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

Research and planning- Production meeting two

In this meeting we discussed our two plot ideas.

Plot Idea 1

•Someone wife/ family member being held hostage.

•Told to rob a list of banks other they will kill their loved one

• 4 days to collect the money

•Snap chats to show the condition of the family member and each banks layout.

•Gets caught robbing the last bank on the 4th day

Plot Idea 2

•A detective that’s bored and has no money receives an email: “Its time you played a game”

•A series of pictures start being sent to him of people he loves dead

•Each victim has a card on them starting from 2 of spades up to the king, each time the victim is someone closer to him . This is to signify that each card is a higher stake of person. 

research and planning: target audience

research and planning: film certificate for film and trailer

research and planning- production meeting three

In this meeting we discussed our chosen plot idea this was 'ace is high'

After we had allocated roles we decided to pick and change our story line and our character profiles.

• What we decided about characters was that the killer will be a sociopathic killer meaning he would be highly intelligent and cunning and a lot less likely to get caught than a psychopath, and the sociopath is more likely to dislike the police detective for his gambling addiction.
• We decided the police detective would be a definate gambler and this would be to help understand the story and why the film is called 'Ace is high' the killer leaves playing cards to taunt the detectives.
• The higher the card the higher importance the murder is to the detective this then means that he knows that he needs to catch the murderer before he becomes the victim with a card on him himself.
• We decided to allocate certain people to certain cards, such as the queen is his wife.