This graph was made to analyse the age group of the people that were answering our questionnaire and this would then help us decide which age group would like our film and what age group we will be aiming out film at.
The reason we asked if they were male or female is because we would then be able to figure out what gender would be most likely to watch our film. This would then influence our gender focused content.
We choose to do a question like this because it will tell us what people want when it comes to the male character. we can find out how they want the main character to act and what qualities they want to see him have.
The reason for choosing this question to ask was to try and see what people want for a setting and what they see would be an appropriate setting for our trailer. It will also tell us places to avoid filming in.
As you can see from the graph above you can see that the majority of people prefer slow piano to any other form of music in films and slow piano is traditionally used for sad scenes which we would feature in our film.
The graph above was designed to ask people about the life matrix and to try and photographic profile and find out what kind of person they are, as you can see above the majority of people are tribe wired which means digital, free-spirited the rest were all very even apart from fun/atics which only had four people tick that box
The style of this, The Book Of Eli, poster is very dramatic, the camera work used is a medium shot showing most of the body of the main character and some of the scenery, this is done to show the main character and also to show the setting of the film and to give you a basis of what the film will be about. The poster also shows you the setting because it wants to give you an idea of genre. The poster really represents the dystopian genre because of the clothing the main character is wearing and the setting is destroyed and ruined. The text is quite small which allows room for the scenery to be seen so that you know the film is post apocalyptic. The colors of this poster are very grey showing the destruction of the landscape throw nuclear war and also represents the breakdown in society but the beam of white shows some sort of glimmer of hope. The beam of white in the poster could also relate to the 4th stage of Todorovs narrative theory which shows an attempt of repair from the main character, because it is a metaphor for light in a world of darkness.
The style of this Mad Max Fury Road poster is very similar in terms of the style as my first example by trying to set the scene for the audience and to also give them an idea of the story line but this poster as a different camera shot, it uses a long shot to show the scene and a person from the film. The Mad Max poster really suits the genre of the film due to the scenery being destroyed and nothing around. This poster shows a lot of the scenery but at the same time has the title quite big and bold which adds to the poster rather than take your attention away from the scenery, the font of the title also fits in well with the style of the poster and also is corroded which also represents the story in terms of being post apocalyptic. The colors of the poster is also quite minimal and looks quite washed and I feel this works quite well with the setting of the film and also the story line and fitting in with the post apocalyptic and dystopian. In particular the yellow tones in the poster represent the natural landscape but also how the natural landscape has become ruined and not maintained. Themes that connect dystopian films are destruction of the landscape due to biological or nuclear warfare or disease. The yellow tones in the soil have connotations of a wasteland this combines with the gray and green clouds to suggest a poisonous atmosphere and to shoe something bad may be coming. This links to Todorovs narrative theory of the disruption.
This poster for 28 days later is very different as it used edited pictures in stead of showing scenery from the film and this makes it very different to the other two, but it does tell a little about the story line by showing the main character walking on his own through London. The effect the eyes have is it shows the audience that there is some type of infection as the eyes look unhuman like. The text is positioned in the center but whats different with this one then the other two is that it has a biohazard symbol behind it showing that it is a virus that has effected the world and turning them into zombies.
The colors used are a lot of red which represents the virus and also represents blood, death and zombies and also because the red takes over most of the poster and the size of the uneffected person and the big ben represents how the virus has taken over the world. The colors represent the 2nd stage of Todorovs narrative theory of disruptions to the equilibrium which in this case would be the virus.
The Book of Eli is slimier is some aspects as the story which are trying to create, this makes the trailer of the film a very good example of the codes and conventions that a film in this genre would have for example the camera work in The Book of Eli is very dramatic due to the amount of action that takes place in a lot of the scenes in the film, you have a lot of straight cuts switch from one fight angle to another, jump cuts show the character fights the group of people, the trailer a few has a lot of establishing shots to set the scene in which the film is set this gives the audience a general idea of the story line.
The editing in the trailer is also very dramatic to show how action packed the film is, during one the fight scenes at the begging of the trailer there are lot of cuts to black to show the character fighting and after each cut hes hitting another person, also in the same scene they go to slow motion to also make the fight scene more dramatic there is also more slow motion through out the trailer making the different scenes more dramatic and powerful.
The clothing especially jumps out in terms of mise en scene as it is very particular to this kind of genre it is very waster lander in terms of scavenged items and old damaged items which give quite an intimidating look and this is what we will try to replicate in our trailer.
There is also a very dramatic sound track over the top making the trailer a lot more dramatic.
The setting is also very dramatic, its set in a wasteland with very little buildings standing, the reason this has such a dramatic effect on the audience is because there is no people around and a lot of the country is destroyed and people imagine this happening in real life which makes the film seem more dramatic
Although 28 days later is a zombie film it will have a lot of similarities in terms of the lack of people around and how deserted the cities are the camera work they used was varied from long establishing shots to close ups of the guy walking through London we would use slimier shots to this to try and make out settings deserted and without people.
The editing is very minimal apart from the text screens that have moving effects on the text itself there is only really straight cuts from each camera shot this does however give dramatic effect to the trailer and something that we will try to re create but maybe use more effects.
The clothing in the trailer is not really what we will be using in ours we will be mainly using gas masks and damaged clothing.
Mad Max is very similar to ours in terms of the clothing type and the editing and also sounds but not in setting. The clothing is very post apocalyptic. The camera work is varied through out the trailer and has a mixture of long shots to set and show the setting of the film and also close up for the characters these camera shots really show the genre of the film.
The editing in the trailer is very action based and is what we will try to replicate in our fight scenes the trailer has a lot of straight cuts from each scene to another but also having slow motion to add dramatic effect. The reason this is effective in this type of genre is allows the scenes to be extremely dramatic and at the same time showing how society has broken down. This is something we want to include in our work as we feel we can use these editing techniques to make our trailer dramatic and tense but at the same time showing the story line. The pace of the editing changes quite a lot in the trailer, it starts off very slow and gradually builds up which is conventional in a thriller trailer. but at times it will also slow back down and will then start speeding up. The trailer also uses a lot of straight cuts that are put in time with the strong, stabbing beat of the sound track which makes it a lot more dramatic. Also there are a few fade to blacks which are timed well to make the trailer seem more conventional to a dystopian film.
The music in the trailer is also very dramatic and conventional to a dystopian film because it starts off quite soft but gradually builds up layers to become faster paced and the soundtrack also includes stabs and stings to sound more tense and dramatic.
