Title Cards and Production Logo's ;

So in our last lesson with Mr Southworth he showed us some of the previous years teaser trailers. We had to pick out the features that made it a more effective teaser trailer , there were the common ones such as good use of angles and a variety of shoots aswell as a good use of mise-on-scene. One thing which was also apparent in most of the teaser trailers were the use of title cards. It wasn't so much the fact that they just used title cards but it was also the detail and research put into it to make it look like an official teaser trailer.
 

In the last trailer we watched 'I See You" we immediately picked out the starting image which is shown on the left.  This is a Rating Card appear at the head of trailers. It  indicates how closely the trailer adheres to the MPAA's standards. A green band is an all-green graphic at the beginning of the trailer , The same as the one in the image to the right. This card  indicates that they had been approved for "all audiences" . It signifies that the trailer adheres to the standards for motion picture advertising which include limitations on foul language and violent, sexual or controversial images.
 Its something quite simple that is only shown for about 2 seconds of the trailer but gives it a more proffesional edge. We feel it would be a great idea to add this to our trailer to achieve a high standard trailer and make it more realistic. When looking more closely at the image itself we saw that at the bottom there are two online web adresses. These are here as a link to websites which give more information about the rating of the film . Of course , taking into consideration that our teaser trailer won't have its own web page these will be fake adresses added to give a more realistic look.

Also towards the end of the trailer we noticed this specific title card towards the end of the trailer , again very simple and only played for a few seconds but adds a more professional feel to the trailer as it is seen in most production trailers. It basically gives information about who were the main people behind the making of the film itself. In this case you can see that the same names tend to repeated. This is because it is an A level teaser trailer so there for has few memebers behind the making of it. After close analaysis of the title card we saw the images at the bottom saying it has connections with dolby digital and new line cinema. We would like this to be incorporated in our trailer although the use of these specific images would be copy right , to avoid this we considered designing our own similar logo's that look similar but will rule out copyright. We also took into consideration the web adress at the bottom. On a title card in most professional movie trailers there is a web address that can be followed to give more information about the trailer and the movie itself. These need to be simple so that they can be easily remembered as it is only shown for a few seconds.
We also took into consideration the background of the title card , it is simple but effective as it is relative to the genre of "I See You " which is a horror. As our trailer is going to be a more up-beat and happy trailer our background would have to be brighter as a dark background is usually more appropriate for a darker atmosphere.

Finally , in the "I See You" trailer we noticed that the final part of the trailer is this title card.  This title card is crucial in a teaser or full length trailer as it states the date of film release or in this case that it is soon to be released. When looking at the still frame from this specific teaser trailer it appears to be quite simple and plain , when watching the trailer on youtube there is a slight migration of the words 'coming soon' from the top left to the lower right of the screen. It isn't easily noticed but gives an unsettled feeling to audience. This is a great way to make a simple title card more effective. Of course in our trailer we want the audience to feel uplifted and not unsettled so we suggested in the group to maybe add an effect to the words as they come onto the screen or have the words become gradually bigger. Similar to the previous title card , the background is effective for that specific genre and ours would have to be a lot brighter and happier , possibly the same background we choose to use which states the people involved in the making of the film.

We also discussed in class that we need to make a film schedule which includes a list of props as we found that mise en scene was a great contributing factor to an effective trailer. As nikita is unavailable during half term this gives us an extra week to make sure we have our film schedule completed to a high standard and ready to film the week we return to school.

Filming Schedule.

ANC Filming Schedule of INDIE CINDY

Date & Time	Scene	Location of filming	Props & costume	Description	Who is needed
2nd November	-Corridor scene	-School corridor -School lane -Locker room	-hoodies -leopard print top -jean jacket	-Two contrasting social groups walking past one another. -Antar chasing Cindy. -overhearing conversation in locker room	Antar Adams Cindy Wellings Connor James Chloe Mel
9th November	-Cindy bedroom video diary	-School lane -Nikita's house	-range of indie style outfits -hoody	-Video diary of Cindy speaking -video diary of Antar speaking	Cindy Antar

Storyboard animation:

This is our final storyboard animation. We feel it resembles our trailer slightly although the voice overs at the moment don't feel very naturalistic so this will need to be improved. I also feel the backing track could sound more natural and less edited. There need to be a few amendments with the script as well due to timings for each shot and not being able to fit all of the speech in without it sounding rushed.
I feel the ending works really well and leaves the audience wanting more which is the aim of a trailer so I am very happy with this.
The trailer at the moment is 1 minute and ten seconds and this is without adding in title cards  and the company production logo . Our ideas for these will be further explained in the next post.
Back to the storyboard animation I feel that with more time it could be improved a lot.
There are a few differences between the animation and our trailer (besides the fact that it won't be drawn images haha) . At 0:10 secs to 0:14 when cindy is first shown it will not be edited in this way. The reason I chose to use this effect was because in the trailer we are going to have the camera tilt upwards from her feet to her face and then switch to the master shot shown afterwards.
Another difference is at 0:20 secs to 0:22 , after I started the story board animation we decided that this would be an action match and then an over shoulder shot.  During the part where we see cindy as a cheerleader and chase singing this is going to be a split screen that starts with cindy and then chase's scene slides in from the right to show a split screen.
There were a few difficulties when making the animation such as problems getting the tracks onto HD movie as the macs were malfunctioning . I also had a slight disruption with the last three images , when scanned in they became different sizes but to resolve this I took the first image and put it in photoshop and then cut the numbers from the second and third images and layered them over the first image.
Overall I think once the title cards and company logo's are added and we've sorted out an official suitable track for the trailer it will be an effective trailer.
Of course there can always be ways to improve things which hopefully we can keep coming up with ways to improve it during the process of making it so it becomes the highest standard it can be.

NEW LOGO PLAN.

We have come up with the final idea for our logo. Our plan is to create an image which is abstract and is a reflection on the indie scene in society. We will be using a ‘New-era’ hat which will have our production teams name ‘ANC’ graffited on to it in a contrasting colour. This will be shading the face of the person wearing it. To compliment this we will have the palm of a hand closer to the camera with the word ‘Productions’ written on it in biro or tipex  in order to make it stand out.

I believe this idea is original and will be an interesting way to present our production team at the beginning of our film trailer. Things we need to consider are the graffiti which will need to be created on the hat. To create this we are planning to use a peer who specialises in art as a subject, so will have a clear insight in to the best way to create the writing. I believe that a stencil is going to be needed to be able to create the letters, so as a group we have decided on using capital letters but need to confirm a font for this. Bold lettering for ‘ANC’ will contrast with the swirly handwriting we are planning to write ‘Productions’ in.

Other things we need to consider is the price of spray paint and the cost of buying the hat. These things will need to be ordered over half term and hopefully finished by the time we return to school. We have already placed research in to buying the hat and it seems they are cheap to get hold of off of the internet. 

Voice overs;

on friday we recorded the voice overs for our storyboard animation , at the time our main character cindy (played by cindy) was unavailable so I spoke her parts in the script.
Antar who is playing chase wasn't feeling very enthusiastic but gained more enthusiasm towards the end.
As cindy is an a level drama student I have no worries about her performing to a high standard in our trailer  and Antar has promised to give his full effort in the filming of the trailer.

We were conscious about getting background noises of people working in our storyboard animation so recorded the voice overs in Mr Go's office. Obviously in the actual trailer there will be diegetic sounds such as when chase and cindy are walking down the hallway or sounds such as birds in outside areas .

To improve this in the actual trailer we may add non diegetic sounds but this will need to be decided at the actual time to make sure it sounds naturalistic .

Change in Actors.

Nikita : "Unfortunately I am suffering from Larinjitus which could effect our filming as my voice may not be working as well as it should be in time to start the filming process. As this may be a complication, we have decided to offer Cindy Wellings the part of playing "Cindy" . We believe she will be a dedicated actress and with her previous acting experience and interest in our project, believe she will be a brilliant choice. We have given her an outline on 

the film's storyline & she is enthusiastic to be a part of our project. "

Chloe:" The only concern is that Cindy Wellings is a completely different person from the character she is playing , so with help from myself and Nikita we will give her our ideas for how she should play the character and provide her with stereotypical 'indie' outifts . As Cindy is an A level drama student I have no concerns that she won't be able to act the part to a beleivable standard.
A slight other concern is being able to film during lessons and after school as we understand that Cindy is currently filming her own A level teaser trailer and won't be available all the time. To overcome this we will make a film schedule which contains a variety of times to film. "

Nikita:"We have also decided that our group member Antar Adams will be a much better candidate to take the place of 'Chase' in our film.We believe he is a better choice as he will be reliable as we will have access to him at all times, and believe his acting skills will show the true character of 'Chase' he helped to create. "
Chloe: "also we feel that as Antar has also come up with the story line and characters for our teaser trailer he will have a good idea of how to act the part and what is needed to be shown from the character . Of course this will leave us a member down during the filming , but as Antar's strongest skill is editing he will still be able to feel like he's made his contribution to the making of the trailer"

Logo ideas.

Me and Antar have begun to look in to the logo we will use for our film. Our idea started with Antar suggesting shadowed sillohettes of a couple to be the main part of the logo. We looked on google images and what we found was:

I then suggested we look in to stick people illustrations of a couple. This would fit in with the romance theme whilst being original. The influence i had for this came from illustrations by a youtube artist who makes small animations for music videos.

Our first was from "the nicest thing" animation. Here we liked the simple idea of an illustrated couple holding hands. We also thought the rainbow worked really nicely.

Secondly, we looked at "could you be happy" where we found the different expressions and scenery worked well with our romantic theme. We thought we could use a range of these ideas & compliment these ideas with 'indie' style font.