Publishing the Trailer to Social Media

I have published my trailer on a social network site as it allows me to see what the audience think of my production. Which can lead to thoughts and views on certain aspects of the trailer. Also to see that people could view the trailer and like or comment on it. This resembles the media conventions of 'We Media' and 'Democracy.' Whereby i can then analyses what i received back from the audience the public.

I will leave it up on facebook for a couple of days to allow a sneak preview of the trailer.

Permission to Film

In Certain locations we had to ask permission to film due to the safety of that location. This happened in the Garden Centre in Keston and the National Railway at Orpington Station. This was useful as it allowed us to understand the film conventions of what a real production company would have to do to get permission to film in locations of their production and made us feel as though we were a legitimate film company going through the trials and tribulations of the film making world.

Ideal actors for James Ford

                                        Jamie Bell

Jamie Bell would be an ideal actor to use as the main role. he has got the right image that we are looking for and would fit the role of 'James Ford' well. He mainly stood out in the film "Jumper" where he played "Griffin, a street wise character that was cocky yet when it came down to business he was fast to react to keep his life.







    

                                Humphrey Bogart



Humphrey Bogart is a classic film noir actor who features in the Big Sleep among other productions, he stood out well in the Big Sleep whilst playing a private investigator it is slightly similar to the role of James Ford however we would maybe have to work on the action side of his performance.

                            Daniel Craig


Daniel Craig is a film actor most well known for his role as 007 in the James Bond franchise that is why he would be so ideal for the role of James Ford in our production he is also used to fight scenes and all kinds of action making him amazing for the role

Casting

Our group has reached he stage where we are ready to cast for the different roles in our film. To do this we have looked at potential people that could play the roles that we are looking for and then we called them in for an interview.

Part 1
In the interviews we asked the actors some questions about themselves to get an understanding as to what they think of our film and to get a general background of the actor.

Part 2
After the questions, the next stage of the interview was a simple script reading task. This involved the actors getting a section of the script and having to read some of it whilst the interviewer (Alex Rosling) prompted them. This was to see the way they reacted to the script and how they could play off what the other character was saying.

These are some of the actors that we looked at and how they did in the interview:

Adam Riddleston

Callum West

Charlie Blackmore

We ended up using two of the actors we cast and those people were Adam Riddleston(middle) and Charlie Blackmore (right) we were lucky to find our other actor Alex Rosling who turned out to be a fantastic choice and did well in his role.

Inspiration: Blade Runner

Blade Runner is in the Film Noir/Modern genre as it features aspects from the past with factors of the then present. The fact that it is film noir adds to the aspect of there being a private investigator which is a favourite storyline for many film noirs including The Big Sleep. It uses shadows and lighting to create amazing effects it also uses blinds in relation to lighting to cast shadow that adds depth to the shot. It also uses the smoke to create the effect of shadows with the light. We are not going to use such an effect however this film is a very good example of the amalgamation of two genres which is what we are aiming to do with our production.

Inspiration: The Tourist

The aspects of this film that have inspired me is the idea of a tourist who is given an opportunity to have an adventure however in this particular film he is unknowingly placed inside a maze of deceit and lies and is targeted for being thought to be someone he is not. We wish to create a mysterious air around the person who approaches him however they are going to straight up ask him wether he wants to take on The Job and then after he has nearly completed it that is then we will add in the aspect of people trying to kill him as they have done in this film with the police chasing johnny depp's character.

Plot Synopsis

Our films main plot is that the main character has a military background but due to an accident on one of his tasks he lost his memory and cannot remember who he is and because he was on a secret task the government has lost track of him and thinks he is dead.

When the gang finds out about his background and they use him to there advantage to deliver a file that holds important information about all of the secret government agents that, in the wrong hands, can bring down the government. They persuade him to do this job in exchange for the information about his past.

As he transports the file he is being followed and then chased by men in suits, who turn out to be the government. Because he cannot remember he thinks that they are the bad guys trying to kill him and steal the file and that he is working for the good guys. 

He then recognizes the symbol that the gang uses to identify themselves and has a flash back of his accident. this is where he finds out that the people he is working for are the same people he was trying to bring down when he was working for the government and that the file he now has is the same file that he was trying in intercept. Once he realizes this, he then try to take down the gang who he is working for now whilst trying to avoid getting killed by the government who still think that he is one of the bad guys.

His big task now is to prove to the government that he is working for them again whilst trying to keep the allusion that he is still working for the bad guys in order to take them down from the inside. 

This is a basic plot that outlines the whole underlining story for the film that we are making our trailer about. This is so that we know the outline of our story so that when we come to making the trailer we know the different aspects that we need to include and the type of story that we need to get across in our trailer.

Storyboard

This is a rough outline of our storyboard, we will change it around to add in some more specific details about our film using the plot synopsis and written treatment.

Shooting Schedule

• Filming Starting on 20/11/2013 
• Monday- Establishing shots and Location scouting 
• Tuesday- beginning the filming of the opening sequence
• Wednesday-filming the middle of the film 
• Thursday-Filming the ending of the film
• Friday-uploading to the computer and sorting through footage
• Saturday- going out to shoot some extra shots needed 
• Sunday- Day off
• Monday-Editing process
• Tuesday Editing process
• Wednesday-Editing process
• Thursday reviewing the first full edit
• Friday- making changes to the edit
• Saturday- cropping the footage into a trailer
• Monday- adding in titles for our trailer and rendering it 
• Tuesday- uploading the trailer

The Rules of Film Noir

This is a documentary regarding The Film Noir Genre and the rules that all the films encompassed in this genre obey. Also it explains the main aspects of Film Noir and we are going to use those aspects to make our Film as good as possible.

Fight Coreography

The Inspiration for our fight scenes was Jason Statham in Transporter 3 in this scene he uses a variety of moves and objects in order to defeat a group of people chasing him so that he can get his car in and get out of the garage. We decided that we would have individual fight scenes and also we slowed down our fight scene in order to show the audience more action and add extra effects which are needed in order to create a more exciting and multi dimensional fight scene. Another inspiration for our fight scenes was the bourne franchise because he is a lone protagonist who is fighting against a group of government agents and he does it stealthily and usually matches up 1-1 1-2 against his opposers.

Location Continued

 Locations continued (London)

I decided that London would be a brilliant place to film and that some establishing shots of London and the use of London in our poster in order to show that we will be using this location in our production and also because London is a fantastic place to shoot a film noir production because of the back alleys and also the fact that London at night is fantastic for our purposes however we will also be using London at day time and other places such as Orpington and Bromley to Film.

Final Props

This is a spider diagram of the props that are going to be used within our production. We will use all of the key props such as the File, Phone and Money. Then use others such as the Gun, Knife and Watch to add depth to characters such as the boss in the trailer. Using lighting and shadows we will use the props to identify certain actors such as the boss having Whiskey, Watch and Phone that will establish the person who they are used by.

Fight Coreography (Bourne Identity Trailer)

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The Big Sleep OFFICIAL trailer

This is a classic Film Noir trailer and the film itself has a brilliant feel to it it also encompasses all of the film noir aspects that are well known such as the use of shadows and cigarette smoke to create a certain lighting effect. We are going to try to use as many of these aspects as possible in order to make our film feel like a Film Noir and not just a modern day production in black and white.

Titles in Trailer

These are the titles we chose to use for our Trailer we assessed other trailers and realized that bold text was typical of the action genre however it was also typical of the Film Noir genre as i knew from my research of the Big Sleep and Tron therefore our Titles retain Film noir aspects as well as Action

The Basics of Lighting for Film Noir

 This video explains the lighting which we can use to create that classic film noir feeling for people whilst they are watching our trailer, this was a very useful tool to improve my understanding of the Film Noir genre and how lighting should be used to affect a shot. Techniques of Lighting: Low Key Lighting, Three point lighting (Fill Light,Key light and Back Light), Hard Lights(creates harsher sharper shadow), Soft lights(create a fuzzier edge because the light is scattered juxtaposition to Hard lighting)

Music

 We used Garageband to create the music for our production it is original and was composed especially for our production in order to incorporate an action element but also retain some film noir aspects. It includes a bass guitar, snare drum and synthesizer.