Task 3.1 (Pitch - Initial Ideas)

For the Brief we have chosen is to produce a teaser trailer for a new film. We believed this would be the best option as we all have made short films before and would be able to put are knowledge and experience good use. We all also have a interest in films and it would be something we would be interested in and also enjoy doing.
We aimed to produce a horror genre film trailer that’s set in some kind of underground location. We want to try and be different in our approach to how we construct the trailer and the techniques used. We want it to be a "hand-held" horror trailer so the majority of the shots will be filmed by the actors themselves. We decided to try something that is not seen often but can be very successful if pulled off. We also don't want to be too standardized in the conventions in our trailer, obviously there will be some of the main conventions included for example antagonist and in a enclosed dark space, but we also want to use some of the not very used conventions.
we will draw up storyboards of the plot of the trailer and what shots will be using. We will also show what will need to be included the scene and what transitions will be used. then We will use a computer to turn these storyboards into an photo animatics showing the order of the shots, the transitions of the shots and how long each shot will last.
we need do decide on a location so will go to a few suitable places and take some photos and footage so we can decide which would be the best and would be most beneficial for are trailer.
Once we have chosen a site we will go and take photos of the shots we will need and take photos for the photo animatic to show the story board in photos so we know exactly what we need to do once filming. Once we have filmed we will need to make an appropriate soundtrack using a program called garage band.

this is a break down of what the inital steps are


The brief we have selected is a Teaser Trailer. This for several reasons which are listed below.

1.All three of us have a strong interested in films and watch them often , Therefore we view lots of trailers from watching DVDs going to the cinema and watching trailers on you tube and film websites.

2.
we decided it would be better to produce a teaser trailer than a music video as we would have to contact a unsigned band and make a video for a song that no one knows or finds interesting, therefore it would be a lot smart decision to so something we are interested in and will enjoy a lot more, and something we have a lot more knowledge on.

3.We also have vast experience and knowledge of making n a film as we produced one for are AS project , which me and Luke produced and developed are film opening sequence of "Fiat Obscuritas". On this project we will develop are skills in film making , I feel we have learnt a lot of new things and we will incorporate them into are new film. We decided to do a horror , like we did for the as project.
The stages involved when planning this trailer are as follow
First comes the Ideas which involves selecting characters, location , storyline ,genre so on.

Secondly comes getting are storyboards done and photographing them and producing are animations with storyboards and with are photographed storyboards

Next is to get a ruff idea of what's going on in the story and a basic understanding of what's
going on and were its happening this is called the Synopsis.

Finally the last stage is to script the trailer not the whole film so what main clips out of the
main storyline will be included in the trailer and for how long.




3.2 Pitch- Presentation

As part of the pitch for our production we presented our ideas to our Media Class.

This involved explaining the following points:
• Which brief we have chosen and why
• Choice of genre and why
• The basic story line
• Next stage of planning to be carried out
• Lessons to be learnt - objectives
Experiences