Significant or Notable Film Festivals

Planning Around a Film Festival

Planning around a film festival can be vital to the success of a film; as this is were you can get advertisement and that your film can get promoted, depending on your film and its style will ultimately decide what event you will attend, which will vary due to different film types, and the different audiences that will view your film.

Age Rating Slide

Our Age Rating Slide

This slide is going to be seen at the beginning of the trailer; as it indicates what age range this film will be aimed at: with our trailer being aimed at late teens and adults.

To create this slide the programme used was ‘Microsoft Word’; we then changed the layout of the page ( to landscape), we then changed the background so that it was green, then with the usage of a table ( and by merging parts of the columns together) it helped to create the final product (shown above).

The American version (seen bellow) was important inspiration, in the placement of objects for our version. The only difference being: that instead of having ‘By the Motion Picture Association of America’ we had “By the British Board of Film Classification’ as it was more relevant to our product. Also we imported the ’15’ age rating; and placed it in the space of the ‘R’ rating, this then made it the British equivalent. The final thing was to get the logo from the American version (situated on the second collumn on the far right) this then allowed it to be a similar copy (to that of the American version) but made it relevant to our project, and shows the development of an alternative resource.

Ours is based on -

American Age Rating Slide (taken from Google)

Music for the film Trailer

Sheet Music

The highlighted areas ib teg sheet music indicate to the main part of the tune, that I used in creating the music trailer. The music had to be split up into three different sections, due to the fact that the Apple Mac would not allow such vast movement in changing of the musical keys. Therefore to get the full piece of music; I had to split it up in logical orders so that the pieces could then be edited together, and therefore form a continual piece of music

Beginning part of the Music for the Trailer

This part was played at the very beginning of the piece; we then had to try to place in into the trailer, it was then placed at the end as it seemed to ask a question, as well as echoing the tune played before. This seemed to give more character to the piece; as this alteration changed the tune to make it different, and that these few notes were played and octave higher, to that it would standout against the previous music.

Middle part of the Music for the Trailer

This is the general tune of The Teddy Bears Picnic; the reason to why there are spaces between the music is so that it was easier to edit down the music to fit the trailer, as otherwise would get clashes in the music from where it has been closely edited and does not fit in with the continuance with the ending product.

Faster part of the Music for the Trailer

This part was created to add and to build tension for the piece; all this is the tune but faster which helps to pick up the pace of the trailer. As the tempo of the music picks up it seems to create a stronger atmosphere for were the drama is taking place, it’s vital for the audience to hear the faster music here as without the sound the clips would be monotone and not of any significance.

Ending part of the Music for the Trailer

This part was created to almost give a question to the audience that has not been answered; due to the ending part of this clip goes higher, which is an echo to the clips previously played but does seems to question the idea of the basic storyline for the original context of the rhyme.

Distribution of a film trailer/ advert

Tagline Ideas

Overall the tagline that I would most likely use would be number 4 "If you go out in the woods today, You'd better not go alone" as this one is the most clear of the intention of the film; it gives an idea of the isolation that the characters will face, but also hints that the film is a horror/ thriller trailer and so it will not to be confused with a child friendly version.

Animatic number 2 (updated)

This animatic is a more up to date version which corresponds more to the finished trailer; it follows more closely the timing of the clips, to give a more unified and more professional quality.

Film Title

With our film we were stuck with what title we should give our creation; the main two ideas that we came up with were ‘Beneath the Trees’ or ‘The Picnic’, when we asked a round group of people the scores were equal and so there was no clear winner. Between the both of us we the decided upon ‘The Picnic’ as it seemed more eerie and seemed to show that something had gone wrong by using 'The' in front of the ‘Picnic’ this also signifies that something big happened to change what once was associated with a peaceful activity to one of horror and of suspense. The reason to why we did not use 'Beneath the Trees' was because it was too telling that something was going to happen and it seemed to be too in your face about it, were as 'The Picnic’ seemed to be more subtle and still had a link to the original text but not completely so that it made it more original.