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OLIVER ROBERTS
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I took specific responsibility for the directing, shot type and location for the RUNNING SCENE and the looting the lockers scene. I also took responsibility for the soundtrack and sound additions for the final film trailer. 

I worked with ALASTAIR SIMPSON 1452 and CALLUM DREWETT 1413

I hope you enjoy my blog for H540 Media Studies G324 Advanced Portfolio in Media 

A promotional package for a new film, to include a trailer, together with a film magazine front cover, featuring the film and a poster for the film 

OUR trailer is immediately below. My individual MAGAZINE COVER and POSTER can be seen above 

All my RESEARCH and PLANNING follow below that on the main blog, in reverse order, starting with the latest first. To present my research and planning, I have used a wide variety of platforms and tools including:

My EVALUATION is above under FOUR PAGES. Clicking each tab will show the research and planning that went into my responses into the following questions:

QUESTION 1 ON GENRE CONVENTIONS: IMovie annotations 

QUESTION 2 ON COMBINATION OF MAIN AND ANCILLARIES: Emaze 

QUESTION 3 ON FEEDBACK: Piktochart 

QUESTION 4 ON TECHNOLOGY: Slideshare

CONSTRUCTION: PLANE CONVERSATION AND NEWS REPORTING

A parent is on the phone to the teenagers. The visuals show a bird’s eye view shot of London from a plane. Small clouds float past over the huge panorama of familiar London landmarks like London Bridge. Our use of the green screen not only increases the formality of our trailer but it also raises the profile of it as well. 
This was our thinking for the News Reporting scene as well, upon feedback it was advised that we do not use real news reporting- because if we used our own news reporting it would raise the profile and formality of our trailer. 
We used the background for one of the reporters as a video of a North Korean test launch, to further show the level of threat and urgency. For the other we used a background of a BBC news room to further raise the profile of the film and to further show the urgency and seriousness of the imminent threat.

CONSTRUCTION: BRIEF ENCOUNTER SHOT

As the teenagers are setting out to run to the bunker hideaway, they stumble past another teenager (girl) lying injured on the ground, holding her badly injured leg. It is clear that she cannot walk and would be a hindrance. She shouts ‘Help!’ but they have to run on.

CONSTRUCTION: HOSPITAL CUTAWAY SHOT

Doctor / nurse (parent of teenager) in mid shot on the phone to one of the teenagers:

CONSTRUCTION: TV INTERVIEW SHOT

A TV interviewer poses a question about the rapidly developing crisis. An expert responds. The news is bad.

PLANNING: FILM POSTERS

Our film Imminent Threat falls under the genre of disaster/ survival. I used the posters above as an inspiration for my film poster. I used the genre of survival as a starting point as I knew that it would be a focal point of my film poster. I was particularly intrigued by the two 71' posters as the central visual image is by far the most attractive. In addition the background is plain and simple which in turn attracts more attention to the central visual image. The main attraction of 71 contains elements of chaos as well.
The two posters for 71' are probably the most inspirational pieces towards my own poster. These mainly come from the use of flames, which normally connote ideas of destruction and danger, which I then used in my own poster to connote the same ideas.

PLANNING: STORYBOARD