Filming in a church

We hope to film a calm scene of Joe walking towards a church alter. At the moment we have our minds set on St. Mary's church in Leatherhead because of it's large size, traditional style and because the church isn't open during the day, we can hopefully request to use it during the day when no-one is there. We have asked the church receptionist to pass on a message for us with our contact details and are waiting for a reply.

In the scene we will be creating a third costume for the protagonist, this time trying to focus on connotations of purity, and are aiming to dress him in a white coat with white trousers and shoes.

Antagonist establishment scene

For the scene in which the antagonists are introduced, we are going to film by some industrial shipping crates to give the scene a sense of coldness. In the scene, there will be the main antagonist with a henchman on either side of him. The scene will begin with an upwards tilt from a close up of the antagonist's feet to his face, and then a reverse crash zoom revealing the henchmen. The antagonist will hold a flint lock pistol and the henchmen will each hold an assault rifle. Everyone in the scene will wear all black, with black trench coats. The antagonist will wear thick eyeliner, eyeshadow and mascara to give connotations of evil and coldness.

Casting

We thought it would be a good idea to cast people who will often be available to film, and for this reason we have cast myself as the antagonist of the film. Wearing dark eye makeup will give this character a villainous look.

Casting

Because his unique and striking hair will make him stand out in the trailer, and because of his soft features, we have cast Joe as our protagonist. He will have the most screen time out of all of the characters. In many of his scenes he will be made to come across as physically active and will require the most costume and props (sword, bullet belt, gun, military uniform).

Casting

Because of his know-how and because of the land owned by his parents, we are casting George as our blacksmith. In our opening scene, George will be seen hammering a piece of white hot iron on an anvil.

Analysis of an old A grade AS media project

Likes:
-Use of The Motion Picture Association Of America approval image at begining of the trailer
-Suitable font and colour of "Prime Times productions"
-Suitable colour of intertitles
-Suitable voice over
-Zoom reverse zoom shot
-Great location (old abandoned shelter?) and a nice establishing shot of it
-Grainy film stock as a man gets beaten up (good location choice and acting for this scene)
-Another establishing shot
-The cut between this establishing shot and the close up of a persons face is nice because in both scenes the camera movement is similar
-Fast cutting during the more aggressive scenes
-Good acting during the aggressive scenes
-Editing techniques from 2:10 to 2:20 are a nice touch

Character comparison - protagonist with less obvious clothing choice

This is an example of a protagonist that wears clothing that is maybe more typical of a villain in a film. This is a possible costume choice that we might include in our teaser trailer.

Intertitles

Having looked at a few teaser trailers earlier on, I think that it is important to note that even though the style of the intertitles do change from genre to genre, the fonts are often rather basic, easy to read, and are not always static on the screen. I want to use a bold font with a cold colour and uncommon but sensible font.

Audience Profile

Bases on the genre of the film (we haven't really got much else to go on), I think that we would be aiming our film at people aged 12 to 30, and probably towards men. This is because although the initial genre of War Film would probably appeal to people older than our suggested audience, the fantasy aspect of the film will probably take down the average age of viewers by 10 years or so, and will also probably take the age rating of the film down from a 15 to a 12a because any violence will be in a 'fantasy' context. This opens up our potential market.

Props

For the 'running scene' we have sourced two swords, one each for the two characters in the scene. We have also sourced a pistol that we could also use.

For the antagonist's henchmen, we are thinking of buying two gas masks for them to wear, to cover up their faces, making them seem more emotionless.

Costume

This is an old army uniform that we will use for the protagonist for some of the scenes.

Costume Change for protagonist and antagonist

We have decided that we want to use the military uniform for the protagonist rather than the antagonist. This is because the connotations of people in the military are probably more positive when shown in action films. However we will also use other costumes for the protagonist at other times in the trailer, such as a leather jacket and black trousers for the 'running scene'. The reason for this is that we wanted to emulate the style of the costume of "Cloud Strife", the protagonist from the 2005 film "Final Fantasy: Advent Children" because we believe this film to be of a very similar genre and style to ours - action/fantasy.

Locations

Running Scene

We want to shoot the ‘running’ scene in both woodland and an outdoor clearing. We have looked around potential area and think that our best choice is to shoot this scene at a heath in Oxshot because it has both woodland and clearings that would be ideal for filming.

Graveyard Scene

We want to get a shot of the antagonist(s) in a graveyard at night, to give the audience a stronger idea of the role of these characters in the trailer. We hope to film this scene in a graveyard in Leatherhead because we like its size and the church that will be in the background of the shot is very traditional and spooky-looking in appearance.

Church Scene

We want to film a scene in a traditional church. It will preferably be empty, with dim but warm lighting, because this scene will involve the protagonist.

Forge Scene

We will film our forge scene in a local iron forge, owned by friends of ours. The lighting will be dim to emphasize the sparks that will be produced by the impact of the hammer to the iron.

Actors & Actresses

We have decided that we would like are friend Joe to play the part of the protagonist. Are reasons being that he has interesting hair that will meke him stand out throughout the trailer.

For our antagonist we would like to use my brother Harris because he is a talented actor and would therefore have little trouble acting out this role that could be considered the toughest character to play.

We thought it would add depth to our trailer if we included a love interest for the protagonist, so we think we will cast Tanya, Joe's girlfriend. See is also a tanlented actress.

Costume (can be changed a bit with the character choice)

We have found an old military uniform that we think we will use either for the antagonist or for a henchman type character. This also gave us the idea of making the henchman wear gas masks to make them seem more frightening and emotionless to the audience.

As for the protagonist, I think I would like him to wear more vibrant clothing, or atleast something more otherworldly, to make him seem more interesting and more obviously the lead character and a likable protagonist.