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Institutional information

Due to the genre of our film, we have decided that our film would be produced by the company "Dimension Films".  The studio, famous for producing many major horror films and franchises, such as the "Scream" franchise, "Scary Movie" franchise, and various films in the "Halloween" franchise.

Dimension Films is owned by The Weinstein Company. After the Weinstein Brothers left Miramax, they took with them Dimension films, to continue releasing specific genre films.The company, previously a subsidiary of Miramax, which in itself is a subsidiary of Walt Disney, has built up a solid reputation as a comedy and Horror film company.
 

For the release of our film, we have decided that the film would be released in multiplexes during summer time, released possibly early summer. Our reasoning for this is that at this our target audience, teenagers and young adults, would not be in education at the time, due to schools, colleges and universities finishing for the summer holidays, meaning that we would have more people coming to see our film. When looking at previous Dimension film's releases, most of their films have been released over the summer period and into the winter season, due to those being the peak times of the year that moviegoers will go to the cinema. This time of year is also when most blockbuster films are released.

For the release of the trailer for our film, we feel that our trailer would be shown before similar films, aimed at a similar audience. This would increase both knowledge and interest in the film, and bring in more people from our target audience to see our film. Our trailer would be shown internationally, due to the themes of the trailer and the film being international .

Voice-over: This Summer... A film like no other...will hit your screen...He's got true blood…

Scene where he's walking through the school

Voice-over:...with his own vampire diary.

Voice-over:..He's a smooth operator...

Burger scene

Voice-over: ... with the courage of a Lion.

Hanging upside down from tree scene, scene with cat
Music changes

Voice-over: He’s the average man’s R-Patz. From the makers of Scary Movie and Spy Hard, Sink your teeth into this! Glampire, coming soon

Altering logos to fit the thriller genre



We are thinking about altering about original logo and changing it slightly so that it is more suitable for a horror. This is apparent in the Batman film, Batman:The Dark Knight where they change the well known logo of the huge film making company "Warner Bros" to make it darker. The whole film was quite dark, and showed a few very violent scenes, this was quite surprising for a DC comics film which used ot be all about the heroes saving the day and bright costumes, etc. The Dark Knight shows none of this, it is a very dark film, mianly due to the horrific villian, The Joker, who was voted the second best villain ever by IGN Comic books, after X-men's Magneto. Although Batman has always been a dark character even when he was part of the Justice League, Christian Bale shows even more of his negative side by displaying all of his flaws and his love for Rachael Dawes.

In using a slightly alterated logo, Warner Bros manages to substain the eerie atmosphere throughout the trailer, this is also shown in the 'Legendary Pictures' logo and the logo for 'DC Comics'.

The movie poster for Batman: The Dark Knight



This is the original Wanrner Bros Logo for comparison.

The Warner Bros logo in the Batman trailer

The DC comics logo in the Batman trailer

Another technique that is used in these logos are the blue flames in the background, this is in keeping with Warner Bros blue background in their normal logo and does slightly resemble the clouds. The flames give us a sense of danger but the blue tint makes it seem unnatural, perhaps resembling Batman himself. Batman is seen as a light, a symbol of hope for the people of Gotham City. However he is unlike the average superhero is the the sense that he isn't light at all, perhaps why he is known as the 'Dark Knight'.




This concept is also true for the massive blockbuster Harry Potter, the films become darker and darker as the go on and the film logos follow this.

Still from the trailer of Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows

The Warner Bros logo in the Harry Potter Trailer

We hope to take inspiration from this when designing our own logo, it's a good way of keeping to the genre without changing the identity of the company and losing existing fans of the film company when they watch the trailers and don't realise that it is the same logo and film company.

Risk Assesment

When filming our A2 trailer there are numerous health and safety risks that must be accounted for, we knew that at some point in our filming process we were going to have to conduct a risk assesment especially at the point of the scenes in the woods. It was important to make sure all members of the crew were safe to film aswell as the actors themselves.We made sure firstly that all loose branches and twigs were removed from the pathway to prevent any trips and falls as a result. We cleared a large area completely of rubble and branches in order to allow for filming the camera had to be on a straight incline therefore nothing was to get in the way. As in one scene a charcter is climbing a tree we had to make sure firstly that the branch was strong enough to handle human body weight we did this by attaching weights equivalent of the character climbing the tree and also more importantly that the branch wasn't too high up and that it was safe to climb and safe to get down.

Characters in our Trailer

Steve the Vampire: played by Mitchell Terry

• A very un-cool vampire who thinks he's really popular and a total ladies man. He's clumsy and dum and most fo the time a complete scaredy cat. He always wears a cape and has a hair comb on him at all times.

Nora the Geek: played by Gabrielle Tomlinson

• Nora is a typical geek, she wears geeky glasses and plain clothing. She likes Steve but he doesn't relalise until the end of the film. Nora and Steve are good friends for the duration of the film.

Script

Narrator:

Corridor Scene

Steve pushes open doors, crowd moves apart.

Steve is walking through the corridor towards camera, stops  in front of camera.

Crowd Member: gasp

CUT TO:

Steve opens door and looks across the room at girl

Girl with ketchup on face looks confused at Steve

Steve displays look of affection, then brushes back hair smoothly

Girl shrugs, eats burger

Steve leaves, looking sad

CUT TO:

Steve Brushes hair back, sat on tree, almost falls

CUT TO:

Steve hanging upside down from tree

Steve:  it’s so high!

CUT TO:

Steve is sat in office chair, holding cat stroking it

Steve: (in camp voice) Hello Mr Kitty! Hello!

Steve realises he is talking camply, coughs loudly

Steve: (in deep voice) hello…

CUT TO:

Steve appears at a window of a house, and climbs in, getting stuck on the curtain on the way in.

Steve climbs onto the bed of the “Female” and crawls along towards them.

He pulls back their hair from their neck, before they turn to him, revealed it is a man.

Steve: (shocked) you’re a man?!

Man: I can be anything you want me to be…

CUT TO:

Steve eats a slice of garlic bread

Realises it is garlic, begins to choke and collapses

CUT TO:

Steve stood in front of houses on a pathway, pouts and looks into camera, before looking away into the distance

Titles overlaid.

END

Make-up    

As our production is a vampire parody film, we needed to have our lead Vampire character to have the all the looks and features of the stereotypical vampire. To get the look of the vampire we used white face paint as a base all over the face with black eyeshadow used to create cheekbones creating a gaunt and somewhat animated look.We again used black eyeshadow over and under the lids of the eyes, then by lining the eyes with a black liquid eyeliner this gave out more definition in the eyes giving them a more intense look.Yet again we used the liquid eyeliner to line both the brows and the hairline using angled edges to create a dracula esq symetrical face shape. Furthermore we added some red lipstick to the lips coated with a gloss to give a dripping effect simular to blood. Finally by adding wet look gel to the hair we were able to create the combed back look simular to that of dracula himself.

                                                                        

                                                                                          

        

Update on Planning!

You need a script + to state who is providing the props and where/why/how they're being used including a risk assessment if necessary. Your group have some institutional information on who would produce your film but YOU haven't posted it &Film Four don't tend to be sole producerss so say where else you might find funding and how you're 'selling' your film & produce your own,
appropriate, subsidiary studio logo design.

You also need to insert relevant pics into your Research tasks into trailer conventions and analyses to illustrate points and I can't see the fonts you're discussing in 'Possible Fonts' 28 Feb post?

Animatic

Shot list

Done	#	Shot	Action	Notes
Done	1	Medium-close up	Steve sat in tree pouting	Fade after shot
Done	2	Long shot	Steve walking down school corridor through crowd, stops in front of camera
Done	3	Close up	Steve opens door
Done	4	Close up	Nora turns to face Steve
Done	5	Close up	Steve pulls out brush and brushes hair, moves closer to Nora
Done	6	Close up	Nora gives Steve an unenthusiastic look
Done	7	Medium shot	Steve sat in a tree brushing hair back pouting
Done	8	Medium-close up	Steve hanging upside down from tree	Dialogue
Done	9	Medium	Steve and cat	Dialogue
Done	10	Medium	Steve climbing through window
Done	11	Mid-close up	Steve climbing across bed towards “girl”
Done	12	Close up	Steve pulling hair away from “girls neck”
Done	13	Close up	“Girl” turns to Steve, reveals it is a man
Done	14	Close up	Steve shocked at man	Dialogue
Done	15	Mid-close up	Steve eating garlic bread, collapses
Done	16	Long shot	Steve stood posing, pouting	Zoom in, fade
Done	17		Logo, credits

Our trailer conventions

Our trailer will in the genre of comedy, as it is spoof of various vampire films. We have taken the idea for our trailer due to the mass amount of vampire films that are currently being released, due to the popularity of films such as "Twilight" and programmes such as "True Blood" and "The Vampire Diaries". In our trailer, we will be parody various events taken from both the films and the tv shows, as well as the various romance elements in the programmes and films.


Our aim and key point of our trailer is to entertain the viewers and make them wish to see our film, parodying the films and they will either love or hate, with the people who love the genre going to see our film due to their love for vampire movies and wanting to be entertained, whilst the others going to see vampire movies having fun poked at them extensively.


We are hoping to market our film based on the themes and the comedy of the film trailer and film, and with the rising success of films in the parody genres, such as the Scary Movie franchise, we would be able to market our film with the idea of a long term franchise from our film.


Our film would be shown in major multiplexes, and marketed to a target audience of teenagers to young adults who enjoy comedy films. The reasoning for this is that due to this being a huge audience, in that the film and the trailer crosses over multiple genres, it is primarily aimed at a mass audience who consume popular culture.