Planning- Costume and Props

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Planning- Sound Design

The structure of our trailer will consist of two different situations in which our character will be placed in. His first situation will be his desire and ambition to reach the top of his musical profession. Due to this, I believe it will be best that an instrumental piece of music which implies hope and passion should be used to create a sense of excitement for audiences watching this individual risking everything he has for fame and glory. The second situation our character will be placed will be his struggle to maintain his position as the best, which will lead to frustration and confusion over his future but above all else; fear of losing everything he has worked hard to achieve. Due to this, the second piece of music we will use will be dramatic and thunderous, implying unpredictability and tension. This will increase the pace of the trailer to keep viewers on the edge of their seats. I believe this structure will help set a mood of many highs and lows the viewer will feel if they decided to watch the full film.

Voice overs will also be used half-way through the trailer. The first voice over will consist of both dialogue from myself and Luke, interpreting radio DJ's. We have decided to use this as a way of conveying contextual knowledge that at this current point, the main character was highly popular around the country due to success in the charts (which the DJ's will explain). The second voice over will be of a female voice speaking as a news journalist over a clip from a BBC news presenter. This will be used to emphasize the crisis the main character had now found himself in, due to national news covering the story. Both will be mixed on to images using 'Sony Vegas' once they have been recorded using the audio programme, 'Audacity'.

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Research into Software and Editing Skills

We did learn one new skill when we edited our film this time round. We learnt how to adjust the colour of our clips. For example, we learnt how to adjust the brightness or make the colour of the film look more blue or red, For some clips we had to bring the brightness up so that the video clip looked brighter to match the rest of the clips that were filmed on brighter days.

We also learnt how to add a black border at the top and bottom of our clips to make our film more 'cinematic'.

The last thing we learnt how to do was Chroma Key. We used this to add a sparkle to our production logo to make it more interesting for the audience.

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Progress Update- January

In this month we re-filmed the shot from the garden and changed it to a concert scene where we decided the school stage was a suitable area. We also used the back stage area which I thought was very effective. We have also re-edited this month and plan on showing a final cut of our film in February.

We completed first drafts of our ancillary tasks using online editing software called Pixlr express. Also, for this we didn’t use photos specifically designed for these photos they were just quick snaps taken in our spare time. This led to framing not being completely right so we struggled with spacing for titles and title blocks. We decided that for our actual ancillary tasks we will take photos with the view of having enough spacing to add titles. We will also use Photoshop to edit them so that we get a full range of editing tools and if we find ourselves struggling then we will be able to find tutorials on how to film magazine front covers or film posters.

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Progresss Update- December

In December we added a few extra scenes in to help the continuity of the trailer so that people understood what was going on in our trailer. We then started editing our trailer together.

Once editing a rough cut of our film together we showed this to the class to see if they could understand what was happening in our film and the plot of our film. This helped us establish that some of our locations didn’t look professional enough for our film. For example we filmed a music video in a back garden which wasn’t very professional looking.

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Progress Update- November

In this month we finished our final bits of research and planning such as location shots so that we knew our locations and any troubles we would encounter with these locations such as background noise from traffic.

As we now knew our locations and had our film scripted we could now start filming. We filmed over a couple of weekends and a few days after school to finish our film. Filming took slightly longer than anticipated due to the amount of locations that we had to film on.

Also in this month we found one piece of copyright piece music and we also found someone in our class who could give us a piece of music for the first part of our trailer.

We started looking at similar magazine front covers and posters to gain conventions of what we wanted our ancillary tasks to look like. We then annotated these to help us decide what to put in our own magazine front cover and poster.

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Progress Update- October

In October we started the research and planning tasks. After showing our influential trailers to the class we realised that we had to really try hard to portray fame in our film because the trailers we researched into all could portray fame easily because they had big budgets where as we had a smaller budget and so we would have to try and portray fame in different ways.

We also started scripting our film so that we could get an idea for the dialogue we would be including in or film. Another thing we did was do a storyboard animatic for our film. This helped us see what our film would look like and what order we would put our scenes in. This also helped us establish our music and where it would go.

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Progress Update- September

In this month we came up with initial idea's for our film trailer. Our first idea was a rags to riches idea where a boy called Leon has been kicked out by his father and is trying to follow his dream of becoming a rock star. Our second idea was about two guys who have just robbed a bank and have to escape its heavily armed defense's.

We decided to use the first idea because we realized it would be too difficult to try and pull off a gun fight without proper guns. We also realized that we would need quite a big cast to try and show how the odds would be stacked against the two criminals. We also found that we were able to quickly think up locations for our first idea and would be easy to film locally which made the film more of a practical option.

After deciding on our idea we looked into influential films that we could relate to our own film and therefore get trailer conventions from these films that we could use in our own film.

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Main Task- Six String Liberty

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Produced by: Luke Payne and Stephen Norman
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Skills Development/ Progress- Six String Liberty (Rough Cut)

Action Plan:
Take out the music video scene and research a new location within a more musical environment. This is due to the location of a garden causing confusion for the viewers over why exactly a famous pop star would be located there. As a result, we are going to enquire about the use of a school stage to achieve a more performance and musical-style feel to the trailer.
We will also lower the volume of the music slightly so that all dialogue can be heard clearly.
The length of the final clip must also be shortened using the editing tool on Sony Vegas as the clip is too long, and slows down the pace of the trailer.

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Produced by: Luke Payne and Stephen Norman
Action Plan Produced by: Stephen Norman
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