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ALEXANDER ALLMAN-VARTY - 1301

CLAREMONT FAN COURT SCHOOL - 64680

I worked with:
Oliver Munday-Rowe - 1346
Ryan Evans - 1321
Milo Gammond - 1323

I am doing Brief 2: A promotion package for a new film, to include a trailer, together with the following:

• a film magazine front cover, featuring the film
• a poster for the film.

I made a film trailer called 2020 you can view this here.

My evaluation questions are above.

My research, planning and construction process for my TRAILER is below. along with my final two ancillary products.

The research, planning and construction process for my two ancillaries is above in MY FILM POSTER AND FILM MAGAZINE COVER.

Within our group I took responsibility for creating and writing our plot, directing scenes (all except the drone scene) and assisting in the editing process on Final Cut Pro X.

CONSTRUCTION: MY FILM TRAILER

If you click the image below you will be directed to our trailer on Youtube. You can also see my film poster and magazine cover below. 

CONSTRUCTION : MY MAGAZINE COVER

CONSTRUCTION: FINAL POSTER

Final Poster Design

CONSTRUCTION : EDITING

Editing 

Here you can see the beginning of the editing process for our film trailer. We are using Final Cut Pro X. We are using this as it has a wide range of editing power in regard to audio and visual, we can apply relevant filters, Final Cut then allows us to colour match the rest of the shots to the filter we have used. We can also manipulate audio levels so that non-diagetic sound does not overpower the diagetic dialogue. 

CONSTRUCTION : SFX

SFX

 

For our trailer, we were all extremely keen to produce as much of it by ourselves as possible. This included creatied our own sound effects. Ryan and I opened up garage band as you can see below, and began testing out different orchestral instruments that can be integrated nicely into the theme of our trailer. We ended up using an orchestral sound and played a resonating low E to create tension at the beginning of our trailer.

CONSTRUCTION: POSTER DRAFTING

CONSTRUCTION: POSTER DRAFTING

I was unsure which poster idea looked better. The absolute black and white or the black and white surroundings with me in colour. To make a decision on this I conducted some audience research. These people consisted of 17-18 year olds all of which were my class piers or friends. Of the ten people which I asked a resounding nine out of ten stated that they preferred the variation of myself in colour and the background in black and white. Some of their reasoning behind this decision was that in made the protagonist stand out and pop from the background. Another reason was that it added colour to a black and white poster where colour used in the right areas adds a more sophisticated level of audience attraction. 

CONSTRUCTION: POSTER DRAFTING

Here is my first draft of my film poster.

RESEARCH: MAGAZINE COVER ANALYSIS SIGHT & SOUND

Here you can see my magazine cover analysis for the magazine cover Sight &Sound. The analysis of this magazine cover has broadened my understanding of magazine cover techniques and will assist me for when I create my own magazine cover.

RESEARCH: MAGAZINE COVER ANALYSIS EMPIRE

Here you can see my magazine cover analysis for the magazine cover for Empire. The analysis of this magazine cover has broadened my understanding of magazine cover techniques and will assist me for when I create my own magazine cover.

RESEARCH:MAGAZINE COVER ANALYSIS TOTAL FILM

Here you can see my magazine cover analysis for a magazine cover of Total Film. The analysis of this magazine cover has broadened my understanding of magazine cover techniques and will assist me for when I create my own magazine cover.

PLANNING: CALL SHEETS

Here is our first call sheet which we will need for our first shoot around the school grounds. This call sheet will help us to make sure that we have all the equipment, props and people at the correct location at the correct time. 

RESEARCH: MAGAZINE COVER ANALYSIS

I used  PressGazette during my research for magazine cover analysis. This website assisted me with circulation figures on the four magazines on which I focused. 

RESEARCH: SIGHT AND SOUND(BFI) MAGAZINE ANALYSIS

RESEARCH: ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY MAGAZINE ANALYSIS

RESEARCH: EMPIRE FILM MAGAZINE ANALYSIS

RESEARCH: TOTAL FILM MAGAZINE ANALYSIS

RESEARCH: AUDIENCE ANALYSIS

I have created an emaze on audience analysis. To view this emaze click on the image above.

RESEARCH: TWITTER

I have created a Twitter account to help keep me up to date with the world of media. I decided to do this after reading Alan Rusbridger's article on 'Why Twitter Matters'.  For Rusbridger, Twitter creates a level playing field where everyone can voice an opinion, not just voices of authority. Twitter allows me to access conversations with people that I do not know who could be experts in their field, making it a very democratic medium.  As a search engine, Twitter rivals google because it harnesses so many different human intelligence's to find out what is new, valuable and relevant.

Not only is twitter a powerful search engine and enables me to follow people of influence and who can help me with my A-level, it is allows a young film producer like myself the opportunity to distribute my film to a large audience of both male and female, young and old. This gives us a larger opportunity than other platforms than Instagram and conventional methods like P&A and webpages. This leads me on to my next point.

My final point to why Twitter is so important and helpful is that anything you post has the potential to go viral. Sharing something you find funny, interesting or shocking is one click away from being seen by everyone who follows you. This gives you the possibility of your viewer count doubling, tripling and even more depending on how many followers the person who shared your post has. This opportunity is priceless as you could potentially have to pay a lot of money to enable people to see information about your film production, for example paying for fleet marketing, putting posters of billboards etc.

Overall it is clear to see that Twitter is an immensely powerful tool to use as it gives us access to many powerful and influential people, allows us to distribute our film to a large audience, and then lets that audience show their family and friends, increasing our viewer amount.