CHEST CAM

Today we experimented with a shot we are planning to use at the party scene with Will. Below is a preliminary clip to test out it's effectiveness. 

HOT FUZZ

After watching 'Hot Fuzz' I noticed a lot of editing techniques and devices that we can look at for our own trailer.

This is an example of parallel action that has been used but is also in a way graphic match as the frame cuts to a similar thing happening in each shot.

In action scenes there is a lot of camera work that swings from different parts of the action which eliminated using cuts during theses scenes other than when cutting to parallel action.

This use camera work makes showing the action less violent and a lot easier to show.

As we want to include slight violence in our film but do not want to get overly graphic, we can use this technique in our trailer.

Different red foods are used throughout the film instead of blood, not only does this add to the comedic value of the film, but it also minimises the violence, although we are not filming a comedy and would not necessarily use this particular, it is a good way of avoiding over the top and cliche violence, which we also want to make sure of.

Throughout the film there was a lot of sound use to emphasise actions, as sound is going to be very important in our trailer, this is something that we can look into and use to develop our piece. sound is used in so many different ways throughout the film; to show things about characters, give away things in the plot and foreshadow action. one example of this is in this scene where the chief inspectors lip twitches and a sound is used at the same time as this to emphasise the action and back up the dialogue.

the film refers to things that have already happened, in a way the first events foreshadows what comes laters such as 'The Andy's' talking about Arron A Arronson in the phone book and him later being introduced as a character as well as the way skinner kills messenger by pushing part of the church on his head is reflected by the way skinner lands on and gets impaled by the model church. We are planning on using this same device in our trailer by showing the brother drinking from a bottle and then later mirroring this action with his sister.

CASTING

CASTING

We attended a theatre studies showcase to see monologues of different students that we could potentially cast, we decided not to cast any as they looked too young for the age we wanted our characters to be however here are some of the clips.

CAR CRASH SCENE

For the car crash scene we want to be able to create a realistic car crash but obviously not damage the car we are using.

Issues we may encounter with this are;

• smashing windows
• debris
• smoke 
• air bags

We have decide to try and make some sugar glass to smash around the tyres and the car to make it look like the windows have smashed. We have also purchased some smoke bombs to put under the car to look like steam and smoke from the engine. 

To make the crash look realistic we have planned various shots such as doing an emergency stop and letting a phone held by someone in the back seat fly forwards, and close ups of the casualty to avoid showing too much of the car.

COSTUME AND MAKEUP

We have begun to look into the miss en scene and more particularly the costume and make up on our protagonists.

SCRIPTING

SUGAR GLASS

For our car crash scene we wanted to make it as realistic as possible to do this we intend to make our own sugar glass. Sugar glass is frequently used in television programmes and in film instead of real glass which raises health and safety issues. 

SHOT INSPIRATION

For shots of the party we really liked the way that this music video was shown and really showed the way she was being affected by drink. This shot is really effective in the way it tracks the main character and I feel that we would be able to replicate something in homage to this sort of shot

We have used copyright free music over this video [(C) 2014 Universal Music AB] to further show the sort of shot we want to create, this music and the video really show the juxtaposition and binary opposition we hope to create.

LOCATION

PROPS

We have complied a list of props that we need to film these include;

• Empty beer bottles
• Fire pit
• Out door chairs and table
• Spare tyre
• Smoke bombs
• Picture frame
• Tissues
• Crime scene tape
• Flowers
• Strobe light

PARTY SCENE INSPIRATION

This shot from Movern Callar has inspired us to use Juxtaposition during the party scene. The shot used in this scene shows the audience the emotion and intoxication of the protagonist. 

JUXTAPOSITION AND INSPIRATION

For part of our final film trailer we wanted to have a shot of Jack's (Will's) face walking through the party to show how intoxicated he is. We looked for some exemplar clips that demonstrated this look. After watching an example from Movern Callar we decided to fix a clip of classical music to a similar shot from Mean Streets.

3 KEY SHOTS

These are the first three shots that we have story boarded to get the feel and look of our film decided.

DIALOGUE AND SOUND

TRAILER PLANNING

OUR LOGO

We felt it essential to develop a name and logo to distinguish ourself from other companies and have a clear brand. This also allows us to be more professional and to create credits for out film trailer. 

How did we come up with the name 'Chrome Pictures'?

We felt the meaning of the name into account was essential and the fact it needs to correlate with the genre we chose. At the moment we are fond to explore theatrical Social Realism trailer for our final cut.

We began to look at interesting adjectives to use in order to make our production company stand out, however we also wanted our company to be dominant and signify power. This is where we came up with using 'Chrome Pictures'. 

When/where will our logo feature?

We will use our logo on most of our promotional material, including the trailer itself, poster and written coursework.

We used a free logo creator to explore all the possible ways of writing Chrome Pictures and possible symbols we could tie in. We created these two logos to use on different products depending on space.

OUR NARRATIVE

DOGME 95

Dogme 95 was a film movement made by danish directors in 1995, made to 'purify' film making and designed to avoid things such as predictable plots and superficial action.
the rules that the films have to conform to are called the vow's of chastity:

Dogme 95 rules
1. filming has to be done on locations, only props that would be found there can be used
2. music cannot be used unless it occurs in the scene
3. must be hand held camera work
4. filming has to be done in colour no special lighting
5. optical work and filter cannot be used
6. no superficial action
7. no temporal or geographical alienation
8. no genre movies
9. aspect ratio must be 4:3 no widescreen
10. the director cannot be credited.

Some social realist films are loosely relate-able to dogme 95 rules  such as filming being done on location, superficial action and hand held camera work which is something that i may keep in mind when it comes to planning my film trailer.

SOCIAL REALISM

We feel like we will be able to use to codes and conventions of classic social realism films and build them into our own narrative. We are really interested in the way mood and emotion is really portrayed  throughout this genre and also the way is adresses real and current social issues.

GENRE CHOICES

These are two of the Genre's I am most interested in for making a teaser or theatrical trailer.

Coming of Age:


Social Realism:

TODOROV'S THEORY APPLIED TO FIGHT CLUB

THEATRICAL VS TEASER

Rollover the images to see my interpretation of the teaser then the theatrical trailers.

The Omen

The Hulk







Texas Chainsaw Massacre

THE BRIEF