Thursday, 28 February 2013
Tuesday, 26 February 2013
Pictures of Trailer
This is my trailer in pictures, and i have described what is going on in pictures. I would say this is like my storyboard for my piece but in animatics.
http://www.slideshare.net/ellenwilson01/my-trailer-in-picture-storyboard
http://www.slideshare.net/ellenwilson01/my-trailer-in-picture-storyboard
Music
I have finished filming for my media trailer but now i am trying to find some music to play through the back of the trailer as i feel this is what completes it. however it seems that trying to find some music for this is a lot harder than it seems.
I found some music which i felt fit the piece just right in the end, it is very upbeat music to fit the piece and i think that it has a good beat that fits as well, the music i picked was the audio versions of these songs:
I found some music which i felt fit the piece just right in the end, it is very upbeat music to fit the piece and i think that it has a good beat that fits as well, the music i picked was the audio versions of these songs:
- Jessie J - Who's laughing now
- Birdman - Written on her
- Rihanna - Disturbia
- Katy Perry - Starstrukk
Monday, 18 February 2013
Audience feedback
I have two different endings to my trailer, however i am not sure which one to use.
Therefore i decided to show a group of people around my target audience each clip and ask them which they think goes best in my trailer. They picked the ending that i thought fit the piece as well as the boy says 'Alright Millie, how's it going?' and the first ending response was for Millie to say 'Is he talking to me?' as then it shows that they have switched bodies and she has no idea who he is. The second ending was for Chloe to respond who is in Millie's body and say 'I'm alright thanks, you?' and then Millie would respond 'he's talking to me you idiot!' Both of these endings show that they have switched bodies in an effective way which i think is best to put at the end of the trailer so everyone understands that that is what has happened. So i decided to put it down to my target audience, as i really wasn't sure on what to pick myself i asked the question:
66% - First Ending.
34% - Second Ending.
However i did not ask the reason why they believed this was a better ending, so i just took my audience word for it as they are the reason this is being put together. So i chose the first ending to make my audience happy, as if they think it is better that is how it shall be, i would not of changed it if i thought the first ending was really bad and the second really good, but i couldn't make the decision so i left it to my audience.
Therefore i decided to show a group of people around my target audience each clip and ask them which they think goes best in my trailer. They picked the ending that i thought fit the piece as well as the boy says 'Alright Millie, how's it going?' and the first ending response was for Millie to say 'Is he talking to me?' as then it shows that they have switched bodies and she has no idea who he is. The second ending was for Chloe to respond who is in Millie's body and say 'I'm alright thanks, you?' and then Millie would respond 'he's talking to me you idiot!' Both of these endings show that they have switched bodies in an effective way which i think is best to put at the end of the trailer so everyone understands that that is what has happened. So i decided to put it down to my target audience, as i really wasn't sure on what to pick myself i asked the question:
- Which ending do you feel fits the end of the trailer the best, to get the final message across?
66% - First Ending.
34% - Second Ending.
However i did not ask the reason why they believed this was a better ending, so i just took my audience word for it as they are the reason this is being put together. So i chose the first ending to make my audience happy, as if they think it is better that is how it shall be, i would not of changed it if i thought the first ending was really bad and the second really good, but i couldn't make the decision so i left it to my audience.
Wednesday, 13 February 2013
Poster
This was my first picture i was going to use for my poster for the trailer, i thought it was good to have both girls standing back to back one looking miserable and the other seeming more like a bully. However when looking into it more i didn't think it showed this that much as the 'bully' girl isn't smiling and acting so happy. Therefore i took another photo which i think suits the poster in a better way:
Monday, 11 February 2013
Story Board
I made my story board on slide share, this is the first part of it:
http://www.slideshare.net/ellenwilson01/story-board-part-1-16474643
http://www.slideshare.net/ellenwilson01/story-board-part-1-16474643
Ancillary Task
For one of my ancillary tasks then it is to produce a poster for my film trailer, i have been looking at other posters for inspiration and this one i think is the most inspiration i have got:
I really like the inspiration of this poster, it shows they are totally different people from having different halves of the pictures colors, it also shows they are obviously shocked and in the wrong bodies. In my poster i wish to show how different the two girls are so you can see that they are so different.
The other poster i like which has inspired me is this one:
With the type of film i am going to do for my trailer it is about opposites switching bodies, both of these posters show the difference, with one side showing what one is like, in this poster it shows the man is unlucky under the umbrella in the rain and the girl is clearly lucky with sun shining, however they have pictures it so it shows they are in the same street, just to show how different they are.
Audience feedback
I decided to show both of these posters to my target audience, whom i created a facebook group for so i could post on it and get the opinions of them at any time. As i posted both of these posters, i asked them which one they felt was most effective and which they felt would suit my trailer. I decided to pick out two responses from the page, one from a girl and one from a boy, as my film is targeted to both genres.
The responses i got were:
Lucy Williams - I feel that having the poster have both characters standing next to each other is a good idea, with different backgrounds would make it show more how different the two characters are. I think you need to show clearly who is the bully and who isn't by the poster, so people grasp the plot of the film easily through your poster, it could reflect by people wanting to see the film more if they can see what it is going to be like.
Tom Brock - Using the two characters being back to back to each other could create more meaning to the poster, as it shows that they are different and that the film is going to reflect on two different peoples lives. I also feel that it needs to clearly show who is what character, you need to show this to create a good poster that shows people what they are going to be watching.
Therefore my idea for my poster is to have the two girls back to back, one with curly hair and one with straight, getting as many opposites in the photo to make the point as i can.
The other poster i like which has inspired me is this one:
Audience feedback
I decided to show both of these posters to my target audience, whom i created a facebook group for so i could post on it and get the opinions of them at any time. As i posted both of these posters, i asked them which one they felt was most effective and which they felt would suit my trailer. I decided to pick out two responses from the page, one from a girl and one from a boy, as my film is targeted to both genres.
The responses i got were:
Lucy Williams - I feel that having the poster have both characters standing next to each other is a good idea, with different backgrounds would make it show more how different the two characters are. I think you need to show clearly who is the bully and who isn't by the poster, so people grasp the plot of the film easily through your poster, it could reflect by people wanting to see the film more if they can see what it is going to be like.
Tom Brock - Using the two characters being back to back to each other could create more meaning to the poster, as it shows that they are different and that the film is going to reflect on two different peoples lives. I also feel that it needs to clearly show who is what character, you need to show this to create a good poster that shows people what they are going to be watching.
Therefore my idea for my poster is to have the two girls back to back, one with curly hair and one with straight, getting as many opposites in the photo to make the point as i can.
Friday, 8 February 2013
Narrative Theory
Narrative Theorists can be applied to my work, for the trailer.
The main narrative theorist would be Claude Levi-Strauss as he talks about how plots have binary opposites, for example:
-good v bad
- happy v sad
In my plot for my trailer then it has many binary opposites in it so Levi-Strauss theory can apply. In my trailer i have the binary opposites of good v bad, with one of the characters being good one being bad. Another binary opposite was happy v sad as the bully character is happy and the character being bullied is sad. Another binary opposite that could be used is strong v weak as the bully is obviously strong whereas the bullied character is weak in the sense of not sticking up for herself.
Vladimir Propp's theory was that there were 6 main stages of a story and it includes 8 main characters, my trailer however does not use all 8 characters but it does use the typical main characters of a horrible person and a nice person so it does have the typical characters that Propp argues most plots have.
Roland Barthes is another narrative theorist who argues such theories of 'Proairetic' which is where a way of tension being built up so that the audience is left thinking what is next. This could be seen as happening in my trailer when it comes to an end the audience will lead to think what happens in the trailer and what happens next. My trailer also uses Hermencutic in Barthes theory which is a way of the story avoiding telling the whole truth in order to drop clues to help create mystery, this will happen throughout the trailer as it doesn't give the whole plot creating mystery of what is going to happen throughout the whole film.
The main narrative theorist would be Claude Levi-Strauss as he talks about how plots have binary opposites, for example:
-good v bad
- happy v sad
In my plot for my trailer then it has many binary opposites in it so Levi-Strauss theory can apply. In my trailer i have the binary opposites of good v bad, with one of the characters being good one being bad. Another binary opposite was happy v sad as the bully character is happy and the character being bullied is sad. Another binary opposite that could be used is strong v weak as the bully is obviously strong whereas the bullied character is weak in the sense of not sticking up for herself.
Vladimir Propp's theory was that there were 6 main stages of a story and it includes 8 main characters, my trailer however does not use all 8 characters but it does use the typical main characters of a horrible person and a nice person so it does have the typical characters that Propp argues most plots have.
Roland Barthes is another narrative theorist who argues such theories of 'Proairetic' which is where a way of tension being built up so that the audience is left thinking what is next. This could be seen as happening in my trailer when it comes to an end the audience will lead to think what happens in the trailer and what happens next. My trailer also uses Hermencutic in Barthes theory which is a way of the story avoiding telling the whole truth in order to drop clues to help create mystery, this will happen throughout the trailer as it doesn't give the whole plot creating mystery of what is going to happen throughout the whole film.
Representation
So far i have filmed most of my trailer, i have filmed it to keep representation clear of who is who and what type of character they are.
I have used the bullied girls representation as giving her very curly messy hair, to show she isn't bothered about how she looks just going on in life.
Whereas my other main character who is the bully has straight hair always wearing nice clothes and looking perfect to show she is very self-obsessed with herself. This gives a clear representation of which character is which and whom they are.
When filming the individuals as they wake up in their bedrooms then it shows representation of who the character is as i have the character who has clearly got all the bad luck falling out of bed, representing the bad luck of her. Also the representation of the other character who has the good luck is shown by the next bit of the trailer showing her waking up in a very subtle way not struggling to get up. This shows the representation of who is who.
In another scene then i have the bully character bullying the other one showing who is who, representing the bully and the other character getting bullied. In this scene then it shows the bullied character being very shy and scared as she comes into the scene, representing her bullied character. Whereas the bullied character is very loud and out there representing the character being a bully.
I have used the bullied girls representation as giving her very curly messy hair, to show she isn't bothered about how she looks just going on in life.
Whereas my other main character who is the bully has straight hair always wearing nice clothes and looking perfect to show she is very self-obsessed with herself. This gives a clear representation of which character is which and whom they are.
When filming the individuals as they wake up in their bedrooms then it shows representation of who the character is as i have the character who has clearly got all the bad luck falling out of bed, representing the bad luck of her. Also the representation of the other character who has the good luck is shown by the next bit of the trailer showing her waking up in a very subtle way not struggling to get up. This shows the representation of who is who.
In another scene then i have the bully character bullying the other one showing who is who, representing the bully and the other character getting bullied. In this scene then it shows the bullied character being very shy and scared as she comes into the scene, representing her bullied character. Whereas the bullied character is very loud and out there representing the character being a bully.
Postmodernism
Postmodernism suggests there is no future, as everything that has been thought of has already been done, nothing is new. For example no films have a whole new idea because all film ideas have been used and done, films now are just new versions of other films.
My film trailer will be very postmodern as it isn't a whole new idea because i have researched into switching bodies films and there are lots of them. There are five main definitions into making something postmodern these are:
-Generic Hybridisation
-Intertextuality
-Self Reflexivity
-Hyperreality
-Juxtaposition
Generic Hybridisation is where two genres are mixed together, for example a comedy and horror. My trailer genre is a comedy so it doesn't use generic hybridisation but i am sure as the trailer goes on there would be romance in it so it could end up being a rom-com.
Intertextuality is where films steal bits from other films, it can also count as using a musicians music and what is going on in the news. My film trailer uses intertextuality as it is a lot like 'freaky friday' and 'the change up' so a lot of bits in the film could be considered as stealing bits from that film. As the start of my trailer and the start of 'the change up' trailer is very similar with them waking up in their own beds in their own bodies, showing what their lives are normally like.
Self Reflexivity is where a text points out that it is just a text, this is considered as when you are watching a comedy and the main character stops and talks into the camera to the audience, this is used in the TV series Miranda a lot as she talks to the audience a lot. However in my film trailer then no one takes a minute out to talk to the camera so self reflexivity is not used in my trailer.
Hyperreality is where texts become unreal, it is clear it is not reality. It could also be seen as undermining our idea of reality. This happens the whole way throughout the film 'the matrix' because it questions the way we live out life. Hyperreality is used in my trailer as people switching bodies in real life has never been proved to of happened so it is undermining reality and showing it is not real.
Juxtaposition is where opposite things are collected together and mixed to try and make sense. You could consider my trailer as having some juxtaposition in it as we are collecting two opposite people together and mixing their bodies to try and make sense of it.
This just shows how postmodern everything around us is. My trailer is very postmodern as i have described above, breaking the fourth wall is where the character looks into the camera and this is also considered postmodern but i have focused on not letting the characters look into the camera as i did not want to use this effect in my film.
My film trailer will be very postmodern as it isn't a whole new idea because i have researched into switching bodies films and there are lots of them. There are five main definitions into making something postmodern these are:
-Generic Hybridisation
-Intertextuality
-Self Reflexivity
-Hyperreality
-Juxtaposition
Generic Hybridisation is where two genres are mixed together, for example a comedy and horror. My trailer genre is a comedy so it doesn't use generic hybridisation but i am sure as the trailer goes on there would be romance in it so it could end up being a rom-com.
Intertextuality is where films steal bits from other films, it can also count as using a musicians music and what is going on in the news. My film trailer uses intertextuality as it is a lot like 'freaky friday' and 'the change up' so a lot of bits in the film could be considered as stealing bits from that film. As the start of my trailer and the start of 'the change up' trailer is very similar with them waking up in their own beds in their own bodies, showing what their lives are normally like.
Self Reflexivity is where a text points out that it is just a text, this is considered as when you are watching a comedy and the main character stops and talks into the camera to the audience, this is used in the TV series Miranda a lot as she talks to the audience a lot. However in my film trailer then no one takes a minute out to talk to the camera so self reflexivity is not used in my trailer.
Hyperreality is where texts become unreal, it is clear it is not reality. It could also be seen as undermining our idea of reality. This happens the whole way throughout the film 'the matrix' because it questions the way we live out life. Hyperreality is used in my trailer as people switching bodies in real life has never been proved to of happened so it is undermining reality and showing it is not real.
Juxtaposition is where opposite things are collected together and mixed to try and make sense. You could consider my trailer as having some juxtaposition in it as we are collecting two opposite people together and mixing their bodies to try and make sense of it.
This just shows how postmodern everything around us is. My trailer is very postmodern as i have described above, breaking the fourth wall is where the character looks into the camera and this is also considered postmodern but i have focused on not letting the characters look into the camera as i did not want to use this effect in my film.
Wednesday, 6 February 2013
Media Language
Every trailer needs its own bit of creative language for example the way sound is used, for example scary music heightens fear, so in my trailer i will be using high pitched sounds for when the two main characters wake up in different bodies to show what has changed.
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