Progress.

Having emailed the prison that i plan to film in to try and gain aces. I have emailed the admissions officer and i have had a reply telling me that they will get back to me when they have cleared it with security. I am very excited about this possible idea and will be filming as soon as I get clearance.

Empire magazine front cover analysis.

As you can see this is not a conventional magazine cover. There is nothing about what is inside of the magazine, for example 'top 10 movies of all time'. The cover doesn't even feature a barcode. Although it is not conventional and does not follow the 'rules' of magazine front covers, it does stand out and makes you think ' wow'.

Personally I would love to create a front cover like this one with minimal text, that emphasises the iconic figure. But I believe that doing this cover for my coursework would not allow me to gain the highest marks possible. This cover does not show that I understand the conventions of magazine front covers. Also it does not show that I am aware of how magazines advertise their front covers to get their potential audiences to read the magazine. For example, Having 'World Exclusive' written in bold writing, in an experimental font and a large image draws the audiences attention.

So rather than risk getting a poor grade for doing something simple but affective I have chosen to go down the conventional route with a cover that will hopefully look as good as this.



As you can see it has all of the conventional aspects that a magazine should have and i believe that with some time and effort I will be able to create a cover that looks as good if not better than this.

Ideas...

After speaking to some people and thinking of some ideas myself, I have found a studio that I can use at Cranfield Univercity. I will not be able to shoot all of my movie in this studio as i want to be able to shoot some of the opening shots in a dusy car park, also i would like to use the airport and the runway to shoot some planes taking off and landing. Finally I plan to use a prision that I can gain acess to and do some filming of empty cell. This will depend on if I gain permission into the prision.

I have done a story board to follow this and it will be uploaded soon.

What have I been doing over the summer.

Over the summer I have been doing work experience for a client, called Matt Sutton, he is a personal trainer who does a bootcamp training session. He needed a promotional video for his website, so he asked me to help him out. I decided to do some montage editing and added some Ken Burns aswell. I believe that this has helped me with planing my coursework, and has also made me realise how you need to plan for a customer and then you have to meet their expectations.

Also having recently watched S.A.L.T this has given me some inspiration for my product.

Location, Location, Location

After going out and looking and a few locations I have decided to use the opening of a building site, this may sound an odd location to film on but there are large concrete blocks. This will be the location for the drug dealing scene which will be filmed at night. You may think that filming at night time would be a problem but plan to use the light from my car, this will give a lot of light so the camera can pick it up but mainly this will look realistic with cars in the scene.

Inception Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziixLbLKBXU&hd=1

This is the url of the new thriller film called Inception. After watching this trailer I have got some good ideas that I can use and apply on my trailer. This trailer uses music the entire way through, it changes volume and also speed to fit with the trailer. I will also use this in my trailer and this will be conventional.

Another conventionIi have noticed is that it is full of cuts and is montage edited which means that my trailer does not have to have any chronological sequence. the main aim of this trailer is to give the audience a brief idea of the plot whilst also at the same time not giving away too much of the plot.

The use of big budget editing is something that I will not be able to achieve, but i will be taking some of their slow motion ideas and applying them to my trailer. Finally I will be going to watch this on the 16th of july when it is released to get more ideas for my trailer.

Idea !

After doing a proposal in our media lesson I have finally decided on an idea. I am going to create a 'teaser tralier' for a thriller genre film. The plot will be constructed around 'someone who sees too much', this will be a drug dealer who murderes one of his clients due to late payment. Then another client happens to see the murder as it was happening, the drug dealer spots the other client and thus knows that the client knows about the murder.

I am going to think very carefully about what I put into the trailer, as I do not want to give away too much of the plot so that the viewer knows the main part of the film. I am getting quite excited about this trailer and this is leading to my motivation being boosted. I will post some more initial idea soon.