First Draft

The draft below is the first draft of our final film, problems with this first draft we found when people watched it was that lack of explanation as to why the character is playing this high stakes game and why the character did not drive even though he bets car keys in the game. We shall be adding footage to the first draft to hopefully fix these problems and hopefully this will lead to our final piece.

Our Draft for Final Project

Poster links

These are links to ryan carman's blog in which he has the finished film poster, screen shots of the poster being made and ryan's own comments on his work.
http://ryancarmana2.blogspot.com/2010/03/process-of-poster.html

http://ryancarmana2.blogspot.com/2010/03/poster-promotion-for-our-media-film.html

Here is the finished poster

Inspiring imagery

These are some images that represent some of the imagery that we are trying to create in our project. The above picture shows the basic imagery of a gambling card game and how the semiotics of it give off a cool yet energetic feel. The picture at the top represents the crime of our project and how things like certain stances show intimidation and facial expressions show danger, which are some of the more implicit visual we want to use rather then guns and hidden faces. The picture below is a representaion of the competion and tension between people in the game of poker and the intimidation one can feel facing a group of people in a situation such as this.

Radio trailer scripts

Myself and Ryan Carman have just finished recording the audio for our radio trailers and Ryan will begin editing the audio soon. We have decided that our radio trailer will be played on community radio as it will have more chance of reaching our target audience on a radio station that broadcasts to them. Radio scripts; This first script is for the first radio trailer which will be a deceptive trailer which parody's bank finance trailers that offer people a way out of debt.

"In debt?
Owe large amounts of money to dangerous people through illegal activities?
Why not consolidate all debt into one high stakes underground poker game and bet everything you own?
For more information, go to see Rock Bottom at Youtube.com"
This second script is for the actual trailer that will be broadcasted a few weeks after the first one has so that there is time for the first trailer to hook people in and get people interested . It will be this dialogue over the music we are using in our short film.

"When a man losses everything and his life is at stake, his only hope is to risk everything, on one hand. From the makers of "The Untrusted" comes a film about what it's like to hit.....ROCK BOTTOM. Coming to Youtube soon."

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.