Location for Filming

I have recently sent this email to the Vicar at my local church asking him for the use of the location. Content of this email is:

Good Afternoon,

My name is Jessica Barron and I attend the Misbourne School in Great Missenden, but live in Hughenden Valley, I have been to your church before with Great Kingshill school but am now in year 13 and doing my final year of studies. For media studies my project is to create a film trailer, and sort out location, acting, sound, lighting etc. I am asking you if I could possibly use your church as part of the setting for my film trailer, if it is possible that you have a free date in which I can use your church.

It would be much appreciated if you could get back to me,

Kind regards

Jessica Barron
Year 13
The Misbourne School

Feedback from teachers on blog entries so far...

When I spoke to my teacher one on one, I was told what I needed to have on my blog by a certain time, so my goals by the end of this week are to...

• Submit another diary entry 
• make sure that all of my film trailer analysis are up on my blog
• create my narrative for my film trailer
• upload information from my social media questions
• research on film posters

From here I will then go on to apply my narrative to my storyboards, which will show the different camera angles used in my trailer, I will then start to plan, I will post another diary entry explaining how I will do this. 

Research on The Narrative Structure

When researching how to write a good narrative I came across this structure:

Image taken from SlideShare

Exposition - is where the audience meets the characters, establish the setting, and setting the tone. 

Rising Action - the main conflict is introduced and tension between the protagonist and antagonist begins to show.

Climax - this is the turning point, for the good or bad of the protagonist's future.

Falling Action - the major action has happened, this would show the aftermath of the climax, sorting out the major conflict in the trailer.

Denouement/resolution - conflict is resolved and a new conflict is resolved. 

The different ways that characters are shown:

• Flat - are minor characters who do not go through as much change throughout the story.
• Round - more fully developed characters who may experience change in the story.

A plot (syuzhet)

• The use of a plot is to show events that are in the story - it involves reordering events - so for example to show flashbacks or flashforwards. Re-positioning these events from chronological order are a good way  to not give away the outcome or to reveal too much to the audience.

The story (fabula)

• This is when the narrative is in chronological order, this also shows the characters back story. 

Pramaggiore and Wallis from Narrative Form said that 'The distinction between the fabula (the story) and the syuzhet  (the plot) makes clear that each event represented in the film has been selected for dramatization and has been ordered systematically - there are no accidents... The syuzhet need not chronicle every moment in the fabula, and it usually emphasizes the importance of some moments relative to others' 

Research on Genre

When writing my narrative I wanted to do some more research first, a website that helped me was Link to Website media studies website. I found that the genre I have chosen to do has:

•  a high production value
• a younger target audience
• a mainstream production agency - Disney or Warners Studio
• sometimes has an obsessive fan base - e.g. Twilight
• a lot of merchandise 
• often exaggerates life
• use of primary colours - e.g. red, blue, yellow
• high key lighting 
• use of a green screen 
• positive outcome 
• simple and linear narrative 
• Vladimir Propp's character theory can be applied
• quite mystical 
• often set in the past or in an imagined time period 

An image taken from 'Avatar' to show how a green screen adds the environment to a single person. In this example he is the only thing that is not in green for the effects. (Left)



However, another example in a film is in 'Alice in wonderland' where even some of the people and props are in green to have effects added later on. (Below)

Twitter Account

The photo above is showing how I had recently set up the account, and I got an email through to my school email asking me to follow a link to activate the account, since doing this I have tweeted two questions, which unfortunately do not get a lot of attention or replies to so I will be trying to post questions on Facebook.

Moodboard 4: Enviroments

There is quite a lot of similarities in environments in this genre, as you can see from the use of light in the areas, but also by the use of furnishings, tables, chairs and fireplaces are also very dark so you cannot see much in the environments that they are in, apart from if the camera shot wants you to see it in which the furnishing would stand out more. 

Moodboard 3: Make-Up and Costumes

Looking at make-up done in the genre of film, the use of eye make-up is highly used, be it to change the colours of the eyes or to have darker colours around them to make them stand out. The use of costumes are more varied to the accompanying genre, so if you look at fantasy / romance, they use lighter colours such as pastels. However if you look at fantasy / action, the costumes are darker and more layered with a small part of colour, usually in the make-up.