Seizer: Final teaser trailer

Our final teaser trailer is now here! Please watch, like and comment on YouTube. You will not be disappointed. Genre: Action thriller

Ancillary task: Final draft of magazine front cover

Our final magazine front cover has now been completed. As you can see there has been alot of changes. This is because we have been influenced by our focus group. We took there views on board and got rid off all the writting for readers not to get confused. We also added Iron Man to grab more attention as this is a big upcoming blockboster film. We took out the green screen due to us putting it there in our draft to remind us to add a eye catchy photo which we used Iron Man for.

Ancillary task: Final Seizer poster

This is our final poster for our ancillary task. This poster looks almost identical to the previous poster, only thing that's been changed is the bottom line as the last poster I felt the wording for the bottom line was inappropriate.

Evaluation: Directors chair interview part 4

How did you use technology in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Me and Kiyan tried and used many technology when devleoping and constructing our media product. At first we tried to use final cut pro but due to the college mac having too many files from different students, final cut pro overloaded and didn't work. Instead of using final cut pro we then decided to go back and use Imovie, we already had experience using Imovie from the previous year so we edited our footage for our film, focus group and directors chair interview. We also used Photoshop to edit images to create our poster and magazine front cover and on one occasion we used windows movie maker which is another editing software for our footage. We used these software's as we gained knowledge on how to use them from AS media studies. We used blogger.com, an online blogging site which shows our progression from the very first day to the very end. Its also another way to share with different people our work and to show the public what we are making. Our research and planning were done using Google, Youtube and Scribid. We used Google images to create our moodboard and get costume ideas and also Google web to do location scouting, using images to see what the area looks like and maps to find out how far the specific area is. Google's biggest help was for our ancillary taks. Using Google to research and look at different film posters and magazines to get final ideas for our own product. We used Youtube to analyse trailers and to watch trailers to get ideas for our own. Finally we used Scribid to put up presentations, word documents and files so we can upload them to blogger.com. Although the technology we had was limited we still manged to create a specific key shot using a rolled up piece of paper and the hd  Panasonic camera. The technology we used helped us to create this product and without them our film and ancillary tasks and knowledge would not be as good or great as they are now.

 We created this shot by using the resources and technology we had using a rolled up piece of paper.

Evaluation: Directors chair part 3

What have you learnt from audience feedback?

In our audience feedback I have learnt that having a wide opinion from different people that we know, the public and having loads of feedback helps us get an insight into what the audience exactly wants from this type of film. We got this from our survey which me and Kiyan both put together on Survey Monkey, and we then printed out and handed it around in our College as the age groups and our College being dominantly male was exactly the target audience we wanted for our teaser trailer. Our focus group helped us with our editing and future scenes in our film. For example in our focus group they emphasized on the interrogation scene because they liked the idea of it, this gave me and Kiyan that final push to include it in our teaser trailer.

Our focus group, these people helped us create our product by giving advice telling us what they like and dont like and without them  our products would be different to what they are today. They helped me and Kiyan shape and mold our magazine, poster and film.

Evaluation: Directors chair interview part 2

How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary tasks?

The combination of the main product and the ancillary tasks are effective as they let the audience know the genre of our film. We used George Robinson which plays 'the hitman' as the main picture focus for the magazine front cover and our poster. In both of our ancillary tasks we used action shots. Reason for me and Kiyan using action shots is to emphasize the action side to our film. In our poster and magazine front cover we portray our 'hero' George as the 'villain'. We use the colours red, white and black on both of our magazine front cover and our poster to give off that this trailer also has a violent side. The colours also show the audience that theres a 'good vs evil'. However we havent hinted who is good and who is evil, instead we tried to disguise the characters. This leaves mystery for the audience and also leaves them to think for themselves instead of us giving it away. Our intention was always to try make a big blockbuster film but with a low-budget feel of a British film. Because we didn't have loads of money making it feel like a low-budget film was easy for us, the hard part was making it look like a Hollywood, red carpet film. This is were our ancillary tasks helped us create our own brand identity. To me personally our Magazine screams Blockbuster all over it.                            

The scenery behind showing our location and the colours used to create the grey atmosphere in the sky , with the use of costumes and props makes our magazine look professional. I believe along with our poster me and Kiyan have branded our products well through the ancillary tasks. However I do believe that if we had more money and more time this could also have come across more in our teaser.

Evaluation: Directors chair interview part 1

 1). In what ways does your media product use or challenge conventions of real media products?

Our media product uses, develops, challenges forms and conventions of real media products in our action thriller genre. We first used real media products in our teaser to portray what genre our trailer is. In an action thriller trailer the pace of the teaser trailer usually starts off slow and gets quicker to build suspense and excitement just like the trailer for the film Taken. We started our trailer off by opening the scene with an establishing shot then a location shot to show what country and city our film is set in. After this there are 3 or 4 shots were the audience may not quite understand what is happening, these are slow paced. We then introduce fast paced action scenes to keep the audience in excitement and thrill, another action thriller genre trailer this is seen in is James Bond films, Casino Royale and Skyfall. We use title slides with specific words like 'Emperor' to go with our film name Seizer. Seize means to take, and our film name Seizer comes from Ceaser which was the emperor of Rome. Instead of using dialogue which is common in action thriller genre's we used title slides instead to tell a story. We broke conventions by having the hero portrayed as the villain. This creates confusion and keeps suspense as the audience believe they know who the character is, when they dont. We wanted to make a conventional film consisting of different films and add our own spin. Our main film focuses we used on our film were Hitman, Bourne identity, Taken and Skyfall.

This shot was important because in our teaser we wanted to create the same darkness.
The lamp seen in this shot was used to make it seem as if it was dark outside. Although the lighting from the blind shows a silhouette of James Bond, we decided to not use that but instead close the curtains to make it more dark. We used a torch on half of my face which created a silhouette like figure of the person behind.

   This was the shot used influenced by Skyfall to try and create a silhouette of the person behind the main protagonist.

Audience feedback: Focus group after first draft production

Poster:
The focus group liked our poster and there were hardly any negative points. Our colour scheme of Red black and white was liked by our focus group so we decided to keep this colour scheme for both our ancillary tasks. One person that we questioned in the focus group stated that there wasn't anything wrong with the poster. Because of this we are not going to change the poster.
Magazine: 
The magazine did not go down to well with the focus group. They didn't like the green screen we put on our front cover as it drew there attention to the green screen and away from the picture and wording. Also they found that there were to many words together at the bottom of our magazine. These changes will be made soon.
Teaser Trailer:
Our focus group highlighted that there biggest issue was the speed of our trailer. This will be taking on board and changes will be made.

Poster Implementation

Poster implementation.docx

Magazine Implementation

Magazine Implementation.docx

Ancillary Task: First draft of Seizer poster

This is our first draft poster made by me and Kiyan in photoshop. Our poster ideas came from the poster of Law Abiding Citizen. Our colours used in our poster was used to implement the violent scenes and violent theme brought by our teaser trailer.

Ancillary task: Seizer magazine front cover first draft

This our first draft to our magazine front cover. We decided to just throw radom words, sentences and a random green screen just to see if our magazine front cover would look like ones we have seen from empire. Changes are due to done, stay posted for our final magazine front cover.

Photoshoot

 

Today we did a photo shoot for our magazine cover and for our poster. We did a group shot and individual shots.

In this shot we got our two main protagonists, Richard Smith to the right and the Hitman to the left. In the middle we got an unknown person who no one knows about. That is the reason his back is turned to the camera.

Our camera man in action.

Filming Day 3

Day 3 of our filming and today was the Hitman day played by George Robinson. We got many action shots from our second main protagonist. For these scenes we filmed inside our College and outside. Pictures will be uploaded from these scenes once I get the mac.

Filming Day 2

Today we filmed our interrogation scene. To the left we have two of our actors who are playing the kidnappers role. Julian to the far left and Hinesh to the right.

This picture is me playing a character we made up called Richard Smith. In this scene I am kept hostage by Julian and Hinesh.

This picture was taken to show me and Kiyan in action, using the camera. We wanted to show our canon camera and our tripod.

Filming Day 1

Today me and Kiyan filmed in Canary Wharf with our actor Murray. For our teaser trailer, today we filmed a chase scene, a stalker scene and a scene which my media teacher described it as 'something out of bourne legacy'. Pictures will uploaded.

Actors Contract

Crown Production Actor Contract

 This contract is between the parties of Crown Production’s and hired actor

 As a member of Seizer you agree to:

 1. You will attend all filming dates which have been given to you

 2. You will be on time to all of the filming days

3. Be respectful of surroundings and other colleagues

4. Have your footage distributed between social media sites Print Name: Signature:

Here is proof that our actors did sign the contract. Some of the signings are shown below.

This is George Robinson, he plays the Hitman. Here he is signing our contract.

 Julian- Plays the interrogator signing our contract