This is my mood board which I have created to piece together my ideas for my trailer, it is easy to see that the theme of my trailer and film is a festive fun theme, I wanted to show different locations, characters and props that I wanted to include in my trailer.
This moodboard will inspire me throughout my filming process and give me determination to look and want to create the similar films that I have put on my mood board.
0:13- Long shot of Disney Logo (the castle) 0:16- Long shot of old classic house (first setting of trailer) 0:17- Medium shot of protagonist Alice 0:19- Low angle over the shoulder shot, over Alice's shoulder 0:21- Long shot, straight on angle of Alice and male character 0:22- Medium shot, straight on angle of Alice and male character 0:24- High angle, close up of male character 0:25- Low angle, close up shot of Alice 0:27- POV shot showing people at the party watching Alice 0:29- Cut to POV of people at the party's point watching Alice straight on angle 0:31- Medium shot of Alice being the main focus with characters in the background 0:32-Close up shot of Alice with slight low angle 0:34- Quick panning shot of Alice running past 0:36- Jump-cuts to where she has run to long shot of Alice 0:37- Low angle shot from inside a hole of Alice 0:38- Medium shot from behind Alice looking down into the hole 0:39- Same low angle as (0:37) but more close up to Alice 0:41- POV shot from Alice falling down the hole 0:42- Low angle shot as the camera is positioned underneath Alice watching her fall 0:44- Switches to the POV of Alice still falling 0:48- Close up shot of Alice opening a door 0:50- Extreme longshot of spooky castle with clouds and mountains beside 0:52- High angle shot of new characers tweedle dee and tweedle dum and the rabbit 0:55- Long shot of the Queen of Hearts 0:57- Close up shot of the Cheshire cat 1:00- Long shot of abandoned looking house
From this I have established and gained understanding of what types of shot I will need to include in my trailer to ensure its a successful one, I've learnt that I would need around one/two shots per second using a variation of shots. Also show different characters however the protagonist the most so this is easy for the audience to notice immediately.
As intended and mentioned in my diary post I have now finalised my short film which explores a variation of camera shots and angles. This has been extremely useful and beneficial to me as they have given me more understanding on how the camera works in itself and how to get the best out of every shot with the positioning of the camera. We also got to edit these shot films that gave us a reminder of how to use as over the summer these amazing techniques my have become slightly sparse in our memory. Hope you enjoy,
This movie is a mystery thriller therefore the inter titles are vital for the trailer to build tension and suspense for the audience.
The first inter title we see as an audience is a white background with black writing, wording 'One week ago' at 0:19 seconds of the trailer this gives the trailer to jump back in time and reveal the beginning of the film or dilema. This also adds enigma to the trailer and gives us a hint on the narative, As the film was originally a book the simple 'type-write' looking font adds to the book theme as it looks like a chapter title.
The next inter title we see is another chapter like title reading 'At 4:36 pm' again this revealing more of the narrative and building tension as this time is very specific so something significant must happen at the moment in time.
The third inter title we see is at 0:31 again with the same white background and black writing theme. It now is revealing the dilemma in the movie 'A woman disappeared' this again is building tension as the audience begins to ask questions...such as who is the woman?
0:38 is the point the inter title begins to change as it no longer telling a story with the titles instead adding film related things,so no longer need the white background and black writing like a book. The black background seems like a shadow to add mystery and a chill to fit the genre and entice the audience.
The penultimate title is showing us the producers of the film using the same technique as the previous with the words lurking in the shadows of the black background.
The final title is the title of the film with the words randomly placed in no order adding to idea of confusion and mystery of the film with again the black background with white writing as the words appear individually adding tension even for the titles.
From the research of these intertitles I have been inspired by the order of the inter titles as I intend to put the title of the film as the final title and at the very end with the production companies previous. I also like the idea of adding titles in to reveal part of the narrative.
I have been really trying to improve my filming skills to improve on my film making, to do so I had to embark on creating a short clip showing a variety of camera shots, angles and positioning me and two of my media team headed out using just a tripod and camera to practice our camera filming skills and work on them and see what we needed to improve. In my next post you can see the results of this tasks!
The start of this trailer relating to sound we are met with soft non-diegetic sound of a piano playing as the trailer is slowly progressing, this fades away and a voice over is entered still with slight piano playing 'sully' the main character is describing what had happened in this disastrous event of his plan crash. Even though the music is calming it still prepares for the eventual tense narrative as it builds a mysterious idea. The fuzzy voice over represents the pilot and is recognisable to the audience to understand sully's occupation.
Once the climax of the trailer is reached the non-diegetic sound is an adventurous soundtrack, with dialogue from the film of shouting and 'Brace!' representing danger fitting with the sound the music gets faster as the cuts get faster and any diegetic sound disappears when the finishing titles comes up and the soft tranquil music is back as if a sense of relief.
This is mine and my co-workers first magazine draft, these are the 3 stages we encountered. We intend to have the four characters from our film positioned like above pulling funny faces to show the tone of the film. Christmas props are needed to make sure its clear it is a Christmas film as if it was to be seen on a shelf in a shop it needs to stand out! Also we are currently using a working title. As in a previous post we are still using Entertainment weekly as our distributor.
