We wanted to use a non-diagetic soundtrack that instantly our audience could relate to, so we decided to use the song 'Bouncing off the walls' by Sugarcult. We chose this soung because it is upeat and fast paced which should keep the audiences attention and keep them interested. With this song it helps our audience relate to it by the lyrics 'Bouncing of the wall' is a reference to a person bouncing off the walls not knowing in what direction they are going, having good and bad times, pretty much showing how a teenager will be feeling at this stage in their life, helping us relate to our target audience.
When using sound effects we plan to fade out the music showing good use of technology and editing, then bring it back up again to raise the tempo, this is so we can hear the effects while maintaining the audiences attention
Here is the song we are going to use 'Bouncing off the walls' by Sugarcult
Friday, 5 February 2010
Planning : Sound Effects
We plan to have a few sound effects in our teaser trailer as they can often be used as a sign when things are going wrong and with our main Protaganist character often having bad luck and things going wrong for him, sound effects can help show this in the narrative. Also with the trailer being in the genre of rom-coms while relating to teenagers, we found from our research that often sound effects play a part because it is a sign of immaturity, teenagers messing around having fun are where silly noises come in and have a comic affect on the audience, which we want to happen. One sound effect we want to have is when our character will be hit by a ball or other object as we introduce him to give some comic affect. Also at the end of the trailer just before it finishes, we want to have the title of the film, then a sound effect of a dj set scratching and then it cuts back to our main character doing something silly, this sound effect will show our audience that just as they think our trailer is over, there is one last bit for them to see.
Planning : Editing
After we have filmed our product we plan to use the Apple imovie and Adobe AfterEffects to edit. Using these two pieces of software we will be able to successfully use transsion features like fading out, or a swipe cut, or dissolve. We plan to use the editing transition fading out to help create a little bit of suspense for the audience that will hopefully keep them hooked as they will want to find out what happens next, and also to help our trailer run smoothly from scene to scene. Along with the fade, a swipe out will also be useful to keep up the tempo/pace of the trailer, helping it stay upbeat and fun like a rom-com trailer.
Planning : Camera Angles
During our teaser trailer to make it as enjoyable for the audience as possible we our going to have to use a wide variety of camera angles to portray our main character's problems/obsticles.
At the start of the filming we will use wide shots and establishing shots, needed for setting the scene as this is importance to the audience especially for teenagers or any type of audience so they can relate to the setting, and maybe similarities that they have had while being in that same situation, the establishing shot puts the audience at ease and they can then become familiar with their surroundings.
For the main viewing we will be using close ups so we can see the emotion and facial expressions Anders has to go through on his journey, along with medium close ups and wide shots again. The wide angle will play a very vital role in showing the mise-en-scene, everything else that is going on in the scene around our characters.
With there being a potential reltionship on the brink which would have its ups and downs, we thought music would play a key role in our trailer, so we wanted to use camera angles relating to the lyrics in the song, when the tempo was fast and upbeat we wanted a happy facial expression, when it was slow and calm we wanted sad, depressing angles, as our audeince would be able to relate to all these emotions our character was going through.
At the start of the filming we will use wide shots and establishing shots, needed for setting the scene as this is importance to the audience especially for teenagers or any type of audience so they can relate to the setting, and maybe similarities that they have had while being in that same situation, the establishing shot puts the audience at ease and they can then become familiar with their surroundings.
For the main viewing we will be using close ups so we can see the emotion and facial expressions Anders has to go through on his journey, along with medium close ups and wide shots again. The wide angle will play a very vital role in showing the mise-en-scene, everything else that is going on in the scene around our characters.
With there being a potential reltionship on the brink which would have its ups and downs, we thought music would play a key role in our trailer, so we wanted to use camera angles relating to the lyrics in the song, when the tempo was fast and upbeat we wanted a happy facial expression, when it was slow and calm we wanted sad, depressing angles, as our audeince would be able to relate to all these emotions our character was going through.
Planning : Storyline / Ideas 'The Thrill Of 30 Seconds'
The plot to our film features around time, and how important time is in life. We will use the classic common conventions we have seen through our research of rom-coms but we also wanted to break the classic mould that this type of genre genrally seems to fall in, to put a bit of a tiwst in our product that would set it apart from others. We chose time as our main feature to focus around because it has a massive impact in our life and can be the difference from success and failure. Our main character will be Anders, and he will soon realise how important time is to him over the course of the film and a gift he will realise he has, which we will try to show in our teaser trailer.
Anders is our 'Protaganist' character and throughout his life he seems to have always had the bad luck, nothing ever seems to go to plan for Anders. 'The Thrill Of 30 Seconds' will be about Anders finally getting that bit of luck he deserves and getting a chance with a girl that would normally seem out of his league, unreachable, so here the characters involved Anders and the female are our polar opposites. The female character will be Holly, and with Anders not having a good past record with girls, Holly is a girl who is willing to give Anders a chance when others wouldnt, so when they plan to finally meet, Holly gives Anders one condition he has to be there within 30 seconds. Here the story unfolds as Anders is faced with a common convention of rom-coms, a problem, a situation where something has to be fixed or overcome, Anders has numerous obsticles to overcome on his way that is preventing him from meeting Holly, this is when he realises his gift for time, relating to his watch which we try to use as the main attraction to our brand, this 'special' watch should capture the audiences attention and interest.
Anders is our 'Protaganist' character and throughout his life he seems to have always had the bad luck, nothing ever seems to go to plan for Anders. 'The Thrill Of 30 Seconds' will be about Anders finally getting that bit of luck he deserves and getting a chance with a girl that would normally seem out of his league, unreachable, so here the characters involved Anders and the female are our polar opposites. The female character will be Holly, and with Anders not having a good past record with girls, Holly is a girl who is willing to give Anders a chance when others wouldnt, so when they plan to finally meet, Holly gives Anders one condition he has to be there within 30 seconds. Here the story unfolds as Anders is faced with a common convention of rom-coms, a problem, a situation where something has to be fixed or overcome, Anders has numerous obsticles to overcome on his way that is preventing him from meeting Holly, this is when he realises his gift for time, relating to his watch which we try to use as the main attraction to our brand, this 'special' watch should capture the audiences attention and interest.
Applying Theories : Roland Barthes
The theory of Rolan Barthers is that he belives there are 5 codes that help the audience make sense of narrative :
* Hermeneutic - (narrative turning point), this helps the audience know where the story will go next.
* Proairetic - (basic narrative actions), this helps create tension which does not directly raise particular questions.
* Cultural - (prior social knowledge), this is our attitude towards social awareness and different cultures. How we react to racial sterotypes, along with gender, age disabilities etc.
* Semic - (medium related codes), intertextuality is creating meaning of texts from other texts
* Symbolic - (themes), iconography or a theme such as image versus reality, where the audience can create a representation due to an image or theme
These 5 common rules make it easy for the audience to establish a narrative because although it seems easy to keep to the common conventions in rom-coms often the narrative can be lead astray and the audience left confused, so if we try to stick to these 5 rules we hope to keep the audiences attention and more importantly in a trailer their interest to come and watch the film.
* Hermeneutic - (narrative turning point), this helps the audience know where the story will go next.
* Proairetic - (basic narrative actions), this helps create tension which does not directly raise particular questions.
* Cultural - (prior social knowledge), this is our attitude towards social awareness and different cultures. How we react to racial sterotypes, along with gender, age disabilities etc.
* Semic - (medium related codes), intertextuality is creating meaning of texts from other texts
* Symbolic - (themes), iconography or a theme such as image versus reality, where the audience can create a representation due to an image or theme
These 5 common rules make it easy for the audience to establish a narrative because although it seems easy to keep to the common conventions in rom-coms often the narrative can be lead astray and the audience left confused, so if we try to stick to these 5 rules we hope to keep the audiences attention and more importantly in a trailer their interest to come and watch the film.
Applying Theories : Ervin Goffman
With outside research we have also done, as well as looking at information during our lessons, we were able to use narrative theories and apply them to our analysis.
One theory we could use was the Ervin Goffman's character theory, this theory suggests that there are 4 main types of characters in a production, using this theory I was able to relate it back to the film 'Knocked Up'
1. Protaganist = Seth Rogan in this film would be the 'Protaganist' character this is because the film centres around him and his situation of becoming an expectant father and how he is able to deal with the new responsabilities he is faced with.
2. Deuteragonist = This type of character would be Katherine Heigl who plays the second most important character, she plays the expectant mother who is portrayed as the calmer and more relxed partner compared to Seth Rogen. This could be seen as conforming to the common representations as the men being more dominant, therefore Seth Rogen playing the Protaganist, and Katherine Heigl more associated with the emotional side of the film.
3. The Bit Player = Jason Segel plays the bit player in this film, he acts as Seth Rogens best friend, who also trys to have a relationship with Katherine Heigl's married sister. He is part of Seth Rogens group of friends who dont play major parts in the film and are mainly there for humerous affect and to help support Seth Rogen's character.
4 The Fool = Paul Rudd plays the fool, he is technically unrelated to all the characters and is the husband of Katherin Heigl's sister. He gradually becomes more and more involved in the film throughout as he becomes friends with Seth Rogen and throughout the film serves as comic relif.
In my teaser trailer I will try to portray these types of characters as best as I can, although with our set breif being a teaser trailer that means we will not have much time, so we may well just have to establish both the protaganist and deuteragonist characters. We chose to use this theory because we think we could accuratly portray these characters as they relate to our selected genre.
One theory we could use was the Ervin Goffman's character theory, this theory suggests that there are 4 main types of characters in a production, using this theory I was able to relate it back to the film 'Knocked Up'
1. Protaganist = Seth Rogan in this film would be the 'Protaganist' character this is because the film centres around him and his situation of becoming an expectant father and how he is able to deal with the new responsabilities he is faced with.
2. Deuteragonist = This type of character would be Katherine Heigl who plays the second most important character, she plays the expectant mother who is portrayed as the calmer and more relxed partner compared to Seth Rogen. This could be seen as conforming to the common representations as the men being more dominant, therefore Seth Rogen playing the Protaganist, and Katherine Heigl more associated with the emotional side of the film.
3. The Bit Player = Jason Segel plays the bit player in this film, he acts as Seth Rogens best friend, who also trys to have a relationship with Katherine Heigl's married sister. He is part of Seth Rogens group of friends who dont play major parts in the film and are mainly there for humerous affect and to help support Seth Rogen's character.
4 The Fool = Paul Rudd plays the fool, he is technically unrelated to all the characters and is the husband of Katherin Heigl's sister. He gradually becomes more and more involved in the film throughout as he becomes friends with Seth Rogen and throughout the film serves as comic relif.
In my teaser trailer I will try to portray these types of characters as best as I can, although with our set breif being a teaser trailer that means we will not have much time, so we may well just have to establish both the protaganist and deuteragonist characters. We chose to use this theory because we think we could accuratly portray these characters as they relate to our selected genre.
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