'Alone' Magazine Cover

Again, after looking at other film magazines we acknowledged that it did not adhere to the conventions of an ordinary magazine. This is because it had a couple of mistakes such as the title of the film being bigger than the title of magazine which did not look balanced, the magazine cover also did not have any secondary features or other subtitles of articles it contains or even an issue date. We then went on and produced a final draft of our magazine and added all the missing conventions to it.
The brand identity of the magazine is keeping with the same images of iconic London and the same dark yet bright colours we are using such as red, black and white.

The only character that will be on the front cover of our magazine will be Nancy. This is one of the conventions we will adhere to on the magazine cover as most magazine covers always feature the main character(s) of a film. Other conventions we will be adhering to are secondary images of different images from our film, a sky-liner placed at the top of the magazine title. We are also adding a slogan for the magazine and a tag-line for the film.

We have chosen the style of our magazine to be simple and clear-cut. That is part of our brand identity as we have also decided to follow that same style on our poster campaign. The colours and the effects we have added to the image of the magazine is also coherent to our other products as it follows the same style as our brand identity.

This is the final production of our magazine cover:

'Alone' Film Poster

The poster of our film will have an image of one of the locations of where the trailer will be filmed at. And above it will be another image of two eyes. They represent the fact that the girl in the big city of London is on her own and is being watched by people all the time.

We think that the eyes will add mystery to the poster and that is what we want.

We have mostly used dark colours such as red, black and blue this is to represent the mysteriousness of the film. The brand identity of the poster will be clean-cut,simple and easy to look at and understand. Even though the eyes will be there to symbolise something, it still won't be something messy and crowded by many items being in the mise-en-scene.
The conventions that we will be adhering to in the poster are things such as the title of the film placed at the bottom of the poster with the date of release under the title. As the slogan exemplifies what happens in the film, placing it at the top is like giving them an idea of what happens in the film and then they move down to look at the image in the poster itself.
After analysing a couple of thriler posters, we realised that the first draft of our poster did not follow the conventions of a film poster as it only had an image and the title of the film. So in our final draft we added The release date of the film as well as a website and a tagline for the film. This made it look more professional as now it could fit in with other real film posters.

We decided to put 3 poster campaigns that all looks different and are set in different iconic London locations:
For the posters we used Photoshop. I used Photoshop to crop and resize the main image, erase background that is not needed, fade colours, colour correction, used a variety of fonts to layers to create a depth and drama to the main image.
We used these tools to give our posters a familiar style to our trailer also to stick with our conventions.

Editing Diary

Day1: After filming was over, we started capturing everything on the Macs using Final Cut Pro. We then started cutting the bits of our footage that we thought we can use in the trailer.

Day2: As well as the editing going on, we started making the poster and magazine cover of our films using InDesign and Photoshop. Everyone in the group had a task to do every lesson.

Day3: This is when we started thinking about what pieces of music we should put together to put on the film. We looked at the music on Soundtrack and we used more than one piece to put together which made a perfect soundtrack for the trailer.

Day4: This is when we started to record the voice-over for the trailer. We edited it on Soundtrack and put it together with the film.

Day5: We were putting the finishing touches to the film and the ancillary tasks.

Day6: This was the final day for everything and it was when we put everything together and everything was done.

Filming Diary

Day 1: We needed a few props for our film such as a car, fake blood and a knife. So we made sure everything would be ready and available on the day. Abul called his friend and asked him if we can borrow his car for some of the shots. His friend agreed and said he would be available. We also decided the locations we needed for each shot. We chose to film the shots of Nancy lost in Trafalgar Square as it is iconic of London. We agreed to film all our shots on streets as it would be more realistic and it would relate to our target audience. We chose to film the stabbing scene at night as it would be dark and more interesting.

Day 2: We all met up in Trafalgar square at 12am and had all the filming equipment. We set up and started off by filming a few shots of Nancy walking. We chose this location because it is very iconic in London also it would establish the films location. . We spent 1 hour filming shots of Nancy walking, lost and had no one to turn to. We made sure we filmed for continuity and match on action. We then travelled to Marble arch Station to shoot more shots. We took few shots because we did not have more time to film the rest because two of the group members couldn’t stay for longer so we decided to meet up the next day.

Day 3: We had finished filming and captured all our footage; however after we watched the film we realized we needed a few more shots of Nancy (the main character) from different angles. Also, some of the shots were too bright so we had to do it again. We all decided what shots we had to do again and what shots we had to add.

Day 4: The next day everything went really well, we all met up in Trafalgar Square at 11am again. We set up the camera and started filming all the shots that were bright. However, we couldn’t film one of the shots which were in the public toilet so we decided to shot that scene in the school toilets when we all had a free period. We then travelled to Oxford Street. We had to choose the right place to film in because it was very crowded. We filmed the shots required from different angles so that we had more options to choose from. We had a few problems were people would walk past the camera but then it went well. Again we chose this location because it is one of the most popular places in London. We started filming at 1pm, we had plenty time so were expecting to finish most of the shots by the end of this day. After that we went to the station again and took a more shots because we didn’t have time the other day.

Day 5: On Thursday we all had a free period so we decided to film the toilet scene. We went downstairs and got all the equipment we needed and we took permission to film in the girl’s toilet. Me and Abul filmed many shots of Nancy the main character and Zinuk one of the criminals in the school toilet. We made sure we repeated the same shot more then once incase we had a problem while editing. When we were done with the toilet scene we had to go down to the ground floor to film a few shots in the dark room.

Day 6: On Sunday we all met near school and travelled together to Waterloo Bridge. We took some pictures for our poster and magazine covers. Also we set up the camera and took many shots of the London Eye for our establishing shot. After, spending 2hour filming we were waiting for abuls friend to arrive so we can start with the car scene. When he arrived we all went together to the unkown place to start filming. We had to choose an empty place where not a lot people would travel in. we finally found the place, got the equipment ready and stared filming. We made sure we repeated each shot to save us any problems later with one shot turning out wrong. We took a very long time filming the scene. We took many shots and made sure we took them from different angles just incase something would go wrong when we start editing in school. When we finally finished we all went to eat somewhere, we were all starving. We then took the underground to go to the next unkown location to film my part, the stabbing part. We got to the place at 4pm it was dark and the place we choose was amazing at that time. We set the camera and were ready to film. Nancy took many shots of me walking and of Abul and Zinuk trying to kill me. Again we made sure we took it from more than one angle. After that I took shots of abul and zinuk chasing nancy. We took 3hours filming, it was a very long and tiring day. By the end we were all happy with our footage.

Outline of 'Alone' Film

The trailer of the film 'Alone' ended with Nancy in a darkroom with a figure of a person coming towards her with a knife. The person then gets distracted by his accomplice and has to help him. Nancy then sees a chance of escaping through the door. She walks through the door carefully avoiding making any noise, she then creeps through the front door and runs away from the house.

The criminals notice that Nancy has escaped and go searching for her once again. They spend the whole night trying to track her down but end up not finding her. Nancy is then confused and distraught and has no-one to turn to. She just wishes that she could return back to her homeland where all these feelings would vanish away. Nancy is so paranoid that she avoids going out in the daylight and waits for nightfall before going in search for food and shelter. Days go by, her still fearing for her life.

After a week had gone by with the criminals trying to track her down, they have a few leads on where she might be. The criminals investigate with the leads they have and after a few days they find her sleeping near the canal. They wait for her to wake up and they make there move. They tie her up and put her in the boot of their car. But what they don't notice is that they are being watched by a man. The man follows the car back to the house, the criminals drag Nancy in the house.

The man then phones the police, the criminals are getting ready to kill Nancy. This is when the police barge inside the house and arrest the criminals. The police take Nancy away and explain to her that she is safe. After a month Nancy gets help from the police and starts a new life.

Outline of 'Alone' Trailer

The trailer for our film 'Alone', introduces the main character Nancy. Nancy is a teenage immigrant who had come to London for the very first time. Nancy is all alone in the big city of London and has no-one to depend on. She is living rough on the streets and has barely any money. Nancy is also struggling to feed herself and often has to beg pedestrians for donations. Nancy was looking for shelter to sleep for the night, She heard arguing and this had caught her attention. She could see two males dressed in smart clothing arguing with a young female.

Nancy then sees one of the males lashing out to the female and realises that the female has been stabbed. Nancy knowing that she had just witnessed a murder, decided to run away unseen. She then runs and steps on a can, which made a noise and had alerted the two criminals that they have been seen carrying out the murder. Nancy looks back and sees the criminals running towards her, this is when she also run trying to get away from the two male criminals.

Nancy is then on the run and feels paranoid thinking everyone is against her, she can hardly speak any English and is petrified to go to the police to report it. The two high class criminals then finally find Nancy and kidnap her. The trailer ends with a cliffhanger with Nancy seen in a darkroom with a figure of a person with a knife coming towards her. This leaves the audience wondering what has happened to her.

Conventions that we will be following throughout our trailer is characters and their costumes along with the props they use. Our characters will contain villains and victims etc.

Other conventions include music high and low paced which suits the style and genre of the trailer.

'Alone'- Storyboard Animtaic

A story board is when the actual scenes of the film are put in to hand drawn still shots, from the story board you can see the what different types of camera shots are used. The story board was a rough outline of our actual trailer. In the trailer we used a variety of different shots such as mid long shots, high angle shots,etc. we used these shots to add tension and excitement as well as keeping the trailer fast paced, this will help keep the trailer unpredictable as well.

RANZ Logo

Our production company logo would also have something that is iconic of London which could make a good link to our trailer as well as brand identity. The logo will have the Sign of the London underground on it with a background image of Big Ben, however instead of the sign saying London Underground it will say RANZ. This is effective and looks very creative and makes a good link to the storyline of our film. The shown images are examples of how our logo will look like.
We have used these two icons as they show a very good contrast of the posh area of Big Ben and the gritty side of the London underground which is shown in our film. It also shows the contrast between they different hierarchies of people that live in the big city.

These are the final RANZ Logo Productions:

Shooting Script

Int. Waterloo Bridge, London Eye and Big Ben

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High-angle Shot of Nancy walking in Trafalgar Sq.

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Subway, main character walks and picks up a cup of coffee and drinks from it. Walks further and picks up a coin from the floor then to Restaurant, Marble Arch.

While V.O. in background

"I came to London looking for happiness, security and to follow my dream. Ended up homeless, desperate and alone..."

Music Starts

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Clothes Shop, Marble Arch

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Empty Street, night time. Zinuk and Abul (criminals) walking towards Rawan (victim)

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The characters talking:

Rawan: " leave me alone, I'm not involved in this."

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Nancy realises something happening behind her, she turns around.

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Abul stabbing Rawan

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Nancy watching the stabbing and trying to run away so no body realises she was there.

While trying to escape, she makes a noise which the criminals hear.

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Criminals looking at her from far and then running after her.

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Nancy running.

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Rawan's dead body on the floor with blood surrounding her.

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Nancy in the toilet washing her face.

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Nancy looks up and sees Zinuk's face in the mirror. She turns around and sees no one.

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Nancy running away from the car that's chasing her.

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Nancy being pushed into the back seat of the car.

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Alone title and website

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Final Scene of Nancy sitting in a dark room. Abul approaches her with a knife.

THE END

Audience Profile

Our film target audience are young between the ages of 15-21. Our audience is fairely young and this goes back to the fact that the characters in our actual film are young too so that is a way the audience can relate to our film.

Through the questionnaire we gave out to decide on our general target audience we found that the majority enjoys wearing casual clothes on a daily basis. So we decided to put our characters in costumes that the audience can relate to. For example, Rawan is dressed casually in jeans, a top and boots. This is something common that any other girl her age can dress up in. Similarly with the boys, they are both dressed in black jackets and trousers which again is something young people can relate to.

Another question for the audience was which genre of music they would rather hear in a trailer. There was a variety of answers like hip/hop and rock which we thought may not suit the genre of our film or the style of it. There was classic which we thought is idea we can take on as we can use classical music that raises tension.

We also asked where they would rather see a film located. Again, there were a variety of answers like the streets, a house, a school. As most answers were the streets we decided to go along with that idea also because is suits what happens throughout our film.

As we had an idea that our film will be of a combined genre we asked our audience whether they prefer thriller/horror or thriller/comedy. Most answers were horror/thriller and so that was what we thought would be more interesting.

From the first initial ideas of our film trailer we wanted it to be a British film that would be realised as one of the British films produced and made in the UK. In addition to this, through the questionnaire that our group produced we found that our target audience also would enjoy watching British film as they are rare in the film industry. Another reason they like watching British films is because they are familiar with the actors, the whole cast in general, the accent and the locations shown throughout the film.

We think that our film will be successful as it contains many of the things that our audience enjoy watching.

Props

Some of the props we will be using are :

=> Fake blood - for when Rawan gets stabbed
=> Knife (fake) - same as above...

=> a Car - this was used when Nancy gets kidnapped by the criminals

=> a cup of Coffee - this was used when Nancy was in the subway and found this cup and drank from it.

These additional props are used to convey realism in the film and to make the scenes look believable to the audience.

Costume

Zinuk and Abul (the criminals) will be wearing a dark clothing. Their costume will be smart/ casual. They will be wearing a shirt, a black jacket and smart black trousers with the addition of smart shoes. This signifies that they are criminals of a 'high status'. Their costumes add mysteriousness to their character. It also emphasises that they are successful and dangerous.

Rawan (the victim) will be dressed very casually, in jeans, boots, a jacket and a handbag. We made this specific choice because that is what a 'typical' young person would wear in their everyday life.

Nancy (victim/hero) will be wearing very ragged, old, dirty looking clothes. This is because she is homeless and poor. She also has to be dressed in such clothing to portray her role in the film and possibly through her costume, she could make the audience have empathy for her.




All of the above costumes have been chosen to present each character as they are. We want the chracters of our film to look real and for their role to to be shown through the clothes they are wearing. I think we do this successfully in our film trailer.

Location

==> Piccadily Circus ==> Waterloo Bridge ==> Trafalguar Square

==> Public Toilets ==>

Those locations have been chosen because our film has to represent London clearly, our film has to be iconic of London like is and example of this would be "28 Days Later", where Big Ben and other London icons were showin in the film. Scenes like that instantly lets the audeince know where the film was set.We have also chosen those locations because they are tourists attractions. tourists could in other words mean immigrants. This is relative to the storyline of our film. When the girl who is an immigrant is chased all around London by two thieves.

Our film will be produced, directed, and acted by a British cast. After we have evaluated the questionnaire we gave out to poeple, we think this is something d

ifferent and desired by the young British audience that our film will be aimed at.

One line sales pitch

Our film is called Alone. The genre of our film is a thriller.

'An urban thriller that depicts the isolation and desperation in the sprawling city of London.'

Our film is about an immigrant that gets lost in the big city of London. The immigrant witnesses a murder, so the two criminals notice that she has witnessed the murder therefore, the criminals follow her everywhere she goes. The immigrant feels paranoid so this is when horror is added to our film.

Our film target audience are young people aged between 15 - 21. they enjoy watching fights and use of weapons in thriller films. the also enjoy listening to music especially hip/hop. their main interest are going out and socializing. our film would interest them as it would mainly filmed in the streets. finally they enjoy watching British films due the fact that they are rare in the film industry.