Locations

Here is a video we put together to give a rough idea of the locations we have chosen for the location of our trailer. The park scene will be a good 'knock-off' of the rocky balboa scene. The gym will work well however the picture in the video is off the website as we couldn't take the picture in the gym. The video clips of the Mcdonalds and Sainsburys were in positions that our cameraman would roughly be standing in.

Final Storyboard

This is our final drawn out storyboard. We will be using it to produce our animatic storyboard.

Music and Sound Update.

This is an instrumental by an artist named Dj Khaled. We have taken the initiative to use his instrumental as the opening music to our trailer. The reasoning behind this, is that the artist and track is fairly unknown to many. This is something completely different to our original idea of using the Rocky theme tune which is world renowned. 

Tick tock sound effect

After a discussion, we came to the conclusion that instead of playing a song for our production logo we can simply use the sound of a clock ticking. 

Casting Shots

Me and Miguel had access to a number of possible actors for a few of the roles in our trailer. In order to decide who we should use, we held small auditions for a few people asking them to recite lines of the characters they were auditioning for. Here is how it went:

After going through who we thought would play each role best and fit the descriptions of the characters we created, we took photos of our cast in poses that express the personality of their roles.

Miguel's Moodboard

Here is a moodboard I compelled. It is based on various aspects and influences to our film that will be highlighted in our trailer. On the top left corner there is a picture of some thugs. In our film there will also be some thugs who cause Ralph, our main character, some problems. Thuggery is also something associated with boxing itself. Goofy is dazed in the bottom left hand corner and this evokes all the characteristics of our main character's life and career. The desert on the right expresses the sense of desertion fromt the

Film Schedule

Here is a Slideshare of our film schedule. One of the advantages to our filming process, is that all of our locations are within reasonable distance and near our school. This will prove to be helpful when travelling and bringing our actors together who are all from the same school. 

Trailer Transcript

In terms of our trailer transcript and the order our titles appear in, we found 'Anuvahood' very influencial in terms of the order that the information on the titles were shown. It is very comical which is something we plan on presenting immediately through our trailer too.

Initial Ideas for Sound.

In todays lesson, i've started thinking about sound in our trailer. Initially, we have had the idea of the rocky theme for a while and only recently thought that the classic song, Pietro Mascagni - Intermezzo, from the other boxing film Raging Bull would be good too. We have a current idea of playing Intermezzo for the beginning of the trailer up until Ralph trips over then using a 'record scratch' and continuing the trailer with a more upbeat soundtrack which preferably resembled rocky's training theme. Whichever audio we use as the solid background to our trailer will be mixed and edited in such a way that the volume of it is lower when important dialogue is taking place in our trailer.

A Rocky Theme Idea



Record Scratch Sound

Storyboard First Draft

Slide 1: This was a draft plan of the storyboard written out by Miguel before we began drawing out our storyboard so that we were not improvising and had a plan we could work off of. It includes every idea we could think of that would createfully enhance our plot. As well as all our ideas, we included a few specific shots here and there that might improve the quality of what we will be projecting to our audience.

Slide 2: In this slide our different ideas for our trailer have been drawn out onto a storyboard by James. The first thing to show will be our production logo, 'Duration Productions', followed by either a voice over or narration of description on why a film crew followed Ralph to film him. The first actual shot will be a flash of Ralph punching a boxing bag, then doing press-ups in the next shot and then sit-ups. What we feel might make our trailer stand out from the get-go is if we implement a time lapse of Ralph doing all these various exercises. Next, there will be a shot of Ralph running up the steps of Crystal Palace Park, South London, and then eventually tripping over at the top. We will then meet Ralph himself in an interview, and establish the fact that he is a genuine fool! The final shot here, is an interview with Phil Collins (Not the 80s sensation) Ralph's agent/coach.


Slide 3: Here, we can establish the main part to our plot. We catch a glimpse of Phil talking to Ralph about his career as a boxer, conceeding that Ralph was not as good as he thought, therefore terminating his semi-pro contract. He advices Ralph to find a new job, which moves us on to the next shot. We decided to have establishing shots of Ralph going in and out of Sainsbury's, possibly using the time lapse technique again. We will also have non-digetic voice overs of Ralph being interviewed and told 'no' several times. We might use a sound bridge for these voice overs if we add Ralph walking into one or two more shops. The next shot will be of Ralph going into a Macdonalds, but then coming out with a burger. There is a panning shot to some thugs who come out of nowhere and approach Ralph asking for their money. At this point, there are still specific details and ideas we wish to implement in a cohesive manner, in order to sharpen the edges of our trailer. One point we urgently want to work on is the structuring of what we have, so that it does not give the impression of an opening sequence and a trailer. 


More planning and organisation will be conducted. But for now we have a firm foundation to build upon.

Target Audience - What limitations are there on our production?

It is particularly important to understand that our film is liable to certain limitations in its appeal. Although it is most likely to directly appeal to an under 18 audience, we must comprehend that different factors might not be to the taste of everyone.

For instance, the london based location is something that draws in a specific culture that those from alternative countries will not find appealing. In London, the slang and humour can be established as specifically unique in comparison to other cultures. Considering the fact that our film is a comedy as well as a documentary, this might be a problem when thinking about how some might not understand this 'comedy' aspect.

The image behind the sport of boxing is something that also does not appeal to everyone. Boxing is something that has this stereotypical view of involving thugs and malicious violence in some circumstances. Various members of the public could in turn give our film this stereotype and inhibit the wider appeal it has. This is the overlying theme of our production and can therefore be interpreted as a slight limitation in our films appeal. 

Target Audience - Would our film appeal to you?

We established that our film might also appeal to our target audience for more specific reasons. Here, we interviewed a varied group of under 18s, our most obvious audience, and asked them what it was that they might find appealing in our film. We found this to be particularly useful as it gave us an insight into some of the features of our film that could be made more enjoyable. The discussion of some within the clip give reference to cultural and social themes and personal interest. 

We discovered that our film appealed to some because of the sporting - Boxing factor, which is provenly a respected theme in past films such as the Rocky trilogy and Raging Bull. Alongside this, we found a trend in how most boxing films have inspirational story lines to them. Although ours is a spoof-documentary, it still contains elements of ambition. This may also be something that would appeal to those who wanted to watch our film. The cultural aspects of our film such as, London-based slang and fashion makes the film more relatable. Through this our trailer will appeal to a wider scope of youth.  

Target Audience - Who is the target audience for the films you looked at in your influences?

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Here is a presentation highlighting statistics on the user ratings of different audiences for films that are similar to ours. The films we have chosen are Anuvahood, The Foot Fist Way and Rocky V. These films share similar cultural, sporting and comedy themes to ours and can be compared in order to establish which target audience in particular would be most likely to enjoy our film. We found a correlation between all of these films, where the most prominent audience group were those aged under 18. We found this clarified who our main target audience would be.

Creation of our Production Logo

After discussing our production logo ideas, we decided to go with our 'Time Production' idea. We kept to our initial thought of wanting to animate our logo but before that we needed to create our image on photoshop CS5 which i then found out i could animate on instead of having to go into adobe flash. This was a challenge so i saved a still version of our logo whilst i try to figure out how the mechanics behind the animation work.
                 

Here is a draft image that we may use if we cannot animate our wristwatch. We changed our name from 'Time Productions' to 'Duration Productions'.

Update on target audeince

In todays lesson, we have started pushing towards getting our target audience section of our research done and Miguel was able to film short interviews of a few people that would fit our target audience. Here is a screenshot of part of the interviews.