Existing film website research

• 'Buried'
  http://www.experienceburied.com/
  
  
  ·       Trailer constantly plays on home page
  ·       Links to other parts of the site are listed at the side
  ·       Option to book tickets with the theatre finder
  ·       Whilst loading comes up with a main part of the film ’90.00 minutes’.
  ·       Called ‘experience buried’ to relate to the film making you feel like you are in the situation.
  ·       Good genre links to the film – we can tell from the website this is going to be a horror/thriller.
  ·       Reviews at the bottom of the screen.
  
  
  'Bourne Ultimatum'
  http://www.universalpictures.com/awards/bourneultimatum
  
  
  ·       Uses the same look as ‘official government websites’ used in the film
  ·       Shows trailer
  ·       Links to other areas about specific characters without having to scroll
  ·       Easy to navigate – none of the pages require you to scroll
  ·       ‘intel’ link shows other areas of the website – quite hard to find without specifically looking 
  
  
  
  
  
  

website - adding the trailer

Before I could add the trailer to the website, we had to upload the final version to a YouTube account (Summer already had a channel on Youtube set up for this). Then I selected 'Add' and 'Media' to add a film to the site. This meant that a direct link to the trailer could be made on the site and so the trailer could play automatically on our site. I copied the URL of the trailer from where it is on Youtube and pasted it in the URL bar of the added media and this created the link for the trailer to be on our site. 

Then I had to decide if I wanted the trailer to play automatically, if the control bar would be visible at all times and where the box would be in terms of all the other parts of the web page. I decided that the trailer should play automatically as the best websites we looked at had the trailer as the first thing you saw. Putting the trailer box on the left hand side of the screen meant that the photographs which make up the background could still be seen properly. The trailer is only shown when you load the homepage because it might be irritating for the user and therefore not user friendly if the trailer kept playing on every page they loaded. 

Voiceover

In Post production of our trailer, we wanted to add a voiceover in order to add some more depth to it. I wrote the script for this following the themes of survival and chance which are ongoing themes that run through our trailer. The script was as follows

"Sometimes in life, a bit of luck and chance goes a long way,
when you're playing with dice,
But when you're playing with guns, its not about luck, or chance,
it's about skill and nerve
it's all about raw survival instinct,
You know we're watching,
but what we wanna know is,
Are You Ready?"

The recording took several hours to accomplish the desired tone but eventually we had one recording which matched the urban style of the film.

Final Location

For our final location we will be using the Thames Barrier Industrial estate.









Following our research we knew that we were looking for an old industrial area which could potentially look deserted. Upon finding the estate, we were happy to acknowledge that it met our needs almost perfectly providing us with an area which could hold any hiding places for our characters and somewhere where we could adapt shots from the storyboard around.









We secured several locations to film inside such as the barrier animal care clinic, which holds old kennels with cages which we are able to use for
jail cells as well as an industrial style yard.  We
also secured an old tyre unit which we are able to clear and use as a disused building with industrial looking metallic walls ideal for our setting.







The estate has many side roads with industrial units either side which have the perfect qualities for the effect that we are looking for. There is a tankard and several metallic structures around the estate which can be used as hiding places in our shots.  We also located an old abandoned pub called 'The Victoria'which has the perfect atmosphere for the film in its basement due to its concrete floors, natural cold lighting and steel bars.

Sound deconstruction - Urban action trailers

I am going to look at genre ideals surrounding the sound of action trailers to find the main themes, to then decide whether to conform to, or subvert these in our trailer

The Bank Job:

- Snippets of dialogue from within the film (diegetic)

- Backing track with strong bass and drum beat.

- Editing matches and compliments music

backing track louder with important pieces of typography to emphasise them.

- Additional sound effects of cameras clicking etc.

- Song changes to more upbeat and playful

- Use of comical lines

Fight Club:

- Internal dialogue from film

- Comical lines straight away

- Commentary explaining plot

- Quiet backing track behind all of the dialogue.

- Mostly diegetic sound throughout

- Sound track only picks up right at the end

- Although quiet, the backing track song still has a strong bassline and drumbeat.

SWAT:

- Extremely heavy baseline and drum beat, kicks in straight away.

- Diegetic dialogue is played over the top of this soundtrack - legible but inconvenient. 

- Additional sound played throughout -- gun shots etc.

- Comical lines heard throughout

- Dialogue used as a voiceover to explain plot

Lighting and shots

I have made a clear plan for each shot from our storyboard indicating the light source position and the position of the camera in relation to the actor or piece of mise-en-scene.

Final Storyboard