Inspiring films

- Phone Booth
The film that has inspired our teaser trailer was 'Phone Booth'
It falls perfectly within our choice of genre 'Psychological thriller'
The concept of the main protagonist being targeted and chased by merciless assassin. (good vs bad) (light vs dark)
Our trailer follows the narrative from 'Phone Booth' where the viewers will encounter a breif personailty of our protagonist as a scum to the society, where money, power and fame is his only priority.
We included voice-over for the hidden character in the background to narrate and describe what the protagonist has done and why he should be killed in the process of the chase.
Taking ideas from 'Phone booth' we decided to use voice over in the background to create an effective thrilling experiance, we believe that the technique used, was to create suspense which correlates with the genre really well.
We wanted to use plenty off speech epmhasising the communications between the protagonist and the assassin the same way as in 'Phone Booth' however the phone booth in London is not as wide and open to do so, however a teaser trailer is about showing short burst of scenes and situation avoiding the main narrative and giving away half of the film.
We took plenty of ideas which we were inspired by from 'Phone Booth' to ensure we get a thrilling, claustrophobic  reaction from our audience this is by tightly configured chases through the city which has been edited to explains the nature of the genre.

- Reservoir Dogs
This film made me focus on the concept of editing.
The scene that had inspired me to ensure my film proceeds further is; 'the bank robbery scene chase' when Mr. Pink robs a bank and makes a run from the police and falls into a more massive dilemma shooting the officer in the process and hi jacks a car. The scene establishes a a very well edited scene of a slow camera shot trailing Mr pink as he runs through the streets. We used the same idea in our video were we displayed the assassin in a suit, the camera shots were medium and long range establishing the effort made by the character, this is because we physically see the character manually running and using the energy he has to ensure the scene to be a success. The long/ medium shots allows the whole body to be captured so that audience can see every movement by the character, running and straining himself in the process. It also follows the concept of cat and mouse hence the chase.

This is the film poster that was designed to represent the teaser trailer. It denotes our protagonist holding the phone towards his ear to recieve information from the killer itself. The black and white colour of the background and the main protagonist expresses the past tense emphasising the incident happend a while ago. The black and white effect also expresses the tense and claustrophobic feeling such as everything around this guy is blocked and suffocating. The ideas for the film poster has great resemblence to the 'scarface', 'Godfather' and 'Resevouir dogs' film poster where as the black and white effect creates a mysterious and unusual feeling while viewing it. We decided to pursue this style of effect to broaden the idea of the City of London being very sinister and gloomy.

The big red dot in the middle is a key iconography. The red dot is anchorage text to express the protagonist being targetted by a hidden weapon such as a sniper rifle. The red dot is usally a major icon for long range weapons used to hunt down especially by an assasin which we portrayed in our teaser trailer. The way we designed this poster is by inserting the dot right in the middle beside the protagonist. Bold and dominant and flat with a slight transparent coating for the viewers to visually navigate through the poster. Our point was to allow the viewers to set their eyes directly on the big red dot and think of DANGER immidiantly. The colour red was typically applied to connote danger, bloody, killing, gruesome and thrilling directly allowing allowing the viewier to realise that the film is a hardcore thrilling movie.

The red dot correlates well the main title 'COUNTDOWN'. The text is big, bold and dominant catching the eyes of the viewers. The title is placed in the centre left covering half of the poster landscape-wise. We allowed the title to be positioned like this so it looks threatning and bloody and alongside the big red dot, it made sure it becomes the centre of attention if a customer was to pick it up from the shelf in the film stores.

The subtitle is distunighed in a white bold font smaller than the main title, it deontes the slogan of the film; '60 seconds worth fo distance run' this slogan clearly clarifies what kind of film this is. The viewer will be able to realise easily the film is more a thrilling, targetting, cat and mouse chase. The word RUN quickly expemplifies the effects of the film being quick, fast, claustrophobic and tense. The font was chosen as white due the colour co-ordination. In order to for the text to be read clearly the white softens the black and red colours allowing it to more visually comfortable rather than harsh colours flattening the poster.

I believe this poster has been a success as it clearly expresses the message in the film. By the help of ADOBE PHOTOSHOP we were able to play around with the effects, colours, transitions, and picture placement. In order to allow the message to be delievered, I learnt the position of the images is a vital effect that creates a meaning without text being involved.