Our Film Website

To make sure we publicised our film to our best ability we produced a website where our viewers can find all of the information that they need...

http://alecampoccio2000.wixsite.com/trafficlights
 

This link transfers you to where you can view information images and the final opening of our blog.
Here are a few screenshots of it:

 

Final Titles List

In our first draft we had some feedback about there being too many titles and that they were all bunched up in the middle area of our film opening. To improve this for our final opening we spread out the titles and made sure that were more subtle by being smaller and fading in and out gently.

• In association with

Film Four, Focus Features

• Actor

Alesandro Campoccio

• Actor

Antonio Ferelli

• Title of film

Traffic Light

• Screen played by

John Burridge

• Produced by

Brian Earp

• Director of photography

Bart German

• Production designer

Will Davis

• Editor

Aimee Chaser

• Visual effects producer

Rachel Walters

• Associate producer

Sian Field

• Casting by

Kathrine Brookes

  

 

Final Script

Once we looked at all the footage we had on the scenes with dialogue we noticed that they seemed really staged. Therefore we felt the need to change this and this meant changing the script slightly:

*Shots of scenery/setting*

*Character 1 walks into the dark alleyway and meets Character 2*

*Hands over the goods*

Character 1: "sorry I'm late"

*Character 2 shakes head in disappointment*  

*Character 1 walks away*

Character 2: "If you get caught... you don't know who I am"

*Character 1 is at the station about to depart*

*Calls Character 2 on his phone*

Character 1: "Hello? ... I don't think I can do this..."

*Phone Call is ended*

*A security officer enters (character 3)*

Character 3: "Oi!"

*Character 1 runs out of the scene and the camera cuts*

This new script is more of a natural conversation between two people which makes it appear more realistic in our film opening.

Film Poster

 This film poster was produced to spread the word of our film. whether that be on the side of busses or in shop windows, it informs people of the new teenage phenomenon that is soon to hit the cinemas. making more people aware of our film and hopefully making more people to watch it.

 

Presentation Techniques

There are many ways in which you can represent your ideas and presentations. Here are some examples:

- Prezi

- Emaze

- PowerPoint

- SlideShare

- SlideRocket 

- Present.me

 

Personally I have never used Emaze, SlideRocket or present.me so they would not be my first choice when choosing what presentation tool to use.  PowerPoint and SlideShare come hand in hand as after producing a PowerPoint to post it anywhere you need to put it through SlideShare. This can become useful as it is a basic software meaning everyone is able to use it no matter what skill bases they have. Finally Prezi, this is my favourite tool as it is simple to use yet produces an excellent presentation at the end of it. It takes a long time to process and get everything in the correct position but it is worth it.  

After deliberating it with my team we felt that we should vary our presentation tools we used. throughout my blog I have used prezi and slideshare to present my work along with the normal blog posts. so consequently, when presenting our final film and all of the information to come with it we are going to produce an emaze. This is because it is different and makes our blogs more interesting...

 

BBFC Certificate

When researching about the aging certificate we came to the conclusion of our film being of an aging 15. We chose this because it has content that would be inappropriate for younger ages and felt that that age group upwards would be the audience most interested in our film.

 

During our research we looked up the certificate that the BBFC class their films under. I selected the themes that we included in our film and included the pain points from their description:

 

Discrimination: The work as a whole must not endorse discriminatory language or behaviour, although there may be racist, homophobic or other discriminatory themes and language.

Drugs: Drug taking may be shown but the work as a whole must not promote or encourage drug misuse (for example, through instructional detail).

Language: There may be strong language. Very strong language may be permitted, depending on the manner in which it is used, who is using the language, its frequency within the work as a whole and any special contextual justification.

Nudity: There are no constraints on nudity in a non-sexual or educational context. There may be nudity in a sexual context but usually without strong detail.

Threat: There may be strong threat and horror. A sustained focus on sadistic or sexual threat is unlikely to be acceptable.

Violence: Violence may be strong but should not dwell on the infliction of pain or injury. The strongest gory images are unlikely to be acceptable. Strong sadistic violence is also unlikely to be acceptable.

 

We thought that our film fitted in with these guidelines and therefore would be given a 15 certificate...

 

 

 

Feedback Research

In class today we looked over each others projects and gave feedback to our peers. We learnt a lot that could be improved in our film and it gave us a good direction to head in to improve our film opening further...

Film Inspriation

We found our film inspiration from The Midnight Express. When researching and planning about our genre and film narratives, Antonio mentioned an action drama, and we came across this film which we thought would be excellent to give us some fundamental ideas in which we could base our filming opening on.

The Midnight Express gives off the same icons and conventions that we wanted to include in our film for instance the use of drugs, being stuck in a situation hard to get out of and struggles of being young with the feeling that you can do anything and get away with it.

The story line of this fill is different to the ideas that we had produced, also the country and ages although our film and the midnight express have similar meanings and opinions of the guilty parties therefore works well as a related film.

This is the trailer for The Midnight Express

Our First Draft

This is our first draft, it is unfinished although through producing this we found out many improvements we could do/use to make our sequence better...

Marketing Campaign

To make sue our production is successful we need to produce a marketing campaign to get the word out about it.
Here are the sort of things we are planning to do:

Editing

Today I spent six hours editing our film opening to make sure we were ready for our deadline on Monday. whilst editing I realised we were behind on a lot of filming as we had missing shots. therefore re arranged our shooting schedule to make sure we got all of the footage we needed...