Film Trailer

Time Schedule

Hansel & Gretel evaluation

http://prezi.com/cq5st6-st6kq/a2-coursework-evaluation/

Hansel And Gretel: Film Magazine front cover and poster

Chapter sheets for takes( clapperboard style sheets with details of what was wrong in each take)

Questionnaire

Please take the time to fill out my questionnaire, thank you. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/embeddedform?formkey=dEhiSHhYQ2h1eThQRlZYaXJOV004RkE6MQ

Shot List

Location Lists

 This is the house in which we filmed a variety of different scenes including shots from the Witch's house and Hansel and Gretel's house. It was a good location as it had a spacious garden and a kitchen over looking the garden whilst for the scene where Hansel & Gretel are playing, which was perfect for our over the shoulder shot. Since the house belonged to one of our group, it was an ideal location as we had no interruptions or problems to our filming.

 This is Millbank bridge, this was used for the scenes where Hansel & Gretel are hiding from the witch and shots relating to this. We had to be careful as the bridge was over a stream, and for the shot of where Hansel & Gretel are hiding under the bridge we had to make sure they would not fall into the stream. We chose this particular location as it is quite dark and has quite a chilling atmosphere, required to make the scene effective, and since not many people come here it made the scenes look more professional.

 This picture was also taken at Millbank, and was used for the shot of Hansel & Gretel running down the path. This particular location is effective as it is quite remote, and nobody else is there and to make the characters feel isolated, which is a common feature in many modern day horror films and will help to scare the audience. We didn't have any problems filming here as it is a public place, and because it is the middle of the counrtyside we expected no interruptions.

Here is where we filmed the Witch's house, we thought this would be an ideal location because the trees around it make it look sinister and the cobbled path makes it look traditional and aged. Also, since it is located in the counrtyside it fits in well with the chilling atmosphere we were trying to create.

Daily Planning Sheet

Planning sheet for day of filming.

Hansel & Gretel Running Order

Risk Assessment Form

The release forms have been signed and completed by Hansel And Gretel Casting director, Rebecca Choi.

Contributor's Release Form

The following release forms have been collected by Hansel And Gretel Casting Director Rebecca Choi.

Production Log

Magazine Front Cover mock up

Poster Mock Up

Prop List- requirements for each shoot

These are the certain props we needed for our trailer to make it seem realistic, they were;

• Fake Blood
• Ball for Hansel And Gretel to play with
• Washing Up props for Step Mother
• Cloak for witch
• Torch
• Weapon(s)
• Rope
• Tools

Character costume list

Hansel- Clothes a teenager would normally wear such as a jacket and a pair of jeans. Should be dark to fit in with the horror nature of the trailer.

Gretel- Clothes a teenager would normally wear such as a cardigan and jeans. Again, should be dark to fit in with horror genre.

The Witch- Needs to look sinister as she is the main villain in the trailer. Primarily black clothing such black clothes, black boots and a black cloak.

Step Mother- Needs to look older and more mature. Stylish blouse and leggings.

Father- Checkered shirt to reflect on original story of the father being a woodcutter.

Extra(s)- Pair of jeans and hoodie.

Hansel And Gretel character list

Hansel- The role of Hansel will be played by John Appleby. As a group we chose John for the role of Hansel as he has a considerable amount of experience in acting and currently attends drama college. We also considered how John would look acting out along side the actress playing the role of Gretel, and though they would both look well together. This is effective and is realistic in keeping to the original storyline of Hansel And Gretel, in which the two characters are brother and sister.

Gretel-  The role of Gretel will be played by Lucy Cashman. We chose Lucy for the role of Gretel because she fits into how we imagined Gretel to look like.

The Witch- The role of The Witch will be played by Ashley Gallagher. We chose Ashley for the role of The Witch as we believed she would be realistic and effective in highlighting the horror genre of the trailer.

Step Mother- The role of the step mother will be played by Eleanor Loftus. We chose Elle for this particular role as she fits in to the description we imagined we imagined the step mother to have.

Father- The role of the father will be played by Daniel McDonald. We chose Danny for the role of the father as he fits into how we wanted the character to look like. Another reason we chose him for the role was because he was particulary keen to reflect on the "struggling relationship" between his character and the stepmother in the trailer, and how this effected the story of Hansel And Gretel.

Extra(s)- I will be playing the role of the only extra in the trailer. My character does not have a particularly important effect on the film and does not feature a lot in the trailer. However, he is shown being killed in the trailer, which reflects on the horror genre of the film and the more mature nature of our adaptation of Hansel And Gretel.

Marketing Campaign Of The Blair Witch Project (1999)

 I have chosen to research the marketing campaign for The Blair Witch Project as it is in the same horror genre as my own film Hansel And Gretel.

The marketing campaign for The Blair Witch Project was extremely effective. Not only was it made on a shoe-string budget of around $20,000, it was made long before the days of Facebook, Myspace and YouTube, which are all now major institutions in which film advertising is done today. This resulted in the film having to utilise its own effective,and in some areas unique, marketing campaign. This included in the film makers advertising that the film was actual "found-footage" and creating a website that backed this claim. This involved creating film posters which said things like "In October of 1994, three student film makers disappeared in the woods near Burkittesville, Maryland... one year later, their footage was found". This helped circulate the rumours that the footage was real, and helped
to terrify audiences, as when they were sitting in the cinema watching the film, in the back of their minds they thought that it might actually be real.

History Of Film Trailers

History Of Film Trailers

The Jungle Book Trailer (1967) Batman Trailer (1989) Transformers Revenge Of The Fallen Trailer (2009)

As you can see there is a huge difference between the three trailers between the years 1967-2009. In terms of effects and sound the comparison in terms of quality has considerably increased. For examples, If you even look from the years 1989-2009 with the Batman and Transformers Revenge Of The Fallen (hereby reffered to Transformers ROTF)  trailer there is considerable improvement, for example the explosions look a lot better and more realistic in the Transformers ROTF. Also, the sound used is a lot clearer and does not use a voiceover like in the Batman and The Jungle Book trailers. These features reflect the significant improvement in film technology over the 40 years. However, the differences in quality of trailer between 1967 and 1989 for Jungle Book and Batman are not as extreme as from 1989 to 2009 with Batman and Transformers ROTF. This suggests that the increase in new technology in film was not as significant between the years 1967 and 1989 as they did not have the resources to do so. Another major reason for the continued development in the quality of film trailers over the years is increase in budget. For example, if you look at the budget of Batman (1989) which was $35million, it is relatively small in comparison to Transformers ROTF which had a budget of $200million. This is partly down to the fact that Transformers ROTF was a sequel to the very successful Transformers (2007) which was a huge success on the box office grossing over $700million but also down to fact that films in general do have a considerably bigger budgets these days, especially ones such as Transformers which require special effects and are filmed in IMAX. Another example of the increase in budget in film, is when you compare The Jungle Book (1967) to Up (2009), both of which are animated. The Jungle Books budget would have been around $10 million, this in comparison to the $175million budget given to the film Up, which would lead to much more special effects and 3D effects used. This highlights a very important factor why films and therefore film trailers, are progressing all the time, as they have a much more resources at their disposal which would not have been possible in the past.