Production Logo

Here is are some sketches of images that we think might make great production logos. The ideas here were spontaneously influenced by our surroundings and we focused on specific things, delving deeper into what might make good logos.

Genesis idea

 In the top left corner, there is a sketch of a bridged beam of lights within a circle. Around the inner section of the circle there would be a shallow golden glow with a black background. The contrast in colours would improve the way the logo might stand out. We thought that animating the beams of light would definitely improve the lure of the logo. The lights might also give the impression of a fresh start and rejuvenation. We decided that Genesis would make the perfect name for this logo. 

Time Production idea

In the bottom left hand corner, there is a sketch of a watch that we thought would be amazing for a logo. In fact, we have decided that this is definitely the idea we shall go for. The watch itself will be coloured gold and silver, enhancing the lure to this particular image. The clock hands should not be hard in animating with Adobe Flash and ticking in a clockwise direction. As the clock hands get to the 12 again, they will be facing the 'Time' and an alarm tone will sound.

Lake idea

Our final idea is in the bottom right hand corner. It is of a lake/river flowing down. We thought the idea would stand out as a production logo as it is a fairly unique idea. What we felt would definitely enhance the logo itself, would be to have attempted to animate the stream of water going down the lake. Again, using Adobe Flash we thought that this could help us do this.  This was our second choice logo.

Genre Influence

Here is the UK trailer for the film The Foot Fist Way.

 This Film is highly influential towards the documentary/comedy hybrid genre that we are also trying to implement within our production. However, the structure of the trailer itself is not one that we feel is particularly suitable for our storyline. The aspects of the film that we do find highly influential surround the genre. It's primarily a comedy about a martial arts instructor who had in the past been a champion himself. After a while he loses power and influence between his students and faces a downward spiral. This leads to him making a fool of himself, and finding allies such as Julio Chavez, his nine-year-old apprentice! The documentary aspect of the film is one that we especially think could enhance the humour of our film which will also be a hybrid comedy/documentary.

Structure Influence

An obvious influence of ours would have to be Rocky 5.

In terms of structure, this trailer conveys the image and ideas we have discussed about our own trailer. The beginning is purely shots of Rocky working out and boxing with opponents. This was an idea we have for our piece. While it will remain serious for the first half a minute, the comedy aspect will kick in. As well as the second half being comedic, it is also the core plot for our film with clips from different areas of the film, majority being the intense and funniest scenes. This is also similar in terms of the structure of the Rocky 5 film due to it going into the more intense storyline when it reaches around the 1:00 point. However, in terms of titles and release dates, I think we may have to look for guidance from a different trailer.

Visual Aspects Influence

In regards to our idea, we noticed that this episode of Fresh Prince had very similar concepts to the idea we had put together.

Although this clip isn't a trailer or even part of a film, it still contains shots and visuals that we aimed to portray in our idea. We had planned on producing very similar ideas to this as there is only so much you can do with a Rocky parody however we'll do our best to put our own twist on it with features of Raging Bull stirred into our idea. We really like the shots in this clip however we decided that as these shots will be in the beginning of our trailer, we would like our main character to have a mystery aspect to him. In order to do this, for each shot we find appealing, we will film it from 180 degree angle to the one used in the clip so that none show our characters' face and are all from behind.

           

Full synopsis.

After We had written out our individual synopsis', we combined them to create our final idea.

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Ralph is a young motivated and courageous boxer who fluked his way through his semi-pro boxing career for just under a year. He is stripped of his boxing contract and told to move on by his agent. As time passes, Ralph's financial predicament deteriorates and some old friends come into the picture seeking a loan repayment. Ralph becomes more aware of the severity of the situation as the thugs begin to threaten him and his family. He begins applying for numerous different jobs ranging from cleaning jobs, to retail jobs, to supermarkets. He is unsuccessful in his search and then becomes confronted again by the thugs as they begin to feel as if they are not being taken seriously. The thugs hunt for Ralph and catch him out, cornering him. With a hint from Judith, who knew Ralph, police arrive at the scene of the confrontation and arrest the thugs. Ralph then converses with one of the policewomen and is offered a place as a boxing coach for her son and his junior boxing club.

Initial Ideas

We haven't had the steadiest start to our blog as the school network was down for a while which lead us to doing the majority of our work verbally and involved us jotting our ideas down on sheets.

Here is a neater digitalised version of our initial idea brainstorm we wrote out for our Boxing idea. Initially, we were going to make it a very serious boxing film like rocky and raging bull but decided to beat the cliche.

James' Moodboard

This is my moodboard i created to try and convey the main idea's behind our trailer. The boxing equipment, (boxing ring, punching bags, boxing gloves) represent the main theme behind our film being the sport aspect. The rocky picture in the top left corner is to show that it is an influence to our idea as well as other boxing films such as raging bull. The top right is a main at an interview to show the idea of our main character going job hunting. The money is the money that he owes to the drug dealing thugs whilst the cartoon in the bottom left is to show the comical aspect of our idea.

25 Word Pitch

"Ralph feels his boxing career coming to an end, but how will he make money to pay off his debt to thugs?"

A boxer who loses his spark and can't fluke his way through any more fights, has to retire early and find a new way to make an income. He needs to find a new way soon so that he is able to pay off a group of drug dealers he had lean't money off of. The film follows Ralph as he attemps to find a new group and attends interviews.

What is a Trailer? What is a Teaser Trailer?

In our media lesson we looked at the differences between two types of trailers; Feature trailers and teaser trailers. We were shown a few trailers in our lesson that we watched numerous times so that we could analyse them and spot reoccurring characteristics within the trailers.
A teaser trailer is a trailer that generally gives away much less of a films plot and is also shorter than a feature length trailer. A feature trailer is normally one that gives away much more of the plot.

Looper

We began by looking at the trailer for the film Looper which was clearly a feature trailer which was portrayed by the characteristics it possessed. Immediately we hear a common characteristic which was a voice over from the main character.

This trailer would be considered a feature trailer rather than a teaser trailer purely due to the fact that it gave away more of the story than a teaser trailer would. Main aspects of this trailer would be the camera shots and editing highlighting the weapons and violence of the film and the fades to convey to suspense.

focus pull on the gun highlights violen themes of the film.

I feel that this trailer was presented very well as it maintains your attention from the beginning and doesn't take too long to make it clear and clarify what the genre of the film is, as well as the main themes of violence, time travel and a love interest. The trailer also gives off an unsettled vibe from the shaky images all throughout the trailer which is mainly noticeable when the production logo (TriStar) and intervals of text appeared on the screen.

 The fonts, colour schemes and music were also all applied well. The  black on white/white on black fonts and backgrounds gave a simplistic feeling to the trailer which contrasted with the trailers overdose of action.  The mundane colour scheme behind the trailers writing also suggests a intent storyline as appose to a colourful comedy font from a comical film. Also the non diagetic music placed over the action of the trailer was very thought out dupstep which added to the energy of the trailer and the atmosphere. The action aspect was conveyed well through the increase of pace throughout the whole trailer  to link with the adrenaline of the viewers watching.

Man of Steel

This was the first teaser trailer we looked at. Unless you were a fan of the superhero genre, this trailer was not an obvious superman trailer right up until the end when the recognisable logo was shown. This is an aspect of a teaser trailer that some audiences would find appealing as it would make them feel eager to see the rest of the film and find out the plot, whereas others would be frustrated that it gives away no hints.

  
The team behind the trailer used very arty looking shots and scenes from the film to convey a different aspect of the film. This again, would be quite unappealing to those who take no interest to the action/comic genre however it is a great teaser for the audience it appeals to as it will keep them wanting more until the full feature trailer is released in oppose to the whole film.

This teaser trailer also refrains from revealing too many names for example actors and only shows the successful directors and producers involved in the film which is another way in which the trailer teases viewers. The font is also a metal type font that glimmers which resembles the title, 'Man of Steel'.

The Campaign 

I think that of all the trailers we were shown, i was appealed to by this one the most as it was the only one that had a comical vibe to it. It wasn't an obvious teaser trailer or an obvious feature trailer as it had characteristics of both. It has the length of a feature length trailer however it has a vagueness about it that makes it possible for it to pass as a teaser trailer. However i feel if anything it would be classed as more of a feature trailer.

This trailer conveys its genre very clearly through the colours and the titles shown for example the animated 'coming soon'. This is also shown through all the clips in the trailer being all the best comical scenes from the film as well as the energetic non digetic soundtrack playing whilst the titles appear.