Evaluation of 'Abduction' film trailer Project

Evaluation Q1 from Jack Alexander

 

Evaluation of Film trailer - Question 2: How effective is the combination of your main product and the ancillary texts?


Question 3: What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Evaluation Q4 from Jack Alexander

 

 

Abduction film trailer

Photo Storyboard for final ideas.

Medium shot of the class rooms setting at the beginning of the film.

Long and medium shots in the main setting where most of the action takes place.

Another longshot of where the villain is supposed to be sighted.

close ups of the bag that is investigated by the protagonist.

More longshots of where the sighting of the villain takes place.

Longshots down the alley way where the villain is sighted looking at the protagonist.

More visual shots of the setting that is further explored by the character in the film.

An idea of how tall the villain will be in the film, in the setting used.

Another setting which is featured at the end of the trailer.

Shot of the protagonists feet as he is about to look up at the villain.

This shows a close up of the villain's chest, same concept used for the Poster.

The TV plays a role in making the contact between the two friends more authentic.

The character looks out the window he as he is paranoid of what he saw.

The protagonist leaving his friend's house with the camera.

The protagonist's friend waving goodbye to the protagonist, telling him to be careful with the camera.

Risk Assessment on Production

Risk assessment.

1.       What risks are there to yourselves, other people and the equipment that may arise from filming in your chosen locations?

2.       What steps can be taken to minimise and avoid those risks?
 

Location one.
 

Farm Road- Finchfield/Northfield Grove/ Southfield Grove/ Bhylls Lane.

1.       As these are residential areas, there is little risk in filming here. However, the cars of the local people may be considered as a risk as they may disrupt shooting and are a potential source of physical harm and damage to the cameras. There is also the risk of upsetting the local people due to the noise created during filming. One shot of the trailer involves running whilst holding the camera, this could be a risk as the person may trip and fall, damaging the camera.
 

2.       To avoid these risks, we must keep a dedicated eye on traffic, making sure that if the need arises for filming to take place in the road that it is clear of cars. To avoid upsetting the local people, we must ensure that we keep the noise made during filming to a bare minimum. This will not be too much of a problem as the scenes we intend to film do not require much noise. To avoid damage to the camera, it would be wise to set a particular path for the camera man to run, a path that contains very little opportunity for the camera man to fall. However, the risk is still present as the camera man may trip over his own feet, we will have to make sure his laces are tied.
 

Location two.
 

Smestow School

1.       Risks present in filming in a school are that students or teachers that are unaware of filming may enter the location and disrupt the shot. Filming could also disrupt lessons taking place.

2.       To minimise these risks a note will have to be placed onto the door of the intended classroom, saying ‘do not disturb’ in hopes that they will not enter and disrupt the shot. Filming will also have to be coordinated with teachers to prevent disruption to their lessons.
 

Location three
 

The friend’s house (On Bhylls lane)

1.       Risks of filming inside a house are that accidents may occur during filming in which personal property gets damaged. The use of stairs during filming could also be problematic as the camera man may fall during filming. Noise made during filming may disrupt the neighbours, angering them.

2.       To avoid these risks, extra care will be taken to avoid the breaking of property, for example, valuable items will be removed from an area where they may receive harm during filming. To avoid falling down the stairs, the camera man must be focused on both the shot and the stairs themselves, and making sure there are no obstructions on the stairs or that the shoe laces of the camera man are tied. Noise will also have to be kept to a minimum,  however, the shots that are intended to be filmed do not require much noise, therefore this will not pose much of a problem.

Finalised Script.

Script – Abduction

 

Black screen, production company name fades in. screen fades out and into the first camera shot. The main character, Jack is in class filming his teacher. The teacher tells him to switch off the camera.

INT-DAY

TEACHER

 ’Jack is that really necessary?’

JACK

 ‘oh come on sir!’

TEACHER

 ‘not in my class, off!’

Camera fades to black – more credits fade onto the screen then after a few seconds; it fades into the next scene.

Jack is at his friend’s house playing Xbox, he asks his friend the time

FRIEND

 ‘erm, half 10 why?’

JACK

 ‘*sigh* I gotta go’

Cuts to jack walking out the front door, turns to friend and say goodbye, friend replies with:

JACK

 ‘I’ll see you tomorrow, oh, and be careful with that camera it could get you into trouble.

Fades into next scene

Jack is walking along a road on his way home and sees a figure in the background.

JACK

 ‘what the hell?’

Camera zooms in on figure, the figure with his back to jack stands u and walks away as if he realises jack is walking.

Cut to black scene with credits, fades to next scene.

Jack and his friend are at his friend’s house, he is talking about him being paranoid, whilst filming out of the window.

JACK

 ‘I’m serious, this guy is following me’

FRIEND

 ‘Don’t you think you’re over reacting? I mean, how many people wear suits?’

JACK

 ‘There’s something different about him though…’

Whilst audio of conversation played, a ‘flashback’ shot is shown of the suited man

INT - DAY

Pushing past Jack – from behind and walks in front into Jack walking at night again, he sees the figure again and watches him walk away and plucks up the courage to investigate.

He gets to the area in question – pile of bin bags and approaches and hears a Bang

The bang leads into a black screen, more credits, music tempo increases and Jack runs, fades into jack running around the corner, suit man is there, Jack runs back the way he came.

Camera fades to more credits – fades back to Jack catching his breath, brings the camera up and sees the chest of the suit man – sees ties +jacket  etc. cuts back to title screen back to a shot of jack running with heavy breathing, cuts to final black screen.

Storyboards on final ideas.

The following images are my storyboards which illustrate my product.

Textual Analysis of film trailers - 4

Textual Analysis

The Dark Knight Rises

1. This trailer contains speech both voice-over and diegetic, also contains symbolism which refers to the Batman logo of the Christopher Nolan series. Music and sound are included and sound effects combine with the music very dramatically.
2. This film is an action adventure film based on the comic books of Batman and a series of 3 films directed by Christopher Nolan. 
3. This film is aimed at fans of previous comic books and those who watched the previous two films of the same series (The Dark Knight in articular became one of the highest grossing films ever made). Those who enjoy action and violence and fighting would also be on the list.
4. This trailer makes me feel very excited because the previous two films were incredibly entertaining and the first Batman films I liked. The film also concludes the story which also builds my excitement as well as the introduction of a new villain and protagonist (cat woman).
5. This trailer represents main character who is a rich business man and another person who we assume is rich due to her being with other rich characters and also the way she dresses. The majority of the characters are also adults.
6. This trailer shows a very serious tone which combines well with the on-screen text in between each scene saying stuff including 'all hope is lost'. This makes me think that the film makers wanted us to know that Batman will face his toughest enemy due to it being the conclusion.

The Prototype

1. This trailer features music and sound throughout, speech in most of the scenes shown and also dramatic action. 
2. This film looks to be a science-fiction film judging by the situation and visual appearance of the main character who appears to be a machine.
3. The target audience for this film would be mainly males because of the way the characters look to be either police or militarized and the main character a formidable and intimidating male. Fans of sci-fi would enjoy this film too because the main character is a machine.
4. This advert makes me excited because of the down beat theme and also the music which adds suspense to the story which seems to be about a half man half machine being hunted.
5. The characters are represented as people with normal lives, probably working class or higher which normal jobs. Then there are the police/military characters who look like they should as typical military characters hunting the machine with black suits and a black helicopter.
6. The style and tone is very serious and informal because the way the character is portrayed and his situation is very abnormal and the characters and music increases the seriousness of their situation an the scenes suspense. 

Star Trek Into Darkness

1. This trailer includes music, sound and speech played by a voice-over. The scenes are shown to be dramatic action.
2. This film is a science-fiction and an action because of the explosions, spacecraft and also because it is a sequel to a popular Science fiction franchise. 
3. Due to the voice-over consisting of a male and also the main character I would say the target audience would be for males, however females would be targeted because the film tells a small romance story too.
4. This trailer makes me excited because of the dramatic action, the performance of the actors in the trailer and also the vast landscapes in the setting/locations.
5. The characters are represented as people that live abnormal lives compared to ours because the film looks to be set in a fictional world with fictional species. because of the science-fiction theme it is hard to pinpoint an accurate social class or background.
6. The style is serious because every character shown in the trailer appears to be showing serious expressions and body language and the voice-over also sounds serious. 

Bully

1. The trailer features music and speech which is diegetic (heard by the characters in the film) and is also a documentary/film which shows a fictional story upon a real-life problem that effects millions of people.
2. This genre would be a documentary film because it tells a particular story of a problem known as bullying and also looking at the trailer gives information on the effects of bullying.
3. The film targets everybody whether they are working or middle class or whether they are males or female because the problem shown in the film is a common problem that effects all kinds of people regardless of background, ethnicity or gender.
4. This trailer makes me realise how much of a problem bullying causes for people, it also made me realise how many people are affected. This is shown by the text that comes on a transition that 13 million children would be bullied that year.
5. The characters represented are based on real and normal/average people in the sense that they are working/middle class Americans that have normal jobs and the children go to schools like normal children do. 
6. The tone is serious because of the gravity of the problem that the characters face and also the performance by the actors which greatly increase the seriousness of their situation.