My blog

Hello moderator, welcome to my A2 blog for my coursework production. My candidate number is 7042 and my centre number is 16829. You will find my finished A2 trailer, along with my planning and research. Thank you in advance for taking the time to view it.

Evaluation of my A2 Production

My link to my evaluation on prezi:

http://prezi.com/shbegd87jbji/chasing-the-dragon-evaluation/

Ancillary Task

Film Magazine Front Cover

Film Poster front coer

Creating my Film Poster

I began creating my film poster by taking the raw picture of matt and carefully using the blur tool to blur out the gun, which was clearly visible before I brushed it out, as well as the magic eraser tool to get rid of most of the back ground and then the normal eraser tool for the rest.

Original

 

Edited

 

Next was the title. I used the FX tool to create the effects for the “Chasing the Dragon”. I wanted the title to look bold, exciting but not too exciting. I wanted to maintain an element of grittiness to the title so I used plain colours for the font.

 

 



I then created my name at the top of the poster by using the rendering tool under filter, and using the lens flare tool to create the light effect

 





I added the date and tagline with a colour scheme in mind. I wanted to have a red colour scheme to suit the mood of the film

 

 

I had to experiment with a number of fonts before I could find the right one for my list of studios, distributers and actors at the bottom of the poster, but eventually I found a font I thought was perfect for the task.

 

 

I added in the film reviews from different critics that I'd use as marketing on the poster, but decided to tone it down slightly as it seemed as if it could be too much for the casual viewer to read when looking at the poster.

 Original

 

 

Final poster

 

 

 

Trailer - Completed

Here is the completed film trailer.

Abdul Basit - Director
Howard Kwok - Editor
Sam Harvey - Camera work/Sound editing
Hayden Macmaster - Props Management/Editor

Filming the chase scene

Today we filmed a scene we can edit in the trailer. We stayed behind after school until it was dark and decided to film some sort of chase film. We made sure the characters faces aren’t visible so the audience aren’t aware of who’s being chased, to add suspense.

 

To film this, we basically had to have someone running with the camera in their hand while chasing someone, to get the POV of the chaser. Although this caused blurryness, it also added a sense of realism to the scene in my opinion which worked out better than our other alternate idea, which was push the chaser in a trolley behind the person being chased, at an UNBELIEVABLY slow pace which looked closer to a slow motiion chase scene, which would have been very difficult to convey or explain in the trailer.

 

Here is a picture we took of the chase scene

 

 

 This was the perfect place for the scene because we also used the building on the right to film from a window upstairs, getting different levels for the shot.

 

 

 

Film Trailer To Do List

As established previously, a film trailer needs to contain more action. Here's a list of a few locations and scene titles we can still film to try and include in the trailer

Drama Studio

Using ladder, overhead shot of Enzo Costa writing something. Camera can be panning slightly. Panning shot of Nathan about to shoot everyone

Car Park – close up

Eddie and Pete arguing

EDDIE: You SAID we only needed 10 KILOS

PETE: YOU said these guys would be cool about it.

Close up of Mark/Someone on the phone.

“20k, or the deals off”

Chase scene

Down the main pathway in school, preferably after dark. Possibility for height differences in the scene.
 

Dark Room

Eddie complaining to Hao Zheng about how he was ripped off in a previous drug deal. Over the shoulder of Hao Zheng at Eddie shouting angrily

Enzo working on computer. Set camera up atop of the computer screen to get a webcam style shot of him working hard. Establishes the sensible and working side of Enzo's character

Car Scene

Enzo sat with a hostage in a car, treating with aggressiveness. Hostage panicking frantically. Filmed from the front of the car as the car is driving.