Production company logo

We decided on 'STARGAZE PRODUCTIONS' as our production company name and Calum made a logo for use at the beginning of the trailer:

Music options/choices for trailer

Music in the genre of gangster is very important: a slower acoustic Italian-style is iconic of films like The Godfather.

(LINK/EMBED GODFATHER OPENING MUSIC)

The music playing during the first part of our trailer (the slower paced half), is Nancy Sinatra's 'Bang Bang'. We thought this was appropriate given the omnipresence of guns in gangster films, and the recurring theme in our film. The words 'bang, bang' in conjunction with the calm tone of the music also provides a disturbing juxtaposition for the viewer.

Nancy Sinatra

During the second segment of our trailer, we are using The Prodigy's 'Breathe'.

A shot from the 'Breathe' music video.

This is because this half of the trailer is much faster paced visually and in terms of content, as is the convention for action film trailers: the beginning will introduce the characters and signal that the film too will start less aggressively.

The trailer reaches a climax and the action begins. 'Breathe' is an aggressive, arousing piece of music and will excite the viewer to potentially go and see it.

[EMBED 'BREATHE']

Basic plot

• Two lovers, children of rival gang leaders, have a relationship in secret.
  Despite their efforts, their fathers (or one of them) discovers this and orders the assassination of them both.


• The couple are interrupted while together by a ‘hitman’ and are seemingly both killed. Their bodies are thrown into a harbour.


• The girl survives, though injured. Her lover is dead. She is bent on revenge against her father.


• She kills her assassin. She also kills many more people on her journey to her father. She does this seemingly without hesitation.


• Her father discovers that it is his daughter killing his men. Rather than feeling remorse or paternal compassion he steps up his game and orders her immediate death.


• She eventually finds him but leaves him to live, though a broken and helpless man.
  
  The following diagram shows the flow of events as seen in both the feature film and the trailer.

You can see that while most of the pre-climactic events are condensed in the trailer, the 'action' is excluded and so the audience will not feel like anything significant has been given away, since thrillers like this are seen for the characters and action as well as just the storyline.

The final point is not touched on at all in the trailer, obviously, as this would reveal the ending.

Final typeface for title and taglines

To create our movies title ‘logo’, we decided on the free-for-use typeface ‘Ghetto Marquee’ by Kirk Shelton, found on Dafont.com:



We liked it because it has the effect of ‘tablets’ built in, which I think are reminiscent of the classic movie advertisements you might have seen many years ago at a movie theatre. The worn and dirtied effect gives the viewer the image of disuse. It suits the film because it is sympathetic with how battered the main character is. The splattering is reminiscent of the bloodshed in the gangster underworld and the crookedness signifies the disorder and unpredictability in the film.

This is what our film title looks like in the font:



In our trailer, we are using strong phrases that relate to the story to give the audience a little more information. One of these is 'FORBIDDEN LOVE'. We decided to use the same typeface as the title, but to make them look more 'beaten up', I used Adobe Photoshop to make some of the tablets crooked, and also adjusted the second 'E' so it looked different from the first. We also gave it a red hue to distinguish them from the title: