Evaluation

Question 1:

1) (TIMING: 0:00 - 0:03)
The trailer starts with the production companies logo flashing on screen, there is a slight boom sound effect and the screen becomes very bright as and flashes as the boom sound can be heard. The logo fades out but the music continues to play into the trailer.

2) (TIMING: 0:33 - 1:00)
In this taken 2 trailer we see the protagonist living his normal life and being happy with his family and enjoying his time in the films setting, Istanbul. At the start of most modern trailers we see the character's normality before anything goes wrong and happens to the characters. The pace of the trailer at this point is quite slow as it is near the start but due to the genre the pace is still quicker than a comedy or romance film to show how things are constantly changing in the film and the overall pace of the film itself. Before this, there was a scene which explained what had happened in the previous film, s this is a sequel, but that isn't relevant as our film is not a sequel and doesn't have to explain a previous film.

3) (TIMING: 0:50 - 0:51)
During this time of equilibrium, we see an establishing shot of the location that the film is set in. The establishing shot is only there for a very short time but the subject of the shot is usually easily recognizable so that it doesn't have to be on screen for long to establish the location. Also, slightly earlier in the film, the protagonist says 'Welcome to Istanbul'.

4) (TIMING: 1:00 - 1:21)
This is the turning point of the trailer. We see the protagonist's family being taken and this sets up the protagonist's goal for the rest of the film, to get his family back. The pace starts to pick up here and the music gets more intense, this is when we start to see the genre and tone of the film. The music and the shots on screen are very dark and quick.

5) (TIMING: 1:21 - 1:26)
We see a couple shots of the woman who has been Taken and her kidnapper, the setting is very dark and grimy and is something you would see in a thriller. Action shots before this show the action part of the genre of the film. It further establishes who the antagonist of the film is so that it is clear to the audience, he isn't on screen for very long but its enough that we recognize who he is.

6) (TIMING: 1:26 - 1:31)
This is the start of the main bulk of the action shots, the pace becomes quite fast now and the music that can be heard in the background is intense and suits the fast paced action that can be seen on screen at this time. Clips are cut very quickly and one shot is only on screen for about one second at a time and never that much more so there are lots of scenes that are featured at this point. The action at this point is quite basic, such as punches and people running, the pace is still quick but the more extreme violence doesn't come into the trailer till right near the end.

7) (TIMING: 1:31 - 1:59)
Some more intense action shots can be seen on screen such as an exploding car and the protagonist in a gun fight with the antagonist's henchmen. The pace continues to build before slowing right down again in order to show a really intense and creepy clip of the main character walking through double doors. The clip and the music builds the suspense and adds to the thriller genre conventions that can be seen through out the trailer. The shot then cuts to black and the music becomes silent on the cut to add to the suspense, this is something which would be seen a lot in a film of the thriller genre.

8) (TIMING: 1:59 - 2:03)
This is when the main title of the film is shown, the music comes back in very softly and the title animates in as the music becomes louder and then slowly fades away. The main title uses the colour red as this again is a colour which signifies either a horror or a thriller, but I know in this case it is thriller. The text is grimy and shots that there will be action and fighting as the letters are dirty and look beat up just like our protagonist is by the end of the trailer. The little sting of music fades out slowly and as this does the title fades out.

9) (TIMING: 2:03 - 2:13)
The trailer ends as we hear another soft sting of music and we see the coming soon screen with all the information about the actors and the companies who created and distributed the movie. Then to end the trailer we get all the text about the main crew members and some of the main companies who worked on the film, still in the same font as the main title screen and still in the same white colour that is used for the other text. There are three screens and they cycle through quickly as they are only pieces of legal text and then at the very end in a plain font on a black screen there is copyright information for the trailer by 20th Century Fox.

1) (TIMING: 0:00 - 0:07)
The timing is different for our trailer as compared to our influential film, this is because we added a preview approved by the MPAA screen, which wasn't found in the Taken 2 Trailer. However, our production logo appears for three seconds and has a loud boom sound which carries into the trailer, there is also a flash as the boom sound comes in. I followed our influential film very closely to start the trailer.

2) (TIMING: 0:07 - 0:30)
Our trailer starts with our character in her normal life, showing her leaving her job and going to London to start a new job. The pace at this part of the trailer is quite slow with no action shots, this means shots will be on screen for four to five seconds at a time, just like Taken 2. This use of showing the character's equilibrium is what happens at the start of the Taken 2 trailer, keeping the structure the same and keeping the pace the same meant that we could follow the conventions of a trailer for a film of this kind.

3) (TIMING: 0:21 - 0:23)
Our establishing shot is also during the middle of our equilibrium, a shot of the river Thames is on screen for two seconds in order to establish that the majority of the film will be set in London. The river Thames is easily recognizable and so, just like the Taken 2 trailer, it doesn't have to be on screen long. I tried to take as many influences as I could when editing the trailer in terms of the structure of the trailer and how the pace changes.

4) (TIMING: 0:30 - 0:42)
This is also where we had the turning point of our film, we see our protagonist get taken and we learn that her motive of the film would be to escape and take her kidnapper down. This is reinforced by the action shots as we see her shooting at the antagonist and trying to run from him. At this point the music becomes much louder and faster, lots more boom sounds increase the pace of the trailer at this point, just like Taken 2. The genre is also established more at this point as the dark theme of being kidnapped is definitely something that would be found in a thriller and the use of action later on makes it an action thriller. 

5) (TIMING: 0:42 - 0:51)
We also show the protagonist after she has been captured in a dark and grimy place. The antagonist is also there as he is pointing a gun at the protagonist, we used this scene so that it was clear who the protagonist and who the antagonist was in our film. In the Taken 2 trailer, the characters are already established before this, that is why we have this scene on screen for a much longer time. The pace really starts to pick up here just like it does in the Taken 2 trailer, our pace is a lot slower at this point compared to Taken. The fact that we show the gun this early establishes the action part of our genre.

6) (TIMING: 0:51 - 1:06)
This is when our action shots start. Just like the Taken 2 trailer, after we see what has happened to the main character we start to see action shots from the protagonist journey to achieve their goal for the film. We also used very simple action shots for this section like running and punching to start of the action shots while I started to build the pace even more for the trailer at this point, just like in the Taken 2. The music at this point is very intense with lots of loud boom sounds and stings that the clips and action are synced to in order to make each clip and impact more intense and have a bigger impact on the audience, this is a technique used in the Taken 2 trailer as well as I used the trailer as my influence.

7) (TIMING: 1:06 - 1:20)
This is where the pace of our trailer is at its quickest and continues to build, the types of action shots that can be seen in the trailer become much more violent and extreme such as gun shots and a chase scene while shooting. The length of each clip becomes much shorter at this point as well as some clips towards the end are only on screen for about one second at a time. The Taken 2 trailer does this much earlier on and at this point it slows down in order to tell some more of the plot and then have a suspenseful finish. In our trailer we kept building the pace until the very last clip in which we build our suspense. The clips cut between each other very quickly but then the final clip is on screen for about 3 seconds as our antagonist walks up to a crack in the door and stairs into what is meant to be the protagonist's eyes. The clip builds suspense as we wonder what is going to happen and we hope that the protagonist does not get caught, just like in the Taken 2 trailer, we wonder what he is walking into and what he is looking at as he goes through the double doors. The music cuts to silence as the clip fades to black very quickly and we see a black screen with no music playing for two seconds to keep the audience on a cliff hanger before showing the title, just like in Taken 2. I used Taken 2 as a basis for the structure of our trailer and used it in order to get influence for the style of editing that is used, the pace however I set on my own based on the piece of music I had chosen for our trailer.

8) (TIMING: 1:20 - 1:27)
This is where the main title of the film comes in, it animates in very quickly in time to the soft piece of piano which can be heard alongside a boom sound that I added to the soundtrack. The text is red as this is a conventional colour for a thriller film and was used for the '2' in the Taken 2 title. I used red for all of our text because it makes the genre clearer to the audience, the use of this very bold font is something you would see in an action film and so the title fits the genre of this film well. The text then fades out as the piece of piano comes to a stop again, just like with the soft sting in the Taken 2 trailer.

9) (TIMING: 1:27 - 1:50)
The trailer ends with the 'Coming soon' screen and I made a similar background to the text as the Taken 2 trailer, all the end title credits in our trailer were influenced and took a lot of influences from the Taken 2 trailer as it was the only film of this kind that we could find and so I needed something to base the text at the end of the trailer off of. After the 'Coming soon' screen we also get all of the crew text, just like in the Taken 2 trailer. These three pieces of text contain all of the information about who starred in the film, who created it, who distributed it and who wrote the music for the trailer. The very last thing that can be seen is a copyright screen for the trailer, which is identical to the Taken 2 one, but I changed the text so that it contained the name of my production company instead of it saying Fox.

Question 2:

Question 3:

A short video explaining how our audience feedback influenced our film and my ancillaries and what I learned from all of the feedback:

Question 4:

(Top, Left):
This is the camera that we used in order to film our trailer and take the photos for our ancillary tasks, it is my camera and it is a Canon 1200D. We shot our trailer in 1080p at 24 frames per second, just like a real film would be shot. As I also take photography, I knew my way around the camera well and knew how to set up the camera in order to get the shot that we wanted both for video and ancillary purposes. This camera was great to use for this project as it a high quality DSLR and immediately adds visual quality to our production, making it easier to get a more professional final outcome.

(Top, Middle):
A mouse was very useful to me during this project as I was using computers a lot in my role as editor and so a mouse was important to me as I needed to use for nearly everything that I had to do with this project.

(Top, Right):
Adobe After Effects CC 2015 is the program that I used in order to edit our actual trailer, I used this program in order to edit all of my AS work and it is a program I have used for a number of years to edit personal projects. The program has a range of effects and plugins available for it which means that there are a lot of potential effects that we can put into our trailer. Also, there are much more tutorials for AAE as it is a commonly used program and it is more advanced than any other editing program and it has a lot more features, this means that if I get stuck there are plenty of videos online to help me.

(Middle, Left):
Photoshop CC 2015 is the program that I used in order to edit my ancillary tasks, I used this program as I am very familiar with it, again from photography, and it is a program which will give a professional look to my ancillaries. In this program I was able to edit the original photos themselves in order to bring out the colour and details in the image, it also allowed me to put all the text and other photos on top of my original image in order to create both a teaser poster and a magazine front cover.

(Middle, Middle):
This is the memory stick that I used to hold all our video clips and images, I also used it in order to save our edited trailer and the project files from all the programs I used in order to edit my ancillaries and the trailer itself. It allowed me to transport all the resources we needed so that I could edit or make a adjustments on any computer that had the correct programs on it, as it is a memory stick it is very portable and could easily fit in my pocket. It has lots of storage space so we didn't have to worry about running out of space on it, we were able to store everything we needed on here and we had backups of these resources on different computers and hard drives just in case.

(Middle/Bottom, Right):
Obvious, but important. The monitor was very important in order to allow me to see what I was editing and what I was writing on the blog. The computer as a whole was my most important piece of technology, this is because my role as an editor relies entirely on the computer in order to put the trailer together and create the finished product.

(Bottom, Left):
Again, a keyboard is a very simple piece of technology but is very important during this project in order to add all the text to my ancillary tasks. It was also very useful while editing the trailer itself in order to add the title text and in order to use keyboard shortcuts to save time while editing the trailer. Using a keyboard was very important in order to complete all of my blog posts, it seems like a very obvious piece of technology but it was very important in the production of the trailer and the blog itself.

(Bottom, Middle):
Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2015 is the editing program that I used in order to edit together our animatic storyboard. I was completely new t this program before I started editing our animatic, I used this program as the computer that I started editing the animatic on did not have after effects at the time and this program was the only one available. Even though I did not know how to use this program at first I watched a number of videos on how to use premiere pro so that I could edit together the animatic to the same standard that I would in adobe after effects.