Prezi Evaluation

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Evaluation upon the Coursework

Evaluation

After applying the finishing touches as well as the editing, the video trailer had been reviewed within each scene.

During the study and the analysis of the final trailer, we as a group have discussed upon the finishes and what part of the clip they have enjoyed.

Being the editor and such, I felt that there could of have been a big improvement within cutting out the unneeded background music. I understood that that due to time constraints and the budget that we could not use professional props and items to which we worked with what we had.

The theme and style of the film trailer was exactly how I portrayed (though being the editor does allow that advantage over others due to their perspective and how they would want the film to be directed). The overall outcome of the theme was indeed grittiness, violence and crime (to which met our specification) Though in my opinion I felt that it lacked semi gore-ish scenes, I understood that due to our budget, fake blood could not have been induced within the production but solely because of that, it wasn’t as realistic as compared to other professional film trailers.  

The theme songs and music fitted in with the tempo and the rhythm of each clip, such examples as when Pete Crowley(Hadyn) was looking remotely...suspicious, using the laptop to hack into the hideout’s system and the combination of the non-diegetic background music with the lyrics “And you’re looking pretty suspicious”. So there was an applied lyrical-visual technique sustained within the trailer(though unintended until editing took place).

Camera shots and panning were as professional as it seemed for some of the parts, other than some misjudgements and amateur hand shaking to which overall helped the grittiness and the feel for the realism.

In general, I feel that the trailer was too extended, the trailer lasted for 2:30 minutes when trailers should last around from 1:30 to 2:00. The first front half upon the dialogue should have been shortened to an extent. I understand that with the main protagonist speaking out within the beginning was necessary in order to introduce the scenario, however, I have discussed that some of the dialogue wasn’t needed due to that we shouldn’t be explaining the main plot but hinting different features and different cases in order to grasp hold of the audience’s attention. Such examples given are how most of the antagonist are introduced at the first half the beginning.

Instead, we should be creating anxiety throughout the trailer and portray each and every character with an unknown identity or rather with a mysterious profile.

Overall, the score I would give to the trailer would be 3.5/5, initially, if we had a better equipment and better understanding with the tools and programs that we were using, it would of been much easier to create a more standard and professional trailer.

 

Media language

"Media is communication.” Discuss the ways that you have used media language to create meanings in one of your media products.

The communication within presenting our trailer consisted of using various techniques to which the audience could translate themselves their own values.

Within our A2 Film project, our sole desire was to initially target an audience demographic whom enjoys the typical action packed twist with the hint of crime, namely young males. Our main intention was to create a nitty-gritty film to which we hope to grasp our audience with that action packed realism. We wanted that impact on the film in which we hoped that the audience could reflect upon the characteristics of the theme without having the difficulty to figure out the whole plot of the trailer. Hopefully offering something fresh and new while sticking to the conventions of crime movies and trailers.

The mis-en-scene was carefully constructed in the film trailer, such and such consisted of our props and clothes, the antagonist within the film trailer was depicted with dark characteristics; Dark black clothing were used with the combination of the eye-patch. This served to reinforce stereotypes of the cool suave gangster. The communication that was put forth throughout the attire/asset was that the clothing was the signified clothing as that signifier situated the actor as an evil villain. We used this concept of portrayal throughout the film trailer as this help us to set the medium for each enactment.

Once the idea of the film trailer was introduced and confirmed, the main goal was to force a definitive genre into each of our scenes to which we hoped that all of our audience can relate to or rather understand the concept of the theme.

With the uses of different camera shots, we learnt that we can create various styles and themes that fitted our genre. On the whole, with the use of amateur follow-ups and shaky camera recordings, the outcome for the scenes concluded with a gritty perspective. Angles consisting of low angle shots that were performed on Nathan Cole (The Protagonist) when he was looking suspicious.We used this within our chasing scene where the pursuit took place between the protagonist and the antagonist as we focused on giving the audience a first person impression/view of the whole chase. This initially created a realistic viewpoint of the action and violence.

In other instances, the title of our film (Chasing the dragon) interconnected with two aspects of the plot, one of which that the word ‘Dragon’ was a reference to the main antagonist of the film (Hao Zheng) as his background origin came from China (China being heavily influenced with Dragons and such). The other meaning to the connection of the film title was that ‘Chasing the dragon’ refers to smuggling and the trading of narcotics (Such as cocaine). This polysemic technique assisted the theme of the film to which the audience should have an rough idea of the plot upon looking at the first impressions.

Research Evaluation

Research Evaluation:

Within the production of the A2 film trailer, constant research had been put forth in order to understand the genre and the perception of how the typical type of trailer would be produced. The research carried out allowed us to understand the overall construction as this gave us the medium to work with.

Reviewing upon other media products was what helped us bring forth the confidence to actually produce the film in the first place. From looking at different genre i.e horror to crime, we had suspected that there needed to be a starting point to where we should intercept in the film market. As we progressed, arguments were brought forth from group members to show their intensity, the confidence to argue upon what their desires were initially helped to preserve the counter balance and the equilibrium as we need this to create diversity. (To which developed into new ideas and new prospects).  

Discussions upon whether to or not challenge present conventions were introduced as we all knew that this was our second point that had to be handled across the evolution of the theme of the film trailer. The sole main points introduced were, cost, accessibility, time, reliability, accuracy and usefulness.

Many present film trailers were reviewed as different concepts were brought forth to see if they fitted into our criteria. It was this research that allowed us to create a professional movie trailer as different aspects from different films were included thus, it was expected that we could meet the production level of the current movie trailers regardless if we had a low budget or not.

Planning ahead of the trailer was also as crucial to the beginning as we needed to understand the outcome of the trailer, we needed to anticipate for the initial audience reviews and understand that we would need to change and improve over time. Expectations had to be made as the initial genre of the trailer was crime so typical types of violence had to be met and shown in a particular way that the audience would have never had expected from before.

Upon the progress of the production of our trailers, many of the produced plans had to be changed in order to meet the initial expectations. Such and such changes that applied within our coursework was upon the adaption of the objective, at first, our sole principal was to create a film opening but due to inconveniences and time constraints the present proposal was to change the scenes into a film trailer instead.

Research upon change had been applied to the trailer as we had to reverse the criteria to one that suited the current alteration.  Such prospects included was how we would perceive the current scenes captured with our camera into one that fitted with the construction of a film trailer, editing and further encoding helped us to change but in order to do that, research upon the usage of the programs had been looked into as such tools were used (Cut, encoding)….   

As a constant amount of research was applied, we had developed a progressive skill that allowed us to search deeper into any type of topic we wanted to look into. From generating basic and general points to evaluating each and every prospect with more detail, our confidence ensured that the research carried out was accurate enough in order to be used throughout our productions.

Audience review

Audience review

After the basic cleanup of the video editing, we have decided to ask our audience to give their first impression upon the movie trailer. Bringing reviews into our analysis of the success upon the whole project will help us upon the next study.

We have asked specifically to our audience to give constructive criticism to the extent of giving as much negativity as they can so that we can solely improve as regards with the next project.

We have also imformed them that due to the low budget that we had, we couldn’t meet the standards of professionals but we could at least try to with our editing skills.

Audience review one

“Although you built the dramatic anxiety within the first half the video, I felt that the plot within the trailer didn’t grab me. There was a nice selection of music as well as good editing implemented within, but at times there were bits of pieces missing within the link”

Audience review two

“The editing was good, using the xxx theme to your trailer fitted in with the plot and the aura. One of the problems that existed were two monologue’s speaking at the same time to which I had to rewind the clip a few times before I could understand both”

Audience review three

“The rhythm was in tune with each scene, good use of the camera editing and camera shots (The CCTV camera was crafty as well as the pursuit scene)"

Audience review four

“The scenery and background were high-quality (not the quality of the camera though) good use of panning within the city and the panning of different scenes; I felt that there needed to be more violence and explosions to make the film a bit more grittier and unexpected. Overall, the film trailer was intriguing and exciting till the very end.”

Audience review five

“Good use of the sound editing (gunshot) and a good selection of music/theme, The silence within the middle of the trailer enlightened the intensity of the plot. The only thing that I would suggest to improve is to remove some of the background noises”

Audience review six

“The protagonist was shown very clearly, though, after looking through your script and such, I didn’t realize that there were so many antagonists. You should make your antagonists stand out more clearly with bitter violence”

In general, the audience depicted the movie trailer with good marks and some cons, the main distinctive points that most of the audience made was that there were good editing and good use of sound selection, the entity of using different backgroudns and scenery within the action (second half of the video) helps to create a diverse world for the audience.

Removing unneeded background sound would create a clear flow for the audience to which creates less distractions and so forth. My reflections upon these comments are that they are valuable and  valid as we would use this to improve our video if we could get the chance to do so. 

A2 Video

Photoshop Effects

Many of the effects that I have used upon the  task include the exemplar materials and features of different effects and styles.

Note paper effect

I have used the Note paper feature upon the Image of Nathan (Matthew Bailey) as it turns the whole of image into a black and white portrait image. The use of effect creates an aura of mystery around the characters image as it is seen similar as a replication of a shadow. The whole style adds a lot of character and curiosity onto the page. Using this effect will attract the audience on the whole.

 

 

Stained glass effect

As from my previous works, I have used the stained glass effect a numerous amount of times due to my liking upon the style. The stained glass feature creates a surreal pattern that gives the textbox more character as it also doesn’t distract any other of the surrounding text or pictures. The colour used was bright orange with a hint of washout at the end of the right hand corner. The washout was brought in to lighten the orange due to the original shape being too distinctive.

 

Background works

Although a grey stylish background may seem dull and unattractive, most of the images and the other shapes and colour residing within the whole page made up for the sustain. The deciding factor that I planned was that the background should not standout more than the other text features.

I took notice that if both the background and the other images had bright colours, the contrasts between both would absolutely clash with one and another thus creating a distorted magazine within its final outlook.

 

 

Text boxes and shapes

The texts boxes used within this magazine was round ovals placed on top of each other, however the colour would have a distinctive washout with regards to the following ovals.

I used ovals for as the textbox shape due to it's simpleness unlike the other counterparts such as a square or an rectangle to which was too sharp for my liking.  The round ovals leads the reader to the middle of the ovals which was my sole intention at the start. The colour used was orange again as I tired to keep the house colour the same throughout the magazine.

 

Text, colour and text sizes

The text font used was main Agency FB in bold, The selection was made due to the style not being too formal or informal. The text can be read clearly as the text size remained as 23.22 PT, just large enough for most of the audiences to look at upon reading height.
A consistent text font was used through the sub-headings but other texts that was valued as more important stood out in a redish font colour giving it a more distinguished prospect in comparision with the other texts.

Main headers

The font used in the main headings was called defused, the reason I chose this style of font was because its inital collabaration with our movie trailer theme (ganster and crime). The 'Defused' font gave the text more substance upon themes such as destruction, erosion and a hint of distortion.

The colour used was black and white within the eroded sections, this allowed a suitable and distinctive contrast between the orange textboxes and shapes.

 

Finalized Project:

 

 

 

 

 

Ancillary task - Magazine

I have started my ancillary task with one of the shots of Nathan Cole, I plan to use many style area of effects upon the page for the magazine cover as the main goal of a magazine cover is to attract the audience.

The need to establish the magazine’s name is needed and so for that I have used ‘Motion” for the front cover name. Motion has an inner connection with film and so that is the sole reason why I have used it as a brand name.

Nathan Cole (Matthew Bailey) has been proposed as my person for the front page due to him being the protagonist of the whole trailer. 

Other fixtures that have been put in place was to process Nathan Cole on the side to leave free space for the left hand side in which more secondary sidelines and titles can be placed in. I plan to recreate a whole black and white footage of him so that he would stand out from the cover.

Recreations of different sidelines stories will extend the magazine for other topics (targeting different audiences). 

Ancillary task

Photoshop Poster

In revelancy, I have decided to use the images from the Hong Kong palour for the design ideas.
I have used the nightlife of Hong Kong for the background as it seems suitable at sight due to that it fits the whole scenario and theme of the movie.

To which brings us to the point of the link between Hao Zheng and the scenery. We have decided to use Hong Kong as the place of Triads as it sums up the whole definition of nightlife. We need to establish the backstory of Hao Zheng and so we decided to use this scenery within Hong Kong as a hint of the whole flavour within the film.

The Nightlife brings brightness as well as the temporary sustain upon the whole mystery of the film.
While placing the Hong Kong scene as a background, I plan to use Nathan Cole (Matthew Bailey) for the front of the poster so that the audience can picture him as the main protagonist for the movie.
The stance that I directed for him to pose was that the gun should be pointing up high while showing his left side of his face. The Gun will add flare to the whole poster as it will grab the audiences attention to a degree as it mainly explains action.

In which leads to the effects that I have placed within the poster. I have increased the intensity of the background by a margin and have tried to blend Nathan within that background as it enhances the whole suspense and the theme. It adds a mysterious foggy mist to the whole plain poster.

At the bottom of the poster, I have generated a font out of the Photoshop and used it for the title of the movie (chasing the Dragon). The reasons why I have used this font is due to the fact that it captured my eyesight when I first scrolled through the many choices. The eroded effect typically adds that rough and tough flavour to the poster.

Ancillary Task Intro

For our Preliminary task, we have taken many consistent photos upon the main characters as we have all slotted them together for the use of our preliminary tasks. (Poster + Front cover of a magazine)

The shots were taken behind black/white backgrounds, while we all selected a pose for Nathan Cole. The poses are considerably the single most important feature to our magazines and poster design.

One of the many poses we decided to take shots of was with Nathan (Mathew Bailey) holding a gun and aiming it towards the left/right side. Judging the terms and style, we tried to add the flare upon the actual sequence by getting Nathan in character for the shoot. Side poses were taken as well as close up shots of his face to exaggerate the main character. In addition to that, pictures of me (Playing as Hao Zheng) where induced to the shoot as I was declared as the main antagonist in which does have the second most significant part of the movie on the whole.

More importantly, each shot we took was taken 5 times so that we could have a selection upon the best. All pictures were taken on the Camera as well as one of our partner’s I-Phone. The camera was always reliable at times and cam put onto a stand so that clear still shots can be taken in which acts as an advantage against the I-phone.

However, the I-Phone had more special effects put forth and could be used to increase or decrease the contrast and brightness. We used both for dramatic measures incase files would corrupt.

We will be editing the photos with our photoshop skills inorder to create our Poster and Magazine.

Photoshop Intro

Photoshop is a program that I have used before within my AS media design for the many multiple designs for our Magazine including the front cover, contents pages as well as the main two pages.

Photoshop is increasingly a famous program used for many features

While I have used Photoshop before, it is important that PS does require a lot of intensive skill to use. Upon taking in the previous skills from before, I plan to increase my knowledge of Photoshop so that I can use those skills for the present preliminary task.

Photoshop is one of the best rated programs in the world, the wide availability of its features allows a variety of styles upon my projects. It shall assist me to achieve the highest grades for my preliminary task.

Although I have a moderate amount of skill upon Photoshop, I plan to use Youtube tutorials through my way so that I will have an easier time with Photoshop. Youtube tutorials are an easy and faster way of learning how to use such programs like Photoshop.

One of the many examples of a Youtube tutorial are such like these:

With this tutorial, I have learnt how to blend two pictures into almost one, the effect has been used throughout the movie poster, the collaboration has made an neat fade away effect in which worked nicely to give that mystery to the main protagonist of the movie. 

I-Movie

I-Movie is one of the many programs we shall use to edit our video, although the program is bunched up with many useful features, it requires a moderate amount of time to study before usage.

We chose this program over windows movie maker due to its perks such as more effects and more styles to choose from.

The differences from using windows movie maker and Imovies is mostly upon the button placements and different techniques that must be applied before and after the project. 

Such techniques that we look forth to implement is flash at some of the clips to give a sudden jolt, this technique will also be used with the collaboration of the Gunshot. Due to our low financial budget, we cannot afford such props consist of fake blood and T-shirts, to create a realistic gunshot scene, we have all selected to create a first person perspective while enabling a couple of flashes to which will be synchronized with the Gunshots.

Fade in and fading out effects were at no doubt the one that was most referred with our group, discussions that have been made were upon how fading in and fading out would enhance the trailer from becoming a amateur movie clip into a professional viewpoint. 

Audacity

 

Audacity is a program that allows users to record sounds and voices upon input with a microphone. It is free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds.|

The deciding factor was to use Audacity instead of the regular windows sound recorder or Mac recorder due to its initial advantages.

Audacity allows the users to increase volume levels at particular times as well as fade or fade out voices upon activation. Such background music that is unneeded can be erased in order to create the perfect sole voice. More over, doubling the capacity of the sound at some parts allowed us to create a double echo within the pulse. Using double tracking allowed for elevation within creating the essence of a depressing and dark atmosphere.

It was interesting at first, messing around with the buttons and experimenting on various records. It gave me as an editor a visual insight towards the direction of sounds. After all of the theme songs had chosen by the members, thinning out the

Precise adjustments upon the audios speed while maintaining tempo was one of the many features we used to synchronize the gunshots accordingly to the clip of Nathan Cole’s outbreak within shooting Hao Zheng (first perspective of the gunshot)

Upon filming Nathan Cole’s voice, we decided to install Audacity and let him speak through the microphone.

Double tracking allowed Matthews voice to become more distinctive as it added character within the editing sequence. The echo at the beginning created the right sort of tone that we tried to look for. Although the recording was all done in one take, the lyrical needed rearrangements as well as cutting down due to that we didn’t really realise the actual length once recorded.

 

 

Chasing the Dragon (Intro)

With our first production finished, the scenes within this video is basically the introduction to Nathan's character. The screen begins with him facing the mirror at the opposite end in which suggests self-impersonation. Nathan does his daily chores as he is seen deep within his thoughts, although we do not know what he is exactly thing about, his actions and his tone of reaction shows a darker side.

Although our exemplar script is ready to be used, many parts and sections will have to cut off due to the inappropriate length. The script should only run for 2 minutes, so the monologue will be limited as it should also make sense when finalized.

Camera angles

With the many angle shots taken, we have tried to change the perspective of each and every shot so that we can get a better shot selection for our film trailer.

Behind the shoulder shot
Here we have Enzo sitting whilst the camera was placed behind his shoulders. We aim to get the initial shot selection of Nathan's feelings after he is outdone by Pete Crowley with his product. Nathan will act frustracted within the scene.
Panning/following track shot of Pete Crowley
The shot was devised by me, the plan was to make Pete seem suspicious. All of his following movements were followed to show to the audience what he was clearly doing (Hacking the system on the computer)

Enzo Costa panning/tracking shot
The panning was exclusively produced to follow Enzo's movement upon the swivell of the office chair. Tracking the shot was extremly difficult to follow through, instead, we decided that the camera would be placed onto the chair and with that movement extension, we would move the office chair  as well to capture Enzo.

Common shots and cut backs
The cut backs shall be intersected inbetween within the second half of the trailer (mostly the violent scenes). This creates a surreal feeling of realism, I expect the audience to feel as if they were in the trailer (such and such with 3D realism).
Various swivel punching sections
With Eddie Goodman in the scene, the violence was depicted as him ontop of another person whilst he would be punching from right to left continuosly, the camera was turned 90 - 120 degrees to the left at every point that Eddie finishes punching at the victim(cameraman).

The catch (pursue scene)
With Enzo chasing Pete till the very end of the clip, we needed a replica of an birds eye view of the situation. Though, without the tools to do show (due to our low budget) Most appropriately, we manage to rise to the top of the building and film from that standpoint. The pan was developed along the way to track the running as we aimed the camera distance to be quite far. Although a mid shot of the follow through may be more eye-catching, the camera could not grasp the resolution as zooming in made the clip blurry.

Chair Swing Scene
In actual fact, we planned to flicker on and off the lights to add that dramatic bit of flavour in however, the plan backfired as the time for the lights to switch back on took too long to come back on and off.

The scene still carried on as we planned for the vicious scene of "backstabbing"
The Chair shot was aimed at Hao Zheng as we would cut away from the scene afterwards.


Shoving Eddie Goodman into the fence
With plenty of fences to work with (due to our location;School) we figured that we could use this to our advantage as we could show some abuse withing the storyline.

We directed our film crew behind the fence so that we could look at both Eddie G and Enzo Costa's perspective. The fence provided a bit of flexibility as Eddie G was able to swing backwards and forwards a bit to enhance that flow.

Kidnap/abduction
The camera angle was slanted as we did not intend to do such thing at all, although it was entirely coincidental, the scene still looked great to use. (Front seat -> Back seat Mid shot)
Enzo's kidnapping upon a victim happens here as he starts to deal a proposal on the phone for the return of the victim.

The kick and Hao Zheng's confrontation
With one of our cameramen on the floor (upright sitting postion) we have imitated the reaction of the kick by getting the camera man to lean backwards at a fast rate, cushions were provided so that the cameraman would not injure himself. We wanted  give this scene a unique in the end, and thus we prepared for Hao Zheng's confrontation as he would enter from behind the camera man. From the camera's perspective, we ended the clip with Hao Zheng in a upside down peception.

Upcoming Changes

Changes within the storyboard

With the production still ongoing, we had generated a couple of scenes from editing to which ended up in a disappointment. All the scenes added up together had only made less that one minute overall. Scheming and discussions upon the changes were drastically made after all the members had seen the first few minutes.

We have extended the overall plotline as well as have planned to create a more of an action packed trailer instead of one filled with suspense. The agreed plan was to portray the whole chaos between the inner community and fill it all with betrayal, deception and unethical practices. 

Such clips include swinging chairs, holding people in ransom, causing havoc, typical violence and action packed fighting and chasing. We will be adding in these new features in order to recreate more substance upon the feeling of action. We hope that we can create enough curiosity to persuade the audience to come and watch the film (If this was reality of course). 

First impressions upon the violence will be analysed to see if the perception of realism is viable to the extent of adding such scenes within the trailer. The most important factor is to create that surrealism for the audience to which we planned to do by using camera shots with 1st person perspective. 

Other features that we decided to take shots of was involving the idea of hackery upon the criminal's society. By doing so, we can import a different genre upon the plot (Computer Experts or encoders). By contrast, instead of creating a nitty gritty genre of typical gangster film that revolves only around violence and action, we can use this 'smartness' aspects to convey one character (Or more if needed) as a geek/decoder/computer expert). Initially, we are challenging the typical conventions upon one's personality within a gangster society.

My video upon the Hong Kong skyscrapers will be placed within various interludes in order to establish where most of the action is taking place. This adds to the surrealism within the video as well as it sets the stage for each and every character.

Overall, with this added, we should be able to meet that two minute mark. 

Production plan one

Production plan 1

Within the first week, we plan to film the second sequence of the scene with the gangster conference meeting.We had invited most of the partaking members into the drama studio and we have set aside the plan into the introduction.

The scenes shall introduce most of the main high profile drug lords as well as our main protagonist, Nathan. Everyone has been fit into their costume and have been filmed within their purpose. Having two cameras, we decided to set each and both cameras in different angles to each other.
The angles we decide to take the shot in was the far away shot (45 degrees from Nathans position) as this gave us a clear perspective upon his tone and style.
The other camera shot that we decided to take was the left angle from the side of the entrance (close up shot).

Fitting this all together, we have now established the frontier of the main entrances for each high profile gangster drug lord.

Casting members (2) New project.

CAST

With a new project on the way and with such intense moments, we will now have to expand the amount of actors within our movie. With a gangster/thriller moive like this, obviously there will be a large amount of casting members than before.

Main characters

Nathan Cole - Nathan is phycopathic druggy in which determines to proove everyone that he is the best of the best. however, each and everytime someone out performs him, his mind will begin to lose all focus as his state of mind will deteriate from what it was from before.

Nathan shall be portrayed by Matthew Bailey, he has the looks of a main character as well as the blonde natural hair. His film acting skills is superior as acting is one the subjects that he has opted for.

Hao Zheng - Zheng is the Main antagonist of the film, he is the evil drug lord to which supervises the smaller divisions within the sectors. Zheng is the one that determines each and every load of drugs and rates them out of ten. The competition was first created from him as he wanted to see the intensity of the smaller divisions to try and create the perfect Cocaine for him.

Hao Zheng will be played by me, I understand that an imitation for a drug lord must be put on within the case as this should enhance the bad guy theme. I also agree that I should be playing this part because Hao Zheng has connections with the 'Triads'. Watching many films from the past such as Kung Fu hustle, I have taken in the bad guy subject to the limits.

Pete Crowley - The arch nemesis of Nathan Cole, Both despise each other with hate though Cole has a more of a superior anger towards Pete due to the fact that he always out performs him in any way. Crowley is portrayed as regular high profile drug leader and has the aspects of being lienient.

Crowley will be played by Haydn Macmaster as he is a smooth white boy always having fun here and there. He is perfect for this scenerio as he has the characteristics of being the guy who despises Nathan. Since both are White, they will have similar taste but will have different actions.

Eddie Goodman - He is a High End business man with many contacts of the sort, he participates within the contest to see who has the best Cocaine. He is classified as trippy and has the 'Swagger' style to which sums up the whole personality of him. Overall,

Goodman shall be played by Abdul 'Basit' ashogbon', his personality fits the criteria for what he needs to be, although he thinks he is impartial

Sub Characters

Enzio Costa - Has an italian background as has a good relationship with Nathan Cole, he is considered to be easy going and has fun from time to time. He is almsot never serious about things.

Sam Harvey shall be playing as Costa due to his method of ways. He is quite the person to understand the meaning of being laid back at times.

Hao Zheng's Translator - Although somewhat has a minor scene, she plays a an important role, she has been Hao Zhengs Translator for 6 Years and will then

Jessica Tsang will be playing the role of the translator

Female Escorts - Clock room stewardess - Played by Cara and Millie.

Music selection

There is a choice of horror and high uplifting soundtracks that we can choose from. Within discussion between me and my group members, we have acknowledge all the paths we can choose and due to our theme of the project, we have a wide diversity in which has made it harder to choose from.

For a gangster themed movie, we have decided to go for a bit of ambiance within the scenes of the trailer in which we will try to grab the audiences attention. Such themes with horror will assist our trailer as this would satisfy the needs of the sinister atmosphere.

In addition to that prospect, we plan to add an overall background music to the film with songs such as:

Kasabian Club Foot

The choice selection was overall made from Sam Harvey, he has discussed upon how this song theme could lead to give the trailer a gritty theme. Although gritty-ness may be one of the slight themes we are aiming for, I have disagreed to the whole idea as the song wasn't as face pace as I wanted it to be. Although it may havea great riff intro, the chorus is slightly off handed.

The XX Intro 

The first impression that I gave off this music intro was that it felt it was too slow and too calming, the fact that the song was created by a indie rock band seemed to make the overall theme was at least a bit bland.
Soon after, when all the clips where combined, I saw an immediately collaboration with both the scenes and the lyrics. The soothing effect had seemed to built an exasperating lead to the main action introduction where much of the violence were forwarded till the end.
I honestly felt that the intro was the perfect fit and that no other song or theme would be able to replace it after viewing the collaboration due to the fact that most of the serene scenes were at the beginning.
One of the main advantages of using the theme was that the sound volume was moderately low in the original in which allowed the audience to hear the monologue speech by the main protagonist (Nathan Cole).
The theme is also an instrumental whcih allows the monologue to be heard more clearly.

Cigarette smoke - Arctic Monkeys 

There was a connection between this and the scenes of violence as well as there was connections between the visuals and the lyrics.
We as a group all favored this song for the action part of the trailer, it was one of the most fitting soundtracks that we all found.

There tune of the harmonics was repeated over and over again to which created a riff (repeated rhythm). I understood that getting a riff in the audience's mind would lead to them to repeating the song over and over again. The tune was remotely catchy to all of us members as well were humming the song within our heads, this eventually  made us think that a constant repeat theme would be useful so that the trailer would also be stuck in an audiences head.

Gorillaz - Dirty Harry  

Dirty harry by the Gorillaz (industrial rock) was understood as a theme that could work  r not
Although the song had the correct lyrical-visual establishment
The gun-shot at the beginning was also a great way of introducing things
However, the fact still remained that it was too jazzy for the film trailer, the voice behijd the music was also a bit too relaxing and not harsh enough to put that demanding effect to our audiences.
Overall, the tone was too joyful and harmonious, this didn't fit in with the whole idea of enforcement, violence and anger.