Teaser Trailer

Soundtrack

The soundtrack that we have sampled for use in our film trailer is 'Escape from the Police Station' from the movie, The Terminator. This music helps our trailer follow the conventions of action-thriller genre as it builds suspense by starting slowly and then reaching a climax point after which the music becomes very fast-paced. This fills the audience with a sense of fear but excitement at the same time.

poster and magazine cover

Week Eight - Editing

At first the trailer lacked action to combat this problem we brought previous shots back in to the trailer to give it a fast pace to help create the thrilling atmosphere of a cat and moose chase.  We feel we have now created a more exciting trailer gripping the audience from the start instead of just towards the end. Also we included sound effects from the google, youtube converter, such as the  gunshot SFX to build another foundation of suspense. The video footage also had fraction of SFX such as the Old clock, reloading, this allows it to make it more action packed and tensed.

Week Eight - Props/Costumes

• The main protagonist is seen as casually working classer Londoner, however he is not a typical working class city employee who wears a suit to work as he is dressed normal casual clothing for example jeans, a leather jacket and trainers. ( For safety purposes as it was snowing it would be less dangerous if our character was to wear warm clothing and stabled footwear as there is going to be a lot of running involved). Also the use of casual clothing instead of a suit can  allow the audience to relate to the character as they usually would not see any relation with a professionally dressed person. 

• We have a smartly suited figure who portrays the background villain. The suit idea was firstly used for the main protagonist who wanted to escape however we made a major change to the whole storyline, where the suited guy became the assassin. The suit gives the character a look of menace and power. While other props he has such as a blackberry smart-phone shows a business background as this phone is widely used in business all over the world.

Thriller Conventions

•  One main conventions of thriller films is that through the film the main protagonist has to overcome some sort of mystery and challenge. Such as in the Phono booth the character has to stay on the phone or is faced with the risk of death. As in the film Memento the character faces a fight to regain his memories to find his wifes killer.      

• Thrillers usually have complex narrative structure, with false paths, clues and resolutions. This is  to keep the audience questioning, and to make them work out what’s going on, leaving strong enigma’s.

• All thrillers have the protagonists against an antagonist and at some point there will be a situation which will include both characters come together, usually in a fight or action scene. The antagonist will usually always have the disadvantage. 

• In most thrillers the antagonist takes advantage of the protagonists flaws. The flaws are usually obvious to the audience but not to the antagonist untill they are revealed to him. When the flaws are visible to the antagonist, it put him/her in the dominant position. 

Week Six - Re-shooting

A lot of shots we took this week were very unsteady and not very neat. We decided to retake most of the shots but the cold weather was affecting us. Because of the severe snowy weather we had a change of character to play the role of the protagonist. Instead of using the conventional business man figure with a suit on we decided to pursue a character in a normal outdoor casual clothing, This was because the business man look was not achievable in the current weather. We did however keep the locations the same.