Animatic for our trailer

Untitled from Gabrielle Tomlinson on Vimeo.

Characters in our Trailer

Steve the Vampire: played by Mitchell Terry

• A very un-cool vampire who thinks he's really popular and a total ladies man. He's clumsy and dum and most fo the time a complete scaredy cat. He always wears a cape and has a hair comb on him at all times.

Nora the Geek: played by Gabrielle Tomlinson

• Nora is a typical geek, she wears geeky glasses and plain clothing. She likes Steve but he doesn't relalise until the end of the film. Nora and Steve are good friends for the duration of the film.

Risk Assessment

When filming our scenes, we ensured that all trip hazards were removed from the floor before moving around and performing. We also made sure that all equipment used for filming was completely safe to use beforehand, and did not have any broken or stray wires or was damaged. We also made sure that when filming our piece, we always had a mobile phone to use in case of an emergency, and always filmed in groups to ensure we had someone to get help if their was an emergency.

Music used in our production

For our production, we decided to use copyright free music in our piece, with the idea for the music to give the film the comedy edge and match the parody theme of our trailer.
For the opening section of our trailer, we used an orchestral piece we found on the website http://www.freeplaymusic.com/ called "Intrepid Traveler". Featuring a building string section, we felt that the piece would work well with the opening of our trailer, lulling the audience into a false sense of security and playing up to the parody side of our film, presenting it as an almost Epic movie.
http://www.freeplaymusic.com/search/preview_file.php?id=92&dur=0&type=mp3 - Shortcut  to "Intrepid Traveler".

We immediately used a sound effect of a record player's needle being pulled off of a record quickly, to give the impression of the track being stopped short of it's climax. This effect is used in various pieces of media, like in a variety of songs, films and television shows, often to switch from one idea of connoting to the audience a switch from a serious situation to a more comedic one. We took the sound effect from the website http://www.freesound.org/.
http://www.freesound.org/people/Halleck/sounds/29938/ - Link to Record Scratch sound effect.

For our final piece of music in our trailer, we used a short piece of hip hop music entitled "Beat 1", also taken from http://www.freesound.org/. We chose this piece of music due to Hip-hop's worldwide appeal, as well as due to the fact that the music contrasts with the "camp" character of Steve the vampire, hip-hop music associated with  "urban" themes and rap music.
http://www.freesound.org/people/zyberbird/sounds/15495/ - link to "Beat 1"

Film Titles

Glampire - This is the name that we like the best and the one we wanted to do originally. It go the most votes in our survey with 15 votes out of 62. We fused together the word 'Glam' and 'Vampire' to make the comical name 'Glampire'. It's catchy and easy to remember as it's just one word. It also expresses the genre well as the audience we be able to tell a lot from this title. Clearly its about a vampire who's 'glam' and is obviously not going to be a horror or action film. It's most likely going to be a spoof and this will be apparent to the audience just by the title and then backed up by the trailer.



Fangtasy - This is a play on the word 'Fantasy'. As the story is completely fiction, the word fantasy is appropriate. This was the second most popular with 13 votes. Again it's one word and memorable. The word 'Fang' is also well associated with vampires as they have fangs for teeth. This would again let the audience know that this is most likely going to be a film about vampires.


Don't Fang About- We really liked this one as it's a play on words for the phrase: 'Don't hang about'. This got 8 votes. We thought about using this as a slogan for the trailer: "Dont fang about, here's something you can really sink your teeth into!" We are therefore going to explore suitable slogans for the film with a vampire twist incorporated into them, we may therefore use some of the names we considered as titles as inspiration for our slogans.


The Only Vampire in the Village - The Only Vampire in the Village got 7.  This is a take on the 'Little Britain' catchphrase "The Only Gay in the Village". This is well known and for our young audience, is quite amusing. It is also in keeping with our theme of the vampire in our trailer being not gay but quite feminine and the fact that in our film, steve is the only vampire rather than being in what is known as a 'coven' in Twilight or a 'Brood' or 'Clan' in most vampire films.


Suck it to 'em - This is a play on the catchphrase 'Sock it to 'em' . It got 5 votes and again we are thinking of using this a slogan rather than an actually title. We changed the word 'Sock' for 'Suck' to make it relevent to our film genre as vampires are known for 'sucking' blood out of humans.


NosferTuTu - NosferaTuTu also got 5 votes. Nosferatu is the name of  a silent german film from 1922 which is based on the story of dracula but with the names and places changed. For example, the name vampire is changed to Nosferatu. A TuTu is a skirt made of netting that is stereotypically quite girly, this makes the name 'NosferaTuTu' quite funny.


Van Helsing-song - Abraham Van helsing was a Vampire Slayer in Bram Stoker's Dracula novel. We thought that this would be a nice idea if we had our movie as a musical because it has the words sing-song in it.


The Vampire Gayer - This is a parody of the phrase 'The Vampire Slayer' which was also a popular TV show in 1997 to 2003 named 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer'. We changed the word slay to gay to make it comical for the audience however we felt that perhaps it was a little to 'in-your-face'.


Cup-a-Blood - This is a twist of the warm drink 'Cup-a-Soup' but we replaced soup for blood to make it vampire related. We liked this one but not as much as some of the others, it wasn't quite as memorable.


Vampiracy - Vampire is obviously made up of the two words 'Vampire' and 'Piracy'. Piracy is copying other forms of media, like films and music. This would be appropriate as because our film is a spoof, we will be taking bits from other vampire films. It is also a short word, making it quite catchy.

Film Fonts

This font is quite bold and stands out. However it's quite squished together and a little difficult to read. We liked the idea of having a loveheart over the 'I' to make it more feminine. We could perhaps change the colour

This font is a lot like the fint for the Disney company, it therefore has a childish feel to it. The writing looks handwritten but still clear enough to read it. There is also a love heart above the 'I' which makes it girly and cute.

I like this film title, the curled, rickety edges remind me of a late ‘Nosferatu’, the original vampire film. Although this font style is apparent it’s some kind of theatrical thriller film, it’s not however getting across the essence of our genre. The small heart inside the letter ‘A’ subtly emphasises the twist within our film however doesn’t give too much away.

This font reminds me of the film 'Bewitched as it has the sparkles over it. However I think the sparkles would be more appropriate for a film with magic in it rather than a supernatural film. The letters are clear although strangely formed and curled a little.

I really liked this one, the letters are bold and clear and easy to read and there are numerous heart shapes over the top. This is girly however because it's written in bold capitals and not hadwriting its not quite as feminine. This is the one we've decided to pick for our font.

This one is quite spooky looking so would go with our genre of the supernatural. There is no hearts or stars over the letters though which is what we were looking for. However we still wanetd to include this font as we could quite easily put a heart over the dot of the 'I'.

This font is always quite nice but the 'G' doesn't stand out as much. Although I think it's quite effective that the 'G' is inside the heart with a smaller heart next to it. The letters are also bold and in capitals so they do stand out quite well.

Although this one is quite nice and girly, its not particularly easy to read and doesn't stand out straight away because the hearts are inside the letters. The only bit I really like about this font is that the letters are bold and black.

Script for Narration

Voice-over: This Summer... A film like no other...will hit your screen...He's got true blood…

CUT TO:                                         

Scene where he's walking through the school

Voice-over:...with his own vampire diary.

Voice-over:..He's a smooth operator...

CUT TO:

Burger scene

Voice-over: ... with the courage of a Lion.

Hanging upside down from tree scene, scene with cat

Music changes

Voice-over: He’s the average man’s R-Patz. From the makers of Scary Movie and Spy Hard, Sink your teeth into this! Glampire, coming soon

CUT TO:

Script for characters in Trailer

Steve pushes open doors, crowd moves apart.

Steve is walking through the corridor towards camera, stops  in front of camera.

Crowd Member: gasp

CUT TO:

Steve opens door and looks across the room at girl

Girl with ketchup on face looks confused at Steve

Steve displays look of affection, then brushes back hair smoothly

Girl shrugs, eats burger

Steve leaves, looking sad

CUT TO:

Steve Brushes hair back, sat on tree, almost falls

CUT TO:

Steve hanging upside down from tree

Steve:  it’s so high!

CUT TO:

Steve is sat in office chair, holding cat stroking it

Steve: (in camp voice) Hello Mr Kitty! Hello!

Steve realises he is talking camply, coughs loudly

Steve: (in deep voice) hello…

CUT TO:

Steve appears at a window of a house, and climbs in, getting stuck on the curtain on the way in.

Steve climbs onto the bed of the “Female” and crawls along towards them.

He pulls back their hair from their neck, before they turn to him, revealed it is a man.

Steve: (shocked) you’re a man?!

Man: I can be anything you want me to be…

CUT TO:

Steve eats a slice of garlic bread

Realises it is garlic, begins to choke and collapses

CUT TO:

Steve stood in front of houses on a pathway, pouts and looks into camera, before looking away into the distance

Titles overlaid.

END

Make Up process

As our production is a vampire parody film, we needed to have our lead Vampire character to have the all the looks and features of the stereotypical vampire. With this in mind, due to my position as playing the lead vampire, I had to undergo a fairly lengthy procedure of applying make up to my face.

To get the look of the vampire, we used white face paint as a base all over the face, with black eyeshadow used to create distinctive cheekbones, creating a gaunt and somewhat animated look. We again used black eyeshadow over and under the lids of the eyes, the by lining the eyes with a black liquid eyeliner this gave out more definition in the eyes giving them a more intense look.

We then used the liquid eyeliner to line both the eyebrows and the hairline using angled edges to create a Dracula esque symmetrical facial shape. Furthermore, we added some red lipstick to the lips, and then coated with a gloss to give a dripping effect simular to blood. Finally, by adding wet look gel to the hair we were able to create the combed back, quiffed style made synonymous with the Count Dracula image.

Institutional Information for our Film Trailer

Due to the genre of our film, we have decided that our film would be produced by the company "Dimension Films".  The studio, famous for producing many major horror films and franchises, such as the "Scream" franchise, "Scary Movie" franchise, and various films in the "Halloween" franchise.

Dimension Films is owned by The Weinstein Company. After the Weinstein Brothers left Miramax, they took with them Dimension films, to continue releasing specific genre films.The company, previously a subsidiary of Miramax, which in itself is a subsidiary of Walt Disney, has built up a solid reputation as a comedy and Horror film company.

For the release of our film, we have decided that the film would be released in multiplexes during summer time, released possibly early summer. Our reasoning for this is that at this our target audience, teenagers and young adults, would not be in education at the time, due to schools, colleges and universities finishing for the summer holidays, meaning that we would have more people coming to see our film. When looking at previous Dimension film's releases, most of their films have been released over the summer period and into the winter season, due to those being the peak times of the year that moviegoers will go to the cinema. This time of year is also when most blockbuster films are released.

For the release of the trailer for our film, we feel that our trailer would be shown before similar films, aimed at a similar audience. This would increase both knowledge and interest in the film, and bring in more people from our target audience to see our film. Our trailer would be shown internationally, due to the themes of the trailer and the film being international .

Shot list

Done	#	Shot	Action	Notes
Done	1	Medium-close up	Steve sat in tree pouting	Fade after shot
Done	2	Long shot	Steve walking down school corridor through crowd, stops in front of camera
Done	3	Close up	Steve opens door
Done	4	Close up	Nora turns to face Steve
Done	5	Close up	Steve pulls out brush and brushes hair, moves closer to Nora
Done	6	Close up	Nora gives Steve an unenthusiastic look
Done	7	Medium shot	Steve sat in a tree brushing hair back pouting
Done	8	Medium-close up	Steve hanging upside down from tree	Dialogue
Done	9	Medium	Steve and cat	Dialogue
Done	10	Medium	Steve climbing through window
Done	11	Mid-close up	Steve climbing across bed towards “girl”
Done	12	Close up	Steve pulling hair away from “girls neck”
Done	13	Close up	“Girl” turns to Steve, reveals it is a man
Done	14	Close up	Steve shocked at man	Dialogue
Done	15	Mid-close up	Steve eating garlic bread, collapses
Done	16	Long shot	Steve stood posing, pouting	Zoom in, fade
Done	17		Logo, credits