CONTACT- Final

From our second draft to our final trailer we changed quite a few aspects. Firstly we decided to make our own production company name and logo and included this at the beginning of our trailer. Additionally we added in a screen to tell the audience what certificate rating the film is. After feedback from different people telling us that the sound wasn't right we realised that it was because it did not flow very well and there were two voices at once. So we made sure that no sound was overlapping. Also over the medical scenes we added in beeping sounds from an ECG to differentiate it from the other shots and clearly show it was medical. Finally we also decided to change the shot of the assembly as the previous shot of people's legs from the side didn't show any progression or change whereas our new shot does.

Importance of visual and sound cues to create spectator response

Our website deconstruction

Website deconstruction

I chose to use the Hunger Games website as a basis of ideas, because it is also a dystopian film so I thought that it would relate more to what our website should look like.

Evaluation Question Four

Evaluation Question Three

Evaluation Question One

Website-Final

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Evaluation Question Two

Poster

Poster Genre Research
Minimalistic vs Traditional poster
Poster deconstruction
Creating our poster
Final poster
Our poster deconstruction

Website

Website genre research
Website Deconstruction
Final website
Our website deconstruction

Filming and Editing

Storyboard Alterations
Filming and Editing schedule 
Filming Day 1
Filming Day 1: call sheet
Filming Day 2
Filming Day 2: call sheet
Filming Day 3 and 4
Filming Day 3 and 4: call sheet
Music Choice
Soundtrack analysis in our trailer 
Difficulties encountered when editing 
Technologies used
Model Release forms 
CONTACT- Draft 1
CONTACT- Draft 2
Our use of film form

Planning

Production Company
Initial film idea
Final film idea
Futuristic technology
Colour palette
Scripting draft
Scripting final
Title of our film
Message behind the film
Draft storyboard
Final storyboard
Trailer animatic
Location recce
Casting
Risk assessment
Costume and props
Makeup
Technology in our film
Technology test shots
Theorists ideas in our trailer
Importance of visual and sound cues to create spectator response

Research

Progress: AS-A2
Reflective Research from AS
Teaser vs Theatrical trailer 
Film Promotion 
History of trailers 
Genre in trailers 
Black Swan poster 
Black Swan teaser trailer 
Narrative Theory 
Audience Theory
Representation Theory
Research- Black Mirror
Girl with the dragon tattoo promotional package 
Genre Research- Conventions and History 
Voice-over Research
Iconography
Iconic sounds 
Audience expectations of Genre
Iconic Directors
Certificate Rating 

Creating the poster

Poster- Final

Poster Deconstruction

Trailer Animatic

Our poster deconstruction

Website Genre Research

After looking at a number of dystopian film websites, including the Hunger Games and Maze Runner, I found that they all had a lot of similar aspects. One of the major things you first notice when you look at the websites is that they all have a dark colour scheme, the darkness of all the websites could be to create a sense of fear and mystery about the films. Some of the websites I looked at also had eerie music playing in the background while you look through the website, this could be to give the audience a feel of what the atmosphere in the film is like. Another aspect that I noticed was that all the websites have a gallery page and/or on the home page a sequence of moving images that gives a snippet of some of the shots in the film. After researching many different websites we decided that we would try to incorporate many of the aspects we found on other websites onto our own. In that way we would ensure consistency with the genre of the film and the genre's audience, making sure it delivers to expectations, looks professional and arouses interest.

Message behind the film

The cause of the virus in our film is teenagers spending so much time online that they have grown allergic to human contact as they spend too much time in their rooms isolated from the outside world. We feel this makes a relevant comment on society today as this is the 'social media generation'. There are many debates right now about what the effect of large amounts of social media use does. Our film gives a slightly exaggerated effect that will interest viewers.
We also intend for the virus to be a metaphor for terrorism. The way everyone is scared of each other and of trusting each other reflects the fear people have about terrorism. This is relevant to society today because of the recent terrorist attacks. As our original film idea was a social realism film we thought that having this message behind our film added in the aspect of social realism that we originally wanted.