Annabel Evelyn: November 2016

Tuesday, 29 November 2016

Monday, 28 November 2016

Thursday, 24 November 2016

Vlog no.1: Evaluation of Progress so far

Wednesday, 23 November 2016

Tuesday, 22 November 2016

Monday, 21 November 2016

Sunday, 20 November 2016

We chose these 9 key frames from the 'Tyrannosaur' trailer as we thought these best displayed the conventions of a drama film.

The lighting and colour saturation is consistent throughout the trailer, exemplifying the depressed and melancholic atmosphere of the film. This inspired us to have a similar theme to our piece as we wanted to make it a dramatic tragedy. Our colour palette is similar in the sense that it has a grey undertone to many shots and aspects of our trailer to 'Tyrannosaur' in regards to lighting.

The use of close ups and extreme close ups juxtaposes the establishing and wide shots used in the 'Tyrannosaur' trailer and our own. These are typical aspects of the drama genre as it establishes the characters' emotions and the setting around them. The use of close ups can create a tense atmosphere adding to the action of the film.

Similar shots of the protagonist (played by Olivia Coleman) suffering are used to emphasise her vulnerability and weakness, evoking emotion in the audience, which is a key convention of the drama genre. We mirrored this is our trailer by having our protagonist showing a variety of distressing emotions, prompting similar emotions in the audience.

Only two shots involve the antagonist in the 'Tyrannosaur' trailer, yet he is still seen as an essential character to the trailer. This is used to create intrigue within the audience as to what their backstory is along with how they fit into the narrative of the film. We reflected this in our trailer by only showing our antagonist in a limited number of shots, also placing more importance on our protagonist.

Only one shot in the trailer includes the protagonist laughing in a less detrimental environment. We took inspiration from this by including a variety of emotions in our trailer. However, ours differs as Olivia Coleman's character is surrounded by others where as our protagonist finds happiness in his solitude, as he is never truly alone due to his hallucinations.

Friday, 18 November 2016

Call Sheets

Below is a link to our Call Sheet documents:

https://1drv.ms/f/s!Aj_iivevjN-fiTYxkrKkhyhgkWlt

Thursday, 17 November 2016

Audience expectations primary and secondary research

Primary research:

We sent this survey out to around 60 people aged 17-20 as this was our target audience age. The out come of our survey gave us not only feedback about our genre but constructive feedback about our film, for example a few people said they wanted to " see more emotion and action" so we took this on board and included a couple of extra shots that had our protagonist feeling vulnerable and angry.
over half of the people surveyed said they do like hybrid genre films, as it makes the film more intriguing and thrilling. We took this feedback on board and decide to make our main genre drama but with aspects of sub genres such as psychological and social realism, as this is what our audience liked so we want to try and suit their expectations.
A very important question we asked in our survey was ' do you prefer a male or female protagonist' and over 70% said they preferred a male, therefore we took on this opinion and decided to use a male as our main character as we felt it would meet audience expectations better and therefore make more people want to watch our film trailer.

Secondary Research:

In order to gain an audiences expectation of drama films, we looked at a range of iconic films of this genre, and read the critic reviews and ratings to see what the audience liked and disliked about the film. We then took these views and incorporated what they were looking for in a drama and used these ideas as a foundation for what we wanted to include in our drama based film trailer.