Monthly Diary 21/12/2011

The past month has being a hectic one for us. We have received a lot of feedback for our trailer so have had to change it constantly to try and help us achieve the best possible grade. We aim for our trailer to receive an A-Grade so we're always looking for feedback from our teacher and peers who have all seen the transformation from just an idea to a reality.

Within this month, it has seen us create two attempts of our trailer (Currently Producing the 3rd) allowing a lot of feedback and ideas to how to improve. We also finished filming 1 or 2 clips at the beginning of the month, with the last 2 weeks mainly being used to formulate a sequence for the trailer.

At this moment in time were editing a 3rd attempt with the feedback we got from the second resulting in us having to change the whole sequence. We hope for this edit to be done in the next week and up on the blog, hoping for more feedback to come from this.

Wonderland 2nd Draft

Here is our 2nd attempt for our trailer 'Wonderland'. Like the first attempt we showed it to our peers and teacher, who again helped us with some feedback.

From showing our first attempt to our teacher, we gained some feedback to help us improve and in turn created this attempt. Like every media outlet feedback is always needed, and our second attempt reached a lot of new feedback.

Here is what our teachers and peers thought for improvements;

-Make a Black and white contrast of some clips to differentiate between the 'present' and the 'past'.

- Take out the clips that saw the main characters on the bench.

-Change the sequence of the trailer to make the audience understand the storyline better.

-Add more 'drug taking' scenes.

-Add another voice over.

-Make him walk slower when walking through the graveyard. Show it's a graveyard.

-More scenes of the two main characters interacting in the 'wonderland' state.

This shows to be a lot of work and a small bit of filming needing to be added. With that in mind, we hope to get it done as quick as possible achieving the best grad when moving onto the next stage of the project.

Wonderland 1st Draft

Today we play our first draft of our trailer 'Wonderland', here are some comments my peers and teachers have given us to improve our trailer.

·         -Focus more on the opening shot. A longer look at him walking down the graveyard, along with voice over of what’s happened.

·         -Make it clear she died in the car crash. Show him having a negative response and becoming suicidal.

·         -More clear on story line, with regards to drugs.

·         -Mugging scene needs a POV shot.

·         -Needs more emotional factors. For example Rob over the phone when she’s hit by car.

·         -Re-arrange the two forest clips. Make it clear he woke up there.

·         -Need to make it clear wills meets the drug dealer.

·         -Change the music so it’s not continuously play.

Our first draft was 1 minute 34 seconds and so needs further clips to push it up to the 2 minutes and beyond stage. We do have clips still to add and we hope along with the improvements mentioned, our trailer ‘Wonderland’ can achieve the top possible grade.

Design of 'Final Title' Sequence

Here is or final title sequence we have designed. We have worked to include our production company name, as well as the title and when its released.

Monthly Diary 24/11/2011

Like the previous month, this month has focused around us filming and getting ready for the editing stage starting in about a weeks time. We have one final date of filming where we will gain our final two clips, then move onto editing.
Within the month we have filmed about 10-15 thorough clips, allowing us to pick out the bits we feel will be 100% neccessary for the calibre of a trailer. These clips ranged from a number of location including some in the drug den, to clips filmed within the 'wonderland' state. Its been a postive month for the group picking up a good range of clips ready for editing.
With the trailer aimed to be finished by the 16th Decemeber, it will give us just over two weeks to focus on the editing allowing us plenty of time to change anything if needs be. We aim for the trailer to be around 2 and a half minutes long and we hope for 'Wonderland' to be a sucess.

Film Stages

The main way the entire process of a film can be viewed is through the idea that there are 3 main stages. Production, distribution and exhibitions are these and each holds aspects and factors that can essentially make a film.

1.Production

·        Motivation

·        Stakeholders

·        Finance

·        Independent cinema

·        High Concept

These stages all link and allow flow onto the next stage, allowing the idea to eventually set up for the film creation. It starts with the motivation where an idea will be in place and this motivation being needed to support it and go forward. To help make the entire process of the film go forward, money will be needed and so stakeholders will have to be put in place for this to happen. To get stakeholders, various pitches will have to be arranged to companies explaining what the films about, characters, cast etc. It's also pitched to groups of the public, trying to determine that it will either;

1. Be successful.

2. Will it appeal to the approached target audience.

2. Distribution

·        Unique selling points

·        Costs

·        Case studies

·        Trailer Conventions

·        Marketing Strategy

The next stage is distribution  and this involves the whole marketing and advertising side of making a film. This very much links in with finance, where the advertising and marketing aspects are all influences by how much money the project has. This will include trailers, posters and test screening all features included in making a successful film.

Before a marketing strategy can take place though, unique selling points will have to be in place to attract people to the film. This can be displayed none more so that through the cast which holds massive dividance to the success of the film. The cast are who will attract people to the film , and along with good plot selling points and a lot of money can result in only financial success.

3.Exhibition

·        Cinema screens

·        Mode

·        Exit Polls

·        Audience figures

·        Audience Stratification

The exhibition stage focuses after the release of the film and the facts and figures. The data collected focuses on a number of things including, how they heard about the film, the best of the part film, what attracted them to go see it. From here the companies of the film can see whether the film for the audience has been a success, and for many films results in perhaps a sequel or even prequel.

Film Clips Audience Feedback

Here are 3 scenes from our film trailer so far. We have tried to select a range of different clips including a sound clip, movement clip and caption.

• The first clip is a speech clip that we aim to split up and mainly use for the speech itself.
• The second clip focuses on our character waking up in 'wonderland' for the first time. An influential clip for the trailer.
• The final clip will be used for captions showing the character supposedly doing a line of cocaine (sherbert).