Once we had filmed most of our rough footage we showed it to the class in order to get feedback on what they thought of it.
Here is our feedback:
Thursday, 20 January 2011
Wednesday, 12 January 2011
Teaser Trailer Soundtrack Music Plan
Soundtrack Ideas
Below are my ideas for the soundtrack audio during the teaser. My ideas are influenced by a particular Hans Zimmer track I'm Not A Hero - The Dark Knight.
Clock Scene
Orchestral strings
Steady incline in volume
Clock ticking effect
House Scene
String, Brass, Bass
Increase to climax of loud drum beat or deep trombone beat
Awakening Scene
Heavy, deep, powerful brass instruments with elongated notes
Running Scene
Very fast paced violins, varying in volume and pitch levels
Similarly fast paced brass instrumentals
Quick hi-hatt building to loud brass and strings
End House Scene
Quiet eery sfx sounds
Quiet simple single orchestral string ticking effect
Credits
Either continued single string ticking effect or no audio
Other
During the teaser there will be flashback effects of a memory of a female character and during this time there will be slow enlongated note delicate string instruments playing along with a triangle and slow broken high pitched piano keys.
Below are my ideas for the soundtrack audio during the teaser. My ideas are influenced by a particular Hans Zimmer track I'm Not A Hero - The Dark Knight.
Clock Scene
Orchestral strings
Steady incline in volume
Clock ticking effect
House Scene
String, Brass, Bass
Increase to climax of loud drum beat or deep trombone beat
Awakening Scene
Heavy, deep, powerful brass instruments with elongated notes
Running Scene
Very fast paced violins, varying in volume and pitch levels
Similarly fast paced brass instrumentals
Quick hi-hatt building to loud brass and strings
End House Scene
Quiet eery sfx sounds
Quiet simple single orchestral string ticking effect
Credits
Either continued single string ticking effect or no audio
Other
During the teaser there will be flashback effects of a memory of a female character and during this time there will be slow enlongated note delicate string instruments playing along with a triangle and slow broken high pitched piano keys.
Josh's Effects and Editing Research
From my research i have discovered particular elements that are used in the post filming stage - during the editing - to give the film a more proffesional cinematic thriller feel. I have chosen some of the elements to use on our own footage to enable the audience to engage more with the characters and experience more of the plot.
Applying anamorphic film ratio - The Letterbox format.
Altering the contrast and brightness; increasing contrast and decreasing brightness to alter the appearence of HD digital footage to make it look like cleaner footage from film. In turn this also dulls the vivid colours.
Saturating footage of the female character to brighten all colours and to invisage a dreamlike scene. The footage is de-saturated on all other footage to create a more dark scene around the character.
Increasing and decreasing pace of footage, and reversing the footage to imply the shifts in time in the teaser.
Applying colour correctors to footage to reduce amount of colours, for example removing reds and yellows and making them darker colours such as brown and green.
Applying anamorphic film ratio - The Letterbox format.
Altering the contrast and brightness; increasing contrast and decreasing brightness to alter the appearence of HD digital footage to make it look like cleaner footage from film. In turn this also dulls the vivid colours.
Saturating footage of the female character to brighten all colours and to invisage a dreamlike scene. The footage is de-saturated on all other footage to create a more dark scene around the character.
Increasing and decreasing pace of footage, and reversing the footage to imply the shifts in time in the teaser.
Applying colour correctors to footage to reduce amount of colours, for example removing reds and yellows and making them darker colours such as brown and green.
Josh's Soundtrack Music Research
As we are creating a teaser trailer, genre thriller, I have been looking at past thriller films and the soundtrack music that goes with the film and the teaser.
The first film that I looked at was ‘The Dark Knight’ (2008), a film directed by Christopher Nolan and music by Hans Zimmer; German born composer whom has been involved in the music creation in many films including: Rain Man (1988), Gladiator (2000), Pearl Harbour (2001), Sherlock Holmes (2009) and many more. He has also written the music for other forms of media including the multi billion selling video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009).
In ‘The Dark Knight’ Hans Zimmer has created some very intense music that builds up to its climaxes using elements of both brass and string instruments as it is a thriller film. In particular the track titled ‘I’m Not A Hero’. This works really well accompanying the video on screen adding meaning and also giving a very fast pace to the film at that point.
The second film that I looked at was another thriller film, ‘Inception’ (2010) also directed by Christopher Nolan and with music by Hans Zimmer.
Zimmer has again built tension, but this time he does in two different ways in two pieces of music. The first piece used at the beginning of the film, titled ‘Mombasa’ uses drums of different pitches as well as string instruments to give it the feel of being where the scene is set as well as creating tension, but this time right from the start. In another track titled ‘Dream Is Collapsing’, Zimmer has used a lot more brass and string instruments alongside electronically made tones to create a great build up of tension to an intense climax with a repeated loud noise to give the effect of being lost and having no way of getting out of this dream world.
The third and final film that I looked at was ‘I Am Legend’ (2007). A film directed by Francis Lawrence and music by James Newton Howard. Howard, an American born composer has worked on many films including: Dante’s Peak (1997), The Postman (1997), The Sixth Sense (1999), Unbreakable (2000) and collaborated with Hans Zimmer on Batman Begins (2005) and The Dark Knight (2008). In the particular piece of music I looked at titled ‘Darkseeker Dogs’, Howard has used many low pitch drums and string instruments alongside brass instruments to build tension very rapidly and effectively.
From my research I have discovered that to build the tension to climaxes and to create fast paced music in a thriller production I need to collaborate low pitched drums with a variety of low pitched and high pitched brass instruments, string instruments such as violins and cellos and perhaps some piano elements.
The first film that I looked at was ‘The Dark Knight’ (2008), a film directed by Christopher Nolan and music by Hans Zimmer; German born composer whom has been involved in the music creation in many films including: Rain Man (1988), Gladiator (2000), Pearl Harbour (2001), Sherlock Holmes (2009) and many more. He has also written the music for other forms of media including the multi billion selling video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009).
In ‘The Dark Knight’ Hans Zimmer has created some very intense music that builds up to its climaxes using elements of both brass and string instruments as it is a thriller film. In particular the track titled ‘I’m Not A Hero’. This works really well accompanying the video on screen adding meaning and also giving a very fast pace to the film at that point.
The second film that I looked at was another thriller film, ‘Inception’ (2010) also directed by Christopher Nolan and with music by Hans Zimmer.
Zimmer has again built tension, but this time he does in two different ways in two pieces of music. The first piece used at the beginning of the film, titled ‘Mombasa’ uses drums of different pitches as well as string instruments to give it the feel of being where the scene is set as well as creating tension, but this time right from the start. In another track titled ‘Dream Is Collapsing’, Zimmer has used a lot more brass and string instruments alongside electronically made tones to create a great build up of tension to an intense climax with a repeated loud noise to give the effect of being lost and having no way of getting out of this dream world.
The third and final film that I looked at was ‘I Am Legend’ (2007). A film directed by Francis Lawrence and music by James Newton Howard. Howard, an American born composer has worked on many films including: Dante’s Peak (1997), The Postman (1997), The Sixth Sense (1999), Unbreakable (2000) and collaborated with Hans Zimmer on Batman Begins (2005) and The Dark Knight (2008). In the particular piece of music I looked at titled ‘Darkseeker Dogs’, Howard has used many low pitch drums and string instruments alongside brass instruments to build tension very rapidly and effectively.
From my research I have discovered that to build the tension to climaxes and to create fast paced music in a thriller production I need to collaborate low pitched drums with a variety of low pitched and high pitched brass instruments, string instruments such as violins and cellos and perhaps some piano elements.
Josh's Research Into Thriller Teaser Conventions
Thriller Teaser Conventions After finalising our genre and storyline choice I researched into thriller teaser conventions, looking at previous products - both succesful and unsuccesful teasers - and a future release that have only released teasers for the film. Firstly, I looked at Inception - a previously released succesful film - which made a worldwide gross of $820 million by 14th Novemeber 2010. Watching the teaser i discovered that the film clearly identify the genre of the film as being a thriller using orchestral music creating the tense feel and also incorporate a lot of varied shots, including very unusual shots showing the films spectacular creation of weird and wonderful pictures and scenes. Secondly, i watched the teaser trailer for Buried - a previously released unsuccesful film - which made a gross of just $3 million. The teaser itself is of a very interesting concept, showing very little actual footage or video and only playing audio of a man talking on the phone. I personally believe it to be a very weak teaser in terms of attracting the audience which is its aim, and as a result the film was a flop, making a gross of only $3 million. In comparison, the better teaser - Inception - was the better product in terms of marketing the film and encouraging the audience to pay for the ticket to see the film making a massive gross in contrast to that of Buried. Finaly, Super 8 - a film set to release August 2011 - that has what i believe to be a very good teaser trailer. Conventions used in this teaser include: rapid cuts for quick build up of tension, low key lighting to make certain objects less visible creating a more ambiguous teaser without giving the audience too much of the plot and enabling the audience to clearly see the genre and ideology of the film.
Josh's Teaser Trailer Research
To view my research into teaser trailers and the difference between a teaser and a trailer please click the link below. http://www.wix.com/j_morl/teaser-trailer-research
Josh's Audience Research into Conventions of Music, Mise en Scene and Camera
Audience Response to Music, Mise en Scene and Camera in a Teaser Trailer For our main task production we needed to know what it is that the audience will want to and expect to see in the teaser of a thriller film, therefore I made this questionnaire and asked ten people these questions: 1. What style and format of music would you expect to see in a thriller film? 2. When would you expect the music to start in a thriller? 3. How important is the music in a thriller teaser trailer? 4. What sort of mise en scene would you expect in a thriller teaser and how important is it? 5. Are there any particular camera shot types that you would expect to see in a thriller teaser? The results that I got back showed the following: 1. Quick, fast paced music, with lots of crashes and bangs and use of crescendos to build tension 2. Straight away but most importantly just before action to build to the action, but also at time of no action with quiet music i.e. sombre music 3. The music in a thriller teaser has to give you a sample of the music in the film and must indicate the amount of tension in the film, therefore is very important 4. Low key lighting, signifiers, dark places, eerie settings, isolated areas such as woods and even small confined rooms 5. Close ups to show emotion of characters, high and low angle shots to identify attributes of characters, varying levels to keep with the action, lots of them We now know exactly what we need to do and the conventions of sound, mise en scene and camera that we need to use in our own thriller teaser trailer.
Wednesday, 5 January 2011
Mood Board
I created a mood board in order to put down our initial ideas for the sort of atmosphere, mood and style we wanted to create in our teaser trailer. I used pictures that would be relevant to the ideas of our film and also used words that were significant. Here are the pictures of the mood board:
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