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Main Character introduction:

 

In our film trailer we are going to use a nineteen year old male called Fraser Smalley, he recently studied drama at A-Level and has persuade a career in acting for a film called Dumbo. We have chosen Fraser to be our main character in our film trailer because we believe that his acting skills will make our film more believable. By using a nineteen year old as our main character we will be able to have a target audience ranging from the age of 16-20 year olds. Another reason for picking a male character is because from my research of psychological thrillers film trailers, the majority of the antagonists in my researched films were male characters that have dominated the situation. A few examples of this could be the film split and the girl on the train. Both these films have strong male characters that cause a stir in the film.

We have also decided as a group to call the main character Fraser this is because after researching a similar film called 'Elephant' we discovered that the two male characters that take part in the school shooting are called Alex and Eric.  These characters are named after the real actors called Alex Frost and Eric Deulen.

Costume ideas:

 

 

We want Fraser to be wearing dark and dull clothing because it connotes the character to have a dark and dangerous personality. Not only will it represent the personality of the character but it will also match the genre of the film and create a deathly atmosphere. I also thought having our character wear all black would connote death because people wearing all black is associated with deaths at a funeral and our film is about a guy going into a school and shooting for the thrill of it causing lots of deaths.

Planning - Pitch Ideas, pitch video and comments recieved

Pitch Ideas, pitch video and comments received

Presentation: 

 



Video Presentation:

https://youtu.be/w1W7WD0VuNw


 Comments and Feedback:


The feed back we got from our trailer presentation was that we needed to lower our film rating to the same age rating of the trailer which we agreed was 15 certificated. We were told that out film could not be an 18 rated film because it would not have enough graphic content and would not have any pornographic content either. Therefore we have now chosen a 15 rated film and trailer, which we will target a 15+ audience of both male and females.

We were also given feedback on our props list, telling us that we needed to be careful bringing in a pretend gun that looks very similar to a real gun. As a group we have discussed how we could over come this and still use the main prop (a gun). When using the gun in each different setting we will have to speak to a member of staff who is in charge of that department and let them know that we are filming for our media project and that the props we are using are fake and are for filming purposes only. We have also decided that when we are not using the gun during filming time we will leave the gun in a safe place in one of our media teachers cupboards. This will avoid the gun being a threat to the school and causing any panic that is not needed.

Another piece of feedback that we got was for our camera work and one particular setting that we want to use during out trailer. We have been told that if we were to film all of the KS3 students in Ritchie Hall during break time, we would have to ask every single student for their permission to be filmed. This would be time consuming and we as a group could be faced with students who for safe guarding reasons can not be filmed. Therefore to over come this we asked a KS4 PA group teacher if we could use them as our extra actors in our film. This has been agreed and everyone who will be filmed is happy to be a part of our trailer.