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Rough Cuts

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Screen Shots Of The Construction Process

Below is a scanned image of collected old photographs i arranged, the image was used in the film poster and in still shots within the film trailer.

I used script style handwriting, inside the shapes of 7 and 4, to create the illusion of a title, the content of writing was derived in similar ways as the script in the film trailer, taking various phrases from song lyrics that suit the mood I was trying to create. The handwriting, alongside the scattered photos combine to create the scrapbook of an 'arty' teenager, relating back to the audience grouping.

I used the scanned image alongside a rough, torn paper image as the 'base image', the photo from the photoshoot was rotated and adjusted to fit into place of one of the scattered scanned photos, this was to allow this photo to appear in more focus than the rest but look to be in the same pile. A light white transparency was applied over the titling area to ensure the title would not be lost to the background chaos.

I altered the Hue of the background lighting, to a pale blue, this and a bold black were to form the sleek colour palette for the magazine colour. I used a layer mask to position the '74 behind the model's head, i applied a plastic wrap effect to it, to make it ever so slightly 3D, the same was applied to the circular button seen in the above screenshot.

I decided to create my own introductory audience rating still, to fit into the start of the trailer, i copied almost word for word what appears in the real audience rating shot but applied it to my own product, I used different fonts and no copyrighted material or logos.

Shooting Schedules

Photoshoot Images

Call Sheets

Skills Development

The below images are production and distribution logos that i produced in Photoshop, i gathered fonts online that i thought suited the style of the trailer, the sizing of each canvas is important for the trailer formatting at a later date, i set each canvas to 720 x 576 pixels with a 76 dot per inch ratio. For the first logo there is extensive lighting effects used, 5 spotlights down creates the effect of a live performance or glamorous showpiece. The second logo i drew and selected a triangular shape to form a mountain and free hand painted 'snow' on top, which i then texturised to add something a little bit unique to it. It was only when inserting into final cut pro that i realised the exact invert (dark one) of Avalanche Productions looked a lot more professional so that is the version i used. For the main logo i wanted something innocent looking and handwritten, so i found the font i wanted, terxturised the background to appear like canvas and then created a childlike black painted border to emphasise the look. (Number 9 film logo changed during final cut and uploading the jpeg onto blog, the image below is the one i plan to use for the final).

As a skills development task, using the video editing programme final cut express i have edited together a 'would be' promotional video for the college, i have used techniques of sound layering to achieve a good mix and also created a soundtrack in 'Garageband' which helps the video run smoothly. These are techniques i have picked up and will develop in the process of editing my own film trailer.

scripts

I decided to follow suit of the idea of this film to almost be used up realities of other lives and re-created in a 'new' perspective, that the script would work well being comprised subtly from various song lyrics from artists pre or around the time of 1974, when the film is set. The artists in which words/ phrases are taken from are Bob Dylan, leonard Cohen, Lou Reed, John Lennon and The Doors. (Also having looked closer it would appear accidentally the more contemporary Pete Doherty's and Arcade Fire's lyrics have also fittingly been referenced). The voiceover reading the letter will be conducted by me, i have tested various accents before finalising on the most appropriate to the genre and film, a heavy gruff american voice, perhaps similar to the latter day voice of Lou Reed or various other aged New Yorkers.

Photoshoot Plans

Below i have included the photo shoot plans for each film poster image, the film magazine cover image, as well as one particular shot from the trailer, lighting is a large aspect of each photo and shot looking right, i have taken this into consideration regarding the positioning of 'main' and subsidiary lighting.

For the film poster shot, I am trying to create an antique, old looking photograph, the lighting is natural that filters through the curtains to the the models right shoulder.

The lighting comes from a spotlight that is tilted upwards, the effect is to create strong shadowing on the figure in a very dark lit room.

The lighting effect for the film magazine is supposed to be quite natural, yet with the light directed so that the glow hits the background appose to the model, this means that i can work a title around where the light glow is.

Animatic

Due to the exam boards copyright music restrictions i have altered my animatic and put a rough recording of what will now be the main soundtrack to my film trailer, it is a song by a band that i am in, the version on the film trailer will be of a more audible quality (recorded on a digital four track recorder) and will be without a vocal so that i can narrate over the top, the below video was made purely to test whether or not the song would work which i believe it does, it will alter the feel of the trailer i had planned to make, however i do not see this as a bad thing.

Recce

The first lot of images are some props i will be using in the trailer, including a vintage looking acoustic guitar, a used tin coated with paint, an old portable record player, and two vintage looking notebooks.

The next lot of images are the locations i will be filming.

The shot of the boy walking past guitar shop (looking at the photo, i may alter the location to two shops up the street at another guitar shop, as this has a very noticeably British post box and is supposedly set in an American suburb)

Below is the tree where the boy will sit with the guitar under the hazy sunlight.

This is the car that will be used, it is classic looking and even has old style number plates, i know the owner of the car, who has told me it will be completely ok for it to appear in my film trailer.

These images show the dusty path and river reflections the boy sees after the guitar scene

This is where the car will drive away from, i thought it looked ideal as from the person watchings perspective the car can be seen agonisingly drawn away and all the way around the corner.

Below are photographs from the room which will be the boy's bedroom, in which the major scenes will be filmed, i chose this room as it already contained periodic props that fit the description, such as the old fashioned stool that features below, along with the lamp, television set and pictures that already hang on the wall. The one prop that i will have to track down is a vintage looking acoustic guitar - preferably cheaply priced as it will be virtually destroyed in the filming.

Below are scanned and completed risk assessment and hazard evaluation forms: