Research and planning- collage

 

I used images from google to create this collage by using photoshop. This helped me to remember how to use photoshop and also find some images from 4 films that are in my genre for my trailer. These are popular films of my genre therefore will allow me to see what my target audience wants to see. 

Planning and Research- IMDb genre

This is what i found when I went on IMDb in relation to crime/ mystery this is helpful as it shows what type of plots are popular, this means we can either follow the codes and conventions of these popular crime/ mystery films or go against them. It also helps us to make sure we have our target audience right.  If a certain type of plot is popular in the top films then it is most likely what our target audience wants to see. 

Research and Planning: Word it out

This is what i created on word it out, I used the colours of black and blue because they are typical colours associated with crime dramas. I used a curvy type of font as i think it gives a smooth feel to the show. All these words are associated with my trailer in some way. I have included my distribution and production  companies names and my genre.

research and planning: production company logo ideas

This is the logo we decided on for our Production company, Bright Spark Productions.

it was made in photoshop. Since bright spark means Intelligence (If someone is a bright spark they are an intelligent person) we thought that it would be representing an intelligent type of film genre, that being crime/mystery. We decided on this particular idea of a light bulb since we are making a crime film trailer. A light bulb is sometimes depicted as an idea. At which point it went quite well with our idea of crime/mystery. The blue was used because it looks similar to the ultraviolet light used in many crime films where people look for cleaned blood under the light. We used yellow text as it related to the fact that it is a light bulb and because the name is Bright spark productions. We thought this would connatate quite well. 

Research and Planning: Practical and Impractical trailers

A impractical trailer will include things such as shootings and explosions these are impractical as they require highly trained staff and health and safety procedures, this would mean you would need a high budget which we don't have due to being college students. The genre we are doing would usually have these type of impractical conventions however we have created a plot idea that cuts them out however also suggests they would be in the film if seen.

Practical trailers would only include safe shots and have no danger involved in them for example they would have more conversations in them than action as most action includes violence. The type of films that would include this practical way are Romance, Comedy and Social Realist.

Research and planning: Trailer conventions

The main features of a Trailer:

• Film production Company our idea is Bright Sparks
• Snippets of the movie 
• Music that coincides with the shots being shown 
• The title so that it is known what the film is called and therefore you can see that film
• Plot understanding, making sure it is known what the plot is so its easy to understand and you  haven't just got a lot of shots that make no sense together  
• Voiceover to make the plot understood in order for the audience to want to see the film 

Features of a Crime Trailer:

•Fast cutting

•Montage

•Jumps cuts

•Zoom

•Cutaways

•Pan

•Low key lighting

•Close ups

•Long shots

•Establishing shot

•Low angles

•Extreme close ups  

Research and Planning: Pitch