Narrative Development

As we are aiming to achieve an deep and meaningful effect with the narrative of our film, to create this effect one aspect we can use is a intelligent and relevant quote within the beginning voice over in the trailer. So I researched some relevant quotes from notable figures from history, some varying in size all based around the idea of urbanisation of the world around us.

"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."

Albert Einstein

"...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."

Albert Einstein

"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."

Albert Einstein

“The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. If he loves, it is not to give himself, to blend in fecund union with another being, but to meditate on his love. His passions are mere appearances, being sterile. They are dissipated in futile imaginings, producing nothing external to themselves.”

Emile Durkheim

"Life is like a game of chess. It's long, boring and I don't really know what I'm doing..."

Kurt Cobain

"I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else."

Kurt Cobain

Film Poster Mock Up

this was my first mock up of a film poster.I played around with tag line's and lighting and how the font should look, i also played around with the name spelling and tried to make it mean something other then its original meaning. the 'ance' which trying to show the distance that he has created between the world and him self. the guy is placed in the middle because he in centre foucus and he is the main charecter. he is transparent because this shows that his identity is invisable and slowy fading away. 

i then did another mock up so i decided to make the tag line shorter so that its much easier for the audience to view, i also changed the name back to the original spelling because some people may not understand why it is spelt like that and might mistake it for a spelling error i also made the guy in the middle is very transparent this show that he is a nobody and to back this up the his surrounding is very isolated and deserted.   

Film Magazine Cover Mock Up

This is my 1st mock up of our magazine cover, it takes inspiration from mainstream

published magazines like Empire and Total Film. But I tried to include some different

and interesting qualities to it, making it more individual. As we are not specifically

aiming for an mainstream audience and I think this twist to the typical and over used

appearance of front covers to glossy's would draw in an independent film audience.

As I think this niche audience looks for media products that defy and challenge the

mainstream media conventions. I created this twist by keeping a strict colour scheme

of monotone and orange like colours, I also used a very strong and arty image which

I think is extremely bold and full of character. I also used this image as from our market research it showed that the most memorable cover had a strong close up portrait, so

I tried to replicate this in this mock up. I used the title Total as this word is

generally associated with film but its mainly used to just indicate where the title

would go. I created this cover as if it was based around our film, using large text to indicate

its the 'Awoken Issue' the stand in name of the film we create our trailer around. This also

isn't my image I simply used it to indicate the sort of image I want to create for our actual

magazine cover.

Mock Up Poster

With this mock up I aimed to create the feel from the narrative of the film and introduce the main character. With a extreme close up shot of the characters face, I aim to give an intimate quality between the audience as the main character. So we're already establishing the relationship between him and the audience before the film is even realsed. The cityscape backdrop gives the idea of awarness of the vast and busy world around him, and gives the setting of an urban landscape. This would be an early realease poster maybe realeased up to a year before the realease, only giving a vauge introduction to the film and realease date.

Product Package Analysis - Limitless

I chose to analyze the film Limitless as it is focused on one character, we hope to carry the theme of one character throughout our film trailer. In the film we witness Eddie (Bradley Cooper)aspiring to be a writer who suffers from writing block and as a result he fails to meet his deadline for his new book which he hasn't written. He bumps into his ex-wife's brother and he offers Eddie a sample of a new nootropic NZT 48 which claiming it has the abilty for human to access 100% of their brain power this transforms his life, however Limitless has been crititcised..... However Eddie was in need for more pills and went to go visit Vernon to find him dead in his apartment, he finds Vernons stash of pill and money and uses this to change his life. Eddie becomes rich incredibly fast and employed by a powerful business man Carl Van Loon (Robert De Niro).

It was very hard to find a film magazine that had Limitless as a main cover-line, this was because it was rated lower than films that have been featured as the main cover line for example the film Avatar was rated a 5* so therefore Empire had a main cover line. However Limitless has been rated 4* by Empire. http://www.empireonline.com/reviews/review.asp?FID=137105 Limitless is based on a book The Dark Fields by Leslie Dixon. The genre of Limitless is Action Thriller, however it has been criticised that it doesn't have have certain conventions of a thriller which doesn't attract the audience that it is aimed at.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THE_hhk1Gzc

Location Shots

We researched location via internet as time is valuable we decide not to waste time and used Google map to look at possible locations for filming, we considered tooting as it may link in well with our narrative, as the environment has an atmosphere we wish to capture with in our trailer. Google map allowed us to visualize our trailer and develop our narrative as we could begin to see how things would start to look.

Story Board Mock Up