why the majority of these stories are set around real life statistics.

Selected Title Font

The title font that we have selected for our film is a font that closely resembles films under a the same genre. The distorted font will create an edgy feel to the poster and also a sense of tension and unease which is what we need to create. The idea of a gang, drugs, guns and fights creates unease amongst people anyway so the distorted writing and cracked edges around the letters will hopefully emphasis this.

http://www.dafont.com/base-02.font?nb_ppp=50&text=SKRILLA

Film Title Font Test

These our some of the possible fonts that we could use within our trailer, poster and promotional magazine front cover. We used www.dafont.com to get these fonts and to help us with potiental ideas:

http://www.dafont.com/base-02.font?nb_ppp=50&text=SKRILLA

http://www.dafont.com/28-days-later.font?nb_ppp=50&text=SKRILLA

http://www.dafont.com/breakaway.font?nb_ppp=50&text=SKRILLA

http://www.dafont.com/living-hell.font?nb_ppp=50&text=SKRILLA

http://www.dafont.com/harabara.font?nb_ppp=50&text=SKRILLA

http://www.dafont.com/coolvetica.font?nb_ppp=50&text=SKRILLA

http://www.dafont.com/aaaiight.font?nb_ppp=50&text=SKRILLA

http://www.dafont.com/que-fontita.font?nb_ppp=50&text=SKRILLA

Animatic Storyboard

My group and I decided to create an animatic storyboard on final cut this includes our track, idea of sequence and any narrative we decide to use. We are using this along with our storyboard as our guideline for when we come to film and edit our final trailer. Already we agreed that it works better with fading and smoother transitions to keep the flow of the trailer. Also by adding certain sound effects and dropping the track in certain places it has allowed us to see where we want to make changes and allowed us to know when the title cards work best.

Music Selection

In our teaser trailer we have focused on non-diegetic music. Tim and his friend who does music production created the soundtrack to our trailer using Logic Pro. The track was made by Johnny Spence along with guidance of Tim, we knew what type of music we needed for our genre through our research. Suspense has been created through the music with the pace slowing down at the start and then as Steon gets into trouble it speeds up and the music gets louder. Tim had permission to the rights to the music and I believe the final outcome works with the continuity of the trailer and brings an element of suspense excitment and drama which is what we were set out to achieve.

Police Liason

We had to contact the police station in Leamington to ask if we could use a toy gun during our filming for Friday 19th November, this was so that we don't cause any unecessary trouble and so the police were aware of the situation. They needed the time, location and number of people involved and gave us an incident number for if we had any further questions.
 - Incident number: 215 16/11/10

Call Sheet

Risk Asessment for location three

Risk Asessment for location two

Risk Asessment for location one

Trailer Structure

This is a flow chart of how the trailer should go

Shot of Steon smoking out of his house, to show how this is starting of as any normal day.

→

Title board of Skrilla written in cocaine on a chopping board, and the 'S' being sniffed up, setting the tone.

→

Steon kisses his girlfriend, romance is shown through camera and music.

→

Steon picks up his gun and goes out, showing the setting he lives in, and how his lifestyle means he needs protection.

→

Steon buys coke off a prolific dealer, shows Steon's power.

→

Steon is dealing further showing his lifestyle choice.

→

Steon gets jumped and his money and drugs stolen, showing his dilemma

→

We see him running away with a tracking shot.

→

End Titles

Script

INSERT TITLE CARD - HORIZON FILMS

FADE OUT

FADE IN

EXT. NIGHT TIME, DARK ALLEYWAY

In a dark alleyway just off the main street, STEON (22) meets BOSS (41) where Boss hands Steon some drugs for him to sell and give the money back to him. Weather is dry, and it is dark, but not pitch black. Streetlight for lighting.

BOSS (to Steon)

              "You have two days to sort my money out"

Close up of Steon's and Boss' fists together

FADE OUT

FADE IN

INSERT TITLE CARD - IN A CITY RUN BY CORRUPTION

FADE OUT

Shot of the car as Steon is driving down the road, camera pans and follows the car

Close up of Steon in the car seat still driving, with money visable on the passenger seat.

CUT TO

EXT. DAY TIME, OUTSIDE STEON'S HOUSE

Steon standing in front of his stationary car. Quiet road, not many people around.

FADE OUT

FADE IN

INSERT TITLE CARD - WITH CRIME THE ONLY ANSWER

FADE OUT

STILL BY THE CAR
MUGGER(21) comes up from behind Steon as he is walking into his house

POINT OF VIEW SHOT

Fist comes towards the camera as Mugger punches Steon, camera pans down towards the floor as Steon falls to the ground

Foot comes towards the camera as Mugger kicks Steon in the face when on the floor

BLACK OUT

FADE IN

INT. DAYTIME

After Steon wakes up, close up of Steon holding his phone, with 'Boss is calling' written across the screen

BOSS (angrily)

             "Where's my money? It's been two days!"

FADE OUT

FADE IN

INSERT TITLE CARD - HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO

FADE OUT

INT. DAYTIME, IN STEON'S BEDROOM

Steon walks over to a set of drawers in his room and opens the top draw where a gun is. Stion takes the gun out of the draw.

FADE OUT

FADE IN

EXTERIOR, DAYTIME, OUTSIDE STEON'S HOUSE

Steon walks out of his house with the gun in his pocket

FADE OUT

FADE IN

INSERT TITLE CARD - TO SETTLE THE SCORE

FADE OUT

STILL IMAGE

Mid close up of the muggers face in colour with the background black and white. Title card across with his name

CUT TO

EXT. DAYTIME, IN THE STREETS

Shot of two cars racing against each other, camera pans to follow them

CUT TO

Steon is running and getting chased by the people after him

CUT TO

Steon hiding and heavily breathing

CUT TO

INSERT TITLE CARD - SKRILLA
INSERT TITLE CARD - COMING SOON

the end.

Storyboard

My group and I have put together a draft of our storyboard which we will then be making into an animated storyboard once we have developed it further. This is to give us our outline of our trailer when we come to do our filming.                                                                               

Risk Assessment

Here is our risk assessment sheet for when we come to start shooting our trailer:

	Location filming risk assessment:
Activity	Hazard?	Likelihood	Risk Factor
Audiences	Possibly	Likely	Low
Access to location	No	x	x
Camera /	No	x	x
camera movements
Cables - elecricity, mics,	Yes	Not likely	Low
extra lighting etc..
Night Filming	Yes	Likely	Moderate
Stunts	Yes	Likely	Moderate
Traffic/Car shot	Yes	Likely	High
Props: guns, etc..	Yes	Likely	Moderate

Action to prevent risk

Audience: take precaution of the location of filming.

x

x

x

Night Filming: need to choose a safe location, with some form of lighting.

Stunts: different action required - not many stunts needed for filming anyway.

Traffic/Car shot: especially take precaution when driving car and

shooting around highly populated

areas with lots of traffic.

Props: depending on the prop different action required

(list below).

List of possible hazards:


Props:
   - Gun: ensure its safe to use, only used as a prop and not aimed towards anyones face etc.
   - Car: driven by licensed actor only! Make space and any stunts made have to be made when there are no people are around as not to harm anyone, be wary of location too!

Shooting Schedule

Day One: Thursday 2nd December

  LOCATION: Shirley, George's house
Shot one:
- Kitchen - here we will shoot the opening title to the film with all the drugs laid out and Skrilla written in sugar (used to create the impression of cocaine) setting the scene and genre.
Shot two:
- Bedroom - Steon gives his sick girlfriend a kiss on the head whilst she is asleep in the bed 
                          -
Shot three:
- Bedroom - Steon pulls gun out of drawer,
                          - mid shot, face out of shot, focus of gun in hand
Shot four:
- Outside - Steon smoking out of kitchen window, setting the scene and introducing the main character
                          - long shot,
Shot five:
- Hallway - Steon walking out to the car and getting in
                          - point of view through wing mirror of car....pan out alongside the car for dramatic effect

  LOCATION: Monkspath Park, alleyway leading to housing estate

Shot one:

- Steon waiting to do the drug deal

                          - establishing shot

Shot two:

- Akile walks up to meet Steon

                          - two shot and long shot

Shot three:

- Akile swaps money for drugs

                          - shot, reverse, shot

                          - close up of hands as Steon gives Akile drugs

Shot four:

- Akile walking away and round the corner

                         -

 LOCATION: Empty car park in Monkspath

Shot one:

- In the car -Boss and Steon, drug swap

                         -

Shot two:

- Steon getting out of the car

                         - panning shot as character walks out of shot

Shot three:

- Car park - Steon walking across car park as a car pulls in fast next to him

                         -

Shot four:

- Both muggers jump out of the car, fight scene

                         -

Shot five:

- Car reverses away with drugs and money leaving Steon on the floor

                         -

  LOCATION: Main Road

Shot one:

- Steon running down the road

                         - panning as it follows him run

(for this we will take several shots  with different angles so that we can choose which one works best for the trailer and fits in with the speed and length of the non diegetic music)

Shot List

Here is a list of shots that we will be using in our trailer and will been shown through the storyboard for us to refer back to when filming:

·         Title card

·         Boss giving the drugs to Steon

·         Boss and Steon knocking fists together – freeze frame

·         Title card

·         Steon driving car – outside view

·         Steon driving car – inside view

·         Steon walking into house

·         Title card

·         Mugger coming up behind Steon

·         P.O.V – mugger punching Steon and the kicking in the face.

·         Steon’s phone ringing with ‘Boss’ on the screen

·         Title card

·         Steon looking over his sick girlfriend

·         Steon walking over to draws in bedroom

·         Steon rummaging through draws and pulling gun out

·         Steon walking out the house with gun

·         Title card

·         Car chase

·         Steon running/getting chased

·         Steon hiding, heavily breathing

·         Title card

·         Title card