Final website

http://270349.wix.com/vortexfilms-1

Final trailer

Final Poster

Audience Feedback

After holding a private screening for our film trailer where we invited our chosen target audience to receive feedback from them. We created a questionnaire that they could fill out to show us clearly the feedback we wanted to receive and help us to clean up our trailer after the first cut.

We received a wide range of different answers from our questionnaire. There was positive comments about how the audience saw that the genre was clear for people to interpret as they watched it. Here are some of the questionnaires.

Tagline Creation

We researched in to a wide range of different quotes that related to money as it a massive concept of our film trailer. There are many different quotes that relate to money, enemies, misery and crime. we started with just searching for different quotes:

This gave us a good starting point on quotes for inspiration from many different sources ranging form actors, rappers, millionaires and age old quotes. With these we were able to make a wide range of inspirations to create a effective tagline.

We decided that as the main concept for our film was based on money we needed to include a reference to that in our film trailer, so then as a group we made a list of different tag lines we could include in our film trailer.

'Money isn't Everything' 
'Theres no such thing as enough money'
'Money can drive everyone insane'
'Violence is the only answer concerning Money'
'Stealing money is no sin'
'The Best things in life aren't free'

After looking at the 6 final possible tag lines we looked to see what they would look like on our developing poster and realised that many were too long and not quick or snappy enough. So we got down to the top three of:

'Money isn't Everything'
'Stealing money is no Sin'
'The best things in life aren't free'

We then discussed which each tagline implied and all decided that 'The Best things in life aren't free' was the most fitting as it related to the action of the trailer as the three main protagonists originally enjoy the money and the 'best' things they can do with it until it reveals a dangerous element that takes things away from them.

'The Best Things in Life aren't free'

Tagline Research

For our film trailer we needed a tagline to attract an audience to our film, so we researched in to different crime films and there famous catchphrases from the most successful films.

This is a short clip of the nine best famous crime tagline/ catchphrases that I made;

From this research we discovered that the tagline was either a famous quote from the films or something related to the story. We also discover that a successful tagline needed to be short, simple and snappy to gather attention of people and be remembered.

The Godfather Films our famous for being successful crime films with many quotes that represent the tag lines or quotes from the films. On the posters there are quotes relating to the action and events of the films. For example; 'Real Power can't be given. It must be taken' or  'All the Power on Earth can't change destiny' this refers to power which is a huge concept of the film and links to the genre well.

In White Heat they use the actors name to play on  words for the tagline.The actor is famous and this intrigues the audience that have seen previous films of his. This allows them to link the taglines in 'Cagney is red hot in white heat'

In Goodfellas it uses the quote directly from the film 'As far back as I remember I've always wanted to be a gangster' which is a famous quote from the film and straight away gives the audience an expectation of what they will see.




This research allowed us to get a good idea for what our taglines could contain and how we could make them relate to the audience, the concept and the title. We gathered together to brainstorm ideas for our own tagline.

Costume and Props

For our three different characters we have contrasting fashion styles which allow us to explore all elements of the fashion world. Also there are different shots and locations that are meant to be based over a couple of days and so the character must have different clothes, this are the options we chose.
 

Grunge Costume(s):

For the grunge girl we want her to match stereotypical view of her by having the character on drugs. The character is also not from a privileged background so her clothes are all similar and she wears the same thing more often.

 The character will look casual and laid-back with either leggings or jeans and boots. The jeans and leggings are items that can have so many different looks with them giving the impression she has many different aspects of her.

 

For the top half the character would have different t-shirts that would match with her jeans or leggings and show a lot about her personality. The character would have shirts that showed what she liked. For example music shirts like Guns N Roses, Eminem etc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Grunge Girl would also wear a parka coat that would represent the cold weather of London as well as her fashion sense. It s a popular style of coat as well as very similar to the character. The character would have all these different items to make her completed 'Grunge' Look.

Skater Boy Costume(s):

With the male character, who will be dressed in a skater boy fashion style we want him to be a character who is friendly and easy to get along with as he is the character who's going to be the one who unites the others to become friends / team and to work together. The way he's dressed is going to be casual, laidback and calm showing him to be chilled out and not to worry to much, with this all in mind we looked in to what the characters costume would be like.

The male character would wear jeans to complement his looks and look fashionable. The blue jeans are casual and laidback which is desired for our characterisation.

The male character would wear jackets and coats to represent the cold London weather. This would range from a Red varsity jacket to a blue parka coat they are both  fashionable and stand out. His shoes will be practical trainers that are bright and fashionable for our film trailer.

The Girly Girl (s) :

For our film trailer we want our three characters contrasting in there different fashion styles and as we had two girls we wanted one to be a dark grunge style where the other to be girly girl. The Girly Girl would be in bright colours, cute skirts and fashionable outfits which would represent her character, personality and her social class. This character would be of a higher social class as she comes from a better more privileged background.

 

 

 

 

 

The character would wear a skater skirt which can be seen in the picture above as its fashionable, cute and also goes with a range of different fashion styles; like shirts, jumpers and blouses which show her girly style.

 

The character will wear a bright pink jumper to show her personality as being bright, caring and bubbly as she is sweet when defending other characters as well as being vocal and opinionated on events of the trailers. The character would also wear a jumper similar to the one on the left but with a brighter colour that gathers the attention of the audience and shows that she is fashionable.

Social Media

For our film trailer we wanted to be able to promote throughout the filming, editing and production process so we made a twitter for our film trailer.

Trailer Title

For our film trailer we wanted to have a title that linked to the plot concept so we looked at different words that related to money or crime. So we made a list of all names relating to money which we could use.

Then we shortlisted the final five possible titles from our personal choices;

 Dosh
Capital
Assets
Coins
Buck

We then asked a large group of our target audience who gave us a clear view of which title they thought best fit the trailer as we showed them a small teaser.

Many of the viewers thought Capital was the most appropriate title as it references money and the location of the trailer. As it takes place in London and suits the raw action thrilled aspects of the film trailer and is now our chosen title.

Test shots

Evaluation Question 3

Initial Storyboard

For our film trailer we drew a storyboard to aid the planning process before we went out to film. Since we created this storyboard, we developed it further and since have produced a new storyboard. This is the result of our initial storyboard;

Questionnaire for Feedback

 

To get the necessary feedback for our trailer we wanted to have a screening. We created a questionnaire which we could hand out to ask specific questions on what we wanted to be answered.

 

 

This questions were all relevant in getting the necessary feedback for our film trailer so we could make improvements and develop it. 

Make Up

For the girls make up we need to shows a contrast in the way they look so we wanted to try different things out for there make up. I first needed to research in to the different styles I could use that would fit the characters and the actors would be complemented too.

Grunge Make Up Research:

From this research I discovered that the grunge girl is a darker side of make up. The style focuses on dark eye make up and lipstick. From purple, red and dark pink shades of lipsticks to dark Smokey eyes with eyeliner and mascara to emphasis the eyes and lips. Other than this two elements the make up is simple with just foundation and a slight bronzer.

With the girly girl we wanted to use natural make up to promote her fashion style and personality. When researching in to the make up I found it was a lot of the same materials. It include foundation, a bit of blush on the cheeks with natural nude colours for eye shadow finished with mascara and naturally coloured lips. This look was easy to create for our actor, Jessica Henderson.

To get even more knowledge on the make up that I wanted to use I looked into online make up tutorial that I could take inspiration from.






After this tutorials I went and had a go myself with help from a friend.

The make up was successful so we decided to use the make up as we had done as it represents the two contrasting characters nicely. 

Special Effect Make Up

For our trailer we have themes of violence and self harm and so for this to be effective we need to research and experiment with make up to create the effect of abuse. I researched in to different types of looks you can get from abuse. 

After I gathered a wide range of different make up and effects I tried different methods of applying on to one of our actors to see if it would work effectively. When doing the make up I applied a very basic pale base so it would make the bruises and blood stand out more clearly, then applied a small amount of eye make up to keep it plain and basic. Then I used eye shadow to create the bruising around the eyes as I used shades of yellow, blue, purple, red and greens to show different stages of bruising and abuse.



 

 

This are the results of the make up attempts:

 

 

 

With the make up it was successful in giving one of the characters a believable black eye as we effectively used the different colour of eye shadows ranging from purple, black, green and yellow to show the different healing patterns of the bruise.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now as well as bruising we wanted to experiment with self harming for an other character. The subject of self harm is a very sensitive subject and I took my research very seriously and carefully. After visiting different websites I decided that the cuts is the easiest to do one effectively as well as being the most conventional one,

I looked it up on YouTube and found a tutorial on how to do the cuts and make them look realistic.

 

 

Character Names

For our trailer we have 3 different characters and we need to choose an appropriate name for each character and what there name represents. 

For the 'skater' boy we looked a wide range of different names that would fit the look and personality we were looking to achieve.

From this list of 54 different name we managed to round it down to 5;

Emmett
Alec
Xander
Camden
Wyatt

I looked in to the different meaning of each name to help us decide and Alec meant 'Defender of the People' and we thought this fit well with our piece as the skater boy character has an element of being protective of the other characters and defending them.

For the girly girl name:

Cecily
Aurora
Mirabella
Larissa
Arianna

We looked in to the meaning of the names again and Arianna meant 'most holy' and we thought with girly girl we wanted her to have a sense of 'innocence' and her to be the good one of the trio so we thought the name Arianna fit perfectly for the character.

Grunge Girl

Lolita

Asia
Ruby
Dominique
Tallulah

With these name we also looked in to the meanings as well as what sorted the character best. We thought that Dominique suited the character well as it could be shortened to 'Dom' which implies a tomboy element as well as the meaning being from a male name originally.

So the final names for our charcters are:

Alec
'Dom' Dominique
Arianna

Problems with iMovie

The project on iMovie became corrupt, this meant that we could not access any of the project to continue with editing it. We tried to put the project onto a memory stick and transfer it onto a new Mac, however had the same problem again with the file being corrupt. Due to this, we had to re-upload all of our raw footage onto the new Mac from the iPhone and start editing again. 

Character Profiles

Character and Actors Profile's:

Name: Jessica Henderson

Age: 17

Occupation: Theatre Student

Character: Girly Girl

Name: Arianna

Name: Liam Sydall

Age: 21

Occupation: Part Time

Character: Skater Boy

Name: Alec

Name: Harriett Sydall

Age: 18

Occupation: Theatre Student

Character: Grunge

Name: Dom (Dominique)

The characters are all contrasting in their fashion, backgrounds and the decisions they make when given the money. We want to represent this contrast in our film trailer as we want the audience to be able to relatable to the characters. I made one individual video representing the characters and what they all may do with the money.

Arianna: Is the girly girl who with her amount of the money would go to spend it on clothes and just shop it all away.



Alec  is the boy who uses his part of the money to but a nice car like a Lamborghini and also on prostitutes to have fun.



Dom: is the one who gets uses her money to buy drugs, alcohol and party to forgot everything else.

Health and Safety

When filming our trailer we need to take the Cast and Crew's safety in to consideration and so before we travel to our locations we need to prepare for health and safety precautions.

 

 

 

One of our locations is the drama studio where we will be filming the club and some of the drug shots, for this scene to be effective we needed a large group of people to fill the space. Now as we have to use the lights we must have a adult to supervise so we had asked our teacher to keep an eye on the lights and the large group when we filmed.

 

 

 Now another location for our film is London and we are filming in a large amount of different locations and so the health and safety needs to be sorted. Now as its London the Cast and Crew must stay together as a group at all times in case of emergency, and even when filming different shots or separating for any reason cast and crew must be in groups of no less than 2, so that there is always someone to help should the situation arise.

 We will also delicate one phone to be the emergency one that will stay fully charged and ready to call the emergency services. 

Two members of our team, an actor and crew member has first aid training and so we have both of them if any of the members are injured or hurt. Also we will have a small first aid kit on us at all

times.

 

It will include:

 

Antiseptic wipes or spray for cleaning cuts and grazes.

Gauze squares to clean wounds.

Non-sticky dressings, such as Melolin, for covering wounds.

Fabric plasters (individually wrapped).

Blister plasters (individually wrapped).

A selection of individually wrapped wound dressings.

Paracetamol

 

With all these different health and safety precautions the group will be prepared for any problems during filming,

Budget

For our film trailer we have to account for the amount of money we will need to be able to get to locations,  props, costume and any technology we need to assist our filming. This video explains the budget we used and how it was spent.