shots list

The shots list shows all the different camera shots, angles and movements that will be shown within our trailer. This again gives guidence to the camera operator. Camera shots, angles and movements are very important when filming as they them self can portray meanings for the audience. Even if the creators of the film did not mean to give a certain portrayal to the audience this may still happen as the audience may still make their own personal meaning of a certain camera movement. This is why the camera operator needs be careful and precise in their work as they may give the wrong meaning to the audience or may not portray a meaning as effectively as they aimed to.

Shooting scripts

These are the shooting scripts for each day that we filmed. This shows the locations we used in day 1 of filming the dialogue that was used, and camera directions. This is so the director and the camera operator are able to stick to the ways in which the scenes should look. These are ways of keeping the filming more organised and giving the crew guidance.

Script

This is the script in which we will er use when filming our trailer. We have had to put the script in the order of the clips that will show in the trailer. We have introduced each different seen with stage directions, to ensure the director is telling the actors the right place to stand and we film in the right location. We have also included on the script the lines in which each character will say. There is quite alot of swearing and abusive language. This is because we are trying to portray the frustration that these teenage girls suffer from coming from a socially deprived background and always being the subject to social inequality. Each character has their own problem they have to face within the film and we are trying to show a snippet of that in the trailer so the audience get a feel of the conventions in this film. If they are able to spot the conventions they will then be able to see that the gerne of the film is social realism and then the trailer will appeal to them as it is their preffered genre. We have also put in the script the clips in which we do not show or hear a character but we show things such as the area and drugs. As these are other important conventions of a social realism film.

Primary research

We conducted a questionnaire about film trailers to find out what consumers found effective within a trailer and what they found was ineffective in a trailer. We handed them out to around thirty people within our target audience and found out what they like. This is part of research which will enable us to get the best media product we can for our target audience and to appeal to them in the most effective way.

Our results came to show very useful opinions that we will listen to when producing our trailer. In this pie chart we can see that our target audience prefer the music to be parrellel to the trailer. This has gave us support in our decision to make the music parrellel within our trailer.

We also asked the question of where do you view most trailers. As you can see in the bar chart, our target audience mainly watched trailers in the cinema while going to watch another film. They also watched them on the television and rarely watched them on the internet. This gave us useful information as the main times when our target audience see a trailer is when they are busy watching other things, such as films or television programmes. This means we will show our trailer the most in times in which other social realism films are being viewed or soaps or dramas are being shown on the television. This is to ensure our target audience are able to view our trailer most effectively.

Another question that was asked in our questionnaire is what is our target audiences favourite gerne. From our results we have found that comedy was the most popular. I feel this is because comedy makes you feel good and is a scapegoat for the audience as it makes consumers forget about their own problems within life and enjoy, laugh and relax. However the second most popular genre of film is social realism which is good for us as we are using the gerne of social realism. I feel that the reason this is one of the most popular genres is because it helps audiences to understand those less fortunate than them and understand issues that happen in today's society. it also helps the audience to relate to issues that are shown within social realism films. This makes consumers feel better about their own lifes as they don't have it as bad or it makes them feelas ease as they feel that they are not the only one in that situation an their problem is being recognised.

We also asked the target audience what pace do they prefer the trailer to be. The feedback we got was that generally the audience preferred the trailer to be fast. This is probably because the audience like to feel excited and anxious about the film, so it makes them really want to go and watch it to find out what is going to happen.

location

This the area we chose to do our film in. It is located in Bromford Birmingham. We chose this area as the setting as it is a council estate, which is a deprived area. As our trailer is a film with the gerne of social realism, this deprived area is the ideal place. The aim of our film is to show others how people from socially deprived areas are affected by their trapped status. Our film trys to capture the problems faced by people and the realisation that they face everyday. The area is good for this as it can be easily spotted by the surroundings that this is a deprived area. For example there is lots of rubbish, litter, graffti, damaged property, council houses, high rised flats, also there is a few signs the area placed their by the police aimed to warn the public of the crime within the area. (see above) This provides our trailer with effective mise en scene. For all these reasons I believe that this location is the best setting for our trailer. The house we use within the trailer is actually a council masanette within the area of filming. So this also fits the theme that we are trying to create and shows more of the socially deprived.

call sheets

These are the call sheets that we used for the two days that it took us to film the trailer. On day one we had no actors and just filmed the setting and tryed to get as many conventions into our filming as possible. For example we filmed the scene in which we see drugs and alcohol. We also filmed the area and used parts of the area such as a graffti wall and a flat that is being knocked down, we also captured bits of rubbish and items dumped on the street.
On the second day of filming we had all on the actorson set. They had to change into different clothes to make sure the trailer looked effective as the scences had to be from totally different parts of the film. We filmed scenes in which the characters had to intereact with each other and show lots of different emotions that were shown throughout the film.

Mindmap

This is a mind map of the intiatial ideas that we had for the trailer it includes what conventions we will use as part of the social realism gerne with a gangsta hybrid. These include things such as peer pressure, violence, prosmiscuity, drugs, gang culture, crime and weapons. The reason we use the conventions of the genre in our trailer is so we can appeal to our target audience. They will recognise the conventions and therefore will like it and it will appeal them as social realism films with a gangsta hybrid was the gerne of films that they have really enjoyed in the past.
We have also included the setting. It will be set in a council estate in Birmingham. This shows how deprived the area is that the character lives in. this shows how difficult life can be for teenagers that come from a deprived background and the sorts of issues that can take place within their life. The lighting will be high key to make it look natural and realistic. This is good as our gerne is social realism and is trying to portray real life situations. The dialogue will be the restricted code as this is the main language code that working class individuals use. There will also be alot of swearing and abusive language as this will show the characters frustration at their life situations and the lack of life chances they have. The sound used will be things such as dialogue and non digetic music as the music will be a big indicator of what the film is about as it is rap music talking about street life. The make up that will be used will be quite heavy as these are teenage girls who like to hide themselves away and look their best. They where casual clothing as it needs to be real to life and gold jewellery, this is to reflect what teenagers are wearing in society today.