Literature

These are some books we took out of the school library to influence out film trailer. We read through these books and took a couple of ideas from them.

Some books we took out of the school library to read for ideas on how to create a realistic plot.

Storyboard Part 2

Storyboard

Completed Storyboard



The Usual suspects

The usual suspects trailer

• Voice over tells the story
• The first sentence gives away the narrative of the film "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled, was convincing the world he didn't exist.
• The first two shots fade into one another
• The first shot shows fire, reflecting the danger that the audience will expect to see in the film. The fire is also started by a cigarette, and the audience will have assumptions that it was a man smoking the cigarette, and cigarettes are often linked to gangsters, therefore setting the genre of the film. This shot is repeated at the end for emphasis
• The second shot we are produced with is of some criminals in a line up and the audience now know who the main characters are.
•  Throughout the trailer there are frequent shots of violence and death, the audience then assume that the characters they were introduced to at the beginning of the trailer are responsible for these crimes.
• The audience is also introduced to an officer, we know this by him costume and the voice over.
• The audience is aware that the police are trying to find  the suspects from the begging and there is a sense of a race against time between the suspects and the police.
• It is also made clear that both the police and the suspects are looking for the same man who is thought to be very dangerous
• Prominent colours are red and blue
• Camera angles are mainly mid-shots and close-ups
• The lighting throughout the trailer is fairly low key.
• Theatrical trailer-gives away most of the plot but not the twist.
• Slow editing at the beginning, speeds near the middle, slows and speeds towards the end.
• Sound bridges - vocal

Shot Ideas

These are some images from films and tv programmes of shots we would like to use in our film trailer

Clocks

A clock would feature as one of the main props in our teaser trailer, and getting the right looking clock is crucial so we are looking at what clock would be appropriate, some of which we could use are below.
We and to use a repeated clock image to reflect the passing of time.

Storyboard and corresponding narrative

This is our first draught of our storyboard. We've drawn simple sketches and placed them in a rough order so we know approximately where each shot will appear.
Because this is a trailer many shots will be repeated throughout and it will not be until we are onto the post production editing stage that we will be able to finalise exactly where each shot will appear.                                     

Our final narrative idea is this:

• A policeman and his wife have a daughter who commits suicide due to severe bullying from school peers
• The wife seeks revenge on the bullies and kidnaps, tortures and eventually murders them.
• Her husband however is unaware of this, and he is one of the policeman investigating the case.
• The husband discovers halfway through that his wife is the murderer and covers up for her so that the other detective does not suspect her.
• However this lands him in trouble as he is suspected to be the person kidnapping these girls.

We're going to focus on the parts where the girls are being held captive and the detectives trying to track the murderer ( a la "The Silence of the Lambs"). (See previous blogs of locations etc.).