props used for the antagonist scene

for this scene I have used the props:

• Two Black gas masks which were worn by the two henchmen.
• Two alsullt riffles which again were carried by the henchmen.
• A flint lock pistle for the main antagonist.

filming behind the gallary Antagonist scene

For this scene we were filming the antagonist's main introduction which is a crucial point for the teaser trailer because it is then that you can contrast the two different characters and chose which one is the protagonist and which one is the antagonist.
This filming was done behind the gallery of a smithery, this was due to there being old containers which had started to rust. This gave the perfect old industrial feel to the footage which was perfect for the mise-en-scene for our antagonist who is meant to be seen as a post world war 2 bad guy.
The filming went very smoothly with only the minor problem of the tripod being slightly canted at one point which was solved very easily by changing the tripods legs length accordingly. I then recorded the scene where the antagonist looks evil.

filming in the forge Interigation scene

Clothing for the main Antaginist

For our main Antagonist we have thought about making him look as sinister and evil as we possibly can. This is because we want the audience to know and decide in a short amount of time that he is the bad guy of the video. For his costume we have decided that he should wear a full length black trench coat that would come down to his feet. This type of coat has been used massively in films and inspires a Gothic look. Some of the most famous examples being from the matrix for example the twins from the second film "matrix reloaded". The only difference being that they are in white rather than in black which could lead to some stereotypes being confused, e.g. that white represents purity and the forces of good. But they also have a alternate figure which turns them into demons which then eliminates any ideas that these two are the good guys. Also I would like for the antagonist to wear high platform boots which are seen as very Gothic and alternative. This will also boost his height which will also make him seem more intimidating. Also as you can see from picture 3 we are trying to make our antagonists look as evil as possible, so we have decided to give him a sword with teeth on it so it has an ornate feel to it to seem more aged. Also stereotypically most antagonists have a larger weapon than the protagonist so that when he loses it seems more heroic. He should also wear sunglasses that hide his eyes to give him a sence of mystery. These are modeled from "Mr Smith" from the Matrix trilogy.

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Iron man trailer

For our media studies video we have taken inspiration from the film Iron Man for part of our teaser trailer. When Stark is

Clothing for the main Protagonist

Four our final video my partner and I have put much consideration into the costumes of our characters. These are some of the concepts of what we think they should wear.

Main Protagonist
For our main protagonist I think that he will need to be wearing something that will make him look patriotic due to our film being set in a 1930's to 1040's futuristic setting. In the picture below is a real 1940's uniform which will make him look like a solder from the army. This fits in with his personality profile for his character. Also the army jacket makes him look heroic and brave so this will automatically make the audience rely on their much used stereotypical views to see that this person is the good guy in this video. In Picture 2 there is a picture of a bullet belt which is seen in many different types of film and is usually carried by the main protagonist. Films that have the main character carrying a bullet belt include "The Mummy" film trilogy, "The A team" and the "Rambo" series. It could also be classed as homage to the classic western films that always had these sorts of armaments. Also the main protagonist will be carrying a samurai sword (katana) in the colour white which has the connotations of being of pure heart and mind who is fighting for the powers of good. This again could be paying homage to other samuria films such as "The Last Samuria" or could be following the mixing of different styles like Quentin Tarantino did for his film "Kill Bill 1 and 2" as the bride of the film wields a katana.

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Actors for our video

For our video we have chosen to use a variety of different actors for the different roles of our characters and this means that we do not have to re-use actors for different roles which gives it a sense of professionalism.

The main Protagonist: Joe Saw
My partner and I decided to use Joe as our main protagonist due to him having a unique style with a Mohawk which makes him look epic. This and also that he has soft features which make him likable and kind. This allows the audience to relate to him and use their own stereotypical views to see him as the good guy.

The main Antagonist: Jack kent 

I decided that Jack was a perfect choice for our main antagonist due to him being intimidating in general and this is what is crucial for a truly good bad guy in a film. He is tall so will look good from low angle shots and has a very angular jaw  and facial features which makes him look more edgy and contrasts his face compared to that of Joe our main Protagonist who has very soft features. He is a trained actor so will be able to act very well when filming, which will make the video look more authentic and real.

The antagonists lackeys:

These would be two preferably male and equal in height but shorter than their evil master which automatically shows a chain of command. They will be wearing gas masks which will give them a sense of eeriness and scariness. This will show the audience that they are also on the antagonists side. (Harry kent and Harry Baggs)

Protagonists lover: Tanya Gibbs

I decided to use Joe's girlfriend as the female lover due to her being already a female actress and also that because she is Joe's girlfriend there would not be any awkwardness between them both as we film the love seen so it could seem as real and sincere as possible. Due to us not having any Hollywood standard actors, we want to make it look as natural as possible without it seeming either very staged or forced.

what stereotypes have been used in my film?

In my teaser trailer there are many different character with different clothing, makeup and props, this means that the audience will view each character in a different way. This means that the audience will stereotype each of the different characters to recognise them and what their role will be in the video.
Some of the more prominent stereotypes that were in my film could be:

The Antagonist. This is due to the antagonist being easily recognisable due to the clothing that he is wearing throughout the teaser trailer which would include a black coat with black trousers. He also is wearing excessive make-up which is black to give the appearance of someone who has not had sleep but also a person who can look very evil. His hair is also styled to look messy which shows the audience that he does not care about his appearance very much. This could show the audience that his stereotype could be a evil villain which who should be despised.

The Henchmen: The henchmen of my film are stereotypical because they all look similar to one another. This is due to the mise-en-scene for each of them being the same. For example I have made them all wear black clothing and the same sort of gas mask. They also are always near or next to the antagonist. This gives them a seem like clones of each other which then the audience then realise is due to the Antagonist controlling them. This allows them to make the connection to stereotype them as the underlings of the antagonist.

The Protagonist: The protagonist is a harder character to stereotype due to him breaking many of the usual conventions of a good character. This is due to him wearing black and carrying big weaponry. I have decided to use this type of mise-en-scene due to our film getting inspiration from the "Final fantasy" series of films which portrays the main protagonist with a slightly darker personality. I have gone with a similar approach with my protagonist due to his black clothing but I have given the audience the clues to his role in the film, by giving him a white sword which portrays the forces of good and that he is fighting against the obvious antagonist which should allow the audience to make the connection to realise that he is the protagonist.

filming in the forge welding scene

This scene is when an unknown person is making a sword inside a smithery.

This scene was relitively easy to shoot as the ground was level and even which made it easy to set the tripod up and start to film. When we started to film our friend fire welding we found some health and saftey problems as sparks of molten metal were flying across the room. This meant that My co-worker and I had to leave the room to film the shot of the fire welding. This meant that we could no longer move the camera wilst it was filming which meant that we could only have static shots, which limited the amount of camera shots we could perform for that scene.

New Prop for our Antagonist

Recently I have found a fake old looking flint lock pistol which would look great with our Antagonist and would add greatly to his mise-en-scene. This is due to the antagonist having a old traditional feel to him. This is shown by his old tribal looking sword and by his henchmen wearing old gas masks, which could look like they had just come out of world war I. This fake flint lock pistol adds again to this old traditional adding to his character to enable the audience to stereotype him more easily. The only issue with using this form of pistol is that it is not in keeping with some of the other props inside the teaser trailer as both of the antagonists henchmen and the protagonist have assault riffles which are far more advanced that that of his pistol, this could lead to the teaser trailers believability being deminshed due to clashes in different items timeframe, and where they have originated from.

The difficulties of filming in a public place

There were some social problems that I encured beucase of the set location for one of our scenes. This was due to my co-worker and I wanting to film in a graveyard for the antagonist scene. This idea was scrapted when we found out that it could beoth be disrespectful to bring toy guns and gas masks to that place and the reprecusions that could occure. so I have decided to change the location of the antagonist scene to somewhere where there will be less impact on the public and that way cause a public scare.

Chaning the location of the antagonist scene

For our antagonist scene my partner and I have decided to change thew lotcation due to a variaty of reasons, these include that:
That there are a varity of social and ethical problems with filming in the graveyard where we were planning to film previously this is becuase of peoples views on what can be done in these sorts of places. Many people thought that it would be disrespectful to film in these areas due to the nature of what we would be filming in those graveyards. This is becuase the antagonist and his minions would have either weapons or other war related items.

Storyboard Animatic

Props for our Teaser Trailer

For our teaser trailer we are going to be using multiple props for our teaser trailer to improve the Mise-en-scene of the footage and make it more immersive. These are some of the props that we will be using for our media vieo.

Katana. This is a form of Japaneese sword that is used primarily by samurai in 1392–1573 and is associated with the forces of good as the good guys in films from either always have them and are usually in white. These types of sword are generally used in asian based films like the last samuri or Crouching tiger hidden draggen or many of the different marshal arts films.  



Iron Man music from film

For our main video for A2 my partner and I based some of the scenes on parts from Iron man the most evident being that from the scene where Tony Stark is fire welding with a piece of metal. The music in the clip for iron man uses that song whilst he is Firewelding so my partner and I are considering weather to base our music for our clip on it.

Possible types of music for our Final Video Production

what age rating is our film ?

Four our film we are trying to choose the age rating that our film should be. This is difficult due to there being many different elements to our film and all of these need to be taken into consideration.

In the start of our film we have George hitting the anvil but there are no seemingly violent or other adult provisos in this scene. In the following scene Joe is running through a forest again there are no violent areas but he is carrying a assault riffle and a sword which could give off connotations of violence and may not be suitable for young children under the ages of 5 years. This could raise it from being a U rating set by the BBFC to a PG. Then after that scene the antagonist is shown in a negative light and his henchmen are wearing gas masks which could be classed a a more adult area and almost could be put into a horror film. This would push the age rating of the film up to a 12a, this would already be decreasing the total amount of target audience that we could target the film at due to age restrictions. This could lead to reduced revenue and a further drop in potential profit made by the film. In the next scene it is the main protagonist kissing his lover this is not classed as especially elicit content which would still make it classed as a 12a. After this there is more running and a church scene which again could be suitable for children, but after this there is a interrogation scene where the main protagonist is beaten this again is an adult topic and could make it closer to being a 15 rated film this would again lower the potential target audience for our film. Then after this there is a lot more running and going through a church. This is followed by the protagonist running out of the forest and confronting the Antagonist, they then run at each other and clash swords. This is moderately violent but not enough to put it at a 15 age rating.
Some factors that could lower the age rating of our film could be that it is a fantasy based film which means that it is not a serious action film that involves people killing one another just for the fun of it. This type of fighting is less realistic and not as serious.
On the whole I think that this film and teaser trailer should be classed as a 12a film classification set out by the BBFC. This is due to the moderate violence that is current in the video and some of the costume and mise-en-scene through out (e.g. gas masks for Antagonist lackies). Also the fantasy nature of the film would stop the age rating increasing to a 15. But there is no form of swearing or bad langauage or gore in the teaser trailer so this also would keep the age rating down. This would be benifical to the producers as this would keep the maximum amount of people able to view it up.  

videos that sparked ideas for our video

This video has been of major use to my co-worker and I in getting ideas for our video. This has been useful due to the whole of this video being based round a church and a priest. This is due to or main protagonist being dressed in black for most of the video which which could give conitations of evil and also the antagonist also wears black as well, this could give confusing messages to the audience and to remidy this we were trying to give the audience a clear stereotypical viewpoint to make it clear that Joe is the Protagonist. We will do this by having a scene where he will go into a church and pray before the ulter. This gives off conitations of good and this is what is needed to make the protagonist conform to more stereotypical views.

Iron Man video

For our media studies video we have taken inspiration from the film Iron Man for part of our teaser trailer. When Stark is hammering at a piece of metal we hope two recreate this to give a dramatic affect. This teaser trailer has a combination of both quiet areas and action packed areas. This is shown throughout the film and is broken up by scenes of action. In the quiet sections of the film there is mild quiet music in the background but when they go into a action scene of the teaser trailer the music is made louder and is brought to the foreground. This gives the effect of keeping the trailer interesting and unpredictable. This keeps the audience interested and this is what we hope to do as well. The use of smoke and explosions makes this teaser trailer more engaging which attracts the audiences attention more so they are mole likely to go and see it.

Research for our Final Task: Mise en scene

picture 1 (Trench coat)

picture 2 (Army shirt)

Picture 3 (Bullet belt)

These are some of the costumes that we will be using for our media studies final video. All of the items of clothing and accessories in the pictures above I have found to be of value to add to our film due to them improving the mise-en-scene of our video which will make it more immersive and life like to the time period that my partner and I wish to create. The Trench coat (picture 1) will be used for the antagonist, this is due to the trench coat making the antagonist look taller and more imposing. Also due to the trenchcoat being a stereotypical thing that western societies class to be worn by Russian soldures you will have the classic war story of the western nations of either America or Enlgand having a war against Russia. Using this we then get the audience to then use their own stereotypical views to see and realise that this person is evil and the person that the protagonist will be fighting against.

The army shirt (picture 2) will be worn by the protaginist. This is due to it seeming very

Research into different genre's of teaser trailers

for our main film teaser trailer we need to choose the right sort of genre for it to make it as good as we possably can this will mean that we will need one that

final preliminary task rohan and jack

Adding sound to our preliminary task

for our preliminary task we mostly got rid of the sound in most of the scenes apart from some of the crucial bits like a door creaking or a door slamming. We then had to replace this empty space with something so we recorded jack heavily breathing to fill the majority of the footage which faded into the footage about 10 seconds in. we also recorded a group of children singing the nursery rhyme "ring a ring a roses" which then ended with a demented ending. All of the recording was done in the schools own recording studio and we used cube base 4 to edit the sounds that we recorded.
The use of the nursery rhyme was used due to it being a stereotypical part of horror films as used by "Nightmare on Elm Street" in the 2010 and 1980's trailers. These sounds were then layered on top of the footage and matched to the proper scene.

Editing our preliminary task

After my partner and I had finished filming our preliminary task we proceeded to upload our footage onto one of the school media studies computers. This went reasonably well and didn't have any problems with the camera's uploading the footage, this meant that we did not have to do any editing of the footage to stop disjointedness of the footage. After we had uploaded the footage we then started to separate the different scenes of the footage that we had taken into different segments. These segments were then put in order of the way we wanted them to be shown in the final piece. Then we started to cut pieces of the footage off to make it seem more smooth and continuous. After we had finished cutting the footage in the right places we then added in a Tittle to our footage in a bright red font that looked like it was dripping which gives the impression of it being a horror movie. We then made any necessary time editing changes for example we increased the speed of the footage for the scary teenager Gaul scene by 20%. we then checked that we were within the specified time length that we could use.

Toy Story 3 - Official Teaser Trailer

This is an example of a  teaser trailer that has come out. The characteristics of the teaser trailer are that it is short and doesn't give away any of the storyline and that you only know that something is going to be coming out with that name and the different characters involved. This builds up the anticipation by the audience and makes them want to go and see it more because they have been left on a cliffhanger.

starting filming

Today we started filming for our preliminary teaser trailer. We started by going to one of the English rooms that was not being used for teaching and started to film our preliminary task. This went relatively smoothly and only took us about 15 minutes to film to a good standard. We tried to get the room to a relatively dark state so it would add more ambiance to the scene.
We then went into a adjacent English room and filmed a scene of someone trying to escape from a English room but the door closing just before they reach it. To make sure that the footage looked as moody as possible we used some of the cam corders effects which allowed us to manipulate the footage that we were taking. This again didn't take that long and only took us about 25 minutes and the only trouble we had was on getting my arm out of the video as the door shut. To counter this I had to crouch behind the door and jack would have to say "go" and I would shut the door. We then in editing cut the sound out of the film when he says this to stop any disjointness of the footage. The English rooms were perfect for our filming due to their creaky doors that were noisy and gave a great noise effect, which saved us time when we were editing due to not having to get a sound effect off a website which could have caused it to sound fake and not convincing to the audience.

the begining of our teaser trailer

We have started to think about the locations of our footage for our teaser trailer now and have started to come up with many different ideas of where to film our teaser trailer. These locations are restricted to the school grounds due to the teaser trailer having to be about Therfield school. These locations include some of the smaller English rooms, which are good due to them being dark and stuffy which have very loud creaky doors which are great to create a good atmosphere for the teaser. Also we could use the main hall which again is a dark room but also has a drama stage in it and has blood red curtains which could convey either terror or a sign of danger. We also could use a business classroom in our school due to them being like old style so it could have a retro feel to it.

Basic ideas for our Preliminary Task (test film teaser trailer)

For this task we had to decide on the genre that we would be using for our preliminary task. This was fairly simple as we did a musical last year for our main task, which we found very hard to complete in the time allocated. This meant that we went for something that would be a lot easier to film in a short amount of time with more stereotypical shots and Mise-En-Scene that we could use to make it as good as we could. There were many different genres that we decided to consider these being horror, action, comedy and science fiction. Out of these we found that it would be the easiest option for us was to do a horror due to it having many elements that we could use to make a teaser trailer for example we can do 1st person shots of people going through school and you would not need the same sort of expensive technoligy to make a horror film as it is more basic than a sci fi film.

what are teaser trailers?

A teaser trailer, is a short trailer used to advertise an upcoming film, television program, video game, or product. Teasers, unlike typical theatrical trailers, are usually very short in length (between 30–60 seconds) and usually contain little, if any, actual footage from the film. Sometimes, it is merely a shortened version of a theatrical trailer. They are usually released long in advance of the film they advertise.

super 8 teaser trailer review

name of film: Super 8
genre: action thriller
narrative: It is about a hostile alien that is let loose after a train accident.