Sharpie pitch questions

These are some of the questions we received at the end of our film trailer pitch:

Have you thought about how you're going to film the scenes in the pub, and how you're going to get permission for them?
We are going to try and film most of the shots in the bar in a booth that is against a wall, so that we wont have people in the background that we have to ask permission, although there will; be some shots not at a booth, where will have to use clever angles to make sure there isn't anyone in the background.


What are you going to use for the weapons?
We have access to a knife and an axe, so if we are allowed to use those then we will, but if not, then we are able to get hold of fakes as most/all of the shots with the weapons in, you wont be able to see the weapons in great detail, so it wont matter too much.


What special effects are you going to use, and how?
We are not 100% sure what special effects we are going to use at the moment, but we are fairly sure we will use effects such as black and white, pull focus and montages to help create the right emotions at the right time.

Film trailer pitch

Here is the video of our group presenting the pitch for our psychological thrill trailer titled 'Sharpie':

Here is the script we used for the pitch, although at the last minute, we decided not to use it very much, and read it slide by slide:

Production company logo.

For our film trailer, we weren't sure at first whether or not we wanted to use the same production company name as last year, but at the moment we have decided that we are. one thing that is going to change,  however, is the logo for 'lone wolf productions'.
Here is our logo from last year:
















We decided that this logo probably wouldn't suit the tone of our psychological thriller trailer, so we wanted to make a new one. Using basic tools in power point, i was able to make and animate a first draft for our new logo:







The aim for this logo was to make it look like it had been drawn on to a piece of paper with a sharpie, as 'sharpie' is currently the name for our film.










Since i made this new logo, we decided again that we were going to have a new production company, and therefore a new logo. Using Photoshop, Jak cam up with a new name a few new logos for our company, which is now called 'JADOSH Productions' and has these logos:

Once Jak had created these potential logos, we discussed which one we would like to use in a Facebook group chat:

Psychological thriller pitch

This it the pitch for our initial idea for our our psychological thriller.

For the first slide, we just used the title/logo for our film, and all three of our names. We decided that we wanted the title to look hand written, so we looked through the fonts, and decided to use the font 'Biro'.

For our next slide, we cover the basic plot of our film, but it is not written in much detail, as we will explain it in more detail when we actually present the pitch. the film follows four drunk teenagers who are trapped in a school with a killer called Sharpie, and one by one the teens go missing.








For this slide, we cover the cast we are hopefully going to be using on our trailer, and what they will be wearing. Hopefully, i will be playing the killer, as he can be played by anyone because his identity is unknown, as he is wearing a mask.










This slide is quite short, as it explaining some of the props we will be using. we could not think of that many, as we don't think many will be needed.

This slide covers the USP of our film. it will create tension as the audience will know someone has died, but they are unsure who.










This slide covers the music and target audience. they were put on the same slide as they were both quite short topics to cover. we are hoping to make our own music for our trailer, using violins and drums possibly with some other instruments as well. the target audience will be people in their late teens/young adults, and will be mainly for thrill seekers.

This slide talks about the different settings we will need to use. at the moment, we don't think we will need to use more than three settings, a pub, on a street, and in the school.

For this slide we talk about the different camera work that will be used. there will be multiple tracking, close up and panning/wide shots. we may also be able to get Arial shots thanks to a drone that Jak owns, and fast paced moving shots as i can now drive, so we could film from inside my car.

In this slide, we talk about the different editing techniques we will probably be using when making our trailer. A lot of these follow typical conventions of psychological thriller trailers such as fades to black and montages.










In the last slide, we talk about some of the conventions that our film trailer follows, such as sudden change of pace, production company information and titles, and leaving the audience on a cliffhanger.

Psychological thriller conventions

From looking at different psychological thriller trailers, i have noticed that some commonly used conventions are:

• Fast paced editing
• Fast paced music
• Builds to a climax at the end of the trailer
• Non chronological
• Tension building
• Close ups
• Range of locations

Magazine cover for my film

Here is the magazine cover I created to advertise my film 'The Lonely Life of a Teenager' as well as including small advertisements for the films made by the other people in my class.

To make this magazine cover, first i got a picture of the main character of our film, and placed it where i wanted it to go on the cover. i then duplicated the layer and cut out his head so that it could go in front of the masthead of the magazine. I then added the masthead of the magazine, and the ribbon of color behind it. Next i added the three pugs at the top of the screen, and the text underneath and to the side of them. I then added all the text either side of the main picture, as well as the title of the film' The Lonely Life of a Teenager', as well as adding the effects to all the text. Lastly I added the white box on the bottom, and the text in in advertising the VIP trip.

Magazine cover recreation

For this peice, we were asked to recreate a magazine cover of Total Films' Sherlock Holmes magazine. Here is the magazine cover that we needed to recreate:

And Here my recreation of it:

I started off by finding a picture of Robert Downey Jr. with the background behind him, then duplicated the image and erased the background so the i just had him on that layer, so that he could be put in front of the word 'Film', I then added the title of the magazine, testing different fonts to see which one looked most like the font used on the actual magazine. I then added the pugs at the top,by finding images of the characters faces online, and then added text next to them, then i added all the text on either side of the magazine underneath the title. Next i added the text in front of his body, then finally the before the bar code in the bottom right, which i found as an image online, and the logo next to is, which i drew with the circle and the eraser tool.