Radio Trailer Idea

After disscussing ideas with Ryan Carman as to what to do for our radio trailer as our film does not use dialouge, we have decided that we will create a deceptive radio trailer to get people interested in the film and also get people to look into the film out of curiousity that the deceptive trailer will create. For the deceptive trailer, we were thinking of doing a fake "bank finance" radio advertisement because one of the underline points of the film is money loss so a bank finance advert would relate to the film well.

Some examples of films using deceptive marketing include the Blair Witch Project, which made people think it was a real documentary, and The Fourth Kind, which claimed to be based on actual case studies and people which were later found to be untrue.
http://www.blairwitch.com/
http://www.thefourthkind.net/

Different Radio Types

BBC Radio 1: A national radio station

BBC Radio Norfolk: A local radio station

Future Radio: A community radio station

There are different types of radio which means choosing the right type for our film trailer so that it is heard by our target audience. One type of radio is community radio which are radio stations that broadcast for specific areas or people and are mostly not affiliated with commercial stations or advertising. The next type of radio is local radio which are radio stations that, in the u.k, broadcast to local countys. These stations are mostly commercially run and in Britain, the BBC have the largest chain of county radio staions. The other type of radio is national radio wich is always commercially run as the station needs commercial funding to broadcast nationally. National radio stations typically broadcast the most popular of things across the nation it operates in because it broadcasts to everyone and therefore gets the best response from broadcasting the most popular.

Radio Film Trailer

For the third product of our project, we have decided to make a radio trailer for our film. We decided this would be suitable as a different form of media compared to the two forms we have already done which are film and print. Radio film trailers are typically audio extracts taken from the film with a deep, husky voice narrating over it to create suspense. Because our film does not use dialouge, we will need to do something different to interest the radio listeners however we will probably keep the deep, husky voice so we can still create suspense.

Editing programme

Myself and ryan carman have decided that we will be using the film editing programme "Magix Movie edit Pro 12" instead of the default film editing programme on the Macs "Imovie". The reasons for this are that ryan carman, who is in charge of editing and technology, is more experienced with this programme and because the programme has a wider range of tools to use on the film.
Here is a link to ryan's posting about the editing software;
http://ryancarmana2.blogspot.com/2010/01/editing-software.html

Aspect Ratio

As Ryan Carman is in charge of the technical area of this project, I'm posting a link to a post on his blog in which he discusses the aspect ratio of our product.
http://ryancarmana2.blogspot.com/2010/01/aspect-ratio.html

The Opening scene of “Reservoir Dogs” analysis.

This is Ryan Cross, Ryan Carman and Joe Claxton deconstruction and analysis of the opening diner scene of the Quentin Tarantino film “Reservoir Dogs”. The reason we are looking into a Quentin Tarantino film is because he is a well known director in the crime genre who made a name for himself for his unique use of modern culture with film conventions and when considering his camera work, he uses significantly less cuts and edits because his shots last longer and are more in-depth. A perfect example of this is the first scene of his film Reservoir dogs in which he uses panning shots around the table of a diner where the main characters are sitting and talking.

The Panning shots are much longer then most films and this is unconventional for a crime film as they are fast paced and quick cut films, the reason they last longer as shots is to keep a slower pace to the film and to keep emphasis on the modern culture dialogue.
The panning shots go round the table last for two minutes, occasionally changing points around the table and most shots going round the same direction. After the panning shots, the camera goes to over shoulder shots. During the panning shots the camera rarely shows the person talking but rather shows other character’s reactions, this is different with the over shoulder shots which changes to explicitly showing the person who is talking only. This could be connected to the fact that the panning are shots are unconventional for a dialogue themed scene as is also the fact that the camera not showing who is talking, whereas the over-shoulder shots are more conventional and the camera showing the person talking is as well. This could be Tarantino’s way of comparing the conventional and unconventional methods.

Update

myself, ryan carman and joe claxton have just talked to the technician joe darlow about playing a role in our upcoming project as the man who opens the door for our main character "Jack", he also told us about how we can use the school for some of our filming and what times we can use it.