Research and planning: Podcast

Here is my first podcast, it just shows you my progress so far

Research and planning- Story board drawn

This is our drawn draft of the scenes in our film trailer, this will be expanded to individual shots in an animatic storyboard.

Research and planning-storyboard planning

Today we started our story boarding for our film trailer, we came up with a running order and this is how it went:

• Detective folding in a game of cards, some coloured chips next to him to show that he is low and desperate for money, low key lighting.
• He gets roughed up and thrown out of the casino. Stands back up and shakes off (raining outside) 
• He gets a message (close up of phone) the message reads 'its time to play a game.'
• Flash 6 images of victims of the murderer.
• Then calm again to show killer sat down with the victims pictures on the walls.
• Speed up flashing of 6 more victims.
• Cuts to interrogation (quite subdued talking)
• The killer goes mad throws the table over, starts yelling.
• Close up of the ace in the detective hands.

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.