The Retrograde Official Trailer Final Draft.

Trailer

Final Storyboard

Storyboard

Evaluation Question 1.

      Evaluation Question 1

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Evaluation Question 2.

Evaluation Question 2

How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

Evaluation Question 3.

Evaluation Question 3
What have you learned through audience feedback?

Evaluation Question 4.

Evaluation Question 4

How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

The Retrograde Official Trailer Second draft.

The Retrograde

Here is our final trailer. Since the release we have had to change a few minor things such as the cinematic boom at the beginning as it was too loud and the voice over was too quiet.

Here is the first version of our trailer (without the minor changes):

History of the Action Thriller Genre.

History of the Action Thriller Genre

Website.

Website

Link:http://281158.wix.com/skinnypigproductions

Poster.

Poster

Portrait:

Landscape:

Technology.

Technology

Iconic Directors.

Iconic Directors

Alfred Hitchcock: Arguably, the most famous thriller director. Hitchcock is the director of classics such as "Psycho" and "Vertigo". Often nicknamed "The Master of Suspense", he pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. Renowned as England's best director.

Christopher Nolan: Best known for his cerebral, often nonlinear story-telling, acclaimed writer-director Christopher Nolan was born on July 30, 1970 in London, England. Over the course of 15 years of film-making, Nolan has gone from low-budget independent films to working on some of the biggest blockbusters ever made. Nolan probably had the biggest influence on our trailer, as we took inspiration of his films "The Dark Knight" and "Inception"

Clint Eastwood: We were inspired by the trailer for "American Sniper" and we used a lot of aspects that were used in that trailer in ours. We liked the way that the trailer started with a hook that would be revisited later on, but not resolved. Clint is also famous for many other action films and westerns.

Codes and Conventions of Genre.

Font.

Music.

Music

We have used 2 different pieces of music in our trailer.

In the first half we have used a song called 'Apparat Goodbye'.

 This piece is very calm, creating an equilibrium to the audience, introducing him to the protagonist. 

In the second half we have used a song called 'Kinetik One'.

This piece of music is much faster and the sudden change from calm to dramatic creates a tense overall feel to the trailer.

Certificate rating.

Certificate Rating

First Draft.

First Draft

This is the original trailer that we created.

We did not finish it because we decided that it looked more like a short film/film opening.

We have used many of the same shots for our second attempt. However we had added more cuts, taken away the sound and added a voice over instead and added some title sequences. 

Credits.

Credits

As we have started the editing for our trailer we figured we need to research our inspirations to see where the credits come on during a trailer. 

First we researched TAKEN 3. We noticed that the first credits we see is "This January". 

The next thing we see is "20th Century Fox Presents" 

Looking at these fonts we searched for something similar and this is what we found:

It has a rusty and dirty look to it but after our first screening the feedback we got stated that they didn't like it. 

So we looked at our other inspiration "LUCY": 

This font is simplistic, futuristic and works perfectly in an action film because of its sharp edges. We found something similar:

We asked a few people what they think of this new font and everyone said it looked much better. 

Health and Safety.

Behind the Scenes.

Audience feedback.

Audience Feedback

We showed our first draft to the other media groups.

This gave us an opportunity to see what our target audience did and did not like.

Our main criticisms were:

-Do not like the font

-Story line is confusing

We have taken both of these things into consideration and discussed how we can make them better so that the audience will not pick them our again the next time we show it.

Steps we will take to improve the font:

1. We will research other action thriller film trailers and look at the types of font they have used.
2. We will decide on a font that we like the look of and try and find similar ones.

Steps we will take to make the story line less confusing:

After discussion within our group, we decided that the main reason that the audience found our trailer confusing was because it was not completely finished yet. We believe that when we have finished the whole thing, it will all make sense. (We will make sure of this when we have finished).

Our main positives were:

-Good shots

-Good music that fits well 

We are happy with the positive feedback that we got as we believe that the shots are all good as we took time and effort to make them work.

We also are glad that the audience like the music as we believe that it is one of the main features of the trailer and it brings it all together. If we had to change the music this would change our whole trailer as the cuts etc are in time with the music.

Social Media.

Social Media

Currently we have an Instagram and FaceBook page for our group. On these we have been updating the audience on the progress of our project and shown a few behind the scenes shots. This is a good way to engage our audience.