We had to repost this due to some technical issues.
Here is our website again:
www.wix.com/mjones2332/website
Saturday
Friday
voice over
this is the first draft of the voice over that we were going to use for our trailer.
"This is generally what you see if you go down the wrong road in wickford. Here you got two of the toughest criminals in England. But you have to understand Jason anit nothing without his car. After all he is only a driver.
Now Chris can get or set up anything he wants, not giving two shits. He is the dealer.
Murphy the Irishman. The loveable character. He can get in anywhere. Not sure how he does it half the time but he never fails.
Now I wouldn’t mess with Paul. They call him the gun. Not too sure why if im honest. I heard that’s because of the inventive ways he would hurt people with one. I try not to ask.
And hear is the shadiest is of them all. No one knows his name or why he done it. Maybe he was just bored. But he created pertshires finest."
"This is generally what you see if you go down the wrong road in wickford. Here you got two of the toughest criminals in England. But you have to understand Jason anit nothing without his car. After all he is only a driver.
Now Chris can get or set up anything he wants, not giving two shits. He is the dealer.
Murphy the Irishman. The loveable character. He can get in anywhere. Not sure how he does it half the time but he never fails.
Now I wouldn’t mess with Paul. They call him the gun. Not too sure why if im honest. I heard that’s because of the inventive ways he would hurt people with one. I try not to ask.
And hear is the shadiest is of them all. No one knows his name or why he done it. Maybe he was just bored. But he created pertshires finest."
Thursday
characters & representation
In our movie we will have a variety characters, five main ones in the trailer. To start with we have a character that we tried to make look like a slob but really he is a criminal mastermind.
another character is a stereotypical Irish man. we represent him not in an offencive way just stereotypical with a Guinness top and a four leave clover. this might help bring in a wider audience.one of them is a bully basically, so we thought we would dress him in a leather jacket and stick a knife in his hand.
the other two are just to average people but we created a label for each of them. the driver and the dealer.
each of these characters has their own signifier so it is easy for the audience to get an idea of them in the short trailer.
Tuesday
magazine cover
As a empire magazine cover has all ready been made i made a cover for another magazine called little white lies. 
Monday
T-Shirt
We used a basic sepia-toned coloru scheme for our t-shirt. After dissecting other merchandise we found out that by sticknig to basic colour schemes it made the merchandise more effective. We added a similar font to our text here as we have throughout the film and added no other text other than the film name.
Monday
Merchandise Poster Analysis
The merchandise we put together on the Merchboard is a collection of various items related to films. We dissected them and gathered research that we thought would help with our merchandise. As follows:
The t-shirt design used on the family guy t-shirt is bold and simplified. The colour scheme is very plain (using only black and white) which adds a blunt effect, yet a desirable one as it shows what the t-shirt is without any lyrical additives. When we looekd into other film-related t-shirts they all followed a very basic colour scheme or jsut simply adapted the film poster onto them. Very rarely did any t-shirts have an outbursting colour scheme unless said colours where used to illuminate any specifics such as a title or tag line. We concluded from this that in order to make an effect t-shirt we must also follow these basic guidelines.
Smaller merchandise and slightly more mainstream things such as cups and post-cards followed a very simple pattern of simply using the films poster on them; we adapted this and have therefore decided to do the same due to its high effect and cheap production.
More prominent items in the merchandise market are props and collectables from the films. Take for example the star wars 'stormtrooper' helmet. The storm trooper helmet is one of the most biggest selling movie props of all time, and not only is it a colelctable but it is also practical, alot of them actually being able to be worn. Other props such as supermans cape, predators wrist blade and batmans suit are also very popular, and normally very exact in detail. Given that these are the most successful pieces of merchandise we also decided to focus on reproducing the memory stick that is used in our film.
In the next post there will be images of a T-shirt, Post-card, a mug and a memory stick all in relation to our film.
The t-shirt design used on the family guy t-shirt is bold and simplified. The colour scheme is very plain (using only black and white) which adds a blunt effect, yet a desirable one as it shows what the t-shirt is without any lyrical additives. When we looekd into other film-related t-shirts they all followed a very basic colour scheme or jsut simply adapted the film poster onto them. Very rarely did any t-shirts have an outbursting colour scheme unless said colours where used to illuminate any specifics such as a title or tag line. We concluded from this that in order to make an effect t-shirt we must also follow these basic guidelines.
Smaller merchandise and slightly more mainstream things such as cups and post-cards followed a very simple pattern of simply using the films poster on them; we adapted this and have therefore decided to do the same due to its high effect and cheap production.
More prominent items in the merchandise market are props and collectables from the films. Take for example the star wars 'stormtrooper' helmet. The storm trooper helmet is one of the most biggest selling movie props of all time, and not only is it a colelctable but it is also practical, alot of them actually being able to be worn. Other props such as supermans cape, predators wrist blade and batmans suit are also very popular, and normally very exact in detail. Given that these are the most successful pieces of merchandise we also decided to focus on reproducing the memory stick that is used in our film.
In the next post there will be images of a T-shirt, Post-card, a mug and a memory stick all in relation to our film.
Merchboard!
This is my collabaration of memorabilia and merchandise in relation to films. It has no intention of organisation but it was more to put out the intense amount of merchandise out there, being it costumes and props from the actual film, or simply mugs and postcards with the film name on it.Sunday
Mood Board
This is our mood board. Unfortunately the picture quality was not amazing as our own camera had gona AWOL but this is it. The moodboard comprises of pictures of snatch, Lock stock, Guy Ritchie, Guns, This is England and a centre shot.As the writing is too distorted i will type up what we wrote:
The Red Section (Bottom Left):
"MAIN CHARACTERS INTRODUCTION SHOT
The theme that we see here is used for all of our characters shots, that being a still shot of the character with their name being shown which leads onto their actions and their part of the story."
The Blue Section (Bottom Right):
"GUNS AND ENGLAND. Films such as 'This is England' and 'Lock Stock...' helped us characterise our costumes and adapt as need be to our mise en scene, but they also gave us an insight into the more violent side of the comedic side of violence represented in Snatch etc. We therefore used this to obtain and capture as much of this dark yet comedic essence as we can, whislt partially limiting violence as we could"
The Orange Section (Top Left):
"THE GUY Guy Ritchie is our main source of inspiration for our film, his enjambent of classic london and everything that goes with it helped us to use the correct attire, props etc in our films. The man behind Snatch, Lock stock and Rock n rolla. We studied alot of his work and picked up on key points such as his use of regional dialect, his use of basic costumes yet detailed accesories, the funnier sides of his characters (DOG, tyrone) and his clever use of location. His use of encaptioning the want for something material, (snatch, lock stock) helped us develop our key item: The memory stick. All in all Guy Ritche was our main inspiration for our film and we therefore thought it crucial to put him on our mood board as most of our atmosphere in the film is a manifestation of his.
The Green Section (Centre Bottom):
Snatches impressive use of each characters significance is prominant and obvious; each character playing an important role in the film, without them it would not work. We tried to encorporate this into our film by using the character title shots and character actions being shown after it. We felt that as everything was part of a puzzle each piece deserved appropriate recognition.
All in all our moodboard shows each aspect that we have developed our film from, being it costumes, era or Director.
rough cut
this is the rough cut for our trailer. we are going to add dialoge to give it more of a story. we also need to add titles like in profecional trailers.
Thursday
Tuesday
Empire Cover
This is our film cover. We used the basic attribute of putting the character over the EMPIRE logo to add more significance to the character.
We used empires bold and red colour scheme as it was the most effective as well as being a co-ordinate colour with the rest. We added the names of Guy Ritchie films at the side as it is our inspiration for the film, and the character shots of 'mickey' (from Snatch) and 'Tony' (from Snatch).
We used empires bold and red colour scheme as it was the most effective as well as being a co-ordinate colour with the rest. We added the names of Guy Ritchie films at the side as it is our inspiration for the film, and the character shots of 'mickey' (from Snatch) and 'Tony' (from Snatch).Thursday
Introduction shot: Analysis
All of our character introduction shots follwoed the basic 'sepia tone with film grain' added colour and feel to them. Our inspiration was Guy Ritchies 'Snatch' when the characters are introduced in that, below is a picture of the character 'Sol' when this is applied. We however differed from this by using a different colour and by adding an extra image and nickname to the characters for the sakes of the trailer.
Introduction shot: Paul
The character Paul is introduced as probally the most serious character of the crew. Pauls attire is a leather jacket with a cap on; giving paul a shady look about himself as well as quite an intimidating look. The gun behind him is the image we used as he is more of a 'shoot first' kind of charactter. Once again we added the sepia tone and film grain texture to this, although we kept the brightness of the character down to add a sinister feel to him. We kept a slightly more simplsitic feel to this also to emphasise the bluntness of the character.
Paul is played by James Wood.
Paul is played by James Wood.
Introduction shot: Murphy
Murphy 'The Irishman', is evidently an irish character in our film. We used the four leafed clover behind Murphy to add to the irish representation, and this was further enforced by the 'Guinness' top, given the Guinness originated in Dublin. Given that, again, this character is smiling we follow on with the general quirky cheeky theme of our characters. Again, the sepia tone was added with film grain effect.
Murphy is played by Alan Andrews
Murphy is played by Alan Andrews
Introduction shot: Jane
With the shot of Jane we used a giant lip-stick mark as her background picture. We thought this would add a sense of elegance about her, and given that the other characters all have quirky smiles on them and Jane is looking fairly serious we hoped it would reinforce this more. We again applied the sepia and film grain texture to Jane to match with the other characters. Janes label of simply 'Her' is intended to give a sense of curiosity about Jane as well as show she is quite significant.
Jane is played by Eurn Andrews.
Jane is played by Eurn Andrews.
Introduction shot: Jason
The character 'Jason' in his opening still shot is depicted as quite a quirky character given the smile nad the smart jacket. We used a picture of a car behind him to put emphasis upon the 'driver' label he has. As he is the driver. We again applied the basic sepia effect to the piece althoguh this time we solarised the car to give it a more significant part of the story, and given the following shots that exceed his still shot show the car itself we thoguht this would be apt.
Jason is played by Reiss Mckechnie
Jason is played by Reiss Mckechnie
Introduction shot: Chris
As you can see by the picture above Chris is 'The dealer'. This still shot will be added before Chris is introduced into the trailer as a way of showing what kind of person he is. We will also have a spoken dialogue running through this still shot and what the character is doing. We used Cards behind him to emphasise as to what kind of 'dealer' he is. The colour tone we used for this shot is the same as the others: Sepia background and the character is sepia-toned also, but has also got the element of 'film grain' effect on it (photoshop) to make it look almost cartoon like. Although it is not evident also we used a back-pack on Chris as well as the cards behind him to give a sense of ambiguity about the 'Dealer' label, this was further helped by the hoody he is wearing.
Chris is played by Matthew Jones
Chris is played by Matthew Jones
Tuesday
Poster idea #1(a)
This is my first draft idea for a film poster. It is currentlyl acking a full title as well as credits etc; therefore this would ber more of a teaser poster as appsoed to a full one. I will edit this to add in credits as well as the full title across the main police tape. I feel this may be more suitable for a DVD cover as apposed to a poster.
Monday
Questionnaire results analysis.
We did a survey of 15 people, The results were as follows:
11 of the 15 where aged between 12-17 and the remaining where aged over 18 years of age, although those aged over 18 years old were still under 25. These numbers helped to give us a representative of the ages we wanted and furthermore help us to produce a well-received trailer.
Every person we asked gave a response to what is enticing about teaser trailers, although majoratively the answers revolved around a “plot that does not give too much away” and a “fast paced trailer that draws you in”. From this we concluded that we should use a lot of fast paced scenes, that are interesting and temporarily satisfying, that all revolve around the general gist of the film, but do not give away crucial parts of the film.
Upon being asked their favourite genre the answers were as follows:
Action: 6
Thriller: 4
Sci-Fi: 1
Horror: 2
Comedy: 3
From this we gathered that action and thriller where the most important genres to revolve around as they were the most favourable.
Peoples favourite trailers generally tended to lean towards action and comedy (inevitably) films such as ‘The Dark Knight’ and ‘The Hangover’ respectively, although luckily films such as ‘Snatch’ and ‘Lock Stock…’ where mentioned, obviously this sparked curiosity as this was going to be our area of ideas. Upon asking more they recalled the classic Guy Ritchie introduction of characters, this therefore we pin-pointed as a key feature to use.
An example of this can be seen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFgL2_eAlcA
From 1:11 to 1:34.
11 of the 15 where aged between 12-17 and the remaining where aged over 18 years of age, although those aged over 18 years old were still under 25. These numbers helped to give us a representative of the ages we wanted and furthermore help us to produce a well-received trailer.
Every person we asked gave a response to what is enticing about teaser trailers, although majoratively the answers revolved around a “plot that does not give too much away” and a “fast paced trailer that draws you in”. From this we concluded that we should use a lot of fast paced scenes, that are interesting and temporarily satisfying, that all revolve around the general gist of the film, but do not give away crucial parts of the film.
Upon being asked their favourite genre the answers were as follows:
Action: 6
Thriller: 4
Sci-Fi: 1
Horror: 2
Comedy: 3
From this we gathered that action and thriller where the most important genres to revolve around as they were the most favourable.
Peoples favourite trailers generally tended to lean towards action and comedy (inevitably) films such as ‘The Dark Knight’ and ‘The Hangover’ respectively, although luckily films such as ‘Snatch’ and ‘Lock Stock…’ where mentioned, obviously this sparked curiosity as this was going to be our area of ideas. Upon asking more they recalled the classic Guy Ritchie introduction of characters, this therefore we pin-pointed as a key feature to use.
An example of this can be seen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFgL2_eAlcA
From 1:11 to 1:34.
The questionnaire.
The questionnaire we have here gives us a rough evaluation of audience feedback and therefore helps us to be able to correlate the results positively which will enable us to make our trailer more applicable to our target audience; Teenagers/young adults. The Results will be added with a critical anaysis to further dissect our results.
Thursday
Tuesday
the new plan
this is a quick plan that really took our film in a different direction than we originally intended. not really drastic changes but it really helped us get a better idea on our film and add more shots in to give it a bit more length.
Monday
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