Institution Research

20th Century Fox
this production company is one of the 6 major American film studios, founded in 1935 it has quickly become one of the most recognised film intuition in the world. The studio is a subsidiary of News Corporation owned my Rupert Murdoch. This institution has had many successes including; Star Wars, X-Men, Ice Age, Die Hard, Predator, Alien, Planet of the Apes, Home Alone, and the most successful of all time Avatar. The majority films they have produced in the last 10 years have been of the action gener and so would make it a good contender of the big budget action film we are looking to make. Another reason why this film would institution would be suitable for our film is the fact that it is part of one of the worlds biggest conglomerates and so would have the resources to produce the special effects, music, editing and distribution from its other subsidiaries saving cost.



Warner Bros
Warner Bros is another one of the main film studios based in california and new york. warner bros is a global leader in the creation, production, distribution licensing and marketing of all froms of creative content and ther related businesses, across all current and emerging media and platforms. some of the most popular films created by warner bros are; Harry Potter, The Hangover, The Matrix and the Dark Knight. Warner Bros produce and distribute a variety of films in diffrent genres alowing our film to be easly and effectivly made and distributed.



Paramount pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation is a film and television production/distribution company, consistently ranked as one of the larges movie studios. It is a division of American media conglomerate Viacom. Paramount is the fourth oldest existing film studio in the world behind Universal Studios, Pathé and Gaumont Pictures. Also, it is the last major film studio still headquartered in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles. over the years this production corporation has had a number of successes some of the most notiable being; Transformers, Mission: Impossible, Star Trek, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Jack Reacher. the films being made by the production comparny are big bugjet and have attracted a large following form ether high profie actors/ directors or backing a film which will turn in to a franchise. The franchise part of the busines will automatical make a porffit and historyicaly hard every make a lose as the film is builing on the fan base made from the last film and from this the Paramunt would have the capital avilible to invest in our new film and would have the potenchial if the film was a big anoth success to be made into a franchise.

possible locations

For our film location we would like a nice open space of land preferably coming across as a remote countryside location;

Ashtead common:
Ashtead Common is a big open grassland which would be perfect for a film due to this location being remote and appropriate for the scenes we want to shoot.

Box Hill:
Box Hill is an even better location to shoot as it has a mix of open areas, woodland and pathways along the river enabling us to gather a wide range of different shots with different locations around Box Hill.

Norbury park:

opening script for The Pursuit (DRAFT)

opening script for The Pursuit (DRAFT)

Opening scene: A long shot of a winter location which then cuts to a close up of a pair of eyes (Alex Turner) then to a shot of another pair of eyes (Martin Smith) A black screen appears with film credits “Action film of the year, by far up there with the best…)

Scene 2: Alex and Martin appear to enter a room (Match on action) Where Alex is betrayed by Martin. A mid shot of the room filled with bad guys and a gun to Alex’s back.

Alex “Why”…

Black out and a close up of Alex’s beaten face. Then a long shot to establish a different location of Martin with a gun to a girl whose face is covered and Alex a fair distance away.

Cut again to the release date of the film.

A mid shot is then used to show Alex is bed you can see an empty place beside him. It then jumps to a close up of his face. He notices the empty space. Where is his girlfriend?

Scene 3: A close up of Alex driving a car speeding past trees to a black out with director titles and to a close up of a girl with her face covered.


Like most action films our trailer will be mainly shots of scenes rather than speech as a cliche of an action genre are explosions and many of them. In most action films their trailer consists of a collage of shots that are not necessarly in time order but make the film seem more appealing backed up by highly paced music. In our trailer we aim to do the same, we onlt have 2 minutes so we want those 2 minutes to be exciting.

trailer analysis- Gladiator

In this trailer the use of opening titles is something used very effectively, with short statements "The General"  "Who became a slave" "The slave" "Who became a gladiator" "The Gladiator" "Who defied an Empire" that all link together and gives you the main plot to this story,  with in theses quotes there are also short cuts of footage that back up the statement shown for instance in the first statement "The General" you are given a short close up tracking shot of him leading an army. These cuts are very effective are is something i think we should consider using in our trailer. 

The first words we here our hero saying is "my name is gladiator" this is re-enforcing  the name name of the film but also demonstrates how he has changed and lost his old identity.  Also in a very short space of time from the first words you hear the know well know "father to a murdered wife" quote which also tells the audience his motives behind why he is angry. from this the pace quickly fastens. The pace starts of slow giving the audience an idea of the story line and then picks up after this, to fast pasted shorts of him as a Gladiator and in the army together, theses are the stereotypical action shots you would expect to see from this sort of trailer and it it also subverting the convention of fasted paced by the way it the pace stays slow for so long. 

The locations are also very juxtaposed in this trailer, firstly you see a very dark and cold setting where he is in power and then strangely when he has his freedom taken away from him the setting changes from that of dark to light, this could suggest that where he is now is his destiny and he is going to be okay.

I really like this trailer and it gives justest to an amazing film and also i think we should use the way they used titles in a similar way as they were very effective here. 

Action Film Font

looking at a collective of action films from the past 10 they are all similar in front an example being is you compare "Taken" with "Wanted" they are very similar with the only difference being that "wanted" is slightly more bolder.

theses are all simply imitated for our film poster and would fit very well with the conventions of the genre.

Ideas taken from this:

1. Red Font
2. Simple but bold like "wanted" and "taken" 
3. Use a block colour as a background 
4. A date similar in looks to "The bourne ultimatum" 
5. a darker colour picture to contrast with the red 

audience resurch- questionaire

1.      How old are you?

10-20             21-30       31-40     40+

2.      How do you watch most of your films?

Cinema           TV             DVD              Internet

3.      What is your favourite genre?

Action             romance            comedy             horror

4.      How many films do you watch in a month?

0       1-5         6+

5.      Does a trailer effect your decision to watch a film?

Yes        No

6.      What is your favourite action film

…………………………………………………………………………………………………

7.      Dose critical reaction to a film effect if you see it or not?

Yes        No

 

 

results,  20 people asked

1.    10-20 = 8   21-30= 4   31-40= 3  40+= 5

2.  cinima= 8  Tv= 4  DVD= 5  internet= 3

3. Action= 12 Romance= 2 Comedy= 4 Horror=1 

4. 0= 3  1-5= 10 6+ 7

5. Yes= 15  No= 5

7. Yes= 18   No= 2

sound track Analysis

The soundtrack for Taken builds suspense more and more as the trailer progresses. This is because of the slow building music from slow paced to fast paced making the film seem intense and thrilling. We aim to use similar music in our trailer to enthrall the audience and build suspense for this upcoming film.  The build up in pace of the music accompany whats on screen very well this is due to it  starting off slow to set the scene then picking up for the action parts of the trailer.




The soundtrack for Taken builds suspense more and more as the trailer progresses. This is because of the slow building music from slow paced to fast paced making the film seem intense and thrilling. We aim to use similar music in our trailer to excite the audience and build suspense for this upcoming film.  The build up in pace of the music accumponies whats on screen very well this is due to it  starting off slow to set the scene then picking up for the action parts of the trailer.


The master has a drumbeat going on throughout which builds in pace as the trailer progresses. This builds suspense within the audience and draws them into the action along with the music as it builds in pace. We would like to use something like this in our film as the building beat of a drum would match our action perfectly and have the effect on the audience we are looking for.

Font resarch

The pursuit

This would not work very well as an action film font as it is not eye catching enough to attract potential audience members but would rather suit a film of the drama genre as it would be taken more seriously

The Pursuit

This font certainly bold enough to work for our film it’s not quite what we are looking for as letters like the p is not as sharp as we are after in comparison to the font below.

THE PURSUIT

I like the recognition you get with this font and the connotation of the army it hold, because of this I think it should be considered for our font. On the other hand the audience may associate this font with other movies like “The A Team” which also uses a similar font and so may result in the film not standing out as well as it could using a different font.                                                                                                                    

The Pursuit

This font although very aesthetically pleasing would not work with the convention of action film font being very bold and different a convention of the genre we are keen to adhere to.     

The Pursuit

This font contains all the keen elements that we are looking for in our film, the boldness helps the film name stand out while the broken lines give the effect of danger we are keen to convey with our film. 

The Pursuit

This font would also work well for our action film or a film of a similar genre, it has the boldness that would make it easily identified by audiences` when comparing the this one with the one above, would decide against this one in favour for the other one. 

 

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trailer analysis- The Dark Knight Rises

The Dark Knight Rises is the last in the recent Batman trilogy, it has build up a massive fan base from viral marketing companies and the success off the last two film, it has been widely awaited.

The trailer starts off with the initial diagetic sound of a boy singing the american national anthem, after this scene is finished the sound turn in to non-diagetic and keeps on playing under the initial statement " you are as precious to me as you were to your own mother and father and i swore to them that i would protect you, and i havent" this is said by a constant and well recognizes character throughout the movies, this also suggests that some harm has come to him or will come to Batman. but when you look at the next couple of lines of dialogue "hes a hero" "a war hero this is peace time" and "a storms coming Mr Wane" are very juxtaposed and could be put there to confuses the audience, this technique fallows the trailer to the end and still in the back ground you can here the boy singing. When the singing cuts out chanting begins, this is something that is not normally seen in trailers like this but when the meaning of the chanting is relies you can see it holds meaning to the tile of the film.

The pace of this film is slow and loops around back to the opening scene at some sort of stadium, unlike other trailers no plot line is given away and so this suggests that they are relining on the success of the last two films to curry over the audience it could also be that the audience needs to watch the film to find out the how it ends.

I think that for our type of film this trailer would be to hard to try and recreate and without a franchise to back it, it would be even harder to deliver the desired effect.

possible location - Horsell Common

 

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This Location has been used prevuisly as the location for "War of the World" writen by H.G wells a book that is one of the earliest stories that details a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race.

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presination of trailer idea

My Action Film Idea on Prezi

drama

Beasts of the southern wild

 

 

The no-diagetic music in the trailer is constant tough out the trailer but fades in and out at pivotal points in the film, an example being the storm where the diagetic sound of the rain, thunder and lightning takes control and overpower the music, the way the music flows form different scenes also connects to the dialogue at the start of the film "the whole universe depends on everything fitting together just right" this fitting the music to a key theme in the film also helps the audience feel that this story is a child take on natural disaster and her beliefs on life, also the music present in this trailer has a child like feel to it with its constant chimes and the over lay of the violin on the piano (35 secs), by reling on the sound to change the mood of the trailer helps convay to the audience that an otherwise dark situation e.g her father dyeing and a flood destroys her village the music shows that it is still a positive story.

The font used in this trailer is "Times" a very traditional and well known font and for me personaly is also the first thing i change when i go to type as i like most people feel like this font is to old and outdated when compairing it to its newer counterparts. The font is also very realy used in films as it is seen as boring and does not stand out something that alot of film are ament to do, because of this you would expect this font to have the same effect when talking about this film but it fact it has a very diffrent effact. the effect this has on the way the film is veiwed is that it helps it be taken seriously and gives it an image of being important and should not be ignored by The way this font is used to connote with power and authority. this use of font to display the way that others seen the film aswell also creates the same effect.

The pace of this trailer moves from fast to slow but with the upbeat music constant thought out the trailer maintains a happy feeling with the one exception of the longest scene in the 1min 58 seconds of footage with 10 seconds dedicated to the storm scene when this occurs all music is cut out and so as previously explained creates a darker effect. the sorter scenes such as the main character jumping from tier to tyre crates a light hearted atmosphere and also give a good over view of the movie without divulging any main plot twists in the film

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Shots in this film are very complex with a mixture of long sequence shots and short fast passed ones when the trailer wants to add tension and also it is effective in keeping the audience interested, one of my favourite shots in this film is the one shown in the poster (image 1). the way the main character runs towards a still camera is a very different shot, as normally when someone is running or moving in anyway the camera used a lot of different shots to keep the audience interested whereas with this the added light stimulation keep the audiences interest without the need for any other shot types and creates a very effective and interesting shot, so much so that is the centrepiece for the poster. Another interesting shot is the low mid shot used in image 2. the multidimensional aspects in this shot for me is the most effective in the whole sequence of shots for example in the foreground of this shot there is tree foliage giving the effect that the character is acting very naturally as if she isn’t being filmed whereas in the background there are tires and hay bales suggesting poverty and an un-natural playing environment for a chided. Using the rule of thirds to analyse this screen shot you can see that the viewer’s eye is naturally drawn to the juxtaposed image of man main objected in a very natural environment again highlighting the poverty of the area. When the girl moves in to the centre of the screen you notice what she is wearing; willies, vest and pants this adds to the viewer’s understanding of the poverty of the area.  My film will not have a political message of poverty and global worming I like the effectiveness of the foreground foliage and the effect it creates and would work well in my film trailer.

costume ideas

Heros costume



possible costume one for Josh  

Theses are two of the possible costumes that our hero might where is the film, the casual jeans and hoodied shown in costume one we would aim for him to idealy wear at the start of our film to represent in him in a civilain setting and relatively normal persona. The use of casual clothes will also appeal to our target audience as his is wearing simial clothes to what they would sterotypically wear. In the second image, a man in a suit, will possibly be used later on or in the marketing of our film to create a more profesional image and also to highlight the seriousnes of his mission. The overall impression we aimed to give is that of a significant change in charecter from start to end.



possible costume two for josh

Villian costume

For this costume we are aiming to keep it simple with a plan black leather jacket, with ether smart trousers or jeans. The leather jacket is very sterotypical of a villian and also a typical action costume due to the hard wearing nature and its connotation with racing. This would be ideal for our villian and also it would be easy to get hold of.



Victim

For our victim we are going to have one constant costume, that will hopefully be as shown above. If this costume is not available then something very similar will work, the main impression we are trying to convey is that of her being very normal and innocent in an effort to provoke an emotional reaction.