Question 11 and 12

11. These are the five images from our animatic that stand out from the rest of the others, as they seem to leave the most questions asked about what is happening. The first picture is of the man sat in the corner looking scared, this leaves the audience the question of why is he cowering in the corner? And what is he scared of? The second picture of the man looking in the mirror and seeing the reflection of his best friend who died was our best shot as it makes you look again to see him looking back. The picture of the man holding his friend in his arms is an effective one as it shows that he has died in his arms and would have a bigger impact on him after seeing him die right in front of him. The next picture of the man looking shocked leaves us with the question of why is he looking shocked? Has he seen something he doesn’t want to see again? The final photo of the man and women tied up would seem to leave the audience thing why are they tied up? Who has tied them up? 12. My role during this process was suggesting and finding suitable locations for us to take our photos in. I had to find locations which looked how we needed to be without having to change them much. We used locations such as outside in the woods and then moving indoors to a classroom. I also played a part in the writing of the plot, giving ideas and giving constructive criticism to the others in the group about their ideas.

Question 11 - 5 key images

A Critical Analysis of the Animatic Process of your group’s Film Trailer(Part 1)

1. An animatic is a series of still images edited together and displayed in sequence with a rough dialogue and rough sound track added to the sequence of still image to test whether the sound and images are working effectively together. The animatic helps you to see what shots would and wouldn’t work. 2. First of all we started off with the storyboard, this is where you hand draw each individual shot and give a short explanation into what is happening in the shot. Next we had to choose a suitable area for us to take the photos and also when we would take the photos. We had to sort out some props for some of the shots which was easy enough as we already had them and didn’t need to buy any. After deciding this crucial information we then went and took the photos. We came across various difficulties whilst taking the photos such as bad weather stopped us from taking the shots. After taking the shots we then went into the editing room and edited the photos to the correct speed and added our soundtrack over the top. 3. We changed the order of the shots we took for our story to make sense to the audience. If we didn’t make a storyboard then we would not have been able to create our animatic. Also it is good to have a structure down to help us understand our ideas. 4. All together we had a total of five different shoots, using a total of four different locations to take our photos. The prop that we used in the animactic was a rope, the iconic image in the film. We chose the actors from visual appearance and reliability. Whilst we were taking our photos we realized that different shot angles worked better than the ones we had decided we would do originally. A shot we couldn’t take was the shot of a train; we couldn’t do this due to timing and having accessibility to taking photos on the train. We made a huge change as we completely changed our whole plot due to the fact that the old plot was more action rather than physiological. We now have a better new plot being developed which will be more physiological. We looked at various film trailers to help us. Shutter Island was an important film trailer we watched as it gave us some ideas for our own trailer. We used some of the ideas and then put our own twist on it. 5. We constructed our animatic during the editing process by firstly uploading the photos to the computer and then we had to put them into the correct order. Next we changed the times of how long each photo displayed for and then lastly added the intertitles and transitions. 6. We chose the length of each shot by using the times we had put on our storyboard. We had to change some of the shots down from five second down to two seconds. We used transitions that we thought suited our plot. 7. We used aerial black as our font for our intertitles and title of the film. The reason why we used this front and the colour black is because although it seems very basic it was a good way of showing the seriousness of our trailer. 8. We used the use of a heartbeat when we showed the death of the solider; I think this was a good sound to use as it can make the audience feel empathy towards the friend who has just seen his best friend die. We also used a fast beat soundtrack when the action picked up speed to make it more dramatic and more interesting to watch. 9. Our target audience is both males and women ageing from 20-34. Our animatic appeals to our target audience because it contains scenes with both males and females in. It also appeals to the audience as it is what you would want to see in any action film.

Anamactic update

Through the process of producing our animatic, the group found that our ideas and work so far had not captured or wasn't reflecting our chosen film genre. We feel the main reason for this was our lack of research. For this reason, we will develop our research further and come up with a new idea for our film plot.

Trailer Plot

The trailer begins with the production companies name. There is a diegetic sound of a train and someone listening to music. The next shot then shows a man on the train listening to music through earphones, the music is just loud enough to hear. A man then walks past with a newspaper relating to the war and a close up shot shows the story before the train goes through the tunnel and the scene fades out. There's then a flashback of a squad of soldiers walking through a forest where they are ambushed. There is a gunfire which marks the fade out of the scene followed by an inter title with the background of the woods, reading 'the death of a friend'This then fades again and the main character (Mark) holds him in his arms as he dies . It fades back to the train and shows a close up of him starring into space looking sad. The inter titles 'pushed over the edge' show in between cuts and it changes to a cut where his girlfriend tells him she's cheated on him. This then cuts to the inter titles "it's time for a new war", then a scene shows a close up of him packing his knife and other equipment into a sports bag/rucksack. Then it shows Lisa on the phone and we hear the diegetic dialogue, "Thomas, he knows". Then it cuts to Thomas' house and a close up on his fridge with a note saying "That's the problem with best friends, they know all your secrets, I'm coming for you." After reading this Thomas runs out of the house and as he runs past a blind corner he's struck down and tackled/punched. Then it cuts to a scene were we see him being held under the water. The next cut shows the inter title "This time he's not the only one fighting to survive." There is then an establishing shot of woods at night. The next scene shows Thomas hitting mark and running away through the woods. As he gets around the corner Mark is stood there with a bloody nose staring menacingly at Thomas. He charges at him knocking his phone out his hand which he's using as a light. While he tries to get signal, as the phone hits the floor, the light goes out and everything goes black. The words "he will have retribution" appear at the end with the word "retribution". Posted by Ruth's Blog! at 14:20 No comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook Final Film Plot The film begins in a greyish colour at a war zone with troops advancing under enemy fire. The commander gives the order to advance through a smoky forest and the main character's friend, Matthew, gets hit by grenade. As they head through, he runs to him but it's too late and he dies in front of him. The gunfire fades out and so does the scene. The next scene is in normal colour and present day in front of the commander. The main character, Mark looks shaken up and the commander tells him he's in no state to continue his service and to go home and spend time with his girlfriend while he gets over losing his friend. Since after his friends death, Mark had been experiencing flashbacks of him and he imagines he's having conversations with him regularly. This false representation of Matthew tells Mark his girlfriend, Lisa, is cheating on him. He tries to forget about it but he himself has been noticing she has been acting different since he's returned from war. He finally confronts Lisa and she admits to cheating on him with one of his best friends, Thomas while he has been away at the army. It's at this point he storms out the room and heads upstairs to pack his bag. He begins by just packing his clothes but on later inspection notices other stuff such as rope and knives. This is when Mark says out loud, “ What, I didn't pack these!” and Matthew speaks to him and says, “I know, I did”. He tries to remove them but eventually, after they keep reappearing he leaves them, as it is no use. He leaves the house and pushes his girlfriend out of the way as she tries to say she's sorry. He yells “It's over” before slamming the door. The next scene shows her on the phone to Thomas warning him and telling him to watch out because Mark knows and he's not himself. Thomas hears something while on the phone and turns round to his fridge/mirror and finds a note saying “that's the problem with best friends, they know all of your fears. Scared of the dark?”. After he reads this the lights go out and he hears running. The door shuts before power returns. Scared and on the phone to Lisa the whole time, Thomas tells her what he has witnessed and only Mark knows about his embarrassing phobia of the dark. Lisa rings Mark and confronts him about it, this where he tells her he's been sleeping while this has been going on and hasn't been anywhere near Thomas before hanging up. He goes back to sleep and has a weird dream with him and Matthew in it. In the dream, Mark and Matthew plant a letter in Thomas' house before turning off the light and rushing out through the front door. Matthew talks to Mark and Mark tells Matthew all about how he's struggling to cope. He tells Mark, “Thomas will pay, I'll see to that”. Mark then wakes up and finds the words “Die. Suffer. Pay” repeatedly carved around where he was sleeping and looks at his hands to find them bloody/muddy ( this depends on location as to whether he sleeps in a house or sleeps rough in the wilderness). Stuff like this continues to happen until Thomas becomes enveloped in fear. When a final note says, “I'm coming for you soon”, seeing this he runs from his house only to be ambushed in an alleyway and suffocated with a bag until he passes out. He regains consciousness and is tied up in his own bathroom where Mark, with a slightly different darker voice says, “Scared of drowning too, wasn't it?”. He looks over to see a bath full of water and Mark laughing. He looks terrified at this point and begs him to stop, but Mark just laughs harder and says, “Let's see how long you can hold your breath for?”, before dragging him over and pushing his head under water. At this point, Lisa runs in and pulls him off. He turns to her, and he says, “Oh god Mark, what's happened to you?” before backing away. He throws her to the floor and she hits her head, losing consciousness. He then moves back to Thomas, who is coughing and spluttering, and hits him in the side of the head knocking him out. The next scene shows Thomas looking out of the car boot as it is opened, and Mark drags him out. He sees a forest and Lisa tied, and on her knees blindfolded. He is forced on his knees next to her. Matthew says, “Since you had no problem choosing between me and her, let's see how easy it is for you to choose between you and her. One of you dies”. Thomas manages to break free and hits Matthew who falls to the floor. He then frees Lisa and they run through the forest away from Mark. He catches them up and pins Matthew to the floor, hitting him over and over again. Meanwhile, Lisa is screaming “Stop it! This isn't you!”. He has memories of the four of them (Him, Lisa, Thomas and Matthew ) This somehow seems to wake Mark and he releases Matthew. As he does this, Matthew screams at him, “Finish this, finish it you coward! If you don't I'll get them when you're sleeping , you can't stay awake forever!”. He replies with, “I know” and we see him walk towards an edge by the river. We see Lisa watch him, then look to Mark to check he's okay. We hear a splash , and when the camera pans Mark is gone. The film ends with the camera cutting to the side of the river where Mark has been washed up. It ends on a close up of his face and his eyes fling open, where he gasps before it ends.