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.